Bats of Trinidad and Tobago

A Field Guide and Natural History

Geoffrey A Gomes, Fiona A Reid and Merlin D Tuttle

Bats of Trinidad and Tobago by Geoffrey A Gomes and Fiona A Reid, serves as a comprehensive natural history and field guide to all bat species recorded in Trinidad and Tobago. It includes an introduction to bat biology ...

Fledermause: Beobachten, Erkennen Und Schutzen [Observing, Identifying and Protecting Bats]

Klaus Richarz

They belong to summer nights: bats, the mysterious hunters with their unique ability to orientate, their artful flight and their technical skill at catching prey. Since we can decipher many of their secrets with high-speed cameras and ...

Marine Mammals of the World

A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification

Thomas A Jefferson, Robert L Pitman, Marc A Webber and Uko Gorter

This new edition of Marine Mammals of the World describes and illustrates newly discovered and rarely photographed species, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date identification guide available. This edition continues ...

Of Wilderness and Wolves

Paul L Errington and Matthew Wynn Sivils

"I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land." With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, Of Wilderness and Wolves celebrates a key predator: the wolf.

Primate Behavior and Human Origins

Glenn E King

Primate Behavior and Human Origins provides a comprehensive overview of primate behavior. As well as covering common features and diversity, it demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate ...

Sariska: The Tiger Reserve Roars Again

Sunayan Sharma

Sariska, in Rajasthan, has been one of the most famous national parks in India, especially for its tigers. However, it had lost every single one of its tiger population to poachers a decade ago. The revelation was devastating.

The Majestic Lions of Gir

An Untold Story

Sandeep Kumar and Moin Pathan

The Majestic Lions of Gir is an insiders' story by authors who have witnessed cubs turning into furious Asiatic Lions. This book portrays family life of the lion. A life that resembles the social life of humans. In this book ...

The Mammal Guide of Southern Africa (Book + Callfinder)

Burger Cillie

The new edition of this popular field guide has been fully updated and revised, making it one of the most comprehensive guides to the mammals of the southern African sub-region. It can be bought as a ...

The Mammal Guide of Southern Africa (Book Only)

Burger Cillie

The new edition of this popular field guide has been fully updated and revised, making it one of the most comprehensive guides to the mammals of the southern African sub-region. It can be bought as a book only, or a ...

Wahb: The Biography of a Grizzly

Ermest Thompson Seton, Jeremy M Johnston and Charles R Preston

First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton ...

A Guide to Macaws as Pet and Aviary Birds

Rick Jordan and Mark Moore

This 214-page title has been eagerly awaited by macaw breeders and pet bird owners since the first edition went out of print five years ago. The revision is written by the original author, Rick Jordan, together with Mark Moore ...

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of China [Chinese]

Qu Liming

This is a portable version of the massive three-volume Field Guide to the Birds of China, and is intended for field use. It features the birds one is most likely to encounter in China.

Atlas of Birds in Dongzhaigang, Hainan [Chinese]

Liang Bin

Atlas of Birds in Dongzhaigang, Hainan sums up the history of bird surveys in the past, and presents the results of research carried out in recent years by experts and scholars in the protected areas of Dongzhaigang National ...

Bird Love

Leila Jeffreys

Fine art photographer Leila Jeffreys captures the beauty and diversity of some of our most colourful and elegant feathered friends. From the birds of her native Australia to North America, Jeffreys seems to see into the very souls of the ...

Challenge Series: Winter

Martin Garner and Ray Scally

This is the second in the series, focusing on the season of winter. Most birders go out into the field knowing roughly what might be encountered in a given season and not needing all the information on all species pertaining to the whole ...

Die Sinne der Voegel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein [Bird Sense: What it's Like to be a Bird]

Tim R Birkhead, Katrina van Grouw and Monika Niehaus

What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale ...

Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

Dick Forsman

Raptors are notoriously hard to identify, even if seen well. Contrary to expectation, it is actually easier to identify raptors in flight, rather than perched, and it is fortunate that most raptors are usually seen in flight! This is the ...

Gartenvoegel Lebensgross [Garden Birds Lifesize]

Daniela Strauss

Beginners take note! Determination, identification, and recognizing of different species of garden birds will be even easier. This new field guide shows Germany's garden birds life-size for the first time. Confusion becomes nearly ...

Hampshire Bird Atlas 2007-2012

John Eyre

Five winters and summers of intensive fieldwork across the county by 1,200 volunteers, resulted in 800,000 bird records. These have all been brought together in one place in readable and highly colourful accounts of all 285 bird species ...

Lebensraum Federkleid: Federn und Federbewohner Heimischer Voegel [Plumage as Habitat: Feathers of Domestic Birds

Richard Schoene, Ronald Schmaeschke and Klaus Eulenberger

The current ornithological knowledge of the residents living on our native birds. Birds offer a habitat to other, smaller creatures. Since the roommates of birds always live secretly and are usually very small, and therefore ...

North American Hummingbirds

An Identification Guide

George C West

Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations ...

Northern Goshawk, the Gray Ghost

Habits, Habitat, and Rehabilitation

Scott Rashid

Learn about the habits and habitat of the Northern Goshawk, a fierce bird of prey that nests in the boreal forests far from human habitation. This hawk, about the size of a Common Raven, is capable of catching and killing large birds ...

Rovfugle i Felten [Birds of Prey in the Field]

Klaus Malling Olsen and Carl Christian Tofte

Rovfugle i Felten is the ultimate book for the identification of birds of prey in the wild. It is richly illustrated and pedagogically structured so it can be used both by beginners and experts. - The book covers the 39 species ...

The Birds of Jigongshan [Chinese]

Zhou Keqin

The Birds of Jigongshan summarizes the results of a survey of the history, natural geography, flora and bird resources of Jigongshan, a mountain resort in Xinyang City, Henan, a south-eastern province in China. Information ...

The Birds of Shropshire

A County Avifauna

Leo Smith, Amanda Craig and Dawn Balmer

The Birds of Shropshire provides the most comprehensive record of the County's avifauna ever published. Produced by Shropshire Ornithological Society, The Birds of Shropshire is based on the results of six years field ...

The New Birds of Kazakhstan

Arend Wassink

This full colour book contains a wealth of new and up-to-date information on status, habitat, distribution and migration of all species recorded in Kazakhstan up to late 2015. The full colour maps give their breeding and temporal distribution ...

Unsere Gartenvoegel Ganz Nah [Our Garden Birds Up Close] (Region 2)

Hans-Heiner Bergmann and Wiltraud Englaender

Whether you are interested in nature or passionate about birdwatching: all birders will benefit from this package. Here you can watch the birds singing or calling from up close, so the voices are a better audible. From blackbird to common ...

Unsere Vogelwelt: Magische Momentaufnahmen [Our Avifauna: Magical Shots]

Hans-Wolfgang Helb and Rosl Roessner

The inspiring images of Rosl Rößner show our avifauna from very special vantage points: snapshots, behavior caught in the act, and moments from the exciting life of birds. They speak to the mind, the heart, and the interest in ...

Variable Wheatear (Oenanthe picata Blyth, 1847) in Southern Kazakhstan (Biology, Ecology, Behaviour, Parasites, Epidemio

Alexander V Matyukhin

For their study of a marked population of Variable Wheatears Oenanthe picata (130-150 pairs, colour morphs capistrata, opistholeuca and, rather scarce, evreinowi), Alexander Matyukhin and colleagues ...

Voegel Beobachten in Norddeutschland [Watching Birds in Northern Germany]

Zwischen Sylt und Niederrhein, mit GPS-Koordinaten

Christoph Moning and Felix Weiss

Northern Germany is home to some wonderful birding areas: from the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein and the Lüneburg Heath to Möhnesee in Sauerland. This guide gives exact guidance for more than 270 bird species ...

Amphibians of Ohio

Ralph A Pfingsten, Jeffrey G Davis, Timothy O Matson, Jr.,Greg Lipps, Doug Wynn and Bria Armitage

Exquisite photographs and original artwork, as well as comprehensive accounts of all of the frogs, toads, and salamanders of Ohio are contained in the groundbreaking new book Amphibians of Ohio.

Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela: Una Vision Actual de su Diversidad [Atlas of Snakes of Venezuela: A Current View of their

Marco Natera Mumaw, Luis Felipe Esqueda Gonzalez, Manuel Castelaín Fernandez and Enr La Marca

Although Venezuela is a country with a relatively discrete continental area, at the moment it is among the ten countries with the highest biodiversity on the planet. As such, reptiles are an important group to study due to their extraordinary ...

Even More Than Snake Hunting

Craig Trumbower

The new book is a continuum of snake hunting stories with 150 pictures from some of the most noted herpetological photographers in the world. Even More Than Snake Hunting takes the reader through the process of setting up a snake ...

Field Guide to Australian Reptiles (2014 Revised Edition)

Stephen Swanson

Covers more than 400 reptile species commonly found in Australia. Each entry includes colour photographs and information on diet, habitat and reproduction.

Marsupial Frogs

Gastrotheca and Allied Genera

William E Duellman

This scientific masterpiece reveals many aspects of the lives of marsupial frogs and closely allied genera. Native to Central and South America, these amphibians differ from other frogs in that they protect their eggs after oviposition ...

The Leatherback Turtle

Biology and Conservation

James R Spotila and Pilar Santidrian Tomillo

Weighing as much as 2,000 pounds and reaching lengths of over seven feet, leatherback turtles are the world's largest reptile. These unusual sea turtles have a thick, pliable shell that helps them to withstand great depths ...

An Introduction to Fish Migration

Pedro Morais and Francoise Daverat

Since the publication of The Migrations of Fish by Prof. Alexander Meek in 1916, a number of books have been published on this subject. However, most of these books only cover one type of migratory mechanisms.

Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management

Global Experiences and European Prospects

Kjellrun Hiis Hauge and Douglas Clyde Wilson

Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management starts with a look at four places outside the European Union known for innovative management: New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Alaska and Iceland. The focus then shifts to the ...

Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics

An Anthology in Honor of Arthur N. Popper and Richard R. Fay

Joseph A Sisneros

Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics is an anthology of review papers that were presented at a special symposium to honor Arthur Popper and Richard Fay on May 25th 2013 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, FL.

Hakes: Biology and Exploitation

Hugo Arancibia

The species of hake, making up the genus Merluccius, are commercially important and currently largely over exploited, with many stocks badly depleted and showing only limited signs of recovery. From the end of the ...

Ictiofauna Marina: Manual de Identificacion de los Peces Marinos de la Península Iberica y Baleares [Marine Ichthyofa

Domingo Lloris

This guide contains rigorous scientific information of interest to biologists, commercial and recreational fishernen, and fisheries and veterinary inspectors working in the sports or culinary sector, or just for those who practice diving ...

Peixes Fluviais do Brasil [River Fish in Brazil]

Especies Esportivas

Alec Kruse Zeinad, Rubinho de Almeida Prado, Mauro Cornacchioni Lopes and Gust Menegaz Monteiro

Alec K. Zenaid, biologist and teacher in zoology from USP and Rubinho de Almeida Prado, icon of Brazilian sport fishing, have united in producing this book. Peixes Fluviais do Brasil addresses both the biology and the fishing of ...

Shark Bytes

Tales of Diving with the Bizarre and the Beautiful

John Bantin

There are few underwater experiences more exciting than diving with sharks, and in his new book, Shark Bytes: Tales of Diving with the Bizarre and the Beautiful, diving veteran and best selling author, John Bantin, has animated ...

Stingrays of the World

Ramasamy Santhanam

Although several books on hazardous marine animals are available, a comprehensive book on the stingrays of the world is still wanting. Stingrays of the World provides details on different stingray families, namely Potamotrygonid ...

A Study of Diversity of Collembola (Insecta) Fauna of Darjeeling Himalayas, West Bengal, India

Dhrubajyoti Pahari, Gurupada Mandal and Ashis Kumar Hazra

The present study has been designed to investigate the diversity, species composition, density, distribution and seasonal population structure of collembolan communities inhabiting different altitudes of the Darjeeling Himalayas.

Advances in Hymenoptera Research in China (Braconidae)

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This is a collection of reasrch papers on Braconidae published in recent years from 2000 to 2012. It contains thirty papers in English, see table of contents for details and summaries.

Advances in Hymenoptera Research in China (Formicidae)

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This collected works contains 40 English papers on ants in China. See table of contents for details and summaries.

Advances in Hymenoptera Research in China (Tenthredinidae)

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This is a collection of research papers on Tenthredinidae published in recent years. It contains twenty four papers in English, see table of contents for details and summaries.

Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World

Sam Droege and Laurence Packer

Get the buzz on bees with up-close and personal, stunning photographs of more than a hundred species. If a bee flies near you or if it lands on your arm, you might want to run away as fast as you can. Or maybe you freeze and hope the bee ...

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2

Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea (2-Volume Set)

Ivan Loebl and Daniel Loebl

Taxonomy provides the basic building blocks of our understanding of the diversity of life on this planet. It stems from innate human curiosity; confronted with an unknown species or object we ask "what is it?" Taxonomists recognise ...

De Nederlandse Sprinkhanen en Krekels (Orthoptera)

Wim Bakker, Jaap Bouwman, Floris Brekelmans, Ed Colijn, Rob Felix, Mark Grutters and Wilber Kerkhof

In this publication a new key to the Dutch Orthoptera is presented. Furthermore the results of the most recent atlas project (2006-2014) are compared to the first project (1990-1995). The fauna has changed considerably. A few species ...

Flies, Phylogeny and Islands

Evolution and Diversity of Hawaiian Drosophilia

Patrick Michael O'Grady

Hawaiian Drosophila has become a well-known model system in modern biology. Flies, Phylogeny and Islands brings together all the historical information on Hawaiian Drosophilidae in a single reference with a useful summary ...

Illustrated Handbook of Terrestrial Mollusks in China [Chinese]

Qian Zhouxing and Zhou Wechuan

Illustrated Handbook of Terrestrial Mollusks in China describes 326 species of terrestrial mollusks in China with colour photos for each species. They belong to 82 genera, 22 families, and four orders. Their morphological character ...

Insektenhotels: Einfach Selbst Gemacht [Insect Hotels: Easily Made Yourself]

Gregor Faller

Practical nature conservation – in a compact and easy to understand form. This book shows you how to build a nesting box for insects by yourself. Species portraits assist in determining the "hotel" residents and ...

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 18

Volume 18 contains nine contributions on longicorn beetles from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

Schmetterlinge: Entdecken und Verstehen [Discovering and Understanding Butterflies]

Rainer Ulrich

To observe butterflies in the wild, is one of the most beautiful nature experiences. Embedded in beautiful images this book presents the butterflies families that one can observe in Western Europe. Not only ecology and behavior of butterflies ...

The Dragonflies of Lancashire and North Merseyside

Steve White and Philip H Smith

The Dragonflies of Lancashire and North Merseyside provides a comprehensive of all 24 species seen there. The distribution and breeding status of each species are mapped and details of flight periods illustrated, with particular ...

A Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Reptile Assemblage from South Carolina, USA

David R Schwimmer, Albert E Sanders, Bruce R Erickson and Robert E Weems

The authors describe a new assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile remains from Campanian and Maastrichtian deposits of eastern South Carolina. Six of the fourteen localities include new occurrences of theropod and hadrosaur ...

Ancestors from Cambrian Explosion

Degan Shu

This work gives an overview of palaeontological findings from China dating back to the Cambrian explosion.

Archaeozoology of the Near East, Volume 9

Marjan Mashkour and Mark Beech

This two-part volume Archaeozoology of the Near East brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. Archaeozoology of the Near Easts are wide-ranging ...

Atlas of Foraminifera of the Carboniferous and Permian (Cisuralian) of Uzbekistan and Adjacent Regions, Tien Shan

Olga Orlov-Labkovsky and Faina R Bensh

The Atlas summarizes known and new data of the Carboniferous and Lower Permian Foraminifera of Uzbekistan and adjacent regions. The Atlas supplemented and corrected of the assemblages of 27 Foraminiferal Zones and regional substages of ...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

Lisa Randall

Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city crashed into Earth, killing off the dinosaurs and three-quarters of other species on the planet. Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet dislodged from its orbit as the solar system ...

Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea

Danielle Clode

Step back to a time when Australia's red centre was flooded by a vast shallow ocean, the Eromanga Sea. While dinosaurs stalked the scattered islands that made up the Australian continent, giant marine reptiles ruled the waves.

The Ice Age

Juergen Ehlers, Philip Hughes and Philip L Gibbard

The Ice Age provides a new look at the climatic history of the last 2.6 million years during the ice age, a time of extreme climatic fluctuations that have not yet ended. This period also coincides with important phases of human ...

The Stramberk-Type Limestones from Poland

Mariusz A Salamon and Dawid Trzesiok

Highly fossiliferous, the so-called Štramberk-type limestones, commonly occurring in the Outer Carpathians (southern Poland), have become the subject of many sedimentological and palaeontological studies. However, there is still ...

Tracks in Deep Time

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm

Jerald D Harris and Andrew RC Milner

In February 2000, while excavating his property in St. George, Utah, Sheldon Johnson turned over a piece of ground and discovered a fully preserved dinosaur footprint. That track was the first of many fossils to be uncovered. Five years ...

Freshwater Life

Macro Photography of Aquatic Insects and other Freshwater Invertebrates

Jan Hamrsky

The purpose of Freshwater Life is to allow the general public to peer into freshwater ecosystems, which are usually well hidden to our eyesight. Anyone, who is interested in nature, will be amazed by this incredibly varied and ...

Handbook of Marine Microalgae

Biotechnology Advances

Se-Kwon Kim

Handbook of Microalgae: Biotechnology Advances offers complete coverage of marine microalgae, including biology, production techniques, biotechnological applications, economic perspectives of applications, and environmental effects ...

The Seashore Life of Jersey

Societe Jersiaise

Jersey's seas contain a mixture of warmer southern European species and colder subarctic ones giving it a marine life which is subtly different to that of mainland Britain. The Seashore Life of Jersey will help you to identify ...

A Book of Simple Gardening

Especially Adapted for Schools

Dorothy Lowe

Originally published in 1914, A Book of Simple Gardening was intended for school teachers to use as a reference guide in teaching their classes how to build and maintain a school garden. A Book of Simple Gardening details ...

A Butterfly Journey

Maria Sibylla Merian. Artist and Scientist

Boris Friedewald and Maria Sybilla Merian

A woman ahead of her time, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid explorer, naturalist and scholar, as well as a magnificent artist. This lovely, impeccably designed book tells Merian's incredible life story alongside coloured ...

An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society

With Remarks on the Speculations of Mr Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers

Thomas Robert Malthus

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Resulting from discussions with his father on the works of Condorcet and William Godwin, Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) published anonymously in 1798 his ...

An Oakwoods Almanac

Gerry Loose and Morven Gregor

Deliberately and quietly, Gerry Loose has spent years walking the woodlands to observe the poetry of clouds and winds; to cheer the dance of gnats and moths, to listen intently to the musical compositions of wrens and ravens.

Ancient Earth Journal: The Early Cretaceous

Notes, Drawings, and Observations from Prehistory

Juan Carlos Alonso and Gregory S Paul

Ancient Earth Journal: The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life than ever before.What it would be like to see a living, breathing dinosaur? By combining the latest paleontological findings with highly detailed ...

Animal Camouflage

Search and Find

Sam Hutchinson and Sarah Dennis

In a world where majestic creatures soar, scutter, prance and pounce through their beautiful natural habitats, astounding discoveries and fascinating facts are just around the corner. Or in the case of this stunningly designed book, just ...

Animal Electricity

How We Learned That the Body and Brain are Electric Machines

Robert B Campenot

Like all cellular organisms, humans run on electricity. Slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking – nearly everything we associate with being alive.

Animal Print Origami Paper Pack

Includes More Than 400 Sheets of Origami Paper Plus Basic Fold Instructions

Sterling Publishing Company

This handy origami practice pad includes basic origami folding techniques and instructions to make a paper crane, as well as 400 sheets of beautiful origami paper in 32 lifelike animal print designs. Make all your favourite origami models ...

Animalium Poster Book

Suzanna Davidson and Katie Scott

This beautiful large-format poster book Animalium Poster Book lets you decorate your walls with the gorgeous images from Big Picture Press's bestselling ...

Animated Animal Toys in Wood

20 Projects That Walk, Wobble & Roll

David Wakefield

Animated Animal Toys in Wood features 20 imaginative designs for classic wooden toys that walk, wiggle, waddle or whirl. It is a perennial favourite with woodworkers, these push-and-pull animals are timeless keepsakes.

Art Forms from the Abyss

Ernst Haeckel's Images from the HMS Challenger Expedition

Ernst Haeckel, Peter Williams, Dylan Evans, David Roberts, David Thomas and Martin Kemp

From jewellery designers to scientists, graphic artists to naturalists, the range of people inspired by Ernst Haeckel's illustrations continues to grow. Following up on Prestel's ...

As Far as the Eye Could Reach

Accounts of Animals Along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821-1880

Phyllis S Morgan, Marc Simmons and Ronald Kil

Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail's routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains.

Brazil and Rio de Janeiro

Louise Spilsbury

Developing World is a high-end geography series that explores some of the fastest-developing countries and cities in the world and assesses how they are dealing with the challenges of the 21st century. Topics looked at include ...

Cabinet of Curiosities

A Kid's Guide to Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World

Gordon Grice

What kid doesn't love picking up shells on the beach, or finding a bird's egg or snake's rattle, or-treasure of treasures-a fossil? Then taking it home to put on a shelf or in a shoebox? That same impulse has, since the ...

Cats: A Literary Anthology

Carolyn M Jones

"For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit." – Christopher Smart For thousands of years writers have delighted in the company of cats, observing all the quirks of the ...

Cattle Colonialism

An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i

John Ryan Fischer

In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures ...

Charles Darwin

Father of Evolution

Kay Barnham

Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species changed both science and society - but why? This biography explores the life of Charles Darwin, from his early investigations of the natural world and his voyage on the HMS Beagle, to the publication ...

Chemical Research on Plant Growth

A Translation of Theodore de Saussure's Recherches Chimiques sur la Vegetation

Theodore de Saussure and Jane F Hill

Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation was a seminal work in the development of the understanding of photosythesis and plant chemistry. The original publication, which was the first concise summation ...

Coyote Valley

Deep History in the High Rockies

Thomas G Andrews

What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and ...

Dawn of the Neuron

The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems

Michel Anctil

In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term ...

De Lokroep van de Rivier [The River Singers]

Tom Moorhouse, Simon Mendez and Willeke Barens

Four small water voles are about to embark upon a long and perilous journey along the Great River, but will they ever find a safe place to call home? Adventurous, exciting, and bursting with charming illustrations – this is a book ...

Die Geheimnisvolle Welt der Pilze: Das Natur-Mitmachbuch fur Kinder [The Mysterious World of Fungi: The Nature Activity

Rita Lueder and Frank Lueder

Mushroom picking is a family affair: This activity book will awaken a fascination for fungi. A book full of activities for enterprising children from 7 years: watching, puzzles, crafts ... creative fun with mushrooms: painting with ink ...

Dinosaur Construction Kit, T. Rex

Susie Brooks and Jonathan Woodward

Dinosaur Construction Kit, T. Rex is a roaring great read with a build-your-own-dinosaur to create and collect. Join mighty T. Rex for a incredible day in his life as he explores his world and hunts for food. Then bring him back ...

Dogs: A Literary Anthology

Catherine Bradley

'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends'. – Alexander Pope Throughout the history of writing, dogs have captivated their owners with their loyalty and playfulness. The timeless ...

Drawn to Nature

A Sketchbook for the Naturalist

Holly Ward Bimba

A bird lands softly on a tree and begins to sing. Butterflies dance through the air. A sturdy oak sways gently with the breeze. Artist and illustrator Holly Ward Bimba inspires you to notice the natural world all around with this gorgeous ...

Everything Has a History

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

In this collection Everything Has a History, first published in 1951, the central theme is that everything has a history, and that we cannot fully understand anything without some knowledge of its history. Professor Haldane writes ...

Het Overstroomde Land [The Rising]

Tom Moorhouse, Simon Mendez and Willeke Barens

'I came here to warn you. Before it's too late.' When their uncle Sylvan pays an unexpected visit, young water voles Kale and Strife know something exciting must be about to happen. Little do they know that soon they'll be ...

Insect Pests and Fungus Diseases of Fruit and Hops

A Complete Manual for Growers

Percival J Fryer

Originally published in 1920, Insect Pests and Fungus Diseases of Fruit and Hops was predominantly aimed at fruit growers and was one of the most comprehensive reference guides to pests and fungus diseases at this time. Part one ...

Insects in 30 Seconds

30 Fascinating Topics for Bug Boffins Explained in Half a Minute

Anna Claybourne and Wesley Robins

Readers of Insects in 30 Seconds are invited on a trail of discovery through the amazing world of insects, with explanatory artworks, exciting mini-missions and quick, bite-sized summaries to guide them. Thirty key topics ...

John Scouler (c.1804-1871), Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages

E Charles Nelson

John Scouler has been overshadowed as a plant collector and general natural historian by the reputation of David Douglas, the best known 19th century Scottish botanist. Scouler was one of the first naturalists to visit the Galapagos islands ...

Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas

With an Appendix Including a Sketch of the Geology of Marocco

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Ball

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. This 1878 account of a scientific tour of Morocco and the Atlas mountains in 1871 was compiled from the journals of Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) and ...

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.

Moths, Myths, and Mosquitos

The Eccentric Life of Harrison Dyar

Marc E Epstein

On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley, revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric scientist ...

Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena

Vaughan Cornish and Harold Jeffreys

Originally published in 1934, Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena identifies and analyses the different types of waves most prevalent amongst the world's oceans and rivers and is an account of the author's ...

Of Population

An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, Being an Answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on That Sub

William Godwin

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Novelist, journalist and founder of philosophical anarchism, William Godwin (1756-1836) believed in the innate goodness of humanity and the possibility ...

Oil, Ice & Bone

Arctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom

Helen Frink

In 1860 fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Ransom followed his five older brothers into the dank foc'sle of a whaling vessel. For fifteen years he hunted seventy-ton bowheads in Arctic waters, for the many uses of "bone", blades ...

Origami Zoo

Learn to Make More Than 30 Fun Animal Motifs

Zulal Ayture-Scheele

The kit contains an instructional book and 25 sheets of origami paper. It includes a large variety of animal designs to choose from. Fashion a fantastic paper animal parade featuring everything from dinosaurs to a peacock with a huge tail ...

Rain

Manya Stojic

When rain comes to the parched African savanna, the animals use all their senses to track the storm. The porcupine smells rain in the air. The zebra sees lightning. The baboons hear thunder. The rhino feels the first drops. And the lion ...

Rare Treasures From the Library of the Natural History Museum

Judith Magee

The Library of the Natural History Museum contains one of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural history literature and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds over half a million artworks, comprising one ...

Roars & Trumpets

Tales from the Wild

Gurpreet Singh

Roars & Trumpets is the story of a man's life-long and obsessive passion for the jungles and his helpless surrender to the compelling call of the wild. Spanning a period of half a century, Gurpreet Singh's love affair ...

Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists

An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912

Dewey W Hall

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White.

Science at High Altitudes

Research Stations in the Mountains

Alba Zanini

The high mountain is a valuable natural laboratory for many categories of scientists: geologists, meteorologists, climatologists, biologists, botanists, zoologists, physicists, astronomers. Only in high mountains, in the last half century ...

Stained Glass Patterns: Garden Flowers

Sandy Allison

25 full-size, realistic patterns for common North American garden flowers. Includes a color sample for each pattern. Flowers include roses, lilies, geraniums, lilacs, zinnias, cosmos, daisies, and more.

Stained Glass Patterns: Songbirds

Sandy Allison

25 full-size, realistic patterns for common North American songbirds, along with suggests colour keys, that you can interpret with simple, bold glass or more complex pieces that mimic the birds' actual plumage in the wild.

Story of Life: Evolution

Katie Scott

Story of Life: Evolution is a graphic, fold-out guide to evolution. Story of Life: Evolution starts with the first single-cell organisms and ends with modern life forms. Packaged in the same format as Big Picture Press ...

Tatort Natur!: Betrug, Mord & Tauschung im Tierreich - und was Dahinter Steckt [Crime Scene Nature: Treachery, Murder

Baerbel Oftring

Crime stories for children from 7 years and upwards, that transmit knowledge about nature: this makes reading kids books fun! Scary offenders in close proximity – domestic animals can be ruthless when they are hungry ...

That's Deadly!

Fatal Facts That Will Test Your Fearless Factor

Crispin Boyer

Put on your suit of armor and grab your bear spray because it's time to explore the deadly side of things. That's Deadly! is the perfect book for curious boys and girls who want the real scoop on predators, natural disasters ...

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

Michael Sims

From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry David Thoreau – author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, schoolteacher, engineer – have long been an inspiration ...

The Bauers

Joseph, Franz & Ferdinand: An Illustrated Biography

Joseph Bauer, Franz Bauer, Ferdinand Bauer and Hans Walter Lack

As artists, Joseph, Franz and Ferdinand Bauer were independently highly successful: Joseph as court painter to the Prince of Lichtenstein; Franz (later Francis) was employed at Kew Gardens, England, as the "Botanick Painter to His ...

The Birds of Britain

Their Distribution and Habits

AH Evans

Originally published in 1916, The Birds of Britain was primarily intended to assist with scientific education in schools to provide a general overview of the types of birds most commonly found in Britain at that time.

The Eastern Fells

Wainwright's Illustrated Walking Guide to the Lake District Book 1

Alfred Wainwright and Clive Hutchby

One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook.

The Far Eastern Fells

Wainwright's Illustrated Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells Book 2

Alfred Wainwright and Clive Hutchby

One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook.

The Fields of Britannia

Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape

Stephen Rippon, Chris Smart and Ben Pears

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of ...

The Form and Properties of Crystals

An Introduction to the Study of Minerals and the Use of the Petrological Microscope

AB Dale

Originally published in 1932, The Form and Properties of Crystals provides a guide to the elementary principles underlying the examination, measurement and identification of minerals. The text was designed primarily for students ...

The Herbal or General History of Plants

The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and Enlarged by Thomas Johnson

John Gerard and Thomas A Johnson

John Gerard's Herbal or General History of Plants has long been the most famous English herbal. First published in 1597, it was republished in 1633 in an edition in which Thomas Johnson revised and enlarged the original text ...

The Last Unicorn

A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

William deBuys

In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science – a saola, the first large land mammal ...

The Life of Isaac Newton

Richard S Westfall

Isaac Newton was indisputably one of the greatest scientists in history. His achievements in mathematics and physics marked the culmination of the movement that brought modern science into being. Richard Westfall's biography ...

The Natural and the Human

Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841

Stephen Gaukroger

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique ...

The Night-Time Adventure Notebook

National Trust

When the sun goes down, it's time get out there with these outdoor challenges. Grab a torch and a grown-up and try stargazing, bat-watching and hunting for glow worms. With this fantastic Night-Time Adventure Notebook ...

The Snake Charmer

A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge

Jamie James

In the fall of 2001, deep in the jungle of Burma, a team of scientists searches for rare snakes. They are led by Dr. Joe Slowinski, at 38 already one of the most brilliant biologists of our time. It is the most ambitious scientific expedition ...

The Snowflake

Winter's Frozen Artistry

Kenneth Libbrecht and Rachel Wing

The Snowflake: Winter's Frozen Artistry is filled with a blizzard of breathtaking, close-up, highly detailed photographs of snow crystals. The book is written in a lighthearted, popular-science tone and focuses on what snowflakes ...

The Storm Leopards

Holly Webb

From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a charming wintery story just in time for Christmas. The countdown to Christmas has begun, and Isabelle is enjoying a family day out at the zoo. As her sister watches the penguins, Isabelle is the ...

The Wonder Garden

Wander Through 5 Habitats to Discover More Than 80 Amazing Animals

Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams

Open the gates of the Wonder Garden to explore five of Earth's most extraordinary habitats, each filled with incredible creatures and epic scenery. Trek through the Amazon Rainforest, travel to the Chihuahuan Desert, dive in the Great ...

This River Beneath the Sky

A Year on the Platte

Doreen Pfost

Each spring, formations of sandhill cranes crisscross the skies along Nebraska's Platte River in one of the last great migratory spectacles on the North American continent. From across the globe, tens of thousands of visitors gather ...

To the Edge of the Universe

Raman Prinja

The 36-page book folds out to 9 connected double-page spreads, taking you from the Earth's surface to the edge of the universe as a single, highly illustrated panorama. Once you have completed your journey to the outer limits of the ...

Top Wildlife Sites of the World

William Burrard-Lucas

Just what are the most amazing spectacles that every wildlife enthusiast has to see during their lifetime? Top nature photographer and inveterate traveller William Burrard-Lucas has spent years visiting the far-flung corners of every ...

Totally Wacky Facts About Land Animals

Cari Meister

Did you know that vultures pee on their legs to keep cool? Ever wondered how much a newborn hippo weighs? Curious to know how many mosquitoes a bat eats in one hour? In Totally Wacky Facts About Land Animals wacky, wild facts and ...

Totally Wacky Facts About Sea Animals

Cari Meister

Did you know that a mantis shrimp can punch with the force of a 22-caliber bullet? Ever wonder how big a newborn blue whale is? Curious to know how long a whale shark actually is? The wacky, wild facts and bright, bold design of ...

Tree of Wonder

The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree

Kate Messner and Simona Mulazzani

Deep in the forest, in the warm-wet green, 1 almendro tree grows, stretching its branches toward the sun. Who makes their homes here? 2 great green macaws, 4 keel-billed toucans, 8 howler monkeys, 16 fruit bats, 32 fer-de-lance vipers ...

Unsolved Mysteries of Nature

Heather L Montgomery

How can massive stones slide across the desert untouched? Can lightning really bounce like a ball? Why was it raining fish in Europe in 2004? Nature holds some of our world's strangest mysteries. Some of the best minds on the planet ...

Velociraptor

Daniel Nunn

This book takes a very simple look at the Velociraptor dinosaur, examining what it looked like, what it ate, how it behaved, and its special skills and features such as its sharp teeth and claws. Velociraptor also discusses how ...

Viewing the Future in the Past

Historical Ecology Applications to Environmental Issues

Thomas H Foster, Lisa M Paciulli and David J Goldstein

Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process ...

Views Across the Landscape

An Essential Guide to Landscape Photography

Peter Watson

This is a brilliant collection of landscape photography that gives the inspiration needed to take great digital photographs. Techniques include how to find the best locations, plus captions include all technical information. It comes from ...

Water

Bernhard Edmaier and Angelika Jung-Huttl

In his seminal photography books, Bernhard Edmaier combines his training as a geologist with an exquisite talent for capturing dreamy, colour-saturated, seemingly abstract images of earth from above. In this new volume Water ...

Weather Lore: Weather in General

A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings & Rules Concerning the Weather

Richard Inwards

A charming and beautifully illustrated book, first published in 1893, covering all aspects of the weather including: Times and Seasons, Months, Days of the week, Winter birds and times of their arrival, Sun, Moon and Stars, Wind, Clouds ...

Where Did They Go?

Emily Bornoff

Where has the polar bear gone? Where did the lemur go? Can you find them? In this stunning spotting book from printmaker and illustrator Emily Bornoff, search for endangered animals in jungles, in deserts and on the ice. Bornoff's ...

Wildlife of the World

Dorling Kindersley (DK) and Chris Packham

Wildlife of the World is a spectacular celebration of global wildlife bringing you face to face with the most fascinating animals on Earth. Journey through some of the most scenic and rich animal habitats, from the Amazon rainforest ...

Wyoming Grasslands

Michael P Berman, William S Sutton, Jr.,Frank H Goodyear, Charles R Preston and Dan Flores

Naturalist John James Audubon found the Great Plains and their wildlife so riveting when he visited the region in 1834 that he broke off a letter to his wife because he was too excited to write. In the almost two hundred years since then ...

A Guide to Tramore Bay, Dunes and Backstrand

Declan McGrath

This book describes a relatively small part (approximately 19 square kilometres) of the coastal features of southeast Ireland, namely the coastal cliffs, the Bay, dunes and the Backstrand at Tramore, in county Waterford.

A Guide to Wildlife Walks in Waterford

Declan McGrath

Waterford is a fantastic coastal county with mountains, rivers, forests, lakes and the sea within easy reach, all of which offer excellent walking in superb surroundings. The varied habitats of the county support a distinctive but varying ...

A Guide to Wildlife in Waterford City

Declan McGrath

Waterford City is the principal urban centre in the southeast and is prominently located on the banks of the Suir at the eastern end of the County, some 29 kilometres upriver from the mouth of Waterford Harbour. It is the oldest City in ...

A Guide to the Comeragh Mountains

Declan McGrath

The Comeragh Mountains are an isolated massif surrounded by the rich agricultural land of county Waterford in the southeast of Ireland. There are two mountain ranges, though the distinction between the Comeragh Mountains and the ...

A Year in Rock Creek Park

The Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, DC

Melanie Choukas-Bradley and Susan Austin Roth

Twice the size of Central Park, Rock Creek Park is the wild, wooded heart of Washington, DC, offering refuge from a frantic city pace to millions of visitors each year. Rock Creek Valley, which serves as the spine of the national park ...

Andaman Islands

In Wonderland

Tilak Ranjan Bera

This fascinating book takes the reader on a journey to the Andaman Islands, a captivating archipelago that has been shrouded in mystery because of its geographical distance from the mainland of India. The author, in his unique style and ...

Bradt Wildlife Guide: East African Wildlife

Philip Briggs and Ariadne Van Zandbergen

This indispensable guide offers all the information you need to get the most out of wildlife watching in East Africa. Accessible and beautifully illustrated, this revised second edition of Bradt's much praised guide to East African Wildlife ...

Coast: BBC Series 10 (Region 2)

Coast continues to explore, unearthing the unknown stories of our coastline to delight and regale us. This series brings new faces alongside the familiar, all bringing passion, skill and knowledge to reveal eye-opening coastal ...

Der Kosmos Waldfuehrer [The Kosmos Forest Guide]

Tiere, Blumen, Baume

Eva-Maria Dreyer and Wolfgang Dreyer

With 200 plants and 300 animals Der Kosmos Waldführer portrays an extensive species abundance. Through the clear classification according to the animal and plant groups such as butterflies, birds, trees / shrubs the species ...

Discovering Qatar

Frances Gillespie

Discovering Qatar evolved from a series of features on the archaeology, natural history and traditional life of Qatar that Frances Gillespie began publishing in a national newspaper in the late 1990s. There was little available ...

Enchantment and Exploitation

The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range

William deBuys

First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of ...

Exploring the Last Continent

An Introduction to Antarctica

Daniela Liggett, Bryan Storey, Yvonne Cook and Veronika Meduna

This multi-disciplinary book will cater to students and those who want to have a more critical look behind the scenes of Antarctic science. An Introduction to Antarctica will take a systems approach to providing insights into ...

Faunal Diversity in India (2-Volume Set)

RC Sobti, Kamal Kumar Jaiswal and Suman Mishra

It has been commonly accepted that biodiversity is an important natural resource for the functioning of the ecosystem that provides us with bene´¼üts essential for human well-being. It provides the basis for ecosystems and the services ...

Geology, Biodiversity & Natural Resources of Himalaya and Their Intellectual Property Law

RA Singh

Geology, Biodiversity & Natural Resources of Himalaya and Their Intellectual Property Law contains 51 original research papers covering different aspects of geology, biodiversity & natural resources of the Himalayas ...

Issledovaniia Ekosistem Estuariev rek Chizha i Chesha na Poluostrove Kanin [Studies of Ecosystems and Estuaries of Chizh

IV Miskevich, DS Moseev and VV Bryzgalov

This monograph examines the results of a complex research expedition mounted by the Arkhangelsk Center SBI and the Russian Geographical Society in the summer of 2014 on the Kanin Peninsula, a large peninsula in Nenets Autonomous Okrug ...

National Geographic the National Parks

An Illustrated History - 100 Years of American Splendor

Kim Heacox

An inspired tribute to the astonishing beauty and priceless cultural treasures of America's National Parks, National Geographic the National Parks is a lavish celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service ...

Nature Chronicles of India

Essays on Wildlife

Ananda Banerjee

The incredibly diverse forests and jungles of India have, for centuries, been a source of fascination, curiosity and awe. And, over the years, naturalists, biologists, hunters and gamekeepers – Hugh Allen, E.P. Sanderson ...

Nicobar Islands

In Nature's Kingdom

Tilak Ranjan Bera

The author is in love with the little known islands of the Nicobars and the simple people who live a peaceful life there. He has visited the archipelago several times before and after the tsunami of December 2004. This book is an extraordinary ...

Resource Planning Atlas of Jammu & Kashmir (People, Land & Forest): Jammu

Gurbakhsh Singh

‘Resources are not, they become’ is a famous doctrine proposed by Erich W. Zimmermann. Resources in general, and natural resources in particular, need to be managed and planned in such a way that they become capable of feeding ....

River Wandle Companion and Wandle Trail Guide

Bob Steel and Derek Coleman

The River Wandle Companion and Wandle Trail Guide is the first general guide to the river Wandle, South London, for some fifteen years, and the largest volume on the river since Hobson's Book of the Wandle nearly a century ...

The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia

David Andrew

Australia has a rich and unique array of animals, including the largest diversity of marsupials on earth. The recent growth in ecotourism has increased the popularity of mammal-spotting, particularly whale and dolphin-watching, but also ...

The House on Ipswich Marsh

Exploring the Natural History of New England

William Sargent

In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some ...

Wild Madagascar

Nick Garbutt

Illustrated throughout, Wild Madagascar takes the reader on a journey through all that is strange and bizarre on the island: the rainforests of the east, the deciduous forests of the west and the other-worldly spiny forests of ...

1 mal 1 des Pilzesammelns [Mushroom Collecting for Dummies]

Hans E Laux and Walter Paetzold

Take your basket and go into the the forest under the expert guidance of Walter Pätzold. The only mushroom teacher of Germany gives his knowledge to all mushroom pickers in this book. A precise identification key guides people to the ...

Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin

Seven Genera of the Southwest

Jon L Hawker

Until now, there has not been a single, full-color guide to some of the most recognizable genera of the southwestern United States: Agave, Dasylirion, Hechtia, Hesperaloe, Hesperoyucca ...

Andar per Piante tra Terra e Mare: Escursioni Botaniche sulle Coste de Calabria [Visiting Plants between the Earth and

Giuseppe Caruso and Francesco M Raimondo

A practical and nicely illustrated botanical excursion guide for the Calabrian coast, a region in southern Italy, forming the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula.

Arbres Remarquables en Bretagne [Remarkable Trees in Bretagne]

Un Patrimoine a Decouvrir

Mickael Jezegou

The tree in Brittany, France, occupies a special place in its history and collective imagination. Over time, man has woven a close bond and singular partnership with the plant. In the spheres of the countryside, forestry, urban spaces ...

Basisgids Mossen [Basic Guide to Mosses]

Klaas van Dort

A handy guide to mosses aimed at beginners. Mosses are relatively unknown – and because of that unloved. This is a shame because when look carefully you will see an amazing diversity of mosses everywhere. This practical guide is the ...

Biotechnological Strategies for the Conservation of Medicinal and Ornamental Climbers

Anwar Shahzad, Shiwali Sharma and Saeed A Siddiqui

Biotechnological Strategies for the Conservation of Medicinal and Ornamental Climbers provides an overview on adoption of biotechnological approaches for the conservation, micropropagation, synseed production of various medicinal ...

Current Trends in Medicinal Botany

Muhammad Iqbal and Altaf Ahmad

Man has been using plants for healing purposes since time immemorial. All ancient civilizations have referred to medicinal plants, but the knowledge on medicinal plants has accumulated quickly over the last few centuries. In the past few ...

Das Herbarium der Heil- und Giftpflanzen [The Herbarium of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]

Bernard Bertrand and Reinhard Saller

A panopticon in book form and a wonderful gift for anyone interested in botany, medicine and history. This book shows over 70 toxic plants from the major herbaria in Europe, displayed in original size. Curing and poisoning: secret knowledge ...

De Koninklijke Serres van Laken [The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken]

Een Uitzonderlijke Plantencollectie in een Glazen Stad

Irene Smets and Karin Borghouts

At the time of their construction (1874-1905) the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken were quite exceptional owing to their scale, the modernity of their architectural design in glass and metal, and the unique botanical collection that they house ...

Der Grosse Kosmos Pilzfuehrer: Alle Speisepilze mit Ihren Giftigen Doppelgaengern [The Big Kosmos Mushroom Field Guide:

Hans E Laux

With over 1,200 species and 1,200 photos, Der Große Kosmos Pilzführer is the most extensive mushroom identification book. Symbols, color code and a simple identification keys guide you safely through the abundance of ...

Der Kosmos Baumfuehrer: 370 Baume und Straucher Mitteleuropas [The Kosmos Tree Guide: 370 Trees and Shrubs of Central

Mark Bachofer and Joachim Mayer

The successful tree guide – now updated and revised. 315 trees and 55 shrubs common to Central Europe are shown in a unique combination of color photos and color drawings. In addition to the color photos of growth habit and ...

Die Koeniglichen Gewaechshaeuser von Laeken [The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken]

Eine Aussergewoehnliche Pflanzensammlung in einer Glaesernen Stadt

Irene Smets and Karin Borghouts

At the time of their construction (1874-1905) the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken were quite exceptional owing to their scale, the modernity of their architectural design in glass and metal, and the unique botanical collection that they house ...

Ethnobotany: A Recent Approach

BBS Kapoor, Suman C Sharma, Anil Arora and Rajaram Choyal

Ethnobotany shows the connection between human cultural practices and plants. The knowledge of ethnobotany has provided plenty of data about utilization of plants for human welfare. The plant as medicine is used in different systems of ...

Ethnopharmacology

Michael Heinrich and Anna K Jaeger

Ethnopharmacology is one of the world's fastest-growing scientific disciplines encompassing a diverse range of subjects. It links natural sciences research on medicinal, aromatic and toxic plants with socio-cultural studies and has ...

Evolutionary Ethnobiology

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque , Patrícia de Medeiros and Alejandro Casas

Ethnobiology is a fascinating science. To understand this vocation it needs to be studied under an evolutionary point of view that is very strong and significant, although this aspect is often poorly approached in the literature.

Field Guide to Common Texas Grasses

Stephan L Hatch, Kelly C Umphres and A Jenet Ardoin

Covering 172 species of the most significant common grasses growing in Texas, this complete update of the now-classic Common Texas Grasses: An Illustrated Guide contains range maps and color images of the inflorescences and ...

Flora of Florida, Volume 2: Dicotyledons, Cabombaceae Through Geraniaceae

Richard P Wunderlin and Bruce F Hansen

With more than 4,000 kinds of native and non-native ferns and fern allies, nonflowering seed plants, and flowering seed plants, Florida has the third largest plant diversity of any state in the nation. Due to Florida's mild climate ...

Flora of Florida, Volume 3: Dicotyledons, Vitaceae Through Urticaceae

Richard P Wunderlin and Bruce F Hansen

With more than 4,000 kinds of native and non-native ferns and fern allies, nonflowering seed plants, and flowering seed plants, Florida has the third largest plant diversity of any state in the nation. Due to Florida's mild climate ...

Flora of Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh (India), Volume 1

GD Pal

Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh, India, is botanically very rich and home to many genera and species. Though several scientists, such as Panigrahi & Naik (1961), and Sastry & Sahni (1969) have collected plants from the district ...

Flora of Thailand, Volume 11, Part 4

Campanulaceae, Elatinaceae, Lythraceae, Onagraceae, Ruppiaceae, Sapotaceae & Staphylaceae

Thawatchai Santisuk

Volume 11, part 4 covers the families Campanulaceae, Elatinaceae, Lythraceae, Onagraceae, Ruppiaceae, Sapotaceae, and Staphylaceae.

Flora of Thailand, Volume 12, Part 2

Orchidaceae 2 (Epidendroideae P.P.: Neottieae, Tropideae, Nervilieae, Gastrodieae, Thaieae, Calypsoeae, Arethuseae, Coll

Thawatchai Santisuk

The parts in this volume deal with the family Orchidaceae, the orchids. The second part covers the trives Epidendroideae P.P.: Neottieae, Tropideae, Nervilieae, Gastrodieae, Thaieae, Calypsoeae, Arethuseae, Collabieae, and Cymbidieae.

Fungi: A Very Short Introduction

Nicholas P Money

The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Tens of thousands of fungal species have been described and many more are known only from the abundance of their genes in soil and water. Fungi are hugely important ...

Grundkurs Pilzbestimmung: Eine Praxisanleitung fuer Anfaenger und Fortgeschrittene [Basic Course in Mushroom Identificat

Rita Lueder

This book, unique in its design, allows readers to learn about mushrooms in a simple, systematic and thus secure manner. The basic course guides the reader step-by-step through the systematic identification of fungi with an easy-to-use-key ...

Guide des Fougeres et Plantes Alliees: France et Europe [Guide to Ferns and Allied Plants: France and Europe]

Remy Prelli

This identification guide covers hundreds of species of ferns and related plants (Sphenopsida, club mosses, Selaginella, and quillworts) found in France and the rest of Western Europe. The approach is based on simple observation ...

Herbal Medicine

Keys to Physiomedicalism Including Pharmacopoeia

Chris Menzies-Trull

Practical and informative, a long overdue textbook, essential for those involved in prescribing herbal medicines. This is the ultimate text of clinical conditions and their treatment using herbal medications written by a medical herbalist ...

Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop, Volume 1

Farming, Economics and Biofuel

Bir Bahadur, Mulpuri Sujatha and Nicolas Carels

Jatropha curcas or Physic Nut is a small tree (bush plant) that produces fruits under tropical climate. The fruits contained seed that are 40 percent oil rich. This oil is excellent for biodiesel. The bush is a now new coming ...

Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop, Volume 2

Genetic Improvement and Biotechnology

Bir Bahadur, Mulpuri Sujatha and Nicolas Carels

Jatropha curcas or Physic Nut is a small tree (bush plant) that produces fruits under tropical climate. The fruits contained seed that are ~40% oil rich. This oil is excellent for biodiesel. The bush is a now new coming crop ...

Keys to Lichens of North America

Revised and Expanded

Irwin M Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff and Susan Laurie-Bourque

Created in response to requests from longtime users, this addition to the acclaimed reference to North American lichens compiles updated and expanded keys for the identification of these fascinating organisms. An ideal laboratory resource, it covers ..

L'Atlas de la Flore Rare et Menacee de Haute-Savoie [The Atlas of Rare and Threatened Flora of Haute-Savoie]

Denis Jordan

Haute-Savoie, France, is a department rich in biodiversity, especially for plant species that have adapted to a variety of natural environmental conditions, such as edges of lakes and the Rhône, but also high mountains.

L'Herbier Toxique: Codes Secrets pour Plantes Utiles [The Herbarium of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]

Bernard Bertrand

Here are over 70 poisonous plants and their disturbing stories that are unlikely but still amazing. From the Belladonna to the potato we discover that toxicity is largely a matter of dose. In modern societies there is a real ...

Les Serres Royales de Laeken [The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken]

Une Incomparable Collection de Plantes dans une Cite de Verre

Irene Smets and Karin Borghouts

At the time of their construction (1874-1905) the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken were quite exceptional owing to their scale, the modernity of their architectural design in glass and metal, and the unique botanical collection that they house ...

Marine Macro- and Microalgae

An Overview

F Xavier Malcata, Sousa Pinto Isabel and Ana Catarina Afonso Guedes

The marine environment accounts for most biodiversity on our planet, while offering a huge potential for citizens' health and well-being. Its extensive resources already constitute the basis of many economic activities, but many more ...

Medicinal Plant Repertoire

A Perspective of Biogeographical Gateway of India

Bolin Kumar Konwar

From the preface: "North East India belongs to the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity "hotspot" and comprises 7.7% of India’s total geographical area supporting 50% of its flora. The region houses more than 2 ...

Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees

Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species An Illustrated Guide

Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L Schwartz

In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz offer another indispensible guide to replacing nonnative plants with native alternatives.

Orchidees du Bresil: As Orquídeas da Serra do Castelo (Espírito Santo, Brasil), Volume 1

Guy R Chiron and Renato Ximenes Bolsanello

Brazil, with three thousand species of orchids, is one of the world's regions where biodiversity in this family is the largest. Three major biomes intersect in the country and the Atlantic forest, though largely destroyed, is probably ...

Ornamental Trees of India

Identification, Descriptor and Landscape Use

RK Roy

Ornamental trees are extensively used for beautification of parks, gardens, and avenues, as well as development of green belt and urban green spaces. This book contains scientific and practical information (in 16 chapters) on various aspects ...

Oxidative Stress in Plants

Causes, Consequences and Tolerance

Naser A Anjum, Shahid Umar and Altaf Ahmad

Oxidative stress is a central factor in a number of biotic and abiotic stress phenomena that occurs when there is a serious imbalance in any plant cell compartment between the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidant ...

Papyrus - The Plant That Changed the World

From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars

John Gaudet

At the center of the most vital human-plant relationship in history, Papyrus evokes the mysteries of the ancient world while holding the key to the world's wetlands and atmospheric stability. From ancient Pharos to 21st Century ...

Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress

Narendra Tuteja and Sarvajeet Singh Gill

The mechanisms underlying endurance and adaptation to environmental stress factors in plants have long been the focus of intense research. Plants overcome environmental stresses by development of tolerance, resistance or avoidance mechanisms ...

Plant Functional Diversity

Organism Traits, Community Structure, and Ecosystem Properties

Eric Garnier, Marie-Laure Navas and Karl Grigulis

Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the diversity of taxa, and species in particular. However, other facets of diversity also need to be considered for a comprehensive understanding ...

Plant Virology

Roger Hull

The seminal text Plant Virology is now in its fifth edition. It has been 10 years since the publication of the fourth edition, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual and factual advances. The fifth edition of ...

Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile

Martin Gardner, Paulina Hechenleitner, Josefina Hepp, Gulnur Eksi, Isik Guner and Hulya Korkmaz

This exquisite volume, featuring 81 unique commissioned water colour paintings represents the labour and observations of three talented award-winning artists. Gülnur Eksi, Isik Güner and Hülya Korkmaz, have painstakingly ...

Pollination Power

Heather Angel

Pollination Power is a visually spectacular insight into the hidden secrets of plant pollination, unravelling the deceit, tricks and rewards that plant bestow upon their pollinators. Throughout Pollination Power, full ...

Siderurgie et Bryologie en Lorraine Belge et Francaise [Metallurgy and Bryology in Belgian and French Lorraine]

Philippe de Zuttere

The second monograph in this series, written by Philippe De Zuttere describes the peak of ironworks industry in the Belgian and French region of Lorraine, a region that is rich in bryophytes. The sites described are Musson, Halanzy ...

Sierra Nevada Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species of the Montane Forest Region

James R Kavanagh

The longest continuous mountain chain in the U.S., the Sierra Nevada mountains are one of the most diverse coniferous forests on Earth. The world's largest tree, the sequoia, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the ...

Tarahumara Medicine

Ethnobotany and Healing Among the Raramuri of Mexico

Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascon and Alfonso Paredes

The Tarahumara, one of North America's oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning "nimble feet" – and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in ...

The Gardener's Year

Pippa Greenwood

This beautifully illustrated guide contains specific month-by-month 'to do' lists for ornamental gardens, edible crops and general maintenance, as well as tips on things to look out for, such as pests and how to eliminate them.

The Gentianaceae (2-Volume Set)

Jan J Rybczinski, Michael R Davey and Anna Mikula

This set consists of two volumes on the family Gentianaceae. Comprising twelve chapters, The Gentianaceae, Volume 1 centres upon the characterization and ecology of Gentianaceae worldwide, with emphasis on the application ...

The Gentianaceae, Volume 2

Biotechnology and Applications

Jan J Rybczinski, Michael R Davey and Anna Mikula

The Gentianaceae, Volume 2, the second of two volumes on the Gentianaceae, is devoted to aspects of biotechnology and their applications. It consists of 18 chapters and covers micropropagation by means of organogenesis or somatic ...

The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

An Exceptional Plant Collection in a Glass City

Irene Smets and Karin Borghouts

At the time of their construction (1874-1905) the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken were quite exceptional owing to their scale, the modernity of their architectural design in glass and metal, and the unique botanical collection that they house ...

The Seed Garden

The Art and Practice of Seed Saving

Lee Alan Buttala and Shanyn Siegel

Filled with advice for the home gardener and the more seasoned horticulturist alike, The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving provides straightforward instruction on collecting seed that is true-to-type and ready for ...

The Wildest Place on Earth

Italian Gardens & the Invention of Wilderness

John Hanson Mitchell

The Wildest Place on Earth is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered the creation of the world's first national park system ...

Trichoderma: Identification and Agricultural Applications

Gary J Samuels and Prakash K Hebbar

This is the 'how to' book for Trichoderma, a genus of ecologically important beneficial microorganisms that has been shown to be useful in meeting critical agricultural challenges such as nutrient and mineral uptake and ...

Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales

Elgene Owen Box

This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales ...

Was Blueht Denn Da? Das Original [What Blooms There? The Original]

Margot Spohn, Marianne Golte-Bechtle and Roland Spohn

Plant identification with the standard work – for 80 years already. Easily identify over 870 plants – with the proven classification by flower colour and the more than 2,000 faithful color drawings. Arrows mark important ...

Was Blueht denn da? Der Fotoband [What Blooms There? The Photobook]

Margot Spohn

Plant identification with the standard work. Simply identify more than 550 flowers – with the proven classification system based on flower colour and flower form and more than 1,300 photos and drawings. For each flower multiple ...

What is a Garden?

William S Merwin and Larry Cameron

Poet and environmentalist Merwin, W. S. moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last thirty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm, creating a lush, sustainable forest on a former pineapple plantation ...

Wildkrauter, Beeren und Pilze: Erkennen und Sammeln [Wild Herbs, Berries and Mushrooms: Recognizing and Collecting]

Eva-Maria Dreyer and Wolfgang Dreyer

The nature on our doorstep is full of delights. Whether a healthy herb salad of daisies and dandelions, vigorous elderberry bread or cottage cheese casserole made with fresh, self-collected wild mushrooms – there is an infinity ...

Yunnan Ferns of China (Supplement) [English / Chinese]

Jiao Yu and Li Chengsen

The investigation of Yunnan ferns has been carried out for more than 10 years. Ferns and their allies are often a relatively neglected component of plant life in many parts of the world, but Yunnan is fortunate in that the exceptionally ...

Adaptive Behavior and Learning

JER Staddon

Every day at about 4:30, Jazz, a Hungarian Vizsla dog, leaps up on the sofa and looks out for his owner who always comes home at 5:00. He doesn't need an internal clock because he has an acute sense of smell that allows him to measure ...

Animal Athletes

An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach

Duncan J Irschick and Timothy E Higham

Animals perform many athletic tasks to an amazing degree of accomplishment: not only spectacular feats of running and jumping but also routine actions that ensure survival such as feeding, vocalization, diving, flying, and many more.

Animal Maltreatment

Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations

Lacey Levitt, Gary Patronek, Thomas Grisso and Kirk Heilbrun

Animal maltreatment includes physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or hoarding of animals, and all states have laws prohibiting various forms of animal maltreatment. About one-half have statutory provisions mandating or allowing courts to ...

BSAVA Small Animal Formulary, Part B: Exotic Pets

Anna Meredith

As the popularity of exotic pets has increased, the requirement to extract and expand their sections from the BSAVA Small Animal Formulary has arisen. Following the tried and trusted format of previous editions of the Formulary ...

Basic Aspects of Hearing

Physiology and Perception

Brian CJ Moore, Roy D Patterson, Ian M Winter, Robert P Carlyon and Hedwig E Gockel

The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious, triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in animals and humans. Presented papers range from ...

Bovine Medicine

Peter Cockcroft

Thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes in the industry, Bovine Medicine, 3rd Edition, offers practicing large animal veterinarians and veterinary students a comprehensive reference to core aspects of contemporary cattle ...

Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates

Studies of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Walter D Koenig and Janis L Dickinson

Cooperative breeders are species in which individuals beyond a pair assist in the production of young in a single brood or litter. Although relatively rare, cooperative breeding is widespread taxonomically and continues to pose challenges ...

Der Sehsinn der Tiere: Einfuehrung in die Neuronalen Grundlagen des Sehens [Animal Sight: Introduction to the Neuronal

Esther Peterhans

For most people, vision is a process that seems self-evident. In reality, however, the visual process but is based on a complex interplay between eyes and brain. In this book, the basic functions of the visual process are described.

Dukes' Physiology of Domestic Animals

William O Reece, Howard Erickson, Jesse Goff and Etsuro Uemura

Fully revised, Dukes' Physiology of Domestic Animals, 13th Edition is a classic reference on domestic animal physiology. It provides detailed descriptions of animal function and dysfunction, with an emphasis on clinical relevance ...

Ecological Parasitology

Reflections on 50 Years of Research in Aquatic Ecosystems

Gerald W Esch

Professor Gerald Esch has already published two books in what is becoming an informal series of essays exploring the way that discoveries about the biology of parasites have influenced ecological and evolutionary theories over a career ...

Environmental Microbial Biotechnology

Lala Behari Sukla, Nilotpala Pradhan, Sandeep Panda and Barada Kanta Mishra

Environmental Microbial Biotechnology provides a timely review of strategies for coping with polluted ecosystems by employing bacteria, fungi and algae. It presents the vast variety of microbial technologies currently applied in ...

Environmental Microbiology

From Genomes to Biogeochemistry

Eugene L Madsen

New and expanded for its second edition, Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry¸ Second Edition, is a timely update to a classic text filled with ideas, connections, and concepts that advance an in-depth ...

Genetics Essentials

Concepts and Connections

Benjamin A Pierce

Derived from Ben Pierce's popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics ...

Introduction to Protein Science

Architecture, Function, and Genomics

Over the last century, the centrality of proteins to life on earth has become increasingly clear – from forming crucial molecules such as antibodies in the immune system to acting as catalysts for specific reactions, and as signallers ...

Macrodeteriogens of Wood at Visakhapatnam Harbour, East Coast of India

SK Pati, MV Rao and M Balaji

Wood is subjected to marine deterioration mainly due to macroscopic fouling and boring organisms, though many microscopic forms also contribute in hastening material deterioration. These macro- and microscopic organisms involved in determining ...

Marine Mammal Physiology

Requisites for Ocean Living

Michael A Castellini and Jo-Ann Mellish

Marine Mammal Physiology explores the essential aspects of what makes marine mammals physiologically "different" from terrestrial mammals in regard to life in the sea. Neither a collection of scientific publications nor ...

Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress

Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress

Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren and Helga Stan-Lotter

Many microorganisms and some macro-organisms can live under extreme conditions. For example, high and low temperature, acidic and alkaline conditions, high salt areas, high pressure, toxic compounds, high level of ionizing radiation ...

Recent Trends in Life Sciences

MH Fulekar and RK Kale

The greatest advances of the recent past which include ecosystem and biodiversity study, biotechnology aspect, proteomic and genomic studies leading to metagenomic and the health care using the diagnosis, prevention of disorder and disease ...

Scholarpedia of Touch

Tony Prescott, Ehud Ahissar and Eugene Izhikevich

Scholarpedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including ...

The Historical Animal

Susan Nance

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical ...

The Hunt

Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey

With over 240 breathtaking photographs and footage from the landmark BBC series, The Hunt captures the dramatic encounters of predator and prey in an entirely new light. Featuring the extraordinary strategies of a huge ...

The Middle Ear

Science, Otosurgery, and Technology

Sunil Puria, Richard R Fay and Arthur N Popper

The middle ear plays a vital role in the sense and sensitivity of hearing. Of the various characteristics that distinguish mammals from other vertebrates, several pertain specifically to the middle-ear system, such as the presence of ...

The Society of Genes

Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher

Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to "survival machines" whose sole purpose was to preserve "the selfish molecules known as genes." How these selfish genes work together ...

Welcome to the Microbiome

Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around You

Rob DeSalle and Susan L Perkins

Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing ...

A Natural History of Human Morality

Michael Tomasello

A Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children, Michael Tomasello reconstructs ...

Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments

From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats

Ludomir R Lozny

Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological ...

Divergence With Genetic Exchange

Michael L Arnold

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding different conceptual frameworks. Those subscribing to ...

Evolution: Making Sense of Life

Carl Zimmer and Douglas J Emlen

Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have produced a thoroughly revised new edition of their widely praised evolution textbook. Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana ...

Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversification from Genotype to Phenotype

Pierre Pontarotti

Evolutionary Biology presents 20 selected contributions to the 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2014 in Marseille. They are grouped under the following major themes: - Genotype to Phenotype ...

Evolutionary Developmental Anthropology

A Post-Genomic Approach to Understanding Primate and Human Evolution

Julie Boughner and Campbell Rolian

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging scientific field applies tools and approaches from modern developmental biology to understand ...

Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity

Alexander H Harcourt

Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical people much more diverse than those at polar latitudes? Why can only Japanese people digest seaweed? How are darker skin, sunlight, and fertility related? Did Neanderthals and ...

It's a Jungle in There

How Competition & Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind

David A Rosenbaum

It's a Jungle in There pursues the hypothesis that the overarching theory of biology, Darwin's theory, should be the overarching theory of cognitive psychology. Taking this approach, David Rosenbaum, a cognitive psychologist ...

The Clothed Ape

Human Evolution Laid Bare

Fernando Olalla

In The Clothed Ape, the author looks at all the hypotheses and theories that have so far been suggested regarding the different variables that play a part in human evolution: from why we are bipedal to the menopause, via the ...

The Neanderthals Rediscovered

How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story

Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A Morse

The Neanderthals' story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. We can now trace their evolution in Europe and spread across Asia, study their DNA and piece together how they lived ...

The Primate Origins of Human Nature

Carel P van Schaik

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical ...

The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack

and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

Ian Tattersall

In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution ...

The Third Chimpanzee [For Young Readers]

The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Jared Diamond and Rebecca Stefoff

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behaviour that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft and nuclear weapons – all within ...

Trends in Biological Anthropology, Volume 1

Karina Gerdau-Radonic and Kathleen McSweeney

This first volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The study of modern baboons as proxies to understand extinct hominin species’ diet and the interpretation of skeletal degenerative joint ...

Distribution Ecology

From Individual Habitat Use to Species Biogeographical Range

Marcelo Hernan Cassini

Distribution Ecology brings together a set of approaches to the study of individual-species ecology based on the analysis of spatial variations of abundance. Distribution ecology assumes that ecological phenomena can be understood ...

Ecological Mechanics

Principles of Life's Physical Interactions

Mark Denny

Plants and animals interact with each other and their surroundings, and these interactions – with all their complexity and contingency – control where species can survive and reproduce. In this comprehensive and groundbreaking ...

Physical and Physiological Forest Ecology

Pertti Hari, Kari Heliovaara and Liisa Kulmala

Physical and Physiological Forest Ecology introduces a holistic synthesis of carbon and nitrogen fluxes in forest ecosystems from cell to stand level during the lifetime of trees. Establishing that metabolism and physical phenomena ...

Understanding Complex Ecosystem Dynamics

A Systems and Engineering Perspective

William Yackinous

Understanding Complex Ecosystem Dynamics: A Systems and Engineering Perspective takes a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on complex system dynamics, beginning with a discussion of relevant systems and engineering skills and ...

A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration

John A Stanturf, Palle Madsen and David Lamb

While restoration ecology has traditionally aimed to re-create some putative more 'natural' ecological state, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged over the last decade as an approach aimed more at restoring natural function ...

Airport Landscape

Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age

Sonja Duempelmann and Charles Waldheim

Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they have remained relatively peripheral in design discourse. In spite of this, however, landscape architects in recent decades have reaffirmed their historic assertions about ...

Au Coeur de la Nature: Cent Ans de Recherches au Parc National Suisse [The Heart of Nature: One Hundred Years of Researc

Bruno Baur and Thomas Scheurer

The Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) has played a leading role in the foundation of the Swiss National Park in 1914. The stakes were high: to create a fantastic outdoor laboratory to study the evolution of nature undisturbed by human ...

Baumwelten und ihre Geschichten [The World of Trees and its Stories]

Conrad Amber

Trees and forests touch our souls – especially if they are allowed to grow old and have a identity. To dwell under an an ancient lime tree or even to stand in a grove of oak trees, which already existed in the Middle Ages ...

Coastal Zones

Solutions for the 21st Century

Juan Baztan, Omer Chouinard, Betty Jorgensen, Paul Tett, Jean-Paul Vanderlinden and Liette Vasseur

Coastal Zones: Solutions for the 21st Century bridges the gap between national and international efforts and the local needs for actions in communities where coastal zone challenges are faced daily. The solution-oriented approach ...

Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities

The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program

Eddie N Bernard

Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world's oceans. Because of the geographical extent of U.S. coastlines, an earthquake in Alaska can generate a local tsunami for Alaskans and ...

Dryland Forests

Management and Social Diversity in Africa and Asia

Purabi Bose and Han van Dijk

Dryland Forests: Management and Social Diversity in Africa and Asia provides new insights and conceptual understandings of the human and gender dimension of vulnerability in relation to the dynamics of tenure reforms in the drylands ...

Dynamics of the Pantanal Wetland in South America

Ivan Bergier and Mario Luis Assine

Dynamics of the Pantanal Wetland in South America provides readers with in-depth insights into the changes in the Pantanal wetland from its formation to the actual and likely future states. It reveals that today's Pantanal ...

Ecology and Biodiversity of the Tanguar Haor

A Unique Wetland of Bangladesh

Khandoker Azizul Islam

Tanguar Haor is one of the largest natural freshwater wetlands in the northeast region of Bangladesh. This haor (haors are wetland ecosystems in the north eastern part of Bangladesh) is extremely important for its large and diverse water ...

Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere

Rattan Lal, Klaus Lorenz, Reinhard F Huettl, Bernd Uwe Schneider and Joachim von Braun

Ecological functions and human wellbeing depend on ecosystem services. Among the ecosystem services are provisional (food, feed, fuel, fiber), regulating (carbon sequestration, waste recycling, water cleansing), cultural (aesthetic, ...

Geopedology: An Integration of Geomorphology and Pedology for Soil and Landscape Studies

Joseph Alfred Zinck, Graciela Metternicht, Gerardo Bocco and Hector Francesco del Valle

Geopedology offers a proven approach for reliable mapping of soil-landscape relationships to derive information for policy, planning and management at scales ranging from local to regional. Geopedology presents the ...

Grassland Restoration and Management

David Blakesley and Peter Buckley

Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth century, there is an urgent need to understand what little unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management and restoration of existing sites, as well as re-creating ...

Kulturlandschaften Lesen: Vielfaeltige Lebensraeume Erkennen und Verstehen [Reading Cultural Landscapes: Recognizing and

Bruno P Kremer

Without human intervention Central Europe would be a vast forest, and thus fairly species-poor. Around 10,000 years ago however, people began to intervene in undisturbed natural areas and to use them, and over time created a mosaic of ...

Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation

Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-Disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests USA

Cathryn H Greenberg and Beverly S Collins

This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood ...

Naturschutz, Werte, Wandel: Die Geschichte Ausgewaehlter Schutzgebiete in Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz [Cons

Christina Pichler-Koban and Michael Jungmeier

Protected areas such as national parks, biosphere reserves and nature parks, are the flagships of the conservation movement. The authors recount the genesis of the following protected areas: Nationalpark Berchtesgaden (DE) ...

Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances

Ajith H Perera, Brian R Sturtevant and Lisa J Buse

Forest landscape disturbances are a global phenomenon. Simulation models are an important tool in understanding these broad scale processes and exploring their effects on forest ecosystems.

Soils of Slovenia

Blaz Repe, Borut Vrscaj and Primoz Simoncic

This books gives a complete overview of the soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management ...

Sustainable Land Management

Learning from the Past for the Future

Selim Kapur, Hari Eswaran and Winfried EH Blum

Soil quality is threatened by many human-induced activities, but can also be improved by good land management. In the relatively short history of mankind on earth, the landscape and soils of the world have been drastically modified from ...

The American Sea

A Natural History of the Gulf of Mexico

Rezneat Milton Darnell

For more than a decade, Rezneat Darnell worked on this major synthesis of what is known about the Gulf of Mexico. His goal: to bring a deeper understanding of "the American Sea" to students, scientists, managers, and educated ...

Wetland Soils

Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification

Michael J Vepraskas and Christopher B Craft

In the U.S., both federal and state laws prevent wetlands from being filled in or drained unless permits are obtained by an agency of the federal government. Boundaries of a wetland must be identified and located in the field by examining ...

Woodlands

Oliver Rackham

Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities [...] Written by one of Britain's best-known naturalists, Woodlands offers a fascinating ...

Biodiversity of Aquatic Ecosystem

Significance, Threats and Conservation

Pawan Kumar

The present book mainly deals with aquatic biodiversity, conservation, aquaculture and environmental pollution. The extensive use of illustrations is intended to increase the understanding of the concepts and also show modern facilities.

Call of the Kokako

Jeff Hudson

Call of the Kokako is a journey of discovery into what makes the kokako 'tick' in order to save the species. This journey and work resulted in the restoration of the largest population of kokako in New Zealand with the ...

Coastal Biodiversity of Undivided Balasore District

UB Mohapatra, Hemanta Kumar Sahu, AK Biswal and SD Rout

This study covers the entire coast of Balasore and Bhadrak districts (undivided Balasore district), Odisha, India, spanning over a length of 120 km. The entire coast encompasses many complex and dynamic ecosystems like riverine, estuarine ...

Deutschlands Wilde Tiere: Wo Adler, Dachs und Biber Leben [Germany's Wild Animals: Where Eagles, Badgers and Beavers Liv

Ekkehard Ophoven

Lesser Spotted Eagle hunt their prey mainly on foot, lynx hear mice rustle in the leaves from 50 metres away, and wolves are spreading more and more. Germany is a paradise for numerous unique species of wildlife. Eighty native animals in ...

Geopolitique de l'Ours Polaire [Geopolitics of the Polar Bear]

Remy Marion, Farid Benhammou, Valerie Masson-Delmotte and Pascal Orcier

The polar bear by itself embodies major environmental issues, starting with global warming. But in essence, environmental issues are territorial conflicts. The protection of the polar bear generates questions about survival ...

Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change

David B Lindenmayer, Philip Barton and Jennifer Pierson

Ecological surrogates and indicators are used widely by resource managers because they provide a simpler way to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. The potential for surrogates and indicators to guide complex ...

Pandas and People

Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainability

Jianguo Liu

Understanding the complex relationships between humans and the natural world is essential for achieving environmental sustainability and improving human well-being, yet many studies are unable to reveal complex interactions and hidden trends.

Protected Areas

Are They Safeguarding Biodiversity

Lucas N Joppa

Protected areas spearhead our response to the rapidly accelerating biodiversity crisis. However, while the number of protected areas has been growing rapidly over the past 20 years, the extent to which the world's protected areas are ...

Restoring Layered Landscapes

History, Ecology, and Culture

David Havlick and Marion Hourdequin

Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between human ...

Sie Sind Wieder Da: Baer, Luchs und Wolf Erleben [They Are Back: Encountering Bears, Lynx and Wolves]

Ralf Buerglin

Some people are afraid of them, others like them. We had (almost) eradicated them and now they are coming back into our forests and mountains. The idea to encounter them in the wild is a dream for many. Now it can become a reality.

What Works in Conservation 2015

William J Sutherland, Lynn V Dicks, Nancy Ockendon and Rebecca K Smith

- Is planting grass margins around fields beneficial for wildlife? - Which management interventions increase bee numbers in farmland? - Does helping migrating toads across roads increase populations? - How do you reduce ...

Carbon Crunch

How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - And How to Fix it

Dieter Helm

In a new edition of his hard-hitting book Carbon Crunch on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy ...

Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management

The Asia-Pacific Region

Nick Harvey

Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management focuses on the potential impacts of global change on coastal environments in the Asia-Pacific region. The region is significant because phenomena such as the Asian Monsoon and the ...

Global Overshoot

Contemplating the World's Converging Problems

Doug Cocks

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system. Global Overshoot compares and critiques attitudes ...

Ice is Melting

Ethics in the Arctic

Leif Magne Helgesen, Kim Holmen and Ole Arve Misund

The ice in the Arctic is melting. Nowhere on earth can the changes in our climate be seen as clearly as here. What is happening? Are we heading for a catastrophe, or is this only a problem for polar bears and walruses? How will a warmer ...

Recarbonization of the Biosphere

Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle

Rattan Lal, Klaus Lorenz, Reinhard F Huettl, Bernd Uwe Schneider, Joachim von Braun and Klaus Toepfer

Recarbonization of the Biosphere describes comprehensively carbon (C) cycle process in global ecosystems and the potential and co-benefits of recarbonization of the biosphere. An ever increasing human population is disposing ...

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 184

George W Ware

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in a ...

The Mechanisms of Reactions Influencing Atmospheric Ozone

Jack G Calvert, John J Orlando, William R Stockwell and Timothy J Wallington

Ozone, an important trace component, is critical to life on Earth and to atmospheric chemistry. The presence of ozone profoundly impacts the physical structure of the atmosphere and meteorology. Ozone is also an important photolytic source ...

Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Bill Nye and Corey S Powell

Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future. In Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World ...

What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming

Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action

Per Espen Stoknes and Jorgen Randers

The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows, making it harder to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable change ahead. It is a catch-22 ...

Wildlife Toxicity Assessments for Chemicals of Military Concern

Marc A Williams, Gunda Reddy, Jr.,Michael J Quinn and Mark S Johnson

Wildlife Toxicity Assessments for Chemicals of Military Concern is a compendium of chemical-specific toxicity information with discussions on the rationale and development of Wildlife Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs) intended for ...

50 Erdschaetze, die Unsere Welt Veraenderten [Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History]

Eric Chaline

Using the word "minerals" in its broadest sense, 50 Erdschätze, die Unsere Welt Veränderten features the metals, alloys, rocks, organic minerals, and gemstones that humans have used as the building blocks of ...

A Natural History of Wine

Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle

An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation ...

A Walking Guide to the Geology of Islay

An Introduction to Islay's Geological Past with 12 Illustrative Excursions

David Webster, Roger Anderton and Alastair Skelton

A Walking Guide to the Geology of Islay describes 12 varied excursions on Islay that tell the fascinating story of Islay's geological past from 2 billion-year old gneiss to the Ice Age. The geology of each walk is described ...

Applied Groundwater Modeling

Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport

Mary P Anderson, William W Woessner and Randall J Hunt

This second edition is extensively revised throughout with expanded discussion of modeling fundamentals and coverage of advances in model calibration and uncertainty analysis that are revolutionizing the science of groundwater modeling.

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 59: Indonesia 1985-2001: Expeditions of the Association Pyreneenne

Francois Brouquisse, Louis Deharveng and Michael Laumanns

Fourteen expeditions to Indonesia are presented in this volume. The expeditions mainly targeted Sulawesi and Sumatra, but also Halmahera (Moluccas), West Papua (formerly Irian Yaya), and the small island of Muna. Describes 338 caves and ...

Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space

Stuart Lowe and Chris North

Life. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search "to infinity and beyond". In this truly mind-blowing book, partners in science Stuart Lowe and Chris North use cutting edge ...

Die Zweigeteilten Karawanken und Ihre Erdgeschichtliche Entwicklung [The Bipartite Karawanks and its Geological Developm

Hans Peter Schoenlaub and Ralf Schuster

The eastern Karawanks, a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps on the border between Slovenia to the south and Austria to the north, with its center at Bad Eisenkappel, is a "hot spot" for every nature lover.

Earthquake Time Bombs

Robert Yeats

In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake ....

Evolution of a Breckland Landscape

Chalkland under a Cold Climate in the Area of Beachamwell, Norfolk

Richard West

This is another masterly piece of work from Richard West describing the processes and sequence of events that combine to make the landscape of chalkland between Swaffham and Shouldham so interesting. The evolution of the local landscape ...

Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining

Roger Marjoribanks

This practical step-by-step guide Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining describes the key geological field techniques needed by today's exploration geologists involved in the search for metallic deposits.

Geologie von Brandenburg

Werner Stackebrandt and Dietrich Franke

Geologie von Brandenburg describes in detail the geology, tectonics and natural resources (water, rocks and soils, brown coal, geothermal, hydrocarbons, stowage and storage potential, copper and silver) of ...

Geomorphology of Central America

A Syngenetic Perspective

Jean Pierre Bergoeing

Geomorphology of Central America is authored by a scientist with more than 30 years of regional assessment research experience in Central American countries, arming scientists with a classic research method-a method most effective ...

Here Be Dragons

Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity

Olle Haeggstroem

There is a widely held conception that progress in science and technology is our salvation, and the more of it, the better. This, however, is an oversimplified and even dangerous attitude. While the future will certainly offer huge changes due to ...

How Do You Find an Exoplanet?

John Asher Johnson

Alien worlds have long been a staple of science fiction. But today, thanks to modern astronomical instrumentation and the achievements of many enterprising observational astronomers, the existence of planets outside our solar system ...

Hubble's Legacy

Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It

Roger D Launius and David H DeVorkin

The development and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have resulted in many rich legacies, most particularly in science and technology but in culture as well. It is also the first telescope in space that has been utilized as ...

Infinity Beckoned

Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989

Jay Gallentine and Bobak Ferdowsi

Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people ...

Landschaften Lesen: Die Formen der Erdoberflaeche Erkennen und Verstehen [How to Read the Landscape: A Crash Course in I

Robert Yarham and Peter Goebel

Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge about the 4 billion years of history that formed it. This book explains the principles of geology, geography and geomorphology, and shows how a ...

Light: A Very Short Introduction

Ian Walmsley

Light enables us to see the world around us. Our sense of sight provides us with direct information about space and time, the physical arrangement of the world, and how it changes. This almost universal shared sensation of vision has led ...

Mineral Deposits of Finland

Wolfgang D Maier, Raimo Lahtinen and Hugh O'Brien

Mineral Deposits of Finland is the only up-to-date and inclusive reference available that fully captures the scope of Finland's mineral deposits and their economic potential. Finland hosts Europe's most mature rocks and ...

Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin

Hans-Rudolf Wenk and Andrei Bulakh

The new edition of this popular textbook, once again, provides an indispensable guide for the next generation of mineralogists. Designed for use on one- or two-semester courses, this second edition has been thoughtfully reorganised, making ...

Monitoring and Modelling Dynamic Environments

Alan P Dykes, John Wainwright and Mark Mulligan

The Times (Obituaries, 4 August 2008) reported that "John Thornes was one of the most eminent and influential physical geographers of his generation." John's keen interest in understanding landform processes and ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope - 1990 Onwards (Including All Upgrades)

An Insight into the History, Development, Collaboration, Construction and Role of the Earth-Orbiting Space Telescope

David Baker

The Hubble Space Telescope is an international venture primarily between the USA and Europe. More than any other space project, Hubble has encouraged an expanding interest in popular astronomy. With stunning views of the cosmos, it has ...

NASA Voyager 1 & 2 Owners' Workshop Manual

1977 Onwards (Including Pioneer 10 & 11)

Christopher Riley

Voyager 1 has recently crossed the boundary of our solar system and passed into interstellar space, and Voyager 2 is likely to follow suit, on a different path, between 2016 and 2017. The two Voyager probes will continue to transmit ...

Natural Resources in Afghanistan

Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict

John (Jack) F Shroder and Thomas E Gouttierre

Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography – namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background ...

Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

Ronald L Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis

A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity – or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of how science happens.

Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere

Asgeir Brekke

Physics of the Upper Polar Atmosphere is the only extended textbook that covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere where the polar lights demonstrates the end product of a process taking place at extremely ...

Physische Geographie der Polargebiete [Physical Geography of the Polar Regions]

Wolf Dieter Bluemel

The second, completely revised edition of this work describes the geography of the polar regions. Due to climate change and the importance of sea ice for the global climate, the polar regions have become the focus of research.

Rifts and Passive Margins

Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems

Michal Nemcok

Rifts and passive margins are extremely important for the petroleum industry, as they are areas of high sedimentation and can contain significant oil and gas resources. Rifts and Passive Margins provides a comprehensive understanding ...

Searching for the Oldest Stars

Ancient Relics from the Early Universe

Anna Frebel

Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same way that archaeologists study ancient artifacts on Earth. Here, Anna Frebel – who is credited with discovering several of the oldest and most primitive ...

Solar Sketching

A Comprehensive Guide to Drawing the Sun

Erika Rix, Kim Hay, Sally Russell and Richard D Handy

From the authors of Sketching the Moon comes a comprehensive guide filled with richly illustrated, detailed drawing tutorials that cover a variety of solar phenomena. Explanations of what to expect visually from white light ...

Spring Chicken

Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)

Bill Gifford

Spring Chicken is a full-throttle, high-energy ride through the latest research, popular mythology, and ancient wisdom on mankind's oldest obsession: How can we live longer? And better? In his funny, self-deprecating voice ...

Steine an Fluss, Strand und Kueste [Stones of Rivers, Beach, and Coast]

Finden, Sammeln, Bestimmen

Frank Rudolph, Bernhard Bayer, Werner Bartholomaeus and Sven von Loga

Walkers who frequent water often like to gather stones, whether from rivers, coasts or beaches. Anyone wanting to know what to look for to find particularly beautiful specimens, or those who look for very specific stones, will find the ...

Structural Geology

Haakon Fossen

This market-leading textbook has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a new chapter on joints and veins, additional examples from around the world, stunning new field photos, and extended online resources ...

The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets

Josep M Trigo-Rodriguez, Francois Raulin, Christian Muller and Conor Nixon

The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. A group of experts in the different fields provide an update of our current ...

The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Volume 2, 2004 to 2014

From Spirit to Curiosity

Philip J Stooke and Andrew Chaikin

Beginning with the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in 2004 and concluding with the end of the Curiosity mission in 2014, this second volume of The International Atlas of Mars Exploration continues the story of Mars exploration ...

The Knowledge: Stargazing

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Astronomy is the oldest science, probably because you can do it just with your eyes. From time immemorial, people across the globe have looked up at the skies and wondered. In Stargazing Maggie Aderin-Pocock gives an overview of ...

The New Cosmos

Answering Astronomy's Big Questions

David J Eicher and Alex Filippenko

Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered – or are closing in on the answers to – some of the biggest questions about the universe. David J. Eicher presents a spectacular exploration ...

The Unknown Universe

What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten Chapters

Stuart Clark

On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see ...

Walden's Shore

Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

Robert M Thorson

"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward," Thoreau invites his readers in Walden, "till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality." Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of that hard ...

After Nature

A Politics for the Anthropocene

Jedediah Purdy

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating ...

Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts

A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff

Leigh Philips

Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers ...

Beastly Morality

Animals as Ethical Agents

Jonathan K Crane

We have come to regard nonhuman animals as beings of concern, and we even grant them some legal protections. But until we understand animals as moral agents in and of themselves, they will be nothing more than distant recipients of our ...

Between Two Fires

A Fire History of Contemporary America

Stephen J Pyne

From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that ...

Biodiversitaet Foerdern und Nutzen - Schaedlingsbekaempfung in Kohlgewaechsen [Use and Promotion of Biodiversity - Pest

Henryk Luka, Claudia Daniel, Guendalina Barloggio and Lukas Pfiffner

Most people only think of the variety and beauty of species and their conservation when you mention the keyword "biodiversity". However, biodiversity provides much more. It is possible to design biotic components and resources ...

Bird Relics

Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau

Branka Arsic

Birds were never far from Thoreau's mind. They wing their way through his writing just as they did through his cabin on Walden Pond, summoned or dismissed at whim by his whistles. Emblematic of life, death, and nature's endless ...

Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together

The Asko Meetings and Papers

Tore Soderqvist, Anna Sundbaum, Carl Folke, Karl-Goran Maler and Kenneth J Arrow

The Asko meetings were an annual forum where leading economists and ecologists came together to discuss the myriad issues and challenges surrounding sustainable development. Organized by the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and ...

Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth

Robert M Ryan

Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth is a study of the cultural connections between two of the nineteenth century's most influential figures, Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. When Darwin presented ...

Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions

Narendra Tuteja and Sarvajeet Singh Gill

Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide.

Environmental Politics: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Dobson

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale ...

Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon

On a Local Society in Transition

Lisa Ringhofer

Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane', a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Following a common methodological framework, the material and ...

Inappropriability of the Earth

Yves Charles Zarka

The Earth is not simply the terrestrial globe (earth), it is also and fundamentally the habitable world (Earth). Now this Earth is in a critical state. Overexploited, despoiled, her finitude is denied by the productivist appropriation ...

Landscapes of Change

Innovative Designs and Reinvented Sites

Roxi Thoren

Climate change, population shifts, and many other factors have all changed the demands we place on landscape designs. Projects now have to absorb stormwater, cool urban centers, connect neighborhoods, and provide wildlife habitats.

Nature's Fortune

How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

Mark R Tercek and Jonathan S Adams

What is nature worth? The answer to this question – which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms – is revolutionizing the way we do business. In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of ...

Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other Pests

Ecology and Applied Technologies for Sustainable Plant and Crop Protection

Raquel Campos-Herrera

Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions. This first volume of the ...

New Issues in Polar Tourism

Communities, Environments, Politics

Dieter K M??ller, Linda Lundmark and Raynald H Lemelin

New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places.

Permissible Progeny?

The Morality of Procreation and Parenting

Sarah Hannan, Samantha Brennan and Richard Vernon

Permissible Progeny? contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the ...

Restoring the Shining Waters

Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana

David R Brooks

No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation's toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program's National ...

Russia in the Arctic

Hard or Soft Power?

Alexander Sergunin and Valery Konyshev

In this timely book Russia in the Arctic, the authors provide a detailed analysis of Russia's national interests in the Arctic region. They assess Russia's domestic discourse on the High North's role in the system of ...

The John Nix Farm Management Pocketbook

John Nix

The 46th Pocketbook Edition sees a number of additions to the already information-packed Pocketbook. Not only are the existing schedules updated taking account of price movements, but new this year includes: - Used by almost all top ...

The Price of Oil

Roberto F Aguilera and Marian Radetzki

Drawing on their extensive knowledge of the oil industry, Roberto F. Aguilera and Marian Radetzki provide an in-depth examination of the price of the world's most important commodity. They argue that although oil has experienced an ...

The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions

The REDD-Plus Regime and International Law

Handa Abidin

In The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions, Handa Abidin identifies three main approaches that can be used by indigenous peoples to protect their rights in the context of REDD-plus. Further ...

The Scramble for the Poles

The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic

Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice. But is there really a global grab for Polar territory ...

Vital Signs 2015

The Trends That are Shaping Our Future

The Worldwatch Institute

What we make and buy is a major indicator of society's collective priorities. Among twenty-four key trends, Vital Signs Volume 22 explores significant global patterns in production and consumption. The result is a fascinating ...

Water and Energy

Threats and Opportunities

Gustaf Olsson

Rapid and important developments in the area of energy – water nexus over the last two to three years have been significant. This new edition of Water and Energy: Threats and Opportunities is timely and continues to highlight ...

A Biostatistics Toolbox for Data Analysis

Steve Selvin

This sophisticated package of statistical methods is for advanced master's (MPH) and PhD students in public health and epidemiology who are involved in the analysis of data. It makes the link from statistical theory to data analysis ...

Bayesian Methods for Repeated Measures

Lyle D Broemeling

Analyze Repeated Measures Studies Using Bayesian Techniques Going beyond standard non-Bayesian books, Bayesian Methods for Repeated Measures presents the main ideas for the analysis of repeated measures and associated ...

Confidence, Likelihood and Probability

Statistical Inference with Confidence Distributions

Tore Schweder and Nils Lid Hjort

This lively book Confidence, Likelihood and Probability lays out a methodology of confidence distributions and puts them through their paces. Among other merits, they lead to optimal combinations of confidence from different ...

Das Grosse Kosmos-Buch der Mikroskopie [The Big Kosmos Book of Microscopy]

Bruno P Kremer

This book has set an unprecedented standard: It's the recipe, guidance and workbook for microscopists, conveys extensive knowledge and describes the topic area very understandably. From viruses in houseplants and the bizarre protozoa ...

Distance Sampling

Methods and Applications

ST Buckland, EA Rexstad, TA Marques and CS Oedekoven

In Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications, the authors cover the basic methods and advances within distance sampling that are most valuable to practitioners and in ecology more broadly. This is the fourth book dedicated to ...

Modelling Population Dynamics

Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment Using State-Space Methods

Ken Newman, Stephen T Buckland, Byron Morgan, Ruth King, David L Borchers, Diane Cole and P Besbeas

Modelling Population Dynamics gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus ...

Plurigaussian Simulations in Geosciences

Margaret Armstrong, Alain Galli, Helene Beucher, Gaelle Le Loc'h, Didier Renard and Brigitte Doligez

Simulation is the fastest developing branch of geostatistics and simulating facies inside reservoirs and orebodies is the most exciting part of this. Several methods have been developed to do this (sequential indicator simulations, Boolean ...

Photographs, Museums, Collections

Between Art and Information

Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Morton

The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography – as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own ...

Procurement Principles and Management

Peter Baily, David Farmer, Barry Crocker, David Jessop and David Jones

Now in its eleventh edition, Procurement Principles and Management has been essential reading for practitioners and students of purchasing and procurement for nearly 50 years. This new edition will provide the reader with a ...

The Complete Guide to Acquisitions Management

Frances C Wilkinson, Rebecca L Lubas and Linda K Lewis

Updated and enhanced, the second edition of this text provides both library students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of procedural and philosophical approaches in acquisitions management. Since the last edition ...

The Queen & Mr Brown: A Night in the Natural History Museum

James Francis Wilkins

Britain's monarch is back for another animal adventure as she and her loveable pet corgi Mr Brown visit London's Natural History Museum after hours. In the dead of night, when all the visitors have left the Museum, the two friends ...