new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2014/08
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Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in the last month.

Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month
 
Mammals
 

Cetaces du Monde

Systematique, Ethologie, Biologie, Ecologie, Statut

Jean-Pierre Sylvestre

Dolphins and whales, porpoises and whales lead a secret life so they are rarely seen. And when the opportunity presents itself to us, it's often only as a glimpse! However, persevering and attentive observers are rewarded with wonderful ... ....

352 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9782759221844 | #216465A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Carnivores of Australia

Past, Present and Future

Alistair S Glen and Christopher R Dickman

The Australian continent provides a unique perspective on the evolution and ecology of carnivorous animals. In earlier ages, Australia provided the arena for a spectacular radiation of marsupial and reptilian predators. The causes of the ... ....

448 pages | photos, b/w illustrations, maps |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780643103108 | #216264A | £71.50 Add to basket

 

Great Bear Wild

Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

Ian Mcallister and Jr.,Robert F Kennedy

The Great Bear Rainforest is the fabled region that stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from the top of Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister ... ....

192 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781771640459 | #216332A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Last Chain on Billie

How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top

Carol Bradley

Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradley's Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resident ... ....

328 pages | 8 plates with colour photos |

Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781250025692 | #216209A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World

Arctic Whales in a Melting World

Todd McLeish

Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and ... ....

206 pages | 13 plates with b/w photos and b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780295992648 | #203663A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780295994161 | #216333A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Planet Without Apes

Craig B Stanford

Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes ... ....

262 pages | 4 b/w photos |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9780674067042 | #199462A | £19.95 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780674416840 | #215949A | £12.95 Add to basket

 

Primate Comparative Anatomy

Daniel L Gebo

Why do orangutan arms closely resemble human arms? What is the advantage to primates of having long limbs? Why do primates have forward-facing eyes? Answers to questions such as these are usually revealed by comparative studies of primates ... ....

208 pages | 15 b/w photos, 153 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781421414898 | #216384A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Return of the Wolves: The Next Chapter (Region 1)

Peter Coyote

It's been almost twenty years since wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and placed on the endangered species list. At the time, advocates said wolves were a vital link in the natural ecosystem.

1 disc, runtime: 57 min |

DVD | 01/2013 | 9781607813606 | #212889A | £20.00 Add to basket

 

Tales from Gombe

Anup Shah and Fiona Roger

Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers have spent much of the last decade in the company of the world-famous chimpanzees of Tanzania's Gombe National Park, getting to know their characters and learning about the intricacies of their lives. ....

324 pages | 260+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780565093501 | #216097A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Walking Whales

From Land to Water in Eight Million Years

JGM Thewissen and Jacqueline Dillard

Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales, as the animals evolved from herbivorous ... ....

226 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780520277069 | #214196A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

The Wild Horses of Sable Island

Roberto Dutesco

Sable Island, a small island off the coast of eastern Canada is the site of some 500 wild horses, 500 shipwrecks and 500 years of known history. Never settled, the island, also known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," has seen ... ....

344 pages | 119 colour & 83 b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9783832798499 | #216024A | £99.99 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

Album of Wild Birds in Dezhou [Chinese]

Zhang Lixin

Dezhou is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, China. Zhang Lixin has spent 10 years photographing birds, and nearly 60 species are beautifully pictured in Album of Wild Birds in Dezhou.

127 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9787503874291 | #216295A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Beijing Birds [Chinese]

Zhao Xinru

This portable book describes 448 species found in Beijing. Part one is a colour key to 448 species; part two contains systematic accounts.

563 pages | 186 colour plates |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9787303158614 | #216296A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Common Wild Birds: Beijing Area [Chinese]

Li Qiang

This book describes and illustrates 315 species.

372 pages | 700 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9787111438168 | #216299A | £33.50 Add to basket

Paperback | / | #216368A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Birding in Wuhan University [Chinese]

Li Weilin

This is a field guide to the birds recorded on Wuhan University Campus, Hubei Province, China. This vast campus contains diverse habitats, and many species in Wuhan city have the campus as their core area. Of the 343 species recorded in ... ....

157 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2014 | 9787510055898 | #216298A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of Palmerston in Australia's Top End

Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow and Michael Stott

Birds of Palmerston in Australia's Top End covers 90 or so species found in the vicinity of Palmerston, a satellite town of Darwin, in Australia’s Top End. It contains information on the plumage, calls, habits and ... ....

80 pages | 80 colour & 27 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780957884922 | #216312A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Feathered Splendours

Birds of Bangladesh

Enam Ul Haque

Birds remain an important part of our lives. Whether we carefully watch them or not, a flash of glittering colours sometimes accompanied by a charming note of an unknown bird brightens our day.

228 pages | 228 colour photos |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9789845061384 | #216163A | £78.50 Add to basket

 

Finding Birds in Ireland

The Complete Guide

Eric Dempsey and Michael O'Clery

Since the publication of the best-selling first edition of Finding Birds in Ireland in 2007, Ireland's rich birdlife and its habitats have continued to be explored. This new second edition captures many new areas that have been discovered ... ....

389 pages | 300 colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 04/2014 | 9780717159253 | #215774A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Finding Birds in South-West Turkey

Dave Gosney

Finding Birds in South-West Turkey describes the best birding sites in exceptional detail, made even clearer by Dave Gosney's trademark maps. It covers the best sites close to tourist resorts such as Dalyan, Fethiye, Kalkan, Bodrum, Antalya ... ....

40 pages | b/w maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781907316463 | #216105A | £7.50 Add to basket

 

Guide to Summer Coastal Birds

Rebecca Farley-Brown and Mike Langman

From cormorants to kittiwakes, and guillemots to gulls, this 8-panel laminated fold-out chart features 28 of the birds you can see around the coastline of the UK in the summer. Included are both cliff-nesting birds, like gannet and razorbill ... ....

8 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Unbound | 07/2014 | 9781908819147 | #215936A | £3.50 Add to basket

 

Guide to Troubled Birds

Mincing Mockingbird

From irate hummingbirds to judgmental parrots, this handy and lavishly illustrated volume depicts the most disturbed birds of North America in gorgeous colour portraits, with accompanying testimonials and confessions of murder, mental illness ... ....

66 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780399170911 | #216294A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Martinet Noir

Entre Ciel et Pierre

Bernard Genton and Marcel S Jacquat

Monograph on the black swift.

191 pages | 120 illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9782884230735 | #216288A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Penguins: Close Encounters

David Tipling

The vibrant and exciting world of penguins is shown in all its glory in this new book from renowned wildlife photographer David Tipling, who has trekked to remote and beautiful locations to capture birds in their natural habitat going about ... ....

160 pages | 140 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781472910004 | #215914A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Puffins

Drew Buckley

The Atlantic Puffin is the UK's most recognisable seabird. Take an intimate journey with award winning wildlife photographer, Drew Buckley, as he observes the trials and joys of this charismatic creature through the lens of his camera ... ....

48 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781909823105 | #216101A | £2.99 Add to basket

 

RSPB Bempton Cliffs Summer

A Video Site Guide for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

Andy Hirst

RSPB Bempton Cliffs offers an amazing birding experience, whether it's your first visit or tenth. The sight, sound and smell of 200 000 breeding seabirds has to be experienced. This video site guide, for use with iPod Touch ... ....

10 video clips in .mov format, file size 897 mb |

CD | 01/2013 | 7994390793280 | #215978A | £5.40 Add to basket

 

Swiftlets of Borneo

Builders of Edible Nests

Lim Chan Koon and Earl of Cranbrook

Since the close of the 16th century AD, the edible nests of swiftlets have aroused the perplexed curiosity of European travellers to South-east Asia, while at the same time providing one of the most important constituents of traditional ... ....

170 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9789838121484 | #216245A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds of Dalinuoer [Chinese]

Xing Lianlian

This book describes 296 species birds from Dalinuoer National Nature Reserve in Inner Mongolia, Northern China.

256 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2014 | 9787500092957 | #216297A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds of Ghana

An Atlas and Handbook

Francoise Dowsett-Lemaire and Robert J Dowsett

This is the second account of the birds of Ghana (ex-Gold Coast), the first having been published by Grimes in 1987. It presents detailed information on the some 750 species known (among which there are 150 migrants from Eurasia and North ... ....

713 pages | 21 plates with colour photos; colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9782872250073 | #216120A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds of the Balkan Peninsula [Bulgarian]

A Field Guide

Taniu Manev Michev, Dimitar Simeonov and Lyobomir Profirov

The first ever Bulgarian-produced field guide, covering the whole country and the Balkan Peninsula south of 47°N (all of mainland Greece & Albania, plus parts of Romania & former Yugoslavia). In Collins style field guide format ... ....

250 pages | colour plates, colour distribution maps, includes CD |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9789549293012 | #215882A | £58.50 Add to basket

 

The Common Eider

Chris Waltho and John C Coulson

A common sight around the more northerly shores of the British Isles, the Common Eider is the largest duck in the northern hemisphere. The eider is particularly well adapted to cold-water environments; the insulating properties of eider ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781408125328 | #212518A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

The Magic & Mystery of Birds

The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

Noah Strycker

In an entertaining and perceptive account of the lives of birds, from watching penguins in Antarctica to testing turkey vultures' sense of smell, Noah Strycker illuminates the surprising world of birds and their secret life.

304 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780285642799 | #216013A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

The Magic of Birds

Celia Fisher

Birds have captured people's imagination since earliest times, with their fascinating plumage, behaviour and power of flight. In this beautifully and unusually illustrated book, Celia Fisher traces the remarkable breadth of ways in ... ....

160 pages | 100 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780712357425 | #215913A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Pocket Guide to the Common Birds of Ireland

Eric Dempsey and Michael O'Clery

Whether you are a beginner or an expert, this beautifully detailed field guide to the common birds of Ireland will give invaluable advice on how to identify each species: their calls, songs, diets and habitats, as well as up-to-date ... ....

228 pages | colour illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9780717151097 | #215775A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest

James Sandrock and Jean C Prior

The translation and explanation of genus and species names yield markers to help us identify birds in the field as well as remember distinctive traits. Having a basic understanding of the scientific and common names of birds reveals ... ....

192 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2014 | 9781609382254 | #216490A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Stokes Essential Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America

Donald W Stokes and Lillian Stokes

Pocket-size, brilliantly colourful, and easy to use, The Stokes Essential Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America contains everything you need to identify and enjoy birds in your backyard and beyond.

288 pages | 582 colour photos, 250 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780316010511 | #216282A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Wings Over the Western Front

The First World War Diaries of Collingwood Ingram

Ernest Pollard, Hazel Strouts and Collingwood Ingram

These First World War diaries provide a vivid contrast between the horrors of War and the beauty of nature. Collingwood Ingram (1880-1981) is chiefly remembered today as a great gardener. His name is synonymous with flowering ...

302 pages | 20 b/w photos, 150 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9780953221394 | #215876A | £9.99 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

Amphibian Survey and Monitoring Handbook

John W Wilkinson

Amphibians are among the most globally endangered groups of vertebrates with more than one-third of species being assessed as declining or threatened. Often, amphibian declines can be attributed to a suite of interacting factors, many of ... ....

250 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781784270049 | #213228A | £49.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781784270032 | #213229A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Amphibians and Reptiles of Gansu

Yao Chongyong

Gansu is a Chinese province, located in the northwest of the country. It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus. Gansu has 659 species of wild animals. It has twenty-four rare animals which are under a state protection.

164 pages |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9787542416339 | #216308A | £71.99 Add to basket

 

Amphibians and Reptiles of Guangdong [Chinese]

Li Zhenchang

Amphibians and Reptiles of Guangdong is the first book of its kind and describes 68 amphibian and 145 reptile species of reptiles. Distinguishing characteristics of each species, morphology, life and feeding habits, reproduction ... ....

266 pages |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9787535956231 | #216309A | £79.50 Add to basket

 

Biology & Conservation of North American Tortoises

David C Rostal, Earl D McCoy and Henry R Mushinsky

Tortoises, those unmistakable turtles, evolved from a lineage that split off from the familiar pond turtles roughly 100 million years ago. Over time, these plant-eating land turtles spread around the world, growing to an enormous size ... ....

190 pages | 19 b/w photos, 30 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781421413778 | #216383A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Snakes of Taiwan [Chinese]

Chiang Chih Wei and Tseng Chih Ming

This book treats 47 snake species from Taiwan in detail.

176 pages | 700 colour photos |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9789868921603 | #216307A | £61.99 Add to basket

 

Terrarientechnik

Ingo Kober and Uwe Geissel

A comprehensive book on all aspects of terrarium technique, from the lighting to UV irradiation up to mat and sprinkler system. Practice-oriented and, of course, up-to-date. For those looking for guidance in the large market ...

248 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | #216038A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

The Philippine Crocodile

Ecology, Culture and Conservation

Merlijn van Weerd, Jan van der Ploeg, Marites Gatan-Balbas, Willem van de Ven and Domin Rodriguez

The Philippine Crocodile: Ecology, Culture and Conservation documents the efforts to save one of the most severely threatened animals on the planet: the Philippine crocodile. Relentless hunting, the widespread use of destructive ... ....

152 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9789719466543 | #215847A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Western Indian Ocean Tortoises

Ecology, Diversity, Evolution, Conservation, Palaeontology

Justin Gerlach and Russell A Mittermeier

The islands of the Western Indian Ocean (Madagascar and the small island groups of the Seychelles, Mascarenes and Comoros) are home to a remarkable diversity of animals and plants. Among the most notable are the tortoises, including some ... ....

352 pages | 200+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780992997908 | #216128A | £39.99 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

Fishes: A Guide to Their Diversity

Philip A Hastings, HJ Walker and Grantly R Galland

There are more than 33 000 species of living fishes, accounting for more than half of the extant vertebrate diversity on Earth. This unique and comprehensive reference showcases the basic anatomy and diversity of all 82 orders of fishes ... ....

345 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780520283534 | #214118A | £24.95 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780520278721 | #214119A | £44.95 Add to basket

 

Muraenen im Aquarium

Marco Lichtenberger

Moray eels are fascinating animals. In Muränen im Aquarium Dr. Marco Lichtenberger provides a comprehensive overview of the biology, behavior and biodiversity of this fish family. The focus of this book focus is on the ... ....

180 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | #213661A | £38.99 Add to basket

 

Shark: Fear & Beauty

Jean-Marie Ghislain

Sharks engender our most primal emotion: fear. Real danger is something we seldom experience in the modern world, protected by the comforts of civilization. Yet fear is deeply inscribed at the core of our being.

192 pages | colour & b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780500517734 | #216002A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Shark: From the Giant to Deep Sea Small Sharks [Japanese]

Ishigaki Koji and Nakano Hideki

A visual introduction to 50 species of shark.

141 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9784773087208 | #216371A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

A Handbook for Lepidopterists

Peter May

The last edition of the handbook (published in 1992) went out of print in 2005 and since then there have been huge advances in the study of Lepidoptera. This completely new edition includes many new topics, is almost twice the size of ... ....

228 pages | 24 plates with colour illustrations, 41 plates with b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | #215877A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of Nepal

Dinazarde C Raheem, Prem B Budha, Fred Naggs, Richard C Preece and Harold Taylor

The purpose of An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of Nepal is to illustrate representative examples and to demonstrate the range of diversity of Nepalese land snails. With the aid of this laminated fold-out guide it should ... ....

8 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map |

Unbound | 01/2010 | #216131A | £1.99 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of Sri Lankan Natural Forest and Cultivated Habitats

Dinazarde C Raheem, Fred Naggs and Harold Taylor

An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of Sri Lankan Natural Forest and Cultivated Habitats provides a brief introduction to the land-snail faunas of the major natural forest types of the island and of the main dry land ... ....

12 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map |

Unbound | 01/2006 | #216133A | £1.99 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of the British Isles

Fred Naggs, Richard C Preece, Roy Anderson, Amritha Peiris, Harold Taylor and Tom S White

The British Isles support a relatively diverse land-snail fauna consisting of 99 species belonging to 27 families and 61 genera. The purpose of this simple laminated fold-out guide is to provide high-quality images of this fauna, enabling ... ....

12 pages | colour photos |

Unbound | 01/2014 | #216130A | £0.99 Add to basket

 

An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of the Western Ghats of India

Dinazarde C Raheem, Fred Naggs, NA Aravind, Richard C Preece and Harold Taylor

The objective of An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails of the Western Ghats of India is to provide a brief introduction to the rich and fascinating land-snail fauna of the Western Ghats. All genera native to the Western Ghats ... ....

10 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map |

Unbound | 01/2009 | #216132A | £1.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas dos Caracais Terrestres e de Aguas Doces e Salobras Portugal Continental

Rolanda Maria Albuquerque de Matos

Atlas of the terrestrial and aquatic snails of mainland Portugal.

258 pages | 188+ colour photos, 125 b/w distribution maps |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789892044804 | #216212A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Beetles of the Family Tenebrionidae of Central Europe / Brouci Celedi Potemníkovití (Tenebrionidae) Strední Evropy

Vladimir Novak

Identification keys allowing determination of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae found in the Czech and Slovak Republics, as well as neighbouring regions of Central Europe. Almost all species illustrated.

412 pages | plates with colour photos and b/w line drawings; b/w distribution maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9788020023384 | #216284A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Butterfly People

An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World

William Leach

From one of our most highly regarded historians, Butterfly People is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America's infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysterious ... ....

388 pages | 32 plates with colour illustrations; b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780375422935 | #207059A | £25.65 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781400076925 | #215755A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

Cahier d'Identification des Libellules de France, Belgique, Luxembourg & Suisse

Daniel Grand, Jean-Pierre Boudot, Guillaume Doucet, Stephane Hette and Yves Doux

This guide includes everything that is needed to identify dragonflies in the field . All 103 species dragonflies (subspecies included) are illustrated with photographs of males and females, by drawings and a concise distribution map provides ... ....

136 pages | 700+ colour illustrations, distribution maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9782366620092 | #216019A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Care of Bees in Warre and Top Bar Hives

Joe Bleasdale

Care of Bees in Warré and Top Bar Hives is a guide for new beekeepers and for all beekeepers who have acquired the increasingly popular Warré and Top Bar Hives and anyone who wishes to stop the use of chemicals in ... ....

112 pages | photos, b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | #216221A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815]

Except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Benoit Vincent and Michel Laguerre

A catalogue of the subtribes Phaegopterina Kirby, 1892 (151 genera, 1720 species, 97 subspecies and 252 synonyms), Arctiina Leach, [1815] (7 genera, 89 species, 3 subspecies and 26 synonyms) ... ....

397 pages | 23 plates with colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2014 | #215984A | £48.50 Add to basket

 

Cephalopods, Amzing and Beautiful Creatures [Japanese]

Kubodera Tsune Onore and Mine mizu Ryo

This photobook reveals the beauty of cephalopods.

264 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9784767818047 | #216370A | £48.50 Add to basket

 

Checklisten der Fauna Oesterreichs, No. 7

Erna Aescht: Ciliophora

Erna Aescht and Reinhart Schuster

The number of ciliate records increased from about 3500 included in the "Catalogus Faunae Austriae Ic" of Wilhelm Foissner and Ilse Foissner in 1988 to actually 74 000, mainly due to huge saprobiological monitoring programs of ... ....

112 pages |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9783700175506 | #215950A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Common Insects of Nunavut

Carolyn Mallory

Explore the fascinating world of Nunavut's insects in this richly visual, informative book. Through beautiful photographs and a broad range of information – including traditional knowledge compiled through interviews with Inuit ... ....

172 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, 1 colour map |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781927095003 | #216206A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

De Nederlandse Goundhaantjes (Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae)

Jaap Winkelman

Illustrated key to the leaf beetles of the Netherlands. Summary in Dutch: Jaap Winkelman beschrijft in De Nederlandse Goudhaantjes de opvallende groep van vaak metallisch gekleurde kevers.

92 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2013 | #215851A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Diatom Research Over Time and Space - Morphology, Taxonomy, Ecology and Distribution of Diatoms - From Fossil to Recent,

Celebrating the Work and Impact of Nina Strelnikova on the Occasion of her 80th Birthday

John Patrick Kociolek, MS Kulikovskiy, Jan Witkowski and DM Harwood

Readers of this Beiheft of Nova Hedwigia will find articles on a large variety of diatoms, from fossil to recent, marine to freshwater, established species and genera to new ones. Fifty-two authors have contributed to this volume ... ....

518 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9783443510657 | #216250A | £199.00 Add to basket

 

Dragonfly Fauna of Sri Lanka

Distribution and Biology, with Threat Status of its Endemics

Matjaz Bedjanic, Karen Conniff, Nancy van der Poorten and Ali Salamun

Dragonflies are strikingly beautiful insects and small colourful pearls of Sri Lanka's remarkable biodiversity. At present, 124 species are known from the island, of which almost half are endemic. Such an extraordinary level of endemism ... ....

321 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, coloud distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9789546427335 | #216123A | £78.50 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to the Spiders of South Africa

Ansie S Dippenaar-Schoeman

This is the first-ever field guide to provide information on a vast spectrum of spider species based on their morphology, behaviour and distribution. It's the first book to introduce all 70 South African spider families including ... ....

432 pages | 2000+ colour photos, 843 distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780799360189 | #216089A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Gasteropodes Terrestres a Coquille Communs d'Europe, Tome 1: Sud de la France, Nord de l'Italie et Nord de l'Espagne

Claude Vilvens, Etienne Meuleman, Marc Alexandre, Olivier Thils and Edgar Waiengnier

The authors of the series of booklets Mollusques Terrestres et Dulcicoles de Belgique considered that naturalists continue to observe, search, identify and collect while on vacation in a foreign country. But those looking for land molluscs will ... ....

72 pages | 20 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #216327A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Gasteropodes Terrestres a Coquille Communs d'Europe, Tome 2: Sud de l'Italie, Malte, Sud de l'Espagne et Portugal

Claude Vilvens, Etienne Meuleman, Marc Alexandre, Olivier Thils and Edgar Waiengnier

The authors of the series of booklets Mollusques Terrestres et Dulcicoles de Belgique considered that naturalists continue to observe, search, identify and collect while on vacation in a foreign country. But those looking for land molluscs will ... ....

56 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #216328A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Gasteropodes Terrestres a Coquille Communs d'Europe, Tome 3: Nord de la France, Iles Britanniques, Pays-Bas, Ouest de

Claude Vilvens, Etienne Meuleman, Olivier Thils and Marc Alexandre

The authors of the series of booklets Mollusques Terrestres et Dulcicoles de Belgique considered that naturalists continue to observe, search, identify and collect while on vacation in a foreign country. But those looking for land molluscs will ... ....

72 pages | 24 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2014 | #216330A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Insect Fauna of Henan [Chinese]

Catalogue and Distribution

Shen Xiaocheng

Divided into four chapters, Insect Fauna of Henan: Catalogue and Distribution describes 9272 species of insects, spiders and acarina belonging to 580 families, 4198 genera, 32 orders from Henan province, central China.

1271 pages | 54 plates with illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2014 | 9787030396464 | #216306A | £150.00 Add to basket

 

Insect Molecular Biology and Ecology

Klaus H Hoffmann

Insects have one of the widest distributions on the globe because they have adapted to extreme ranges of environments. Insect Molecular Biology and Ecology presents current entomological research, where molecular tools help to ... ....

250 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781482231885 | #213997A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 15

Eric Jiroux

Eight papers on World Cerambycidae.

113 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | #216285A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Mollusques Terrestres et Dulcicoles de Belgique, Tome 3: Gasteropodes Terrestres sans Coquille (Limaces)

Claude Vilvens, Bruno Maree, Etienne Meuleman, Marc Alexandre and Edgar Waiengnier

This suite of booklets introduces the reader to the world of snails and slugs. The authors of these booklets, all members of the Belgian Society of Malacology, attempt to provide field guides tailored to the needs of nature lovers. ....

40 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2008 | #216323A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Mollusques Terrestres et Dulcicoles de Belgique, Tomes 1 & 2: Gasteropodes Terrestres a Coquille (2-Volume Set)

Claude Vilvens, Bruno Maree, Etienne Meuleman, Marc Alexandre, Edgar Waiengnier and Sophi Valtat

This suite of booklets introduces the reader to the world of snails and slugs. The authors of these booklets, all members of the Belgian Society of Malacology, attempt to provide field guides tailored to the needs of nature lovers. ....

112 pages | 24 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2008 | #216322A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Mollusques Terrestres et Dulcicoles de Belgique, Tomes 4 & 5: Gasteropodes Dulcicoles & Bivalves Dulcicoles (2-Volume S

Claude Vilvens, Bruno Maree, Etienne Meuleman, Marc Alexandre and Edgar Waiengnier

This suite of booklets introduces the reader to the world of snails and slugs. The authors of these booklets, all members of the Belgian Society of Malacology, attempt to provide field guides tailored to the needs of nature lovers. ....

100 pages | 22 plates with colour photos; b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 01/2008 | #216324A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Moths of Hehuanshan

Chien-Ming Fu, Laszlo Ronkay and Hsu-Hong Lin

Situated in the central section of Central Mountain Range, Hehuan Mountain Range (Hehuanshan) is located on the administrative boundaries of Hualien county, Xiulin Township and Nantou County, Renai Township, Taiwan. Connected by seven ... ....

604 pages | plates with colour & b/w photos |

Hardback | 12/2013 | 9789860398809 | #216305A | £118.00 Add to basket

 

Natural Beekeeping with the Warre Hive

A Manual

David Heaf

This inspiring, practical, clearly laid out book contains everything you need in order to build and run a Warré hive. Topics include tools, siting, obtaining and hiving bees, monitoring, feeding, wintering, enlarging the hive ... ....

104 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781908904317 | #216222A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Nos Abeilles en Peril

Vincent Albouy and Yves Le Conte

The media have widely reported on recurring problems causing bee mortality in recent years. Nos Abeilles en Péril attempts to unravel disparate information and separate rumours and anecdotes from facts. Is the situation ... ....

192 pages |

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9782759221776 | #216466A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Preparing the Ghost

An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and its First Photographer

Matthew Gavin Frank

Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780871402837 | #216074A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Seashells in Yakushima Island

Photographs of About 345 Shells Collected in Yakushima Island

Shunshiro Taniguchi

Shunshiro Taniguchi is a retired orthopaedic specialist, who now divides his time between traditional Japanese ceramic art and his passion for local natural history.  He lives on the tropical island Yakushima, a World Heritage site ... ....

229 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9784990666309 | #216267A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Seeing Butterflies

New Perspectives on Colour, Patterns & Mimicry

Philip Howse

Seeing Butterflies features superb imagery that reveals astonishing insight into the life of butterflies and moths. It features previously unrecognised examples of butterflies' mimicry. It will appeal to biologists and artists ... ....

176 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781906506469 | #216096A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life

Susan Middleton, Sylvia A Earle and Bernadette Holthuis

In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, which represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean. They are also astonishingly ... ....

256 pages | 200 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781419710070 | #216008A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Sri Lankan Snails: A Popular Colour Guide [Sinhala]

Fred Naggs, Dinazarde C Raheem and Harold Taylor

The purpose of this simple laminated fold-out guide is to provide high-quality images of the Sri Lankan snail fauna, enabling convenient comparisons to be made between similar species, leading to quick, and hopefully secure, identification ... ....

8 pages | colour photos |

Unbound | 01/2009 | #216135A | £1.99 Add to basket

 

Sri Lankan Snails: A Popular Colour Guide [Tamil]

Fred Naggs, Dinazarde C Raheem and Harold Taylor

The purpose of this simple laminated fold-out guide is to provide high-quality images of the Sri Lankan snail fauna, enabling convenient comparisons to be made between similar species, leading to quick, and hopefully secure, identification ... ....

8 pages | colour photos |

Unbound | 01/2003 | #216134A | £1.99 Add to basket

 

Suomen Kotilot ja Etanat [Snail and Slug of Finland]

Opas Maanilviaisten Maailmaan

Anne Koivunen, Pekka Malinen, Hannu Ormio, Juhani Terhivuo and Ilmari Valovirta

Suomen Kotilot ja Etanat presents all 94 species of snails and slugs known from Finland, right up to the end of 2013. Also included are a dozen neighbouring species. Two species, Cochlicopa nitens and Quickella arenaria, are new records ... ....

376 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9789526754468 | #216537A | £68.99 Add to basket

 

The Book of Beetles

A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems

Patrice Bouchard, Arthur V Evans, Maria Lourdes Chamorro and Richard AB Leschen

More than one fifth of all known life forms on this planet are beetles. They are extraordinarily visually diverse: renowned British geneticist JBS Haldane, when asked what could be inferred about God from a study of His works, replied ... ....

656 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781782400493 | #216382A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Bumblebees of Kent

Nikki Gammans and Geoff Allen

The county of Kent has the highest diversity of bumblebee species in the UK. The Bumblebees of Kent aims to provide a comprehensive guide to bumblebee ecology and offers an inclusive introduction to their identification.

160 pages | 80 colour photos, distribution maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | #216213A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

The General Apiarian

Jacob Isaac

A reprint of the 1803 edition of Jacob Isaac's classic book about the Western Apiarian Society. The book was written for its members and favours the Remunerator-Preserver hive, so that members did not have to kill off their bees at ... ....

128 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780905652863 | #216229A | £89.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780905652863 | #216230A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

The Ichneumon Wasps

Biology, Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution

Donald LJ Quicke

The Ichneumonoidea is a vast and important superfamily of parasitic wasps, with some 60 000 described species and estimated numbers far higher, especially for small-bodied tropical taxa. The superfamily comprises two cosmopolitan families ... ....

688 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781118907054 | #215969A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Unsere Welt Ohne Insekten

Ein Teil der Natur Verschwindet

Mario Markus

Flying works of art and well-known pests, complex societies and predatory loners, incredible skills and fascinating behaviors – all this is to be found in the insect kingdom. Much has already been explored, and many more species are ... ....

260 pages | 100 colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9783440143360 | #216036A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Veldgids Dagvlinders

Irma Wynhoff, Chris van Swaay, Kars Veling and Albert Vliegenthart

This field guide allows the reader to quickly and reliably identify 150 butterfly species found in northwestern Europe. Detailed pictures of both the dorsal and ventral sides of the wings of both sexes eases identification. For each species ... ....

328 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 08/2014 | 9789050115131 | #216535A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Veldgids Libellen

Frank Bos, Marcel Wasscher and Weia Reinboud

This field guides covers 100 species of dragonfly and damselfly found in northwestern Europe. It combines clear descriptions with background information on ecology, habit, distribution, recognition and protection. It also includes tips ... ....

260 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | 08/2014 | 9789050115087 | #216532A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Why Not Top Bar Hives?

A Look at the Practicalities of Keeping Bees in Top Bar Hives

Jim R Slade

Jim Slade suggests a system of beekeeping, based on years of experience, which is natural, sustainable and economical. There are also constructional details for those who wish to make their own hives.

40 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781908904423 | #216223A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Working in Entomology

Rachel McLeod, Sir David Attenborough and Simon Leather

Working in Entomology is a careers guide with a difference. Written by AES Member Rachel McLeod, it is a collection of interviews with prominent entomologists working in different areas, right across the subject, from insect breeding ... ....

78 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780957149120 | #215878A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

ZooKeys 421

Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths V

B Christian Schmidt and J Donald Lafontaine

This special issue of ZooKeys marks the fifth volume in a series on the systematics of New World macro-moths. Seventeen authors have contributed eight manuscripts on taxa in the Geometridae, Notodontidae, Erebidae and Noctuidae.

191 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9789546427373 | #215954A | £52.99 Add to basket

 

ZooKeys 423

A Revision of the Neotropical Species of Bolitogyrus Chevrolat, a Geographically Disjunct Lineage of Staphylinini (Coleo

Adam Brunke and IA Solodovnikov

The Neotropical species of the rarely collected genus Bolitogyrus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini) are revised. The genus exhibits an uncommon, disjunct distribution between the Neotropical and Oriental ... ....

113 pages | colour & b/w photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9789546427380 | #215953A | £39.99 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

Catalogus Fossilium Austriae, Band 3: Pisces

Ein Systematisches Verzeichnis Aller Auf Osterreischischem Gebiet Festgestellten Fossilien

Ortwin Schultz and Werner E. Piller

Pisces, the present volume of the Catalogus Fossilium Austriae, represents – according to the general directions of this series – a complete list of all literature references and descriptions of fish fossils from ... ....

576 pages |

Paperback | 11/2013 | 9783700172383 | #215951A | £164.00 Add to basket

 

David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (Region ALL)

Sir David Attenborough

In this stunning new project David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the world-famous Natural History Museum in London, revealing it as it's never been seen before, in a compelling tale of discovery, adventure and magic. ....

1 disc, runtime: 110 min, aspect ratio: 16:9, rating: E |

DVD | 04/2014 | #216457A | £17.99 Add to basket

04/2014 | #216458A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Dinosaurs Without Bones

Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils

Anthony J Martin

What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a 165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues ... ....

368 pages | 24 plates with colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781605984995 | #211738A | £18.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | 9781605987033 | #216071A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Heteromorph: The Rarest Fossil Ammonites

Nature at its Most Bizarre

Wolfgang Grulke

Ammonites dominated the sea before and during the time dinosaurs dominated the land. Some ammonites were large predators not unlike today's giant squid; others small and delicate. Three times during their reign of more than 300 million ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780992974008 | #216448A | £37.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780992974015 | #216449A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Historical Geology Lab Manual

Pamela JW Gore

Pamela Gore provides hands on activities in this 1st edition Historical Geology Lab Manual. Her authoritative figure within Historical Geology is shown throughout the text of this book. The laboratories in ...

324 pages |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781118057520 | #215959A | £134.99 Add to basket

 

Paleoflora Iberica: Plioceno-Cuaternario, Volume 1

Jose S Carrion Garcia

This two-volume palaeoflora of the Iberian Peninsula & Balearics traces the geological, ecological, climatic and human influences during the last five million years on the development of the peninsula's vegetation.

562 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2013 | #216373A | £164.00 Add to basket

 

Paleoflora Iberica: Plioceno-Cuaternario, Volume 2

Jose S Carrion Garcia

This two-volume palaeoflora of the Iberian Peninsula & Balearics traces the geological, ecological, climatic and human influences during the last five million years on the development of the peninsula's vegetation.

466 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2014 | #216374A | £147.00 Add to basket

 

Paleornithological Research 2013

Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution

Ursula B Gohlich and Andreas Kroh

This work contains the proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. This meeting took place from 11th to 16th June 2012 at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, and was organised ... ....

336 pages |

Paperback | 12/2013 | 9783902421821 | #216040A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

Shark Tooth Hunting on the Carolina Coast

Ashley Oliphant

Shark Tooth Hunting on the Carolina Coast is a field guide for locating and identifying fossil shark teeth on the beaches of North and South Carolina. It includes clear photographs and readable species descriptions designed to ... ....

80 pages | b/w photos |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781561647286 | #216165A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Lost Bird Project

Todd McGrain

The Lost Bird Project is part natural history, part artist's diary, documenting the extraordinary effort to place a series of public memorials to birds driven to extinction in modern times. As a chronicle of humankind's ... ....

96 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781611685664 | #216443A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Yomigaeru Kyoryu Zukan Cho Bijuaru CG-Ban [Dinosaur Picture Book]

Steve Brusatte, Michael J Benton and Tsubaki Masaharu

This picture book contains computer generated images based on the latest research and cutting-edge technology.

112 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9784797380620 | #216369A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

Key to Identification of Phytoplankton Species in Lakes and Rivers (of Poland)

Guide for Laboratory Classes and Field Research

Lubomira Burchardt

An attempt to create a comprehensive compendium, by providing richly illustrated taxonomic and ecological descriptions of the most common species of inland waters. It will certainly prove a very valuable aid and a highly useful tool in ... ....

179 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788362975198 | #216260A | £46.50 Add to basket

 

Ocean: A Photicular Book

Carol Kaufmann

In its extraordinary debut, Safari introduced the world to Photicular technology. The cheetah bounded, the African elephant flapped its ears and readers could not believe their eyes. Now the creators of Safari take their work a step further. ....

12 pages | 8 photocular colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780761180517 | #216011A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Seashores: An Ecological Guide

Julian Cremona

Seashores: An Ecological Guide provides an easy-to-use, authoritative reference to commonly occurring organisms. By looking at the habitats of the coastline, it focuses on key species you are likely to find.

192 pages | 436 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781847978042 | #215948A | £16.99 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

52 Small Birds

Richard Weeks

Wood warblers are among the most sought-after of the spring migrants. The small, colorful birds motivate thousands of birders throughout the world to travel to locations both popular and obscure. 52 Small Birds describes the ... ....

140 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2014 | 9781937303228 | #216032A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

A Companion to Global Environmental History

John R McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin

A Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies ... ....

568 pages | maps |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781444335347 | #203335A | £112.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781118977538 | #215967A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos

With Remarks on their Origin, their Chemical Phaenomena, and the Character of their Products

Charles Daubeny

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. First published in 1826, at a time when the earth sciences were in a state of confusion and controversy, this pioneering study of volcanic action by ...

500 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108075114 | #215756A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

A-Z of Bird Portraits

An Illustrated Guide to Painting Beautiful Birds in Acrylics

Andrew Forkner

Andrew Forkner's book provides you with all you need to paint a range of birds in acrylics; taking in birds of prey, songbirds and waterbirds from all over the world. It contains information on the materials and preparation you will ... ....

144 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781782210023 | #216402A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Perouse (3-Volume Set)

Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793

Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Pérouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien ... ....

1018 pages | 40+ plates with b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108073783 | #215760A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Perouse, Volume 1

Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793

Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Pérouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien ... ....

536 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108073752 | #215757A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Perouse, Volume 2

Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793

Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Pérouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien ... ....

486 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108073769 | #215758A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Perouse, Volume 3: Plates

Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793

Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Pérouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien ... ....

58 pages | 40+ plates with b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108073776 | #215759A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Andre Michaux 1782-1785

L'Extraordinaire Voyage d'un Botaniste en Perse

Regis Pluchet

This book pays tribute to the French botanist André Michaux who explored Persia and left France an important botanical heritage, that is often overlooked.

240 pages |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9782708917774 | #216091A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Animals in Saxon & Scandinavian England

Backbones of Economy and Society

Matilda Holmes

In Animals in Saxon & Scandinavian England an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future ... ....

222 pages | 19 colour & 203 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9789088902666 | #216442A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Astrophotography

Thierry Legault

Today's photographic equipment allows amateurs to take pictures of the stars that far surpass images taken just a few decades ago by the largest observatories-and Astrophotography will teach you how. Author and world-renowned ... ....

240 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781937538439 | #216290A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Beautiful Goats

Portraits of Classic Breeds Preened to Perfection

Felicity Stockwell

Beautiful Goats is a photographic ABC of this trusty animal, showcasing the allure of its many breeds, including the Angora, prized for its luxuriant fleece, the diminutive but dominant-looking Pygmy and the extremely rare ... ....

112 pages | 100 colour photos |

Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781782400561 | #216409A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes ... ....

224 pages |

Paperback | 11/2012 | 9781451643367 | #216086A | £14.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9781451643350 | #216087A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Botanical Painting with Watercolour

Daphne Hicks

The characteristics of watercolour naturally complement botanical art and this beautiful book shows you how to make the most of this versatile medium. It starts by guiding you through the complexities of painting flowers, with advice on ... ....

112 pages | 186 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781847978004 | #216401A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Botany for Ladies

Or, a Popular Introduction to the Natural System of Plants, According to the Classification of De Candolle

Jane Loudon

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Jane Loudon (1807-58), the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world, wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany specifically for women.

514 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108075633 | #216365A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

British Wildlife Photography Awards, Collection 5

Stephanie Hilborne

This superb collection of imagery showcases the very best of the British Wildlife Photography Awards, an annual competition celebrating the breathtaking diversity of the natural history of the British Isles. The photographs within the book ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780749576431 | #215918A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Car Country

An Environmental History

Christopher W Wells and William Cronon

For most residents of the United States, getting almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is car country: a nation whose landscapes are so completely oriented ... ....

464 pages | 61 illustrations, 7 maps |

Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780295992150 | #212477A | £26.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780295994291 | #216351A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Celestial Revolutionary

Copernicus, the Man and His Universe

John Freely

In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that "All the world is in Rome." Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of ... ....

288 pages | 8 plates with 16 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2014 | 9781780763507 | #216441A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Charley Harper 2015 Sticker Calendar

Charley Harper

Charley Harper loved animals so much that he spent his life painting critters. This calendar includes a slew of colorful animal stickers to use on the monthly grids: a bevy of birds and other creatures. How about a toucan for Tuesday? ....

12 pages | colour illustrations, 150 stickers |

07/2014 | 9780764967412 | #215837A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Charley Harper's Birds

Sticker Book

Charley Harper

During his lifetime, artist Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007) painted lots and lots of birds. He was raised on a farm in West Virginia, and as a kid he explored the woods and fields near his home, sketching the critters he saw. ....

8 pages | booklet, 170 reusable paper stickers |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780764965135 | #215842A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

Charley Harper's Sticky Birds

An Animal Sticker Kit

Charley Harper

The American artist Charley Harper (1922–2007) became famous for depicting birds and other wildlife using only simple shapes. Instead of drawing small details, he captured a critter's character by highlighting its easily recognisable ... ....

8 pages | colour illustrations, play board, 180 reusable vinyl stickers, |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780764964671 | #215841A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

Charley Harper's Sticky Critters

An Animal Sticker Kit

Charley Harper

Do you like animals and enjoy solving puzzles? Then you'll love putting together the stickers in this kit to make a fish, a koala, a bunny, and more! With Charley Harper's Sticky Critters: An Animal Sticker Kit, you'll ... ....

colour illustrations, play board, 170 reusable vinyl stickers, |

Paperback | 03/2013 | 9780764963346 | #215840A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Christopher Marley Incredible Insects 2015 Sticker Calendar

Christopher Marley

Ready, set, sticker! This calendar presents twelve designs by artist Christopher Marley, who travels the globe in search of incredible insects, including butterflies, beetles, moths, damselflies, weevils, and more. And with stickers of ... ....

12 pages | colour illustrations, 150 stickers |

07/2014 | 9780764967856 | #215836A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Consuming Ocean Island

Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba

Katerina Martina Teaiwa

Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's ... ....

262 pages | photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780253014443 | #216358A | £51.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780253014528 | #216359A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Creationism in Europe

Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Peter C Kjaergaard and Ronald L Numbers

For decades, the creationist movement was primarily fixed in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welcomed abroad, first in Australia and New Zealand, then in Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil ... ....

288 pages | 7 b/w photos, 4 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781421415628 | #216438A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Dear Sir: Sixty-Nine Years of Alfred Russel Wallace Letters to the Editor

Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles H Smith, Kelsey Patterson and Peter Raby

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), colleague of Charles Darwin, co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection, "father" of the field of evolutionary biogeography, vocal socialist and spiritualist, land reform theorist ... ....

416 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780957453074 | #216129A | £35.99 Add to basket

 

Draw 500 Awesome Animals

A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

Julia Kuo

A new fun format for Quarry's best-selling 20 Ways to Draw a Cat and 44 Other Awesome Animals, this cute chunky volume features 500 inspirational illustrations in a perfect small size for drawing on the go! From cats, songbirds ... ....

208 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781592539901 | #216187A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers

A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

Lisa Congdon

A new fun format for Quarry's best-selling 20 Ways to Draw a Tulip and 44 Fabulous Flowers, this cute chunky volume features 500 inspirational illustrations in a perfect small size for drawing on the go! From tulips, orchids ... ....

208 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781592539918 | #216188A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Draw 500 Things from Nature

A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

Eloise Renouf

A new fun format for Quarry's best-selling 20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature, this cute chunky volume features 500 inspirational illustrations in a perfect small size for drawing on the go!

208 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781592539895 | #216189A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Dusk Until Dawn

Martin Bradley and Colin R Shawyer

To see a barn owl in the wild buoyantly bouncing patrolling the ground is a wonderful sight and a moment to remember. Following the success of the author's first book Top Gun of the Sky and the overwhelming enthusiastic ... ....

36 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780954279134 | #216172A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Elements of Geology

Charles Lyell

Between 1830 and 1833, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) published his three-volume Principles of Geology, which has also been reissued in this series. The work's renown stems partly from the fact that the young Charles Darwin, on his voyage ... ....

570 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108075091 | #215761A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Elephant

Ralph Stutchbury

Elephant features photographs of elephants from all over Southern Africa. It is a glimpse into the life of the world's largest land mammal. The photographs capture special moments in the lives of these charismatic giants. ....

110 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9780797451094 | #216025A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Ellie's Log

Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell

Judith L Li and ML Herring

After a huge tree crashes to the ground during a winter storm, ten-year-old Ellie and her new friend, Ricky, explore the forest where Ellie lives. Together, they learn how trees provide habitat for plants and animals high in the forest ... ....

112 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780870716966 | #215853A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution

Tim Flach

Awarding-winning photographer Tim Flach has built an exceptional reputation for creating compelling images of animals that captivate and enthrall photography buffs and animal lovers alike. His commissions include such world-renowned ... ....

96 pages | 50 colour & b/w photos |

Hardback | 11/2013 | 9783652001588 | #216022A | £26.95 Add to basket

 

Evolution of the Genus Iris: Poems

Robert Michael Pyle

The poems in Evolution of the Genus Iris respond to details, events, and emanations from the real, physical world and its species, humans and all the rest.

88 pages |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780991146543 | #216354A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Finding the River

An Environmental History of the Elwha

Jeffrey L Crane

In 1992 landmark federal legislation called for the removal of two dams from the Elwha River to restore salmon runs. Jeff Crane dives into the debate over development and ecological preservation in Finding the River, presenting ... ....

256 pages | Illustrations, map |

Paperback | 02/2012 | 9780870716072 | #215942A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

First Animal Encyclopedia Rainforests

Anita Ganeri

An amazing introduction to jungle and rainforest life accompanied by brilliant full colour photos of a wide range of creatures in action. Learn how the animals that spend their lives surrounded by some of the world's biggest forests ... ....

64 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781408843086 | #215946A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Capensis, Volume 7: Pontederiaceae to Gramineae

Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories

William T Thiselton-Dyer

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-66) and his German counterpart ...

806 pages |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781108068154 | #215675A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide

The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is the focus of this new collection. ....

270 pages | 19 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781843839767 | #215711A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

High Moon Over the Amazon

My Quest to Understand the Monkeys of the Night

Patricia Chapple Wright

Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behavior ... ....

320 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2014 | 9781590564219 | #216246A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Histoire d'un Voyage aux Isles Malouines, Fait en 1763 et 1764 (2-Volume Set)

Avec des Observations sur le Detroit de Magellan, et sur les Patagons

Antoine-Joseph Pernety

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A Benedictine scholar and naturalist, Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–96) produced this early and invaluable description of the natural history of ...

758 pages | 12 b/w illustrations, 6 maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108075053 | #215765A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Histoire d'un Voyage aux Isles Malouines, Fait en 1763 et 1764, Volume 1

Avec des Observations sur le Detroit de Magellan, et sur les Patagons

Antoine-Joseph Pernety

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A Benedictine scholar and naturalist, Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–96) produced this early and invaluable description of the natural history of ...

398 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108074728 | #215763A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Histoire d'un Voyage aux Isles Malouines, Fait en 1763 et 1764, Volume 2

Avec des Observations sur le Detroit de Magellan, et sur les Patagons

Antoine-Joseph Pernety

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. A Benedictine scholar and naturalist, Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–96) produced this early and invaluable description of the natural history of ...

364 pages | 12 b/w illustrations, 6 maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108074735 | #215764A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Hokusai: Birds, Flowers, and Nature Coloring Book

Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai: Birds, Flowers and Nature Coloring Book has twenty-two images to color. Each illustration is reproduced in a small, color version of the original artwork and as a full-page black line drawing. The Japanese ...

48 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2010 | 9780764955228 | #215833A | £4.63 Add to basket

 

How to Read the Landscape

Patrick Whitefield

Patrick Whitefield presents twenty years worth of notes on different types of landscapes. It explains everything from animal signs and tree shapes to how whole landscapes fit together and function. It includes extracts and photographs from ... ....

240 pages | 40 colour photos, 130 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781856231855 | #216093A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Kew Gardens

Art for London Transport Colouring Book

Kew Gardens: Art for London Transport Colouring Book has twenty-one images to color. Each illustration is reproduced in a small, color version of the original artwork and as a full-page black line drawing.

48 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9780764962660 | #215832A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Kingdom Under Glass

A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Greatest Animals

Jay Kirk

An epic account of the extraordinary life and adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural ... ....

400 pages |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9780312610739 | #191629A | £0.00 Add to basket

 

Land and Sea

Philip Henry Gosse

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88) is best remembered today for the portrait given by his son Edmund in his autobiographical Father and Son. In his own day ...

444 pages | 15 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108073424 | #215854A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Life Story

Mike Gunton and Rupert Barrington

From the devotion of mothers to the seduction arts of birds... accompanying a new six-part BBC 1 landmark natural history series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the extraordinary lengths animals ... ....

288 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781849906647 | #216004A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

London Zoo

Art for London Transport Colouring Book

London Zoo: Art for London Transport Colouring Book has eighteen images to color. Each illustration is reproduced in a small, color version of the original artwork and as a full-page black line drawing. In early twentieth-century ... ....

48 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780764964732 | #215831A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions

Prepared for the Use of the Arctic Expedition of 1875, under the Direction of the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society

T Rupert Jones

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This 1875 manual presents a detailed scientific picture of Greenland and its Arctic environment. Edited by the geologist Thomas Rupert Jones ...

900 pages | 8 b/w illustrations, 3 maps |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108071918 | #215766A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Melting Away

Images of the Arctic and Antarctic

Camille Seaman

For nearly a decade Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions. As an expedition photographer aboard small ships in the Arctic and Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating effects of ... ....

160 pages | 200 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781616892609 | #216405A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Miniterranee: Les Petits Secrets de la Grande Bleue

Steven Weinberg and Laurent Ballesta

So you think you know the Mediterranean? Here is a different take on the "Big Blue"! Through exceptional images, the result of long hours spent underwater, Steven Weinberg takes you beneath the surface to show you the Mediterranean ... ....

240 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9782744910012 | #216034A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire

Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes

Yaron Ayalon

This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less ... ....

275 pages | 10 b/w illustrations, 1 map |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107072978 | #215767A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Nature Anatomy

The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World

Julia Rothman and John Niekrasz

See the world in a new way! Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman celebrates the diverse curiosities and beauty of the natural world in this exciting new volume. With whimsically hip illustrations, every page is an extraordinary look at ... ....

224 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781612122311 | #216387A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Nocturne: Creatures of the Night

Traer Scott

Whether fierce, cuddly, startling, mysterious, or some indefinable combination of all of the above, nocturnal animals never fail to fascinate. Bats, big cats, flying squirrels, tarantula, owls, kangaroo mice, giant moths, sloth, several ... ....

128 pages | 85 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781616892883 | #216017A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice

Made by Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada

John Bartram

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The botanist and explorer John Bartram (1699-1777) is regarded as having created the first true botanical collection in North America.

96 pages | 1 b/w illustration |

Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781108076449 | #215855A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Off the Map

Lost Space, Feral Places and Invisible Cities and What They Tell Us About the World

Alastair Bonnett

In a world of Google Earth where we think that the world is fully mapped out, every discovery and adventure made, Off the Map is a journey through the remaining hidden geographies – from disappearing island to gutterspaces ... ....

360 pages |

Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781781312575 | #211544A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781781313619 | #216095A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales

With an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science, and Comparative Views of the Structure of For

WD Conybeare and William Phillips

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In the early nineteenth century, the gifted stratigrapher and amateur geologist William Phillips (1773–1828) gave several lectures to interested ... ....

558 pages | 2 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 1 table |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108075107 | #215768A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Owls: A Guide to the World's Favourite Bird

Matt Sewell

In this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds, Our Songbirds and Our Woodland Birds, street artist Matt Sewell captures the world's most evocative bird: the owl. In his much-loved pop-art watercolours and accompanied with his ... ....

128 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780091959999 | #216375A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Plants and Animals

MA Grigg and H Munro Fox

Originally published in 1937, Plants and Animals contains the biology sections from the earlier publication Elementary Science. The topics covered include plant reproduction, insects and vertebrate animals, as well as ... ....

218 pages |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107642799 | #216484A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Reflections on the Mysterious Fate of Sir John Franklin

James Parsons

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The disappearance of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition of 1845 led to many rescue attempts, some by the British government and some by private ... ....

130 pages | 2 b/w maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781108072052 | #215769A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Robert Gillmor's Norfolk Bird Sketches

Robert Gillmor

Artist's sketches are the building blocks for their final work. These drawings give the viewer a real insight into the workings of an artist's mind. This beautifully produced book includes a mixture of sketching styles.

64 pages | 2 colour photos, 100+ colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781910001035 | #215879A | £15.95 Add to basket

 

Robert Pizzo Amazing Animals Sticker Book

Robert Pizzo

Incredibly ingenious inventor-impalas, smelly-shoed skateboarding skunks, and tongue-twisting techie tigers? Robert Pizzo's colorful critters are the most amazing animals around! Sticker your own suspiciously silly, sensational ... ....

8 pages | colour illustrations, 160 reusable stickers |

Paperback | 01/1970 | 9780764969140 | #215838A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

Robert Pizzo's Amazing Animals 2015 Sticker Calendar

Robert Pizzo

Check out artist Robert Pizzo's Amazing Animals, such as July's Zeppole-eating Zebra on a Zeppelin! Kids can decorate a favorite holiday with a darling dragonfly, or stick a UFO flown by an alien on their brother Benny's birthday ... ....

12 pages | colour illustrations, 150 stickers |

07/2014 | 9780764967405 | #215835A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Science Unshackled

How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to be the Basis for Modern Life

C Renee James

Why in the world are we paying for all this "basic" research? The answer to this question becomes clear in this romp through the "seemingly useless" world of pure science, where one thing leads to another in ways that ... ....

216 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781421415000 | #216437A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Sea of Storms

A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

Stuart B Schwartz

The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies ... ....

512 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780691157566 | #215388A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography

J Chris Hansen

Photographing birds in your backyard is a convenient, rewarding, and addictive adventure. Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography is a guide to that pursuit. In this book, author and wildlife photographer J. Chris Hansen teaches ... ....

128 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781937538552 | #216291A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Some Flowers

Vita Sackville-West and Graham Rust

In Some Flowers, originally published in 1937, Vita Sackville-West took the novel step of choosing 25 of her favourite flowers and describing their appearance, origins and characteristics – and the best ways to grow them ... ....

112 pages | 25 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9781909881174 | #216018A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Sticky Hearts

Animal Sticker Kit

Michael Hall

Based on Michael Hall's best-selling book My Heart Is Like a Zoo, Sticky Hearts turns his inventive animal creations into an interactive game. Children can select the appropriate reusable vinyl heart-shaped stickers ... ....

colour illustrations, play board, 100 reusable vinyl stickers, |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9780764959790 | #215839A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Taxidermy Art

A Rogue's Guide to the Work, the Culture, and How to Do it Yourself

Robert Marbury

From home-goods stores to hip bars, the Tate Modern to the most conservative decor magazine, taxidermy is everywhere these days. And for as long as there has been taxidermy, there have been people who are willing to push its boundaries ... ....

192 pages | 100 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781579655587 | #216005A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Art of the Snowflake

A Photographic Album

Kenneth Libbrecht

The perfect geometry and exquisite beauty of nature is nowhere so clear to us as in the snowflake. But how have we been able to appreciate this infinitesimal wonder in all its crystalline glory? The Art of the Snowflake, as much ... ....

156 pages | 484 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780760347003 | #216092A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Big Ratchet

How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis - A Biography of an Ingenious Species

Ruth S DeFries

Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous.

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780465044979 | #216506A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green

Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War

Brian Allen Drake

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. The Blue, the Gray, and the Green explores how nature – disease, climate, flora and ... ....

256 pages | 11 b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780820347141 | #215641A | £56.95 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780820347158 | #215642A | £18.95 Add to basket

 

The Chimpanzee Children of Gombe

Jane Goodall and Michael Neugebauer

This heartwarming book is filled with photos of many of the chimpanzee babies, toddlers, and young adults that live in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, where the Jane Goodall research center of is located. Dr. Goodall has campaigned ... ....

64 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9789888240227 | #216436A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Crossing of Antarctica

Original Photographs from the Epic Journey That Fulfilled Shackleton's Dream

George Lowe, Huw Lewis-Jones and Sir Ranulph Fiennes

The first crossing of Antarctica in 1957/58 by the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Vivian 'Bunny' Fuchs, was one of the twentieth century's great triumphs of exploration. Sir Ernest Shackleton famously attempted to cross ... ....

240 pages | 60 colour & 94 b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780500252024 | #215908A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

The Digital Photography Book, Part 5

Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book (the best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with another follow-up to his smash best-seller, with an entirely new book that picks up right where Part 4 left ... ....

240 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780133856880 | #215919A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

The Environment in American History

Nature and the Formation of the United States

Jeffrey L Crane

The Environment in American History is a detailed environmental history of America from the era prior to European contact to the present day. Jeff Crane shows the critical role of nature and the natural wealth of the continent ... ....

416 pages | 20 b/w photos, 10 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780415808712 | #215903A | £99.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780415808729 | #215904A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

The Epigenetics of Birds

CH Waddington

Originally published in 1952 as part of the Cambridge Biological Studies series, The Epigenetics of Birds presents contemporary theories on embryology using the example of the bird embryo. Waddington reviews the modern ... ....

294 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107440470 | #216485A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

The Expedition

The Forgotten Story of a Polar Tragedy

Bea Uusma

On July 11th, 1897, three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never returned. Led by engineer August Soloman Andree these men wanted to make history, but were frighteningly underprepared and inexperienced. ....

240 pages | 50 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781781859629 | #216399A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Face of the Earth

The Legacy of Eduard Suess

Thomas Hofmann, Guenter Bloeschl, Lois Lammerhuber, Werner E Piller and AM Celal Sengor

The Face of the Earth is a book 'posthumously' written by the father of modern geology, Eduard Suess, who died on 26 April 1914. He was not only influential in geosciences but also in society. As a politician he initiated ... ....

104 pages | 50 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9783901753695 | #216190A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

The Human Age

The World Shaped By Us

Diane Ackerman

'Our relationship with nature has changed ...radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.'

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780755364985 | #215922A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Kestrel in the Crane

Rod Alder

It is the spring of 1953 and artist and naturalist James Alder is spending a lot of time in the unlikely setting of Walker Naval Yard on the Tyne – a pair of kestrels has stolen a wire nest from rooks on the towering jib of a giant ... ....

80 pages | 14 photos, 50 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781857952209 | #215970A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

The Last Great Wild Places

Forty Years of Wildlife Photography

Thomas D Mangelsen, Todd Wilkinson and Jane Goodall

The Last Great Wild Places is a collection of unparalleled photographs – spanning forty years and seven continents – by one of the world's foremost wildlife photographers. Capturing the splendour of wild places ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780789327420 | #216021A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

The Malay Archipelago

Alfred Russel Wallace

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest – both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay ... ....

656 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780141394404 | #216400A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Multispecies Salon

Eben Kirksey

A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history. Anthropologists have collaborated with artists ... ....

344 pages | 10 colour & 76 b/w photos |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780822356257 | #216363A | £15.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780822356103 | #216364A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

The Physiology of Reproduction in the Cow

John Hammond

Originally published in 1927, The Physiology of Reproduction in the Cow presents a comprehensive study of the reproductive processes of the cow from the perspective of 'the relatively new subject of agricultural science' ... ....

310 pages |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107455924 | #216486A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

The Story of Vermont

A Natural and Cultural History

Christopher McGrory Klyza, Stephen C Trombulak and Bill McKibben

In this second edition of their classic text, Klyza and Trombulak use the lens of interconnectedness to examine the geological, ecological, and cultural forces that came together to produce contemporary Vermont. They assess the changing ... ....

264 pages | 50 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781611684025 | #216446A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

The Tracker's Field Guide

A Comprehensive Manual for Animal Tracking

James C Lowery

Jim Lowery is among North America's leading tracking experts. In The Tracker's Field Guide he distills his remarkable expertise, gained over decades of intensive research and practical field experience, into a comprehensive ... ....

407 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780762792344 | #215997A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

Tristan Gooley

The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal – when you know what to look for. Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs.

448 pages |

Hardback | 05/2014 | 9781444780086 | #216066A | £19.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | 9781444780109 | #216067A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Woodlands of Ireland

A History, 700-1800

Nigel Everett

The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this interpretation is inadequate regarding the actual management of Irish forests ... ....

344 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781846825057 | #216126A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald, under the Command of Captain Henry Kellet, R.N., C.B., during the Years 1845

Fossil Mammals

John Richardson and Edward Forbes

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Naval surgeon, Arctic explorer and natural historian, Sir John Richardson (1787–1865) published many works, several of which are reissued in the ... ....

232 pages | 33 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108073684 | #215770A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898 1899

A Narrative of the Voyage of the

Frederick A Cook

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In this illustrated 1900 publication, Frederick Cook (1865–1940) gives a detailed account of his experiences on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition ... ....

658 pages | 127 b/w illustrations, 4 maps, 12 tables |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781108076746 | #215771A | £35.99 Add to basket

 

Trees Up Close

The Beauty of Bark, Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds

Nancy Ross Hugo and Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn's stunning photographs reveal the intricate detail of trees as you've never seen them before. Nancy Ross Hugo's text illuminates the photographs by explaining the unique characteristics of everyday trees. ....

200 pages | 169 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781604695823 | #216098A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Underwater Photography

Tobias Friedrich and Ernie Brooks

Underwater photography is a fascinating pursuit for those who aspire to capture the magical world found within our oceans and bring it to the surface. In Underwater Photography, award-winning photographer Tobias Friedrich teaches ... ....

216 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781937538521 | #216292A | £25.99 Add to basket

 

Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

William Philpott and William Cronon

Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and ... ....

488 pages | 37 colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780295994338 | #216349A | £15.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 08/2013 | 9780295992730 | #216350A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Idea

Buffalo & Family in a Difficult Land

Dan O'Brien

For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780803250963 | #216357A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 24

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

For 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection ... ....

160 pages | 100+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780565093426 | #216012A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

With Love

Jane Goodall

Scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall tells heart-warming stories gleaned from more than 30 years of studying chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania. Together with the illustrations, the true nature of these creatures is captured. ....

48 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9789888240241 | #216343A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Wonders of the Plant Kingdom

A Microcosm Revealed

Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler and Madeline Harley

This is a selection of striking and informative images of pollen, seeds and fruit as you have never seen them before. It will appeal to anyone interested in natural botany, wildlife, art and photography. Authors include a leading artist ... ....

156 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781906506476 | #216099A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

British Isles Explorer

Visitor's Map of The British Isles

Beau Riffenburgh, Liz Cruwys and Nigel Sitwell

A fold-out visitor's map (scale 1:2 500 000), that measures approximately 69 × 100 cm (W × H) when unfolded. Colour photos and text highlight major cities and visitor attractions. There are several information boxes giving ... ....

colour photos, colour maps, scale: 1 : 2 500 000; dimensions: 69 ?ù 100 cm |

07/2014 | 9780957002814 | #216122A | £15.59 Add to basket

 

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet

Mark Cocker

In a single twelve-month cycle of daily writings Mark Cocker explores his relationship to the East Anglian landscape, to nature and to all the living things around him. The separate entries are characterised by close observation, depth ... ....

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780224099653 | #216010A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Corcovado National Park

Chile's Wilderness Jewel

Antonio Vizcaíno and Ricardo Lagos

Shimmering lakes. Snow-capped mountains. Primeval forest where pumas haunt the shadows. Free-flowing rivers that race to the sea. This is Chile's Corcovado National Park, one of the last great wilderness areas on Earth. Rising above ... ....

232 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780984693214 | #216217A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Esteros del Ibera [English]

The Great Wetlands of Argentina

Juan Ramon Díaz Colodrero

A wonderland of sky, water, grass, and birdsong, the Iberá marshlands of Corrientes Province are the preeminent wildlife habitat in Argentina and a globally important natural treasure. Esteros del Iberá, a landmark ... ....

368 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780984693252 | #216214A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Esteros del Ibera [Spanish]

El Gran Humedal de Corrientes

Juan Ramon Díaz Colodrero

A wonderland of sky, water, grass, and birdsong, the Iberá marshlands of Corrientes Province are the preeminent wildlife habitat in Argentina and a globally important natural treasure. Esteros del Iberá, a landmark ... ....

368 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780984693245 | #216215A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Films on Ice

Cinemas of the Arctic

Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport

The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity ... ....

384 pages | 52 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780748694174 | #215505A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Ireland's Wildlife Year

Eric Dempsey, Billy Clarke, Declan Doogue, Tom Hayden and Carsten Krieger

Ireland's Wildlife Year is a superbly illustrated survey of the four seasons in the Irish natural environment. It traces the development of plants and trees, the movements of birds and animals and the changing face of the ... ....

272 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780717150076 | #215776A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Monte Leon National Park

Antonio Vizcaíno

Endless sky, rock, and water: Where the arid grasslands of southern Argentina meet the Atlantic Ocean, the wild winds and waters of Patagonia have sculpted a magical landscape. This wonderland is Monte León National Park.

250 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780984693238 | #216219A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Mountains and Plains

The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes

Dennis H Knight, George P Jones, William A Reiners and William H Romme

Many changes - some discouraging, others hopeful - have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse ... ....

416 pages | 168 colour & 77 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780300185928 | #214013A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Nature in Towns and Cities

David Goode

The latest in the New Naturalist series documents the parks and green spaces unique to Britain's cities – and the wildlife that has flourished in these habitats. Not since Richard Fitter's landmark publication in ... ....

400 pages | 200 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780007242399 | #159009A | £44.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780007242405 | #159010A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage

Les Molloy, Craig Potton and Rod Morris

New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage is a comprehensive record and description of New Zealand's wilderness, in all its magnificent geological and biological diversity. It will appeal to all who are concerned at what is happening ... ....

336 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781927213223 | #216525A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq

A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change

Shelley Wright

The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the ... ....

416 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780773544628 | #216334A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Parque Nacional Corcovado

Antonio Vizcaíno and Ricardo Lagos

Shimmering lakes. Snow-capped mountains. Primeval forest where pumas haunt the shadows. Free-flowing rivers that race to the sea. This is Chile's Corcovado National Park, one of the last great wilderness areas on Earth. Rising above ... ....

232 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780984693207 | #216218A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Parque Nacional Monte Leon

Antonio Vizcaíno

Endless sky, rock, and water: Where the arid grasslands of southern Argentina meet the Atlantic Ocean, the wild winds and waters of Patagonia have sculpted a magical landscape. This wonderland is Monte León National Park.

250 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780984693221 | #216220A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

Perito Moreno National Park

Antonio Vizcaíno and Douglas R Tompkins

Where the windswept Patagonian steppe meets the Andes, and the massive unclimbed south wall of Cerro San Lorenzo looks down on the Lacteo Valley, a visitor understands: Perito Moreno National Park is a stronghold of wild nature.

304 pages | 248 colour photos |

Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781939621184 | #216216A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Randonnees le Long du Rhone

Biotope

Discover the amazing diversity of flora, fauna and natural habitats at the heart of 36 exceptional natural sites in France, from the Upper Rhone to the Camargue. The itineraries described here will provide all with relaxation and wonder. ....

232 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9782366620535 | #216023A | £28.50 Add to basket

 

Relicts of a Beautiful Sea

Survival Extinction and Conservation in a Desert World

Christopher Norment

Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the ... ....

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781469618661 | #216388A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Snow

Bianca Gendreau

Snow. A source of passion, creativity and ingenuity – what would Canada be without it? From the time of their arrival in North America, Europeans had to contend with snow, as had Aboriginal Peoples for centuries before them.

112 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780660202785 | #216426A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

South Atlantic Fauna: Pocket Guide / Atlantico Sur: Guía de Bolsillo

Marcelo Beccaceci, Gerardo Teo, Diego Florio and Cecilia Gasparrou

This is a fold-out pocket guide to the mammals and birdsfound in the South Atlantic. For each species the English, Spanish, and scientific name are given, as well as length or wing span.

12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map |

Unbound | 07/2014 | 9789872817459 | #216228A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Spitsbergen: Arctic Archipelago (Region ALL)

Ken Lawson, Patrick Allsop, Tony Crocker, Michelle van Dijk, Rinie van Meurs and Ian Stirling

ln 1596 the Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz discovered an Arctic archipelago which he named after its ‘pointed peaks’ – Spitsbergen. Renamed Svalbard when sovereignty was given to Norway in 1925, it is today increasingly ... ....

1 disc, runtime: 90 min, aspect ratio: 16:9, PAL DVD |

DVD | 01/2014 | 9781898665267 | #216064A | £19.00 Add to basket

 

The Peace-Athabasca Delta

Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem

Kevin P Timoney

"In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side". The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta is a globally significant wetland that lies within one of the largest ... ....

595 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps, tables |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780888646033 | #202680A | £126.83 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780888647306 | #216148A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Looe

Derek Spooner

Wild Looe focuses on the glorious diversity of a small area on the edge of the ocean: the coastal town of Looe, west to Polperro, east to Seaton, and inland to Shallowpool and Sandplace, including the nature reserve of Looe Island. ....

88 pages | 143 colour photos, 1 map |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9780906720943 | #216376A | £4.99 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

A Handbook of Scotland's Trees

The Essential Guide for Enthusiasts, Gardeners and Woodland Lovers to Species, Cultivation, Habits, Uses & Lore

Fiona Martynoga

This concise yet comprehensive handbook, compiled with the expertise of Reforesting Scotland's editors, covers trees commonly found in Scotland. From seed provenance and propagation to the history and lore of each species, this single ... ....

256 pages | 150 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781908643827 | #215912A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Alice in the Land of Plants

Biology of Plants and their Importance for Planet Earth

Yiannis Manetas

Why is it that plants do not need to move? How does a nonmotile organism have sex or defend itself? Why are plants asymmetric and not of a fixed size? Why are some plants virtually immortal? Why is cloning a routine matter in the plant ... ....

367 pages | 12 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9783642283376 | #198312A | £35.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9783642432323 | #216161A | £35.99 Add to basket

 

Alpines: An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care

Christopher Grey-Wilson

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 175 inspiring photographs. It offers expert advice on selecting and buying alpines, and how to use them in the open garden, in beds ... ....

64 pages | 175+ colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781780193663 | #216391A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Arbres du Monde

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Trees provide us with a variety of ecosystem services. They produce fruit, give firewood, offer medicinal, environmental benefits and inspire poetry and legends. They are considered sacred in many religions and cultures. Botany, history ... ....

290 pages | 737 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789990389296 | #216150A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Bloomsbury Concise Mushroom Guide

This illustrated mini field guide is packed with information on 200 species of fungi found in Britain and the near Continent. The range covered demonstrates the incredible variety that exists within the world of fungi, from the better-known ... ....

192 pages | 200 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781472911742 | #216381A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Bloomsbury Concise Tree Guide

Cy Baker, David Daly and Colin Emberson

This pocket field guide is packed with information on the trees of Britain and the near Continent. It covers more than 160 species, all of which are illustrated with full-colour artworks that show details of mature trees, leaves, growth patterns ... ....

192 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781472910325 | #216380A | £4.99 Add to basket

 

Catalogue des Lichens et Champignons Lichenicoles de France Metropolitaine

Claude Roux

More than 15 years in the making by Claude Roux in collaboration with some 60 members of the Association Française de Lichénologie (AFL) - Provides a list of all taxa, synonymies, French distribution, patrimonial ...

1500 pages | distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | #216207A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Common Lichens of Northeastern North America

A Field Guide

Troy McMullin and Frances Anderson

Lichen lovers rejoice! McMullin and Anderson have successfully filled the longtime need for a portable and easy-to-use field guide to lichens. This book is designed for amateur naturalists, nature interpreters, forestry workers, land surveyors ... ....

192 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780893275112 | #216421A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Compendium of Alfalfa Diseases and Pests

Deborah A Samac, Landon H Rhodes and William O Lamp

The Compendium of Alfalfa Diseases and Pests, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive diagnostic reference guide to date on the many diseases and insect pests of alfalfa, one of our most important forage crop. This easy-to-use ... ....

152 pages | 243 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780890544464 | #216293A | £102.00 Add to basket

 

Cortinarius, Flora Photographica, Volume 5 [French]

Tor Erik Brandrud, Hakan Lindstrom, Hans Marklund, Jacques Melot and Siw Muskos

Like its predecessors, this volume consists of 60 pages with more photos and an appendix including the collectors. The English and German translations are in preparation.

60 pages |

Paperback | 07/2014 | #126347A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Des Plantes et Leurs Insectes

Bruno Didier and Herve Guyot

This book gives you essential and smart tips for learning to identify and recognize hundreds of insects and other arthropods. An original approach presents all the information that is usually separated: the description of the plants and insects ... ....

264 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9782759217748 | #216020A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Fathers of Botany

The Discovery of Chinese Plants by European Missionaries

Jane Kilpatrick

Many of the world's most renowned and exciting ornamental plants-including magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppies-have their origins in China. In the mid-nineteenth century, professional plant hunters ... ....

240 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781842465141 | #215909A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, Volume 19 [Chinese]

Bacillariophyta Naviculaceae (II)

Li Jiaying

Volume 19 is the second part dealing with Naviculaceae.

204 pages |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9787030406293 | #216303A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 45 [Chinese]

Pleurotoid-Lentinoid Fungi

Li Yu and Tolgor Bau

Volume 45 covers Pleurotoid-Lentinoid fungi.

236 pages | 7 plates with illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9787030406279 | #216300A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 48 [Chinese]

Pyronemataceae

Zhuang Wenying

Volume 48 covers the Pyronemataceae.

264 pages | 4 plates with illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9787030406286 | #216301A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 49 [Chinese]

Strophariaceae (1)

Tolgor Bau

Volume 49 is the first part dealing with Strophariaceae, and records 110 species in 9 genera.

240 pages | 8 plates with illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9787030406361 | #216302A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Neotropica, Volume 114: Celastraceae (Hippocrateoideae e Salacioideae) [Portuguese]

Julio A Lombardi

Essential, up-to-date, and comprehensive, Lombardi’s book is ideal for those researching or specializing in Celastraceae and its subfamilies. Previously, the Celastraceae subfamilies (Hippocrateoideae and Salacioideae) were considered ... ....

232 pages | b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780893275266 | #216419A | £67.50 Add to basket

 

Flora de Chile, Volume 2, Fascicle 2: Berberidaceae - Betulaceae [Spanish]

Clodomiro Marticorena and Roberto Rodríguez

This volume covers flowering plant families 11 to 20; Berberidaceae, Lardizabalaceae, Coriariaceae, Papaveraceae, Fumariaceae, Moraceae, Urticaceae, Myricaceae, Fagaceae, and Betulaceae.

93 pages | 13 b/w line drawings, 54 b/w distribution maps, 2 b/w maps |

Paperback | 01/2003 | 9789562272513 | #215977A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Flora lishainikov Rossii: Biologiia, Ekologiia, Raznoobrazie, Rasprostranenie i Metody Izucheniia Lishainikov

MP Andreev

This lichen flora to Russia deals with 402 genera and contains identification keys. There are additional chapters on topics such as metabolism, chemosystematics, molecular genetic methods, distribution and ecology, and collection and storage. ....

392 pages | colour photos, 90 b/w line drawings |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9785873179350 | #215974A | £52.99 Add to basket

 

Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 1

Robert H Mohlenbrock and Paul Nelson

This, the first of three volumes on the aster family planned for the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series recognizes 388 species in 119 genera, as well as 20 hybrids and 73 lesser taxa.

320 pages | 128 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780809333677 | #214619A | £52.95 Add to basket

 

Guide Illustre de la Flore de Maurice et des Iles de l'Ocean Indien

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

This guide introduces the colourful and commonly found plants of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean Islands as well as for other tropical countries. It provides an invaluable companion to the plant amateur. Several species are covered ... ....

206 pages | 431 colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2009 | 9789990395891 | #216152A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Gums and Resin Yielding Plants

Pratibha Bhatnagar

Gums and resins form an important group of non-timber forest products. India is among the five large gum producing countries. Annual trade is in several thousand tonnes. Indonesia, India and China are among the world's biggest producers ... ....

191 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788171327812 | #216461A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Induced Resistance for Plant Defense

Dale R Walters, Adrian C Newton and Gary D Lyon

Plant diseases worldwide are responsible for billions of dollars worth of crop losses every year. With less agrochemicals being used and less new fungicides coming on the market due to environmental concerns, more effort is now being put ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781118371831 | #215962A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Introduccion a la Flora de las Sierras de Gudar y Javalambre (Teruel)

Gonzalo Mateo Sanz

Introduction, for the general reader, to the flora of this mountainous area of Aragon, including dichotomous keys.

178 pages | 200 col photos |

Paperback | 08/2013 | 9788493958169 | #215982A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Key to the Vascular Plants of Inner Mongolia [Chinese]

Zhao Zhiyi

Key to the Vascular Plants of Inner Mongolia covers 144 families, 720 genera and 2540 species of wild vascular plants found in Inner Mongolia, China.

436 pages |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9787030406989 | #216304A | £33.50 Add to basket

 

Kommentierter Katalog der Flechtenbewohnenden Pilze Bayerns [A Commented Catalogue of the Lichenicolous Fungi of Bavaria

Wolfgang von Brackel

This commented catalogue presents 372 taxa of non-lichenized lichenicolous fungi in 135 genera from Bavaria are presented. In addition, 31 partly lichenized fungi, unnamed anamorphs, aggregates and facultative lichenicolous fungi ... ....

476 pages | 13 illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9783443580889 | #215955A | £123.00 Add to basket

 

Lesser-Known and Under-Utilised Plant Resources

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Plant genetic resources are key components of global diversity from which humanity derives most of its food, medicines and industrial products. They ensure the world’s food, security and directly or indirectly and they support the ... ....

193 pages | 233 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2005 | 9789990399639 | #216153A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Maine Mosses: Drummondiaceae-Polytrichanceae

Bruce Allen

“Joyful” was Bruce Allen's experience working on Maine Mosses, a project born nearly 4 decades ago. This is the second and final part ...

609 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780893275273 | #216420A | £106.00 Add to basket

 

Medicinal Plants of Mauritius and of the World

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Throughout the ages, human beings have relied on Nature for their basic needs and, not the least, medicines. Plants have formed the basis of sophisticated traditional meddecine systems that have been in existence for thousands of years ... ....

256 pages | 241 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2007 | 9789994922383 | #216156A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Melaleucas: Their Botany, Essential Oils and Uses

Joseph J Brophy, Lindley A Craven and John C Doran

There are nearly 300 species of Melaleuca in Australia and South-East Asia. Melaleucas: Their Botany, Essential Oils and Uses is the first attempt to compile a comprehensive account of their taxonomy, essential oils ... ....

415 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, tables |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781922137517 | #216224A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology

David J Gibson

The field of plant population ecology has advanced considerably in the last decade since the first edition was published. ln particular there have been substantial and ongoing advances in statistics and modelling applications in population ... ....

344 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780199671472 | #215864A | £37.50 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780199671465 | #215865A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Mieux Connaitre les Arbres & les Arbustes de Maurice & de l'Ocean Indien, Tome 1

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Mauritius and the Islands of the Indian Ocean are known to be a biodiversity hotspot. Many of the plants making up the local flora are endemic and exist there and nowhere else in the world. This rich flora, comprising both ...

280 pages | 700+ colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2009 | 9789994927456 | #216151A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Mushroom Diversity in Eastern Ghats of India

Ajay K Mahapatra, Sushri Shanta Tripathy and V Kaviyarasan

This field guide on mushroom diversity of the Eastern Ghats of India is to be considered a maiden venture in the region. Considering the fact that dry deciduous subtropical regions have a lesser mushroom diversity, semi-evergreen and ... ....

185 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788192779102 | #216459A | £41.50 Add to basket

 

Orchids: An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care

Andrew Mikolajski

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 150 beautiful photographs. It is a fascinating introduction to these flamboyant plants, with information on their origins in the wild ... ....

64 pages | 150+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781780193670 | #216392A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Paradise Under Glass

The Education of an Indoor Gardener

Ruth Kassinger

Ruth Kassinger was at an emotional crossroads. Confronted with the death of a beloved sister, her children's departure for college, and her own recent battle with breast cancer, she was searching for a way forward. Then one cold ... ....

347 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2014 | 9780061547768 | #215777A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Petite Flore Mythologique

Guy Ducourthial

Petite Flore Mythologique reminds us that many plants have played an important role in ancient myths. Flowers, trees and shrubs gathered here - from Yarrow to Violier - are distinguished by their remarkable mythical origin or religious ... ....

256 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9782701182827 | #215983A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Phylogeography of Pontic-Pannonian Species in Central Europe

Elzbieta Cieslak

This phylogeographical study concentrates on five species representing the Pontic-Pannonian subelement of the Polish flora: Carlina onopordifolia Besser ex Szafer, Cirsium pannonnicum, Inula ensifolia (L. fil.) ... ....

53 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788362975181 | #216261A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons

Ben-Erik van Wyk

Plants have been used to treat disease throughout human history. Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons offers a richly illustrated, scientific guide to medicinal and poisonous plants, including those used for their mind-altering ... ....

304 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781842465158 | #215917A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia

A Global Biodiversity Hotspot

Hans Lambers

Southwest Australia is a region increasingly recognised for its high levels of biodiversity and endemism, and is recognized as one of the world's top 25 'biodiversity hotspots' based largely on its highly diverse and endemic ... ....

350 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781742585642 | #216046A | £72.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Systematics

The Origin, Interpretation, and Ordering of Plant Biodiversity

Tod F Stuessy, Daniel J Crawford, Douglas E Soltis and Pamela S Soltis

The greatest treasure of our Earth is its biodiversity. The life forms that share our world are responsible for the environment that we know and appreciate, which permits Earth to be so inviting in comparison with the other barren and ... ....

425 pages | colour & b/w photos and illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9783874294522 | #215787A | £87.99 Add to basket

 

Plantes Medicinales de Maurice et d'Ailleurs

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Throughout the ages, human beings have relied on Nature for their basic needs and, not the least, medicines. Plants have formed the basis of sophisticated traditional medicine systems that have been in existence for thousands of years and ... ....

256 pages | 241 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2007 | 9789994922383 | #216157A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Plants in Tropical Cities

Chee M Boo, SYJ Chew and JWH Yong

This new book is somewhat similar in scope and design to the best-selling 1001 Garden Plants In Singapore and by the same first author now working on her own. However, Plants in Tropical Cities is a much more comprehensive ...

990 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789810880712 | #216108A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Remarkable Plants that Shape our World

Helen Bynum and William Bynum

Plants are truly remarkable: even with all our modern technological prowess they still feed, clothe and shelter us, help transport us and can intoxicate and cure us. Helen and William Bynum are expert guides to the rich histories, significant ... ....

240 pages | 174 colour & 31 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780500517420 | #215911A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Ressources Vegetales Meconnues et Sous-Utilisees

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Plant genetic resources are key components of global diversity from which humanity derives most of its food, medicines and industrial products. They ensure the world’s food, security and directly or indirectly and they support the ... ....

193 pages | 233 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2005 | 9789990399646 | #216155A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Royal Gardens

Extraordinary Edens from Around the World

Stephane Bern and Jean-Baptiste Leroux

Royal palaces have always included splendid gardens for the pleasure of kings – and as a sign of their power. With their prestige, influence, taste and passion, royal families have created and left to posterity these unforgettable ... ....

280 pages | 200 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781419713989 | #216403A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Slipper Orchids of Borneo

Phillip J Cribb

The island of Borneo is home to some of the world's most spectacular slipper orchids. Rothschild's slipper orchid has inflorescences with three to six flowers with a span of up to 30 cm, while Sander's slipper orchid has twisted ... ....

160 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9789838121491 | #216244A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

South African Flowering Trees

A Botanical Adventure Through History

Rob Wood, Millicent Frean and Sandie Burrows

Many books are written about trees, but few give a complete picture. What do they look like? Where do they come from? How do they grow? What are their uses for man, animals, birds and insects? How have their names changed over time? ....

222 pages | 26 plates with colour illustrations; 11 colour & 25 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780987029355 | #215861A | £34.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780987029348 | #215862A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Succulents: An Illustrated Guide to Varieties, Cultivation and Care

Terry Hewitt

This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 145 stunning photographs. It features a directory of over 50 varieties of succulents, including Agave, Aloe ... ....

64 pages | 145+ colour photos |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781780193656 | #216390A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Systematics and Biology of the Cape Genus Sparaxis (Iridaceae)

Peter Goldblatt and John Manning

The South African genus Sparaxis Ker Gawl., a member of tribe Ixieae of subfamily Crocoideae of the Iridaceae, is endemic to the western half of the winter rainfall zone of southern Africa. The genus, described by John Ker Gawler ... ....

80 pages |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781919976891 | #216226A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

The Ash Tree

Oliver Rackham

Ash is one of the commonest trees in the British Isles – there are nearly as many ash trees as there are people. Perhaps this is why we take them for granted. Poets write of oak, yew, elm, willow, rarely ash. No books have been written ... ....

172 pages |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781908213143 | #216339A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Complete Encyclopedia of Trees of the World

Tony Russell, Catherine Cutler and Martin Walters

This is the ultimate reference and identification guide to more than 1300 of the most spectacular, best-loved and unusual trees around the globe, with 3000 specially commissioned illustrations, maps and photographs. It provides a valuable ... ....

512 pages | 3000+ colour photos, colour illustrations and colour maps |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780754830344 | #216386A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna, Bladmossor: Skirmossor - Baronmossor [Swedish]

Bryophyta: Hookeria - Anomodon

Lars Hedenas, Tomas Hallingback and Christopher Reisborg

Soon all true mosses (Bryopsida) will be described in the Encyclopedia. The next volume will find many of Sweden's most well-known or "regular" mosses. Here are those that form the forest's soft flooring such as mosses ... ....

218 pages |

Hardback | 09/2014 | #216043A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

The Genus Meconopsis

Blue Poppies and Their Relatives

Christopher Grey-Wilson

The Himalayan Blue Poppy is a bit of a perennial diva. Spotted in the wild, it turns heads and catches reverent attention, but it is also notoriously fickle, requiring careful cultivation and often refusing to flourish in most climates ... ....

300 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781842463697 | #216389A | £67.99 Add to basket

 

The Living Landscape

Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

Rick Darke and Douglas Tallamy

In The Living Landscape, Douglas Tallamy and Rick Darke combine their expertise to create an engaging, beautifully illustrated book which provides inspiration and strategies for making and maintaining truly living landscapes. ....

352 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781604694086 | #216100A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Plant Sciences, Volume 2: Molecular Biology

Stephen H Howell

The aim of this project is to produce a the world's most comprehensive reference in plant sciences. The Plant Sciences will be published both in print and online; the online text will be regularly updated to enable ... ....

400 pages | 450 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781461475699 | #209446A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

The Wisdom of Trees

A Miscellany

Max Adams

A passionate and informative celebration of trees and of man's ingenuity in exploiting their resources: the perfect gift for anyone who cares about the natural world. Trees are marvels of nature, still-standing giants of extraordinary ... ....

320 pages | 50 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781781855461 | #216009A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Tous Les Champignons Portent-ils Un Chapeau?

90 Cles Pour Comprendre les Champignons

Francis Martin

Fungi are thrilling and diverse, as well as being ubiquitous in our daily lives: necessary for the production of bread, wine, beer, cheese and chocolate, they are also the original antibiotics. While we always find more species of fungi ... ....

184 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9782759221745 | #216467A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Trees of the World

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

Trees provide us with a variety of ecosystem services. They produce fruit, give firewood, offer medicinal, environmental benefits and inspire poetry and legends. They are considered sacred in many religions and cultures. Botany, history ... ....

290 pages | 737 colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789990389265 | #216149A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Tropical African Flowering Plants: Ecology and Distribution, Volume 8

Monocotyledons 2 (Anthericaceae-Palmae)

Jean-Pierre Lebrun and Adelaide L Stork

This book covers 20 families, 100 genera, 846 species; each of these is mapped together with a simplified description and ecology. It covers a variety of plants ranging from Afrothismia grass without chlorophyll ranging in size ... ....

357 pages | b/w distribution maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9782827701315 | #215958A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Unusual Folk Plants and Drugs of India

SK Sood, Ruchi Chandel, Seema Sharma and Sumesh Kumar

This invaluable compendium is a vital reference source, providing the users with exhaustive details on 616 unusual folk plants and drugs of India belonging to 465 genera under 137 families for prevention and management of stings and bites ... ....

272 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788179103593 | #216460A | £53.99 Add to basket

 

Visions of Loveliness

Great Flower Breeders of the Past

Judith M Taylor

Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and other beloved flowers for their gardens. Few give any thought at all to how this incredible abundance came to be or to the people who ... ....

424 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780804011563 | #216344A | £40.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780804011570 | #216345A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Flowers and Flora

An Illustrated Identifier and Encyclopedia

Michael Lavelle

This is an authoritative guide to more than 750 wild flowers of the world. It is a stunning visual guide to the most important wild flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, cacti, grasses, mosses, aquatic plants and weeds. It is beautifully illustrated ... ....

256 pages | 1700+ colour photos, colour illustrations and colour maps |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9780754830290 | #216385A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Wildflowers of Nova Scotia

Todd Boland

An authoritative guide to 425 species of native and introduced species of wildflowers in Nova Scotia. A series of page tabs and icons, along with full colour photos, offers easy identification of wild plants.

480 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781927099483 | #216047A | £24.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Anatomy & Physiology

From Science to Life

Gail Jenkins and Gerard J Tortora

The 3rd edition of Jenkins' Anatomy & Physiology: From Science to Life offers many new and enhanced features. Each chapter of STL is designed and developed into manageable modules of content that place a conceptual order ... ....

1128 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780470598917 | #216001A | £192.00 Add to basket

 

Animal Social Networks

Jens Krause, Richard James, Daniel Franks and Darren Croft

The scientific study of networks – computer, social, and biological – has received an enormous amount of interest in the last few years. However the network approach has been applied to the field of animal behaviour relatively ... ....

336 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780199679058 | #215866A | £37.50 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780199679041 | #215867A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Does Altruism Exist?

Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others

David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth's creatures ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780300189490 | #214009A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Ecological Biochemistry

Environmental and Interspecies Interactions

Gerd-Joachim Krauss and Dietrich H Nies

The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems. Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their ... ....

440 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9783527316502 | #215961A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution and Rationality

Decisions, Co-operation and Strategic Behaviour

Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore

Evolution and Rationality explores from multiple perspectives the subtle and interesting relationship between the theory of rational choice and Darwinian evolution. In rational choice theory, agents are assumed to make choices ... ....

296 pages | 20 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781107004993 | #203777A | £59.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781107416840 | #215874A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Vertebrate Neural Systems

7th European Conference on Comparative Neurobiology, Budapest, April 2013: Selected Papers

Andres Csillag and Hans J ten Donkelaar

This is a reprint of Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2014, Vol. 83, No. 2 This comparative approach in neurosciences offers important advantages and provides a suitable, sometimes surprising and unorthodox frame of mind ... ....

100 pages | 14 colour & 19 b/w illustrations, 2 tables |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9783318026351 | #216090A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8

R Eric Miller and Murray E Fowler

Logically organized by taxonomic groups, this up-to-date text, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8 covers the diagnosis and treatment of all zoo animal species and free-ranging wildlife, including amphibians, reptiles ... ....

792 pages | 180 colour & 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781455773978 | #216232A | £107.00 Add to basket

 

Integrative Organismal Biology

Lynn B Martin, Cameron K Ghalambor and H Arthur Woods

Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understanding of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavioral and organismal levels. Emphasizing key topics such as phenotypic plasticity ... ....

350 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781118398784 | #215968A | £66.95 Add to basket

 

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian J Lewis, David L Morgan, Martin Raff and Keith Roberts

As the amount of information in biology expands dramatically, it becomes increasingly important for textbooks to distill the vast amount of scientific knowledge into concise principles and enduring concepts. As with previous editions ... ....

1392 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780815344643 | #216167A | £74.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780815344322 | #216168A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

On Migration

Dangerous Journeys and the Living World

Ruth Padel

"Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.

272 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781619024335 | #215902A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Vertebrate Heart

David Sedmera and Tobias Wang

Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Vertebrate Heart is a compilation of reviews on important aspect of cardiovascular function in vertebrates, and includes ontogenetic development in several of the major animal groups.

261 pages | 48 colour & 19 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781461433866 | #197486A | £126.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781493902002 | #216162A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Parasite Diversity and Diversification

Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics

Serge Morand, Boris R Krasnov and D Timothy J Littlewood

The development of molecular tools has dramatically increased our knowledge of parasite diversity and the vectors that transmit them. From viruses and protists to arthropods and helminths, each branch of the Tree of Life offers an insight ... ....

455 pages | 65 b/w illustrations, 15 tables |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781107037656 | #215126A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Sex on Earth

A Celebration of Animal Reproduction

Jules Howard

1000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781408193419 | #216335A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Origins of Life (3-Volume Set)

Dylan Evans, Steve Jones and Jonathan Miller

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing: Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.

528 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781848317529 | #216431A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Unnatural Selection

How We are Changing Life, Gene by Gene

Emily Monosson

In a narrative style, Emily Monosson explains how humans are driving rapid contemporary evolution through the use of toxic chemicals and what we can do about it. Gonorrhoea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. Polar Bears. People. All are evolving ... ....

232 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781610914987 | #215408A | £18.99 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

A New History of Life

The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink

An estimated 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth and Moon were formed in a violent impact. On this, many agree, and even more that a long time after that, life began. However, few know that the first life on the Earth may not have emerged ... ....

352 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781408835524 | #212827A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Ancestors in Our Genome

The New Science of Human Evolution

Eugene E Harris

An up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome amongst the primate group, written from the perspective of population genetics.

240 pages | 45 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780199978038 | #214581A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Beyond Human Nature

How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives

Jesse J Prinz

We are constantly told that human traits – from aggression to gender differences – are 'hardwired'. In Beyond Human Nature Jesse J. Prinz reveals that it is the societies we live in, not our genes, that deter ... ....

416 pages | Illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780141019345 | #215887A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being

Evolution and the Making of Us

Alice Roberts

The presenter of BBC's The Incredible Human Journey gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos ...

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781848664777 | #216430A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye

Sparked by the a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial debate with Creation Museum curator Ken Ham, Bill Nye's campaign to confront the scientific shortcoming of creationism has exploded ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781250007131 | #216073A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Why Sex Matters

A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior (Revised Edition)

Bobbi S Low

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk-takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the ... ....

376 pages | 8 b/w photos, 21 b/w illustrations, 2 tables |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780691163888 | #214203A | £24.95 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

Elements of Ecology

Thomas M Smith and Robert Leo Smith

Elements of Ecology, Ninth Edition continues to explain ecological processes clearly and concisely, with a greater emphasis on the relevance of ecology to everyday life and the human impact on ecosystems. This dramatically revised edition ... ....

704 pages |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780321934178 | #213952A | £97.99 Add to basket

 

Invasive Plant Species of the World

A Reference Guide to Environmental Weeds

Ewald Weber

lnvasive plant species cause severe disruption to both natural and managed ecosystems, and with range expansions and increasing international trade these problems are only becoming more serious. Globally relevant ...

608 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781780643861 | #210396A | £195.00 Add to basket

 
Habitats & Ecosystems
 

Blue Urbanism

Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans

Timothy Beatley

What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relation ... ....

184 pages | 45 illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781610914055 | #216504A | £15.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781610914048 | #216505A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America

An Ecosystem Service Perspective

Aline Chiabai

Climate change is expected to be the primary cause for biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services on a global scale, with increased risk of extinction for many plant and animal species. The crucial issue under debate is the impact ... ....

208 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | 9780415720809 | #212146A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change

Renewing Damaged Ecosystems

Stuart K Allison

What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored from its damaged state ... ....

245 pages | b/w photos, 28 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781849712859 | #200511A | £54.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781138804562 | #215952A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Everglades: America's Wetland

Mac Stone and Michael Grunwald

From Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay, from inside the bone-crushing jaws of an alligator to the storms that race across the blackwater backcountry, award-winning conservation photographer Mac Stone takes us on a visual journey through the ... ....

304 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780813049854 | #216406A | £35.95 Add to basket

 

Faune Sauvage, Biodiversite et Sante, Quels Defis?

Serge Morand, Francois Moutou and Celine Richomme

The current environmental crisis is accompanied by a crisis of biodiversity loss, and an epidemiological crisis marked by emergence of new infectious diseases from wild and domestic animals. What are the links between biodiversity and ... ....

192 pages |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9782759222025 | #216455A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Fynbos: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation of a Megadiverse Region

Nicky Allsopp, Jonathan F Colville and G Anthony Verboom

A synthesis of the ecology and evolution of South Africa's fynbos region, offering insights into megadiversity throughout the world.

416 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780199679584 | #215868A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Irreplaceable Woodlands

Some Practical Steps to Restoring Our Wildlife Heritage

Charles Flower and HRH Prince Charles

This is a practical manual to managing woodland. It includes a Foreword written by HRH Prince Charles. It comes from conservation expert Charles Flower, author of highly acclaimed Where Have all the Flowers Gone? Charles Flower is passionate ... ....

216 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781906506537 | #216094A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

On the Edge

Coastlines of Britain

Robert Duck

The building of railways has had a profound but largely ignored physical impact on Britain's coasts. On the Edge: Coastlines of Britain explores the coming of railways to the edge of Britain, the ruthlessness of the companies ... ....

208 pages |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780748697625 | #215476A | £19.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780748697618 | #215477A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Rainforest

Lewis Blackwell

There are no places on earth more mysterious and complex than tropical rainforests. These wonders of biodiversity cover just six percent of the earth's surface, yet are home to over half of all identified animal and plant species and ... ....

264 pages | 150 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781419713972 | #216006A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Tangled Roots

The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics

Sarah Mittlefehldt and William Cronon

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian and ... ....

280 pages | 37 illustrations, 4 maps |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780295994307 | #216352A | £15.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780295993003 | #216353A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

The Ecological Design and Planning Reader

Forster O Ndubisi

From Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson, writers have long examined the effects of industrialization and its potential to permanently alter the world around them. Today, as we experience rapid global urbanization, pressures on the natural ... ....

600 pages | 77 photos and b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781610914895 | #216407A | £28.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781610914901 | #216408A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

The Last Beach

Orrin H Pilkey and J Andrew Cooper

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches ... ....

264 pages | 69 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780822358091 | #216361A | £12.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780822357988 | #216362A | £43.99 Add to basket

 

The Regulation of Peace River

A Case Study for River Management

Michael Church

The Regulation of Peace River presents a comprehensive overview of the first longitudinal study of the downstream response of a major river to the establishment of a large hydropower facility and dams. Peace River, a northward ... ....

358 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781118906149 | #215963A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge

Lincoln Bramwell and William Cronon

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls "wilderburbs" have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities ... ....

352 pages | 41 b/w illustrations, 5 maps |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780295994123 | #216348A | £22.99 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

Camera Trapping

Wildlife Management and Research

Paul Meek, Peter Fleming, Guy Ballard, Peter Banks, Andrew Claridge, Jim Sanderson and Don Swann

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researcher ... ....

392 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781486300396 | #216263A | £71.50 Add to basket

 

Collected Papers of Michael E. Soule

Early Years in Modern Conservation Biology

Michael E Soule and James A Estes

In the early 1970s, the environmental movement was underway. Over population was recognised as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soulé believed there was a connection between anthropogenic pressures on natural ... ....

288 pages | 14 illustrations, 19 tables |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781610915748 | #215421A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Descriptive Taxonomy

The Foundation of Biodiversity Research

Mark F Watson, Chris Lyal and Colin A Pendry

In an age when biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, it is vital that floristic and faunistic information is up to date, reliable and easily accessible for the formulation of effective conservation strategies.

350 pages | 11 colour & 36 b/w illustrations, 6 tables |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780521761079 | #215017A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

The Changing Face of Land and Conservation in Post-Colonial Africa

Old Land, New Practices?

George Barrett, Shirley Brooks, Jenny Josefsson and Nqobile Zulu

The year 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Land Act in South Africa which legalised the violent dispossession and alienation of the African majority from the land. It is common cause that the alienation of land for conservation ... ....

208 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781138832732 | #215905A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

The Youth Guide to Biodiversity

Christine Gibb, Neil Pratt and Reuben Says

The Youth Guide to Biodiversity was jointly developed by CBD and FAO, with contributions and support from many other institutions and individuals. It is designed as a educational resource for schools, youth groups and other ... ....

245 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9789251074459 | #216225A | £44.50 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Tourism

A Handbook for Tour Guides, Eco-lodges, Students and Start-up Businesses

Ronda J Green

Wildlife Tourism contains are lengthy sections on knowing, finding, watching, viewing, protecting and interpreting wildlife. Examples are given for conveying eoclogical and behavioural concepts to guests. Much of the information ... ....

151 pages | b/w photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780992420918 | #216147A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Environmental Science
 

Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

Frederick Rowe Davis

Rachel Carson's eloquent book Silent Spring stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century and inspired important and long-lasting changes in environmental science and government policy.

256 pages | 5 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780300205176 | #214016A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Complexity of the Ocean System

Patrick Prouzet and Andre Monaco

Complexity is an intrinsic property of natural systems. In the oceanic system, it is linked to many interactions with the atmosphere, geosphere and biosphere with which it exchanges energy and matter. Complexity of the ocean system ... ....

304 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781848217010 | #215965A | £123.00 Add to basket

 

Documentary Records of Climate Change

The Historical Context for Global Warming

Astrid Ogilvie

Documentary evidence for past climate change provides an invaluable tool in establishing trends in natural climate variability. This important new book, by a leading scholar in the field, describes the availability of such records. ....

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781845115890 | #211720A | £54.50 Add to basket

 

Environmental Risks and Adaptation

Patrick Prouzet and Andre Monaco

Environmental Risks and Adaptation provides various examples and dimensions, chemical, biological, climatic, or related to extreme (hazards). It describes, by reciprocity, the vulnerability of ecosystems, resources, heritage ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781848217034 | #215964A | £123.00 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation (4-Volume Set)

Walter Leal-Filho

The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate ... ....

2400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9783642386695 | #211144A | £899.50 Add to basket

 

How Climate Change Comes to Matter

The Communal Facts of Life

Candis Callison

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social ... ....

328 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780822357872 | #216499A | £15.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780822357711 | #216500A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

Marine Coastal and Water Pollutions

Frederic Muttin

The topic is response to accidental marine pollution, in particular to oil spills. Different approaches in the face of such catastrophes are used by a range of experts, such as biologists, oceanographers, social scientists, lawyers ... ....

144 pages |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781848216921 | #215956A | £46.95 Add to basket

 

Marine Pollution

What Everyone Needs to Know

Judith S Weis

Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms-chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, eutrophication, invasive species, heavy metals ... ....

272 pages | 19 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780199996681 | #215857A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

The Ethics of Global Climate Change

Denis G Arnold

Global climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and transnational ethical issues raised by climate change have been the focus of ... ....

352 pages | 15 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | 03/2011 | 9781107000698 | #190950A | £57.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781107666016 | #215873A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

The Toxicology and Biochemistry of Insecticides

Simon J Yu

Continuing as the sole book in more than two decades to address this multifaceted field, the Second Edition of this highly praised review on insect toxicology presents the most up-to-date information on insecticide classification, formulation ... ....

381 pages | 3 colour & 387 b/w illustrations, 64 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781482210606 | #216164A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Vital Signs 2014

The Trends That are Shaping Our Future

The Worldwatch Institute

This is the most up-to-date information on a diverse range of global trends. Vital Signs, Volume 21 is all about growth. From natural disasters to cars to organic farming, the two dozen trends examined here indicate both increasing ... ....

136 pages | 110 photos, illustrations, tables |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781610915397 | #216208A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Vulnerability of the Ocean System

Andre Monaco and Patrick Prouzet

The vulnerability of the ocean ecosystem combines the probability of exposure to natural or anthropogenic pressure, sensitivity and resilience. Vulnerability of the Ocean System presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures ... ....

432 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781848217027 | #215966A | £123.00 Add to basket

 

When Green Growth Is Not Enough

Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency

Anders Hayden

Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough, Anders Hayden analyzes the policy ... ....

568 pages | 10 b/w photos, 4 illustrations, 2 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780773544079 | #216355A | £78.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780773544086 | #216356A | £21.99 Add to basket

 
Physical Sciences
 

A Journey Through the Universe

Gresham Lectures on Astronomy

Ian Morison

Providing an in-depth understanding both for general readers and astronomy enthusiasts, this highly comprehensive book provides an up-to-date survey of our knowledge of the Universe beyond Earth. A Journey Through the Universe ... ....

368 pages | 8 colour & 137 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781107073463 | #216227A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Astronomy: All That Matters

Percy Seymour

With a blend of exciting discoveries and important scientific theory, this innovative and readable introduction to astronomy is ideal for anyone who wants to understand what we know about the universe, and how we know it. Each chapter ... ....

160 pages |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781471801624 | #216434A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 56: Karst and Caves of South Vietnam, Part 2

Provinces of Dong Nai, Lam Dong and Quang Tri

Michael Laumanns

The famous volcanic caves of Dong Nai province are presented in this volume in detail, including the new longest lava tube cave known in Southeast Asia. The 35 caves described have high biospeleological relevance. Furthermore five caves ... ....

49 pages | colour photos, maps, tables |

Paperback | 07/2014 | #215999A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Building and Using Binoscopes

Norman P Butler

Focusing on both homemade and commercial products, Building and Using Binoscopes provides the reader with simple and straightforward information about the modelling and building of binoscopes. Binoscopes can be thought of as ... ....

200 pages | 256 colour & 68 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9783319076881 | #216433A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Can Crocodiles Cry?

Amazing Answers to Mind-blowing Questions

Paul Heiney

Paul Heiney unravels further science behind those things we take for granted, and explains just why the world and its contents are the way they are. Drawing on questions asked by the public, Can Crocodiles Cry? brings some of the ... ....

224 pages | 25 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780750960120 | #215921A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Cartes Sedimentologiques de Bretagne Sud

Entre Baie de Vilaine et Archipel de Glenan

Axel Ehrhold

The coastal marine area of ÔÇïÔÇïsouthern Brittany, between the Bay of Vilaine and Glénan archipelago, has since 2003 been part of a regional program of monitoring soft substrates (Rebent Britain). One objective of this project was ... ....

80 pages | 4 colour maps |

Paperback | 04/2014 | 9782844331762 | #216468A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction

Peter Atkins

Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point ... ....

144 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780199683970 | #216281A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Choosing and Using Astronomical Filters

Martin Griffiths

As a casual read through any of the major amateur astronomical magazines will demonstrate, there are filters available for all aspects of optical astronomy. Choosing and Using Astronomical Filters provides a ready resource on the ... ....

282 pages | 58 colour & 107 b/w illustrations, 15 tables |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781493910434 | #216439A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Death by Black Hole

And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Loyal readers of the monthly Universe essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike ... ....

348 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2007 | 9780393062243 | #161067A | £17.09 Add to basket

Paperback | 11/2007 | 9780393330168 | #169567A | £10.19 Add to basket

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Deep Space

Beyond the Solar System to the End of the Universe and the Beginning of Time

Govert Schilling

After a brief and condensed review of the solar system at the beginning of Deep Space – including an explanation of the sun, planets and small bodies including asteroids and comets – Deep Space picks up where ... ....

224 pages | 400 colour photos and colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781579129781 | #216410A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Granites: Petrology, Structure, Geological Setting, and Metallogeny

Anne Nedelec, Jean-Luc Bouchez and Peter Bowden

Granites are emblematic rocks developed from a magma that crystallized in the Earth's crust. They ultimately outcrop at the surface of every continent. Granites: Petrology, Structure, Geological Setting, and Metallogeny ... ....

352 pages | 260 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780198705611 | #215906A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Human Universe

Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

The nation's favourite scientist looks at the origins of life in our Universe. For somehow the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. In this spectacular new book ... ....

288 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780007488803 | #199727A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That

Ben Goldacre

The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use ... ....

400 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780007462483 | #216014A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Les Reseaux Fluviatiles Anciens du Plateau Continental de Bretagne Sud

David Menier, Claude Augris and Cecile Briend

The continental shelf of South Brittany has, since the sixties, been the site of various programs related to geological mapping, seismic reflections and coring. The results show a bedrock cut by numerous fossil river systems filled ... ....

104 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | 04/2014 | 9782844331748 | #216469A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Life

William Brown and Andrew Fabian

Life is a compelling addition to the Darwin College Lecture series, in which eight distinguished authors each present an essay from their area of expertise devoted to the theme of 'life'.

172 pages | 9 colour & 32 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Paperback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781107612556 | #216124A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Mars Up Close

Inside the Curiosity Mission

Marc Kaufman and Elon Musk

Following up on Hubble, National Geographic Space Atlas, and Buzz Aldrin's Mission to Mars, National Geographic presents the only book that reveals all the behind-the-scenes stories of the famous Curiosity ... ....

304 pages | 100 colour photos, 25 colour illustrations, 12 maps |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9781426212789 | #216447A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Mars: A New View of the Red Planet

Giles Sparrow

Mars has always fascinated humanity and the findings of the past decade have revolutionized ideas about our nearest neighbour – revealing its watery past and geological similarity to Earth. This giant volume, filled with the latest ... ....

224 pages | 200+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781848664616 | #216432A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Materials: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Hall

The study of materials and their properties – their strength, optical and electrical properties, for example – forms a major and heavily funded area of research which supports both innovation and technology. Using modern science .. ....

144 pages | ~20 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780199672677 | #215945A | £5.59 Add to basket

 

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada's Daily Planet) explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | 03/2014 | 9781476707549 | #213437A | £21.50 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781476707556 | #216160A | £15.50 Add to basket

 

No Requiem for the Space Age

The Apollo Moon Landings in American Culture

Matthew D Tribbe

Why did support for the space program decrease so sharply after (or, really, even before) the first moon landing? Clearly this decline had much to do with the waning of the original Cold War impetus that had sparked the moon program to ... ....

288 pages |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780199313525 | #216065A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Nordwestliches Harzvorland

Die Klassische Quadratmeile der Geologie

Friedhart Knolle, Mohr Stefan and Marion Seitz

Nordwestliches Harzvorland is also called "The classic square mile of geology". As with almost any other town in Central Europe, it's an abundance of rocks that range from the Palaeozoic to recent deposits that ... ....

128 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9783494015989 | #216472A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Oberharz: Tiefe Gruben und Hohe Ruecken

Rainer Mueller and Hans Joachim Franzke

With this guide encounter the unusual variety of beautiful and rare mineral species of the Oberharz, which is the western and higher part of the Harz Mountains, a geologically outstanding region. Characteristic of these landscapes ... ....

144 pages | 85 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2014 | 9783494015316 | #216480A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald W Goldsmith

Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology ...

288 pages | 32 pages with colour illustrations |

Paperback | 12/2006 | 9780393327588 | #157184A | £12.33 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780393350395 | #215784A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Philip's 101 Objects to Spot in the Night Sky

Robin Scagell

The new Philip's 101 Objects to Spot in the Night Sky is a fun and practical guide to identifying and observing 101 of the most fascinating and exciting sights in the northern-hemisphere sky for young newcomers to astronomy ... ....

224 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781849072762 | #215915A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Philip's The Urban Astronomy Guide

Stargazing from Towns and Suburbs

Robin Scagell

Philip's The Urban Astronomy Guide provides the ideal introduction to the fascinating hobby of astronomy for the town dweller. These days, you don't have to live close to a city or town centre to suffer from the effects ... ....

208 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781849072755 | #215916A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Planetary Sciences [Updated 2nd Edition]

Imke de Pater and Jack J Lissauer

An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this award-winning textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets.

661 pages | 32 colour & 300 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781107091610 | #216079A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Rocks and Minerals

A Photographic Field Guide

Chris Pellant and Helen Pellant

For experts and armchair enthusiasts like, Rocks and Minerals will appeal to anyone interested in uncovering the mysteries of this subject. A general introduction is followed by a detailed exploration of the three groups of rock ... ....

192 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781472909930 | #216379A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Space Chronicles

Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang

America's space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until ... ....

384 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780393082104 | #198329A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 04/2013 | 9780393343625 | #205131A | £11.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780393350371 | #215786A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Stargazers' Almanac 2015

A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets

Bob Mizon

Explore the night skies with this beautiful illustrated monthly guide to the stars and planets. This large-format almanac allows you to step outside and track the planets, locate the Milky Way, recognise the constellations of the zodiac ... ....

32 pages | colour illustrations, colour charts |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781782501084 | #216427A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space

Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher

Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space is an incredible series of talks, articles and recollections that celebrate the human exploration of space. It is the result of the Starmus meeting in 2011, where legendary Russian and American ... ....

192 pages | 200 photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781780975597 | #216015A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Perfect Wave

With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time

Heinrich Pas

Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos seem to defy the laws of nature. But these mysterious particles may hold the key to our deepest questions about the universe, says physicist Heinrich Pas ... ....

276 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2014 | 9780674725010 | #216440A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Planets

The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Solar System

Dorling Kindersley (DK) and Maggie Aderin-Pocock

The Planets is an awe-inspiring and informative journey through the Solar System, with all-new 3D globes and models built using the latest data gathered by NASA and the European Space Agency that can be viewed from any angle and ... ....

256 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781409353058 | #215920A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Pluto Files

The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, "Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York." Immediately, the public ... ....

224 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 02/2010 | 9780393337327 | #205147A | £11.99 Add to basket

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Wutachregion: Geologisches Kleinod im Suedwesten

Christoph Hebestreit

Among the landscapes of southwestern Germany the Wutachregion is special, because in a small area it contains a variety of rocks from long periods of geological time, and represents the entire sequence of the southwest German Triassic ... ....

128 pages | 80 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9783494015996 | #216479A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

A Procedural Framework for Transboundary Water Management in the Mekong River Basin

Shared Mekong for a Common Future

Qi Gao

In A Procedural Framework for Transboundary Water Management in the Mekong River Basin: Shared Mekong for a Common Future, Qi Gao explores procedural implications of integrated water resources management and its application in the ... ....

344 pages |

Hardback | 03/2014 | 9789004266780 | #216193A | £103.00 Add to basket

 

America's Founding Fruit

The Cranberry in a New Environment

Susan Playfair

The cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is one of only three cultivated fruits native to North America. The story of this perennial vine began as the glaciers retreated about fifteen thousand years ago. Centuries later, it kept ... ....

240 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781611686319 | #216444A | £65.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781611686326 | #216445A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Building Better

Sustainable Architecture for Family Homes

Sofia Borges, Robert Klanten and Sven Ehmann

For anyone who is in the process of building or renovating a home, sustainability is a critical issue especially since energy is likely to remain costly for the foreseeable future. Choosing to use resources responsibly makes as much of ... ....

240 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2014 | 9783899555127 | #216502A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Chasing Water

A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability

Brian Richter

Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national ... ....

208 pages | b/w illustrations, maps, tables |

Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781610915380 | #216146A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Comparing Environmental Policies in 16 Countries

David Howard Davis

Based on the author's 39 years of teaching environmental policy, working in Washington, and traveling, Comparing Environmental Policies in 16 Countries offers a complete primer in environmental dilemmas and policies from a ... ....

304 pages |

Hardback | 12/2013 | 9781482214581 | #216367A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Crop Yields and Global Food Security

Will Yield Increase Continue to Feed the World?

Tony Fischer, Derek Byerlee, Greg O Edmeades and Nick Austin

This is an invaluable reference book on the opportunities for crop yield increase to feed the world to 2050. Written by three world-renowned agricultural scientists, it is aimed at agricultural scientists and economists, decision-makers ... ....

634 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps, colour tables |

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781925133059 | #216262A | £100.00 Add to basket

 

Crude Justice

How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America

Stuart H Smith

One day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub-and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn't until later, after she saw the ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781939529237 | #215637A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Diplomacy on Ice

Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic

Rebecca Pincus, Saleem H Ali and James Gustave Speth

As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centred on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation ... ....

384 pages | 11 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780300205169 | #215351A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology

Stephen D Moore and Laurel Kearns

A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal ... ....

392 pages | 6 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780823263202 | #216494A | £20.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780823263196 | #216495A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Ecological Governance

Reappraising Law's Role in Protecting Ecosystem Functionality

Olivia Woolley

Ecological degradation has been an object of concern for the international community since the early 1970s, but legal approaches that have been employed to improve the protection of ecosystems have failed to halt this decline.

350 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9781107060456 | #215859A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Green Design for Kids

Monsa

Green Design for Kids showcases some of the most exciting and innovative environmentally-friendly products for creating wonderful living spaces for children. Children spend such a large amount of their time at home ...

192 pages | colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2014 | 9788415829515 | #216503A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Greening of Capitalism

How Asia is Driving the Next Great Transformation

John A Mathews

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today. Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting ... ....

328 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780804791502 | #216496A | £40.99 Add to basket

 

Gyre: The Plastic Ocean

Julie Decker

A flip-flop discarded in Thailand finds its way to Hawaii, and a bottle cast off from Japan's tsunami is soon Alaska's beach litter. With stunning visual impact and an astonishing array of ocean trash, internationally recognized ... ....

200 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2014 | 9781861543554 | #216003A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Humans, Animals, and Society

An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

Nik Taylor

While animals have played a central part in human society over the years, when it comes to the social sciences they have largely been neglected. However, interest in Human Animal Studies (HAS) has grown exponentially in recent years, giving ... ....

208 pages |

Paperback | 02/2013 | 9781590564233 | #216247A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Innovation and Application of Green Building Materials (2-Volume Set)

Artpower

As a direct consequence of increasing concerns around environmental sustainability, and with a focus on reducing the carbon footprint of any building, architects are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to build responsibly ... ....

640 pages | 1000 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 08/2014 | 9789881261649 | #216501A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Lakeshore Living

Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers

Paul J Radomski and Kristof Van Assche

In this remarkable and remarkably accessible synthesis of ecology, landscape design, and social sciences, the authors present an approach to lakeshore living that addresses the need to create rich, sustainable places and communities on ... ....

228 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2014 | 9781611861181 | #216337A | £23.95 Add to basket

 

Living Beings

Perspectives on Interspecies Engagements

Penelope Dransart

Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees. Many discussions of such relationships highlight the exceptional qualities of the human ... ....

232 pages | 12 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780857858429 | #216377A | £21.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780857858412 | #216378A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Living with Oil

Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico's Gulf Coast

Lisa Breglia

For decades, Mexico has been one of the world's top non-OPEC oil exporters, but since the 2004 peak and subsequent decline of the massive offshore oilfield – Cantarell – the prospects for the country have worsened.

302 pages | 5 b/w photos, 5 illustrations, 3 maps |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780292744615 | #203661A | £33.29 Add to basket

Paperback | 05/2014 | 9780292762022 | #216341A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Mountains of Injustice

Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia

Michele Morrone, Geoffrey L Buckley, Donald Edward Davis and Jedediah Purdy

Research in environmental justice reveals that low-income and minority neighbourhoods in our nation's cities are often the preferred sites for landfills, power plants, and polluting factories. Those who live in these sacrifice zones ... ....

216 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2013 | 9780821420430 | #216424A | £24.50 Add to basket

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780821419809 | #216425A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia

Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict

Susan F Hirsch and E Franklin Dukes

Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining – that ... ....

160 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780821421093 | #216346A | £34.99 Add to basket

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Preservation of Ecosystems of International Watercourses and the Integration of Relevant Rules

An Interpretative Mechanism to Adddress the Fragmentation of International Law

Lee Jing

In Preservation of Ecosystems of International Watercourses and the Integration of Relevant Rules: An Interpretative Mechanism to Adddress the Fragmentation of International Law, Lee Jing takes an innovative approach to developing ... ....

430 pages |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9789004268388 | #216192A | £132.00 Add to basket

 

Promoting Transboundary Water Security in the Aral Sea Basin through International Law

Dinara Ziganshina

Water security threats arising from inadequate access to water for sustaining ecosystems, livelihoods, human well-being and socio-economic development has gained increasing attention over the past decades all over the world, but especially ... ....

Hardback | NYP 11/2014 | 9789004274235 | #216194A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

Seeds of Reprisal

Monsanto vs. Michael White

J Somerville Park

Michael White, a seed merchant and fourth generation farmer, had a good life on Alabama's Sand Mountain. But it disintegrated into a nightmare soon after he spotted a man from Monsanto spying on him. In short order, White ...

364 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | 9780615856254 | #216166A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

The Biological Foundations of Bioethics

Tim Lewens

Much recent work on the ethics of new biomedical technologies is committed to hidden, contestable views about the nature of biological reality. This selection of essays by Tim Lewens explores and scrutinises these biological foundations ... ....

192 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780198712657 | #215069A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Economics and Uncertainties of Nuclear Power

Francois Leveque

Is nuclear power a thing of the past or a technology for the future? Has it become too expensive and dangerous, or is it still competitive and sufficiently safe? Should emerging countries invest in it? Can we trust calculations of the ... ....

326 pages | 3 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9781107087286 | #216119A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse

Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

Pascal Bruckner

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children. ....

224 pages |

Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780745669762 | #207603A | £19.99 Add to basket

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The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O Wilson

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called the rainbow colors around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. ....

192 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780871401007 | #215782A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics

Tom L Beauchamp and RG Frey

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics.

982 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780195371963 | #195631A | £115.00 Add to basket

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The Question of the Animal and Religion

Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications

Aaron S Gross

Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category ... ....

304 pages | 1 b/w illustration |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780231167505 | #215355A | £61.99 Add to basket

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The Renaissance of Renewable Energy

Gian Andrea Pagnoni and Stephen Roche

The Renaissance of Renewable Energy provides detailed yet easily understandable information about sustainable energy alternatives in the context of growing public concern about climate change, the impending fuel crisis and ... ....

306 pages | 137 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781107025608 | #215411A | £49.99 Add to basket

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The Soul of All Living Creatures

What Animals Can Teach Us about Being Human

Vint Virga

Based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice ... ....

240 pages |

Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780307718860 | #207601A | £21.99 Add to basket

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The Vandana Shiva Reader

Vandana Shiva and Wendell Berry

"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of ... ....

376 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780813153292 | #214614A | £24.50 Add to basket

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Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity

Louis J Kotze and Thilo Marauhn

Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity compiles critical analysis of the regulatory frameworks applicable to the transboundary governance of biodiversity by specialists from Europe and Africa. Drawing on their vast experience ... ....

373 pages |

Hardback | 06/2014 | 9789004273849 | #216191A | £110.00 Add to basket

 

What Animals Teach Us About Politics

Brian Massumi

In What Animals Teach Us About Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but ... ....

152 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780822358008 | #216497A | £13.99 Add to basket

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Wind Power Politics and Policy

Scott Valentine

A case-study examination of the catalysts and impediments to the development of wind power, discussing the political and policy-related issues surround its implementation.

400 pages | 41 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780199862726 | #215875A | £48.99 Add to basket

 

With Nature

Nature Philosophy as Poetics Through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy

Warwick Mules

With Nature provides new ways to think about our relationship with nature in today's technologically mediated culture. Warwick Mules makes original connections with German critical philosophy and French poststructuralism ... ....

264 pages | 4 b/w photos |

Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781841505732 | #216336A | £29.99 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

Advanced Data Assimilation for Geosciences

Lecture Notes of the Les Houches School of Physics: Special Issue, June 2012

Eric Blayo, Marc Bocquet, Emmanuel Cosme and Leticia F Cugliandolo

Data assimilation aims at determining as accurately as possible the state of a dynamical system by combining heterogeneous sources of information in an optimal way. Generally speaking, the mathematical methods of data assimilation describe ... ....

576 pages | 169 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9780198723844 | #216118A | £42.50 Add to basket

 

Circular Statistics in R

Arthur Pewsey, Markus Neuhauser and Graeme D Ruxton

Circular Statistics in R provides the most comprehensive guide to the analysis of circular data in over a decade. Circular data arise in many scientific contexts whether it be angular directions such as: observed compass directions ... ....

208 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780199671137 | #215944A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Design and Analysis of Experiments with R

John Lawson

One of the first texts to use R to illustrate the construction of experimental designs and analysis of data, Design and Analysis of Experiments with R covers both classical ideas in experimental design and the latest research ... ....

596 pages | 100 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781439868133 | #212162A | £63.99 Add to basket

 

Experimental Design for Biologists

David J Glass

The effective design and analysis of experiments in biology are critical to success, yet graduate students in biological and medical sciences typically receive very little formal training in these steps. With feedback from readers of the ... ....

294 pages |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9781621820413 | #216338A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Introduction to Mixed Modelling

Beyond Regression and Analysis of Variance

NW Galwey

Introduction to Mixed Modelling first introduces the criterion of REstricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) for the fitting of a mixed model to data before illustrating how to apply mixed model analysis to a wide range of situations ... ....

512 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781119945499 | #215960A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

ReCombinatorics: The Algorithmics of Ancestral Recombination Graphs and Explicit Phylogenetic Networks

Dan Gusfield

In ReCombinatorics, Dan Gusfield examines combinatorial algorithms to construct genealogical and exact phylogenetic networks, particularly ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs). The algorithms produce networks ...

600 pages | 171 b/w illustrations, 11 tables |

Hardback | NYP 09/2014 | 9780262027526 | #216072A | £41.95 Add to basket

 

Standard Deviations

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

Gary Smith

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

304 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781468309201 | #216428A | £23.99 Add to basket

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Reference
 

Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage

Mia Ridge

Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage brings ... ....

288 pages | 47 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2014 | 9781472410221 | #215849A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of Field Stations and Marine Laboratories in the 21st Century

National Research Council (NRC)

For over a century, field stations have been important entryways for scientists to study and make important discoveries about the natural world. They are centers of research, conservation, education, and public outreach, often embedded in ... ....

96 pages |

Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | 9780309305341 | #216340A | £26.99 Add to basket