Ballenas y Delfines de Canarias

Whales and Dolphins of the Canary Islands

This documentary film, shot on location in the Canary Islands, examines some of the 26 species of whales and dolphins found in this area. ....

Elephants in Thailand

Volume 1, Mahouts and the Cultures Today

Joachim Schliesinger

This volume portrays the plight of wild and domesticated elephants in modern Thailand. It details how domesticated elephants are employed both in the timber industry and in ....

European Research on Cetaceans, Volume 21

Proceedings of San Sebastian (Spain) Conference, 2007

European Research on Cetaceans, Volume 22

Proceedings of Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands) Conference, 2008

The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates

Edited by Anne M Burrows and Leanne T Nash

The first edited volume to offer a comprehensive overview of this rare dietary niche in the primate order. Leading researchers in the field of primatology synthesize our ....

Field Guide to Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast

Baja, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia

Sarah G Allen, Joe Mortenson and Sophie Webb

From gray whales giving birth in the lagoons of Baja California to sea otters nestled in kelp beds off California and killer whales living around Vancouver Island in Canada, ....

Inside of a Dog

What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Alexandra Horowitz

As an unabashed dog lover, Alexandra Horowitz is naturally curious about what her dog thinks and what she knows. As a cognitive scientist she is intent on understanding the ....

Jeremy and Amy

The Extraordinary Story of One Man and His Orang-utan

Jeremy Keeling

Jeremy Keeling first met Amy, an orang-utan, when he was looking after the private menagerie of rock-n-roll music producer Gordon Mills. A friendship was forged that would ....

Mammal Teeth

Origin, Evolution, and Diversity

Peter S Ungar

This book traces the evolutionary history of teeth, beginning with the very first mineralized vertebrate structures half a billion years ago. The author describes how the ....

Neuweltaffen

Die Familien der Nicht-Callitrichidae - Nachtaffen, Kapuzinerartige, Springaffen und Sakis, Greifschwanzaffen

Gerhard Hoffmann

Monograph on New World monkeys. ....

Polar Bears in Northwest Greenland

An Interview Survey About the Catch and the Climate

Erik W Born, Anna Heilmann, Lene Kielsen Holm and Kristin L Laidre

The rationale for this survey was the indication from hunting statistics, satellite telemetry and second-hand reports that the catch of polar bears in Northwest Greenland ....

Primates of Gashaka

Socioecology and Conservation in Nigeria's Biodiversity Hotspot

Edited by Volker Sommer and Caroline Ross

The remote Gashaka region is still largely unexplored, although this area in north-eastern Nigeria is a premier wilderness where monkeys and apes still survive in ....

Real Stories of Big Cat Rescues

Tales from the Exotic Feline Rescue Center

Melanie Bowlin, Audra Masternak and Stephen D McCloud

Tucked away in the woods near Center Point, Indiana, the Exotic Feline Rescue Center currently houses about 200 rescued big cats. Lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and bobcats, ....

Red Squirrels

Scottish Natural Heritage

This booklet provides an insight into the ecology and some of the problems faced by the red squirrel. ....

Search for the Golden Moon Bear

Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species

Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery has already shared with readers her amazing encounters with great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but her latest muse is an animal whose name ....

Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds

North America, Britain, and Northern Europe

John Bevis

Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are ....

The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation

Daniel J Lebbin, Michael J Parr and George H Fenwick

Birds are ubiquitous features of daily life, so much so that they are often taken for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don't fill our skies in the ....

Birding Brazil

Atlantic Rainforest

Malcolm Rymer

This birding travelogue features over 150 birds found in the Tres Picos State Park including 47 endemic species. ....

Birding Southern Peru

Malcolm Rymer

This two hour birding travelogue includes highlights from the ancient Inca capital of Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Manu National Park and the seabird colonies of the Ballestas ....

Birds of Brazil/Aves do Brasil - Songs, Calls and Photos/Vozes e Fotos

Volume 1, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Caatinga, Pantanal, Savannah, Coast

J Minns, D Buzzetti, C Albano, A Grosset, A Whittaker and R Parrini

This DVD-ROM contains photos and sound recordings of 1051 bird species found in the Atlantic rain forest, Cerrado, Caatinga, Pantanal, the Southern Savannahs and the coasts ....

Birds of Cleveland

Martin Blick

This book details the status of all 362 known species of birds recorded in Cleveland and is complete with illustrations and photographs. ....

Birds of Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

Anwaruddin Choudhury

Pocket guide to the birds of this national park in Assam. The checklist lists 439 species; key birding sites are also described. ....

Birds of Paradise

Nature, Art & History

Clifford B Frith and Dawn W Frith

A gloriously illustrated book that comprehensively covers the natural history of these most spectacular birds, as well as the people and artefacts surrounding the history of ....

Checklist of the Birds of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire

South Caribbean

TG Prins, JH Reuter, AO Debrot, J Wattel and V Nijman

This volume surveys and documents all 280 species of birds ever recorded as breeding, wintering, migrating, or casually visiting the islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire in ....

A Delight of Owls

African Owls Observed

Peter Steyn

Reprint of the original 1984 edition much sought after by strigiphile ornithologists. There have been some very minor revisions including name changes for some of the birds ....

Feathers of Hope

Pete Dubacher, the Berkshire Bird Paradise, and the Human Connection with Birds

Barbara Chepaitis

This book takes the reader on a journey through the Berkshire Bird Paradise in Grafton, New York. Founded and maintained by Pete Dubacher, it provides sanctuary to over twelve ....

Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia

Miles McMullan, Thomas M Donegan and Alonso Quevedo

Coinciding with Colombia's 200th anniversary as a republic, the world's most bird-rich nation finally has a new field guide. It brings together original illustrations of all ....

Field Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka

John Harrison and Tim Worfolk

A truly comprehensive, up-to-date, modern field guide to Sri Lanka's abundant avifauna. Contains 48 stunning new colour plates by Tim Worfolk, one of Britain's leading bird ....

The Jewel Hunter

Chris Gooddie

A tale of one man's obsession with rainforest jewels, this is the story of an impossible dream: a quest to see every one of the world's most elusive avian gems - a group of ....

A Pocket Guide to the Birds of Mizoram

Anwaruddin Choudhury

Checklist of more than 500 species and status report on some notable species of the state, including the Chinese Babax, which is not found in any other state in India. ....

Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia

Edited by Walter G Ellison

Maryland and Washington, DC possess a vast range of environments - from the high peaks of the Allegheny Ridges to the low marshes of the Chesapeake Bay. Home to 200 nesting ....

Texas Bobwhites

A Guide to Their Foods and Habitat Management

JA Larson, TE Fulbright, LA Brennan, F Hernandez and FC Bryant

Northern bobwhites are one of the most popular game birds in the United States. Managing and expanding bobwhite habitat makes good sense economically, and it benefits the ....

Vogelwelt im Wandel

Trends und Perspektiven

Daniel Lingenhöhl

A description of the state of bird conservation, its problems and solutions in Germany and neighbouring countries with many references to Great Britain. ....

Whooping Crane

Images from the Wild

Klaus Nigge

Approximately 250 wild whooping cranes nest in northern Canada and winter in south Texas, flying 2,500 miles annually between these two distinct havens. Each of these ....

De Amfibieen en Reptielen van Nederland

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Netherlands

Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Largen and Spawls

Amphibians and Reptiles of Similipal Biosphere Reserve

SK Dutta et al

This book is the first ever field guide in Orissa covering 81 species of amphibians and reptiles found in Similipal Biosphere Reserve. The book contains 160 colour photographs ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginias

JC Beane, AL Braswell and JC Mitchell

This title now includes 30 additional species. Revised and updated to reflect the most current science, and including 30 new species, this authoritative and comprehensive ....

Designer-Morphs, Volume One: Ball Python and Boa Constrictor

A Guide to Mutations and Variations

John R Berry

Genetische und morphologische Differenzierung der Gattung Bothrops in der südöstlichen Neotropis

Monzel

Bothrops is a genus of venomous pitviper found in Central and South America. ....

The Glass Frog Tadpoles of Costa Rica (Anura: Centrolenidae)

A Study of Morphology

Heinz Hoffmann

Larvae of the neotropical frog family Centrolenidae live hidden on the bottom of rivers between stones, gravel, and leaf litter making research in the natural environment very ....

Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of the Savannah River Site

Whit Gibbons and Raymond D Semlitsch

Host to more than one hundred species of reptiles and amphibians, the Savannah River Site, a 780-square-kilometer tract in South Carolina, is one of the most intensely ....

Laubfrösche - Europa Mittelmeergebiet, Kleinasien

Wolf-Rüdiger Grosse

Rainforest Frogs of the Wet Tropics

North-East Australia

Conrad Hoskin and Jean-Marc Hero

This book forms a complete guide to the 33 species of frog found in the World Heritage rainforest of the Wet Tropics region of north-east Queensland. It includes an easy to ....

Salamanders of the Southeast

Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons

This guide describes 102 species of salamanders occuring in the Southeastern USA and includes details of the distribution, habitat, behavior and activity, reproduction, food ....

Les Cichlids Endemiques de Madagascar

Patrick de Rham

This book is also available in English, item #156254. ....

Ecology of Estuarine Fishes

Temperate Waters of the Western North Atlantic

Kenneth W Able and Michael P Fahay

This comprehensive reference details the life history and ecology of the fish species that occupy the estuarine and coastal habitats along the eastern United States and ....

The Multifunctional Gut of Fish

Edited by Anthony P Farrell, Colin J Brauner and Martin Grosell

This volume provides a comprehensive synthesis and an integrative overview of the range of gut functions and their implications for organismal physiology. The highly ....

New Zealand Freshwater Fishes

An Historical and Ecological Biogeography

R M McDowall and McDowall

This book provides a synthesis of taxonomic and ecological information on New Zealand's freshwater fish fauna. New Zealand has been isolated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean ....

Sexuality in Fishes

TJ Pandian

The unprecedented level of diversity recorded among the clones of self-fertilizing gynogenetic unisexuals and self-fertilizing simultaneous hermaphrodites challenges ....

Sharks and Rays of Borneo

Peter Last et al

This guide contains information on identifying features, size, distribution, local common names, habitat, biology and conservation status of 118 species of sharks, rays ....

Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers

Two Part Set

HB Johnston

When this book was first published in 1956, African grasshoppers were showing signs of becoming major pests. It is a first essential to study the numerous different species ....

Aphodiinae of Australia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

ZT Stebnicka

Britain's Butterflies

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland

David Newland, Rob Still, David Tomlinson and Andy Swash

This book presents a comprehensive photoguide to the butterflies of Britain and Ireland, covering all 59 breeding species as well as regular migrants. Colour plates depict ....

The Butterfly Isles

A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals

Patrick Barkham

Butterflies animate the summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks whilst others ....

Coleotteri Tenebrionidi de Sicilia

Insecta: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae

Vittorio Aliquó and Fabien Soldati

A systematic treatment of the Tenebrionidae of Sicily, with keys. ....

A Conchological Iconography: The Family Conidae

The South African Species of Conus

Tenorio and Monteiro

Damselfly Genera of the New World

An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the Zygoptera

Rosser W Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder and Jerry A Louton

This book provides a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the damselflies of North, Central and South America. It contains up-to-date keys to the 125 genera of Zygoptera ....

Discovering Irish Butterflies and Their Habitats

JM Harding

This book contains detailed species accounts as well as a site guide for the best areas to see butterflies in Ireland. It also includes practical advice on butterfly ....

Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells

Identification, Ecology, Distribution, and History

John W, Jr Tunnell, Jean Andrews, Noe C Barrera and Fabio Moretzsohn

An essential reference book for every collector and researcher of American seashells, Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells is a complete sourcebook and up-to-date identification ....

Esperiana, Volume 15

Latest volume of the entolomogical journal. Among the articles are: ....

Fauna Of New Zealand, No 64: Pisauridae (Arachnida: Araneae)

Cor J Vink and Nadine Duperre

Four closely related species of Pisauridae (nurseryweb spiders) are found in New Zealand; three on the mainland and one on the Chatham Islands. All species are endemic ....

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Butterfly and Moth Report

Edited by Tim Norriss

Hoverflies of Northwest Europe

Identification Keys to the Syrphidae

MP Van Veen

Updated edition with revisions to the text. Identifies the hoverflies of Northwest Europe and incorporates the knowledge that has been published in many articles over past ....

Identification Keys to the Microlepidoptera of the Netherlands

Joop H Kuchlein and Leo EJ Bot

This book provides identification keys to the Dutch Microlepidoptera, and includes a description of the 1427 species recorded there. ....

Insect Integument and Colour

Edited by Stephen Simpson and Jerome Casas

"Advances in Insect Physiology" publishes volumes containing important, comprehensive and in-depth reviews on all aspects of insect physiology. It is an essential reference ....

Insects of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Steve Jones

The varied landscapes of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are home to many diverse wildlife habitats. From coastal fringes to moorland peaks; from rivers and streams to ....

Land Snails on the Solomon Islands

Volume 1 Placostylidae

Andre GJ Delsaerdt

This book includes details of all 33 species of Placostylidae found in the Solomon Islands. ....

Marine Molluscs of Madeira

W Segers, F Swinnen and R de Prins

This book covers more than 750 species of molluscs found in the waters around Madeira and the Selvagens Archipelago. ....

Monograph of Fossil Trichoceridae (Diptera) Over 180 Million Years of Evolution

Ewa Krzeminska, Wieslaw Krzeminski and Christine Dahl

The monograph presents a complete record of fossil Trichoceridae in systematic order based on fossil and recent taxa. The specimens come from 28 localities in Asia, Europe ....

Octopus

The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate

Jennifer A Mather, Roland C Anderson and James B Wood

The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea ....

Overwintering and Cold-Hardiness of Ants in the Northeast of Asia

DI Berman, AV Alfimov and ZA Zhigulskaya

This monograph examines how land insects, in particular ants, adapt to winter survival in northeastern Russia, the region with the lowest winter temperatures in the Northern ....

Philippine Marine Mollusks, Volume 3

Gastropoda Part 3 and Bivalva Part 1

GT Poppe

This book covers 55 gastropod families, under them e.g. Architectonicidae, Bullinidae, Cylichnidae, Haminoidae, all Nudibranch and Heterobranch families with more than 300 ....

Plant Pests

David V Alford

This volume reviews pests on a crop-by-crop basis, with particular reference to insects and mites. Coverage of pests includes aliens, with host crops introduced and key pests, ....

Review of Adventive Species of Coleoptera (Insecta) Recorded from Eastern Canada

Edited by Jan Klimaszewski, David Langor et al

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the adventive species of Coleoptera recorded from Eastern Canada, presenting 510 species from 290 genera and 48 families. ....

Scorpions of the World

Roland Stockmann and Eric Ythier

Over 350 scorpion species described and illustrated by biogeographical zone. Descriptions provide non-specialists with ways to recognise easily each species ....

Seashells

Jewels from the Ocean

Budd Titlow

Seashells have been used since before records began as currency, jewels, tools, medicines, magic symbols, and are a source of endless fascination for both children and ....

Taxonomic Revision of Megalorhina Westwood and Subgeneric Classification of Mecynorhina Hope

Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae

Michele De Palma and Sylvain Frantz

A new key to the subgeneric classification of Mecynorhina Hope - one the most spectacular African Goliathini genera - is proposed ....

Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates

A Guide to North American Species

Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney

This reference guide includes descriptions and colour photographs of tracks, egg cases, nests, feeding signs, galls, webs, burrows and signs of predation of North American ....

Turkish Land Snails

H Schutt

This latest edition includes some colour illustrations. ....

Altmühltal

Vom Urvogel zu den Aposteln

Martin Roper and Monika Rothgaenger

Describes the geological Solnhofen archipelago at the time of the Upper Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. At that time, there was a colorful coral reef paradise with a ....

The Artist and the Scientists

Bringing Prehistory to Life

Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich and Peter Trusler

Over more than thirty years the authors have travelled across Eastern Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand in search of the remains of early life, ....

Biodiversity of Polish Fossil Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Insectivora) Compared to European and Global Faunas

Barbara Rzebik-Kowalska

This volume presents up to date information on the Miocene, Pliocene and Quaternary insectivore mammals (Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha) of Poland, compared against a ....

Diatom of North America

The Pliocene-Pleistocene Freshwater Flora of Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic

Edited by Claudia Zimmerman, Michel Poulin and Reinhard Pienitz

This monograph presents the fossil diatom remains collected from a forest - tundra deposit discovered in 2001 on Bylot Island (72-74N, 60 - 80W), just north of Baffin ....

De Fossiele Schelpen van de Nederlandse Kust

PW Moerdijk

Fossil shells of the Dutch coast. ....

Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 3D: Chondrichthyes IV

Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: teeth

M Ginter, C Duffin and O Hampe

This volume includes the latest research data on elasmobranch teeth from fossils from the Paleozoic. ....

Jurassic and Cretaceous Floras and Climates of the Earth

VA Vakhrameev

Originally published by Cambridge UP in 1991, this book is a translation of a unique Russian study of fossil plant distributions in the Jurassic and Cretaceous world. The ....

Late Pleistocene Environment of the Czestochowa Upland Reconstructed on the Basis of Faunistic Evidence from Archaeological Cave Sites

Adam Nadachowski et al

This study of the Late Pleistocene environment is based on analyses of fossil vertebrate assemblages from three archaeological cave localities (Komarowa, Deszczowa and Krucza) ....

The Rise of Fishes

500 Million Years of Evolution

Edited by John A Long

This updated edition of a classic text includes illustrations of new fossil discoveries and new interpretations based on genetic analyses. The author reveals how fishes evolved ....

The Star-crossed Stone

The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil

Kenneth J McNamara

Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils - or echinoids - have continually been among the most prized, from ....

A Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils

With Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection in the British Museum

William Smith

This volume, first published in 1817, contains Smith's catalogue of his fossil collection for the British Museum. He catalogues the fossils according to the rock ....

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 58

Edited by Michael Lesser

Australian Marine Life

The Plants and Animals of Temperate Waters

Graham J Edgar

Many people recognise the beauty and diversity of plant and animal communities in Australia's tropical seas particularly those along the Great Barrier Reef. By contrast, ....

Coastal Phytoplankton

Photo Guide for Northern European Seas

Alexandra Kraberg, Marcus Baumann and Claus-Dieter Durselen

This guide describes the major phytoplankton groups, diatoms and dinoflagellates with additional information on ciliates and smaller flagellates and provides taxonomic, ....

Deep Blue Home

An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean

Julia Whitty

Not since Rachel Carson has a writer given us such a profound understanding--gorgeously lyrical and steeped in vital new science--of the world's oceans. At the center of "Deep ....

Fourth European Marine Biology Symposium

Edited by D J Crisp

The two themes of the Fourth European Symposium on Marine Biology, which took place in Bangor, North Wales, in September 1969, were Larval Biology and Light in the Marine ....

Invertebrates d'Eau Douce: Systematique, Biologie, Ecologie

H Tachet et al

Covers 473 taxa from France and Europe as a whole. ....

Jellyfish Blooms

New Problems and Solutions

Edited by Jennifer E Purcell and Dror L Angel

The first "Jellyfish Blooms" volume was published in 2001. Since that time, reports of human problems with jellyfish, as well as public and scientific awareness of the ....

Marine Benthic Fauna of Chilean Patagonia

Illustrated Identification Guide

Edited by V Haussermann and G Forsterra

This book, a result of a decade of field studies, contains contributions from 47 internationally renowned scientists, covering morphology, biology and identification ....

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 26

Edited by Anselmo Peñas and Emilio Rolán

The Pyramidellidae are a species-rich family of small gastropods which live as ectoparasites on other marine invertebrates. Their subtle variations around a quite ....

UK Dive Guide

Diving Guide to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Patrick Shier, Christopher Mark Davey and Mark Richard Evans

This is an exciting new diving guide covering dive sites in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Explore the wreck of the E39 submarine off Pembrokeshire or the stunning ....

Amazonia

Sam Abell and Torben Ulrik Nissen

This book documents one of the Earth's remaining natural ecosystems and provides a rare insight into a remote and untouched landscape and the creatures that inhabit its ....

Fur, Fortune and Empire

The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

Eric Jay Dolin

Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos ....

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Nancy G Slack

Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E.O. Wilson pronounced him 'one of the few scientists who could ....

Gentle Footprints

A Collection of Animal Stories

This book is a collection of 19 short stores about wild animals written for adults. The stories range from the simple elegance of the octopus to the majestic elephant. After ....

Jane Goodall

50 Years at Gombe

Jane Goodall

This book serves as a tribute to the five deacdes of wildlife research, education and conservation conducted by Dr Goodall at the Gombe Reserve in Tanzania. ....

Kingdom of Ants

Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World

Edward O Wilson and Jose M Gomez Duran

One of the earliest New World naturalists, Jose Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in ....

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin volumes 1-3

Including an Autobiographical Chapter

Charles Darwin and Sir Francis Darwin

This three-volume life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his death, was edited by his son Francis, who was his father's collaborator in experiments in botany ....

Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart

Two Volume Set

Charles Lyell and KM Lyell

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was one of the most renowned geologists of the nineteenth century. This biography, first published in 1881 and edited by his sister-in-law K. M. ....

Photoshop CS5 for Nature Photographers

A Workshop in a Book

Ellen Anon and Josh Anon

This book is packed with practical workflows and smart, timesaving ways to use Photoshop's broad array of tools to optimize images - from improving tonal values to ....

Seeds, Sex, and Civilization

How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World

Peter Thompson and Stephen Harris

Seeds have influenced evolution and for millennia have influenced and sometimes determined where humans have lived. This book unfolds the history of how, after ....

A Sketch of the Life and Labours of Sir William Jackson Hooker

Late Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew

Hooker Joseph Dalton

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an eminent British botanist who is best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of ....

The Species Seekers

Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

Richard Conniff

This is the story of the adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of Earth. Beginning with Linnaeus, a colourful band of explorers ....

Tenerife

Escalada Deportiva

Javier Martin-Carbajal and Juan Carlos Zamora

This portable guide covers 940 of the best climbing routes across 12 areas of this island. Complete with annotated photos and difficulty ratings for each route. ....

Three Singles to Adventure

Gerald Durrell

In 1950, Gerald Durrell travelled to British Guiana to bring back a living collection of the fauna native to that corner of South America. There he met with many kinds of ....

The Welsh Coast

Peter Watson

From castles in the sand to castles on a cliff-top, the Welsh coast is as beautiful and dramatic as it is diverse. The author captures the visual delights of this twisting and ....

Why the Cheetah Cheats

And Other Mysteries of the Natural World

Lewis Smith

The animal world is revealing more of its long-kept secrets every day. Some are mind-boggling, many are totally unexpected, and all are fascinating and lead to a better ....

The Amazon Below Water

Oliver Lucanus

This illustrated book features the fish, habitats and people living along the Amazon river. ....

Arctic Sanctuary

Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Jeff Jones and Laurie K Hoyle

This book offers a visual journey into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with essays and panoramic images that pay homage to a vast and remote land that remains ....

Bigfoot

The Life and Times of a Legend

J Blu Buhs

Last August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, leading to more than a thousand news stories worldwide ....

A Book of Britain

The Lore, Landscape and Heritage of a Treasured Countryside

Johnny Scott

In this remarkable work, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions. Over its 600 beautifully ....

Desert and Water Gardens of the Red Sea

Being an Account of the Natives and the Shore Formations of the Coast

Cyril Crossland

Cyril Crossland (1878-1943) was Director of the Sudan Pearl Fishery between 1905 and 1922. At this time, the British colonial government had taken charge of running the ....

Ecuador

Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual

Edited by Corine Vriesendorp et al

The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, ....

Evaluación Rápida de la Biodiversidad de los Ecosistemas Acuáticos de la Cuenca Alta del Rio Cuyuni, Guayana Venezolana

Edited by Carlos A Lasso, Josefa Celsa Senaris, Anabel Rial and Ana Liz Flores

A rapid biological assessment of the Upper Cuyuni River Basin in southeastern Venezuela was conducted in January 2008. Taxonomic information was collected for mammals, birds, ....

Galapagos of the Antarctic

Wild Islands South of New Zealand

Rodney Russ and Aleks Terauds

This book describes the wildlife, geology and human history of the seven oceanic islands groups to the south of New Zealand - The Chatham Islands, Bounty Islands, Antipodes ....

Granite and Grit

A Walker's Guide to the Geology of British Mountains

Ronald Turnbull

It is not as widely known as it should be that Britain has the most varied geology of any country in the world. This book is a celebration in words and pictures of what its ....

Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of Costa Rica

A Field Guide

Carrol L Henderson

This guide covers the mammals, reptiles and amphibians that travelers are most likely to see while exploring the wild lands of Costa Rica. Also included is information on the ....

Natural History of Bournemouth and the Surrounding Area

Edited by Bournemouth Natural Science Society

This book is a record of the natural history of Bournemouth and a 15 mile radius around it. It covers the amazing variety of flora and fauna in the area. ....

A Natural History of the New World

The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas

Alan H Graham

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of ....

The Nature of New York

An Environmental History of the Empire State

David Stradling

This book shows how New York's varied landscape and abundant natural resources have played a fundamental role in shaping the state's culture and economy and how New Yorkers ....

Remote Britain

David St John Thomas

Remote Britain relishes the ever-changing landscapes of our island and the people who grow out of them. And the constant surprises. Who, for example, would guess that some of ....

Slow Devon and Exmoor

Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Hilary Bradt

Travel slowly and sustainably with Hilary Bradt, founder of "Bradt" guides and a resident of Devon, as she takes you on a personal 'slow' tour of Devon and Exmoor. ....

Terrestrial Vertebrates of Pennsylvania

A Complete Guide to Species of Conservation Concern

Edited by MA Steele, MC Brittingham, TJ Maret and JF Merritt

This review of Pennsylvania's conservation efforts focuses exclusively on the state's vertebrates of concern. The 133 species of reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals ....

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 56

Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny

Algae of Australia: Phytoplankton of Temperate Coastal Waters

GM Hallegraeff, CJS Bolch, DRA Hill, I Jameson et al

Phytoplankton account for more than 90 per cent of the biomass of living organisms in the world's seas and produce 50 per cent of the atmospheric oxygen we breathe. They form ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 1

Introduction and Book I

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Volume one contains Book I (Containing All Sorts of Trees, That Bear Edible Fruit, and Are Husbanded by People). ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 2

Book II, III and IV

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Volume two covers Book II: Containing the Aromatic Trees: Being Those That Have Aromatic Fruits, Barks or Redolent Wood, Book III: Containing Those Trees, Which Produce Some ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 3

Books V, VI and VII

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Volume 3 contains Book V: Dealing with the Remaining Wild Trees in No Particular Order, Book VI: Concerning Shrubs, Domesticall and Wild and Book VII: Containing the Forest ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 4

Books VIII and IX

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Volume 4 contains Book VIII: Containing Potherbs Used for Good, Medicine, and Sport and Book IX: Concerning Bindweeds, as well as Twining and Creeping Plants. ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 5

Books X, XI and XII

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Volume 5 covers Book X: Concerning Wild Plants, at Random, Book XI: Deals with the Remaining Wild Plants and Book XII: Concerning the Little Sea Trees, Stony Sea Growths, ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 6

Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Volume 6 contains Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5. ....

The Ambonese Herbal, Volumes 1-6

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius and EM Beekman

Contains all 6 volumes of The Ambonese Herbal. ....

Biological Control of Plant-parasitic Nematodes

Building Coherence Between Microbial Ecology and Molecular Mechanisms

Edited by Yitzhak Spiegel and Keith Davies

Catalogus Hasslerianus, Parte 2

Lorenzo Ramella

Chrysophytes: From Fossil Perspectives to Molecular Characterizations

Proceedings of the Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium

Edited by James L Wee, Peter A Siver and Anne-Marie Lott

This volume contains 21 papers presented at the Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA, June 22 -27, 2008. ....

The Conscientious Gardener

Cultivating a Garden Ethic

Sarah Hayden Reichard

Modern gardening practices too often damage the environment, depleting resources in the soil while mining for soil amendments in far away places, or using water and pesticides ....

European Garden Flora, Volume 1

Monocotyledons: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae

Edited by James Cullen, Sabina Knees and Suzanne Cubey

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific ....

European Garden Flora, Volume 2

Dicotyledons: Casuarinaceae to Cruciferae

Edited by James Cullen, Sabina Knees and Suzanne Cubey

Volume 2 contains accounts of the first 71 families of Dicotyledons, including the Aizoaceae and Cactaceae (large and important families of succulents), as well as many ....

European Garden Flora, Volume 3

Dicotyledons: Resedaceae to Cyrillaceae

Edited by James Cullen, Sabina Knees and Suzanne Cubey

Volume 3 contains accounts of 47 families, including those formerly included in the Leguminosae (Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Fabaceae) as well as the large and important ....

Exploring Florida's Botanical Wonders

A Guide to Ancient Trees, Unique Flora, and Wildflower Walks

Sandra Friend

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume 10

Flowering Plants: Eudicots - Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae

Edited by Klaus Kubitzki

This volume comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales along with a detailed treatment of the tropical and ....

The Ferns (Filicales): 3 Volume Set

Treated Comparatively with a View to Their Natural Classification

FO Bower

First published between 1923 and 1928 as part of the Cambridge Botanical Handbook series, The Ferns was the first systematic classification of ferns according to ....

The Ferns (Filicales): Volume 1

Treated Comparatively with a View to their Natural Classification

FO Bower

Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948) was a renowned botanist best known for his research on the origins and evolution of ferns. First published between 1923 and 1928 as part of the ....

The Ferns (Filicales): Volume 2

Treated Comparatively with a View to their Natural Classification

FO Bower

Volume 2, subtitled The Eusporangiatae and Other Relatively Primitive Ferns, describes, analyses and classifies primitive and fossil ferns. ....

The Ferns (Filicales): Volume 3

Treated Comparatively with a View to Their Natural Classification

FO Bower

Volume 3, The Leptosporangiate Ferns, describes, analyses and classifies extant species of ferns. ....

Flora Briofitica Ibérica, Volumen 4

Funariales, Splachnales, Schistostegales, Bryales, Timmiales

Edited by Juan Guerra

Flora Europaea, Volume 1

Psilotaceae to Platanaceae

Edited by TG Tutin et al

Flora Europaea, published between 1964 and 1980, with a second edition of Volume One appearing in 1993, is the definitive account of the flowering plants, ferns and ....

Flora Europaea, Volume 2

Rosaceae to Umbeliferae

Edited by TG Tutin et al

The Flora Europaea, originally published between 1964 and 1980, explores the synthesis of all the national and regional Floras of Europe. It is based on a critical review of ....

Flora Europaea, Volume 4

Plantaginaceae to Composite (and Rubiaceae)

Edited by TG Tutin et al

Originally published between 1964 and 1980, this fourth volume is a revision of the seventh edition of Willis, with substantial amendments and additions. One distinct ....

Flora Europaea, Volume 5

Alismataceae to Orchidaceae

Edited by TG Tutin et al

The Flora Europaea, originally published between 1964 and 1980, explores the synthesis of all the national and regional Floras of Europe. It is based on a critical review of ....

Flora Iberica, Volume 12: Verbenaceae - Labiatae - Callitrichaceae

Edited by S Castroviejo

Flora Iberica, Volume 17: Butomaceae-Juncaceae

Edited by S Talavera et al

Flora Neotropica, Volume 106: Stereum s. l.

A Welden

Flora de Guinea Ecuatorial, Volume 5: Leguminosae

Claves de Plantas Vasculares de Annobon, Bioko y Rio Muni

M Velayos Rodriguez, C Aedo Perez, M Estrella Gonzalez and F Cabezas

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 165: Bromeliaceae

Flowering Plants

A Concise Pictorial Guide

This guide illustrates over 100 important plant families and includes an introduction to the new DNA classification of plants, the APG III system. It also includes a description ....

Fungi

Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales

Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879-1967) was a prominent British mycologist, specialising in the sexual process of fungi. In 1909 she was appointed Head of the Department of ....

Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die

British and Irish Plant-Lore

Roy Vickery

Plants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human civilisation. This account introduces readers to a rich variety of British and ....

Gnetales

HHW Pearson and Albert Charles Seward

Henry Pearson (1870-1916) was an English botanist specialising in research on the Gnetophyta division of woody plants. In 1915 Pearson was commissioned to write this ....

Guide to Common Grasses

Mark Gardener and Carol Roberts

Covering 30 species, this new fold-out chart should enable everyone to put a name to some of the most common species of grass found in Britain and Ireland. A special feature ....

Hormones, Signals and Target Cells in Plant Development

Daphne J Osborne and Michael T McManus

Meristematic cells in plants (as with stem cells in animals) become the many different types of cells found in a mature plant. This is achieved by a selective response to ....

Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa, Band 6, Teil 1A, Lieferung 1

Orobanchaceae

Edited by Gustav Hegi and Jürgen Pusch

Scrophulariaceae (Rachenbl~tler), Orobanchaceae (Sommerwurzgew~chse), ....

Is That Cat Dead?

And Other Questions About Poison Plants

John Robertson

Ask anyone to name the deadliest poison plants and nearly everyone will reel off three or four with no trouble. What's not so easy is to say how many people die each year ....

The Lichen Flora of Svalbard

DO Ovstedal, T Tonsberg and A Elvebakk

Descriptions of 742 species found on Svalbard (exclusive of Bjornoya). 151 of these are reported here for the first time, several new to science. Information on morphology, ....

The Long Dry

Bush Colours of Summer and Autumn in South-Western Australia

Alex George

Instead of flowers, this book concentrates on the foliage, in particular what it does in a very dry summer. In many plants the leaves or stems turn shades of yellow, red or ....

Manual of the Vascular Flora of Nags Head Woods, Outer Banks, North Carolina

A Krings

A Monograph of Marasmioid and Collybioid Fungi in Europe

Vladimir Antonin and Machiel E Noordeloos

Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants in the Post-Genomic Era

Edited by Christine Foyer and Hanma Zhang

This volume provides a general background and overview of nitrogen acquisition in plants and presents a comprehensive description of recent advances in the understanding of both ....

An Orchard Invisible

A Natural History of Seeds

Jonathan Silvertown

The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco-de-mer ....

The Plant Cytoskeleton

Edited by Bo Liu

A thorough and up-to-date reference (see Contents). ....

Plant Mitochondria

Edited by Frank Kempken

Mitochondria are the product of a long evolutionary history. It is now a well established fact that mitochondria did evolve from free living bacteria being the common ....

Plant Science

Growth, Development, and Utilization of Cultivated Plants

Margaret McMahon, Anton Kofranek and Vincent E Rubatzky

An outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in how plants are grown and utilized for maintaining and adding enjoyment to human life. The text starts with the ....

Planting Paradise

Cultivating the Garden

Stephen Harris

This book charts the role of the garden from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. In this age of discovery, when the world was being ....

Plants of New South Wales

According to the Census of Baron F. Von Mueller ... With an Introductory Essay and Occasional Notes

Ferdinand von Muller and William Woolls

Sir Ferdinand von Muller (1825-1896) was a botanist renowned for his research on the native plants of Australia. After emigrating from Germany in 1847, he was appointed ....

The Romance of the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea

Frederic Dawtrey Drewitt

Published in 1928, Drewitt's engaging study traces the origin and antiquity of the peaceful botanical garden in Chelsea. The garden was established in 1673 by the Society ....

Synopsis Fungorum, Volume 25: Collected Papers

Synopsis Fungorum, Volume 26

Synopsis Fungorum, Volume 27

Trees and Woodlands of South India

Dorian Q Fuller and Eleni Asouti

Trees are the Answer

Patrick Moore

The new, revised 10th anniversary edition delivers an even more powerful message than before about the value of forests, a message that runs counter to much of the ....

Trees of Panama and Costa Rica

Richard Condit, Rolando Perez and Nefertaris Daguerre

This field guide, dedicated to the diverse tree species of Panama and Costa Rica, features close to 500 tropical tree species. It includes color photos, color ....

Weeds of the Midwestern United States and Central Canada

Edited by Charles T Bryson and Michael S DeFelice

Featuring more than fourteen hundred full-color photographs, this guide provides essential information on more than 350 of the most troublesome weedy and invasive plants ....

The Yeasts

A Taxonomic Study

Edited by CP Kurtzman, JW Fell and Teun Boekhout

This fifth edition describes nearly 1500 species of ascomycete and basidiomycete yeasts as well as members of the yeast-like genus Prototheca. Species are recognised by gene ....

Bacterial Protein Toxins

Edited by Alistair Lax

Bacterial toxins that act inside cells interact very specifically with key components of the cell and some even manipulate the cell in subtle ways for their own purposes. These ....

G Protein-coupled Receptors

Structure, Signaling, and Physiology

Edited by Sandra Siehler and Graeme Milligan

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of recent discoveries and current understandings of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). ....

Genetic Suspects

Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing

Edited by Richard Hindmarsh and Barbara Prainsack

As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their expanding use raises important issues that ....

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates

Five Volume Set

Edited by David O Norris and Kristin H Lopez

This set contains all five volumes covering birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and mammals. ....

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 1

Fishes

Edited by David O Norris and Kristin H Lopez

This volume brings together the current knowledge of the reproductive endocrinology of fishes, emphasizing synthesis rather than summation. The chapters cover teleosts, ....

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 2

Amphibians

Edited by David O Norris and Kristin H Lopez

Volume 2 brings together the current knowledge of the reproductive endocrinology of amphibians. ....

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 3

Reptiles

Edited by David O Norris and Kristin H Lopez

Volume 3 brings together the current knowledge of the reproductive endocrinology of reptiles. ....

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 4

Birds

Edited by David O Norris and Kristin H Lopez

Volume 4 brings together the current knowledge of the reproductive endocrinology of birds. ....

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 5

Mammals

Edited by David O Norris and Kristin H Lopez

This volume covers the endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, behaviour and anatomy of mammalian reproduction. ....

Introduction to Cell Biology

John K Young

This book is intended to be an accessible introduction to the cell biology of mammalian cells for junior or senior undergraduate students who have already had an introduction ....

Modelling Perception with Artificial Neural Networks

Edited by Colin Tosh and Graeme Ruxton

Studies of the evolution of animal signals and sensory behaviour have more recently shifted from considering extrinsic (environmental) determinants to intrinsic ....

A New Biology for the 21st Century

Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution

Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for ....

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

Volume 1

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) first published this work in 1868 in two volumes. Volume 1 deals with the variations introduced into species as a result of domestication, through ....

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

Volume 2

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) first published this work in 1868 in two volumes. Volume 2 is concerned with how species inherit particular characteristics and challenges the ....

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

Two Volume Set

Charles Darwin

This set contains both volumes of this work. ....

Am I a Monkey?

Six Big Questions About Evolution

Francisco Jose Ayala

Despite the ongoing cultural controversy in America, evolution remains a cornerstone of science. In this book, the author lays out the basic science that underlies evolutionary ....

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia

Edited by Mark Oxenham and Nancy Tayles

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia is the first book to examine the biology and lives of the pre-historic people of this region. Bringing together the most active researchers in ....

Biological Aspects of Human Migration

Edited by CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor and Gabriel Ward Lasker

In past years considerable interest has been focused on migration as an important cause of change in the genetic and demographic structure of human populations. This book ....

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

Two Volume Set

Charles Darwin

In his introduction, Darwin reveals that for many years he had no intention of publishing his notes on this topic. By 1871, he felt that his fellow scientists would ....

Evolutionary Restraints

The Contentious History of Group Selection

Mark E Borrello

Much of the history of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists acknowledge multiple levels of selection ....

Genetics of Original Sin

The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity

Christian De Duve and Neil Patterson

This book offers new perspectives on the threat posed by humanity's immense biological success and on the resources human beings have for altering their current destructive ....

Inside the Human Genome

A Case for Non-Intelligent Design

John C Avise

Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level ....

Oceanic Migration

Charles EM Pearce and FM Pearce

Oceanic Migration studies the prehistoric peopling of the Pacific. It uses science and mathematics to expand the research base of Pacific prehistory and casts new light on ....

Out of Africa I

The First Colonization of Eurasia

Edited by JG Fleagle, JJ Shea, AL Baden, RE Leakey and FE Grine

For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, hominins were restricted to Africa. Dating from about two million years ago, hominin fossils first appear in ....

Reproduction and Adaptation

Edited by Nicholas Mascie-Taylor and Lyliane Rosetta

In the space of one generation major changes have begun to take place in the field of human reproduction. A rapid increase in the control of fertility and the understanding ....

Thinking about Evolution

Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives

Edited by Rama S Singh, Costas B Krimbas, Diane Paul and John Beatty

Written in honour of Richard Lewontin, one of the most distinguished geneticists of our time, this volume covers all aspects of evolution, including social and political ....

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 42

Ecological Networks

Edited by Guy Woodward

Bio-invaders

Edited by Sarah Johnson

First volume in a new series of environmental history readers, suitable for students. Comprising essays selected from the journals Environment and History and Environmental ....

Camera Traps in Animal Ecology

Methods and Analyses

Edited by Allan F O'Connell, James D Nichols and Ullas K Karanth

Remote photography and infrared sensors are widely used in the sampling of wildlife populations worldwide, especially for cryptic or elusive species. Guiding the ....

An Ecosystem Approach to Aquatic Ecology

Mirror Lake and its Environment

Edited by Gene E Likens

Originally published in 1983, the book is a unique, comprehensive analysis of a lake ecosystem. It summarizes and integrates results from the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, ....

Freshwater Ecology

Concepts and Environmental Applications of Limnology

Walter K Dodds and Matt Whiles

The second edition of "Freshwater Ecology" is broad, up-to-date treatment of everything from the basic chemical and physical properties of water to advanced unifying concepts ....

Heatstroke

Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Anthony D Barnosky

In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a "pizzly" was discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be ....

Principles of Social Evolution

Andrew FG Bourke

This book presents a fresh synthesis of the principles of social evolution that underlie the major transitions, explaining how the basic theory underpinning social evolution - ....

Weeds

How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature

Richard Mabey

Weeds survive, entombed in the soil, for centuries. They are as persistent and pervasive as myths. They ride out ice ages, agricultural revolutions, global wars. They mark the ....

Adobe Homes for All Climates

Simple, Affordable and Earthquake-resistant Natural Building Techniques

Lisa Morey Schroder and Vince Ogletree

Contrary to stereotypes, adobe is perfectly adaptable for use in cold, wet climates as well as hot and dry ones, and with its efficient use of energy, natural resources for ....

Always a River

The Ohio River and the American Experience

Robert L Reid

This book views the Ohio River through the perspective of history, geography, political science, economics and literature examining its economic importance, the different ....

Farming the Black Earth

Edited by David Dent

This is a volume in the new "IYPE Series" commemorating the UN International Year of Planet Earth. It presents the current state-of-the-art in soil sciences, and ways ....

The Fate of the Forest

Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon

Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn

The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers amid the territories of nine different nations and represents over half of the planet's remaining ....

Forest Management and the Water Cycle

An Ecosystem-Based Approach

M Bredemeier, S Cohen, D.L. Godbold, E Lode, V Pichler and P Schleppi

The protective function of forests for water quality and water-related hazards, as well as adequate water supplies for forest ecosystems in Europe, are potentially at risk due ....

Geomorphology of Upland Peat

Erosion, Form and Landscape Change

Martin Evans and Jeff Warburton

Erosion of upland blanket peat is recognized as a major environmental problem, degrading habitats, leading to loss of amenity, and water-colouration problems and increased ....

Ladoga and Onego - Great European Lakes

Observations and Modeling

Leonid Rukhovets and Nikolai Filatov

Lakes Ladoga and Onego are the greatest lakes in Europe. With a surface area of 17891 km2 and a volume of 902 km3, the former is one of the top fifteen world's freshwater ....

Managing Native Broadleaved Woodland

Forestry Commission

Native woodlands occupy an important place in both our countryside and cultural heritage. They continue to ....

Mangrove Dynamics and Management in North Brazil

Edited by Ulrich Saint-Paul and Horacio Schneider

Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human activities. Their biotic productivity supplies food and other resources to the human populations that inhabit or ....

Pond Conservation in Europe

Edited by Beat Oertli, Regis Cereghino, Jeremy Biggs, Steven Declerck and Andrew Hull

Ponds are an exceptional freshwater resource around the world and represent thirty per cent of the global surface area of standing water. Furthermore, the ....

Protected Land

Disturbance, Stress, and American Ecosystem Management

Douglas J Spieles

In this book, the author traces the notion of the ecosystem from its early application in American land conservation through the modern approach to natural resources ....

The Subalpine Lake Ecosystem, Ovre Heimdalsvatn, and its Catchment

Local and Global Changes Over the Last 50 Years

Edited by John E Brittain and Reidar Borgstrom

This book summarizes research from the intensive study of a pristine subalpine lake ecosystem and its catchment over the last 50 years. A wide range of topics is presented, ....

Thomson's Wildlife on Site Handbook

A Practical Guide for Civil Engineers and Developers

Edited by Richard Arnold

Designed for civil engineers, developers and anyone else interested in wildlife, development and the law - this is the third edition of this practical handbook. It ....

Urban Microclimate

Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

Evyatar Erell, David Pearlmutter and Terry Williamson

The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically ....

Woodland Creation for Wildlife and People in a Changing Climate

Principles and Practice

David Blakesley and Peter Buckley

Woodland provides a range of valuable habitats for wildlife, including high forest, woodland edge and grassland. Woodland wildlife continues to be threatened by damage to ....

A World of Rivers

Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Ellen Wohl

This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Murray-Darling in Australia and the Yellow River ....

Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reports and guidance developed under the Bern Convention - Volume 1

COE

The effects of climate change on ecosystems are complex. The impact on the species and habitats protected by the Bern Convention may differ widely, depending on the species, ....

Do We Need Pandas?

The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity

Ken Thompson

A fascinating popular science book that reveals how much we really know - and don't know - about the natural world. It explains why we need to be more concerned about ecosystems ....

Fifty Years after the "Homage to Santa Rosalia"

Old and New Paradigms on Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems

This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of publication of one of the landmarks of the modern ecological thought: the "Homage to Santa Rosalia or why are there so many ....

Fifty: 50 Years 50 Species

Edited by Helen Walsh

Just over 50 years ago, a small group of people met one cold November evening in a school hall in Oxford. This small band of naturalists understood that urgent action was ....

Wild Mammals in Captivity

Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management

Edited by Devra G Kleiman, Katerina V Thompson and Charlotte Kirk Baer

This book presents the most current thinking and practice in the care and management of wild mammals in zoos and other institutions. The editors have gathered together ....

Wired Wilderness

Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife

Etienne Benson

American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists ....

Adapting to Climate Change in Eastern Europe and Cental Asia

Marianne Fay, Rachel Block and Jane Ebinger

Many Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries have been facing warmer temperatures and a changing hydrology, with more droughts, floods, heat waves, ....

Climate Change and Climate Modeling

J David Neelin

This book provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations and climate models. As climate ....

Descriptive Physical Oceanography

An Introduction

GL Pickard, WJ Emery, L Talley and JH Swift

This book provides an introduction to descriptive (synoptic) physical oceanography for science undergraduates and early graduate students. ....

Environmental Science: A Global Concern

William P Cunningham and Mary Ann Cunningham

"Environmental Science: A Global Concern", Eleventh Edition, is a comprehensive presentation of environmental science for non-science majors which emphasizes critical ....

The Flooded Earth

Our Future in a World without Ice Caps

Peter D Ward

Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. ....

Frozen Britain

How the Big Freeze of 2010 is the Beginning of Britain's New Mini Ice Age

Gavin Cooke

Climatologist Gavin Cooke takes a comprehensive and detailed look at global warming and the 'Big Freeze' of 2010 to explain how Britain will freeze before it fries. ....

The Global Carbon Cycle

David Archer

This volume is a short introduction to an essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. The ....

How to Cool the Planet

Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate

Jeff Goodell

When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term 'geo-engineering', he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he ....

The Long Thaw

How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate

David Archer

If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hold out (or until we decide to ....

The MET Office Book of the British Weather

The Met Office

This reference to the British weather is presented in a series of colourful maps showing every aspect of national and local weather throughout the year. It is based on Met ....

Marine Turbulence - Theories, Observations and Models

CARTUM Project

Edited by Helmut Z Baumert, John Simpson and Jürgen Sundermann

The first book to give a comprehensive overview of measurement techniques and theories for marine turbulence and mixing processes. Part I introduces the nature of turbulence ....

Mesoscale Dynamics

Yuh-Lang Lin

Mesoscale weather systems are responsible for numerous natural disasters, such as damaging winds, blizzards and flash flooding. A fundamental understanding of the ....

Monitoring and Control of Macrofouling Mollusks in Fresh Water Systems

Renata Claudi and Gerald L Mackie

The original edition of this book broke new ground with its comprehensive coverage of the biology and ecology, distribution and dispersal mechanisms, physiology, monitoring, ....

Numerical Regularization for Atmospheric Inverse Problems

Adrian Doicu, Thomas R Trautmann and Franz Schreier

The subject of this book is a hot topic with currently no monographic support. It is more advanced, specialized and mathematical than its competitors, and a comprehensive ....

The Physics of Rainclouds

NH (Lord) Fletcher

This book was first published in 1962, at a time when the meteorological study of cloud physics was gaining increasing prominence, largely due to numerous technological ....

Application of Cathodoluminescence Imaging to the Study of Sedimentary Rocks

Sam Boggs Jr and David H Krinsley

Minerals in sedimentary rocks emit characteristic visible luminescence called cathodoluminescence (CL) when bombarded by high energy electrons. CL emissions can be ....

Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building

The Legacy of Peach and Horne

Edited by R D Law, R W H Butler, R E Holdsworth, M Krabbendam and R A Strachan

The world's mountain ranges are the clearest manifestations of long-term deformation of the continental crust. As such they have attracted geological investigations for ....

Essentials of Geology

Stephen Marshak

An introduction to geology that weaves the theory of plate tectonics and the concept of Earth systems science into its narrative from the beginning. ....

An Excursion Guide to the Moine Geology of the Northern Highlands of Scotland

Rob Strachan, Clark Friend and Ian Alsop

This new edition is a co-publication between NMS Enterprises - Publishing and the Edinburgh Geological Society. It has been expanded and redesigned and has a practical ....

Extreme Events

A Physical Reconstruction and Risk Assessment

Jonathan Nott

The assessment of risks posed by natural hazards such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis or cyclones, is often based on short-term historical records that may not ....

General Hydrogeology

EV Pinneker, DE Howard and JC Harvey

This volume was originally published in 1983. It is concerned with the features of and the laws governing the occurrence of water in the interior of the Earth. Special ....

Geology and the Environment

Richard W Hazlett, Paul Bierman, Bernard Pipkin and Dee Trent

Explores the relationship between humans and the geologic hazards, processes, and resources that surround us. This stellar author team has the most field expertise, and ....

The Geology of the South East of England

Gideon Algernon Mantell

This volume, first published in 1833, contains the results of Mantell's research into the geology and fossil remains of south-eastern England, especially Sussex and Kent. ....

Heliophysics

3 Volume Set

Edited by Carolus J Schrijver and George L Siscoe

Heliophysics is a fast-developing discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. ....

Horizons of Cosmology

Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen

Joseph Silk

Astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores the vast mysteries and speculations of the field of cosmology. ....

How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?

Abraham Loeb

Though astrophysicists have developed a theoretical framework for understanding how the first stars and galaxies formed, only now is it possible to begin testing those theories ....

How Old is the Universe?

David A Weintraub

Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? This book tells the incredible story of how ....

Hubble

A Journey Through Space and Time

Edward Weiler

April 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most important scientific tools ever employed by humanity, the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is the most celebrated ....

Introduction to Green Chemistry

Albert Matlack

In the nearly 10 years since the publication of the bestselling first edition of Introduction to Green Chemistry, interest in green chemistry and clean processes has ....

The Making of History's Greatest Star Map

Michael Perryman

From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded ....

Mineralization of England and Wales

RE Bevins, B Young, JS Mason, DAC Manning and RF Symes

The geological record in Great Britain reflects some 2900 million years of Earth history, an exceptionally long record for such a relatively small portion of the Earth's ....

Mysteries of Galaxy Formation

Francoise Combes

The mystery of how the galaxies formed is a complex and intriguing subject, involving several different theories and an understanding of many different phenomena. In this ....

Perilous Planet Earth

Catastrophes and Catastrophism through the Ages

Trevor Palmer

Originally published in 2003, Perilous Planet Earth places our concern about the threat to Earth from asteroids and comets within an historical context, looking at the evidence ....

Planetary Crusts

Their Composition, Origin and Evolution

S Ross Taylor and Scott McLennan

This is the first book to explain how and why solid planets and satellites develop crusts. Extensively referenced and annotated, it presents a geochemical and geological ....

Quantitative Seismic Interpretation

Applying Rock Physics Tools to Reduce Interpretation Risk

Per Avseth, Tapan Mukerji and Gary Mavko

Demonstrates how rock physics can be applied to predict reservoir parameters, such as lithologies and pore fluids, from seismically derived attributes. The authors provide an ....

Reliquiae Diluvianae

William Buckland

William Buckland (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, was an English geologist best known for his contributions to palaeontology. He spent 1819-1822 investigating fossil remains ....

Research Methods in Geography

A Critical Introduction

John Paul Jones and Basil Gomez

This comprehensive textbook offers a conceptual and practical introduction to research methodology, data collection and techniques used in both human and physical geography. ....

Structural Geology

Haakon Fossen

This book takes an applied approach to introduce undergraduate students to the basic principles of structural geology. It provides unique links to industry applications in ....

The Wonders of Geology, 2 Volume Set

Or, a Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena

Gideon Algernon Mantell and G F Richardson

These volumes, first published in 1838, contain a series of eight lectures which describe and explain early principles of geology, stratification and fossil plants and ....

The Wonders of Geology, Volume 1

Or, a Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena

Gideon Algernon Mantell and G F Richardson

These volumes, first published in 1838, contain a series of eight lectures which describe and explain early principles of geology, stratification and fossil plants and ....

The Wonders of Geology, Volume 2

Or, a Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena

Gideon Algernon Mantell and G F Richardson

Volume 2 contains lectures 5-8, discussing marine fossils including animals and corals, fossil plants and volcanic rocks. ....

The Antarctic Treaty Regime

Law, Environment and Resources

GD Triggs

The Antarctic Treaty regime is a uniquely successful legal system which preserves Antarctica for peaceful purposes and guarantees freedom of scientific research. This ....

Assessment of the Ecological Status of European Surface Waters

Edited by Peeter Noges, Wouter van de Bund, Ana Cristina Cardoso and Angelo Solimini

The complex impact that man has on aquatic ecosystems creates a need for assessment systems that are able to adequately appraise and integrate the effects of various ....

Beyond Animal Rights

Food, Pets and Ethics

Tony Milligan

From vegetarianism to scientific experimentation, this book is an ethical exploration of our responsibilities to the animals with whom we share the planet. The author goes ....

Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change

Agriculture's Imprint on World History

TR Sinclair and CJ Sinclair

The history of humankind is intimately tied to the history of agriculture: powerful societies rose, persisted and waned in parallel with their food supply systems. ....

Changes in the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea

Edited by Myron H Nordquist, John Norton Moore and Tomas H Heidar

While the Arctic Ocean has long been covered with ice, recent changes in climate have caused the ice to melt, spurring both conservation challenges to the region's ....

Coastal Aquaculture Engineering

A Bose, SN Ghosh, CT Yang and A Mitra

Aquaculture is the science and technology of breeding and growing aquatic plants. Aquaculture has been in practice in China and India for more than 2000 years. However, ....

Conservation Tourism

R Buckley

The effects of tourism on the ecology and natural environment of tourist destinations are hotly debated and research has expanded in the field of ecotourism and ....

Elemental Philosophy

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas

David Macauley

In this book, earth, air, fire and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. The ....

Encyclopedia of Sustainability

Robin M Collin and Robert William Collin

This expansive encyclopedia breaks new ground, giving definition and focus to an urgent and much-talked-about topic that is extraordinarily wide ranging and all too often ....

Environmental Crime and the Media

News Coverage of Petroleum Refining Industry Violations

Melissa L Jarrell

Jarrell examines print news media coverage of federal penalties assessed against the petroleum refining industry. While there are many federal petroleum refining industry ....

Environmental Politics

Scale and Power

Shannon O'Lear

This book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power ....

Four Fish

A Journey from the Ocean to Your Plate

Paul Greenberg

Whether it's wild or farmed, fresh or tinned, in batter or a bento box, we're eating more fish than ever before. But what's the story behind the fish on your plate? ....

Global Energy Transformation

Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story

Mats Larsson

In the coming years, due to the peak in global oil production, financial and political power will gradually shift towards the individuals, companies and nations that are most ....

Global Justice and Sustainable Development

Edited by Duncan French

In recognising the significant role international law can play in supporting the objectives of justice and sustainable development, this book provides a wide-ranging ....

Groundwater Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

Edited by Howard Wheater, Simon Mathias and Xin Li

Arid and semi-arid regions face major challenges in the management of scarce freshwater resources under pressures of population, economic development, climate change, pollution ....

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 ....

Mathematical Bioeconomics

The Mathematics of Conservation

Colin W Clark

Analyzes the economic forces underlying the misuse of biological renewable resources and discusses economically effective methods of resource management. It shows how rigorous ....

Native Peoples and Water Rights

Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada

Kenichi Matsui

Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had ....

Non-Renewable Resource Issues

Geoscientific and Societal Challenges

Edited by Richard Sinding-Larsen and Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer

Nearly everything made or built, and nearly all the energy used, comes out of the Earth. Modern society is increasingly dependent on mineral and fossil energy sources. They are ....

Ocean Yearbook, Volume 24

Edited by Aldo Chircop, Scott Coffen-Smout and Moira McConnell

Devoted to assessing the state of ocean and coastal governance, knowledge, and management, the Ocean Yearbook provides information in one convenient resource. ....

The Oyster Question

Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880

Christine Keiner

This book features oyster beds as a political and environmental battleground. The author applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to ....

Promoting Sustainable Fisheries

The Legal Framework to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

Mary Ann Palma, Martin Tsamenyi and William Edeson

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, or IUU fishing, is considered one of the most significant threats to the sustainability of fisheries resources. Since the ....

Resource Economics

An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

John C Bergstrom and Alan Randall

Surpassing other natural resource and environmental economics texts available today, this completely updated version of Alan Randall's classic Resource Economics provides ....

State of Food and Agriculture 2009

Livestock in the Balance

FAO

The livestock sector is transforming rapidly in response to shifts in the global economy and changing societal expectations. Society expects the livestock sector to provide safe ....

Sustainability Matters

Environmental Management in Asia

Edited by Lin-Heng Lye, Victor Savage and George Ofori

This is a compilation of papers prepared from the best Dissertations and Study Reports prepared by students on the MSc (Environmental Management) programme at the National ....

Sustainable Development

The Challenge of Transition

Edited by Jurgen Schmandt and CH Ward

Examines what societal changes must occur over the next generation to ensure a successful transition to sustainability within the constraints of the natural ....

Tropical Fruits

Volume 1

Robert E Paull and O Duarte

This book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues ....

Understanding Environmental Philosophy

Andrew Brennan and YS Lo

This volume presents a comprehensive, critical analysis of contemporary philosophical approaches to current ecological concerns. Key ideas are explained, placed in their ....

The Untrained Environmentalist

How an Australian Grazier Brought His Barren Property Back to Life

John Fenton

Fifty years ago a young farmer named John Fenton took over his family's rundown sheep property in Victoria. Named Lanark, the property was barren, windswept and ....

When Will the Lights Go Out?

Britain's Looming Energy Crisis

Derek Birkett

Power resources are dwindling rapidly, and the national grid is unable to supply our power for very much longer. This book critically examines the response by governments to ....

The World According to Monsanto

Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of our Food Supply

Marie-Monique Robin

The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents (North ....

DNA Microarrays and Gene Expression

From Experiments to Data Analysis and Modeling

Pierre Baldi and G Wesley Hatfield

Massive data acquisition technologies, such as genome sequencing, high-throughput drug screening, and DNA arrays are in the process of revolutionizing biology and medicine. ....

Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications

Edited by Liang Xu and Seon K Park

This book presents the most recent achievements in data assimilation in Geosciences, especially in regards to meteorology, oceanography and hydrology. It spans both ....

Integration of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

Edited by Jeffrey L Star, John E Estes and Kenneth C McGwire

Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) are inherently linked technologies. Together, they form a powerful tool to measure, map, monitor and model ....

Measurements and Their Uncertainties

A Practical Guide to Modern Error Analysis

Ifan Hughes and Thomas Hase

This hands-on guide is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences and engineering. It assumes no prior knowledge of statistics. It ....

Principles of Remote Sensing

Edited by Norman Kerle et al

Introduces remote sensing as a technique for acquiring different types of positional and thematic information. Covers the physical principles of remote sensing, aerial ....

Rethinking the Power of Maps

Professor Denis Wood

A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in ....

The Chicago Manual of Style

The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors and Publishers

Edited by John Grossman

The latest edition of `the definitive writing reference work, revered by scholars, universities, publishers and editors.' (Bloomsbury Review). ....