Bats

Dean Waters and Ruth Warren

Welcome reprint of this little classic, with an updated section on legislation. ....

Bears: Health and Management

Wildlife Information Network

Information on the natural history, conservation status, diseases and management treatment of the American Black Bear, Asiatic Black Bear, European Brown Bear/Grizzly ....

The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids

Edited by D Macdonald and A Loveridge

The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids is edited by world-renowned specialists with enormous combined experience of both the theory and practice of felid biology. The book ....

Coyote at the Kitchen Door

Living with Wildlife in Suburbia

Stephen DeStefano

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such ....

Elephant Diaries: Series 2

Set in Kenya, The Elephant Diaries follows the plight of orphaned baby elephants as they are prepared for integration back into their natural habitat. Includes all the episodes ....

Handbook of Mammals of Kerala

D Cheruvat, C Radhakrishnan and MJ Palot

Mammals are the animals that man knows best, perhaps, since the primeval period of his hunter-gatherer-status. They are the most advanced of all the other classes of animals ....

The Last Refuge of the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel

Ecology of Endangerment

Edited by Koprowski, Sanderson and Thomas

When the University of Arizona announced plans to build observatories on Mt. Graham, atop the Pinaleno Mountains, the construction was seen as a potential threat to an ....

Leviathan

Or, The Whale

Philip Hoare

An extraordinary journey into the underwater world of the whale - to tie in with a BBC film-length documentary hosted also by the author. Moby Dick is a ....

The Mammals of Suffolk

Simone Bullion

The first comprehensive account of Suffolk's mammal species. With stunning colour photographs and distribution maps for each species, this is a superb addition to ....

New Era for Wolves and People

Wolf Recovery, Human Attitudes, and Policy

Edited by Marco Musiani, Luigi Boitani and Paul Paquet

Wolves hold an almost mythical status in the cultural history of Europe and North America. For hundreds of years, they have been the subject of fairy tales and other ....

Orangutan Diaries: Series 2

Two years after their inspirational and moving visit to the Borneo Orangutan Foundation, Steve Leonard and Michaela Strachan return to catch up on the progress of the rescued ....

Rabies in Raccoons: Biology and Behaviour

Wildlife Information Network

This volume provides information about the biology and behaviour of raccoons, the raccoon rabies variant, and how raccoon biology and behaviour affects raccoon rabies ....

Reindeer on South Georgia

The Ecology of an Introduced Population

N Leader-Williams

First published in 1988. ....

The Rise of Horses

55 Million Years of Evolution

Jens Lorenz Franzen and Kirsten M Brown

In this title, one of the world's leading experts on horse evolution traces the rise of the domesticated horse, Equus caballus, and its extant relatives and extinct ancestors. ....

Wombats

Barbara Triggs

One of Australia's most engaging marsupials, the wombat is also one of the most disparaged and least understood. Often depicted as slow, muddle-headed and clumsy, it ....

Bird

The Definitive Visual Guide

Edited by Peter Frances et al

From hummingbirds weighing less than a coin to monkey-eating eagles this is a unique celebration of birds, photographed and studied in their natural environments around the ....

Birding Northern India, Part 1

Corbett, Koshi and Beyond

M Rymer

In this, Part 1 of Birding Northern India, we travel north-easterly from Delhi into the Himalayan foothill state of Uttarakhand searching for a range of exciting birds of the ....

Birding Northern India, Part 2

Foothills to Rajasthan

M Rymer

In this DVD, Birding Northern India - Part 2, the companion film to "Corbett, Koshi & Beyond", we continue our birding adventures, travelling deeper into Uttarakhand in ....

Birding Northern India, Parts 1 & 2

M Rymer

In Part 1 of Birding Northern India, we travel north-easterly from Delhi into the Himalayan foothill state of Uttarakhand searching for a range of exciting birds of the ....

Birds of North America

Paul Doherty

This double DVD set covers most of the commoner birds and many of the regional specialities such as California Condor and Spectacled Eider. A total of 522 species are ....

Birds of the World Database

L Larsson, G Ekström, E Larsson and M Gandemo

Birds of the World is a unique database with multiple combinations of search features. It covers all the bird species and subspecies of the world, together more than 26,000 ....

The Breeding Bird Atlas of Georgia

Edited by Todd M Schneider, Giff Beaton, Timothy S Keyes, Nathan A Klaus et al

This is the first statewide distributional survey of Georgia's breeding birds. This is a comprehensive historical record of all free-ranging bird species known to be breeding in ....

Breeding Birds of the Western Palearctic

Nests, Eggs, Nestlings, Fledglings and Habitats

The definitive photographic guide to the complete breeding cycle of 767 species of Western Palearctic birds. The perfect partner to BWPi. ....

Bright Wings

An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

Edited by Professor Billy Collins and David Sibley

Poet laureate Billy Collins joins David Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the singular muse that has inspired so much poetry since the invention of the ....

Bustard Studies, No.6, 2007

Great Bustards in Russia and Ukraine

Edited by Heinz Litzbarski and Henrik Watzke

Results of a study undertaken by the German Society for the Protection of Great Bustard in collaboration with Russian biologists from the Saratov region, in order to design ....

Cranes: Health and Management

Wildlife Information Network

This volume will contain information on the natural history, conservation status, diseases, treatment and captive management of all fifteen species of cranes. ....

Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Birds

Eduardo Bicudo, Jose Chaui-Berlinck and Pearson Pearson

Birds have colonized almost every terrestrial habitat on the planet - from the poles to the tropics, and from deserts to high mountain tops. Ecological and Environmental ....

The Effects of Climate Change on Migratory Waterbirds within the African-Eurasian Flyway

IMD Maclean, MM Rehfisch, S Delaney and RA Robinson

Waterbirds are likely to be amongst the organisms most adversely affected by climate change as they are associated with a habitat that is very vulnerable to changes in ....

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 14: Bush-Shrikes to Old World Sparrows

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David A Christie

The Handbook of the Birds of the World is the first work ever to illustrate and deal in detail with all the living species of birds. Material in each volume is grouped by ....

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

James A Jobling

The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names lists the generic and apecific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the ....

The Man who Flies with Birds

Carole Garbuny Vogel and Yossi Leshem

When Israeli army planes collide with birds in the air, ornithologist Yossi Leshem finds a remarkable way to save the pilots, the planes, and the birds. Leshem, an ....

Phillipps' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo

Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillipps

Up-to-date and user-friendly field guide to the birds of Borneo, covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and the Indonesian states of Kalimantan. The ....

Puffins

This colourful portrait contains endearing images and a brief text in appreciation of these popular seabirds. ....

Reed and Bush Warblers

Peter Kennerley and David Pearson

This detailed and comprehensive identification guide follows in the mould of "Sylvia Warblers" and "Pipits and Wagtails". It primarily covers the genera Acrocephalus, ....

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour

David Sibley

Companion to the highly acclaimed North American Bird Guide, and copiously illustrated with David Sibley's superb artwork. While the field guide relied mainly on ....

Small Mountain Owls

Scott Rashid

This fascinating and beautiful guide provides detailed information and over 160 striking photos and drawings of four species of small mountain owls found in America's Rocky ....

A Sound Guide to the Owls of the World

Claus König and Cheryl Tipp

Accompanying double CD to Owls: A Guide to the Owls of the World #66408. Contains the voices of approximately 190 species of owls, representing about 90% of the world's ....

The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland

Alan Knox and David Parkin

This authoritative work of reference gives a detailed assessment of the status and distribution of every species on the British and Irish lists for the first time since ....

The Travails of Two Woodpeckers

Ivory-bills and Imperials

Noel FR Snyder, David E Brown and Kevin B Clark

Nearly two feet long with striking black, white, and red plumage, the Ivory-billed and Imperial Woodpeckers were two of the most impressive woodpeckers in ....

The Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds

Lee GR Evans

In 1996 The Ultimate Site Guide became an instant classic - for the first time in one publication, birders discovered how and where to see over 100 rarer and ....

Where to Watch Birds in Costa Rica

Barrett Lawson

Where to Watch Birds in Costa Rica features 53 top birding locations throughout the country, with many maps and lists of target species. Eight sample itineraries will help ....

The Frogs and Toads of North America

A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification, Behavior, and Calls

Lang Elliott, Carl Gerhardt and Carlos Davidson

A beautiful and comprehensive photo-filled guide that is the first to show all of the frogs of North America and includes a CD of their calls. Colourful and noisy early ....

Guia Taxonomica de los Anfibios de Cuba

Luis M Diaz and Antonio Cadiz

Living Dinosaurs

Heather Angel

Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops no longer roam the earth, but fossil evidence shows that the ancestors of modern reptiles lived alongside the dinosaurs. None of the living ....

Snakebit

Confessions of a Herpetologist

Leslie Anthony

Traces author Leslie Anthony's journey from a childhood fascination with snakes and amphibians through academic flirtation to professional association with some of the ....

Turtles

The Animal Answer Guide

Whit Gibbons and Judy Greene

Ever wondered how many kinds of turtles there are? Or if they have teeth? Why so many turtles have yellow stripes on their neck? If it is wise to feed turtles in your ....

Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina

Fred C Rohde, Rudolf G Arndt, Jeffrey W Foltz, Joseph M Quattro and Anderso

This comprehensive illustrated guide to the characteristics, distribution, and ecology of freshwater fishes in South Carolina marks the first such endeavor since 1860 to ....

Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest

Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota

W L Minckley and Paul C Marsh

This comprehensive new book replaces and substantially expands upon the landmark Fishes of Arizona, which has been the authoritative source since it was first published in ....

To Sea and Back

The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon

Richard Shelton

The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. For centuries mankind has wondered how it is able to survive both in fresh and salt water and how it navigates ....

AA on CD Pollination

A Selected Bibliography From Apicultural Abstracts 1990-04

Edited by J Fres

This is a selection of about 3000 abstracts which deal with pollination by all kinds of bees, taken over a 15 year period (1990-2004) out of the unique journal Apicultural ....

The Biology of Mosquitoes, Volume 3: Dormancy, Survival, Speciation and Evolution

AN Clements

Mosquitoes are of significant interest both as transmitters of major diseases and as nuisance insects, and as such are one of the most intensively studied and well-known ....

A Checklist to the Wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata)

Edited by C Rasmussen and A Asenjo

With its coastal desert, Andean highland and Amazonian rainforest, Peru is host to a highly diverse fauna of aculeate wasps. ....

The Coleoptera of the Seychelles Islands

Edited by Justin Gerlach

The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonising species from the Indo-Pacific and modern ....

Dragonflies and Damselflies in Your Pocket

A Guide to the Odonates of the Upper Midwest

Ann Johnson

Introduction to 50 of the showiest odonates of the Upper Midwest. Ann Johnson's text is clear and informative and her photographs are stunning; it is impossible to look at them ....

Echinoderms 2006: Durham

Proceedings of the 12th International Echinoderm Conference

Edited by Larry G Harris et al

Echinodermata have a rich fossil record, play major ecological roles in marine benthic communities from the intertidal to the deep sea, have economic importance in fisheries ....

Ecofriendly Insect Pest Management

S Ignacimuthu and BV David

Farmers in developing countries are becoming interested in biological control, biopesticides and cultural practices to control insect pests, all of which can be ....

The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna: Tvåvingar: Blomflugor

Diptera: Syrphidae

Hans Bartsch

Covers 400 species. Contains a short abstract for each species as well as identification keys in English. ....

Evolution of the Beetle Hind Wing, with Special Reference to Folding (Insecta, Coleoptera)

DN Fedorenko

A highly original and thorough attempt at revising the wing structure of the beetles, with special emphasis placed not only on the venation ....

Field Guide to Butterflies of the Gambia, West Africa

David Penney

The butterflies of West Africa are generally well known, but there are no country-by-country field guides for the interested amateur naturalist. The butterfly ....

The Giant Dung Beetles of the genus Heliocopris

S Pokorny

The giant dung beetles of the genus Heliocopris are presented with the majority of species in Africa. Only a few species are know from Asia. They are not only dependant on ....

Guide to the Freshwater Molluscs of Cuba

JP Pointier, M Yong and A Gutierrez

Unlike the species richness of Cuban land snails, there are only 41 species of freshwater mollusc on the island (32 gastropods and 9 bivalves). They and their habitats ....

Guide to the Freshwater Molluscs of the Lesser Antilles

JP Pointier

Contains colour photographs, anatomical line drawings, and distribution maps throughout. Documents 31 species, including many newcomers. ....

Guides to British Beetles 1. Carabus, Calosoma and Cychrus

Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae)

John Walters

Over 350 species of ground beetle occur in Britain. This guide should enable identification of some of the largest and most attractive of these including the 10 ....

Guides to British Beetles 2. Tiger-beetles Cylindera and Cicindela

Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae)

John Walters

Tiger-beetles are medium sized members of the ground beelte family (Coleoptera; Carabidae). Adults are day-active fast-moving hunters. This guide should enable ....

Honeybee

From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper

C Marina Marchese

One woman's charming and personal account of abandoning the rat race to live blissfully as a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur-plus everything you'd ever want to know about ....

Insect Development

Morphogenesis, Molting and Metamorphosis

Edited by Lawrence I Gilbert

Includes articles by a host of respected contributors in the field and covers such topics as embryonic development, hormonal control of form and function of the nervous ....

A Life Caught in a Spider's Web

Papers in Arachnology in Honour of Christo Deltshev

Edited by P Stoev, J Dunlop and S Lazarov

Contains seventeen arachnological publications, including a concise biography of Dr. Deltshev, a list of his scientific publications and his described taxa. ....

Palaeoaphididae (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha) from Lower Cretaceous Baissa Deposits

Morphology and Classification

I Kania and P Wegierek

Production Ecology of Ants and Termites

Edited by M Brian

First published in 1977. ....

Revision of the Modified Mouthparts Species Group of Hawaiian Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

The Ceratostoma, Freycinetiae, Semifuscata,

Karl N Magnacca and Patrick M O'Grady

The modified mouthparts group is perhaps the largest of the four major Hawaiian Drosophila clades, yet has received relatively little taxonomic attention during the ....

Shells - Muscheln - Coquillages

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville

This title includes masterpieces from the sea. Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) was so bewitched by seashells that he authored one of the world's most ....

Spiders of India

PA Sebastian and KV Peter

The first part of this excellent reference looks at the morphology and anatomy of spiders, as well as systematics and evolution. The second part provides detailed ....

Suomen Heinäsirkat ja Hepokatit

(Grasshoppers and Crickets of Finland)

Sami Karjalainen

Focusses on the Finnish fauna and is written in Finnish with an English summary. Non-Finnish readers should be able to extract valuable information from the distribution ....

Tylenchidae of the World

Identification of the family Tylenchidae (Nematoda)

Etienne Geraert

This book contains full descriptions of all the nematodes reported from everywhere in the world that were considered to belong to the Tylenchidae. More than 400 species are ....

Wandelnde Blätter (Insekta: Phasmidae-Phylliidae)

Ein Katalog aller bisher beschriebenen Phylliinae-Arten und deren Eier mit drei Neubeschreibungen

Detlef Grösser

Well-illustrated catalogue of leaf insects. ....

Woodlice and Waterlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea & Asellota) in Britain and Ireland

Steve Gregory

4 species of waterlice and 40 species of woodlice occur outdoors in Britain and Ireland. A further 12 introduced 'alien' species occur in artificial climates such as ....

A World Without Bees

Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum

Honeybees are dying. In America, one in three hives was left lifeless at the beginning of 2008. In France, the death rate was more than 60 per cent. In Britain, a government ....

Identification Guide to the Fossil Plants of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Drumheller, Alberta

Kevin Aulenback

Plant fossils have helped scientists reconstruct the natural surroundings that supported the growth and evolution of dinosaurs - their food sources and habitat. While there are ....

Prehistoric

Experience a story 3.8 billion years in the making, with this unparalleled visual guide to prehistoric life. Unprecedented visual detail, comprehensive entries on hundreds of ....

Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota

Volume 2: Vertebrates

Ronald Eisler

The purpose of this book is to synthesize existing information on biological, chemical and physical factors known to modify uptake, ....

Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota

Volumes 1 & 2

Ronald Eisler

Written over a period of several decades by a national and international authority on trace metals in living marine organisms, the book has two main objectives. The first is ....

Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota

Volume 1: Plants and Invertebrates

Ronald Eisler

The purpose of this book is to synthesize existing information on biological, chemical and physical factors known to modify uptake, retention and translocation of each element ....

The Rockpool Guide

A Guide to some of the Plants and Animals to be Found on the Seashores of Britain

John Walters

A splashproof guide to the plants and animals found on the seashores of Britain. ....

The Bedside Book of Beasts

A Wildlife Miscellany

Graeme Gibson

The Bedside Book of Beasts blends the best writing about lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, hyenas, bears, wolves and other alpha predators and their prey with a ....

Bomb, Book and Compass

Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China

Simon Winchester

The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions: gunpowder, ....

In the Wake of the "Beagle"

Science in the Southern Oceans from the Age of Darwin

Edited by Australian National Maritime Museum

Strange as it may seem, the long wake of the tiny HMS Beagle stretches from the nineteenth century into the future of our globe. Charles Darwin spent only three months ....

The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science and Adventure

8 Volumes, II Books

Anders Sparrman, Viveka Hansen and Eivor Cormack

The publication of a major international series of eight volumes - in all 11 books and approximately 5,000 pages - has been in preparation since the beginning of this century ....

Mark Twain's Book of Animals

Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered and Celebrated Writings 3

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Barry Moser

Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were ....

Natural Experiments of History

Edited by Jared Diamond and James A Robinson

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific ....

Perry's Arcana

George Perry and Richard E Petit

From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. "The Arcana" or "Museum of Nature" ....

Wild Life

Amazing Animals, Extraordinary People, Astonishing Places

Simon King

Even as a very young child, Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Expressed in a variety of ways, from keeping faintly rotting animal parts in his underwear drawer ....

A Year of Watching Wildlife: A Guide to the World's Best Animal Encounters

David Lukas

Every week of the year, something astounding happens in the animal kingdom. A million wildebeest trek 800km across the Serengeti; killer whales surf Argentinean beaches; ....

1001 Walks in Britain

The Ultimate Collection of Britain's Best Walks

AA

This is a new edition of the most comprehensive British walking book available, offering an amazing 1001 walks all over Britain and featuring all the best-loved areas of the ....

The Country Diaries

A Year in the British Countryside

Edited by Alan Taylor

The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages through music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This ....

Fauna of Arabia, Volume 24

Edited by Friedhelm Krupp

Contains articles on Molluscs, Arachnids and Insects. ....

Galapagos

Preserving Darwin's Legacy

Edited by Tui De Roy

This gorgeous large-format book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Charles Darwin Foundation on Galapagos. The book comprises a series ....

The Lost World of Socotra

Richard Boggs

The islands of Socotra lie some 190 nautical miles off the southern coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden. Their relative isolation merely hints at their extraordinary ....

The Most Beautiful Villages of England

James Bentley and Hugh Palmer

This addition to the bestselling Most Beautiful Villages series features both villages famous for their charm, and little-known gems in hidden-away corners of the country. ....

A Natural History of St. Kilda

John Love and David Hamilton

In 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, travelled to St. Kilda to study the island's flora and fauna and to learn about the now extinct great auk. Much of ....

Natural New Zealand

The Landscapes, Animals and Plants of Aotearoa

Shaun Barnett

Natural New Zealand is a celebration of this country's remarkable natural world. Crowded into the small islands of this isolated country is a wonderfully diverse range of ....

Northern Tanzania

The Bradt Safari Guide with Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar

Philip Briggs

The north is the most popular destination for first-time visitors to Tanzania. The second edition of this tightly focused guide is fully updated throughout, including ....

The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids

D Miller, R Warren, I Miller and H Seehawer

Over ten years, the authors criss-crossed the Organ Mountain Range looking for fragments of original forest in an area which had been devastated by the coffee and railway booms ....

Predators of North America

Dave Taylor

In this book, renowned wildlife photographer Dave Taylor presents 300 full-color images of North American predators in their natural habitats. He offers interesting notes on ....

The Re-turn of the Tide

North Norfolks Saltmarsh Coast

Edited by Ian Scott and Sir Richard Worsley

This completely new series of essays have been commissioned under the section headings of The Environment, Being Here, The Way We Do Things and ending with Decisions by the ....

Sacred Sea

A Journey to Lake Baikal

Peter Thomson

"Absoliutno blagopoluchnoe ozero Baikal!" the Russian scientist looking out over the great lake says. "Lake Baikal is Perfect!" And humans can never harm it. ....

Somerville's Travels

Journeys Through the Heart and Soul of Britain

C Somerville

Few people know the trails, by-ways and footpaths of Britain's diverse landscape as well as Christopher Somerville. With regular features in leading national newspapers and ....

Wild Ohio

The Best of Our Natural Heritage

Jim McCormac and Gary Meszaros

This book offers a photographic documentation of the most outstanding natural habitats in Ohio. While Ohio has lost much of its presettlement landscape, many nearly pristine ....

Arctic and Antarctic

Their Division into Geobotanical Areas

Vera D Aleksandrova

First published in 1977. ....

Black Plants

75 Striking Choices for the Garden

Paul Bonine

Striking, mysterious, sinister, and strange all describe the singular appeal of plants with black (or near-black) foliage, flowers, or fruit. For some gardeners, they are ....

A Botanist's Paradise

The Establishment of Scientific Botany in Russia in the Eighteenth Century

W J Bryce

British Field Crops

A Pocket Guide to the Identification, History and Uses of Traditional and Novel Arable Crops in Great Britain

Sally A Francis

Agricultural Botanist and Journalist Dr Sally Francis has completely updated and expanded her popular title 'British Field Crops', which was first published in 2005. The ....

Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada

Donald E Schnell

Examines in detail the 45 species and numerous hybrids of carnivorous plants that grow in the United States and Canada. Information on each species includes an identifying ....

Colour Atlas of Ectomycorrhizae, Part 14

R Agerer et al

Conservation of Medicinal Plants

Edited by O Akerele, V Heywood and H Synge

There is currently an enormous surge of interest in the use, development and conservation of medicinal plants throughout the world, and this volume based on the ....

Contemporary Plant Systematics

Dennis W Woodland

A well-illustrated, introductory text to basic plant systematics. The CD-ROM Photo-Atlas of Vascular Plants includes over 3,000 colour botanical photographs, ....

Costa Rica: Orchids

Enrique Leal C

There are approximately 1500 species of native orchids in Costa Rica. The most common species are represented here. Species names are given in Spanish, English and Latin. ....

Desert Plants

Biology and Biotechnology

Edited by KG Ramawat

Vast areas of Earth's landmass exist as deserts, representing quite distinct ecosystems. Desert plants and animals have evolved specialised survival strategies to cope with the ....

Encyclopedia of Trees

David More and John White

Trees ar eof enduring interest to naturalistsand gardeners alike, and this extraordinary book is one of the most magnificent volumes to be published on the subject. Every ....

Fern Ecology

Edited by Klaus Mehltreter, Lawrence R Walker and Joanne M Sharpe

Ferns are an integral part of the world's flora, appreciated for their beauty as ornamentals, problematic as invaders and endangered by human interference. They often ....

A Field Guide To Tropical Plants Of Asia

David H Engel and Suchart Phummai

The character of this easy-to-use field guide to tropical plants found in Asia is distinctive - its chapters are based on the features which are actually seen by ....

Flora Armenii Volume 11: Poaceae

This volume completes the edition of Flora Armenii, which started publication in 1954. Volume 11 offers keys and critical accounts of 335 species in 106 genera of Poaceae, all ....

A Flora of Northeastern Minnesota

Olga Lakela

A manual for the identification of the ferns, fern allies, flowering plants, trees, shrubs, and herbs of Minnesota's Arrowhead region, this volume lists 113 botanic ....

Flora of Pakistan, Volume 216: Rosaceae (I) - Potentilleae & Roseae

S Landrein et al

A family consisting of 85 genera and about 3000 species. ....

Flore des Mascareignes: Pteridophytes 1 - 26

Psilotacees à Marsiléacées

JC Autrey, J Bosser and IK Ferguson

Continuing the comprehensive presentation of the flora of Mauritius, La Reunion and Rodriguez, this new part gives a thorough treatment of the fern families Psilotaceae - ....

Flowering Plants of Africa, Volume 60: Plates 2221-2240

Twenty full-colour plates and descriptions of plants appear in this biennial series, which has become a collector's item of the South African flora. This issue includes, ....

Flowering Plants of Africa, Volume 61: Plates 2241-2260

Gillian Condy et al

Twenty full-colour plates and descriptions of plants appear in this biennial series, which has become a collector's item of the South African flora. This issue includes, ....

The Formation of Wood in Tropical Trees: A Challenge from the Perspective Of Functional Wood Anatomy

Edited by T Nobuchi

This Book compiled 12 chapters related to tree growth and wood formation in tropical forest trees. Part I relates about periodicity of wood formation, cambial activities and ....

Gardens

An Essay on the Human Condition

Robert Pogue Harrison

Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces ....

Gebirgsflora und Bäume des Kaukasus

Shamil Shetekauri and Martin Jacoby

Caucasia lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. It includes the highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain ....

Geum

Sue Martin

Sue's research for this book started with tracing the British species back through history and trying to understand the naming - why Geum - why Avens? as well as ....

Grass

In Search of Human Habitat

Joe C Truett and Harry W Greene

Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. ....

Handbook of the Taxonomic Names Associated with the Nonmarine Rhodophycophyta

Franklyn Dewayne Ott

This title contains an alphabetical listing of the complete nomenclatural and taxonomic citations of the included taxa which includes the taxonomic name, its author, date, the ....

Herb Gardening

Linda Gray

Herbs can form an exciting, versatile and handy part of any garden - be it an ornamental display, a kitchen corner, a container or just a windowsill. This practical book ....

Illustrated Field Guide to the Plants of Nyungwe National Park Rwanda

Eberhard Fischer and Dorothee Killmann

This book covers about 650 species of vascular plants from Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda. Nyungwe Forest is part of the Albertine Rift and belongs to the most species ....

In the Shadow of Slavery

Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World

Judith Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than ....

An Irishman's Cuttings

Stories of Plants and Plant-Hunters

Charles Nelson

An Irishman's cutting in garden parlance has well-formed roots before it is detached from the parent plant. Like the garden variety, the cuttings in this book have deep ....

Landscape Plants of China (Two Volume Set)

Edited by Xing Fuwu

This book is divided into 2 volumes and embodies more than 6000 species of landscape plants (including cultivars). Among the 6000 species more than 3000 are common landscape ....

Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest

Bruce McCune and Linda Geiser

A key component in healthy ecosystems, lichens can be found in almost any natural habitat in the Pacific Northwest. This comprehensive guide to the region's macrolichens ....

Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland

A Field Guide

British Bryological Society

The want of a field guide has for many years greatly hindered further spread of interest in British and Irish field bryology. By filling this gap in the market, the guide will ....

Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia

Shamil Shetekauri and Martin Jacoby

Caucasia lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. It includes the highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain ....

Ombelliferes de France, Tomes 1-5

Jean-Pierre Reduron

Five book set covering species of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) found in France. Includes native and non-endemic plus cultivars. ....

Ombellifères de France, Tome 4

Jean-Pierre Reduron

Monograph covering native, non-endemic and cultivated species of Umbelliferes found in France. ....

Ombellifères de France, Tome 5

Jean-Pierre Reduron

Monograph covering native, non-endemic and cultivated species of Umbelliferes found in France. ....

Plant Cell Biology

Randy O Wayne

This book thoroughly explains the physiological underpinnings of biological processes to bring original insight to the study of plants. It includes examples throughout from ....

The Plant Propagator's Bible

This title helps to easily propagate any plant in your garden, greenhouse, or conservatory. This comprehensive guide explains techniques for cultivating new plants ....

RHS Wildlife Garden

Martyn Cox

By choosing the right plants and creating a suitable habitat, you can invite some very interesting wildlife to your garden. Watch your child build a bird box for a barn owl, ....

Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics

Nancy C Garwood, Margaret Tebbs and Robin B Foster

"Few field guides exist to the plants of the American tropics. Guides to the juvenile stages of plants are rare for any part of the world. A guide to identification of ....

Seeds of Woody Plants in North America

JA Young and CG Young

Revised edition of Agriculture Handbook 450, the US Forest Service sourcebook which has long been unavailable. The present volume includes 386 genera. The main focus ....

Sri Lankan Seaweeds

Methodologies and Field Guide to the Dominant Species

Eric Coppejans et al

Syllabus of Plant Families

Volume 3: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants

Edited by Wolfgang Frey

This is a revised and completely restructured 13th edition of Engler's Syllabus and is being published in 5 volumes in English for the first time. ....

Trees of Inspiration

Sacred Trees and Bushes of Ireland

Christine Zucchelli

From ancient times, people appreciated the spiritual value of trees, singling out individual trees for special veneration. In Ireland the roots of tree worship reach deep ....

Animal Defenses

Christina Wilsdon

Insects that look like leaves, snakes that play dead, fish that fly, and toads with poisonous skin - these animals are among the many creatures that defend themselves in ....

Cell Signalling

John T Hancock

Signalling within and between cells is an essential part of many biological processes, from the development of the body, to the activity of our immune system. Recent advances ....

Comparative Cognition

Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

Edited by Edward A Wasserman and Thomas R Zentall

In 1978, Hulse, Fowler and Honig published Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior, an edited volume that was a landmark in the scientific study of animal intelligence. It ....

Photoperiodism

The Biological Calendar

Edited by Randy J Nelson, David L Denlinger and David E Somers

This book examines the role of photoperiod (day length) in timing seasonal adaptations in plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates, and is the first to present such a broad ....

Principles of Behavioral Genetics

Robert RH Anholt and Trudy FC MacKay

How do genes determine behavior? How much of behavior is nature versus nurture? How do behaviors evolve? Anholt and Mackay, leading scholars in the field of behavioral ....

Recognition and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals

National Research Council

The use of animals in research adheres to scientific and ethical principles that promote humane care and practice. Scientific advances in our understanding of animal physiology ....

Virolution

Frank Ryan

Darwin's theory of evolution is still the greatest breakthrough in biological science. His explanation of the role of natural selection in driving the evolution of life on ....

Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Human Ecology in the Arctic

Dr Karim-Aly Kassam

At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilisation everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with ....

The Dominant Animal

Human Evolution and the Environment

Paul R Ehrlich and Anne H Ehrlich

In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures wresting sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch ....

Evolution and Development

Edited by William R Jeffery

The marriage of evolutionary biology with developmental biology has resulted in the formation of a new field, evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo'. This volume ....

The First Humans

Edited by Frederick E Grine, John G Fleagle and Richard E Leakey

This volume addresses the origin of the human genus Homo, a major transition in human evolution and associated with major changes in brain size, locomotion, and culture, but ....

The Incredible Human Journey

Alice Roberts

How did we get here? Following a trail of clues from the latest scientific research, Dr Alice Roberts re-traces the greatest ever journey taken by our ancestors. Thousands of ....

Living with Darwin

Evolution, Design and the Future of Faith

Philip Kitcher

Recent debates about Intelligent Design have brought into high relief the huge schism between those who believe in Darwin and the power of science to understand the world, ....

Species

A History of the Idea

John S Wilkins

The complex idea of 'species' has evolved over time, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work takes a fresh look at an idea central to the field of ....

Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution

David F Prindle

Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould was, until his death in 2002, America's best-known natural scientist. His monthly essays in "Natural History" ....

Biology and Wildlife of the Mediterranean Region

Jacques Blondel and James C Aronson

It is becoming clear that the Mediterranean region is one of the "hottest" biodiversity hotspots on the planet. There is ....

Comparative Biogeography

Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth

Lynne R Parenti and Malte C Ebach

To unravel the complex shared history of the Earth and its life forms, biogeographers analyze patterns of biodiversity, species distribution, and geological history. So far, ....

Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology

Walter Dodds

Physics and chemistry are distinguished from biology by the way generalizations are codified into theories tested by observation and experimentation. Some theories have ....

Agroforestry for Natural Resource Management

Edited by Ian Nuberg, Brendan George and Rowan Reid

In its early days, agroforestry may have been viewed as the domain of the 'landcare enthusiast'. Today, integrating trees and shrubs into productive farming systems is seen ....

Applications in Ecological Engineering

Edited by Sven Erik Jorgensen

Ecological engineering involves the design, construction and management of ecosystems that have value to both humans and the environment. It is a rapidly developing ....

The Archives of Peat Bogs

Harry Godwin

In this companion volume to his widely acclaimed Fenland, Godwin follows the same historical approach. Vast rain-fed peat bogs still cover the landscape of northern and ....

Coast and Beyond

Steve Evanson

"Coast and Beyond" is a beautifully illustrated, in-depth companion to BBC TWO's BAFTA-winning series "Coast". It tells the fascinating stories of our own magnificent ....

Dynamic Properties of Forest Ecosystems

Edited by DE Reichle

This volume, which is based upon years of research effort and numerous meetings by a large number of scientists throughout the world, brings together different `schools' of ....

Ecosystem Ecology

Edited by Sven Erik Jorgensen

This title provides a thorough and comprehensive overview of the world's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The book is derived from the Encyclopedia of Ecology (#168222) ....

Environmental Impact Assessment: Participation and Practice

Edited by KS Hanna

Through twenty-one chapters that examine current debates, recent cases, and ongoing developments in Canadian EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment reflects the diversity of ....

Grassland Ecosystems of the World

Edited by RT Coupland

First published in 1976, this volume describes the structure and functioning of grassland ecosystems. Five kinds of grassland are considered, namely natural temperate ....

Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services

A Review and Lessons for REDD

I Bond, S Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S Wunder, P Hazlewood et al

Approximately 17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by land-use change and, in particular, the destruction of tropical forests. Reducing land-use change ....

Lakes of the Warm Belt

C Serruya and U Pollingher

This book was the first to give a detailed description of the lakes of the Warm Belt of the earth. The book is composed of three parts. The first part gives the general ....

Long-Term Perspective in Coastal Zone Development

Frank Ahlhorn

The southern coast of the North Sea is mainly protected by a single line of defence against flooding. The traditional means for heightening and strengthening the existing ....

The Rainforests of Cameroon

Experience and Evidence from a Decade of Reform

Giuseppe Topa and Carole Megevand

Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and ....

Theoretical Studies of Ecosystems

The Network Perspective

Edited by TP Burns and M Higashi

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the new ideas, viewpoints and approaches, in theoretical ecology, and will be an invaluable asset to ecologists and resource ....

The World's Largest Wetlands

Ecology and Conservation

Edited by Lauchlan A Fraser and Paul A Keddy

Authoritative collection of papers on the world's leading wetlands - a must for all those who study these vital but rapidly shrinking natural areas. ....

Yellowstone and the Snowmobile

Locking Horns Over National Park Use

Michael J Yochim

It is the world's best-known national park, with a controversy that no amount of snow can bury. Rosy-cheeked snowmobilers extol the glories of riding through a winter ....

The Conservation Program Handbook

A Guide for Local Government Land Acquisition

Sandra J Tassel

Between 1994 and 2008, US voters approved almost $32 billion for local land conservation. However, there was at that time no resource available to guide officials ....

Dublin Zoo

An Illustrated History

Catherine De Courcy

As Dublin Zoo makes the transition from bars and cages to state-of-the-art animal habitats its story, beginning in 1831, is recorded, richly illustrated with images of ....

Last Chance to See

Mark Cawardine and Stephen Fry

Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the ....

Making Animals Happy

How to Create the Best Life for Pets and Other Animals

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

In her groundbreaking and bestselling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal ....

Wildlife SOS

True Stories from Britain's Favourite Animal Rescue Centre

Simon Cowell and Lou Cowell

Wildlife Aid's Simon Cowell and his staff deal with more than 12,000 wildlife incidents each year. From a hedgehog trapped in a freezer, to a little owl colliding with a 17-ton ....

Adaptation to Climate Change

A Spatial Challenge

Rob Roggema

Extensive research has so far been carried out on several issues potentially affected by climate change including coastal defences and shifting ecozones. However, the role ....

Advances in Applied Bioremediation

Edited by Ajay Singh, RC Kuhad and Owen P Ward

Bioremediation is a rapidly advancing field and the technology has been applied successfully to remediate many contaminated sites. The goal of every soil remediation ....

Advances in Ecological Research

Edited by Hal Caswell

This book is based on data collected during the past 10 years by Zackenberg Ecological Research Operations (ZERO) at Zackenberg Research Station in Northeast Greenland. This ....

Atmospheric Aerosols Characterization, Chemistry, Modeling and Climate

Kalliat T Valsaraj and Raghava R Kommalapati

Atmospheric aerosols play a large role in air pollution in urban areas and in regulating climate. They also play a role in the ongoing debate on global warming potentials of ....

Carbon Sinks and Climate Change

Forests in the Fight Against Global Warming

Colin AG Hunt

Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals ....

Chasing Molecules

Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

Elizabeth Grossman

Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the ....

Climate Change

Guy Jacques and Harve Le Treut

Following the style and spirit of the IOC Forum series, this book provides the non-specialist with the basic scientific background and information essential for ....

Climate Change and Agriculture

Edited by Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar

Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. ....

Climate Change and Foreign Policy

Edited by Paul G Harris

"Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West" and its companion volume, "Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice", examine and ....

Climate Change and the Global Trading System

On the Advantages of a Carbon Tariff

Christian Egenhofer, Daniel Gros and Selen Guerin Sarisoy

The European Union has been a pioneer in climate change policies, especially through its cap and trade emissions trading system (the ETS) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions ....

Climate Law and Developing Countries

Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Economy

Edited by Benjamin J Richardson, Yves Le Bouthillier and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate ....

Climate from Tree Rings

M Hughes

First published in 1982 ....

Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters

Concepts and Cases

Edited by Matthias Ruth and Maria E Ibarraran

Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts ....

Environmental Change and Challenge

A Canadian Perspective

Philip Dearden and Bruce Mitchell

Exciting introduction to the rich, fascinating, and topical field of environmental studies. For this new third edition, respected geographers Philip Dearden and Bruce ....

Environmental Change and Foreign Policy

Edited by Paul G Harris

This book and its companion volume, "Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West", examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes ....

Flammable

Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun

Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river, a hazardous waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, the shantytown ....

Flotsametrics and the Floating World

How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science

Curtis Ebbesmeyer

Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. Though he has degrees in engineering and oceanography, he's never held a traditional academic post, choosing ....

Fundamentals of Weather and Climate

JFR McIveen

Familiarity and modern, sheltered lifestyles can dull our awareness of the ever changing sky above us. But an unusually colourful sunset or threatening storm can rekindle ....

Greenhouse Governance

Addressing Climate Change in America

Edited by Barry G Rabe

Public deliberation over climate change has traditionally been dominated by the natural and physical sciences. Is the planet warming? To what degree, and is mankind ....

Guidebook for Waste and Soil Remediation

For Petroleum and Other Non-Hazardous Sites

G Holliday and LE Deuel

This book is a valuable guide for engineering professionals involved with the day-to-day management of petroleum and other industry operations. The expert authors develop the ....

Heads Up!

Early Warning Systems for Climate-, Water- and Weather-Related Events

Edited by Michael Glantz

The forces of nature can have damaging and deadly consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best ....

Heaven and Earth

Global Warming - The Missing Science

Ian Plimer

Ian Plimer, a respected Australian geologist, argues polemically that there is no evidence for anthropogenic climate change. The Earth is an evolving dynamic system. ....

Heavy Metals in the Environment

Edited by Lawrence K Wang, Jiaping Paul Chen, Yung-Tse Hung, Nazih K Shammas and Wang

Offering coverage of basic and advanced principals and applications, this title provides chemical and environmental engineers with the resource on remediation of heavy metal ....

The Natural Fix?

The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation

UNEP

Large cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases are needed if we are to avoid the worst effects of global climate change. This Rapid Assessment Report describes the vital ....

Observing Weather and Climate from the Ground Up

A Nationwide Network of Networks

Committee on Developing Mesoscale Meteorological Observational

Detailed weather observations on local and regional levels are essential to a range of needs from forecasting tornadoes to making decisions that affect energy security, public ....

Oceanography in 2025

Proceedings of a Workshop

Edited by Deborah Glickson

On January 8 and 9, 2009, the Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council, in response to a request from the Office of Naval Research, hosted the "Oceanography in ....

Radioactive Particles in the Environment

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Hot Particles Released from Different Nuclear Sources, Yalta, Ukraine, 7-10 May 2007

Edited by Deborah H Oughton and Valery Kashparov

Radioactive particles have been released to the environment from a number of sources, including nuclear weapon tests, nuclear accidents and discharges from nuclear ....

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 201

Edited by David M Whitacre

"Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology" attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or ....

Revisiting EU Policy Options for Tackling Climate Change

A Review of the Literature on Social Cost-benefit Analysis of GHG Emissions Reduction

Christian Egenhofer, Jaap C Jansen and Stefan JA Bakker

Reviews the literature on climate policy cost-benefit analysis. This book identifies a number of key strategies for providing significant ancillary benefits in terms of ....

Tenure in REDD

Start-point or Afterthought?

Lorenzo Coutula and James Mayers

As new mechanisms for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) are being negotiated in international climate change talks, resource tenure must ....

Tree-ring Analysis of Environmental Change

Franco Biondi

This work is presented in three parts. Part 1 provides the basis of dendrochronology as ....

American Mineral Treasures

Edited by Gloria Staebler

More than 40 top mineral localities are featured in this book. ....

Capturing the Stars

Astrophotography by the Masters

Robert Gendler

Galaxies, star clusters, nebulae, and other deep-sky treasures fill the pages of this beautiful volume of space photography from ten of the most accomplished ....

Carbonates in Continental Settings

Facies, Environments, and Processes

Edited by Ana Maria Alonso-Zarza and Lawrence H Tanner

This book provides an up-to-date compilation of the latest research on the petrography, facies, paleonvironmental significance and economic aspects of continental carbonates. ....

Carbonates in Continental Settings

Geochemistry, Diagenesis and Applications

Edited by Ana Maria Alonso-Zarza and Lawrence H Tanner

This book provides an up-to-date compilation of the latest research on the petrography, facies, paleonvironmental significance and economic aspects of continental carbonates. ....

Doing Science

Design, Analysis and Communication of Scientific Research

I Valiela

Doing Science, second edition, offers a rare compendium of practical advice based on how working scientists pursue their craft. It covers each stage of research, from ....

Field Guide to Rivers of North America

Edited by Arthur C Benke and Colbert E Cushing

Based on the comprehensive, award-winning book Rivers of North America, the new Field Guide to Rivers of North America describes 200 of North America's most significant ....

Floodplain Management

A New Approach for a New Era

Bob Freitag, Susan Bolton, Frank Westerlund and Julie L S Clark

Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological ....

Hillslope Form and Process

Michael Anthony Carson

Hillslopes occupy most of the British landscape. Studies of process mechanisms and rates have become sufficiently numerous to allow a systematic study of slopes. Only by making ....

Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt

and Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics

Paul J Nahin

What does quilting have to do with electric circuit theory? The answer is just one of the fascinating ways that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin illustrates the ....

Origin of Earthquakes

C Davidson

Written in 1912 by the Cambridge scholar and mathematician Charles Davison, The Origin of Earthquakes offers an overview of what Davison described as 'the varied phenomena of ....

Peat and Peat Cutting

Ian D Rotherham

For thousands of years peat was the main fuel that warmed houses all over the British Isles, and the mark of the peat cutter is written deep in the landscape. This book is a ....

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

Alok Krishna Gupta

This book encompasses several important papers related to the physics and chemistry of the Earth's crust, its metamorphic history as a function of pressure and temperature, ....

The Seventh Landing

Michael Carroll

It's been thirty-five years since people last trod the dusty plains of the Moon. Over the course of six landings from 1969 to 1972, twelve men explored, four-wheeled, dug and ....

Volcanism and Subduction

The Kamchatka Region

Edited by J Eichelberger, E Gordeev, M Kasahara, P Izbekov and J Lees

The Kamchatka Peninsula and contiguous North Pacific Rim is among the most active regions in the world. Kamchatka itself contains 29 active volcanoes, 4 now in a state of ....

2009 State of the Future

Jerome C Glenn, Theodore J Gordon and Elizabeth Florescu

This "report card on the future" distills the collective intelligence of over 2,700 leading scientists, futurists, scholars, and policy advisors who work for governments, ....

Adaptive Environmental Management

Edited by Catherine Allan and George Henry Stankey

Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of 'integrated natural resource ....

Alternative Water Management and Self-sufficient Water Supplies

Martin Rygaard, Hans-Jorgen Albrechtsen and Philip John Binning

This book is based on a screening of 113 worldwide experiences in alternative urban water management. A range of alternative water management strategies have been reviewed ....

Animals as Persons

Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Gary L Francione

A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his ....

Barley

Genetics, Composition, Structure and Uses

Edited by Charles Brennan

Barley is one of the most important crops of the temperate region, being used extensively in the malting and brewing (and distilling) industries, and as an important ....

Benefits of Environmental Policy

Edited by Dirk TG Rubbelke and Klaus Dieter John

Environmental policy may produce effects which go beyond the scope of the specific policy's initial aim. Reforestation, for example, generates positive benefits not only ....

Bio-electrochemical Systems

From Extracellular Electron Transfer to Biotechnological Application

Korneel Rabaey

In the context of wastewater treatment, Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) have gained considerable interest in the past few years, and several BES processes are on the brink ....

The Biobased Economy

Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era

Edited by Gerwin Meijer, Peter Kuikman, Hans Langeveld, Marieke Meeusen and Sanders

The impending threats of catastrophic climate change and peak oil are driving our society towards increased use of biomass for energy, chemical compounds ....

Biodiversity Land Use Change and Human Well Being

A Study of Aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans

Kanchan Chopra, Preeti Kapuria and Pushpam Kumar

This volume deals with the growth of aquaculture farming, largely driven by export demand, in the Sundarbans and its impact on the ecosystem, biodiversity, land use ....

Building an Emerald City

A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Programs

Lucia Athens

"Building an Emerald City" is both the story of how Seattle, Washington transformed itself into a leader in sustainable green building, written by one of the principal ....

Community Planning

An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan

Eric Damian Kelly

Written by a former president of the American Planning Association, "Community Planning" is thorough, specific, and timely. It addresses such important contemporary issues as ....

Compendium of Sustainable Energy Laws

Edited by R Ottinger, N Robinson and V Tafur

This is a companion volume to The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. It compiles, for the first time, the legal instruments that constitute the core of the law ....

Costs and Benefits of Greening the Built World

Gregory Kats

Green buildings are commonly thought to be too expensive to attract builders and buyers. But are they? The answer to this question has enormous consequences, since residential ....

Creating Ecological Value

An Evolutionary Approach to Business Strategies and the Natural Environment

Frank Boons

Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying ....

Creating and Protecting Zambia's Wealth

Experience and Next Steps in Environmental Mainstreaming

Lubinda Aongola et al

How much does Zambia benefit from its rich forests, wildlife, soils and water - and what more could it do to ensure the protection and wise use of these environmental assets? ....

Current Knowledge on Waterborne Pathogens

GWRC Report

Emmanuelle Guillot and Jean-Francois Loret

Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa, are the most common and widespread health risk associated with drinking water. Most waterborne ....

Dark Green Religion

Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future

Bron Taylor

In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred ....

Ecological Economics

Principles and Applications

Herman E Daly and Joshua Farley

In its first edition, this book helped to define the emerging field of ecological economics. This new edition surveys the field today. It incorporates all of the latest ....

The Economics of Sustainable Development

Surender Kumar and Shunsuke Managi

This book provides a look at the current status and future potential of sustainable development in India. Macroeconomic developments, regional disparity and poverty ....

Energy-resources, Utilisation, and Policies

John Horlock

The purpose of this volume is to describe succinctly and simply the forms of energy, energy resources and utilization. It gathers together information found in larger more ....

Environment, Sustainable Development and Well-being

Valuation, Taxes and Incentives

Murty

This volume provides insights in to some of the recent developments in empirical research of environmental and resource economics in India. It shows how the very ....

Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions

Edited by David Richard Keller

Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition ....

Environmental Integration

Ton Buhrs

The environmental challenges facing humankind can most effectively be met through environmental integration-incorporating environmental considerations into everyday human ....

Environmental Policy

New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Norman J Vig and ME Kraft

Authoritative and classic, the seventh edition of Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the impact of past environmental policy while ....

The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making

Edited by Clifford S Russell and Duane D Baumann

This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and ....

Gardening the Earth

Gateways to a Sustainable Future

Stephen Blackmore

From memories of a childhood blessed with an acute awareness of the wonders of nature to a present day crusade to save our world, Gardening the Earth - Gateways to a Sustainable ....

Gene Flow Between Crops and their Wild Relatives

MS Andersson and M Carmen de Vicente

This book provides the scientific basis for assessing the likelihood of gene flow among 20 important crops and their wild relatives. This comprehensive review is required ....

Global Energy Governance

The New Rules of the Game

Edited by Andreas Goldthau and Jan Martin Witte

The global market for oil and gas resources is rapidly changing. Three major trends - the rise of new consumers, the increasing influence of state players, and concerns about ....

The Green Guide to Specifications

J Anderson, D Shiers and K Steele

Guidance on making the best environmental choices when selecting construction materials and components. ....

Groundwater Hydrology of Springs

Engineering, Theory, Management and Sustainability

Edited by Neven Kresic and Zoran Stevanovic

Water is an essential environmental resource and one that needs to be properly managed. As the world places more emphasis on sustainable water supplies, the demand for ....

Handbook of Agriculture in India

Shovan Ray

India's agricultural growth in the twentieth century has been low compared to that in other developing countries. However, there have been some important developments in the ....

Innovation in Environmental Policy?

Integrating the Environment for Sustainability

Edited by Andrew J Jordan and Andrea Lenschow

Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) is an innovative policy principle designed to deliver sustainable development.This book offers an unrivalled exploration of its ....

Integrated Urban Water Management:

Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

Edited by Larry W Mays

Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) is a new approach to managing the entire urban water cycle in an integrated way, a key to achieving the sustainability of urban water ....

Making Peace with the Earth:

What Future for the Human Species and the Planet?

Edited by Jerome Binde

We now know that the human species, the planet and civilization may very well be mortal. Our business-as-usual approach to environment issues and political will threatens to ....

Managing Water for All

An OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing

OECD Publishing

Water is vital for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. However, billions of people lack access to water and sanitation services, mainly due to ....

The Nature of a House

Building a World That Works

George M Woodwell

Is it possible for a group of the world's most respected environmental scientists to truly practice what they preach? Can their expertise in ....

Public Produce

The New Urban Agriculture

Darrin Nordahl

Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. In what Darrin ....

Putting a Price on Sustainability

Building Research Establishment and Cyril Sweett

This report identifies the costs associated with a range of sustainable solutions, demonstrating that significant improvements in the sustainability performance of a ....

Renewable Energy Technologies

Special Focus on Distributed Power Generation - Potential for Applications to Rural Sector in India

Amitav Mallik, Nitant Mate and Devayani Bhave

This volume on "Renewable Energy Technologies" has a special focus on distributed power generation (DPG) to highlight the easy applicability of the alternative energy ....

Security and Environmental Change

Simon Dalby

In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Europe. Snows were ....

Smart by Nature

Schooling for Sustainability

Michael K Stone and Center for Ecoliteracy

Throughout the United States, a movement of educators, parents, and students is remaking K-12 education to prepare students for the future environmental challenges. What would a ....

Starved for Science

How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

Robert Paarlberg

Heading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane ....

Sustainability in the Built Environment

An Introduction to Its Definition and Measurement

C Atkinson, A Yates and M Wyatt

Provides an overview of key issues and initiatives relating to sustainability in the UK and internationally. ....

Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

David JC Mackay

We have an addiction to fossil fuels, and it's not sustainable. How can we replace fossil fuels? How can we ensure security of energy supply? How can we solve climate ....

Sustainable Water for the Future

Water Recycling Versus Desalination

Edited by Isabel C Escobar and Andrea Schafer

This book covers the fundamental and practical concepts and issues regarding the application of membrane technologies for sustainable water treatment. It describes and ....

Taking Back Eden

Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World

Oliver Houck

Taking Back Eden is the gripping tale of the idea that ordinary people have the right to go to court to defend their environment told through the stories of lawsuits brought in ....

Time to Eat the Dog?

The Real Guide to Sustainable Living

Brenda Vale and Robert Vale

The world and its resources are finite, yet we are seemingly locked into a system based on growth: growth of population, growth of income and growth of consumption. From this ....

Tracers in Hydrology

Christian Leibundgut, Piotr Malozszewski and Christoph Kulls

Comprehensive overview of the application of natural and artificial tracers in hydrology and environmental research. Taking a unique approach by providing the reader with a ....

Training Resource Manual

The Use of Economic Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

UNEP

This training resource manual aims to contribute to the capacity building of planners, environments and decision makers to design and implement economic instruments. ....

Wastewater Irrigation and Health

Assessing and Mitigating Risk in Low-income Countries

Edited by Pay Drechsel, Christopher A Scott, L Raschid-Sally, Mark Redwood and Bahri

In many countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in very poor quality water being used for irrigation and the ....

Water Policy Entrepreneurs

A Research Companion to Water Transitions around the Globe

Edited by D Huitema and S Meijerink

'This volume is a major achievement. It advances our knowledge of stability and change in water policy around the world through sixteen national case studies from around the ....

Water and Peace for the People

Possible Solutions to Water Disputes in the Middle East

Jon Martin Trondalen

This book proposes practical and objective solutions to the entrenched water conflicts in the Middle East. The author reveals and clarifies the complexity of the water ....

Water and Sanitation in Urban Malawi: Can They Meet the Millennium Development Goals?

A Study of Informal Settlements in Three Cities

Mtafu A Zeleza Manda

This paper assesses the quality and extent of provision for water and sanitation in urban areas in Malawi - where over 60% of the population lives in informal settlements. ....

Water, Agriculture, and Sustainable Well-being

Edited by Unai Pascual, Amita Shah and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay

The book is a scholarly presentation on various issues pertaining to water resource management and agriculture practices. These include water contamination and health; ....

Wind Turbine Technology

Fundamental Concepts in Wind Turbine Engineering

Edited by David A Spera

"Wind Turbine Technology" is the authoritative guide to state-of-the-art wind turbine engineering. Using detailed case study analysis, expert authors present practical ....

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

Jonathan Pevsner

Jonathan Pevsner, winner of the 2001 Johns Hopkins University "Teacher of the Year" award, explains problem-solving using bioinformatic approaches using real examples such ....

Elements of Computational Systems Biology

Huma M Lodhi and Stephen Muggleton

This comprehensive reference presents cutting-edge and long-ranging research in computational systems biology. It is written by leading experts and covers a range of ....

Interfacing Geostatstics and GIS

Edited by Jürgen Pilz

Internationally renowned authors contribute to the theme of interfacing between geostatistics, geoinformation systems and spatial database management systems. ....

Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS

A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS

Michael Kennedy

This title presents a unique approach to learning and teaching GIS, updated for ArcGIS 9.3. "Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS, Second Edition" serves as ....

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Edited by David L Thompson, Evan G Cooch and Michael J Conroy

Much of biology can be understood in terms of demography. It is the demographic processes of birth and death which govern rates of population growth and the rates at ....

The Oxford Handbook of Membrane Computing

Edited by Gheorghe Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg and Arto Salomaa

Part of the broader research field of natural computing, Membrane Computing is an area within computing science that aims to abstract computing ideas and models from the ....

Polarisation: Applications in Remote Sensing

Shane Cloude

In this monograph S.R. Cloude introduces, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry. This topic was first developed in 1997 and has since ....