A Population Estimate of Amur Tigers Using Camera Traps

Svetlana Viktorovna Sutyrina, Meghan D Riley, John M Goodrich, Ivan V Seryodkin and Dale Miquelle

Since 2006 monitoring of a local tiger group in the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, in Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East, by means of camera traps has been carried out. In the southern and central parts of the reserve 44 different ...

Beavers of Popple's Pond

Sketches from the Life of an Honorary Rodent

Patti Smith

Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats.

Chauves-Souris d'Europe [Bats of Europe]

Connaitre, Identifier, Proteger

Christian Dietz, Andreas Kiefer and Marie-Jo Dubourg-Savage

They fly without being heard, and see with their ears, capture their prey in flight and, more than any other animal, bats give wings to our imagination. This field guide provides an update on the latest knowledge in the field of chiroptera ...

Costa Rica: Mammals and Tracks [English / Spanish]

Mark Wainwright

This laminated fold-out guide shows 90 of the 216 mammal species recorded for Costa Rica, including pictures of their tracks for most of them. Almost all the species not included here are bats and small rodents, which generally cannot be ...

Ecologie Acoustique des Chiropteres d'Europe [Acoustic Ecology of European Bats]

Michel Barataud

This book on the acoustic ecology of bats of Europe takes stock of the knowledge acquired by the author in more than twenty years of working in the field of ultrasonic detection. As a nocturnal animal, bats have developed a spatial tracking ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 7: Mammals

Rebecca Farley-Brown, Simone Bullion, Kate Jones, Allyson Walsh, Carol Roberts and Rob Strachan

You don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Track the animals that come into your garden. Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

Field Guide to the Mammals of the Middle East [English / Arabic]

Assad Adel Serhal, Saeed Abdulla Alkhuzai, Jonathan Kingdon, Juan M Varela, Karim Farah and Barret

This guide covers all 200 terrestrial and marine mammals found in the Middle East, particularly in Arab-speaking countries, where land is surrounded by many bodies of water including the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea ...

Labrador: The Story of the World's Favourite Dog

The World's Favourite Dog

Ben Fogle

Native to Newfoundland, where they worked side-by-side with fishermen, then brought to England in the 1800s by English ships, Labradors are not only popular as a family companion but also excel in hunting, tracking, retrieving, guiding ...

Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century

Gene P Sackett, Gerald C Ruppenthal and Kate Elias

Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century describes how and why nursery rearing of primates can produce adaptable juveniles and adults for research, conservation, and display-educational purposes.

Schweinswale: Die Kleinen Vettern der Delfine [Porpoises: The Little Cousins of Dolphins]

Claudia Hangen

This book teaches children, teens and adults about porpoises: Where do they live? How smart are they? What can they do? With stunning photographs and practical tips on how and where to watch porpoises in Germany, and how you can get involved ...

The Rabbit

Jill Mason and David Mason

The rabbit has fed and clothed the nation, has altered our landscape, has kept thousands of us in paid employment, has kept starvation at bay during two world wars and now provides all sorts of possibilities for the future.

Trichotaxonomy of Species of Lagomorpha

Archana Bahuguna

The results of a taxonomic study based on hair samples for a selected number of Indian Lagomorpha species.

Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park

Steven W Buskirk

Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park provides the scholar, conservationist, and interested lay reader with information on the the state's 117 wild mammalian species from grizzly bears to pygmy shrews.

Wilds of the Wolf

Steve Backshall

Deadly TV presenter Steve Backshall joins Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson writing the best adventure fiction with his third adventure in the gripping Falcon Chronicles, filled with intrigue, adventure, exotic wildlife ...

A Message from Martha

The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Why it Still Matters

Mark Avery

September 1st, 2014 is the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history – the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct with the death ...

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York

Corey Finger and Brian E Small

A comprehensive guide to New York birdwatching from the American Birding Association. The Empire State is one of the best places for birding in North America – from the Adirondack Mountains in the north; the Finger Lakes ...

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Texas

Mark W Lockwood and Brian E Small

A complete guide to the many birds of the Lone Star State. Texas is one of the best places for birding in North America as the diversity of habitats and shear breadth of the state means that birdwatchers can see birds of the western desert ...

Aves da Cristalino Lodge: An Amazonian Sanctuary / Santuario Amazonico

Edson Endrigo and Bradley Davis

Aves da Cristalino Lodge offers the public excellent bird photographs by renowned photographer Edson Endrigo, and other photographers and resident guides who contributed to Aves da Cristalino Lodge. The text is by ...

Backyard Bird Songs

Fred van Gessel

We can hear birdsongs anywhere, whether we live in the city or in the country. Without the musical backdrop provided by our feathered friends, our gardens, parks, woods and fields would be relatively silent – and much the poorer for ...

Birds in Mid Deeside 1970-2012

David Jenkins

Birds in Mid Deeside 1970-2012 lists birds which have been seen in Mid Deeside, North East Scotland, and when and where they have been recorded. Rarities apart, this gives a good idea of when and at what times of year people may ...

Birds of Peru / Aves del Peru / Oiseaux du Perou

Robert Dean

Peru's diverse habitats is home to more than 1,800 bird species. This laminated fold-out guide shows 242 of the more commonly seen birds that live in Peru.

Birds of Tennessee

A New Annotated Checklist

Scott G Somershoe and Christopher A Sloan

Birds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist provides comprehensive information on the status, distribution, and abundance of all 415 species of birds that have been reported in the state of Tennessee. The information is broken ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 5: Birds

Edward Jackson, Andy Simms, Leanne Thomas, Simon Norman, Hawk and Owl Trust, Chris Shields and Lang

You don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

Guide to the Birds of Honduras

Robert J Gallardo, John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio and Ian Griffiths

The first dedicated field guide to Honduras, featuring 1,000 illustrations on 73 color plates. Guide to the Birds of Honduras also illustrates the majority of the migratory species. Along with the standard species accounts ...

Identificar las Aves por el Color [Birds by Colour]

Marc Duquet and Francois Desbordes

Bird identification can be very confusing for the beginner, and because many species are multicoloured, birds are not the most obvious group of animals for an identification guide by colour. This brand new guide takes a bold, fresh approach ...

Living on the Edge of Extinction in Europe: Proceedings of the First European Whinchat Symposium

Hans-Valentin Bestian and Juergen Feulner

60 years ago the Whinchat was a common sight throughout Europe. Today the species has become a rarity in many countries. Even in various core breeding areas in Eastern Europe there has been a drastic decline recently. On May 28th/29th ...

Oiseaux et Changement Global: Menace ou Aubaine? [Bird and Global Change: Threat of Windfall?]

Jacques Blondel, Jonathan Lhoir and Gilles Boeuf

It is now a well-established fact that the times we live in are marked by profound changes in all areas. But do we know that watching birds could teach us a lot? Beyond the beauty of their plumage, their song and often spectacular performance ...

Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2013

This July issue of British Birds contains the 40th report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel documents the status of 90 rare or scarce species that were recorded breeding, or potentially breeding, in the UK in 2013. The spring of ...

The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal

The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore

John Yow

With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travels - from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the ...

The Handbook of Bird Families

Jonathan Elphick

What’s the difference between a crow and a jay? How many species of sparrow are there? What song do cuckoos really sing? Discover all the key facts about the world’s orders and families of birds with ...

The Robertson and Woolfenden Florida Bird Species

An Annotated List

Jon S Green-law, Bill Pranty and Reed Bow-man

Status, occurrence, distribution, frequency, habitat, life-history context, and recent changes. This volume is an updated and expanded second edition of a landmark contribution to Florida ornithology authored by two of the state's ...

Tikhookeanskii Orlan Haliaeetus pelagicus: Ekologiia, Evoliutsiia, Okhrana [The Steller's Sea Eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus

Vladimir Borisovich Masterov and Michael S Romanov

The book is the result of many years of research of the biology and ecology of the Steller’s sea eagle. It is based on the original data collected mostly in Sakhalin, in the southwestern areas of the Sea of Okhotsk, and in the ...

Understanding the Bird of Prey

Nick Fox

Principally a falconer's manual, but containing a wealth of information on their structure and breeding.

Vogels Kijken in de Extremadura [Watching Birds in Extremadura]

Luc Hoogenstein

Extremadura is beautiful, wild natural area in southwestern Spain. You will find vast grasslands, dense mountainous forests, flower-filled stream valleys, and dramatic rock faces. This area is a paradise for walkers and birdwatchers.

Wild Birds in Ulanqab [Chinese]

Yang Guisheng

Ulanqab or Wulánchábù, a region administered as a prefecture-level city in south-central Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, is a vast territory and varied natural landscape, with mountains, wetlands ...

Winged Wonders: Malaysian Heritage

Hum Kim Choy

Winged Wonders: Malaysian Heritage is the sequel to Winged Wonders in Malaysia. It represents the culmination of the last decade of bird watching and bird photography. All of the colour photographs and the over-90 bird species featured in ...

A Guide to the Snakes of the NSW Mid North Coast

Stuart Johnson

Details over 20 species of snake found in the mid north coast region of New South Wales, Australia, and what to do if they are encountered.

Herpetofauna no Nordeste Brasileiro: Guia De Campo [The Herpetofauna of Northeast Brazil: Field Guide]

Marco Antonio de Freitas

There are 1026 known species of amphibians and 760 species of reptiles in Brazil. For the Northeast region, this guide presents 17 families and 226 species of amphibians, and 33 families and 343 species of reptiles, totaling 569 species ...

Lizards of West Bengal

Kaushik Deuti

This book covers 27 species of lizards known from all the biogeographic zones of the State of West Bengal illustrated through 35 colour photographs. This is the first pictorial guide exclusively on lizards in India.

Reptilien und Amphibien Europas [Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe]

250 Arten mit Verbreitungskarten

Axel Kwet

Camouflage and deception, adaptation to high and low temperatures, life at sea and on land – reptiles and amphibians are uniquely fascinating. Whether amphibians, snakes, turtles and lizards – this book offers the nature ...

Fish Reproductive Cycles [Japanese]

Abe Hideki

Based on more than 20 years of observations by the author, this book showcases courtship and spawning behavior of marine organisms using beautiful pictures. Covering both fish and crustaceans, this book will be of value to both divers ...

Fishes of the Great Basin

A Natural History

William F Sigler, John W Sigler, Sophie Sheppard and Jim Morgan

Naturalists and recreational anglers will welcome the paperback edition of this comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, which describes every species in the lakes and streams of the Great Basin. Fishes of the Great Basin ...

Kansas Fishes

Kansas Fishes Committee and Joseph R Tomelleri

A guide and a first-rate reference for the angler, scientist, and amateur naturalist alike, this comprehensive volume Kansas Fishes profiles each of the 144 fish species inhabiting the waterways of Kansas as well as 27 others ...

Return of the Gar

Mark Spitzer

The alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimidating size and plethora of teeth have made it demonized throughout its range in North America ...

Shark Man

One Kiwi Man's Mission to Save Our Most Feared and Misunderstood Predator

Riley Elliott

Riley Elliott is a surfer, spear-fisherman and shark scientist from the Waikato, currently writing a PhD at Auckland University. He's also on a mission to share his fascination with sharks, raise the profile of their dwindling numbers ...

The Alewives' Tale

The Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the Northeast

Barbara Brennessel

While on vacation in 1980, biologist Barbara Brennessel and her family came across an amazing sight: hundreds of small silver fish migrating from the Atlantic Ocean, across a channel connecting two ponds in the town of Wellfleet on Cape ...

450 Insectes

Heiko Bellmann

This is a French translation of Welches Insekt ist das?: 450 Arten, 670 Farbfotos. 450 insects of temperate Europe described and illustrated.

A Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Serra dos Orgaos, South-Eastern Brazil / Guia dos Anisoptera e Zygopte

Tom Kompier

First comprehensive field guide to the Odonata of the Reserva Ecologica de Guapiacu and the Serra dos Órgãos in south-eastern Brazil. With over 560 stunning colour photos and 125 additional illustrations of all 204 known ...

A Systematic Inventory of Scelioninae and Teleasinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in the Rice Ecosystems of North-Centr

K Rajmohana

The present study assessed the diversity of the exclusive egg parasitoid subfamilies under Platygastridae, associated with rice ecosystems, in north-central Kerala, India. The study results reflected an extremely rich and diverse parasitoid ...

Arkansas Butterflies and Moths

Lori A Spencer, Don R Simons and Robert Michael Pyle

Arkansas Butterflies and Moths continues the nature series created by Carl Hunter for the Ozark Society Foundation with his popular field guides Wildflowers of Arkansas and Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of Arkansas.

Atlas de los Coleopteros Acuaticos de Espana Peninsular [Atlas of Aquatic Coleoptera of Mainland Spain]

Andres Millan, David Sanchez-Fernandez, Pedro Abellan, Felix Picazo and Jose Antonio Carbonell

The Atlases and Red Books that have been published since the late 1990s by the Spanish Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (MAGRAMA), provide comprehensive information on the distribution and conservation status ...

Bibliographie des Lepidopteres de France (1593-2010) [Bibliography of the Lepidoptera of France] (3-Volume Set)

Sylvain Delmas

With this work, Sylvain Delmas offers you bibliography dedicated to the Lepidoptera of France. This study analyzes approximately 18,200 bibliographic references related to the Lepidoptera of France, from 1593 to 2010. This work, unique in ...

Distribution Atlas of European Butterflies and Skippers

Otakar Kudrna, Josef Pennerstorfer and Kristian Lux

Twenty years have passed since the announcement of the September 2015 project Mapping European Butterflies (MEB) in 1995. Seven years have passed since the first phase (MEB-1) could be completed using innovative projects-pecific methods.

Escargots et Limaces d'Europe [Snails and Slugs of Europe]

Michael P Kerney and Robert Andrew Duncan Cameron

This is a French translation of Collins Field Guide to the Land Snails of Britain and North-West Europe.

FSC Wildlife Pack 4: Flying Things

Richard Lewington, John Bebbington, Buglife, Chris O'Toole, Steve Brooks, Chris Shields and R Askew

You don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Find out the names of those insects that buzz, drift or zoom around your garden. Featuring five of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

Fauna Iberica, Volume 40: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae

Santos Eizaguirre

This monograph in the Fauna Ibérica series is dedicated to the beetle family Coccinellidae. This is the first synthesis of existing knowledge of this group of Coleoptera for the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands ...

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 50: Tardigrada [Chinese]

Yang Tong

There are a total of 2 classes, 3 orders, 5 families, 22 genera and 118 species and subspecies of Tardigrada recorded in this book. A entire list of the systematics including a series of taxonomic keys of all taxa and some notes of ...

Faune de France, Volume 97: Criquets de France, Volume 1, fascicule A et B (Orthoptera: Caelifera) (2-Volume Set)

Bernard Defaut and Morichon David

The Orthoptera are an especially interesting group of insects: because of their abundance, especially in open areas, but also because they do not go unnoticed because of their relatively large size, jumping ability and, obviously, their ...

Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland

Steven J Falk and Richard Lewington

This is a brand new field guide to Britain's bees that for the first time makes this fascinating and important group of insects accessible to the general naturalist. The guide covers over 270 species, and is fully illustrated with ...

Flatworms Illustrated [Japanese]

Ono Atsushi

The Polycladida represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms. This is the pictorial book to identify Polycladida in and around Japan. Covering more than 200 species of polycladida, this book features ...

Guida Pratica di Apicoltura [Practical Guide to Apiculture]

Giovanni Bosca

Keeping bees is an activity which, besides being exciting and profitable, is also useful: you must be aware that bees, in addition to producing honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and wax, are much more important for the work of pollination ...

Guide Delachaux des Papillons de France [Guide to the Butteflies of France]

Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington

This guide presents the 250 most common and most remarkable butterfly species in France. A fact sheet indicates, for each species, its distribution, description, its variations, its flight periods, habitat, biology, behavior and its ...

Guide des Libellules De France et d'Europe [Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe]

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra and Richard Lewington

Guide des Libellules De France et d'Europe is an identification guide to all resident and migrant dragonflies and damselflies in Europe, from the Arctic to the Sahara, including western Turkey, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ...

Histoires Remarquables: Les Insectes

Vincent Albouy and Francois Desbordes

- Who is the ecological animal that turns toxic waste into high-value luxury goods? - Why are honeybees outstanding dancers? - Who is the ideal passenger for interplanetary travel? - What is the insect that invented the jet ...

Hoverflies

Francis S Gilbert and Steven J Falk

This Naturalists’ Handbook book covers the natural history, biology and identification of the hoverfly. It will enable anyone to identify the most common hoverflies of the British Isles, providing practical guidance for ...

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae [English / Czech]

Robert Stejskal and Filip Trnka

This monograph deals with the species of the families Nemonychidae and Attelabidae.

Moths of Victoria, Part 1: Silk Moths and Allies - Bombycoidea

Peter Marriott

This is the first part in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet figures the 85 species of Silk moths found in Victoria, Australia. Species are set to display front and ...

Moths of Victoria, Part 2: Tiger Moths and Allies - Noctuoidea (A)

Peter Marriott

Part two in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This handy sized booklet features 150 species of Tiger moths in six families found in Victoria, Australia. Species are set to display front and ...

Moths of Victoria, Part 3: Waves and Carpets and Allies - Geometroidea (C)

Peter Marriott

Part three in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Looper caterpillars which are a familiar sight on plants everywhere. Most belong to the geometrid family of moths, of which ...

Moths of Victoria, Part 4: Emeralds and Allies - Geometridae (B)

Peter Marriott

Part four in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Emeralds and allies. A CD-ROM provides over 130 additional pages which contain biology and distributions for each species ...

Moths of Victoria, Part 5: Satin Moths and Allies - Geometroidea (A)

Marilyn Hewish, Peter Marriott, Ted Edwards, Axel Kallies and Stephen Williams

Part five in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This part covers the Satin moths and allies. A CD-ROM provides over 130 additional pages which contain biology and distributions for each species ...

Parasitization Ecology, Mass Production, and Applications of Trichogramma [Chinese]

Huang Shoushan

Parasitization Ecology, Mass Production, and Applications of Trichogramma covers theories about Trichogramma blooms and their applications, and a systematic exposition of Trichogramma parasitic ecological problems. Includes the ...

Pictorial Handbook on Dipteran Fauna of Chamba District Himachal Pradesh

P Parui, G Srinivasan and Dhriti Banerjee

A systematic account of the dipteran fauna of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

Solitary Wasps

Peter F Yeo, Sarah A Corbet and Anthony J Hopkins

This Naturalists' Handbook aims to attract more people to the study of solitary wasps by describing the ecology, distribution and natural history of these insects, including all relevant research in one convenient volume.

Spugne del Mediterraneo [Sponges of the Mediterranean]

Rossella Baldacconi and Egidio Trainito

A guide to discover that even simple and little considered organisms can show spectacular forms forms and surprising colors. This guide features over 300 photographs of over 120 different species of Mediterranean sponges. The texts are ...

The Butterflies of North America

Titian Peale's Lost Manuscript

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Titian Peale and Kenneth Haltman

The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799-1885) had a passion for butterflies and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated The Butterflies of North America: Whence They Come, Where They Go, and What They Do ...

The Classification Outline of Scolytidae from China [Chinese]

Huang Fusheng

The Classification Outline of Scolytidae from China is based on a book published in 1984, and covers four Asian bark beetle families, 42 genera, 204 species and subspecies. It has important practical value for the identification ...

The Tears of Re

Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt

Gene Kritsky

According to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the ground. Beyond the realm of myth, the honey bee is a surprisingly common and significant motif in Egyptian history, playing a role in the ...

Trinidad and Tobago Butterflies

Pauline A Geerah and Mike G Rutherford

Trinidad & Tobago are home to about 765 species of butterflies. This laminated fold-out guide features 100 of the most commonly encountered and beautiful species found throughout the sister isles. Each photo is labelled with the standard ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 1: Ediacaran & Cambrian Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

This series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. This first volume deals with the creatures of the Ediacaran ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 2: Ordovician & Silurian Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

This series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. This second volume deals with the creatures of the Ordovician ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 3: Devonian Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

This series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. This third installment in this series deals with the creatures of the ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 4: Carboniferous & Permian Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

This series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. The fourth installment deals with organisms from the Carboniferous ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 5: Triassic Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

This series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. Volume 5 in this series on newly discovered extinct creatures deals with ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 6: Jurassic Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

This series gives an unprecedented insight into the fascinating world of ancient creatures, and tickles and awakens the reader's intellectual curiosity. Volume 6 focuses on the Jurassic fauna (from approximately 200 to ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 7: Cretaceous Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

So far in this series, the author has treated one or even two geological periods in one volume. But for the cretaceous there is so much information available that is has been spread over two volumes. This volume generally covers the first ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 8: Cretaceous Creatures [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

So far in this series, the author has treated one or even two geological periods in one volume. But for the cretaceous there is so much information available that is has been spread over two volumes, this volume focusing on the second ...

Computational Paleontology

Ashraf MT Elewa

Computational paleontology is simply a term applied to using computers and its facilities in the field of paleontology. However, we should be exactly precise in describing the term through explaining the main themes of this motivating ...

Early Life on Earth

A Practical Guide

David Wacey and Martin Brasier

When did life first appear on Earth and what form did it take? The answer to this intriguing and fundamentally important question lies somewhere within the early Archean rock record. The young Earth was, however, a very different place ...

Geobiology: Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to Today

Nora Noffke

Geobiology: Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to Today describes microbially induced sedimentary structures as new group in the Classification of Primary Sedimentary Structures. Those structures rise from the ...

La Terre avant les Dinosaures [Earth Before the Dinosaurs]

Sebastien Steyer and Alain Beneteau

This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-footed vertebrates appeared, and ending ...

Mesozoic Spiders and Other Fossil Arachnids

Joerg Wunderlich

Mesozoic Spiders and Other Fossil Arachnids contains numerous new descriptions of taxa mainly in Cretaceous Burmese amber, including a new extinct family of spiders, a new extinct suborder of the arachnid order Ricinulei, the ...

Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land

The Fossils of Blackberry Hill

Kenneth Gass

Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land: The Fossils of Blackberry Hill is the first book to cover the unique group of rock outcrops in central Wisconsin that appears to have put an end to a 150 year-old mystery of ...

When Life Nearly Died

The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

Michael J Benton

In this revised and expanded edition of a classic account, Michael J. Benton assesses the competing claims for a meteorite impact or a volcanic eruption in Siberia and brings the story thoroughly up to date. Hundreds of geological ...

Alghe e Fanerogame del Mediterraneo [Algae and Phanerogams of the Mediterranean]

Conxi Rodríguez-Prieto, Enric Ballesteros, Fernando Boisset, Julio Alfonso-Carrillo and Trainito

Alghe e Fanerogame del Mediterraneo introduces the reader to the fascinating group of macroalgae and seagrass, that thrive in the western Mediterranean. The guide contains a comprehensive introduction to the biology and ecology ...

Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico

Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology

C Wylie Poag

In 1981, Woods Hole researcher C. Wylie Poag published the book Ecological Atlas of the Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico. In this new volume Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico, Poag has revised and updated ...

Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake

Thad Sitton and Carolyn Brown

In a stunning tribute to one of Texas' most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other – half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth ...

Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene

Charles Birkeland

Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene investigates the effects of human activities on coral reefs, which provide important life-supporting systems to surrounding natural and human communities. It examines the self-reinforcing ecological ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 6: What is in your Pond?

Peter Roberts, Froglife, Richard Orton, Anne LD Bebbington, John Bebbington and Denys W Ovenden

Got a garden pond? Find out the names of the insects, plants, amphibians and repiles that you see. Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

Reef Fishes

Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef

Michelle Brayshaw

Reef Fishes is full of the most beautiful fish on the Great Barrier Reef. It reveals, with illustrated photographs and information, these breathtaking creatures, which not only bring movement and beauty to the reef, but are protected ...

The Marine World

A Natural History of Ocean Life

Frances Dipper

The Marine World is an immense, three-dimensional living space inhabited by marine life that varies from the mundane to the bizarre. Its salty influence extends up river estuaries, over seashores and inland with brine-laden spray.

The Pollution Biology of Aquatic Oligochaetes

Pilar Rodriguez and Trefor B Reynoldson

In aquatic ecosystems, the oligochaetes are often a major component of the community. Their relevance in sediment quality assessment is largely related to their benthic and detritivorous life habit.

A Monograph of British Belemnitidae

John DP Philips

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The nephew of William Smith, John Phillips (1800-1874) was also an influential geologist. Professor of Geology at Oxford, and in part founder of the ...

A Monograph of British Graptolites (2-Volume Set)

Gertrude L Elles, Ethel MR Wood and Charles Lapworth

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prepared by Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) and Ethel Wood (1871-1946), A Monograph of British Graptolites was originally issued in ten instalments ...

A Monograph of British Graptolites, Volume 1

Text

Gertrude L Elles, Ethel MR Wood and Charles Lapworth

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prepared by Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) and Ethel Wood (1871-1946), A Monograph of British Graptolites was originally issued in ten instalments ...

A Monograph of British Graptolites, Volume 2

Historical Introduction and Plates

Gertrude L Elles, Ethel MR Wood and Charles Lapworth

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Prepared by Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) and Ethel Wood (1871-1946), A Monograph of British Graptolites was originally issued in ten instalments ...

A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite (2-Volume Set)

Parts 1-6, and 7-14

Sydney Savory Buckman

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Originally issued between 1887 and 1907, this monograph by Sydney Savory Buckman (1860-1929) remains the most comprehensive record of British ...

A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite Series, Volume 1

Parts 1-6

Sydney Savory Buckman

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Originally issued between 1887 and 1907, this monograph by Sydney Savory Buckman (1860-1929) remains the most comprehensive record of British Aalenian ...

A Monograph of the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite Series, Volume 2

Parts 7-14

Sydney Savory Buckman

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Originally issued between 1887 and 1907, this monograph by Sydney Savory Buckman (1860-1929) remains the most comprehensive record of British Aalenian ...

A Monograph of the Fauna of the Cornbrash

John Frederick Blake

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The thin but widespread Cornbrash Formation is a marine sedimentary deposit of particular interest and importance to stratigraphers because, as ...

Animal Hospital

Rescuing Urban Wildlife

Julia Corey and Nathalie Karvonen

Animal Hospital is a book for kids on how to treat, handle and report injured, orphaned and neglected wildlife. Our cities are already filled with a huge variety of wildlife. As urban areas expand, they impinge on the natural ...

Apostles of the Alps

Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939

Tait Keller

Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' ...

Australische Vogels door John Gould & Jacques Gregoire [Australian Birds by John Gould and Jacques Gregoire]

John Gould, Jacques Gregoire, Jip Binsbergen, Achsa Vissel and Redmond O'Hanlon

In the first half of the 19th century the British artist and ornithologist John Gould travelled to Australia with his family, with the aim to collected as many birds as possible for his book series The Birds of Australia.

Beautiful Birds Colouring Book

Emmanuelle Walker and Jean Roussen

In this stunningly illustrated introduction to the world’s most beautiful birds, Jean Roussen and Emmanuelle Walker pay homage to an alphabet of birds in all their feathery fancies. From Warblers to Blue-tits and Kakapos to Owls ...

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing

From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000

Miguel Garcia-Sancho

When we talk about DNA sequencing, it is the relatively recent Human Genome Project and the so-called 'genomics revolution' which immediately come to mind. However, sequencing has a longer and more complex history which penetrated ...

Botanische Meesterwerken [Botanical Masterpieces]

Eddy Weeda, Joop HJ Schaminee and Nils van Rooijen

In Botanische Meesterwerken prominent Dutch botanists present highlights from beautifully illustrated 16^th century herbals, local floras, and travelogues. Each of the chapters – covering topics such as distant ...

Brief Candle in the Dark

My Life in Science

Richard Dawkins

In Brief Candle in the Dark Dawkins continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far and homing in on the key individuals, institutions and ideas that inspired and motivated him.

Britain's Treasure Islands

A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories

Stewart McPherson, Colin Clubbe and Martin Hamilton

The UK Overseas Territories are a secret side of the United Kingdom that few know exists. Scattered across all the Seven Seas, the territories comprise an area 7 times the size of the British Isles and are home to 350,000 British subjects ...

Britain's Treasure Islands

A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories [Collector's Edition]

Stewart McPherson, Colin Clubbe and Martin Hamilton

The UK Overseas Territories are a secret side of the United Kingdom that few know exists. Scattered across all the Seven Seas, the territories comprise an area 7 times the size of the British Isles and are home to 350,000 British subjects ...

British Birds

Clare Collinson

From familiar garden songbirds to powerful birds of prey, there are a whole host of fascinating birds to discover in Britain. Learn all about the remarkable range of British birds inside this book. Find out where to look for different ...

British Insects and Other Minibeasts

Clare Collinson

There are more insects and other minibeasts in British neighbourhoods than any other kind of animal. Whether you are at home, walking down the street, in a meadow or by a river, there's plenty of minibeasts to discover! In this book ...

British Mammals

Clare Collinson

Wherever you live in Britain, you will be amazed at how much mammal life there is right on your doorstep. Even in the busiest cities, there are small rodents, such as this squirrel, and larger predators, such as foxes. In this book find ...

British Trees and Flowers

Clare Collinson

From magnificent oaks to delicate bluebells, there are a whole host of trees and flowers to discover in Britain. Learn all about the extraordinary range of trees and wild flowers that grow in British neighbourhoods. Find out where to look ...

British Wildlife Photography Awards, Collection 6

Mark Carwardine

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 ...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

The Birth of Eurasia

Sir Barry Cunliffe

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years ...

Chasing Paradise

Birds and Flowers of Bangladesh

Ihtisham Kabir

For this photographic book the author has selected photos of 39 birds of Bangladesh. This includes common species such as the house sparrow, magpie robin, black-hooded oriole, and the chestnut-tailed starling, but also rare and ...

Cicerone Guides: Trekking The GR1: Spain's Sendero Historico

Across Northern Spain from Leon to Catalonia

John Hayes

Trekking The GR1: Spain's Sendero Historico is for trekkers tackling all or part of the GR1 (Sendero Historico) – 1250 km of waymarked route across northern Spain through the Pyrenean foothills from Puerto to Tarna ...

Cicerone Guides: Trekking The Way of St Francis

From Florence to Assisi and Rome

Sanford Brown

This book to the Way of St Francis describes a 550 km month-long pilgrim trail through the green heart of Italy. The route begins at Florence and goes through Assisi before its climax in Rome, exploring the mountains of Umbria, Tuscany ...

Cicerone Guides: Trekking in the Apennines

The Grande Escursione Appenninica

Gillian Price

Guidebook to the Grand Apennines Trek, or Grande Escursione Appenninica (GEA). Through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna and two National Parks, this 400 km, 23 day trail explores the mountains, forests and hills of central Italy. Suitable for ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking on the Costa Blanca

50 Mountain Walks and Scrambles

Terry Fletcher

Walking on the Costa Blanca describes 50 circular walks and scrambles exploring the Costa Blanca mountains, around the resorts of Alicante, Benidorm and Calp. These walks range from gentle strolls to demanding days with steep ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking the Italian Lakes

Lakes Garda, Maggiore, Como and d'Iseo in Northern Italy

Gillian Price

Walking the Italian Lakes describes 50 day walks in the picturesque Lakes region of Northern Italy. Routes around Lakes Como, Iseo, Garda and Maggiore are included on little-known but well waymarked paths. The routes range from ...

Description of the Fossil Remains of Mollusca Found in the Chalk of England

Cephalopoda

Daniel Sharpe

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The geologist Daniel Sharpe (1806-56) is best remembered for his pioneering work on cleavage and the effects of tectonics on fossils.

Dessiner et Photographier les Fleurs [Drawing and Photographing Flowers]

Le Guide Pratique du Parfait Botaniste

Aline Raynal-Roques and Albert Roguenant

Do you love nature, or gardens? Would you like to draw flowers, but you have not dared to start? Have you wondered about the best way to photograph a whole plant or some details that interest you? If so, read this book, it will give you ...

Dinosaur Sticker Activity Book

Simon Abbott

Simon takes a step back in time to discover the land of the dinosaurs. From terrifying T-rex tricks to silly stegosaurus stickers, this bumper Dinosaur Sticker Activity Book is packed with 64 pages of activities plus 500 fantastic ...

Een Waterpaard op de Botermarkt: Exotische Dieren in Historisch Amsterdam voor 1830 [A Kelpie at the Botermarkt: Exotic

Ria Winters

In the 17^th and 18^th century Amsterdam was the beating heart of the trade in exotic animals. Tigers, vultures, snakes, giraffes; they could all be seen at the menagerie Blauw Jan on the Kloveniersburgwal, with private ...

Elephant Orphans

Clare Hibbert

Elephant Orphans follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at the Nairobi Elephant Nursary in Africa and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible people who look after the ...

Empire of Timber

Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests

Erik Loomis

The battles to protect ancient forests and spotted owls in the Northwest splashed across the evening news in the 1980s and early 1990s. Empire of Timber re-examines this history to demonstrate that workers used their unions to ...

Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology

A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and their Pursuers

Michael Newton

Presenting a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology, Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology excludes discussion of mysterious zoological phenomena. 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which describe one specific creature ...

Following Burke and Wills Across Australia

A Touring Guide

Dave Phoenix

Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated ...

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto began to photograph his Dioramas series, a body of work that spans almost four decades, when he moved to New York City from Japan in 1974. While looking at the galleries in the American Museum of Natural History ...

Historic Animals

The Dogs, Cats, Horses, Snakes, Goats, Rats, Dragons, Bears, Elephants, Rabbits and Other Creatures That Changed the Wor

Julie Moberg and Jeff Moberg

Throughout history, animals have shaped the world as we know it. But rarely have they received the recognition they deserve. Until now. This inside look at history's most famous animals features wacky verse, cool facts ...

Hunters and Hunted

Charles Hope

Learn all about animal hunters and the hunted: how predators catch their prey, and how the prey try and avoid becoming dinner.

Joy: A Celebration of the Animal Kingdom

Alex Cearns

Animals bring us joy. When we look into their eyes, see the connections they forge or simply experience the joy they have in their play, it lifts our spirits immeasurably. Expert animal photographer Alex Cearns – author of ...

La Photo Sous-Marine en Numerique [The Handbook to Underwater Photography]

Les Techniques, la Pratique et les Sujets

Pascal Kobeh

The advent of digital has made the underwater world more accessible to photography, more convenient and more fun. Today, each diver can bring back stunning visual memories. This book is as much to guide the first steps of a ...

Le Parc Zoologique de Paris [The Zoological Park of Paris]

Des Origines a la Renovation

Maryvonne Leclerc-Cassan, Dominique Pinon and Isabelle Warmoes

Generations of visitors who have visited the zoo of Paris will be fascinated by this lively and detailed history that traces more than eighty years of life of the zoo. It takes into account all of its stakeholders: designers, architects ...

Le Secret de l'Archeobelodon

Deux Siecles d'Enquete sur une Star Fossile

Alexandre Mille, Jean-Guy Michard and Pascal Tassy

Paris, 1804. In National Museum of Natural History, Paris, one man is happy: in his hands, he has a molar, a big molar. This man is Georges Cuvier, a monumental researcher in natural history in France, and one of the first who was able ...

Learn to Draw Calligraphy Animals

30 Unique Creations

Andrew Fox

With just a few strokes of a calligraphy pen, London-based designer and illustrator Andrew Fox can help you to create a fun series of minimalistic animals. From cats, dinosaurs, crabs, horses, and birds, the animals in this kit are simple ...

Mawson's Last Survivor

The Story of Dr Alf Howard

Anna Bemrose

Alf Howard sailed with legends of the heroic era of Antarctic exploration and became a legend in his own lifetime. He was the last surviving member of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1929-1931 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research ...

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England

Caroline Grigson and Juliet Clutton-Brock

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo – a tale replete with the extravagant ...

Migration Nation

Animals on the Go from Coast to Coast

Joanne O'Sullivan

From whales to manatees, pronghorn antelopes to monarch butterflies, travel along with North American animals as they make the trip of a lifetime. In Migration Nation follow the paths of nine very different types of ...

Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland

A Colouring Book Adventure

Millie Marotta

Millie Marotta is a hugely popular illustrator and her idiosyncratic drawings of the botanical world are stunning. Millie Marotta's Tropical World invites you to lose yourself in a riot of colouring in and drawing.

Minibeast Magic

How to Catch Invertebrates with Tricks and Treats

Roma Oxford and Anna Sutton

In Minibeast Magic you will meet the invertebrates found in gardens, nature parks and school grounds. These areas are home to a multitude of minibeasts, from wriggling worms and sluggish snails to iridescent insects.

Monster of God

The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

David Quammen

Explores our psychological and cultural relationship with the 'alpha predators' – animals which not only kill humans but eat them. First we were in awe of them, then we fought back; only recently have we considered protecting ...

My First Book of Funny Animals

National Wildlife Federation

Featuring spectacular images straight from the vaults of the National Wildlife Federation, these should be the very first books to introduce children to animals from around the world. Every photo shows these creatures in their natural ...

National Trail Guides: Pennine Way

Damian Hall

To replace its previous two-volume guide to the Pennine Way, Aurum now publishes an entirely new one-volume guide for the 21st-century walker. The Pennine Way is Britain's toughest long-distance path, running 268 miles from Derbyshire ...

Natural Histories

Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss

Accompanying Radio 4's landmark six-month-long series presented by Brett Westwood, Natural Histories explores 25 unexpected species that have changed the way we see the world. From cockroaches to coral, and from ...

Nature's Line

George Goyder - Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary

Janis M Sheldrick

George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries in ...

Night Photography and Light Painting

Finding Your Way in the Dark

Lance Keimig

Lance Keimig, one of the premier experts on night photography, has put together a comprehensive reference that will show you ways to capture images you never thought possible. This new edition of Night Photography presents the practical ...

Norwegian Wood

Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

Lars Mytting and Robert Ferguson

For a time when we are most conscious of our energy security, a practical-lyrical , beautifully illustrated guide to its most ancient source – wood. Bestselling novelist Lars Mytting shares a Scandinavian passion for wood harvesting ...

Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants Found in the Carboniferous Strata

Edward William Binney

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Edward William Binney (1812-81) was a leading authority on the geology and fossil plants of the Lancashire and Cheshire coalfields. His work ...

Operation Rhino

Lauren St. John

Join Martine in her fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling The White Giraffe series. When Sawubona's two precious white rhino are killed by poachers, Martine and her best friend Ben are distraught.

Orang-Utan Orphans

Clare Hibbert

Orang-utan Orphans follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at specialist rescue centres in Borneo and Sumatra in southeast Asia and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible ...

Our Big Blue Backyard

New Zealand's Oceans and Marine Reserves

Janet Hunt

This important book, written by award-winning natural history writer Janet Hunt, examines New Zealand's 38 marine reserves, and the need to protect and preserve our seas and foreshores in their natural state. Each chapter ...

Penguin Rescue

Clare Hibbert

Penguin Rescue follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared for at a specialist rescue centre and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible people who look after them. Packed with ...

Photographier les Oiseaux en Numerique [The Handbook of Bird Photography]

Les Techniques, la Pratique et les Sujets

Markus Varesvuo, Jari Peltomaki and Bence Mate

This is a French translation of the The Handbook of Bird Photography.

Professor Penguin

Discovery and Adventure with Penguins

Lloyd Spencer Davis

Part memoir, partly the research of a field biologist, Professor Penguin could be called 'How Penguins Shaped My Life'. Based on journals kept during Davis's years of working with penguins in the wild, the story takes ...

Ravaged Beauty

An Environmental History of the Manawatu

Catherine Knight

While Ravaged Beauty is about the environmental history of one North Island region, the impact of human settlement and accompanying development for improving human settlement conditions is typical of many New Zealand regions.

Redoute - Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers: The Complete Plates [English / French / German]

Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Werner Dressendorfer and H Walter Lack

He was known as the 'Raphael of flowers' and rightly so: Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to the task of capturing the diversity of the flowering plants in naturalistic watercolor paintings.

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth

Joseph Needham

After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth follow: geography and cartography ...

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3: Agro-Industries and Forestry

Christian Daniels, Nicholas K Menzies and Joseph Needham

Volume 6, Part 3 of the Science and Civiliisation in China series contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early ...

Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Krishna R Dronamraju and James F Crow

First published in 1990, Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane is a compilation of several important papers that have contributed to the foundation of population genetics, evolutionary biology and human genetics.

Shark Wars

Creatures of the Deep Go Head to Head

John Woodward

Would a giant squid stand a chance against a whopping whale? Which is the deadliest shark in the world? In Shark Wars take a dive into the depths of the sea and uncovers the terrifying wars taking place beneath the surface ...

South African Coasts

A Celebration of Our Seas and Shores

South African Coasts showcases the very best of the photography as judged in the Sustainable Seas Trust 2013/14 competition. The extraordinary, prize-winning photographs are accompanied by illuminating essays from leading scientists ...

Still Life

Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton

Nigel Watson and Jane Ussher

Still Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. At the turn of the twentieth ...

The Bush

Travels in the Heart of Australia

Donald Watson

Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is – or should be – is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and ...

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: 1875

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt and James A Secord

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: 1875 is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating ...

The Essential Guide to Beachcombing and the Strandline

Steve Trewhella and Julie Hatcher

From time immemorial people have been drawn to the beach to collect practical resources as well as mysterious objects that have fuelled myth and folklore – it is our inherent hunter-gatherer instinct. Whether you are a seasoned ...

The Great Smokies

From Natural Habitat to National Park

Daniel S Pierce

Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather ...

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

John Edward Huth

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our ...

The Wild in You

Voices from the Forest and the Sea

Lorna Crozier and Ian Mcallister

A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time's best nature photographers and a very talented and ...

Venom Doc

The Edgiest, Darkest and Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever

Bryan Grieg Fry

Welcome to the strange and dangerous world of the Venom Doc. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews, and later a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their bodyguards ...

Whale Years

Gregory O'Brien

Between 2011 and 2014, poet and artist Gregory O'Brien found himself following the migratory routes of whales and seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in a work of poetry that O'Brien describes as ...

When the Earth Shakes

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis

Simon Winchester

Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis: headline-making natural disasters with devastating consequences for millions of people. But what do we actually know about these literally earth-shaking events? In this exciting launch title for Penguin ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 25

Rosamund Kidman Cox

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 ...

Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore

Patrick Barkham

Told through a series of walks beside the sea, this is a story of the most beautiful 742 miles of coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: their rocks, plants and animals, their views, walks and history, and the people who have ...

Conjonctures Congolaises 2014

Politiques, Territoires et Ressources Naturelles: Changements et Continuites

Stefaan Marysse and Jean Omasombo Tshonda

The question of depth – or lack thereof – in the changes seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past ten years or so serves as the backdrop for Conjonctures Congolaises 2014. Certain breaks with the ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 1: Garden Safari

John Bebbington, Michael Majerus, Helen E Roy, Peter Brown, Remy L Poland and Rebecca Farley-Brown

You don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Find out the names of insects and other small animals in your garden with this new FSC Wildlife Pack. Featuring five of our most popular fold-out charts ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 2: The Seashore

Mark Ward, Andy Simms, Clare Cremona, Rebecca Farley-Brown, Sally Edmondson and Mark Pete Simmonds

Explore the wildlife on our coastline with 5 of the FSC's popular fold-out charts

FSC Wildlife Pack 3: Woodland Walks

Rebecca Farley-Brown, Gill Crane, Jonathan Oldham, Mavis Gulliver, Richard Gulliver and Bebbington

You don't have to go far to find wildlife in Britain. Find out the names of plants and animals in the woods with five of the FSC's fold-out charts ...

Florida Animals for Everyday Naturalists

Larry Allan

Did you know fawns have no scent, an evolutionary defense against predators? And that the eastern grey squirrel is a formidable swimmer, which makes them quite suited for the Sunshine State? And that, unlike other avians, Florida scrub jays ...

Golf Course Wildlife: Southern California Desert Region

An Introduction to Familiar Species

Kurt Leuschner

For many, golf courses are sanctuaries where one can enjoy a few hours of relaxation away from the demands of day-to-day life. Courses in the southern California desert region are also sanctuaries for wildlife. This beautifully illustrated ...

Gulf Stream Chronicles

A Naturalist Explores Life in an Ocean River

David S Lee and J Christopher Harvey

Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an ...

Highland Journey

A Sketching Tour of Scotland

Mairi Hedderwick

In Highland Journey, Mairi Hedderwick retraces the steps of an obscure Victorian artist, John T. Reid, who made a sketching tour around Scotland in 1876. Hedderwick, a witty and immensely readable author of children's books ...

Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest

Kenn Kaufman, Jeff Sayre and Kimberly Kaufman

The only field guide to bring along to identify the birds, mammals, trees, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, rocks, and sky of the Midwest Even if we focus on certain things in the ...

La Nature Mediterraneenne en France [Mediterranean Nature in France]

Philippe Martin and Les Ecologistes de l'Euziere

This book covers the entire Mediterranean. The author reveals mysteries of a kind rarely described in full and provides scientific information of an unparalleled quality and precision. Very popular with readers since its release ...

Le Guide de la Nature en Ville [The Guide to Nature in the City]

Guillaume Eyssartier

In town, nature is everywhere. Let this this surprise you! The sidewalks, walls, roofs, parks and gardens of our cities are home to fauna and flora much richer than we imagine. No need to go to the countryside to see biodiversity, as it ...

Les Animaux en Bord de Chemin [Animals on the Wayside]

Marc Giraud

The first "behavioural field guide" to all the animals you might see around you in France. It shows animals with a never before seen vitality: this book reveals their secret life, and we learn to decode their behaviour.

Southern Sanctuary

A Naturalist's Walk Through the Seasons

Marian Moore Lewis

In Southern Sanctuary, retired NASA research scientist and writer Marian Moore Lewis takes readers on a journey of discovery through the Goldsmith-Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary, a 400-acre preserve in Madison County, Alabama.

Spirit of the South

Andris Apse

The South Island of New Zealand is unlike any other place on earth, celebrated for its majestic landscapes, picturesque lakes and rivers, and epic mountain ranges. Spirit of the South, a stunning tribute to the mainland ...

The Atlantic Forest: A History That Looks to the Future / Mata Atlantica: Uma Historia do Futuro

Fabio Rubio Scarano, Bruce Rodger and Ricky Goodwin

About 60% of the Brazilian population, or roughly 100 million people, live in the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portugese). This terrestrial biome and region extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, encompassing over 17 Brazilian ...

The Waterfalls of Yosemite

Steven P Medley

This practical, fold-up guide to Yosemite's spectacular waterfalls is divided into two sections. The first section of The Waterfalls of Yosemite offers in-depth coverage of eleven waterfalls in Yosemite Valley.

1000 Ceskych a Slovenskych Hub [1000 Czech and Slovak Mushrooms]

Michal Miksik

1000 Ceských a Slovenských for the first time brings together in its entirety the amazing diversity of fungi found in the Czech and Slovak Republics. You will find more than 1000 species of fungi from all groups.

A Dendrologist's Handbook

Merelene M Davis

The quarterly publication The Dendrologist (ISSN 0966-9124) ceased publication in 2013 after having been published by volunteers over 30 years. Over the years, The Dendologist had published a number of practical booklets ...

A Garden of Medicinal Plants

Henry F Oakeley, Jane Knowles, Michael de Swiet and Tony Dayan

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the ...

A World of Gardens

John Dixon Hunt

A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the American Southwest. Though gardening is beloved ...

A Worldwide Monograph of Swertia and Its Allies

Ho Ting-Nong and Liu Shang-wu

The tribe Gentianae circumscribed by Struwes and Albert (2002) comprises 17 genera in two subtribes. A Worldwide Monograph of Swertia and Its Allies presents a monograph of the rotate group comprising Swertia ...

Algae of India, Volume 3

A Checklist of Indian Marine Algae: Excluding Diatoms and Dinoflagellates

PSN Rao and RK Gupta

Biodiversity and its conservation strategies are the apex concern of scientists in recent decades. Thus, the Botanical Survey of India has initiated to prepare the inventory of Indian algae at a national level. Volumes 1 and 2 in this series ...

An Illustrated Catalogue of Tasmanian Mosses, Part 1

RD Seppelt, SJ Jarman, LH Cave and PJ Dalton

In Part 1 of An Illustrated Catalogue of Tasmanian Mosses, 37 of Tasmania’s mosses are meticulously illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings of shoots, organs and cells, mostly as viewed with a microscope or hand lens.

Apocynaceae of Namibia

PV Bruyns

The Flora of Namibia is dominated by the families Poaceae, Asteraceae and Fabaceae. Here, an account of the Apocynaceae, the seventh largest family in Namibia, is presented. A total of 153 species belonging to 46 genera are recorded as ...

Atlas des Cortinaires, Pars 23

Section Saturnini (Hydrocybe).

Andre Bidaud, J-M Bellanger, Xavier Carteret and Patrick Reumaux

Volume 23 treats the section Saturnini (Hydrocybe) and is the penultimate volume in the series.

Atlas des Orchidees de Normandie

Collectif de la Societe Francaise (SFO) d'Orchidophilie de Normandie and Lorenzo Dotti

This atlas is the result of a long work of inventorying wild orchids found in Normandy. It is based on nearly 30,000 data points going back to the nineteenth century for the oldest, and collected until the end of the 2013 season for the ...

Atlas of Invertebrate-Pathogenic Fungi of Thailand: Volume 4

Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, Kanoksri Tasanathai, Suchada Mongkolsamrit and Nigel Hywel-Jones

This is the fourth volume in a continuing series which will illustrate ca.30 taxa a year of invertebrate-pathogenic fungi from Thailand, studied by the BIOTEC research team. As with the first volume, this is not an authoritative taxonomic ...

AusGrass: Grasses of Australia

D Sharp and BK Simon

AusGrass is the largest and most comprehensive identification guide to a plant group ever published. This product has been updated to use the Lucid software version 3.5. Using either interactive or dichotomous keys, AusGrass ...

Blumen Einst und Jetzt [Flowers Then and Now]

Klosterbibliothek Heiligenkreuz - Biosphaerenpark Wienerwald [Heiligenkreuz Abbey Library - Vienna Woods Biosphere

Gerhard Wasshuber

Working tirelessly for ten years, the pharmacist Johannes–Wilhelm Weinmann (born 1683 in Regensburg) collected the entire botanical knowledge of the Baroque age, to create an impressive four-volume compendium illustrated with 1,025 ...

Bourgeons et Rameaux [Buds and Branches]

Bernd Schulz

This is a French translation of the German Taschenatlas Knospen und Zweige.

Date Palm Biotechnology

Shri Mohan Jain, Jameel M Al-Khayri and Dennis V Johnson

This important reference book Date Palm Biotechnology is the first comprehensive resource worldwide that reflects research achievements in date palm biotechnology, documenting research events during the last four decades, current ...

Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History

Kelly Kindscher, Steven Foster and Kelly Kindscher

Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History provides an in-depth analysis of one the of most popular medicinal plants-Echinacea a species that is native to only the US and Canada. There are nine Echinacea species and several ...

Euclid: Eucalypts of Australia

Centre For Plant Biodiversity Research

EUCLID is the definitive electronic identification and information system for Australian eucalypts, which has now been expanded to include northern Australia. Covering the morphology - habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, buds, seeds and ...

Everglades Wildflowers

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Historic Everglades, Including Big Cypress, Corkscrew, and Fakahatchee Swamps

Roger L Hammer

The Everglades region is a mosaic of interconnected ecosystems where a slight elevation change can lead you from dry, rocky pinelands and shady hardwood hammocks to flooded grassy prairies and deep, mysterious swamps. Fascinating wildflowers ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 20: Lichens

Pat A Wolseley, Peter James, Diccon Alexander and Frank S Dobson

These colourful and widespread organisms can be seen all year round. Featuring six of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 8: What's that Flower?

Rebecca Farley-Brown, Mavis Gulliver, Richard Gulliver and Carol Roberts

Like wild flowers, but don't know where to start? Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia

An Interactive Identification Guide

KR Thiele and LG Adams

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia: An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition) is an identification and information package for all of the plant families, native and naturalised, in Australia. It enables the ...

Flora Iranica, Volume 180: Scrophulariaceae II, Antirrhineae

D Podlech and M Iranshahr

Volume 180 is the second contribution to the family Scrophulariaceae and deals with the tribe Antirrhineae.

Flora Iranica, Volume 181: Simaroubaceae

Siegmar-W Breckle and Ernst Vitek

Volume 181 deals with the family Simaroubaceae.

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Anthericaceae

P Meerts

The family Anthericaceae is represented in Central Africa by one genus, Chlorophytum, with 52 species, of which four are endemic to this region, and many others are rare.

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Bromeliaceae

Miguel E Leal

The Bromeliaceae family is represented in Central Africa by just one cultivated, and sometimes escaped species, the pineapple (Ananas comosus).

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Smilacaceae

Daniel Geerinck

The usually dioecious family Smilacaceae includes herbs and lianas and is represented in Central Africa by two species from the genus Smilax.

Fundamentals of Plant Pathology

NG Ravichandra

Fundamentals of Plant Pathology is based on the syllabus prescribed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, for the first and second year undergraduate students of plant pathology in State Agricultural and ...

Garden Aloes

Growing and Breeding Cultivars and Hybrids

Gideon F Smith and Estrela Figueiredo

Authored by two leading international experts on aloes and their kin, Gideon F. Smith and Estrela Figueiredo, both of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa and the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Books have been written ...

Grand Guide des Plantes Potageres [The Big Book to Vegetable Plants]

Histoire, Origine, Varietes, Culture, Nutrition

Valerie Garnaud and Odile Koenig

Did you know that the artichoke was already served at the table of the Romans? Or that celery was found in the tomb of Tutankhamen? Do you know the medicinal properties of cumin or hyssop? Or the Chinese origin of Japanese artichokes?

Guide des Fleurs du Jardin [Guide to Garden Flowers]

Gerard Guillot

A guide to take into the field with you: all plants are featured in thumbnail vignettes and classified according to their preference in the garden, so you can locate all 800 described species at a glance. Easy identification ...

Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds

Michael John Haddock, Craig C Freeman and Janet E Bare

In the 35 years since the publication of Janét E. Bare's popular Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas, our understanding of flowering plants has undergone dramatic changes. This transformation is reflected in the pages of ...

Le Jardin Spontane [The Spontaneous Garden]

Reconnaitre et Accueillir les Plantes Vagabondes et Semis Naturels

Noemie Vialard and Patrick Blanc

The spontaneous garden is a new way of understanding the garden, which gives space to nature, with respect for native species and biodiversity. It is based to a large extent on natural seedlings of plants (wild or cultivated) that the ...

Medicinal Plants of Barbados for the Treatment of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases

Damian H Cohall

Barbados has a strong base in the practice of folklore botanical medicines. Consistent with the rest of the Caribbean region, the practice is criticized due to the lack of efficacy and safety testing of the plants. This book identifies ...

Nature's Pharmacopeia

A World of Medicinal Plants

Dan Choffnes

This beautifully illustrated, elegantly written textbook pairs the best research on the biochemical properties and physiological effects of medicinal plants with a fascinating history of their use throughout human civilization, revealing ...

Northeast Ferns

A Field Guide to the Ferns and Fern Relatives of the Northeastern United States

Steve W Chadde

Northeast Ferns is the first modern, comprehensive field guide to the true ferns and fern relatives of New England and the northeastern United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire ...

Photographic Guide to Native Plants of the Australian Capital Territory

Meredith Cosgrove

This easy to use guide covers 327 plant species native to the ACT region. Illustrated by over 1300 full colour photographs depicting the whole plant, flower and fruit for each species. Key identification features are described including ...

Photosynthesis: A New Approach to the Molecular, Cellular, and Organismic Levels

Suleyman I Allakhverdiev

Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes that affects all life on Earth, and, even now in the twenty-first century, it is still being studied and tested by scientists, chemists, and botanists. Regardless of politics or opinion ...

Plant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives, Volume 2

Eng-Chong Pua and Michael R Davey

Plant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives, Volume 2 focuses on development-related areas, including tissue culture (somatic embryogenesis, microspore embryogenesis, somaclonal variation), plant processes ...

Plant Life of Western Australia

JS Beard, Alex S George and N Gibson

First published in 1990, Plant Life of Western Australia grew out of a project between Department of Geography at the University of Western Australia and the author, the Foundation Director of the Botanic Garden at Kings Park ...

Plant Protection in Tropical Root and Tuber Crops

P Parvatha Reddy

Plant Protection in Tropical Root and Tuber Crops is a compilation of information on insect/mite/vertebrate pests and fungal/bacterial/viral/mycoplasma/nematode diseases of tropical root and tuber crops such as cassava, sweet potato ...

Plants of the Klein Karoo

Jan Vlok and Anne Lise Schutte-Vlok

Plants of the Klein Karoo discusses more than 1,500 plant species from the area, all of them illustrated with magnificent photos taken by the authors.

Revision of the Old World Species of Setaria (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae)

Osvaldo Morrone, Sandra S Aliscioni, Jan Frits Veldkamp, Jose F Pensiero and Fernando Om Zuloaga

Setaria (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) in the Old World is revised, providing identification tools for a group that includes many important forage grasses and several widespread weeds. Setaria includes annual and perennial ...

Richtersveld: The Enchanted Wilderness

Graham Williamson and Sir David Attenborough

Richtersveld is situated in the north-western corner of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. In this book Graham Williamson reveals the secrets of this hauntingly beautiful area. More than 500 plant species are discussed and ...

SOS Jardin Potager [Help with the Vegetable Garden]

Identifier et Lutter contre 160 Maladies et Nuisibles

Thomas Lohrer

- Identify and eliminate risks! With over 300 precise photographs to aid diagnosis, this practical guide presents the 160 main pests and diseases that threaten crops from the garden. - Data sheets detail the biological and chemical ...

SOS Jardin d'Ornement [Help with the Ornamental Garden]

Identifier et Lutter contre 160 Maladies et Nuisibles

Thomas Lohrer

- Identify and eliminate risks! With over 300 precise photographs to aid diagnosis, this practical guide presents the 160 main pests and diseases that threaten plants from the garden. - Data sheets detail the biological and chemical ...

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1: Botany

Joseph Needham

The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking Science and Civilisation in China, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately.

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 5: Fermentations and Food Science

HT Huang and Joseph Needham

Today Chinese cuisine is enjoyed in many parts of the world, yet little is known in the West about the technologies involved in making its characteristic ingredients. H. T. Huang's book ...

Science and Civilsation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4: Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotan

Georges Metailie and Joseph Needham

Science and Civilsation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4: Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of botanical knowledge in China from ancient ...

Systematics and Biology of Lapeirousia, Codonorhiza, Psilosiphon and Schizorhiza in Southern Africa

Peter Goldblatt and John C Manning

Plastid and nuclear DNA sequence analyses show that the sub-Saharan African genus Lapeirousia Pourr. is paraphyletic as presently circumscribed. Species of Lapeirousia are retrieved as a clade in which are nested the ...

The Guernsey Lily (2-Volume Set)

James Douglas and Helen Brock

A Most Unusual Edition This edition began life in the early 1990s nearly a quarter of a century ago. Dr. Helen Brock having completed a paper on the Guernsey Lily, submitted it to her publisher, whose editor suggests ...

The Olmsted Parks of Louisville

A Botanical Field Guide

Patricia Dalton Haragan

Frederick Law Olmsted, popularly known as the "Father of American Landscape Architecture," is famous for designing New York City's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, and the campuses of institutions such as Stanford University ...

The Redwoods of the Otway Ranges

Roger B Smith

The height and stature of Sequoia sempervirens, or Coast Redwood, are such that the tree is often called the most dramatic expression of life that has ever existed on Earth. The Redwoods of the Otway Ranges ...

The Triumph of Seeds

How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

Thor Hanson

We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and ...

Therapeutic Medicinal Plants

From Lab to the Market

Marta CT Duarte and Mahendra Rai

Medicinal plants have been used in the prevention, diagnosis, and elimination of diseases based on the practical experience of thousands of years. There is a pressing need to initiate and transform laboratory research into fruitful formulas ...

Thorne Moors: A Botanical Survey

Paul Buckland

The first ever checklist of the botanical interest of Thorne Moors, including some superb photographs of the flora (including the bryophytes) and habitats found on Thorne Moors NNR. Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the largest area of lowland ...

Vegetation Field Atlas of Continental South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Ladislav Mucina, Michael C Rutherford, Leslie W Powrie, Adriaan van Niekerk and Joh van der Merwe

The publication of The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland marked a milestone on a long journey laid down by South African vegetation science and plant ecology. The classification of South Africa's terrestrial ecosystems ...

Wattle: Acacias of Australia

Bruce R Maslin

With the aid of Wattle, you will be able to identify any species of acacia in Australia. This powerful electronic key enables species to be quickly and accurately named, irrespective of whether specimens are in flower or fruit.

Animal Vigilance

Monitoring Predators and Competitors

Guy Beauchamp

Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms ...

Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates

RK Saxena and Sumitra Saxena

Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, Second Edition has been written taking into consideration that the study of the anatomy of vertebrates has changed drastically in recent years. Previously it was customary to make a classical ...

Fish Karyotypes

A Check List

Ryoichi Arai

As the largest group of extant vertebrates, fish offer an almost limitless number of striking examples of evolutionary adaptation to environmental and biotic selection pressure. The most diverse of all vertebrate groups, the higher taxa ...

Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 1

Little Structures with Big Effects

Stanislav N Gorb

Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 1 is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular functions.

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

Giulia Enders, Jill Enders and David Shaw

For too long, the gut has been the body's most ignored and least appreciated organ, but it turns out that it's responsible for more than just dirty work: our gut is at the core of who we are. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body ...

How Life Works

The Inside Word from a Biochemist

William Elliott

Complete with colour illustrations and written in a conversational style, biochemist William Elliott unravels the mystery of life while revealing its majesty. How do chemical reactions occur? How do genes hold information? Why do our bodies age?

Jak Letají [How to Fly]

Rudolf Dvorak

The age-old human desire to fly has, over a century, led to incredible progress in the field of aviation. While inventors originally sought inspiration in bird flight, today this interest has shifted to the realm of insects, due to the ...

Molecular Biology

Principles and Practice

Michael M Cox, Jennifer A Doudna and Michael O'Donnell

Written and illustrated with unsurpassed clarity, Molecular Biology: Principles and Practice introduces fundamental concepts while exposing students to how science is done. The authors convey the sense of joy and excitement that ...

Quantitative Viral Ecology

Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts

Joshua S Weitz

When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans – such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes. Diverse and abundant, microbes and the viruses ...

Social Predation

How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey

Guy Beauchamp

The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was ...

The Behavioural Biology of Chickens

Christine J Nicol

Chickens are by far the world's most widely farmed animal, kept for both meat and egg production. They are at the centre of many debates regarding housing and production systems, causing significant interest in what lies behind chicken ...

Wild Sex

The Inns and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom

Carin Bondar

In Wild Sex, 'biologist with a twist' Carin Bondar presents the fascinating diversity of the reproductive habits of the animal kingdom, and through approachable explanations and humorous examples succeeds in making an ...

Evolution: The Whole Story

Steve Parker and Alice Roberts

Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic ...

Los Primeros Homininos: Paleontología Humana [The First Hominids: Human Palaeontology]

Antonio Rosas Gonzalez

Human evolution, far from being a linear and simple process, is a complex web of emergence of multiple genera, species and forms, in response to their environment. After more than a century of field and laboratory work, today we have a ...

Lost Sex

The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis

Isa Schoen, Koen Martens and Peter van Dijk

Sex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an evolutionary ...

The Biology of Desire

Why Addiction is Not a Disease

Marc Lewis

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric ...

The Evolution of the Eye

Georg Glaeser and Hannes F Paulus

With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, The Evolution of the Eye piques readers' curiosity about the diversity of visual organs. The Evolution of the Eye is the result of a dual approach – scientific ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 52

Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function

Samraat Pawaar, Guy Woodward and Anthony I Dell

The theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and ...

Approaches to Plant Evolutionary Ecology

Gregory P Cheplick

Plant evolutionary ecology is a rapidly growing discipline which emphasizes that populations adapt and evolve not in isolation, but in relation to other species and abiotic environmental features such as climate. Although it departs from ...

Sustainability and Diversity of Forest Ecosystems

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Torhu Nakashizuka

Reprinted from Ecological Research, Volume 22(3), 2007. Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth, largely as a result of human activity. The sustainable use of ecosystems allowing ...

Asian-Pacific Coasts and their Management: States of Environment

States of Environment

Nobuo Mimura

Coastal zones form a huge variety of natural environments, providing rich resources to humans. They are the place where active interaction occurs between land-based activities and ocean environments. They have attracted human populations ...

Ecological Forest Management Handbook

Guy R Larocque

Forests are valued not only for their economic potential, but also for the biodiversity they contain, the ecological services they provide, and the recreational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities they provide. Ecological forest management ...

Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese Estuaries

The Present Status and Future Tasks

Tetsuo Yanagi

Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese Estuaries presents lessons learnt from Japan's past, in relation to coastal waters, industrial pollutants and concentrated urban populations. It examines ecosystem damage and ...

Le Sol, un Monde Vivant: Formation, Faune, Flore [Soil, a Living World: Formation, Fauna Flora]

Patricia Touyre

This book reveals the secrets of the formation and inner workings of soil, from bedrock to the moist soil from which plants draw their nutrients. It reveals the extraordinary interactions between plant roots and soil, and the teeming life ...

Lifting the Bonnet on Wheatbelt Woodlands

A Guide to the Connection between Landscape and Vegetation in Southwest Australia

Nathan McQuoid

This important and comprehensive guide introduces a new way of caring for the woodlands of Southwest Australia. It aims to help woodland owners, managers and everyone with an interest in conservation to understand our woodlands better ...

Living Rivers, Dying Rivers

A Quest Through India

Ramaswamy R Iyer

Rivers have always been worshipped in India, and yet they are in a deplorable state today. The Ganga, regarded as holy and formally declared as the national river, and the Yamuna, the river of India's capital, are mortally sick.

Meadows: A History and Natural History

John Feltwell

In ancient times, and until comparatively recently, meadows could be seen throughout this country; indeed, they formed part of the rich pattern of the English countryside, and influenced not only its landscape, but its history and customs ...

Mountain Ash

Fire, Logging and the Future of Victoria's Giant Forests

David B Lindenmayer, David Blair, Lachlan McBurney and Sam Banks

Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Plantations and Protected Areas

A Global History of Forest Management

Brett Bennett

Today, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural use. Economic globalization has enabled Western corporations to export ...

Texas State Parks and the CCC

The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps

Cynthia Brandimarte, Angela Reed and Carter P Smith

From Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to Lake Corpus Christi on the coast, from Balmorhea in far West Texas to Caddo Lake near the Louisiana border, the state parks of Texas are home not only to breathtaking natural beauty, but also to ...

Water and Nutrient Management in Natural and Constructed Wetlands

Jan Vymazal

Wetlands provide a wide variety of ecosystem services within the landscape and their importance is commonly accepted. Among the most important are regulating services, i.e., benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes.

Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change

David B Lindenmayer, Philip Barton and Jennifer Pierson

Ecological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. Their potential to guide complex resource management has meant they have been proposed for use in ...

Krasnaia Kniga Respubliki Belarus': Zhivotnye: Redkie i Nakhodiashchiesia pod Ugrozoi Ischeznoveniia Vidy Dikikh Zhivotn

IM Kachanovskii

The Red Book of the Republic of Belarus is an annotated and illustrated list of rare and endangered species alive in Belarus in the wild, and the wild plants to be protected. In the 4th edition of the Animals volume of the ...

Orangutan Rescue

Saving Borneo's Orangutans

Sean Whyte and Alan Knight

Orangutan Rescue gives readers a unique insight into the highs and lows of rescuing and rehabilitating this species against all the odds in a remote part of Borneo. With the aid of 150 superb photographs, all generously donated ...

Satellites in the High Country

Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man

Jason Mark

In New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, 106 Mexican gray wolves may be some of the most monitored wildlife on the planet. Collared, microchipped, and transported by helicopter, the wolves are protected and confined in an attempt to appease ...

Wildlife and Wind Farms, Volume 1: Onshore

Conflicts and solutions

Martin Perrow

Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of ...

Environmental Science for a Changing World

Scientific American

Susan Karr, Jeneen Interlandi and Anne Houtman

Following real people and real science, Environmental Science for a Changing World provides a unique context for showing students how science works and how to think critically about environmental issues. Chapters don't merely ...

Introduction to Phytoremediation of Contaminated Groundwater

Historical Foundation, Hydrologic Control, and Contaminant Remediation

James E Landmeyer

Introduction to Phytoremediation of Contaminated Groundwater provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at ...

Natural Decadal Climate Variability

Societal Impacts and Predictability

Vikram M Mehta

There is a multi-century history of research on natural decadal climate variability (DCV) and attempts to predict it, and there is a substantial amount of evidence of DCV impacts on society, largely associated with decadal droughts.

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems

Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery

A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation suggests that most of this literature takes a far too optimistic position regarding the potential for ...

The Color of the Atmosphere with the Ocean Below

A History of NASA's Ocean Color Missions

James G Acker

The Color of the Atmosphere with the Ocean Below is a comprehensive history of NASA's "ocean color" missions. Written by James Acker with funding from the NASA Science and History Divisions ...

Why Are We Waiting?

The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change

Lord Nicholas Herbert Stern and Richard Layard

The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon ...

Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, Volume 1

Andromeda, Antlia, Apus, Aquarius

Jeff Kanipe, Dennis Webb and Richard Berfy

Annals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...

Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, Volume 2

Aquila, Ara, Aries, Auriga, Bootes, Caelum

Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb

Annals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...

Anthropogenic Geomorphology

A Guide to Man-Made Landforms

Jozsef Szabo, Lorant David and Denes Leczy

Today, society's impact on the geographical environment, and especially on the Earth's surface, is obvious. Yet up until the last century, the forces of nature held sway, with mankind vulnerable and exposed to its vagaries.

Armchair Geology

John Priestley

What is the real role of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Why is the climate no warmer now that it was a thousand years ago, when the level of carbon dioxide has nearly doubled? Why do we have deserts? Why are they sometimes there, alone ...

Building Stones of West Sussex

Roger Birch and Roger Cordiner

Stone building was introduced into West Sussex first by the Romans, and later on a grand scale by the Normans. From the 11th to the mid 19th century, before the advent of easy transport by railway some 30 different types of vernacular ...

Coloring the Universe

An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space

Travis Rector, Kimberley K Arcand and Megan Watzke

With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found ...

FSC Wildlife Pack 30: Rocks & Fossils

Chris Pellant and Helen Pellant

Featuring three of the FSC's popular fold-out charts ...

Geology of India (2-Volume Set)

M Ramakrishnan and R Vaidyanadhan

The present two volumes provide an exhaustive and commendable synthesis of Indian geology, covering major recent advances. The editors have thereby generated, perhaps, the most up-to-date and authentic publication on the subject now available ...

Living Physical Geography

Bruce Gervais

Bruce Gervais' new text offers a fresh approach to the study of physical geography, combining print and digital media to create a scientifically substantive work that is written for students. Living Physical Geography focuses ...

Logging the Chalk

Rory N Mortimore

Chalk has proved to be one of the more difficult rocks to core-log as it breaks up readily during the drilling process leading to core-loss and destructuring, particularly where flints, nodular chalks and/or fractures are present.

Promenade Geologique a Grenoble [A Geological Walk around Grenoble]

Jacques Bouffette, Jerome Nomade and Emmanuel Robert

Walking along the streets of the city center of Grenoble, southeastern France, let this booklet be your guide and offer you a unique discovery, combining human and geological history. At the foot of the Vercors, Chartreuse and Belle ...

Promenade Geologique a Nanterre [A Geological Walk around Nanterre]

Francois Baudin

On the occasion of a walk in the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre, or in the neighborhood of the prefecture, we invite you to watch the houses, buildings and monuments. With a watchful eye and helped by this guide, you will discover a ...

Promenade Geologique sur l'Ile d'Aix [A Geological Walk around Ile-d'Aix]

Christian Moreau

Located 3.5 km east of the island of Oléron and 4.5 km off the west coast of France, Île-d'Aix emerges in the middle of the hole of Antioch, just off the mouth of the Charente river. This guide will help you make a historical ...

Set in Stone

The Geology and Landscapes of Scotland

Alan McKirdy

The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3000 million years – from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there were many continental collisions, creating ...

Tectonics of the South China Block

Interpreting the Rock Record

Zheng-Xiang Li, Han-Lin Chen, XIan-Hua Li and Feng-Qi Zhang

South China experienced an unusually complex tectonic history, and features a series of globally significant, and well well-preserved geological records. These include records of the assembly and breakup of the Neoproterozoic supercontinent ...

The Cosmic Web

Mysterious Architecture of the Universe

J Richard Gott

J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies – a magnificent structure now called the ...

The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction

William H Brock

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical and biological sciences, as well as technical ...

The Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks and Minerals

How to Find, Identify, Collect and Preserve the World's Best Specimens, with Over 1000 Photographs and Artworks

John Farndon

The Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks and Minerals is the ultimate photographic guide to the world of rocks and minerals, and how to build your own collection. A comprehensive introduction explains the formation and ...

The South China Sea

Paleoceanography and Sedimentology

Pinxian Wang and Qianyu Li

The South China Sea is the first synthesis of sedimentary geology and paleoceanography of the South China Sea on the basis of extensive industrial explorations and scientific expeditions culminated with the ODP Leg 184. It provides ...

Tourmaline: Fascinating Crystals with Fantastic Inner Worlds / Turmalin: Faszinierende Kristalle mit Phantastischen Inne

Paul Rustemeyer

Tourmaline crystals are not only much sought after gemstones but also are highly interesting as study objects, because on them the formative forces in the mineral kingdom create an impressive richness of shapes and colors. Especially the ...

Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste

Ole G Mouritsen, Klavs Styrbaek and Mariela Johansen

In the West, we have identified only four basic tastes – sour, sweet, salty, and bitter – that, through skillful combination and technique, create delicious foods. Yet in many parts of East Asia over the past century, an ...

An Introduction to the Green Economy

Science, Systems and Sustainability

Adrian C Newton and Elena Cantarello

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice. Considerable investments are now being ...

Beyond Biofatalism

Human Nature for an Evolving World

Gillian Barker

Beyond Biofatalism is a spirited response to the pessimism of mainstream evolutionary psychology, which argues that human beings are incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the ...

Conservation Agriculture in Subsistence Farming

Case Studies from South Asia and Beyond

Catherine Chan and Jean Fantle-Lepczyk

Conservation agriculture systems have long-term impacts on livelihoods, agricultural production, gender equity, and regional economic development of tribal societies in South Asia. Conservation Agriculture in Subsistence Farming ...

Debriefing Elsipogtog

The Anatomy of a Struggle

Miles Howe

In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government leased over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions ...

Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities

Steffen Boehm, Zareen Pervez Bharucha and Jules N Pretty

The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to ...

Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene

An Emerging Paradigm

Peter G Brown, Peter Timmerman and Jon D Erickson

Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically – even fatally – on the boundless ...

Governing Access to Essential Resources

Katharina Pistor and Olivier de Schutter

Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing, and standard legal institutions, such ...

Green Capital

A New Perspective on Growth

Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-Andre Jouvet and Michael Westlake

Challenging the certainty that ecological preservation is incompatible with economic growth, Green Capital shifts the focus from the scarcity of raw materials to the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions ...

Green Modern

Eco-Conscious Contemporary New Zealand Homes

Claire McCall

Green Modern showcases design-conscious New Zealand houses that embrace a more sustainable way of living. Ranging from inner-city homes to remote retreats, each house demonstrates how thoughtful design and environmentally-responsive ...

Groundwater in the Arab Middle East

Wolfgang Wagner

Groundwater in the Arab Middle East gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing ...

Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning

Studies in Modelling and Decision Support

MA Quaddus and MAB Siddique

The thoroughly revised second edition of this authoritative Handbook, complete with new chapters, comprehensively examines the current status and future directions of model-based systems in decision support and their application to sustainable ...

Heads Above Water

The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program

Robert L Gulley and Andrew Sansom

Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources – the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas – were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences ...

Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change

A North-South Analysis

Eric Craswell, Mike Bonnell, Deborah Bossio, Siegfried Demuth and Nick van de Giesen

Reprinted from Water Resources Management 21/1 (2007). How can the Earth's finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis?

Introduction to Water in California

David Carle

This thoroughly engaging, concise book – Introduction to Water in California – tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack ...

Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface

Recent Advances

Viorel Badescu

Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and in many fields of the natural sciences. A few examples showing the diversity of applications may include: architecture ...

Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity

A Comprehensive View

Angela Mendonca, Ana Cunha and Ranjan Chakrabarti

Shortly, Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity is the written upgraded version of the topics discussed during the Small Meeting of the 2nd International School Congress: Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity ...

Offshore Wind Energy

Research on Environmental Aspects

Julia Koeller, Johann Koeppel and Wolfgang Peters

The accompanying ecological research for using wind energy in the German North and Baltic Seas is part of a series of research projects in the German Government's Investment Programme for the Future. Offshore Wind Energy has ...

One Child

Do We Have a Right to More?

Sarah Conly

Sarah Conly argues that we do not have the right to have more than one child. If recent increases in global population continue, we will reduce the welfare of future generations to unacceptable levels. We do not have a right to impose on ...

Pig Tales

An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

Barry Estabrook

Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of "great skill and compassion" (Eric Schlosser), now explores the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on his personal experiences raising pigs as well as ...

Restoring the Soul of the World

Our Living Bond with Nature's Intelligence

David R Fideler

For millennia the world was seen as a creative, interconnected web of life, constantly growing, developing, and restoring itself. But with the arrival of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, the world was viewed as a ...

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 2: Agriculture

Francesca Bray and Joseph Needham

This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture ...

Step into Nature

Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life

Patrice Vecchione

The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate ...

Sustainable Agricultural Development

Recent Approaches in Resources Management and Environmentally-Balanced Production Enhancement

Mohamed Behnassi, Shabbir A Shahid and Joyce D'Silva

Due to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to be seriously affected; thus, increasing food insecurity and hunger ...

Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions

Southeastern Europe

Georgi Zhelezov

The mountain regions in Southeastern Europe are unique natural regions of great beauty and ecological value, and home of the head waters of major rivers. They constitute a major ecological, economic, cultural, recreational and living ...

The Anthropocene

The Human Era and How it Shapes Our Planet

Christian Schwaegerl

In The Anthropocene, environmental journalist Christian Schwägerl investigates our current ecological circumstances, and discovers something hopeful: that we already possess the scientific, philosophical, spiritual and ...

Water Quality

An Introduction

Claude E Boyd

The revised second edition updates and expands the discussion, and incorporates additional figures and illustrative problems. Improvements include a new chapter on basic chemistry, a more comprehensive chapter on hydrology, and an updated ...

With Dogs at the Edge of Life

Colin Dayan

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane ...

Zwijgzame Natuur [Taciturn Nature]

Joop HJ Schaminee and Esther Schaminee

Zwijgzame Natuur is the title of this nature essay. Nature is a collective property, but cannot defend itself. Like the environment, security and education, its fate is entirely in the hands of the government who looks after its ...

An Introduction to Practical Laboratory Optics

JF James

Aimed at students taking laboratory courses in experimental optics, this book introduces readers to optical instruments and their uses. An Introduction to Practical Laboratory Optics explains the basic operation of lenses ...

Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure II

Nikolay Kolchanov, Ralf Hofrstaedt and Luciano Milanesi

Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure II is a follow-up of the International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure (BGRS-2004), held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2004. It comprises the ...

GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume 4

Conservation Planning

Tom Mueller and Gretchen F Sassenrath

Conservation planning involves targeted management practices and land use decision-making based on careful analysis of landscape limitations in order to protect soil and water resources. Developing solutions to conservation planning is ...

The Naming of the Shrew

A Curious History of Latin Names

John Wright

Latin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.

Truth or Truthiness

Separating Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist

Howard Wainer

Teacher tenure is a problem. Teacher tenure is a solution. Fracking is safe. Fracking causes earthquakes. Our kids are over-tested. Our kids are not tested enough. We read claims like these in the newspaper, often with no justification ...

Of Whales and Dinosaurs

The Story of Singapore's Natural History Museum

Kevin YL Tan

Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its care, one of the largest collections of Southeast Asian plants and animals. Dedicated to ...

Oxford Dictionary of Physics

Richard Rennie and Jonathan Law

This is the most popular dictionary of physics available, and contains almost 4,000 entries covering all commonly encountered physics terms and concepts. It also defines many terms from the related fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and ...

Research in Medical and Biological Sciences

From Planning and Preparation to Grant Application and Publication

Petter Laake, Haakon Breien Benestad and Bjorn Reino Olsen

Research in Medical and Biological Sciences covers the wide range of topics that a researcher must be familiar with in order to become a successful biomedical scientist. Perfect for aspiring as well as practicing professionals ...