Badger

Jim Crumley

In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with British wildlife – here, the badger. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim relives memorable encounters with ...

Badgered to Death

The People and Politics of the Badger Cull

Dominic Dyer and Chris Packham

Under cover of darkness in the English countryside, private contractors are shooting thousands of badgers as part of a nine-year British government programme to control the spread of bovine TB. In this hard-hitting book, Dominic Dyer ...

Belinda: The Forest How Red Squirrel

Peter Trimming

Peter Trimming documents a small colony of wild native red squirrels from autumn 2012 to summer 2015. His research is based at Forest How, which is situated in Eskdale, Cumbria. During his research, Peter witnesses a devastating outbreak ...

Canine Olfaction Science and Law

Advances in Forensic Science, Medicine, Conservation, and Environmental Remediation

Tadeusz Jezierski, John Ensminger and LE Papet

The value of the canine nose is well-documented, and working dogs are being utilized for their olfactory skills in an increasing number of fields. Not only are dogs used by police, security, and the military, but they are also now used in ...

Chevaux des Abruzzes [Horses of Abruzzo]

Patrice Raydelet

The lives of horses in Abruzzo could resemble that of their counterparts in many parts of the world. However, most horses are used for riding, in equestrian centers or for outdoor riding, and live in total freedom much of the year, along ...

Contribution to the Knowledge of the Mammalian Fauna of Jammu and Kashmir, India

S Chakraborty

Several reports on the mammalian fauna of Jammu and Kashmir have been published from the second half of the nineteenth century to date. But the majority of these reports are by naturalists and deal with larger species of mammals, so that ...

Coyote Settles the South

John Lane

One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula ...

Dawn of the Dog

The Genesis of a Natural Species

Janice Anne Koler-Matznick and Alan Whittbecker

The dog may not be what most think it is. The common origin of the dog story says the dog was a gray wolf that "somehow" turned into the dog after it associated with humans. Dawn of the Dog reveals this idea is merely ...

Ecology and Ethology of the Spotted Deer Axis axis axis (Erxleben) (Artiodactyla: Cervidae)

PG Tak and BS Lamba

The Spotted Deer or Cheetal, Axis axis axis (Erxleben), is one of the most common and perhaps the most handsome members of the deer family (Cervidae) in India. The colour is rusty brown with numerous white spots all over the body ...

Falsche Vampire & Fliegende Hunde: Die Geheimnisvolle Welt der Fledermause [False Vampire & Flying Foxes: The Mysterious

Martin Straube

In this book Martin Straube gives fascinating insight into the lives of Germany's native bats. In a comprehensible and entertaining way, he explains how bats search out their roosts, and live in them, find food and raise their young.

Field Guide to the Mammals of Singapore

Anish Banerjee

The Field Guide to the Mammals of Singapore is a comprehensive guide to the 65 odd species of mammals in Singapore. It covers important identification characteristics of each mammal along with their ecology and local status.

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

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

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

Gods, Ghosts and Black Dogs

The Fascinating Folklore and Mythology of Dogs

Stanley Coren

Here is a rich collection of folklore, mythology, and tall tales concerning dogs. These provide a fascinating insight into the way in which humans think about dogs, and our emotional bond to our pets. The various stories include some that ...

Ligers, Tigons, and Other Hybrid Mammals

A Summation and Critical Appraisal of Mammalian Hybrids

Clinton Keeling and Russell J Tofts

In Ligers, Tigons, and Other Hybrid Mammals, the renowned zoologist, prolific writer and lecturer, Clinton Keeling, discusses, in his own inimitable and lively style, the often controversial subject of mammal hybrids.

Lupi delle Alpi Marittime: Storie e Curiositá dei Branchi che Hanno Ricolonizzato le Alpi [Wolves of the Maritime Alps:

Francesca Marucco

After about seventy years of absence, the wolf has returned to the Alps during the last twenty years, colonizing the Maritime sector between Piedmont and France. Genetic analyzes have shown that the return is due to the natural dispersion ...

Reindeer and Caribou

Health and Disease

Morton Tryland, Susan Kutz and Antti Oksanen

Reindeer, with seven subspecies, number approximately 4 million and have a circum-polar distribution. They serve as sources of meat and materials for different peoples and are an important part of the arctic and subarctic ecosystems.

Saving Anne the Elephant

The Rescue of the Last British Circus Elephant

Claire Ellicott

When shocking images emerged of Anne, Britain's last circus elephant, being beaten by one of her keepers, it sparked a national outcry. Undercover footage showed the gentle creature cowering in fear as the youth repeatedly inflicted ...

Smitten by Giraffe

My Life as a Citizen Scientist

Anne Innis Dagg

When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffes ...

The Hoofprints Guide to the Wild Horses of Assateague Island, Maryland

Bonnie U Gruenberg

The free-roaming horses of Assateague have survived on this ever-changing barrier island for hundreds of years. Today, Assateague is a National Seashore, where natural resource conservation is prioritized and more than 2 million people ...

The Horse Encyclopedia

Elwyn Hartley-Edwards

A stunning celebration of the equine world, The Horse Encyclopedia is a fully illustrated look at all the major horse and pony breeds and types, from the ponies of Dartmoor to the American mustang. Packed with gorgeous photography ...

The Killer Whale Who Changed the World

Mark Leiren-Young

The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale – a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty ...

The White Dolphins of Qinzhou [English / Chinese]

Pan Wenshi

From the preface: "We took 180,000 photos, more than one thousand video clips and thousands of GPS location points. With these records, we gradually understand many aspects of white dolphins and their life, including their ...

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoise of Odisha

Muntaz Khan, Sudarsan Panda and SS Srivastava

This book describes the 32 species of cetaceans found of the coastline of Odisha, India.

Wolf Haven

Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North America

Annie Marie Musselman and Brenda Peterson

A stirring book of photographs of Wolves that have been given sanctuary near Mount Rainer. Brenda Peterson's text puts the stories of the residents of Wolf Haven, and of wolves in North America, into context as she describes the behaviour ...

Zonas Importantes para los Mamiferos (ZIM) de Espana [Important Areas for Mammals of Spain]

Jorge Lozano, Unai Fuente, Juan Carlos Atienza, Sara Cabezas, Nacho Aransay and Carlos Herníez

Undoubtedly, one of the main global challenges facing humanity today is the conservation of biological diversity. Without it, the human species will not survive on this planet. For this reason, in the current context of increasing degradation ...

A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns

Matt Sewell

A charm of goldfinches, an ascension of larks, a school of dolphins, a cloud of bats, a murder of crows. All these and more are portrayed in this enchanting new book by much loved artist Matt Sewell, playing on the theme of collective nouns ...

A Contribution to the Food Habits of Some Indian Mynas (Aves)

ML Narang and BS Lamba

From the introduction: "It is a well-known fact that birds play an important role in relation to agriculture. There is a general tendency to dwell on the harm they do, presumably because most land birds feed on grains ...

A Fieldworker's Guide to the Golden Eagle

Dave Walker

The Golden Eagle is generally thought to be a well-known and well-documented species. However, much of the available literature is not necessarily in a form that can readily be used in the field. In fact, although much existing ...

A Parliament of Owls

Mike Unwin and David Tipling

Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures. These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom, omens of death, and bringers of prophecy, and they have intrigued humans ...

Alle Vogels van Europa [All the Birds of Europe]

Aurelien Audevard and Frederic Jiguet

This guide, packed with high quality photos, is an excellent addition both the amateur and expert birder's library. With a hands-on layout, this book is aimed at field identification. Per species, Alle Vogels van Europa shows ...

American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America

The Complete Photographic Guide to Every Species

Francois Vuilleumier

Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America is the complete photographic guide to the 657 species of birds found in the United States and Canada.

Attracting Birds in the Texas Hill Country

A Guide to Land Stewardship

W Rufus Stephens and Jan Wrede

After years of working with landowners, land managers, naturalists, county officials, and others about wildlife management and land stewardship for birds in the Texas Hill Country, biologist Rufus Stephens and educator Jan Wrede teamed up ...

Baby Birds

An Artist Looks Into the Nest

Julie Zickefoose

If you've ever wondered what goes on in bird nests, or what happens after a fledgling leaves the nest, come along on Julie's sensitive exploration of often-uncharted ornithological ground. This beautiful book is as much ...

Beobachtungsbuch fur den Vogelbeobachter: Beobachten, Notieren, Vergleichen, Skizzieren [Notebook for Birdwatchers:

This high-quality notebook offers plenty of space for your own records, sketches and notes while bird watching. It also contains a calendar and a migratory species list of all bird species in Europe. By making notes for several years ...

Bird Anatomy for Artists

Natalia Balo and Penny Olsen

This informative textbook for bird artists is a comprehensive survey of the complete bird from head to tail. The book is full of masterly illustrations that are clear and easy to understand, including black and white working drawings ...

Birds of Alabama Field Guide

Stan Tekiela

This field guide features photographs and information about 140 species of Alabama birds, organized by colour for ease of use.

Birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

An Annotated Checklist

Dominic Mitchell

This is the most up-to-date checklist of bird species and subspecies recorded in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, including Iran and the Arabian Peninsula – the 'greater' Western Palearctic. Species are presented ...

Birds of New Hampshire & Vermont Field Guide

Stan Tekiela

Make bird watching in New Hampshire and Vermont even more enjoyable! With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't ...

Birds of Serbia: Critical List of Species [English / Serbian]

Marko Sciban, Drazenko Rajkovic, Dimitrije Radisic, Voislav Vasic and Uros Pantovic

This inventory was made on the basis of existing published and unpublished data, stored within the database of the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia, but also after thorough browsing over bird collections in museums and ...

Birds of Venezuela

David Ascanio, Gustavo Rodriguez and Robin Restall

Venezuela is blessed with one of the largest avifaunas in the world. More than 1,400 species have been recorded in the country, thanks to a great diversity of habitats ranging from the High Andes to lowland Amazonian rainforest, and just ...

Birds of West Virginia Field Guide

Stan Tekiela

The definitive field guide to identifying birds in West Virginia, this book organizes birds by colour for easy identification.

Birds of the Nile Valley

Dominique Navarro and John Wyatt

Tourists are not the only foreigners who flock to Egypt to find solace in Egypt's eternal sunlight and indulge in the lush abundance of the Nile River-migrating birds from the north come too, and visitors luxuriating on one of Egypt's ...

Book of Texas Birds

Gary Clark and Kathy Adams Clark

Drawing on the knowledge and insight gained from a lifetime of watching, studying, and enjoying birds, Book of Texas Birds is full of information about more than four hundred species of birds in Texas, most all of which author ...

Der Seeadler im Herzen Europas [The Eagle in the Heart of Europe]

Bernhard Kohler

A collection of articles on the white-tailed eagle in Europe, reviewing its population status in a number of countries.

Fauna CR: Ptaci 1 [Birds of the Czech Republic]

Karel Stastny and Karel Hudec

Twenty years after volume 3 on birds in the series Fauna ČR, an expanded and revised edition of Volume 1 on birds is published, covering orders waterfowl, loons, procellariiformes, grebes, flamingos, storks, pelicans and wading ...

Flock Together

A Love Affair with Extinct Birds

BJ Hollars

After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; specifically, extinct North American birds. How, he wondered, could we preserve ...

Grass, Sky, Song

Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

Trevor Herriot

Readers, booksellers and literary judges alike fell in love with Trevor Herriot's stunning debut book, River in a Dry Land. In his remarkable new work, he draws on 20 years' experience as an observer of nature to reveal ...

Ichthyaetus relictus Research and Conservation [Chinese]

Miao Chunlin

This book summarizes research progress on the Chinese relict gull, Ichthyaetus relictus, in particular research and conservation progress on the population in the Ordos Desert, a desert and steppe region lying on a plateau ...

Koekoek: Beeld van een Onverwachte Gast [The Cuckoo: Portrait of an Unexpected Guest]

Oldrich Mikulica, Tomas Grim, Karl Schulze-Hagen and Bard G Stokke

The young of the cuckoo as a parasite in someone else's nest remains a fascinating phenomenon. Four European cuckoo experts have produced this beautiful book, full of stories, background information and new facts about these unique birds ...

Kolkrabe & Co.: Verhalten und Strategien Intelligenter Lebenskunstler [The Raven & Co.:

Dieter Glandt

The behaviour of men towards the corvids has always been ambivalent and not without conflict! The cause is usually in misunderstandings and misinterpretations: The Ravens are accused of causing damage that they, apart from rare exceptions ...

Mississippi Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Mississippi is the permanent or migratory home of 411 species of birds, including the state birds – the wood duck and mockingbird. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ...

Montana Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Treasure State is the permanent or migratory home of 427 species of birds, including the state bird – the western meadowlark. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ...

Nebraska Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Cornhusker State is an undulating plain that slopes gradually from northwest to southwest with semiarid high plains and over 2,000 lakes and is the permanent or migratory home of 455 species of birds including the state bird ...

Nevada Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Most of the Silver State is situated in the Great Basin, an arid plateau broken up by many short mountain ranges running from north to south. Nevada is the permanent or migratory home of 488 species of birds, including the state bird ...

New Jersey Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Cape May in southern New Jersey hosts one of the world's most prominent birding events – The World Series of Birding. The Garden State is the permanent or migratory home of 465 species of birds, including the state bird ...

New Mexico Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

From the Colorado Plateaus in the northwest to the Basin and Range Region in the central and southwest, New Mexico is the permanent or temporary home of over 530 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 ...

New York State Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Empire State is the permanent or migratory home of 480 species of birds, including the state bird – the eastern bluebird. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregional ...

North American Warbler Fold-Out Guide

Scott Whittle and Tom Stephenson

This is a handy, pocket-sized foldout reference to the 45 most commonly seen North American warblers. - Photos include side-on, underside, and 45-degree views - Drawings of undertail patterns provide at-a-glance comparisons between ...

North Dakota Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

North Dakota is the permanent or migratory home of 353 species of birds, including the state bird – the western meadowlark This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregional ...

Owl: A Year in the Life of North American Owls

Paul Bannick

In Owl, award-winning photographer Paul Bannick uses his intimate yet dramatic images to track four different nesting owl species – Northern Pygmy, Burrowing, Great Gray, and Snowy – throughout the course of one year ...

Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America

Nathan Pieplow

The first comprehensive guide to the sounds of eastern North American birds, featuring an innovative visual index that allows readers to quickly look up unfamiliar sounds in the field.? Bird songs and calls are just as important ...

Skylark

Jim Crumley

In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with British wildlife – here, the skylark. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim relives memorable encounters ...

Song Birds of Southern India

Towards a new Paradigm of Song, Species and Genetics of Evolution

Namratha Mogaral

This book presents a fascinating study of songs of birds based on intensive field observations carried out in the forests of the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary at Lakkavalli in Karnataka of the Southern Indian sub-continent. Drawing on these ...

Spuren und Zeichen der V gel Mitteleuropas: Entdecken - Lesen - Zuordnen [Tracks and Signs of Birds of Central Europe:

Hans-Heiner Bergmann and Siegfried Klaus

Birds are skittish creatures that often elude observation. But in many cases they produce tracks and other traces, on the basis of which one can prove their presence. This book helps to sharpen the eye to read footprints, discover nest ...

Stadtvogel [Urban Birds]

Redaktion Der Falke

From simple nesting holes in gray facades to comfortable nest boxes in urban parks and cemeteries: This special issue of Der Falke describes in-depth the exciting survival and life strategies of native birds that are found in ...

The American Ornithologists' Union

The First Century, 1883-1983

Keir B Sterling, Marianne G Ainley, Jr.,William E Davis and Byron K Butler

A history of the first 100 years of the A.O.U., highlighting the Union's activities and accomplishments, relating some to overall developments in the evolution of American natural science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the ...

The Bill Bailey Guide to British Birds

Bill Bailey and Quinton Winter

'When herons are spooked they have a habit of vomiting as a defence. Half-digested pieces of eel and water vole skull on your head is not a good look. Just so you know.

The Black Swift in Idaho and Biography of Earl J. Larrison Pacific Northwest Naturalist

John W Weber

The Black Swift in Idaho was originally an article accepted for publication in the journal Western Birds. This is the original unedited manuscript. The bulk of the publication consists of a biography of Earl Larrison ...

The Hidden Lives of Owls

The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds

Leigh Calvez

Embark on an adventure into the world of owls, owl-watching, avian and the deep forest. Leigh Calvez pursues nine different owl species including the great horned, spotted and snowy. Calvez makes the science entertaining and accessible ...

Two Owls at Eton

Jonathan S Franklin

When Jonathan Franklin takes two baby tawny owls back to Eton, he has no idea how chaotic the following months will be. The birds show no respect for Etonian routine and tradition. They trash his room and rule his daily life, and are known ...

Vogels Kijken in de Camargue en de Crau [Watching Birds in the Camargue and the Crau]

Hans Peeters

The Camargue is a beautiful, extensive natural area in the south of France. On the border of fresh and salt water you can find a unique landscape of lakes, marshes, reedlands, and salt lakes, home to numerous special plant and animal species ...

What Good Are Birds?

Antonio Sandoval Rey, David Lindo and Dave Langlois

The author goes birding up and down his local coastline (A Coruna province, in Galicia, NW Spain) seeking answers to the question that forms the title of What Good Are Birds?. Out of his stream of consciousness spill deftly-woven ...

When and Where to Watch Birds in Catalonia

From the Pyrenees to the Shores of the Mediterranean - A Month-by-Month Guide

Ricard Gutierrez and Ernest FJ Garcia

- A monthly-based guide to when & where to see birds in Catalonia, the European area boasting the highest-ever 24-hour bird-race count, well over 210 species in a day. - All 443 bird species recorded in Catalonia featured.

Where Song Began

Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Tim Low

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, a result of the continent's tens of millions of years of isolation. Compared with birds elsewhere, ours are more likely to be intelligent, aggressive ...

Advances in Research Techniques for the Study of Sea Turtles

Juan M Rguez-Baron, Maria Monica Lara-Uc and Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez

Over the last four decades, threats from anthropogenic activities – such as Bycatch, modification or destruction of critical habitats, and use or consumption of products from turtles – along with inherent life history features ...

Chinese Alligator [Chinese]

Fang Dejia

In a lively and easy to understand style, this book introduces the Chinese Alligator and its ecological characteristics, habits, reasons why it's endangered, the survival status, its role in cultural heritage, and its evolutionary ...

Collecting and Preserving Genetic Material for Herpetological Research

Tony Gamble

This guide will allow nearly everyone with an interest in amphibians and reptiles to collect and store samples for genetic analyses. It is written at a level appropriate for people with a basic background in biology, including professional ...

Die Ringelnatter (Natrix natrix) [The Grass Snake]

Thomas Klesius and Harald Jorias

The grass snake is by far one of the most interesting snakes as far their behaviour is concerned, and is therefore a popular terrarium animal: it is constantly active during the daytime and explores their surroundings attentively.

Emerald Monitors - The Varanus prasinus Group

Keeping & Breeding

Bernd Eidenmuller

In recent years monitor lizards have become ever more popular as terrarium animals. The reasons for this development include the increasing availability of useful information on their proper husbandry on the one hand and the widening ...

Faszinierende Pfeilgiftfrosche: Lebensraum, Haltung, Nachzucht [Fascinating Poison Dart Frogs:

Sven Salterberg

Colourful jewels in your domestic jungle – poison dart frogs belong to a terrarium densely planted with tropical plants, not just because of their striking colours and unusual patterns of the hatchlings. The complex and easy ...

Gli Anfibi e i Rettili delle Alpi: Come Riconoscerli Dove e Quando Osservarli [Amphibians and Reptiles of the Alps:

Stefano Bovero, Laura Canalis and Stefano Crosetto

Amphibians and reptiles are among the most elusive and difficult species to observe of those inhabiting the Alps: man has always had an ambivalent attitude towards them, torn between fear and fascination. This guide intends to be a valuable ...

Les Sargantanes de les Balears [Lizards of the Balearics]

Valentin Perez Mellado

Lizards have inhabited the Balearic Islands long before humans colonized these, and were able to survive the catastrophe that resulted from their arrival. That fact alone gives them a high biological value. In most islands of the Balearic ...

Live Food

Frank Bruse, Wolfgang Schmidt and Michael Meyer

Terrarium animals need a healthy, balanced and varied diet. Self-cultured food insects or other live foods whose nutritional value is enriched by a proper diet and supplementation, will provide you with success in this field: suitable ...

Madagaskar-Buntfrosche Die Gattung Mantella: Lebensweise, Haltung, Nachzucht [The Genus Mantella:

Andreas Altenmuller

The colourful malagasy frogs of the genus Mantella are among the most colourful amphibians of all. The small, diurnal frogs have always been very popular with terrarium aficionados. Important insights into their biology were obtained ...

Poison Frogs - The Small Species

Keeping & Breeding

Harald Divossen

From the introduction: “I have been focusing on the husbandry and breeding of dendrobatids, the so-called poison frogs, since 1981. I am particularly engrossed with the small representatives of this family’s various ...

Rattlesnakes of Arizona

Gordon W Schuett, Martin J Feldner, Charles F Smith, Randall S Reiserer, Bayard H Brattstrom and H

This stunning peer-reviewed volume (739 pages) on the natural history of Arizona's rattlesnakes has 17 chapters by 22 leading authorities covering all aspects of natural history, behavior, evolution, and conservation. A special chapter ...

Reptiles of the Northwest

California to Alaska, Rockies to the Coast

Alan St. John

Interpretive naturalist, writer, educator and reptile specialist Alan St. John of Bend, Oregon, has crafted a richly photographed guide to the reptiles, snakes and turtles found in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and parts of ...

Rock Agamas of Eurasia

EN Panov and L Yu Zykova

The book is a review in English on the taxonomy and biology of the taxon of rock agamas (about 20 species), found at the intersection of the arid and mountainous landscapes of Eurasia and North-East Africa. These reptiles have recently ...

Sea Turtle Conservation in Orissa

During the Third Millennium

CS Kar, JD Sharma and SS Srivastava

In India the Orissa coastline hosts four species of sea turtles, although the nesting of only one species is most noteworthy. Gahirmatha and Rushikulya are amongst the only few mass nesting beaches of the Olive Ridleys in the world, where ...

Sea Turtles

Ecology, Behavior & Conservation

Candace Patterson

Modern marine turtles belong to an ancient group of reptiles inhabiting the Earth for over 110 million years, since the Cretaceous. Marine turtles depend on both marine and terrestrial habitats for their growth and development, from high ...

Snakes of the Eastern United States

Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons

More than sixty species of snakes are found in the eastern United States, the region of highest biodiversity of all reptiles and amphibians in North America. In this brand new guide, stunning photographs, colorful geographic range maps ...

Spotted & Wood Turtles (Clemmys guttata & Glyptemys insculpta)

Ecology, Husbandry & Breeding

Andreas S Hennig

North America harbours a turtle fauna with a unique diversity of forms and lifestyles. Its distribution extends from southern Canada with its very long winters and the western parts of the United States across to the east coast of the US ...

Standard French Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico

David M Green

Though wildlife species in North America may be known by a variety of regional and local names, good communication about these animals invariably requires a standardized list of common names. Without a common reference, mutual understanding ...

Standard Spanish, English, and Scientific Names of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico

Ernest A Liner and Gustavo Casas-Andreu

This list compiles the scientific names and standard Spanish and English names of the Mexican herpetetofauna. Since the first edition many changes have been made in scientific names. A number of new species/subspecies have been described ...

Studies on the Endocommensal Ciliates of Anurans of Andhra Pradesh

C Kalavati, CC Narasimhamurti and Y Usharani

Anurans harbour a rich endocommensal fauna from Protozoa to Acanthocephala, each having a different grade of host-parasite relationships. Among protozoans, the rectal ciliates outnumber all others and constitute a very interesting ...

Studies on the Pholidosis and Variability in Characters Showing Sexual Dimorphism in Various Species of Indian Reptiles

RC Sharma

Baily (1953) has studied frequency distribution of variations in different characters on the snakes of the genus Chironius in South-eastern South America; DeSilva (1969) studied the range of individual scale variations and sexual ...

Taxonomy of Chinese Chelonians [Chinese]

Zhou Ting and Li Pipeng

Intended to be an academic and practical guide to taxonomy of Chinese chelonians, the book has been illustrated with exquisite pictures. In the first part, the knowledge of the ancient Chinese is introduced, covering origin and evolution ...

Wasserfallen fur Amphibien: Praktische Anwendung im Artenmonitoring [Water Traps for Amphibians:

Andreas Kronshage and Dieter Glandt

This volume contains papers and results on the theme of "water traps for amphibians", resulting from a symposium, an expert workshop and an expert survey with participants from Austria, Luxembourg and France. It is the first ...

A Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Oregon

Douglas F Markle and Joseph R Tomelleri

A Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Oregon is the first authoritative guide to the native and non-native freshwater fishes found in Oregon. It provides identification aids and images for most of the 137 known species and subspecies.

Back to Nature Guide to Discus

Dick Au

An acclaimed no-nonsense, guide to discus by a well-known American expert. Probably the best book on discus care available.

Back to Nature Guide to Malawi Cichlids

Ad Konings

Excellent introductory guide with general information and an illustrated catalogue of the more commonly available species some rarer ones.

Brook Trout

A Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout - its History, Biology, and Angling Possibilities

Nick Karas and James R Babb

North America has had a 400-year love affair with the brook trout – Salvelinus fontinalis – its great native trout. In this newly revised and updated volume, Nick Karas offers the only major profile of this most ...

Celebrating Cichlids of Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika

Ad Konings

A coffee-table book of the author's best photos, with short texts on each species illustrated, and longer introductory sections on each of the lakes.

Enjoying Cichlids

Ad Konings

Ad Konings and cichlid experts from all over the world have pooled their many years of experience with cichlids to create a definitive volume on the maintenance and breeding of the Cichlid family.

Halbschnabler: Die Gattung Nomorhamphus [Halfbeaks: The Genus Nomorhamphus]

Ulrike Korte

Species by species, the books in this series introduce the most popular freshwater aquarium inhabitants. Each volume provides easy to understand information about a particular group of aquarium fish, explains the biology and describes the ...

Ichthyofauna of Konkan Region of Maharashtra (India)

DF Singh and GM Yazdani

The fish fauna occurring in this region of Maharashtra has been presented in this paper. Very little published information is available on the freshwater, estuarine or marine fish fauna of the Konkan which is an important but relatively ...

Malawian Cichlid Fishes

The most recent (1989) taxonomic review of the "haps" of Lake Malawi.

Peixes do Brasil de Rios, Lagoas e Riachos: Guia do Pescador [Fish from the Rivers, Lakes and Streams of Brazil:

Etson Bini

The most amazing fish live in a very special habitat: freshwater. In this informative guide, readable and fully illustrated, Etson Bini shows a selection of the fish most prized by lovers of sport fishing. For each fish, he provides an ...

Peixos Continentals de Catalunya: Ecologia, Conservacio i Guia d'Identificacio [Inland fish of Catalunya:

Enric Aparicio

Peixos Continentals de Catalunya is the first book exclusively dedicated to the fish of the fluvial systems of Catalunya, and is the result of many years of enthusiastic dedication to learning about the country’s inland fish ...

Rays of the World

Peter R Last, William Toby White, Marcelo R de Carvalho, Bernard Seret, Matthias FW Stehmann and

Rays are among the largest fishes in the sea and have colonized all oceans. The first cousins of sharks, rays evolved from early Mesozoic or late Paleozoic shark-like ancestors. They also share with sharks many life history traits ...

Same Sensei ga Oshieru Same no Himitsu 10 [10 Secrets of Sharks]

Kazuhiro Nakaya

This popular science book goes ten amazing abilities and facts about sharks. Why do they swim so fast? How do they not get lost in the sea? This book is richly illustrated with colour photos.

Sharks [Japanese]

Kazuhiro Nakaya

This definitive pictorial book describes all extant sharks: 8 orders, 34 families, and 106 genera. The text provides details about food, swimming, reproduction, distribution, and shark attacks. The characteristics of sharks can be found ...

Sharks: Champion of the Sea [Japanese]

Kazuhiro Nakaya

This book covers the champion hunter of the sea: the shark. Five years after the first edition, this revised versio uses the new classification system. It cover representative species of 9 orders, 34 families, and 105 genera. The text gives ...

Systematic Synopsis of Fishes of The South China Sea, Volume 1 [Chinese]

Sun Dianrong and Chen Zheng

The data in this book is based on surveys of fish resources on the continental shelf at the northern part of the South China Sea, the continental slope sea area, the Xiasha Islands, the Zhongsha Islands and the Nansha Islands, as well as ...

The Eel

Biology and Management of Anguillid Eels

FW Tesch and Peter Humphry Greenwood

Originally published in 1977 as a translated version of the original German work from 1973, now available in paperback. Dr Tesch's wide ranging account of anguillid eels impinges on the interests of many biologists; it is not simply ...

The Wonder World of Juvenile Fish [Japanese]

Jiro Sakagami

Baby fish and fry live in a fantastic world that spreads to a depth of several meters. They are mostly active around midnight, when there is less danger. They have a completely different and strange appearance compared to the adult fish.

Trout: An Illustrated History

James Prosek

The trout of North America range from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer. No other book pictures all of the popular varieties, much less the rare, exotic, and in some cases extinct species ...

7. Internationales Flusskrebsfourm: Tagungsband [7th International Crayfish Forum: Proceedings]

Jurgen Petutschnig

The 7th International Crayfish Forum, from the 10th to 13th of September, 2015 was held in Möllbrücke, Austria. A total of 22 crayfish experts from Germany, Switzerland and Austria have reported on their research as part of the ...

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore

Khew Sin Khoon

This is the first ever comprehensive photographic guide to all the nearly 300 species of butterflies found in Singapore. The author has spent years accumulating this amazing material, he and his associates are excellent photographers and ...

A Photographic Guide to Hong Kong True Bugs [Chinese]

Vor Yiu

This book describes 223 species of true bugs belonging to 27 families, amongst them more than 120 species are new records in Hong kong. The book contains over 750 ecological photos.

A Photographic Guide to Some Common Wasps and Bees of Minnesota

Scott King

A photographic guide to some common wasps and bees of Minnesota. Includes colour photos and descriptions for over 125 species of wasps and bees observed in Minnesota. An excellent introductory reference to this interesting order of insects ...

Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Hungary, Volume 1: Agromyzinae

Laszlo Papp and Milos Cerny

First of a four-volume monograph on the Agromyzidae of Hungary. Includes species found in Hungary or likely to be found there. Vol. 1 contains: Material and methods and general chapters: Morphology of adults and larvae, Phylogenetic relationships ...

Carabidae (Coleoptera: Insecta) of Calcutta

SK Saha, AK Mukherjee and T Sengupta

The present paper deals with this group of beetles found in Calcutta, So far, 73 species under 45 genera belonging to 19 tribes of two subfamilies have been recorded from Calcutta. An attempt was made by Andrewes (1930) by publising an ...

Cerambycidae of the World

Biology and Pest Management

Qiao Wang

There are more than 36,000 described species in the beetle family Cerambycidae in the world. With the significant increase of international trade in the recent decades, many cerambycid species have become major plant pests outside their ...

Chaetotaxy of Larvae of Selected Butterfly Species (Papilionoidea) from Shiwaliks of North-West Himalaya

Manbeer Kaur, Avtar Kaur Sidhu and HS Rose

This book describes the chaetotaxy (the arrangement of bristles) of twelve species of Papilionoid butterflies from the Sivalik Hills, a mountain range of the outer Himalayas.

Coccinellidae of The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau [Chinese]

Hu Shengchang, Lin Xiangwen and Wang Baohai

This book deals with 172 species of ladybird belonging to 49 genera, 7 subfamilies, among of them 9 new species, covering the area Xizang, Qinghai and part of the Sichuan as well as Yunnan provinces, China. It describes morphological ...

Contribution to the Study of Xanthidae: Actaeinae (Decapoda: Crustacea) of India

Maya Deb

The subfamily Actaeniae comprises four genera and 44 species from India and more than hundred species from the world. Recently, carcinologists have grouped the species, erected a few more genera, shifted the species and splitted the ...

Crustaceans: Physiological Characteristics, Evolution & Conservation Strategies

Victor Alvarado

Crustaceans are key organisms in aquatic ecosystems. Today crustaceans of Ponto-Caspian origin have become important faunal constituents in many European water bodies, including the Baltic Sea. In this book, Chapter One reviews the causes ...

Cuckoo-Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) of Poland

Bogdan Wisniowski

Cuckoo-Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) of Poland describes diversity and distribution of Polish Chrysididae. Chapters deal with adult morphology, biology and protection of cuckoo-wasps. The book includes keys to identification ...

Delphacidae Fauna of Jiangsu [Chinese]

Hu Chunlin

This is the first book on insect fauna of Jiangsu province, China. The Delphacidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) occurring in Jiangsu are summarized, and a total 59 species, belonging to two subfamilies and 46 genera are recorded. Among them ...

Der Kosmos Spinnenfuhrer [The Kosmos Spider Guide]

Heiko Bellmann

A classic nature guide by spider expert Heiko Bellmann. There is an incredible variety of spiders just in Europe. With the Kosmos Spinnenführer identification is easy and secure. About 400 species are described in detail ...

Die Fang- und Heuschrecken in Rheinland-Pfalz [The Mantids and Locusts of Rhineland-Palatinate]

Alban Pfeifer, Manfred Niehuis and Carsten Renker

The present work deals with all wild species of mantids and locusts in Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany, on a broad basis, like no other group of insects from this state. The distribution of all species is described in detail and shown in ...

Die Prachtkafer in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland [The Jewel Beetles in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland]

Manfred Niehuis

In this volume, approximately 6,800 jewel beetle records are analyzed. Various aspects are presented, for example, morphology, colour, development, and ecological, economic, and cultural meaning), the relevant publications are shortly ...

Die Tagfalter der Pfalz [The Butterflies of Rhineland-Palatinate] (2-Volume Set)

Tom Schulte, Oliver Eller, Manfred Niehuis and Erwin Rennwald

Based on nearly 53,000 data points the range, distribution, changes in population levels and distribution, biology, ecology, phenology, threats and conservation are presented of butterfliy species verified to occur in Rhineland-Palatinate ...

Dragonflies & Damselflies of Orissa and Eastern India

Manoj V Nair

Dragonflies & Damselflies of Orissa and Eastern India is an attempt to bridge the information gap on this little-studied group. Odonates are not only important parts of the food-chain but are also excellent indicator species ...

Dragonfly Biotic Index

Manual of Freshwater Assessment for South Africa

Michael J Samways and John P Simaika

This index is sensitive and robust and is suitable for assessing and monitoring freshwaters across South Africa. This manual explains how to use and apply the Dragonfly Biotic Index, while also providing guidelines for species identification ...

Ecological Atlas of Chinese Fireflies [Chinese]

Fu Xinhua

Ths is the first book to describe Chinese fireflies. Morphological characteristics, living habit and distribution are provided.

Edible Insects of the World

Jun Mitsuhashi

The first book on entomophagy written in this manner, Edible Insects of the World is an enumeration of 2,141 species of edible insects. For the reader's convenience, insect names are arranged much like a dictionary, first by ...

Farfalle delle Alpi: Come Riconoscerle, dove e Quando Osservarle [Butterflies of the Alps:

Ferretti Gianluca

Butterflies capture our imagination like few other animals in the world: we associate them with spring and the renewal that it brings. They have a mysterious and at the same time fascinating life cycle, during which it turns from a caterpillar ...

Fauna of Tianmu Mountain, Volume 3 [Chinese]

Yin Wenying

This volume contains 4 classes, 17 orders, 70 families, 261 genera and 385 species belonging to animal kingdom from Tianmu Mountain of Zhejiang Province in China, which include 13 species of 7 genera in 4 families from order Acerentomata ...

Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Hans Malicky [Festschrift in Honour of Hans Malicky's 75th Birthday]

This volume contains 37 contributions on various entomological topics to celebrate the 75th birthday of Hans Malicky.

Field Ecology, Zoogeography and Taxonomy of the Odonata of Western Himalaya, India

Arun Kumar and Mahabir Prasad

This volume reports on studies made on the dragonfly fauna of the Western Himalayas.

For the Love of Cockroaches

Husbandry, Biology, and History of Pet and Feeder Blattodea

Orin McMonigle, Jonathan Ting Lai and LM Roth

The amazing diversity of color and form in cockroaches around the world has rarely been displayed to the average animal enthusiast. Several well known species have been bred for decades as feeder insects for reptiles and other exotic pets ...

Freshwater Sponges of India

TD Soota

This volume gives an overview of the freshwater sponges of India.

Fushigide Utsukushi kai no Zukan Tankobon [Picture Book of Mysterious and Beautiful Shells]

Poru Sutarosuta and Jakku Sandasu

Humans have been fascinated with colourful shellfish since ancient times, and they have been used in a variety of forms, such as coins and ornaments. This is a collection of over 300 macrophotographs of shells, enriched with latest academic ...

Geschatzt, Verflucht, Allgegenwartig Ameisen in Biologie und Volkskultur [Esteemed, Cursed, Ubiquitous Ants

Contain eleven chapters dealing, mostly, with ant biology in Austria and surroundings.

History of American Beekeeping

Frank C Pellett

Reprint of the 1938 classic. Pellett reviews the development of beekeeping ideas, equipment, tools and processes. There is considerable attention to Langstroth, Doolittle, Root, Dadant and other industry pioneers. Hive types, smokers ...

Ichneumonid Fauna of Liaoning (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) [Chinese]

Sheng Maoling

This book deals with 451 species and subspecies belonging to 215 genera, 29 subfamilies of families ichneumonidae, of which two new genera have been established; 50 species are new to science; three subfamilies, 14 genera and 42 species ...

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Agyrtidae, Silphidae [English / Czech]

Jan Ruzicka and Pavel Jakubec

This issue deals with the species of the beetle families Agyrtidae and Silphidae. A key to identification of central European species is given. This second edition has more information and improved colour pictures.

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae [English / Czech]

Ondrje Konvicka

This issue deals with the species of the beetle families Tetratomidae and Melandryidae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

Insect Ecology

An Ecosystem Approach

Timothy D Schowalter

Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fourth Edition, follows a hierarchical organization that begins with relatively easy-to-understand chapters on adaptive responses of insect populations to various environmental changes ...

Insekten Uberlebensgross [Insects Larger Than Life]

Matthias Helb

Matthias Helb introduces 100 insect species that occur in our immediate environment. Brilliant colour photos show mosquitoes, aphids and others larger than life with all the important features, but also in the original size, so that they ...

Jellyfish: Ecology, Distribution Patterns & Human Interactions

Gian Luigi Mariottini

Cnidarian jellyfish are among the most elegant and dazzling organisms inhabiting the global aquatic environment, due to their various and sometimes striking colours as well as their long and dense tentacle structures. Despite their extremely ...

Krank durch Arthropoden [Diseases from Arthropods]

Horst Aspock

This volumes contains a collection of contributions on the topics of human diseases transmitted by arthropods.

Kumo no Kagaku Saizensen: Shinka Kara Kankyo Made [Frontiers in Spider Science: From Evolution to Environments]

Tadashi Miyashita

This book covers the latest research on spiders, dealing with evolution and diversity, spiders and ecosystems, and utilization of spider silk.

Kumohandobukku [The Handbook of Spiders]

Yuki Baba and Akio Tanigawa

From indoors to the forest, this book describes 100 common Japanese spiders, with photos on a white background to help in identification and life-size photographs to help you find them in the field. Both males and females are pictured.

Land Molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

NV Subba Rao and SC Mitra

The Andaman and Nicobar islands have a very distinct fauna of land molluscs which has very little in common with that of the mainland Indian at the species level. Studies of insular fauna are significant since these always offer unique ...

Lebensraume von Kocherfliegen (Trichoptera) [Habitats of Caddisflies (Trichoptera)]

Hans Malicky

The introduction to the book gives a short survey of caddisflies, their biology and their biotopes which mainly are running waters. Problems of recording and collecting methods are discussed. The traditional way of the study of ...

Les Libellules de Catalunya [The Dragonflies of Catalonia]

Grup d'Estudis dels Odonats de Catalunya

This book, the result of ten years of field work, is an exhaustive compilation of existing information on the dragonflies of Catalonia. The book contains an introduction to this group, with entries listing the individual species. This guide ...

Les Opilions de la Moitie Nord de la France (Arachnida: Opiliones) [The Opiliones of Northern France

Etienne Iorio and Emmanuel Delfosse

This book presents the harvestmen, the methods of collection, and an annotated list of actual and potential species in the northern half of France (55 species in total). It has been especially designed for all invertebrate researchers who ...

Los Coleopteros Saproxilicos del Parque Natural Sierra de Cebollera (La Rioja) [Saproxylic Coleoptera of Sierra de

Ignacio Perez Moreno and Fernando Moreno Grijalba

This work is a study of the community of saproxylic Coleoptera in Sierra de Cebollera Natural Park, a natural area of forest in La Rioja, Spain, marked by three prevailing forest types: pine, beech and oak wood. In any forest ...

Missouri Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The spectacular promethea moth is one of over 1,190 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and ...

Monograph of the Dileptids (Protista, Ciliophora, Rhynchostomatia)

Peter Vdacny and Wilhelm Foissner

Dileptids are holotrichously ciliated, rapacious ciliates with a conspicuous proboscis carrying a complex ciliary pattern. Most species have a wide or global distribution, occurring in limnetic, marine, and terrestrial environments as ...

Montana Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Montana's state insect – the distinctive mourning cloak – is one of over 670 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and ...

Moths in Beijing [Chinese]

Yu Guoyue

Moths in Beijing describes more than 600 species moths from Beijing, China. They belong to 40 families. Their Chinese name, Latin name, morphological characteristics, living environment, distribution are introduced with one or ...

Nematology Research in China, Volume 5 [Chinese]

Liao Jinling and Peng Deliang

Volume 5 collects a total of 109 domestic and foreign research papers, reviews, and research presentations concerning plant nematode occurrence, distribution, morphology, classification, identification, quarantine, molecular biology ...

New Jersey Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The stunning pipevine swallowtail is one of over 850 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and ...

New York State Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

New York's state butterfly, the Red-spotted White or Purple Admiral, was chosen by 4th, 5th and 6th-graders across the state. It is one of over 1,400 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated ...

North Carolina Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

North Carolina's diverse habitats – from coastal dunes to wetlands to mountain ranges – provides ample habitat for a diverse butterfly population. The state insect – the eastern swallowtail – is one of over ...

Notes on the Type Collection of the Chewinglice (Phthiraptera, Mallophaga S.L., : Insecta) in the Zoological Survey of

KV Lakshminarayan

This volume provides notes on the type collection of chewinglice (Phthiraptera, Mallophaga s.l., : insecta) in the Zoological Survey of India, a group of insects whose nomenclature is confusing due to past author ignoring rules of nomenclature ...

Nygolaimina of India

Maqsood Ahmad and M Shamim Jairajpuri

A taxonomic account of new species of the suborder Nygolaimina of India, which are members of the nematode order Dorylaimida.

Ohio Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The orange sulphur is one of over 940 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and features ...

On a Collection of Eurytomidae (Chalcidoidea: Hymenoptera) from India

MK Mukherjee

This paper contains descriptions of thirty-one species, under nine genera of Eurytomidae from India. Of these three genera, viz. Bephrata Cameron, Eurytomocharis Ashmead, and Phylloxeroxenus Ashmead are being ...

On a Collection of Scelionidae and Platygastridae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from India

MK Mukerjee

Forty new species of Proctotrupoidea, reported here, were collected by Dr. M. S. Mani and coworkes from India in the course of investigations on the Proctotrupoidea. The following genera are being reported for the first time from India ...

On the Papilioninae (Papilionidae: Lepidoptera) from Arunachal Pradesh & Adjoining Areas of Assam in North-Eastern India

GS Arora and DK Modal

The Zoological Survey of India conducted as many as nine faunistic surveys between 1961 and 1973 at different areas, particularly Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, of North-Eastern India. The present paper incorporates 32 species ...

Palaeontos 27

Jean-Francois Lesport, Alain Cluzaud, Andre Verhecken, Jean-Michel Pacaud and Daniel Ledon

The Cenozoic Pleiotritoninae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea: Cancellariidae) of the Aquitaine Basin, Southwestern France The Cenozoic species belonging to the subfamily Plesiotritoninae Beu & Maxwell ...

Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs

An Integrated Pest Management Guide

Steve H Dreistadt

This comprehensive and authoritative book is an indispensable resource for landscapers, home gardeners, and parks and grounds managers. This integrated pest management (IPM) guide is easy to use and covers hundreds of insects, mites, nematodes ...

Physiology of Nematodes

Donald Lewis Lee and HJ Atkinson

Paperback reprint of this 1976 book.

Plagas de Langosta: De la Plaga Biblica a la Ciencia de la Acridologia [Locust Plagues: From Biblical Plagues to the

Antonio Buj Buj

All continents have grasshoper species that can lead to feared plagues. In the past people resorted to religion, spells, prayers and magic to try to alleviate the calamities generated by this insect. The institutionalization of scientific ...

Research Materials of Oribatid from China (Acaria: Oribatida)

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This compilation contains following papers published in  recent years: 1.  A Checklist of Oribatid Mites of China (Acari: Oribatida I)   2.  A Checklist of Oribatid Mites of China (Acari: Oribatida II) ...

Shropshire Butterflies

A Poetic and Artistic Guide to the Butterflies of Shropshire

Nadia Kingsley

Shropshire Butterflies contains 75 poems and 69 images, from sixty six contributors including poems by Gillian Clarke, Roger Garfitt and Mario Petrucci. There are also prose pieces on habitats, and butterflies in Shropshire by ...

Spider Fauna of Calcutta and Vicinity, Part 1

BK Tikader and Bijan Biswas

From the introduction: "The Department of Zoological Survey of India was established in the year 1916 at Calcutta, and more than sixty years have passed but unfortunately so far no separate fauna of Calcutta of any group ...

Studies on Nematode Parasites of Indian Vertebrates, 1: Fishes

TD Soota

Nematodes play a very significant part in the economy of man and this is clearly evident even from the very early literary records of the world. This significance is more so for animal parasitic nematodes in particular which take a heavy ...

Studies on Some Orb-Weaving Spiders of the Genera Neoscona Simon and Araneus Clerck of the Family Araneidae

BK Tikader and Animesh Bal

The family Araneidae is one of the large families in the spider world. The members of this family are known as typical orb-weavers because they spin true orb webs, having geometrical precision and beauty. They prefer to construct their ...

Studies on the Biotaxonomy, Biology and Ecology of Some Longicorn Beetle Borers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Island

TN Khan and PK Maiti

From the introduction: "The characteristic tropical climate of the islands of Andaman in the Bay of Bengal, supports a wide variety of timber-yielding plants, which provide unique habitats to numerous timber pests belonging ...

Suisei Konchu Kansatsu Zukan [Pictorial Book of Aquatic Insects]

Mori Fumitoshi, Sekiyama Keita, Uchiyama Riyu and Watanabe Kohei

A photograhic book of aquatic insects commonly encountered in Japan.

Taxonomic Studies on the Earthworms Collected During the Subansiri Expedition in Arunachal Pradesh, India

JM Julka

The Subansiri Scientific Expedition was organised by the Geological Survey of India in November 1974-February 1975 to survey the unexplored areas in the Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. The route of the expedition was along the ...

Termite Fauna (Isoptera) of West Bengal, India, Their Recognition, Biology and Ecology

PK Maiti

Termites (Isoptera) constitute a most fascinating group of social insects specially because of their ubiquity in the tropics, superb architectural ability, cryptobiotic nature of life and enormous economic importance. The diverse physical ...

Termites & Mites

Distribution Patterns, Biological Importance & Ecological Impacts

Timothy P White

Termites are believed to be the oldest eusocial insects and their morpho-physiologically distinct castes are called reproductives, workers, soldiers and immature forms. Termites are called xylophages or wood-decaying insects but can also ...

Terrestrial and Semiterrestrial Ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Venezuela and Galapagos

Wilhelm Foissner

A highly diverse ciliate community was found in 71 samples from terrestrial and semiterrestrial habitats from the western half of Venezuela (67 samples) and from Galápagos (4). The ciliates, respectively, their resting cysts, were ...

The Australian Beekeeping Manual

Robert Owen

The Australian Beekeeping Manual is aimed at both the novice and experienced beekeeper in Australia and explains in detail the steps required to manage colonies of bees. Supported by over 350 photographs and drawings, each action ...

The Australian Native Bee Book

Keeping Stingless Bee Hives for Pets, Pollination and Delectable Sugarbag Honey

Tim Heard

This complete guide to native stingless bees is written by Australia's foremost expert. Keeping native stingless bees is a hot topic in Australia for commercial, environmental and recreational reasons. This comprehensive guide covers ...

The Bamboo Scale Insects of China [Chinese]

Wu Shijun

The Bamboo Scale Insects of China describes scale insects belonging to 146 species, 41 genera, and 6 families, found on bamboos in China.

The Bee Book

The Wonder of Bees. How to Protect Them. Beekeeping Know-How

Emma Tennant, Fergus Chadwick and Steve Alton

Bees are a marvel of nature and vital to human existence. The Bee Book is a great introduction to bees and beekeeping and celebrates the wonder of bees in nature, in our gardens and in the hive. A honey bee visits up ...

The Ecology and Evolution of Heliconius Butterflies

A Passion for Diversity

Chris Jiggins

This is the first thorough and accessible treatment of the scientific literature on the ecology, genetics, and adaptive radiation of Heliconius butterflies: a classic model system in evolutionary biology.

The Hoplopleurid Lice of the Indian Subcontinent (Anoplura: Hoplopleuridae)

AC Mishra

This study deals with the Anoplura (sucking lice) belonging to the family Hoplopleuridae Ferris. This is the largest family under the order Anoplura and is commonly found on the hosts belonging to orders Insectivora, Lagomorpha, and ...

The Illustrated of Common Farmland Insects [Chinese]

Jiang Jinwei

The Illustrated of Common Farmland Insects shows 178 species of common Chinese farmland insects in more than 800 colour photos. A total of 138 of these are the common agricultural pests, another 40 species are natural enemies of ...

The Life Histories of Jiangxi Butterflies, Volume 1 [English / Chinese]

Jia Fenghai and Zhen Chunquan

The first volume in a series to cover the life history of butterflies from Jiangxi, a province in southeast China.

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume 1, Part 1: General, Part 2: The Zygoptera - Damselflies

Edmund M Walker

Dr. Walker makes a signal contribution in gathering together all available information on the dragonflies of Canada and Alaska. The order as a whole and the Zygoptera are covered. The treatment is not confined to taxonomy and geographical ...

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume 2, Part 3: The Anisoptera - Four Families

Edmund M Walker

Dr. Walker makes a signal contribution in gathering together all available information on the dragonflies of Canada and Alaska. The order as a whole and the Zygoptera are covered. The treatment is not confined to taxonomy and geographical ...

The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, Volume 3, Part 3: The Anisoptera - Three Families

Edmund M Walker and Philip S Corbet

Dr. Walker and Dr. Corbet make a signal contribution in gathering together all available information on the dragonflies of Canada and Alaska. The order as a whole and the Zygoptera are covered. The treatment is not confined to taxonomy ...

The Physiology of Diapause in Arthropods, Volume 4

AD Lees

Originally published in 1955, as number 4 in the Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology series, this book presents an account of diapause in arthropods. The text finds in the phenomenon of diapause material for an investigation ...

The Social Insects

Their Origin and Evolution

William Morton Wheeler

Originally published in 1928, The Social Insects: Their Origin and Evolution, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us ...

The South Asian Wood-Destroying Termite, Odontotermes feae (Synonym O. indicus)

Identity, Biology, and Economic Importance (Termitidae, Macrotermitinae)

ML Roonwal and SC Verma

The authors show that the termite species Odontotermes indicus is not a valid species but merely a junior synonym of O. feae. This is one of the most important wood-destroying termites in the region of its distribution.

The Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark

O Lomholdt

The present work is primarily based on classical faunistic treatments of the European and North American sphecid faunas. Theor age, and the changes, in some cases very extensive, in nomenclature and taxonomy made since then, have necessitated ...

Vampire Crabs of the Genus Geosesama

Martin Hohle and Martin Singheiser

It was in 2006 when a few resourceful wholesalers started offering to an increasing extent amphibian terrestrial crabs that united in them all traits of an interesting and easily kept terrarium animal. They were small, colourful, and ...

Vanishing Bees

Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health

Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman

In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade ...

Verbreitungsatlas der Tierwelt Osterreichs: Lepidoptera, Geometridae [Distribution Atlas of the Animal World of Austria

Peter Huemer and Michael Malicky

This volume contains a distribution atlas to the geometrid moths of Austria, based on 518,697 data points.

Vietnamese New Mollusks

Nguyen Ngoc Thach

This new book presents 59 new species (of marine, land and freshwater shells), 93 new records, 18 species described in 2014-2015, 74 most interesting and beautiful shells of Vietnam, 48 world record size shells and 109 species of Vietnamese ...

Vogelspinnen im Terrarium [Tarantulas in the Terrarium]

Martin Meinhard

Tarantulas are fantastic terrarium animals! Their attractive appearance and exciting behaviour put them at the top of the list for spider aficionados. In this revised and extended edition, including many new species profiles ...

Vom Leben der Wildbienen: Uber Maurer, Blattschneider und Wollsammler [On the Life of Wild Bees: Mason, Leafcutter, and

Philippe Boyer

Bumblebees and other wild bees also live in your garden – busily looking for nesting places in insect hotels, in plants or in the soil. But what happens behind the scenes? How these peaceful animals really live can be learned ...

ZooKeys 527: Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths VI

B Christian Schmidt and J Donald Lafontaine

This special issue of ZooKeys marks the sixth volume in a series on New World macro-moth systematics. Eight authors contributed six manuscripts for this volume, covering taxa in the Erebidae and Noctuidae. Eight new species and ...

ZooKeys 528: Phylogenetic Revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) Using

M Andrew Jansen and Nico M Franz

This phylogenetic revision of a North American, desert-inhabiting beetle lineage promotes new syntactic and semantic practices – known as the “taxonomic concept approach” – that are well suited to resolve evolving ...

ZooKeys 536: The Genus Pterostichus in China II: The Subgenus Circinatus Sciaky, a Species Revision and Phylogeny

Hongliang Shi and Hongbin Liang

Species diversity of Chinese carabid genus Pterostichus was poorly investigated and greatly underestimated before. Circinatus, one of the subgenera in Pterostichus, was once believed well studied, with 11 previous ...

ZooKeys 538: Genetic and Cytogenetic Structure of Biological Diversity in Insects

Vladimir A Lukhtanov, Valentina G Kuznetsova, Sinejana Grozeva and Natalia V Golub

Genetic and cytogenetic structure of biological diversity and taxonomic interpretation of this structure are currently highly debated among biologists since these problems are important for understanding both biological evolution and ...

ZooKeys 540: Resolution of Cryptic Species Complexes of Tephritid Pests to Enhance SIT Application and Facilitate Intern

Marc De Meyer, Anthony A Clarke, M Teresa Vera and Jorge Hendrichs

Tephritid fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are considered by far the most important group of horticultural pests worldwide. In addition to causing tremendous economic losses, they can negatively impact commodity trade through restrictions ...

ZooKeys 544: The Mecyclothorax Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Haleakala, Maui

Keystone of a Hyperdiverse Hawaiian Radiation

James K Liebherr

The 116 Mecyclothorax beetle species of Haleakalā volcano, Maui constitute the biogeographic center of a Hawaiian adaptive radiation that evolved from a single colonizing species over the past 1.2 million years. The fauna includes ...

ZooKeys 547: Research on Chrysomelidae 5

Pierre Jolivet, Jorge A Santiago-Blay and Michael Schmitt

Research on Chrysomelidae 5 brings new and interesting results of recent research on leaf beetles. Herein, Pierre Jolivet takes readers on a historical ride through 30 years of research on chrysomelids and camaraderie amongst the ...

Abrupt Climate Change

Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts

Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak and Ellen Mosley-Thompson

Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial (lakes and speleothems) archives, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate ...

Advances in Parasitology, Volume 90

Fossil Parasites

D Timothy J Littlewood and Kenneth de Baets

Fossil Parasites, the latest edition in the Advances in Parasitology series established in 1963, contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology, including medical studies of ...

Africa from MIS 6-2

Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments

Sacha C Jones and Brian A. Stewart

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, Africa from MIS 6-2 makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene.

Amber: Archive of Deep Time

Peter Assmann and Romualdas Budrys

This book accompanies the exhibition “Trapped in Amber” exhibition project, where an extraordinary selection of natural beauty from the extensive inventories of the Lithuanian Art Museum in the Biology Centre of the Upper ...

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 10: Cenozoic Era [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

As with the previous two volumes on the cretaceous, there is so much information available for the cenozoic era that is has been spread over two volumes, and describes the cenozoic fauna.

Biological Mystery Series, Volume 9: Cenozoic Era [Japanese]

Ken Tsuchiya

As with the previous two volumes on the cretaceous, there is so much information available for the cenozoic era that is has been spread over two volumes, and describes the cenozoic fauna.

Collector's Guide to Texas Cretaceous Echinoids

William W Morgan

Texas is known worldwide as a rich resource for the intricate Cretaceous-age echinoids widely sought by professional and amateur palaeontologists. With much of the scientific literature on Texas Cretaceous echinoids decades old, here is ...

Cretaceous Sea Level Rise

Down Memory Lane and the Road Ahead

Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar

Cretaceous Sea Level Rise delves into the question of whether the observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or global (eustatic) and determines their possible relation to climate cycles; to assess the role of ...

Dinosaur Destinations

Finding America's Best Dinosaur Dig Sites, Museums and Exhibits

Jon Kramer, Julie Martinez and Vernon Morris

When it comes to dinosaurs and other fascinating fossils, the U.S. has it all, from Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops to Stegosaurus and Brachiosaurus. Dinosaur Destinations, by Jon Kramer, Julie Martinez, and Vernon Morris ...

Egypt's Prehistoric Fauna

Dominique Navarro and Matthew Lamanna

At the World Heritage site of Wadi al-Hitan, or the Valley of the Whales, in Egypt's Western Desert, an ecotour in the desert reveals a site of invaluable prehistoric fossils, from whales and rays to sea turtles and crocodiles.

Ferrantia, Volume 73: Beitr ñge zur Paleontologie des Unterdevons Luxemburgsn Volume 4 [Contributions to Palaeontology

Christian Franke

This volume contains three contributions: 1. Die Fauna der Berlé-Quarzite in Luxemburg und West-Eifel As a part of the research project "Paleontology of the Lower Devonian in Luxembourg's ...

Marine Paleobiodiversity

Responses to Sea Level Cycles and Perturbations

Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar

Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are interested in this subject and ...

Palaeontos 28

Thomas Reinecke, Andrzej Radwanski, Fritz von der Hocht, Leo Dufraing, Louis Taverne and J Maisey

Fossil Sharks and Batoids from the Korytnica-Clays, early Badenian (Langhian, Middle Miocene), Fore-Carpathian Basin, Central Poland – A Revision and Updated Record Based on new material of shark and batoid ...

Pterossauros: Os Senhores Do Ceu Do Brasil [Pterosaurs: Lords of the Brazilian Skies]

Alexander Kellner

This book is a popular treatise on the pterosaurs, the winged creatures that, alongside the dinosaurs, fascinate people. Pterosaurs and dinosaurs can be seen as sister groups each of which followed distinct evolutionary paths: pterosaurs ...

Quaternary of the Levant

Environments, Climate Change, and Humans

Yehouda Enzel and Ofer Bar-Yosef

Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel ...

A Survey of the Cauvery River System with a Major Account of its Fish Fauna

KC Jayaram, T Venkateswarlu and MB Ragunathan

Cauvery, Krishna and Godavary rivers constitute the major three river systems in South India. Geologically they are much older than the Ganga, Indus and Brahmaputra rivers of Northen lndia. The economic prosperity of the southern states ...

Back to Nature Aquarium Guide

Kjell Fohrman

A good general guide to fish keeping, with a high Cichlid content, by one of Sweden's leading professional aquarists.

Coral Reefs

Ecosystems, Environmental Impact & Current Threats

Stewart L Ortiz

Coral Reefs: Ecosystems, Environmental Impact & Current Threats provides current research on the ecosystems of coral reefs, as well as the environmental impact and current threats to the coral reefs. Chapter One studies ...

Littoral Meiofauna of Little Andaman

G Chandrasekhara Rao

The meiofauna of Little Andaman is quite rich and varied with a large number of species of diverse invertebrate groups of animals inhabiting the algae, sand and mud sediments in the littoral region. Our present knowledge on the taxonomy ...

Main Hydrobiology of Hainan [Chinese]

Wang Peng

Main Hydrobiology of Hainan briefly describes major aquatic economic organisms, giving Chinese name, scientific name, alias, classification, morphological characteristics, geographical distribution, ecological and biological details ...

Marine Plankton

A Practical Guide to Ecology, Methodology, and Taxonomy

Claudia Castellani and Martin Edwards

A thorough understanding of planktonic organisms is the first step towards a real appreciation of the diversity, biology, and ecological importance of marine life. A detailed knowledge of their distribution and community composition is ...

Meraviglie del Mediterraneo: Guida al Riconoscimento degli Organismi Marini [Wonders of the Mediterranean: Guide to the

Francesca Notari and Paolo Fossati

Meraviglie del Mediterraneo is a guide to the discovery of plant and animal species that inhabit the Mediterranean sea. The text is simple and easy to consult, and over 400 colour photographs give readers an immediate and intuitive ...

Secrets of the Sea

Discover a Hidden World

Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor

Secrets of the Sea takes you on a journey, from the rockpools along the shoreline, to the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, to reveal an incredible and rarely seen world. You will zoom in on the intricate patterns on a giant ...

Susswasserwelten [Freshwater Worlds]

This volume contains a collection of articles on limnology and freshwater flora and fauna of freshwater habitats in and around Austria.

A Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives

Anne S Toelstra

Anne Troelstra's fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences.

A Good Man with a Dog

A Game Warden's 25 Years in the Maine Woods

Roger Guay and Kate Clark Flora

A game warden's journey from the woods of Maine to the swamps of New Orleans. When Roger Guay's father died in a tragic fishing accident, a kind game warden helped him through the loss. Inspired by this experience, as well as his ...

A Plant Hunter in Tibet

Frank Kingdon-Ward

Francis Kingdon-Ward was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. This book, originally published in 1934, recounts of his plant collecting expeditions in Tibet.

A Shepherd's Life

William Henry Hudson

Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson ...

A William Condry Reader

Jim Perrin and Gwyneth Lewis

Brought together by friend and fellow nature writer, Jim Perrin, A William Condry Reader, is a rich collection of the world-famous naturalist and distinguished nature writer, William Condry's work. Renowned for his ...

Aaron Klug - A Long Way from Durban

A Biography

Kenneth C Holmes

The atomic structures of macromolecules provide the key to understanding how life works. Aaron Klug led the way in the development of methods for solving such structures and is one of the pioneers of structural molecular biology.

About Trees

Katie Holten and Ida Bencke

New York based Irish artist Katie Holten's artist book About Trees is the first in BDP's Parapoetic series exploring the Anthropocene our current geologic epoch in which human activities significantly impact earth's ...

Aesop's Kiwi Fables

Raymond Ching and Richard Wolfe

In this collection, newly painted for Aesop's Kiwi Fables, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills, familiar to New Zealanders through his widely seen paintings of birds, are imaginatively engaged in an altogether new ...

Agricultural Enlightenment

Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840

Peter M Jones

Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment. It focuses on the second half of the eighteenth century and emphasises the role of useful knowledge in ...

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey

Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac

Julianne Lutz Warren and Bill McKibben

In 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren (née Newton) asked readers to rediscover one of history's most renowned conservationists. Aldo Leopold's Odyssey was hailed by The New York Times as a "biography of ...

Amazing Animal Journeys

Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft

A beautiful, fact-filled picture book by naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham. Stunningly illustrated by Harry Potter cover artist Jason Cockroft. Every year billions of animals migrate from one part of our planet to another.

Animalium

Jenny Broom and Katie Scott

Welcome to the Museum is a series of books set on the "walls" of the printed page, showcasing the world’s finest collections of objects – from natural history to art. Open 365 days a year and unrestricted ...

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Borbala Farago and Margo DeMello

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animals ...

Animals: 1000 Handmade Illustrations

Joan Escandell

The book features retro style pen and ink illustrations by Joan Escandell (illustrator of "Captain Thunder", "He-Man", and Disney's "Cinderella" and "The Lion King"), who molded the image many ...

Australasian Nature Photography 2015: ANZANG Twelfth Edition

The Year's Best Wildlife and Landscape Photos

Australian Geographic

The bioregion that encompasses Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back more than 80 million years, to the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwana. The South Australian ...

Aves do Parana [Birds of Parana]

Marcelo Krause and Fernando C Straube

This book is the first in a collection of three volumes illustrating some species that make up the rich birdlife of the Brazilian state of Paraná, where – according to recent estimates – a total of 744 species ...

Bobby the Brown Long-Eared Bat

Angela S Mills and Kate Wyatt

‘It was June 21st and it was a very special day, for not only was it midsummer’s day, but also Bobby the Brown long-eared bat was born. In the old farmhouse, a number of mother bats were resting, huddled together with ...

Botanicum

Katherine J Willis and Katie Scott

The 2016 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum is a stunningly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum gives readers the ...

Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution

Sherry Johnson

From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended ...

Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction

Owen Gingerich

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronomer who "stopped the sun and set the earth in motion". Born in Poland, educated at Cracow and then in Italy, he served all of his ...

Darwin: The Power of Observation and Reflection

Guido J Braem and Sandra L Ohlun

Charles Robert Darwin is a polarizing personality. To some, he is one of the most famous naturalists in the history of mankind; to others he is The Devil's Cousin. No matter how people view Charles Darwin, it is remarkable ...

Darwinism and Modern Socialism

FW Headley

An adamant fan of Darwin, F.W. Headley attempts to argue the difficulties of believing in Socialism and Darwinism simultaneously and highlights issues which could prevent Socialism from being put into practice. Originally published in ...

Dirt Work

An Education in the Woods

Christine Byl

Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready for a new challenge, she joined a Glacier National Park trail crew as a seasonal "traildog ...

Diving Down Under

Nigel Marsh

Australia is blessed with one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the world. From its tropical north to its cool temperate waters, the land down under is truly a diver's paradise.

Da Var Allt Levande och Lustigt - Om Clas Bjerkander: Linnelarjunge, Prast och Naturforskare i Vastergotland

Kerstin Ekman

"I have come to know a man who lived long ago through what he left behind in manuscripts and in print, although it has never been remarked upon. When I worked with the essay book Se Blomman, I happened to become fascinated ...

Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire

New Views on Environmental History

James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O'Gorman and John M MacKenzie

19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental ...

Ernst Haeckel [English / French / German]

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel (1834 1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor, who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and ...

Evolution Made to Order

Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth Century America

Helen Anne Curry

In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them ...

Explorers' Sketchbooks

The Art of Discovery & Adventure

Huw Lewis-Jones, Kari Herbert and Robert MacFarlane

Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed much at all – the journal. The sketchbooks and journals ...

Feral Dilemma

The Life of a Ranger on Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

Michael Anderson

This is the story of an extraordinary job, in an extraordinary place. As one of the rangers, Michael Anderson was there to eradicate the cats and control the rabbits. Feral cats, European rabbits, black rats and house mice were introduced ...

Fische, Petrefakten und Gedichte: Rudolf Kner (1810-1869) - Ein Streifzug durch sein Leben und Werk

Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen and Matthias Svojtka

Within the Habsburg monarchy, due to the comprehensive re-organisation of the universities in 1849, Rudolf Kner (1810-1869) was the first person to become appointed Professor in Zoology. He was also the first person who brought scientific ...

Flowers, Butterflies, Insects, Caterpillars & Serpents / Fiori, Farfalle, Insetti, Bruchi e Serpenti

From Sybilla Merian & Moses Hariss XVII-XVIII Centuries Engravings

Luca Stefano Cristini, Maria Sybilla Merian and Moses Harris

In those years, Europe was full of bonfires committed to make a clean sweep of witches. At the same time a young scientist: Sybilla Merian, daughter of the well-known German engraver Matthaeus Merian, was instead committed to studying ...

Forty Shades of White

My Amazing Antarctic Journey

Ginni Bazlinton and Sir Ranulph Fiennes

When on a whim Ginni Bazlinton signed up for a voyage to the planet's fifth largest and coldest continent she did not know what to expect. An icy wilderness governed by no nation, where virtually the only natives are penguins and ...

From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy

The Stamp of Inutility

Marco Solinas

From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary ...

From Field and Fen

Mike Toms

Drawn from a decade of the In the Countryside columns published in the Eastern Daily Press, From Field and Fen explores our relationship with place and the countryside. From Field and Fen is the result ...

Frozen Empires

An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula

Adrian Howkins

Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly ...

Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?

Rita Gray and Kenard Pak

Woodpecker calls from a tree, "cuk-cuk-cuk." Starling sings, "whistle-ee-wee." But have you heard the nesting bird? In this book, we hear all the different bird calls in counterpoint to the pervasive quiet of a mother ...

Hewett Cottrell Watson

Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist

Frank N Egerton and David L Hull

First published in 2003. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a pioneer in a new science not yet defined in Victorian times – ecology – and was practically the first naturalist to conduct research on plant evolution, beginning in 1834.

Knitted Dinosaurs

A Collection of Prehistoric Pals to Knit from Scratch

Tina Barrett

This is a fun & fact-filled book that dino-obsessed children and grown-ups alike will love, from a UK author. It features 15 different dinosaur patterns, from Stegasaurus to Triceratops. It includes a techniques section that covers ...

Knitted Wild Animals

A Collection of Adorable Animals to Create from Scratch

Sarah Keen

Knitted Wild Animals offers clearly presented, easy-to-follow knitting patterns for 15 fun and colorful wild animals. A comprehensive, illustrated techniques section will guide less experienced knitters. Projects have an adorable ...

Knitted Woodland Creatures

A Collection of Cute Critters to Make

Susie Johns

Knitted Woodland Creatures features 15 lovely and fun projects to make, varying in complexity. It includes clear, easy-to-follow knitting patterns and a comprehensive illustrated techniques section. It is full of fascinating ...

Landscape and Englishness

David Matless

Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity ...

Les Traces d'Animaux [Animal Tracks]

Dominique Martire and Franck Merlier

This small field guide shows the most common animal tracks and traces found in France.

Life Science [English / German]

Eran Gilat

Eran Gilat is a neuroscientist and an avid fine art photographer. His research focuses on the development of an innovative cure for epilepsy. Life Science reflects his long lasting confrontation with biological tissues, contemplates ...

Light and Dust

Images and Stories from the Wild of East Africa

Federico Veronesi

Light and Dust is a reflection on the subjects and places that made the deepest impression on the author during his years spent in Eastern Africa. His interest and skill in capturing the emotions of wild animals, their resilience ...

Lines in the Ice

Exploring the Roof of the World

Philip J Hatfield

Lines in the Ice asks why Europeans have for so long been drawn to the Arctic, following the course of major journeys to the region, assessing the impact of this on the North's indigenous communities and revealing how important ...

Master Low Light Photography

Create Beautiful Images from Twilight to Dawn

Heather Hummel

Most photographers shoot in abundant sunlight. The problem is, full sun creates harsh, unflattering shadows that undermine images. Working in low light – in early morning or at twilight or when Mother Nature cues the clouds or ...

Metamorphosen: Verwandlungskunstler der Natur [Metamorphosis: Shape Shifters of Nature]

Frederic Clement and Sarah Pasquay

In this illustrated book the readers can witness many fantastic transformations in the animal and plant world, each one more beautiful than the next. How does a magnificent tulip come from a simple bulb? How does the little tadpole turn ...

Mimicry in Butterflies

Reginald Crundall Punnett

Originally published in 1915, Mimicry in Butterflies was written by the renowned British geneticist Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875-1967). Intended to appeal to a broad range of readers, the text presents a concise discussion of ...

Mobilizing Nature

The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France

Chris Pearson

Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarization in France, from the creation of Chalons Camp in 1857 to military environmentalist policies in the twentieth century. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known ...

My Family and Other Animals [60th Anniversary Edition]

Gerald Durrell

My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged in hardcover for the book's 60th anniversary ...

My Wild Life

The Story of a Most Unlikely Animal Rescuer

Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell always wanted to be a vet. Instead, he ended up as a wealthy commodities trader. But with a love of nature and animals, he could never quite subscribe to the 'greed is good' mantra which rang out through the trading ...

Our Zoo

June Mottershead

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of opening a zoo without bars, his four-year-old daughter June had no idea how extraordinary her life would become. Soon her best friend was ...

Painting Paradise

The Art of the Garden

Vanessa Remington and Sir Roy Strong

Gardens are where man and nature meet. They change by the hour, from day to day and with the seasons. Presented with the many different aspects of the garden, both actual and imaginary, artists have been inspired to explore and celebrate ...

Paradise is Underwater

Memoir of a Marine Biologist

Scoresby A Shepherd

Paradise is Underwater presents the life of a marine biologist and fisheries worker in South Australia from his earliest days in the country to the present. After a troubled youth, trapped by strict parents within a cult, he escaped ...

Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins

First Encounters with the Exotic

Claire Cock-Starkey

Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? Probably not, because in these modern times everyone is very knowing – knowledge is at our fingertips and it can sometimes feel as if the ...

Perspectives on Oceans Past

A Handbook of Marine Environmental History

Kathleen Schwerdtner Manez and Bo Poulsen

Marine environmental history analyses the changing relationships between human societies and marine natural resources over time. This is the first book which deals in a systematic way with the theoretical backgrounds of this discipline.

Planet Earth II

Stephen Moss

An all-new look at our astonishing planet from a completely new perspective, 10 years on from the first, groundbreaking, Planet Earth. Contains over 250 breathtaking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular ...

Pleasures of Nature

A Literary Anthology

Christina Hardyment

From Leonardo da Vinci on the shifting colours of the sky to Charlotte Brontë on the wild moors of Yorkshire, and from DH Lawrence inhabiting the mind of the indomitable tortoise to the intrepid Isabella Bird climbing a Hawaiian volcano ...

Sailing with Cook

Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN

Suzanne Rickard and Peter Cochrane

Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed ...

Satpada: Our World of Insects

Rebecca Thomas and Geetha Iyer

Satpada means ‘six-legged’ in Sanskrit. As this word aptly highlights one of the features for identifying an insect – three pairs of legs – it was chosen as the title for this book.

Sea Creatures in Glass

The Blaschka Marine Animals at Harvard

Elizabeth R Brill, Florian Huber and David O Brown

Delicate jellyfish and anemones, octopus, tentacled squid, and bizarre-looking soft-bodied sea creatures were meticulously recreated in glass by father and son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century.

Secrets of Animal Camouflage

Carron Brown and Wesley Robins

New light is thrown on the secrets of animal camouflage in this delightfully illustrated new Shine-a-Light title. Children will discover how animals hide by ingeniously adapting to their environment. From stick insects hiding on branches ...

Shoot Cold

Pro Techniques for Exploring the Bold World of Winter Photography

Joseph F Classen

The winter landscape is a relatively untapped photographic subject for most photographers. As renowned nature photographer Joseph Classen proves, though, if you venture out, you're sure to discover a remarkable array of photo opportunities ...

Sightings of the Sacred

The renowned South African photographer Daniel Naudé's moving studies of cattle in cultures where they are considered sacred offer unique insight into the lives of the people, the animals, and the spiritual practices that have ...

Snakes, Alligators, and Broken Hearts

Journeys of a Biologist's Son

Sneed B Collard III

Snakes, Alligators, and Broken Hearts recounts the author's adventures and experiences growing up as the son of a biologist during the 1960s and 70s. With humor and compassion, the author describes the innocence of his early ...

South African Wild Flowers

Illustrated by A. Beatrice Hazell

A Beatrice Hazell, E Ritter, D Barclay and Herbert Tucker

This vintage book contains a guide to various South African wild flowers. For each flower dealt with there is a beautiful illustration as well as a small verse of poetry and botanical notes. Only the most well-known and beautiful varieties ...

South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Frank Hurley

Read about Ernest Shackleton's famed 1914-1917 expedition in a beautifully illustrated edition of this adventure survival classic, published for its 100 year anniversary. In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced ...

Stefs Grote Neuzenboek: Over Neuzen, Ruiken en Geuren in de Dierenwereld [Stef's Book of Big Noses: On Noses, Smelling,

Stef den Ridder and Anneke Groen

Stefs Grote Neuzenboek is a beautifully illustrated children's book on noses and smells in the animal kingdom. Using recognisable and wonderful animals from the Netherlands and abroad chilren will learn everything about the ...

Stripes in the Forest

The Story of the Last Wild Thylacine

Aleesah Darlison and Shane McGrath

"I am the last of my kind. This I know. Once, we roamed the land. We owned the land. We called it Home. But strange creatures came to take it from us...My story matters. I am the last living female Tasmanian Tiger." ...

Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction

Chris Pak

Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's ...

The Ambitions of Jane Franklin

Victorian Lady Adventurer

Alison Alexander

In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world, and was probably the best travelled woman of her day. Alison Alexander traces the life of this inimitable woman ...

The Evolution of Charles Darwin

George A Dorsey

Charles Darwin is well-known throughout the world for his revolutionary work from 1859; On the Origin of Species, the foundational study of evolution which greatly challenged the near-universal belief in the Christian world, at that time ...

The Great Acceleration

An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945

John R McNeill and Peter Engelke

The Great Acceleration presents the full text of J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke's contribution to Global Interdependence: The World after 1945, the sixth volume of A History of the World.

The Life & Love of the Sea

Lewis Blackwell

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean". Since time immemorial, humans have been captivated by water. No wonder: it's the most omnipresent substance on Earth and without it ...

The Luminaries of Geological Science in Azerbaijan [English / Russian / Azerbaijani]

Ak A Alizada

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Elmlar, this book describes the important figureheads in the history of Azerbaijani geological sciences.

The Nature of Soviet Power

An Arctic Environmental History

Andy Bruno

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This transformation suggests ...

The Northern Lights

Celestial Performances of the Aurora Borealis

Daryl Pederson, Calvin W Hall and Ned Rozell

Shot with ultra-high definition cameras, this book of amazing photographs showcases a period of unusually high solar activity in the Northern Lights. The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, put on remarkable shows of light ...

The Road to Discovery

A Short History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jan A Witkowski and Bruce Stillman

The Road to Discovery: A Short History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was published in 2015 to mark the 125th anniversary of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. At Cold Spring Harbor, in a bucolic setting on the north shore ...

The Smoke of London

Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City

William M Cavert

The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fuelled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap ...

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elizabeth Tova Bailey

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence in a terrarium alongside her bed. She enters the rhythm of life of this mysterious creature, and comes to a greater understanding of ...

The Voyages of Captain James Cook

The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages

James Cook, John Hawkesworth and Nicholas Thomas

This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed ...

The Wild Treasury of Nature

A Portrait of Little St. Simons Island

Philip Juras, Wendy Paulson, Kevin Grogan, Dorinda G Dallmeyer and Janice Simon

The fifty-two paintings gathered here reveal as never before the wild beauty of Little St. Simons, an undeveloped barrier island on the Georgia coast. In showing us the island's marshes and tidal creeks, shrub lands and forests, and ...

The Year in the Countryside

Frances Pitt and Stanley Herbert

The author's knowledge of nature in Britain is deep and exact, based upon years of observation and distinguished by an intuitive understanding of what she sees. In this latest collection of her work she shares her discoveries and ...

The Zoo

The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo

Isobel Charman

The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London – when only one other existed across the world – is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival zookeepers and aristocratic naturalists ...

Time and a Place

An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island

Edward MacDonald, Joshua MacFadyen and Irene Novaczek

With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island (PEI) makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing ...

Trading Environments

Frontiers, Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation, 1750-1990

Gordon M Winder and Andreas Dix

Trading Environments examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments ...

Walking on the Wild Side

Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail

Kristi M Fondren

The most famous long-distance hiking trail in North America, the 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail – the longest hiking-only footpath in the world – runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia to Maine. Every year about ...

Walks, Tracks and Trails of Queensland's Tropics

Derrick Stone

Queensland's tropics provide numerous environments for enjoyable walking: lush rainforests, cloud-shrouded mountains, extinct volcanoes, savanna woodlands, and magnificent beaches on the coast and Great Barrier Reef islands.

Wild Guide - Lake District and Yorkshire Dales

Hidden Places and Great Adventures - Including Bowland and South Pennines

Daniel Start and Tania Pascoe

Imagine a summer spent swimming in mountain waterfalls, exploring lost ruins and caverns, and camping in ancient forests. In this explorer's compendium you will discover the most exciting and lesser-known places to visit in the Lake ...

Wild Guide - Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark)

Swim, Camp, Canoe and Explore Europe's Greatest Wilderness

Ben Love

The best-selling Wild Guide series travels to Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark to explore its incredible hidden places. Spectacular photography guides the reader to over 800 wild adventures. Including wild swimming, canoe ...

Wild Swimming, Hidden Beaches

Explore the Secret Coast of Britain

Daniel Start

The fully revisied second edition of Wild Swimming Coast now includes even more for walkers, swimmers and explorers: - Full national coverage of Britain's most beautiful beaches - Lagoons, sea caves and amazing places ...

Wild by Nature

From Siberia to Australia, Three Years Alone in the Wilderness on Foot

Sarah Marquis

Not since Cheryl Strayed's Wild has there been such a powerful epic adventure by a woman alone... In Wild by Nature, Sarah Marquis, a National Geographic Explorer, recounts her extraordinary solo hike that took her ...

Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe

The Forest as Ancestor

Gordon Noble

The Neolithic period is one of the great transformations in human history – when agriculture first began and dramatic changes occurred in human society. These changes occurred in environments that were radically different to those ...

African Safari

Into the Great Game Reserves

Peter Pickford and Beverly Pickford

An African safari is arguably one of the most alluring and easily understood dreams of our time. Just the thought of an African safari evokes thoughts of adventure, a journey through nature's greatest spectacle, a glimpse of the earth ...

Alpes Vaudoises: Immersion dans la Nature Sauvage [The Canton of Vaud: Immersion into the Wild]

Claude Moreillon

Up high, where the seasons punctuate the life of wild animals and men, the mountains fascinate. Claude Moreillon, wildlife photographer, author and lecturer, enjoys sharing her intimate moments, and sometimes complicity, afforded by wild ...

An Ecotourist's Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys

Robert Silk and Clyde Butcher

Packed with adventure and a local's expert advice, An Ecotourist's Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys is essential reading for a fun-filled trip through the world's most famous wetland, the Everglades, and ...

Ancient Egypt's Wildlife

Dominique Navarro and Salima Ikram

Carved reverently in the walls of the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt, hieroglyphs and sculpted reliefs depict lions and jackals, hawks and owls, cobras and scarabs. This unique new guide explores the hieroglyphs and fauna of the ancient ...

Anup Shah: Die Letzten Tiere der Mara [The Last Animals of the Mara]

Anup Shah and Ulrike Kretschmer

This is the visual story of life in Maasai Mara, Kenya, wild home of African big game and one of the world's most famous wildlife reserves. Anup Shah's distinctive style of photography propels the reader into the middle of this ...

Aride Island

Tread Lightly

Tim Sands and Adrian Skerrett

The story of how Aride Island became one of the Indian Ocean's most important nature reserves. A 150-page book lavishly illustrated with stunning landscape and wildlife images. All proceeds go towards the conservation work of the ...

Atlas Spiljskih Tipskih Lokaliteta Faune Republike Hrvatske, Svezak 1 [The Cave Type Localities Atlas of Croatian Fauna

Branko Jalzic, Jana Bedek, Helena Bilandzija, Hrvoje Cvitanovic and Tvrtko Drazina

The caves called loci typici or type localities are extremely important, as they constitute caves in which a new animal taxon was originally found and described according to the samples found. Therefore, in 2000 the Croatian Biospeleology ...

Atlas Spiljskih Tipskih Lokaliteta Faune Republike Hrvatske, Svezak 2 [The Cave Type Localities Atlas of Croatian Fauna

Branko Jalzic et al

The Cave Type Localities Atlas of Croatian Fauna, Volume 2 was published in 2013 as a continuation of the effort to catalogue cave type localities. These speleological objects are where new cave fauna was first discovered and ...

Die Freiberge: Hochebene im Herzen des Jura [The Freiberger: Plateau in the Heart of the Jura]

Ambroise Marchand

The Franches-Montagnes district, located at 1000 meters altitude in the Jura, between Switzerland and France, has an area of about 200 km². Not having suffered from heavy industrialization and being away from large urban centers ...

Egypt's Flora & Fauna

Dominique Navarro and Richard Hoath

Besides its archaeological treasures, Egypt is also home to an exotic and mysterious wealth of wildlife, hiding at times in its temples and tombs, its deserts and oases. The Nile nourishes an array of habitats, flora, and fauna often ...

Essai d'Ecologie Territoriale: L'Exemple d'Aussois en Savoie [Essays on Territorial Ecology: The Example of Aussois in

Nicolas Buclet

Perched 400 meters above the gorge of the Arc, the village of Aussois marks more or less the entrance to the high valley of Maurienne, a part of the French Alps openning on to Italy. A short distance away from the road to Mont-Cenis ...

Ethiopia: Travellers' Handbook

Trevor Jenner

Ethiopia: Travellers' Handbook: a travel guide that was conceived for the discerning traveller, the group and package tourist, and those people wishing to have a quick reference travel guide with a range of facts at their fingertips.

Future Arctic

Field Notes from a World on the Edge

Edward Struzik

A veteran journalist explores the changing Arctic and why it should matter to the rest of the world. In one hundred years, or even fifty, the Arctic will look dramatically different than it does today. As polar ice retreats and animals ...

Green Nomads

Across Australia's Wild Heritage

Bob Brown

Green Nomads is a celebration of Australia's wilderness areas, and we surely have something to celebrate. The landscape and close-up photographs of Australia's natural landscape are ehterial yet familiar, calming yet powerful ...

Hidden Histories

A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape

Mary-Ann Ochota

For the times when you're driving past a lumpy, bumpy field and you wonder what made the lumps and bumps; for when you're walking between two lines of grand trees, wondering when and why they were planted; for when you see a brown ...

I Piu Begli Animali delle Alpi: Mammiferi, Uccelli, Anfibi e Rettili che si Incontrano Durante le Escursioni in Montagna

After the success of the dedicated field guides to the major groups of alpine fauna, this is an anthology of 45 animals (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) that run, jump, dig, climb, and fly in the Alps. Animals which we can only ...

Indian River Lagoon

An Environmental History

Nathaniel Osborn

Stretching along 156 miles of Florida's East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St. Lucie estuary, the Mosquito Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon, and the Indian River. It is a delicate ecosystem of shifting barrier islands and ...

Korea Cartography and Natural History [Korean]

This book is a cartographic natural history collection for Korean – all the relevant research results of academics and experts in one volume. This will be a boon to provide a new foundation for Korea cartographic studies.

La Nature dans les Alpes [Nature in the Alps]

Jean-Pierre Martinot

This concise field guide shows common plants and animals in the Alps.

Langs de Nederrijn: Natuur en Cultuur tussen Wageningen en Wijk bij Duurstede [Along the Lower Rhine: Nature and Culture

Harry Stegeman

Langs de Nederrijn is a richly illustrated book on the river landscape between Wageningen in the south and Wijk bij Duurstede in the middle of the Netherlands. It sketches an attractive portrait of the Rhine river and the surrounding ...

Minnesota Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state fish – the walleye – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the North Star State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species ...

Mississippi Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammals – the red fox and white-tailed deer – are two of the thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Mississippi. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar ...

Missouri Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state fish – the channel catfish – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Show Me State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Monte Argentario e Laguna di Orbetello: Aspetti Storici, Paessaggistici e Naturalistici con Itinerari

Giuseppe Tosi Enrico Bulgheri

This book describes in detail the natural features of one of the most famous territories and areas of Italy, Monte Argentino and the lagoon or Orbetello, a peninsula belonging to the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region of Tuscany.

Mountains and Marshes

Exploring the Bay Area's Natural History

David Rains Wallace

Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention to one of the most distinctive corners ...

Natural History of the Pacific Northwest Mountains

Daniel Mathews

Natural History of the Pacific Northwest Mountains is an engagingly written, portable history of the Cascade region. It helps outdoor enthusiasts identify the flora, fauna, and geology of the region and includes information about ...

Naturally Orkney

Raymond Besant

Orcadian Raymond Besant has an instinctive knack of finding and photographing Orkney nature as few have seen it. Naturally Orkney includes some unique images from the islands' outdoors; a Red Throated Diver, sitting on her ...

Nebraska Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Nebraska has identified 40 biologically unique landscapes which are home to a variety of wildlife. The state mammal – the white-tailed deer – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found ...

Nevada Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammal – the desert bighorn sheep – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Silver State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and ...

New Hampshire Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammal – the white-tailed deer – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout New Hampshire. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

New Jersey Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state fish – the brook trout – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout New Jersey. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of ...

New Mexico Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammal – the black bear – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout New Mexico. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of ...

New York State Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

From the Finger Lakes of Western New York to the Eastern Adirondacks, New York's diverse ecosystems thousands of species of animals, including the state mammal, the industrious beaver. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights ...

North Carolina Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

North Carolina's mountain, coastal and classic piedmont habitats provide refuge for thousands of species of animals including the state mammal – the gray squirrel. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar ...

North Dakota Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

North Dakota boasts 63 National Wildlife Refuges (more than any other state), spread over more than 290,000 acres. The state fish – the northern pike – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems ...

Photographic Guide to Terrestrial Vertebrates in Heishiding [Chinese]

Wang Ying

A terrestrial vertebrate field identification handbook to the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Heishiding Nature Reserve Areas, Guangdong Province, China. The book is divided into three chapters and includes more than 720 animal pictures.

Richmond Park

From Medieval Pasture to Royal Park

Paul Rabbitts

Richmond Park is the largest Royal Park in London, covering an area of 2,500 acres. From its heights there is an uninterrupted view of St Paul's Cathedral, 12 miles away. The royal connections to this park probably go back further than ...

Sahyadri: Reminiscences and Reflections

Sudhirendar Sharma and NA Naseer

This book captures the paradise that is the Sahyadri, also known as the Western Ghats, through the lens of N.A. Naseer, and the hell that has been let lose on it, through the pen of noted writers. The selection of writings reflects the ...

Salmon in the Trees

Life in Alaska's Tongass Rain Forest

Ray Troll and Amy Gulick

One of the rarest ecosystems on Earth, the Tongass rain forest fringes the coastal panhandle of Alaska and covers thousands of islands in the Alexander Archipelago. It's a place where everything is interconnected: Humpback whales ...

Shetland Islands

James A Pottinger

Lying far to the north of Scotland, the Shetland Islands form an extraordinary archipelago, unparalleled in Britain for their beauty. In the summer months, the sun barely dips below the horizon, and at midsummer there is the famous ...

The Caribbean

Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics

Chris Campbell and Michael Niblett

Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the ...

Water in the Wilderness

Life in the Coast, Deserts, and Mountains of Pakistan

Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Richard Garstang and Rina Saeed Khan

Water in the Wilderness aims at highlighting the seamless beauty, culture, flora and fauna of Pakistan. The central message of Water in the Wilderness is that economic growth, with its zeal for modern transformation ...

Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies

Alexandra Harris

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt ...

Wildlife of the Holy Land

Dominique Navarro and Sharif Baha El Din

The Holy Land – the birthplace of great religions – is also an environment of unique flora and fauna. Encompassing a vast, ancient region-lying between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, from Syria in the north down ...

A Guide to the Tropical Seagrasses of the Western Atlantic / Guia de los Pastos Marinos Tropicales del Atlantico Oeste

Brigitta I van Tussenbroek, M Guadalupe Barba Santos, J Gonzalo Ricardo Wong and Jent van Dijk

A richly illustrated field guide to the sea grasses of the Western Atlantic. The guide includes an identification key, colour photos, black-and-white line drawings and distribution maps. For every species photos of the flower and the fruit ...

A Wild Plant Year

The History, Folklore and Uses of Britain's Flora

Christina Hart-Davies

Lavishly illustrated with Christina's vibrant watercolours, A Wild Plant Year explores the cultural history, folklore and medicinal or household uses of many of Britain's best-loved wild plants. It takes us through a ...

An Important Part of Wood Formation Mechanism - Secondary Xylem Development, Volume 1

Coniferous Tree

Yin Sici

Development of secondary xylem in trees forms the basis of the wood that is used by the timber industry. This book describes research on genetics of xylem formation in coniferous trees, and its potential applications.

Arbres Remarquables en Haute-Savoie [Remarkable Trees in Haute-Savoie]

Henri Rougier

The specialists who worked on this book engaged in a genuine Benedictine task to identify the maximum number of specimens in different parts of the department. The sum of their work has resulted in a varied canvas, as exhaustive as possible ...

Australian Native Bulbs

Including Bulbous, Cormous, and Tuberous Plants

Attila Kapitany

Most people are unaware that Australia has any; even experts can often only cite one or two species. Yet here eight exciting species are showcased in detail in this booklet, with many more discussed. Topical publication with some cultivated ...

Australian Native Plants

Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Yasmina Sultanbawa and Fazal Sultanbawa

Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown on a ...

BS 8545:2014 Trees: From Nursery to Independence in the Landscape - Recommendations

BS 8545 is a new British Standard to assist people involved in planning, designing, resourcing, producing, planting and managing new trees in the landscape. It describes a process for planting young trees that will result in them achieving ...

Bamboo Flowering and Rodent Control

Veena Tandon and Saroj K Barik

Papers presented at the Workshop on 'Bamboo Flowering and Rodent Control' organized by North-Eastern Hill University at Guwahati, India, during 11-13 November 2010.

Botanical Miracles

Chemistry of Plants That Changed the World

Raymond Cooper, Jeffrey John Deakin and Simon Gibbons

As the shortcomings of purely synthetic approaches to biochemical discovery and development are becoming more apparent, a renaissance of interest in the chemistry of natural products as sources for new compounds is occurring. A unique ...

Campanulas in the Garden

Peter Lewis

This useful booklet covers the history, geography and botany of Campanulas, their cultivation and propagation, plus a comprehensive cultivar list with notes on colour, height and conditions required.

Colour Atlas of Anticancer Animal, Plant & Mineral Preparations and Their Application [English / Chinese]

Xia Guangcheng

This book is a compendium of animal, plant, and mineral preparations and anti-cancer effects. The book is divided into three parts, the first describing 71 kinds of mineral, their chemical composition, results of pharmacological tests ...

Common Landscape Plants in North China [Chinese]

Wu Xiangchun

This book collects 1500 photographs culled from more 8000 photo. The selected photographs are clear and bright, and the text is written to be reader-friendly. This book will be useful in garden design, construction and production and ...

Compendium of Blueberry, Cranberry, and Lingonberry Diseases and Pests

James J Polashock, Frank L Caruso, Anne L Averill and Annemiek C Schilder

This comprehensive new diagnostic and management guide is the largest, most comprehensive APS compendium published to date. Nearly triple the thickness of the previous edition, it collectively covers nearly 150 diseases, pests, and disorders ...

Conservation, Cultivation and Exploration of Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Plants

Abhimanyu Kumar

About 80% of the population in India is reported to use Ayurveda and medicinal plants to help meet their primary health care needs and the safety of this tradition is attributed to time tested use, textual reference and further endorsed ...

Contribution to the Fauna of Sikkim: Nematodes Associated with Citrus from Sikkim, India

QH Baquri

From the introduction: "Sikkim became the twenty-second state of India in 1975. This is a small hill state nestling in the Himalayas, situated in the North-Eastern Region of India. Sikkim has been divided into four districts ...

Cotton Field Weed Identification and Control Color Atlas [Chinese]

Ma Yan

Cotton Field Weed Identification and Control Color Atlas offers illustrations of common weeds in cotton fields to help with identification. It also describes control techniques, as well as common symptoms of chemical herbicide ...

Das Geheime Leben der Baume: Was Sie Fuhlen, Wie Sie Kommunizieren - Die Entdeckung einer Verborgenen Welt

Peter Wohlleben

In Das Geheime Leben der Bäume Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific process ...

Diatoms of Europe, Volume 8: The Diatom Genus Gomphonema from the Republic of Macedonia

Zlatko Levkov, Danijela Mitic-Kopanja and Erwin Reichardt

Despite its small area in geographical terms, Macedonia hosts approximately 70%, i.e. 125 out of about 180, Gomphonema taxa currently known from all of Europe. Macedonia, situated in the Balkans, almost on the southern edge of ...

Die Orchideen Bayerns: Verbreitung, Gefahrdung, Schutz [The Orchids of Bavaria: Distribution, Threats, Protection]

Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen (AHO) Bayern e.V.

This in-depth work, next to offering an average of six beautiful photos per species (over 750 in total), also provides basic information on orchids and their Bavarian habitats. A distribution maps for Bavarua – including a ...

Directory of Herbal Cultivators in Peninsular Malaysia

AR Rohana

This directory provides information on 458 herbal cultivators and 75 suppliers of planting materials, complete with names, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and types of herbs cultivated. A total of 20 species of herbs are covered ...

Environmental Plant Physiology

Neil Willey

Environmental Plant Physiology focuses on the physiology of plant-environment interactions, revealing plants as the key terrestrial intersection of the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. It provides a contemporary ...

Euphorbias

Don Witton, Elaine Walker and Cyril Stocks

Most of the species and cultivars available to the British gardener are described here, together with extensive information on the history, botany and cultivation of this the largest plant genus in the world. The booklet is illustrated ...

Ex Situ Conservation of Ferns Methods and Practice [Chinese]

Yan Yuehong and Shi Lei

This book provides information on breeding and care of endangered ferns, with a focus on the Chinese fern flora.

Famiglie di Piante Vascolari Italiane: 1 - 140 [Families of Italian Vascular Plants]

P Marchi, E Pepe D'Amato and G Bianchi

Volume one in a planned four-volume series by the Museo Erbario of the Sapienza Università di Roma. The work systematically outlines the families 1-140 of existing vascular plants in Italy listed in the Flora d'Italia ...

Flora Malesiana, Series 1: Volume 22: Lythraceae

Willem JJO de Wilde and Brigitta EE Duyfjes

A taxonomic revision of Lythraceae for Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, The Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.

Flora Silvestre de la Alcarria [Wild Flora of Alcarria]

David Trijueque Serrano

A work with a lot graphical information about all the plants growing in the fields of Alcarria, a natural region in central Spain, and their forms, properties and utilities. A large colour illustrated encyclopedia, essential for ...

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 192

Familia Leguminosae Subfamilia Papilionoideae I (Aeschynomene - Diphysa)

Jerzy Rzedowski, Graciela Calderon de Rzedowski, Leticia Torres-Colin and Rosaura Grether

Volume 192 treats the first part of the Leguminosae subfamily Papilionoideae, covering the genera Aeschynomene to Diphysa.

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 193

Familia Ceratophyllaceae

Julian Hernandez Rendon

Volume 193 treats the family Ceratophyllaceae, a family of herbaceous perennials.

Floral Gallery of Himalayan Valley of Flowers and Adjacent Areas

A Pictorial Field Guide

KR Keshava Murthy

A photographic field guide to the flowers of the Valley of Flowers National Park, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, which is part of the Garwhal Himalayas. This park is spread over 87.50 km², of which three quarters is under ...

Forestry Fungi in Henan of China [Chinese]

Lin Xiaoming and Zheng Wei

Forestry Fungi in Henan of China describes the fungal species found in Henan, China, the vast majority of which were identified by the author. For some species, original reports were too simple, and, according to the author, the ...

Frutas no Brasil: Nativas e Exoticas [Fruits of Brazil: Natives and Exotics]

Harri Lorenzi, Marco Tulio Cortes de Lacerda and Luis Benedito Bacher

This is the greatest work on fruit published so far, covering about 1,020 different types of fruit grown in Brazil (both native and exotic), all richly illustrated in three pictures: habit, floriferous branch and fruits, written by three ...

Fungi of Northern Europe, Volume 5: The Genus Mycena s.l.

Arne Aronsen and Thomas Laessoe

The Genus Mycena s.l. is the fifth volume in the series Fungi of Northern Europe. It provides identification keys, descriptions, colour photographs, drawings of microscopical features of 113 northern European species of ...

Garden Flora

The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden

Noel Kingsbury

This lushly illustrated survey of 133 of the most commonly grown plants explains where each plant came from and the journey it took into home gardens. Kingsbury tells intriguing tales of the most important plant hunters, breeders, and ...

Green Guide to Herbs of Britain and Europe

Bob Press and Christina Hart-Davies

This compact, easy-to-use pocket-size guide is aimed at both the general reader and the amateur naturalist. Presenting 150 of the best known and most commonly used herbs, this book can be used for both home reference and as a companion ...

Grundkurs Pflanzenbestimmung: Eine Praxisanleitung fur Anfanger und Fortgeschrittene [Basic Plant Identification Course

Rita Luder

Within a few years this "basic course" has obtained a leading position in popularity among the botanically inclined. Because with the help of this book it is not only possible to quickly and easily identify the 600 most common ...

Heilende Pilze: Die Wichtigsten Arten der Welt im Portrat [Healing Mushrooms: The Most Important Species in the World

Jurgen Guthmann

Those who previously looked at mushrooms only from the point of view of them being "edible" or "poisonous", will, with this this comprehensive and technically sound book, see that fungi can also be used for treating ...

Herbarium

Caz Hildebrand

Herbarium explores the histories, associations and uses of 100 herbs, as well as providing ideas for both food and wellbeing. Each entry features a specially commissioned illustration with texts that include the botanical name ...

Heucheras

Aileen Stocks

Most Heuchera cultivars originate from species native to woodland areas in North America. This booklet describes their history, cultivation and propagation. It also describes the various Heuchera species and many of the ...

Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 14

The Genus Epidendrum, Part 10: Species New & Old in Epidendrum

Eric Hagsater and Luis Sanchez Saldana

The authors presents 77 species new to science, distributed from Mexico, through Central and South America, as far as Argentina. They are distributed in Colombia (33), Peru (27), Ecuador (15), Costa Rica (5), Brazil (3), French Guiana ...

Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 15(1)

The Genus Epidendrum, Part 11: Species New & Old in Epidendrum

Eric Hagsater and Luis Sanchez Saldana

In this issue, 39 species new to science are proposed, in addition to 2 new names and a new combination, from the following countries: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela. Twenty-five authors ...

Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 15(2)

The Genus Epidendrum, Part 11: Species New & Old in Epidendrum

Eric Hagsater and Luis Sanchez Saldana

Fascicle 15(2) contains the remaining 32 plates of this fascicle.

Identification Atlas of Agricultural Weeds in China [Chinese]

Liang Diyun and Zhang Zhi

This book contains a total of 111 families, 573 genera and 1246 species of weeds, figured in 5170 colour photos. The readership will be agricultural plant protection technicians and related professional institutions and students.

Illustration of a Thousand Trees, Volume 6 [Chinese]

Meng Qingwu, Ji DIanrong and Huang Dazhuang

This volume introduce hundreds of species of angiosperms, including Apocynaceae, Luo Moke, Ehretia Branch, Verbenaceae, Labiatae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae and so on.

Kakteen und Sukkulenten: Die Haufigsten Arten, deren Nutzung und Pflege [Cacti and Succulents: The Most Common Species

Michael Januschkowetz

A new and comprehensive book on cacti and succulents. In the first part of the book Michael Januschkowetz, a "true professional" and cactus grower, explains the fundamentals for cacti care. From bedding preparation and ...

Kew's Global Kitchen Cookbook

Carolyn Fry

Kew's Global Kitchen Cookbook is a visual celebration of the amazing variety of edible plants and how we can use them. The range of edible plants is far broader than we may suppose, with huge variety, from all corners of the ...

Kew's Teas, Tonics and Tipples

Inspiring Botanical Drinks to Excite your Tastebuds

Kew's Teas, Tonics and Tipples is a celebration of the huge diversity of flavour, colour and fragrance plants bring to the drinks we consume. Throughout Kew's Teas, Tonics and Tipples are recipes from Kew staff ...

Kniphofia: The Complete Guide

Christopher Whitehouse

An RHS horticultural monograph on all species and cultivars of red-hot poker. Explore the diversity of Kniphofia, from the amazing array of species in Africa to the many superb cultivars now available to gardeners. All 70 species are covered ...

Las Especies del Genero

Juan Antonio Devesa Alcaraz

This is a monograph on a genus of flowering plants, Centaurea, considered to be the most diversified of the flora of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, where it is represented by 94 species, or 136 taxa considering ...

Le Orchidee Spontanee della Liguria [Spontaneous Orchids of Liguria]

Mario Calbi and Stefano Marsili

This book presents, for the first time, an overview of the species of wild orchids growing in Liguria, a coastal region of north-western Italy. The introductory part of the book describes the anatomical structure and biology of orchids ...

List of Chinese Main Crop Weeds [Chinese]

Liang Yundi and Zhang Zhi

This list includes weeds of rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, potatoes, cotton, flax, canola, peanut, sugar cane, sugar beet, citrus, apples, pears, tea and 15 other kinds of crops, in total belonging to 89 families, 374 genera, and ...

Making Wildlife Ponds

How to Create a Pond to Attract Wildlife to Your Garden

Jenny Steel

This third guide in the Gardening with Nature Series gives step by step advice on where, when and how to create a pond to enrich the wildlife in your garden.

Meadows: At Great Dixter and Beyond

Christopher Lloyd, Fergus Garrett, Jonathan Buckley and Carol Casselden

'To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight – it's alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic ...' So Christopher Lloyd began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of meadows ...

Medicinal Plants and Malaria

Applications, Trends, and Prospects

Woon-Chien Teng, Ho Han Kiat, Rossarin Suwanarusk and Hwee-Ling Koh

Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease that affects millions worldwide, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recent emergence and spread of multidrug resistance in parts of Southeast Asia prompts the urgent need for novel and ...

Minnesota Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the elegant lady's slipper, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Minnesota. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of ...

Mississippi Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower and the state tree, the magnolia, are, appropriately, two of the thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Magnolia State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar ...

Missouri Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state tree, the flowering dogwood, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Missouri. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...

Montana Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

From the eastern grasslands to the alpine habitats in the west, thousands of species of plants inhabit the diverse ecosystems found throughout Montana. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of ...

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts

A Field Guide to Common Bryophytes of the Northeast

Ralph Pope

Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts are found throughout the world in a variety of habitats. They flourish particularly well in moist, humid forests, filling many ecological roles. They provide seedbeds for the larger plants of the community ...

Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands

Resource Management, Values and Local Livelihoods

Anthony B Cunningham and Xuefei Yang

Many mushrooms – or the 'fruits of fungi' – are extremely valuable, wild-gathered products which are utilised for both their medicinal properties and as food. In many of the world's tropical and temperate forests ...

Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast

A Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California

Noah Siegel and Christian Schwarz

A comprehensive and user-friendly field guide for identifying the many mushrooms of the northern California coast, from Monterey County to the Oregon border. Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast will help beginning and expert ...

Mythos Orchideen: Von Leidenschaftlichen Sammlern, Fernen L ñndern und Besonderen Sorten [Mythic orchids

Catherine Vadon and Claudia Arlinghaus

Orchids have always kept mankind spellbound. From distant tropical countries this mythical plant was brought to Europe and is now one of the most popular plants in our culture. This book tells their compelling story: from their discovery ...

Nebraska Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Sandhills ecosystem in Nebraska is one of the largest remaining intact grasslands in North America and supports a multitude of plant life. The state flower, the goldenrod, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ...

Nevada Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the ancient bristlecone pine, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Nevada. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of tree ...

New Hampshire Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the purple lilac, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Granite State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of tree ...

New Jersey Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Garden State's diverse ecosystems are home to thousands of species of plants including the state flower, the purple violet. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs and ...

New Mexico Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The "Land of Enchantment" lives up to its name during wildflower season. The state flower, the yucca, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state. This beautifully illustrated ...

New York State Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the rose, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Empire State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...

North Carolina Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plans

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The North Carolina Highway Wildflower Program fills the highway medians with native wildflowers. The state flower, the dogwood, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Tarheel State ...

North Dakota Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

North Dakota's state flower, the wild prairie rose, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Peace Garden State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar ...

Nova Silva Cuscatlanica. Arboles Nativos e Introducidos de El Salvador, Parte 3: Angiospermae - Familias R a Z

Walter G Berendsohn, Anna Kathrina Gruber, D Rodriguez, P Galan and Jose Gerver Molina

The third par of this flora completes the treatment of angiosperm trees in El Salvador, and treats the gymnosperms.

Ohio Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state tree, the famous Ohio Buckeye, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees ...

Orchidees du Bout du Monde [Orchids from the End of the World]

Catherine Vadon

Strange plants with extravagant shapes and a heady fragrance, orchids have always fascinated humans. Torn from the exuberance of their distant jungles by intrepid adventurers, they started a real madness in nineteenth century Europe.

Palms and People in the Amazon

Nigel Smith

Palms and People in the Amazon explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent ...

Pflanzen im Terrarium: Anleitung zur Pflege von Terrarienpflanzen, zur Gestaltung Naturnaher Terrarien und Auswahl

[Plants in the Terrarium: Instructions for the Care of Terrarium Plants, for Designing Near-Natural Terrariums and for

Beat Akeret

Those who wish to bring a bit of nature into the house with a terrarium, have to consider the vegetation for a natural design of this habitat for their animals. Plants not only enhance the visual attraction of a terrarium, they also improve ...

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

Mark D Schwartz

Phenology refers to recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, such as leafing and flowering, maturation of agricultural plants, emergence of insects, and migration of birds. It is also the study of these recurring events, especially ...

Phycologia Europaea Rhodophyta (2-Volume Set) [Swedish]

Athanasios Athanasiadis

This publication is an update of the  work Taxonomisk Litteratur och Biogeografi av Skandinaviska Roed Alger och Brunalger (1996) of the same author. It has been  significantly enlarged including taxa from the NE Atlantic ...

Plant Biotechnology and Genetics

Principles, Techniques, and Applications

Jr.,C Neal Stewart and Mary-Dell Chilton

Focused on basics and processes, this textbook teaches plant biology and agriculture applications with summary and discussion questions in each chapter. - Updates each chapter to reflect advances / changes since the first edition ...

Plant Cells and Their Organelles

William V Dashek and Gurbachan S Miglani

Plant Cells and Their Organelles provides a comprehensive overview of the structure and function of plant organelles. The text focuses on subcellular organelles while also providing relevant background on plant cells, tissues and ...

Plant Life of the Dolomites: Vegetation Structure and Ecology

Vegetation Structure and Ecology

Erika Pignatti, Sandro Pignatti and Philip Isenberg

The landscape and vegetation of the Dolomites have characteristics that are very particular. Some 2300 species live here, about a fifth of the flora in Europe as a whole. This book depicts what the plant cover of the Dolomites is composed ...

Plant: Exploring the Botanical World

The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever. Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller, Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning ...

Plants with Anti-Diabetes Mellitus Properties

Appian Subramoniam

The incidence and severity of diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide, presenting a significant burden to society both in economic terms and overall well-being. Fortunately, time-tested anti-diabetes mellitus plant foods exist that are ...

Practical Atlas of Deciduous Trees [Chinese]

Wang Shukai, Wang Zhongbing and Lei Qingfeng

Practical Atlas of Deciduous Trees starts from the actual needs of forestry and landscaping workers, incorporating common deciduous trees of 49 families, 106 genera, and 150 species (including varieties and subspecies).

Practical Guide to Bonsai Styles of the World

Charles S Ceronio

Most books on bonsai cover matters such as history, cultivating techniques, designing and training principles, general care and maintenance and propagation techniques. Very few books are available on designing and styling bonsai.

Primera Guia del Buscador de Setas [First Guide for Mushroom Pickers]

Ramon Pascual

Directed specifically at beginners, this guide to mushrooms provides aspiring cultivators with a path into the wonderful world of fungus. This innovative book teaches how to create and maintain the best and most varied harvests without ...

Science and the Garden

The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice

David S Ingram, Daphne Vince-Prue and Peter J Gregory

Most conventional gardening books concentrate on how and when to carry out horticultural tasks such as pruning, seed sowing and taking cuttings. Science and the Garden, Third Edition is unique in explaining in straightforward ...

Snowdrop

Gail Harland

Quietly elegant flowers dressed in simple white and green, snowdrops look too fragile to cope with wintery weather. They are however very resilient and are treasured by gardeners for their ability to flower early in the horticultural year ...

Succulents

Cassidy Tuttle

Succulents are plants that hold water in their leaves, such as cacti, aloe, and echeveria. They have captured the hearts of crafters, decorators, and plant lovers all over the world. Always popular as an outdoor plant in warm climates ...

The Apple Orchard

A Celebration

Pete Brown

An orchard is not a field. It's not a forest or a copse. It couldn't occur naturally; it's definitely cultivated. But an orchard doesn't override the natural order: it enhances it, dresses it up. It demonstrates that ...

The Australian Native Garden

A Practical Guide

Angus Stewart and AB Bishop

This authoritative and practical book – written in an approachable and accessible style – focuses on growing and using native plants in the home garden. It provides expert information on the fundamentals – soils, cultivation ...

The Bird's Nest Fungi

Harold J Brodie

Originally published in 1975. The intriguing Bird's Nest Fungi (Nidulariaceae) of forest, meadow, and garden have been familiar to botanists since 1601, but only relatively recently has the significance of their peculiar ...

The Botanical Gardens of China, No.17 [Chinese]

Chinese Association of Botanical Gardens (CABG)

Volume 17 includes: a discussion of some problems in the construction of the Botanical Garden, the creation of ex situ conservation of plant biology tillage, National Taiwan University Experimental Forest, Fagaceae ex situ conservation ...

The Botany of Mangroves

Philip Barry Tomlinson

Mangroves are distinctive tropical plant communities that occupy the intertidal zone between sea and land. They are of major ecological importance, have economic value as a source of food and raw materials, and serve as a buffer from ...

The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants

Monique Simmonds, Melanie-Jayne Howes and Jason Irving

The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, which combines exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects. Every day sees a discovery in ...

The Genus Rhododendron of China [Chinese]

Geng Yuying

This book discusses the various parts of Rhododendron and its taxonomic significance, morphological characteristics of the plant, characteristics of plant community ecology, evolution of Rhododendron plants, and geographical distribution ...

The National Plant Collections Directory 2016

Over 600 Plant Collections and Where to Visit Them

Details all the current National Plant Collections. Contains lists of collections by county, a list of special open days and a common names index.

The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones

Sean Sexton and Robert Flynn Johnson

First published in 1998 and now available for the first time in a compact, gift-book format, The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones is an exquisite visual feast for anyone who draws delight from the bountiful riches of nature.

The Plant Sciences, Volume 6: Physiology and Function

Stephan Clemens

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

The Prairie in Seed

Identifying Seed-Bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest

Dave Williams

The tallgrass prairie offers solutions to the many environmental challenges facing our water, soils, and ecosystems. Planting prairie on just 10 percent of a field can effectively remove excess phosphorous and nitrogen from the remaining ...

The Sceptical Gardener

The Thinking Person's Guide to Good Gardening

Ken Thompson

How are birds linked to house prices? How can a gardener improve the flavour of their vegetables? Do wildflowers really thrive in poor soil? In this collection of articles from The Telegraph, biologist and gardener ...

The Tibet Handbook of Agricultural Herbaceous Plant Resources of Three Rivers [Chinese]

This manual describes 223 species of relatively common herbaceous plants from the Three Rivers Area in Tibet, and provides an illustration for each species. Also including are the Tibetan, Chinese and Latin names of plants, the main ...

Tuinieren voor (Wilde) Dieren: Maak van Je Tuin een Beestenboel [Gardening for (Wild) Animals: Turn Your Garden into a

Barbara Rijpkema

Enjoy making your own hedgehog house, bee flat, bird restaurant, or toad hotel. Whether you have a small or a large garden, in the countryside or in the city, with some simple adjustments you can turn your garden into a true paradise for ...

Understanding Roots

Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish

Robert Kourik

Understanding Roots uncovers one of the greatest mysteries underground the secret lives and magical workings of the roots that move and grow invisibly beneath our feet. Roots, it seems, do more than just keep a plant from falling ...

Veldgids Paddenstoelen II [Field Guide to Mushrooms II]

Nico Dam and Thomas W Kuyper

This field guide is the companion to the successful Veldgids Paddenstoelen. That focused on Agaricales and Boletes; the new Veldgids Paddenstoelen II treats the remaining mushroom groups: the Pezizomycetes, gasteroid fungi, club fungi ...

Weeds of the South-East

An Identification Guide for Australia

Fiona J Richardson, Rob G Richardson and Ros CH Shepherd

The third edition of this popular title has been fully updated and reorganised to recognise recent taxonomic changes and includes additional species, many new photographs and the latest distribution information. - includes weeds ...

Wildflowers of New Brunswick

Field Guide

Todd Boland

An authoritative guide to 700 species of native and introduced species of wildflowers in New Brunswick. A series of page tabs and icons, along with full colour photos, offers easy identification of wild plants.

Woody Plants of the Big Bend and Trans-Pecos

A Field Guide to Common Browse for Wildlife

Louis A Harveson, Philip Dickerson, Andy James, Reagan Gage, Johnny Arredondo and Shawn Gray

The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big game species, including desert mule deer, pronghorn, desert bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, elk, feral hog, and javelina; several species of exotics, such as aoudad, axis deer ...

Zulu Plant Names

Adrian Koopman

In Zulu Plant Names Adrian Koopman details the complex relationship between plants, the Zulu language and Zulu culture. Zulu plant names do not just identify plants, they tell us a lot more about the plant, or how it is perceived ...

Amphioxus Immunity

Tracing the Origins of Human Immunity

An-Long Xu

Amphioxus Immunity: Tracing the Origin of Human Immunity covers a remarkable range of information about Amphioxus and its evolutionary context. This compilation of what is currently known about Amphioxus, with a sharp ...

An Introduction to Systems Biology

Design Principles of Biological Circuits

Uri Alon

Written for students and researchers in systems biology, the second edition of this best-selling textbook An Introduction to Systems Biology continues to offer a clear presentation of design principles that govern the structure ...

Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction

Tristram D Wyatt

How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behaviour, while developments in computing and ...

Aquatic Animal Health Code 2016

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The standards in the Aquatic Code are based on the most recent scientific and technical information and have been formally adopted by the World Assembly of OIE Delegates. They are also recognised as the international standard for aquatic ...

Aquatic Animal Health Code 2016 [French]

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The standards in the Aquatic Code are based on the most recent scientific and technical information and have been formally adopted by the World Assembly of OIE Delegates. They are also recognised as the international standard for aquatic ...

Aquatic Animal Health Code 2016 [Spanish]

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The standards in the Aquatic Code are based on the most recent scientific and technical information and have been formally adopted by the World Assembly of OIE Delegates. They are also recognised as the international standard for aquatic ...

Atlas of Transboundary Animal Diseases

Peter J Fernandez, William R White and Bernard Vallat

The Atlas of Transboundary Animal Diseases is intended to assist Veterinary Service field staffs involved in animal disease surveillance and diagnostics in identifying important transboundary diseases of livestock. The focus of ...

Biology of Life

Biochemistry, Physiology and Philosophy

Laurence A Cole

Biology of Life: Biochemistry, Physiology and Philosophy provides foundational coverage of the field of biochemistry for a different angle to the traditional biochemistry text by focusing on human biochemistry and incorporating ...

Biology: How Life Works

James R Morris, Daniel L Hartl, Andrew H Knoll, Robert A Lue, Melissa Michael and Andrew Berry

Biology: How Life Works was written in response to recent and exciting changes in biology, education, and technology with the goal of helping students to think like biologists. The text, visual program, and assessments were developed ...

Biology: The Essentials

Marielle Hoefnagels

The second edition of Biology: The Essentials epitomizes what the market has come to recognize as Mariëlle Hoefnagels' distinct and student-friendly writing-style. Mariëlle presents up-to-date information through ...

Bivalvia - Bivalves - Muscheln, Band 3

Uwe Kraeft and Michael Kraeft

The focus of this publication is on molecular genetics and specifically its role in the testing and application of a procedure called "Tripelverfahrens" on bases, inverted bases or base pairs of mitochondrial genomes.

Blood: A Very Short Introduction

Chris Cooper

Blood is vital to most animals. In mammals it transports oxygen and food, carries away waste, and contains the white cells that attack invading microbes. Playing a central role in life, it has had profound cultural and historical significance ...

Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?

Margaret Lock and Gisli Palsson

Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake. Since the 1950s ...

Comparative Bone Identification

Human Subadult to Nonhuman

Diane L France