African Mole-Rats

Ecology and Eusociality

Nigel C Bennett and Chris G Faulkes

African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that range in sociality from solitary-dwelling species through to two `eusocial' species, the Damaraland ....

An Atlas of the Geographic Distribution of the Arvicoline Rodents of the World (Rodentia: Muridae, Arvicolinae)

Georgy I Shenbrot and Boris R Krasnov

Atlas of the global distribution of all 140 arvicoline (vole) species. ....

Bats of Puerto Rico

An Island Focus and a Caribbean Perspective

MR Gannon et al

The Caribbean islands are home to some of the most unusual species of bats. A number of them are endemic, living in no other region of the world. On Puerto Rico alone, thirteen ....

Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst

C Reid

Alerts us to the extraordinary story of evolution in action unfolding under our very noses, the story of an animal that is a 'mix of wolf and coyote, old and new, necessary ....

The Digestive System in Mammals

Food, Form and Function

Edited by DJ Chivers and P Langer

However well the anatomy of the gastro-intestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals is described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of observed patterns without ....

Eastern Cougar

Historic Accounts, Scientific Investigations, New Evidence

Edited by Chris Bolgiano and Jerry Roberts

When European settlers first reached the shores of North America, eastern cougars were plentiful, ranging up and down the coast of the present-day United States. By the ....

Encyclopedia of Deer: Your Guide To the World's Deer Species Including Whitetails, Mule Deer, Caribou, Elk, Moose and More

LL Rue

From one of the world's best-known wildlife authors/photographers comes this authoritative, extensive guide to the world's deer species. This comprehensive reference ....

Evolution and Ecology of Macaque Societies

Edited by John E Fa and Donald G Lindburg

The genus Macaca is the most widely distributed of non-human primates and is found in 20 countries in South-East Asia and North Africa. Over the comparatively short time span of ....

Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats

Edited by Thomas Kunz, Akbar Zubaid and Gary F McCracken

Every three years a major international conference on bats draws the leading workers in the field to a carefully orchestrated presentation of the research and advances and ....

Giant Pandas

Biology, Veterinary Medicine and Management

David Wildt, Zhang Anju, Zhang Hemin, Donald Janssen and Susie Ellis

The giant panda is one of the world's most recognized animals, but until now the biology of this threatened species has been a mystery. With the environment undergoing ....

Guide to the Mammals of Madagascar

Nick Garbutt

This is a slimmed down paperback edition of Garbutt's `Mammals of Madagascar'. ....

Infectious Disease and Primate Socioecology

Charles Nunn and Sonia Altizer

In combination with predation and competition for resources, infectious disease is a key ecological factor that influences the evolution of animal mating and social systems. ....

Ireland's Mammals

J Browne

Offers an accessible introduction to Irish mammals. Illustrated with over 120 colour photographs, this book is an ideal reference for libraries and schools and includes a 20 ....

James and Other Apes

James Mollison

A magnificent book that will introduce people to a new world, stimulate thinking, and help people to understand better our place in nature in the scheme of things. For many ....

Der Luchs: Ruckkehr auf Leisen Pfoten

Robert Hofrichter and Elke Berger

Covers the systematics, history, conservation and management of the Lynx. ....

The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion

RHN Smithers and JD Skinner

This extensively revised third edition of the Smithers classic (adapted by J.D.Skinner) encompasses all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south of the Cunene ....

Mountain Gorillas

Thirty Years of Research at Karisoke

Edited by Martha M Robbins, Pascale Sicotte and Kelly J Stewart

For the past three decades the mountain gorillas of Karisoke Research Center have been the subject of many studies focusing on their behaviour and ecology. Long-term ....

Norwegian Killer Whales

John Stenersen and Tiu Similä

Fantastic book on the Norwegian killer whale distributed by NHBS.John Stenersen, leading nature photographer, and Tiu Simila, the leading authority in Norway on killer ....

Predatory Bureaucracy

The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West

Michael Robinson

Detailing the evolution of federal wildlife-extermination programs, the author tracks America's wolves and attitudes toward predators through US history. This book is for ....

Primate Dentition

An Introduction to the Teeth of Non-Human Primates

Daris R Swindler

Primate dentitions vary widely both between genera and between species within a genus. This book is a comparative dental anatomy of the teeth of living non-human primates that ....

Primates Face to Face

The Conservation Implications of Human-nonhuman Primate Interconnections

Edited by Augustin Fuentes and Linda Wolfe

As our closest evolutionary relatives, nonhuman primates are integral elements in our mythologies, diets and scientific paradigms, yet most species now face an uncertain ....

Retracing the Aurochs

History, Morphology and Ecology of an Extinct Wild Ox

C Van Vuure

Fascinating book on the aurochs, including the quite unbelievable story of how the Heck brothers bred `reconstituted' aurochs. ....

The Return of the Beaver

Edited by Goran Sjoberg and John P Ball

Recent readers of Peter Taylor's `Beyond Conservation' will know of the several projects around Europe that are seeking to `rewild' landscapes with re-introduced carnivores and ....

Seasonality in Primates

Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates

Edited by Diane K Brockman and Carel P Van Schaik

The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of "new" highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until now, our understanding of the possible impact ....

Theropithecus

The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus

Edited by NG Jablonski

This unique volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of all aspects of the biology of the Old World monkey genus, Theropithecus, which evolved alongside our ....

Tiger: The Ultimate Guide

V Thapar

The Ultimate Guide is a fitting tribute to this fascinating creature. An indispensible resource for animal lovers and conservationists alike, this book offers the most ....

Umbulala

Through the Eyes of a Leopard

Léna Godsall Bottriell

A compelling romance of wildest equatorial Africa - shadowing the panther on his wanderings through the bush and jungle, and ultimately through life, we live the ....

Whales' Bones of the British Isles

N Redman

A pioneering work on the decorative and functional uses of large cetacean bones, documenting almost 1,000 large-whale bones in over 650 locations in the UK. It evaluates ....

The Wolves of Algonquin Park: A 12 Year Ecological Study

JB Theberge and MT Theberge

This is a scientific monograph based upon 150 radio-collared wolves and their associated packs. The publication includes chapters on morphology, demography, distribution and ....

A Bad Birdwatchers Companion

Simon Barnes

Few books are more intimidating than a conventional field guide. There are simply too many birds in them. This book introduces the reader to Britain's most obvious birds. But ....

The Barn Swallow

Angela Turner

The Barn Swallow is a familiar and popular bird, breeding in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa and wintering in South America, southern Africa, southern Asia and even ....

Best Birdwatching Sites: Scottish Highlands

Gordon Hamlett

Great book on the best places to birdwatch in Scotland. Contains 22 birding routes, 164 maps covering car journeys and individual sites, up-to-date birding information, a ....

Bewick's Swan

Eileen Rees

Popular among both birders and the wider public, these elegant birds are among the best-studied waterfowl in the world. In Bewick's Swan, Eileen Rees tells the story of ....

Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour

Michael Hansell

Provides a broad view of our current understanding of the biology of the nests, bowers and tools made by birds. It illustrates how, among vertebrates, the building abilities ....

Birder's Diary Life List Program - World Edition

Birder's Diary Version 3.5

Birder's Diary is the most advanced listing and record-keeping software in the World. It is designed to meet the needs of Birder's and Bird Watchers as well anyone interested in ....

Birds of Northern South America, Volume 1

Identification, Distribution and Taxonomy

Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino and Robert Williams

Volume 1 is the text volume, Volume 2 contains all the plates. Looks set to become the standard guide for visitors to Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, ....

Birds of Northern South America, Volume 1 and Volume 2

Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino and Robert Williams

Shrink-wrapped set of Volumes 1 and 2. ....

Birds of Northern South America, Volume 2

A Field Guide

Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino and Robert Williams

Over 2,250 species are accurately illustrated with a total of 6,000 images depicting every distinct plumage of every species. Concise caption text appears on the plates and ....

Birds of Ontario - Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status

Nonpasserines, Waterfowl Through Cranes

Al Sandilands

Literature on the life history of birds is abundant and knowledge continues to grow. But there are few reference documents that compile this information so it is readily ....

Birds of the Gambia and Senegal

Clive Barlow, Tim Wacher and Tony Disley

This is a `revised reprint' of the standard field guide to one of the world's most popular and impressive birding regions. Illustrated with 48 colour plates, 660 species ....

Birds of the High Andes

A Manual to the Birds of the Temperate Zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America

J Fjeldsa and N Krabbe

A beautifully illustrated and much needed guide, written by two leading experts on the birdlife of the High Andes. Of the world's 9000 bird species, nearly 900 are found in ....

Birds of the Lower Derwent Valley

A Historical Review 1850-2002

CS Ralston

The Lower Derwent Valley is one of Yorkshire's ornithological treasures and only since the mid-20th century, when a few birdwatchers were visiting the area, notably Henry ....

Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, 2 volume set

David R Wells

Excellent value 2 volume set. ....

Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Volume 1

Non-Passerines

David R Wells

Reprinted edition (not revised, but with new cover) of the book first published by Academic Press in 1999. ....

Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Volume 2

Passerines

David R Wells

After a delay of many years, Volume 2 in this excellent handbook is now imminent. Together with Volume 1, over 380 species are covered. ....

Collins Illustrated Checklist: Birds of the Palearctic - Passerines

Norman Arlott

This is the essential companion for the keen birdwatcher. Together with the volume on non-passerines, to be published in 2006, this book covers all the perching birds of the ....

Collins Need to Know Birdwatching

Rob Hume

Ideal beginners' guide to observing and identifying the birds you are most likely to see in your garden and in the wild. It provides identifying information on size, ....

The Features and Moult Processes of the Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus Barbatus)

A Adam and A Llopis Dell

In recent years great efforts have been made to protect the Bearded Vulture in Europe and this has led to the recovery of the Pyrenean population and the reintroduction of ....

Field Guide to the Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World

Paul Schofield

Famous for their size and elegance in flight, albatrosses are familiar to anyone who has travelled through the southern oceans, and are a flagship family of conservation ....

The House on Ipswich Marsh

Exploring the Natural History of New England

William Sargent

Bill Sargent studies some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit Ipswich Marsh. Organized by the seasons of the year, "The House on Ipswich Marsh" ....

March of the Penguins

Luc Jacquet

Accompanying a major new film, this volume documents the emperor penguins' extraordinary journey and delves into the lives of these remarkable penguins and their story of ....

Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier

The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

T Brush

Drawing on years of personal observation and study, the author writes a work of natural history about the little-known breeding bird communities of the Valley and the diversity ....

Nestling Mouth Markings and Colors of Old World Finches Estrildidae: Mimicry and Coevolution of Nesting Finches and their Vidua Brood Parasites

Robert B Payne

Ornitologia de Angola Volume 1: Non Passeres

António Augusto da Rosa Pinto

Fantastic volume on the avifauna of this relatively unknown ornithological haven. The volume itself is also a tribute to Jose Vicente Barbosa de Bocage's Ornithologie ....

Plenary Lectures, Proceedings of the 23rd International Ornithological Congress held in Beijing, China, 2002

Edited by W Bock and R Schodde

The plenary lectures, presented in 23rd International Ornithological Congress, Beijing, 11-17 August 2002, have been published in the 6th issue of Acta Zoologica Sinica. ....

Roberts' Multimedia PDA Verion 2 + "Plug 'n Play" SD-Card

This PDA version of Roberts' Multimedia Birds of Southern Africa is the ultimate electronic field guide. In the palm of your hand are all the essential ....

Skua and Penguin

Predator and Prey

E Young

At last, a reasonably priced paperback edition of the classic monograph first published in 1994. ....

The Spotted What!?

J Clarke

John Clarke put a small as in some parish magazines, sat back and got a remarkable response. So began a study of spotted flycatchers in Cotswold villages. ....

Tracking Desire

A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites

Susan Cerulean

Tracking Desire looks at the natural history and biology of Elanoides forficatus, the swallow-tailed kite. Once at home throughout much of the eastern United States, the ....

Where to Watch Birds in World Cities

Paul Milne

Essential guide to finding birds in 60 major cities in the world. Each urban area is described with an introduction to the city, a list of typical species or specialities, ....

Amphibians and Reptiles in Bulgaria

Vladimir Beshkov and Krastyo Manev

Excellent guide, with photos and data on taxonomy, distribution, ecology, biology and conservation of the 54 Bulgarian species. ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico

WG Degenhardt, CW Painter and AH Price

Amphibians and reptiles thrive in New Mexico's many landscapes and its extremes of temperatures and moisture. The state has 123 species, an assemblage of 3 salamanders, 23 ....

Amphibians of East Africa

Alan Channing and Kim M Howell

"East Africa is well known for its wealth of plants and animals, represented in game reserves, such as the Serengeti in Tanzania, the Maasai-Mara in Kenya, and the Bwindi ....

The Amphibians of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

CK Dodd

The first book devoted entirely to the natural history of the forty-four species of amphibians now known to occur within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It ....

Atlas of the Reptiles of North Eurasia: Taxonomic Diversity, Distribution, Conservation Status

MB Ananjeva et al

Presents up-to-date information on all the species and subspecies of turtles (7 species), lizards (112 species) and snakes (74 species) inhabiting the territory of ....

Biology of the Pitvipers

Edited by JA Campbell and ED Brodie

Contains 30 papers from 51 authors, treating the systematics, evolution, natural history, and behaviour of this group of venomous snakes. ....

Frogs of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

James Menzies

Primary purpose of this book is to assemble all that is recorded in the literature about New Guinea's frogs (short species accounts are given), including the author's own ....

Pocket Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa

Stephen Spawls, Kim Howell and Robert C Drewes

This is a lightweight and portable guide, partly adapted from the popular and highly acclaimed A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa by the same authors. Covering the ....

Snakes of Costa Rica \ Serpeintes de Costa Rica

A Solorzano

This book includes new or updated information on the taxonomy, geographic distribution, and natural history of Costa Rican snakes. Highlights include chapters on snake biology, ....

Snakes of the Americas

Checklist and Lexicon of Common Names

Bob L Tipton

Designed for herpetologists who have a need for a checklist or common names list. The checklist gives information on snakes in American countries through the subspecies ....

Snakes of the Southeast

Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas

Fifty-two kinds of snakes can be found in the Southeast, almost half of all species native to North America. Filled with more than 300 color photographs and written by two ....

Status and Conservation of Florida Amphibians and Reptiles

Edited by WE Meshaka and KR Babbitt

For the first time a broad cross-section of distinguished researchers come together to address the conservation of Florida's rich but imperiled herpetofauna. The 36 ....

Turtles of the World, Volume 2: North America

Holger Vetter

Presents a fascinating insight into the amazing diversity of North American turtles and tortoises with 500 colour photos of their habitat, sexual dimorphism, peculiarities of ....

An Atlas of Michigan Fishes with Keys and Illustrations for their Identification

Reeve M Bailey, William C Latta and Gerald R Smith

Black Carp: Biological Synopsis and Risk Assessment of an Introduced Fish, Special Publication 32

LG Nico, JD Williams and HL Jelks

This book is a detailed risk assessment and biological synopsis of the black carp, a large mollusk-eating cyprinid fish native to eastern Asia. A great deal of controversy ....

The Endemic Cichlids of Madagascar

P De Rham and JC Nourissat

More than thirteen years have passed, since Jean-Claude Nourissat and Patrick de Rham began their quest (January 1991) for the elusive cichlids of Madagascar. This book is an ....

Fossil Shark Teeth of the World

J Cocke

An easy to understand book on fossil shark tooth identification. ....

Aquatic Insects of North Europe, Two-Volume Set

Edited by Anders Nilsson

This CD-ROM edition contains volumes 1 and 2 of the printed edition published in 1996 and 1997 (both now out of print). Please note this is not an updated edition, it is an ....

The Aquatic and Semiaquatic Bugs of Malesia and Adjacent Areas (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha)

P Chen, N Nieser and H Zettel

This volume deals with the Heteroptera aquatica, or water bugs, known from Malesia, a region holding almost 1000 species belonging to seventeen families. The book includes ....

Biological Field Techniques for Lithodid Crabs

Donaldson and S Byersdorfer

The harvest of Alaska king crabs in the North Pacific and Bering Sea reaches about 18 million pounds per year, one-tenth of the bonanza 1980s catch. While king crab stocks ....

Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand

Brian Parkinson and Brian Patrick

Shows some of the variety of the large and diverse butterfly and moth fauna in New Zealand. Much new and previously unpublished information about the food plants and ....

Butterflies of Uganda

N Carder and L Tindimubona

The purpose of this field guide is to introduce users to the beauty and fascination found in observation and study of butterflies. Uganda is extremely rich in butterflies ....

Common Dragonflies of the Southwest

Katy Biggs

This pocket guide enables the identification of all the common dragonflies and damselflies in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado & Northern California and all ....

Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans

ME Hendrickx and MK Wicksten

The Crustacea: Revised and Updated from the Traité de Zoologie, Volume 2

Edited by J Forest and JC Von Vaupel Klein

With this edition, access to the texts of the famous Traite de Zoologie is now available to a worldwide readership. Parts 1, 2, and 3A of volume VII, i.e., the Crustacea, were ....

Damselflies of Brazil: An Illustrated Identification Guide

F.A.A Lencioni

This profusely illustrated book will allow entomologists, aquatic biologists, freshwater ecologists, and persons interested in natural history the means to identify all ....

A Dazzle of Dragonflies

Forrest L Mitchell and James L Lasswell

Pioneers in the electronic imaging of insects and creators of the website Digital Dragonflies, the authors share their spectacular scans of live dragonflies, enhanced ....

The Empidoidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark

IV: Genus Hilara

Milan Chvala

This is the fourth `empidid' volume of the series `Fauna entomologica scandinavica', covering the Scandinavian species of what is undoubtedly the most difficult Palaearctic ....

Entomology and the Law

Flies as Forensic Indicators

Bernard Greenberg and John Charles Kunich

Used particularly when there has been a suspicious death, insect-related evidence is one of the most powerful, but least understood examples of modern forensic science. ....

A Field Guide to Longhorned Beetles from Argentina

OR Iorio

The Argentinian longhorn beetle fauna has about 850 species of which 720 are illustrated in this fine book, the first of its kind. Many species are shown in several specimens to ....

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Israel

D Benyamini

This handy field guide includes all 146 species and subspecies of the butterflies of the south - eastern Mediterranean. No fewer than 567 specimens (mostly bred) from 16 ....

Flat-Footed Flies (Diptera: Opetiidae & Platypezidae) of Europe

Peter J Chandler

Florida Butterfly Caterpillars and their Host Plants

Marc C Minno, Jerry F Butler and Donald W Hall

A guide to southern butterfly caterpillars and their host plants. With hundreds of color photographs and concise information in a format that can be carried into the field, it ....

The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acari, Ixodidae)

A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World

Jane B Walker, James E Keirans and Ivan G Horak

Ticks in the genus Rhipicephalus include many important vectors of animal and human pathogens, but many species are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly as ....

The Genus Syritta: A World Revision of the Genus Syritta Le Peletier & Servilla, 1828 (Diptera: Syrphidae)

L Lyneborg and W Barkemeyer

A Guide to the Identification of Genera of Chironomidae Pupal Exuviae Occuring in Britain and Ireland

RS Wilson and LP Ruse

Fully updated edition with redrawn figures. Contains a list of genera with ecological notes and an account of the CPET monitoring technique. ....

Hawaiian Seashells

M Severns

Hundreds of beautiful seashells are presented through informative, highly detailed text and brilliant full-colour photographs. ....

Hermit Crabs

Neal Pronek

Presents recommendations about selecting and caring for land hermit crabs. ....

Identifying British Insects and Arachnids

An Annotated Bibliography of Key Works

Edited by Peter C Barnard

First published in 1999 in hardback, now available in paperback. ....

Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und Osterreichs Central Europe

(Keys to Identification of all Species of Wild Bees in

Erwin Scheuchl

An excellent series on the wild bees of Germany and Austria, to be published in four volumes. Originally published (some parts) by the author, now taken over by Apollo ....

Insect Migration

Tracking Resources Through Space and Time

Edited by VA Drake and AG Gatehouse

Migration is a key process in the population dynamics of many insects, including some of the most damaging pests. Multidisciplinary research into the importance of migration, in ....

Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research

GH Walter

Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research explores the ecological research required for development of strategies to manage pest insects, with particular emphasis on the ....

Larvae of Northern European Noctuidae

M Ahola and K Silvonen

New multi-volume work. The systematic part contains the families Nolidae and Noctuidae, of which subfamilies Sarrothripinae, Eariasinae, Chloephoridae, Raphiinae, Pantheinae ....

Lepidoptera Pupae: Central European Species

Two volume set

J Patocka and M Turcani

This outstanding work is a manual that enables one to identify pupae, or empty pupal skins, of about two thirds (some 2,600 species) of the Central European Lepidoptera. The ....

Lepidoptera of North America No 6: Butterflies of Oregon: Their Taxonomy, Distribution, and Biology

A Warren

Provides detailed accounts for all 171 species of Oregon's naturally occurring butterflies. Patterns of geographic and ecological variation are discussed in detail for ....

List of Chinese Insects: Volume 1

Hua Li-Zhong

Covers Protura, Collembola, Diplura, Thysanura, Odonata, Ephemeroptera, Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Zoraptera, Plecoptera, Phasmatodea, Grylloblattodea, Orthoptera, ....

List of Chinese Insects: Volume 2

Hua Li-Zhong

Covers Coleptera, Strepsiptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Raphidiodea, Mecoptera and Trichoptera. ....

Malacological Fauna From the Cape Verde Archipelago

Polyplacophora and Gastropoda

E Rolan et al

An illustrated guide to the molluscs from the remote Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa. Contributions by several authors focus in detail on the Gastropoda, as well ....

Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 6

Suborder Ischnnochitonina: Schizochitonidae; Citonidae

P Kaas, RA van Belle and HL Strack

In Volume 6 no less than 167 species are treated and depicted, of which 3 are described as new. Two important families are covered: the Schizochitonidae and the Chitonidae. ....

Moths of Anmashan, Part 1: Geometridae and Noctuidae

C Fu and HR Tzuoo

In Chinese with English summaries. 663 species are covered and illustrated. For each species taxonomy and distribution in Taiwan and the surrounding regions. According to ....

Moths of Anmashan, Part 2: Hepialidae, et al

C Fu and HR Tzuoo

In Chinese with English summaries. Hepialidae, Oecophoridae, Limacodidae, Zygaenidae, Cossidae, Thyrididae, Pyralidae, Crambidae, Drepanidae, Uraniidae, Lasiocampidae, ....

New Developments in the Biology of Chrysomelidae

Edited by P Jolivet, JA Santiago-Blay and M Schmitt

Reannounced in our monthly catalogue with correct publisher and pricing (lower!). ....

Die Noctuiden Rumaeniens (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

L Rakosy

A fine book on the Noctuid moths of Romania. The colour plates, that are of a very fine quality, shows 882 moths and caterpillars of the 650 species and subspecies treated in ....

The Plant-Parasitic Nematode Genus Meloidogyne Göldi, 1892 (Tylenchida) in Europe

Gerrit Karssen

The genus Meloidogyne G~ldi, 1892, or root-knot nematodes, represent a relatively small but economically important group of obligate plant pathogens. They are distributed ....

Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Nematology, June 2002, Tenerife, Spain

Edited by RC Cook and DJ Hunt

Table of Contents Editorial ....

The Mayflies of Europe (Ephemeroptera)

E Bauernfeind and T Soldàn

The present handbook is designed to provide for the first time an up-to-date standard work for Ephemeroptera identification, including last instar larvae (nymphs), subimago ....

Verzeichnis der Schmetterlinge Rumäniens / Catalogul Lepidoperelor Rom niei

L Rakosy

A checklist of the Lepidoptera of Romania with bilingual German/Romanian text. The main part of the book are tables covering all 4096 species known with indications of their ....

Applied Palaeontology

Robert Wynn Jones

Palaeontology has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between earth and life history. Applied Palaeontology adopts a ....

Body Size in Mammalian Palaeobiology

Estimation and Biological Implications

Edited by J Damuth and BJ MacFadden

There is a growing interest in the biological implications of body size in animals. This parameter is now being used to make inferences and predictions about not only the habits ....

Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic

L Frakes, J Francis and J Syktus

The changes in the Earth's climate over the past 600 million years, from the Cambrian to the Quaternary, come under scrutiny in this book. The geological evidence for ancient ....

Digging Up Deep Time: Dinosaurs, Megabeasts and Other Fossils:

Adventures from Australia's Distant Past

P Willis and A Thomas

Digging Up Deep Time traces Australia's unique and fascinating prehistory through its extraordinary fossil sites. Australia is home to some of the world's earliest fossil ....

Isotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Research

Edited by Melanie J Leng

This 10th volume in the DPER series is intended to show how stable isotopes can be applied to understanding the palaeoenvironment. There are chapters on the interpretation ....

Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America

Edited by RA Martin and AD Barnosky

This book examines case studies of North American Quaternary mammalian evolution within the larger domain of modern evolutionary theory. The book presents previously ....

Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans

Richard Ellis

Working from the fossil record, Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and describes how they eventually became extinct. ....

The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America

Edited by Donald R Prothero and Robert J Emry

During the transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs, the mild tropical climates of the Paleocene and early Eocene were replaced by modern climatic conditions ....

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 49: Restocking and Stock Enhancement

of Marine Invertebrate Fisheries

Johann Bell

Many of the world's fisheries are in trouble - they no longer yield the catches, and potential profits, they once did. The habitats that support fisheries have been damaged ....

Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America

Series Editors: Joachim Adis and Jorge R Arias

New series that aims to provide identification keys to aquatic insects and invertebrates throughout Latin America. Around 20 or so volumes are planned. All can be obtained from ....

Benthic Suspension Feeders and Flow

David Wildish and David Kristmanson

This book is about those animals found on the sea floor that live by filtering microscopic particles carried to them by water currents. Its purpose is to review what ....

British Sea Life

Anita Sherwood

A journey into the underwater world exploring the lives and behaviours of sea life around the British Isles. Covers over 170 species and contains a DVD identification ....

Ecology of Phytoplankton

Colin Reynolds

Communities of microscopic plant life, or phytoplankton, dominate the Earth's aquatic ecosystems. This important new book by Colin Reynolds covers the adaptations, physiology ....

A New Key to the Freshwater Bryozoans of Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe, With Notes on their Ecology

Timothy S Wood and Beth Okamura

Southern Ocean Ecology

The BIOMASS Perspective

Edited by SZ El-Sayed

BIOMASS (Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks) was a unique, large-scale, long-term, international research programme established in 1977 to ....

Aig An Or: At The Edge

The Society of Wildlife Artists Visit Scotland's Atlantic Oakwoods

Robert Burton

The Aig an Oir (At the Edge) project, a collaboration between the Society of Wildlife Artists, Forest Enterprise Scotland and HI-ARTS, is a celebration of the magical but ....

Citizen Labillardiere A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834)

Edward Duyker

Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere was one of the great traveller-naturalists of the 18th century. He is most famous for his account of his voyage to the South Seas with ....

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Volume 15: 1867

Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research that were to result in two important publications, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Expression of the ....

Darwin's Other Islands

PH Armstrong

Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos islands has been the subject of many studies but the significance of his experiences on the other islands visited during his Beagle ....

David Attenborough Box Set 3: The Life of Collection

David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough's epic series 'Life'. Includes: Life On Earth, Trials Of Life (Full version), Life In The Freezer, Private Life Of Plants, Life Of Birds, Life Of ....

The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World

R Saner

Award-winning writer Reg Saner recollects, "Years ago I said that if I had a dozen lives to live, I'd live every one of them in Colorado." Saner first saw the Rocky Mountains in ....

Descartes: The Life of Rene Descartes and its Place in His Times

AC Grayling

Scientist, mathematician, traveller, soldier - and spy - Rene Descartes has been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. Born in 1596 into an era still dominated by the ....

Does Anything Eat Wasps?

And 101 Other Questions

New Scientist

How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions are answered in this book. Every year, readers send in ....

The Earth from the Air

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earth from the Air is the bestselling book of aerial photography ever published. ....

England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth Century Scientific Revolution

A Chapman

Robert Hooke's genius as a scientist was being noted in London and Oxford by the early 1660s. As he entered middle age in the mid-1670s he enjoyed a reputation as an ....

Environmental Change and Human Response

Ian Whyte

Ian Whyte's exciting new work looks at major episodes of environmental change from different periods of history. Such past environmental crises provide helpful warnings ....

Essays on William Chambers Coker, Passionate Botanist

Mary Coker Joslin

In this collection of biographical essays, Mary Coker Joslin chronicles the many contributions of William Chambers Coker (1872-1953) as a creative scientist, an ....

Eugenie Clark: Marine Biologist

RA Reis

Tracing the path of one of the world's leading experts on sharks and marine life, Eugenie Clark: Marine Biologist provides career information on marine biologists and ....

Four Elements: Water, Air, Fire, Earth

Rebecca Rupp

Rupp explores the science, the scientists, the legends and the stories connected with water (from tidal waves to the health-giving properties of bathing), air (from ....

Fritz Muller: A Naturalist in Brazil

D West

Thos is a comprehensive biography of Fritz Muller, the German exile in Brazil who supplied Darwin with crucial information for his evolutionary writings after 1865. An ....

Fussball - Wissenschaft Mit Kick

Von der Physik Fliegender Balle und der Statistik des Spielausgangs

J Wesson

The Hillary Step: From Everest to the South Pole

Peter Hillary and John E Elder

A memoir of extraordinary depth and searing honesty,The Hillary Step is the story of Peter Hillary's physical and emotional journey across the icy wastes of Antarctica. A ....

Joan Fontcuberta: Landscapes Without Memory

Geoffrey Batchen and Joan Fontcuberta

One of Spain's most prominent and innovative artists, Joan Fontcuberta is best known for exploring the interstices between art, science, and illusion. Where science reaches its ....

Ladies in the Laboratory II: West European Women In Science, 1800-1900

A Survey of Their Contributions to Research

M.R.S Creese

A fascinating analysis of the work of notable women by national group, giving thorough data comparing the contributions of women in choice fields. Among the women presented ....

The Lewis and Clark Herbarium

Earle E Spamer and Richard M McCourt

The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 is one of the great stories of exploration in America. Few of the scientific specimens collected by Meriwether Lewis and William ....

The Little Book of Snowflakes

Kenneth Libbrecht

Libbrecht follows up from his successful 2004 title on Snowflakes. This one contains over 140 colour photos of individual snowflakes, with inspiring quotes and literary ....

The Man from Clear Lake

Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson

Bill Christofferson

Widely regarded as one of the leading environmentalists in American history, Gaylord Nelson is best known as the founder of Earth Day. This political biography tells the ....

Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science

L Schiebinger

18th-century natural historians created a peculiar but durable vision of nature, embodying the sexual and racial tensions of that era. Plants were found to reproduce ....

Obsessive Genius

The Inner World of Marie Curie

Barbara Goldsmith

Marie Curie reamins the only woman to win two Nobel prizes - the first in 1903 for the discovery of radioactivity and the second in 1911 for the discovery of radium and ....

Organic Abstractions

A New Take on the World of Plants

Robin Judah

When keen photographer Robin Judah began experimenting with very close distance photography, he discovered that he could create remarkable images of plants as they are ....

Our Fragile World

The Beauty Of A Planet Under Pressure

Troth Wells and Caspar Henderson

Global warming means that our coastlines change and areas of the world disappear; it means that habitats vanish, ecosystems are unbalanced, climate zones shift, and that ....

Penguin Great Ideas Series

Currently including 44 titles (as of September 2005), this is one of the most creative acts of publishing in recent years, making available some of the most enduring books ....

Subtle is the Lord

The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

Abraham Pais

New edition with a new preface. ....

T.W Edgeworth-David: A Life

David Branagan

This comprehensive biography evokes the life and achievements of Edgeworth David (1858-1934): celebrated geologist (Geological Map of the Commonwealth, Funafuti ....

Under Water to Get Out of the Rain

A Love Affair with the Sea

T Norton

This is the beautifully told tale of Trevor Norton's growing love of the sea, from family holidays in Whitley Bay as a boy, to his first over zealous attempts at diving. ....

Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down

The Science of Murphy's Law

Richard Robinson

The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you are ....

Across the Tibetan Plateau

Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation

Robert L Fleming, A'Bu and Liu Wulin

Beautiful book of photos of Tibet. ....

Antarctic Challenges: Historical and Current Perspectives on Otto

Nordenskjold's Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903

Edited by A Elzinga et al

Papers drawn from an international symposium held at the University of Goteborg in Sweden 10-13 May 2001 in celebration of Otto Nordenskjold's 1901-1903 Swedish Antarctic ....

Antarctica

Y Paccalet

The vast terrain covering the Earth's southernmost surface - extending from the islands off the tip of Argentina to the underbelly of the Australian continent - is home to some ....

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific

An Environmental History

Donald S Garden

A study of the environmental history of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. ....

Australian Landforms

Understanding a Low, Flat, Arid & Old Landscape

CR Twidale and EM Campbell

The original version of this book was written in response to appeals for a book that deals with geomorphology, explaining landforms and landscapes, in an Australian context. ....

Birds and Mammals of Svalbard

Edited by Kit M Kovacs

Contains information on the distribution, general ecology, life-history and reproduction as well as the status and management of each species. There are also descriptions and ....

Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands

Andy Swash and Robert Still

New edition of this superb guide, which describes and illustrates nearly every the birds, mammals and reptiles of the Galapagos islands in a single pocket-sized book. The ....

Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences Volume 4

Edited by AV Golemansky and N Chipev

Caves and Speleology in Bulgaria

Petar Beron, Trifon Daaliev and Alexey Jalov

Summarises the knowledge of caves that has developed since the first Bulgarian caving society was founded in 1929. ....

A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife

Richard Sale

Comprehensive guide covers all aspects of the Arctic, from geology, geography and ecology to the rich human history and culture. Also includes a detailed field guide to ....

Devastation and Renewal

An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and its Region

Joel A Tarr

Here scholars of the urban environment pose questions that both complicate and enrich the story of Pittsburgh's environment. They ask not only what happened to Pittsburgh's ....

The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna

ArtDatabanken (Swedish Species Information Centre)

An extraordinary project which will publish circa 120 volumes in the 20-25 years from 2005 onward. NHBS is accepting standing orders for the series. ....

Field Guide to Caves and Karst of Guam

Danko Taborosi

A field guide to the limestone areas of Guam, their numerous caves, and karst topography. It includes information on hiking, caving, kayaking, diving and other ....

Field Guide to the Samoan Archipelago

Fish, Wildlife, and Protected Areas

Meryl Rose Goldin

Features descriptions and beautiful color illustrations of over 400 species of marine and terrestrial fauna found in the ecosystems of Samoa's coral reefs, ocean waters, sea ....

Gower

Jonathan Mullard

A definitive natural history of the Gower Peninsula, coinciding with its 50th anniversary as an Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty, from its heritage coast and its ....

The Green Tiger

The Costs of Ecological Decline in the Philippines

Barbara Goldoftas

Once famous for the beauty of its beaches, reefs, and forests, today the Philippines typifies the deep economic and social problems that ecological decline can bring. The ....

The Gulf of Alaska: Biology and Oceanography

Edited by PR Mundy

The findings of expert researchers in several disciplines have been successfully brought together in this book on the science of the Gulf of Alaska, a productive ecosystem hard ....

The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change, 1889-2001

Edited by TS Litwin

Alaska has become synonymous with the idea of nature, free and unspoiled. While the concept of this open, untamed countryside has a romantic appeal, the reality is ....

Islands in a Far Sea

Nature and Man in Hawai'i

JL Culliney

First published in 1988, Islands in a Far Sea offers a comprehensive environmental history of Hawai`i. This thoroughly revised edition begins with an up-to-date account of ....

Mammoth Cave National Park

Reflections

Raymond Klass

Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park is home to the world's longest cave system. Nature photographer Raymond Klass was awarded an artist-in-residence position at the park and ....

Marsh Mission

Capturing the Vanishing Wetlands

CC Lockwood and Rhea Gary

A native of Louisiana, RHEA GARY is a professional artist who has studied painting in France, Ireland, and Italy, as well as in the United States under Wolf Kahn. She lives ....

The Mediterranean

An Environmental History

J Donald Hughes

A study of the interplay between the environment and the peoples of the Mediterranean from earliest times. It charts the environmental challenges with case studies of the ....

Mountains of Northern Europe: Conservation Management, People and Nature

Edited by DBA Thompson, MF Price and CA Gallbraith

This publication contains the proceedings of an international conference, held in Pitlochry, Scotland in November 2002, to mark the UN International Year of Mountains ....

Natural Tunnel: Nature's Marvel in Stone

T Scales

Hidden in the mountainous folds of Southwest Virginia, Natural Tunnel awaits the amazement of both seasoned acquaintances and new visitors alike. The main attraction at ....

Northern Europe

An Environmental History

Tamara L Whited

A handbook providing a synthesis of the environmental history of northern Europe from the Paleolithic era to the present. It charts the environmental changes that shaped ....

Stone in Wales: Materials Heritage and Conservation

Papers from the Welsh Stone Conference, Cardiff 2002

Malcolm R Coulson

The papers presented here reflect the broad range of interests represented at the 2002 Welsh Stone Conference. Participants considered the geology, history, use, sources, ....

Through the Eyes of the Gods

An Aerial Vision of Africa

Robert B Haas

A collection of glorious, full-color, aerial photographs, accompanied by evocative journal entries, furnishes a revealing glimpse of the vast and diverse landscape of the ....

Treasures of Indian Wildlife

Edited by BS Chhapgar and AS Kothari

This book brings together articles, drawings, and paintings from valuable old books, journals, and gazetteers in the collection of the Bombay Natural History Society. The ....

Vernal Pools: Natural History and Conservation

EA Colburn

Vernal Pools is the first book-length synthesis of the natural history, ecology, and conservation of the seasonally wet pools that occur throughout the formerly glaciated ....

Wetlands in Your Pocket

A Guide to Common Plants and Animals of Midwestern Wetlands

Mark Muller

Wetlands in Your Pocket celebrates the plants and animals that call the wetlands of the Midwest home. This laminated pocket guide illustrates a hundred of the most common ....

White Mountain Wilderness

A Photographic Journey to New Hampshire's Most Rugged Places

Jerry Monkman and Marcy Monkman

Photographers Jerry and Marcy Monkman not only provide a tour of the contemporary White Mountains, from the fragile environments of the alpine zones to the few remaining stands ....

African Trees

A Photographic Celebration

C Bryant and B Lomba

African Trees is primarily an art book containing breathtaking images of some of the most extraordinary and beautiful indigenous trees in Southern and East Africa. Through ....

The Biology of Apples and Pears

John E Jackson

Biology of Apples and Pears is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of pomology at the organ, tree and orchard level. It provides detailed information on propagation, ....

Briofite del Piemonte

La Collezione della Val Sangone (Alpi Occidentali, Torino)

Annalaura Pistarino et al

Catalogue of bryophytes of Piedmont, including 55 species of liverworts and 290 of mosses. ....

Cactceas y Otras Plantas de la Canada, Cuicatlan, Oaxaca

Jeronimo Reyes et al

A field guide to La Canada de Cuicatlan, Oaxaca. Contains information on climate, hydrology, geology, soil, vegetation, fauna and glossary. Comprises 38 plant families ....

Coccolithorpes

From Molecular Processes to Global Impact

Edited by HR Thierstein and JR Young

In the past few years rapid progress has been made regarding our understanding of one of the dominant phytoplankton groups of the world's oceans: the coccolithophores. Among ....

The Elemental Prairie

Sixty Tallgrass Plants

John Madsen

In The Elemental Prairie, the combination of George Olson's drawings and John Madson's essay "The Running Country" looks at the prairie world with appreciative eyes. It ....

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Reproductive Strategies

Tom De Jong and Peter Klinkhamer

Evolutionary biologists have produced a solid body of evidence to explain patterns of diversification, both within and among species. Recent textbooks are weighted towards ....

Flore et Cartographie des Carex de France

Gerard Duhamel

Florida Landscape Plants

Native and Exotic

Edited by John V Watkins, Thomas J Sheehan and Robert J Black

This revised and expanded version of the book that has long been the standard landscape plant manual for Florida. The authors have added approximately 70 additional native ....

Flower Paintings From the Apothecaries' Garden

Contemporary Botanical Illustrations from Chelsea Physic Garden

A Brown, P Cribb and G Barlow

This book is a celebration of the work of the first ten years of Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. The Society, founded in 1995, is a group of artists charged with ....

Forest Plants of the Southeast and their Wildlife Uses

James H Miller and Karl V Miller

This guide to common and unique plants found in forests of the Southeast thoroughly covers 330 species of forbs (herbaceous plants), grasses, vines, and shrubs, with a ....

Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles

Edited by GM Gadd

Fungi play important roles in the cycling of elements in the biosphere but are frequently neglected within microbiological and geochemical research spheres. Symbiotic ....

Garden History

Philosophy and Design 2000 BC - 2000 AD

Tom Turner

An extraordinary history, not of gardens in the conventional sense, but of the development of the garden as an idea and as a physical reality over 40 centuries. ....

Gum: The Story of Eucalyptus and their Champions

A Hay

With more than 700 species of eucalypt, the gum tree is a defining feature of the Australian landscape. It has inspired and been immortalised by artists, writers, early ....

A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950

J Walpole

British flower painting has its own unique, if relatively recent, history, but it can only be judged in the light of the wider history of the subject and by comparison with ....

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees

J White

This second edition includes over 2300 exquisitely painted illustrations featuring more than 1100 species and varieties of trees. ....

International Daffodil Register and Classified List

S Kington

The names of all daffodil cultivars up to June 1997. Includes classification and colour code, originator and registrant, date, parentage, description, synonyms and awards for ....

An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development

Charles B Beck

An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development provides a comprehensive introduction to plant anatomy incorporating basic knowledge with information and ideas about the ....

Lichens Above Treeline

A Hiker's Guide to Alpine Zone Lichens of the Northeastern US

Ralph Pope

A guide to the lichens of the White Mountains, Green Mountains, Adirondacks, and nearby alpine and rugged coastal environment. It provides color magnified photographs, a color ....

The Mycota, Volume 1: Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

Edited by JGH Wessels and F Meinhardt

Since the publication of the first edition of Volume 1 in 1994, the field of fungal biology has developed tremendously, mainly through the establishment of various ....

Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

Pierre Delforge

First English Edition of this magnificent guide, covering identification, biology and conservation of more than 520 species of orchid found in Europe, North Africa and the ....

Plant Atlas Mid-West Yorkshire

PP Abbott

In Plant Atlas of Mid-west Yorkshire (Watsonian vice-county 64), Phyl Abbott gives an account of the 1794 vascular plant species recorded in the vice-county since 1984. ....

Plant Conservation: An Introduction to Ethnobotany

Alan Hamilton and Patrick Hamilton

A comprehensive guide to plant conservation for layperson and professional, addressing major aspects of contemporary plant conservation, covering sociological, economic and ....

Plants in Samoan Culture

The Ethnobotany of Samoa

W Arthur Whistler

Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend

Roy L Lehman, Ruth O'Brien and Tammy White

For everyone who studies or enjoys the impressive variety of wild plants that grow in the counties of Texas' coastal bend, this is an authoritative, user-friendly reference ....

Plants: Diversity and Evolution

Martin J Ingrouille and William Eddie

Plants are so much part of our environment that we often take them for granted, yet beautiful, fascinating and useful plants are everywhere, from isolated moss colonies on ....

Pollen Biotechnology for Crop Production and Improvement

Edited by K R Shivanna and V K Sawhney

Our knowledge of pollen, the gold dust that carries the male germ line of flowering plants and is vital for sexual reproduction and seed formation, has `come of age' with ....

The Rothschild Gardens

Miriam Rothschild, Kate Garton and Lionel de Rothchild

Illustrates the remarkable selection of Rothschild parks and gardens around the world. ....

Systematics Of Aporosa (Euphorbiaceae)

A Schot

Presents a full monograph of the Euphorbiaceous genus Aporosa. Aporosa consists of 82 species of small dioecious trees and is one of the more common genera in the tropical ....

Taxonomy and Plant Conservation

Edited by Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury

This book illustrates the key role played by taxonomy in the conservation and sustainable utilisation of plant biodiversity. It is a tribute to the work of Professor ....

Wild Flowers of Braunton Burrows

Mary Breeds

Braunton Burrows in North Devon and its surrounding coastline were declared Britain's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in November 2002. It is one of the largest expanses of ....

Wild Flowers of North Carolina

William S Justice, Richie C Bell and Anne H Lindsey

This classic botanical handbook, originally compiled by the late William S. Justice and C. Ritchie Bell, pairs hundreds of color photographs with descriptions of the wild ....

Wild Orchids of the Southeastern United States, North of Peninsular Florida

Paul Martin-Brown

This field guide offers information on what, where, and when to find wild orchids in the Southeastern United States. ....

A Year at Kew

Robert Smith

New paperback edition of this excellent book on Kew. From the publisher's announcement: ....

The Animal and the Daemon in Early China

R Sterckx

Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were ....

Animals and Disease

An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine

Lise Wilkinson

Man's attempts to learn about aspects of the human body and its functions by observation and study of animals are to be found throughout history, especially at times and in ....

Biology of Aging

Observations and Principles

Robert Arking

Robert Arking's Biology of Aging, 3rd edition, is an introductory text to the biology of aging which gives advanced undergraduate and graduate students a thorough review of the ....

Chemotherapeutic Targets in Parasites

Contemporary Strategies

Tag E Mansour

Parasitic infections are the most prevalent of human diseases, and researchers continue to face the challenge of designing drugs to successfully counteract them. ....

Comparative Developmental Physiology

Contributions, Tools, and Trends

Stephen Warburton, Warren Burggren, Bernd Pelster, C Reiber and J Spicer

This book presents assessments of current work in the field of developmental physiology from experimental, theoretical, and molecular perspectives, with an intent to predict ....

Complex Worlds From Simpler Nervous Systems

Edited by FR Prete

Explains how animals with small, often minuscule, nervous systems - jumping spiders, bees, praying mantids, toads, and others - are not the simple reflex machines they were ....

A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour

David McFarland

This fascinating dictionary covers every aspect of animal behaviour and includes terms from the related fields of ecology, physiology and psychology. Clear, concise entries ....

Disease Ecology

Community structure and pathogen dynamics

Edited by Sharon K Collinge and Chris Ray

Many infectious diseases of recent concern, including malaria, cholera, plague, and Lyme disease, have emerged from complex ecological communities, involving multiple hosts and ....

Domestication

The Decline of Environmental Appreciation

Helmut Hemmer

A unified approach to the study of domestic animals is an important step in achieving a proper understanding of the nature of domestication. In this book, the author has ....

Efficiency and Economy in Animal Physiology

Edited by Robert W Blake

There is often confusion over the meaning and usage of terms such as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, optimization and perfection in biology. This book defines and ....

The Egalitarians, Human and Chimpanzee

An Anthropological View of Social Organization

M Power

This innovative book challenges the perceived view, based largely on long observation of artificially-fed chimpanzees in Gombe and Mahale National Parks, Tanzania, of the ....

Microbial Diversity

Current Perspectives and Potential Applications

Edited by T Satyanarayana and BN Johri

Woven around the global perceptions of microbial diversity in its different facets. Diversity perspectives are discussed in the context of ecosystem dynamics, taking into ....

Molecular Basis of Virus Evolution

Edited by Adrian Gibbs, Charles H Calisher and Fernanado García-Arenal

Advances in molecular biology have enabled leaps forward in the determination of virus phylogenetic history. This detailed book results from the invitation to foremost experts ....

Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

MK Thakur and S Prasad

Monkeyluv

Robert Sapolsky

After the sucess of Longitude and Galileos's Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets ....

Practical Exercises in Parasitology

Edited by D W Halton, J M Behnke and Marshall I

Presents fifty easy-to-follow laboratory exercises for student practical (lab) classes. All the exercises are tried and tested by the authors and are used in a wide variety of ....

Rational Animals?

Edited by Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds

To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science ....

The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortality

E Dewar

An award-winning journalist seriously reexamines humanity's identity, rights, and responsibilities in a world where scientists can invent new creatures at their whim. ....

Social Influences on Vocal Development

Edited by Charles T Snowdon and Martine Hausberger

For at least 30 years, there have been close parallels between studies of birdsong development and those of the development of human language. Both song and language ....

Wildlife Diseases: Landscape Epidemiology, Spatial Distribution and Utilization of Remote Sensing Technologies

This volume is divided into six sections: "Emerging Infectious Diseases," "Diseases of Amphibians," "Diseases of Fish and Birds," "Diseases of Mammals," "Pollutants Effects, ....

Animal Traditions

Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution

Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, ....

The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth

Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent Human Populations

G Richard Scott and Christy G Turner II

This book presents the first worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth structure in recent populations. It describes the methods and assumptions used by dental ....

Anthropometry

The Individual and the Population

Edited by Stanley J Ulijaszek and CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology, and is used in a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume, distinguished contributors including ....

Applications of Biological Anthropology to Human Affairs

Edited by CGN Mascie-Taylor and GW Lasker

The unique contribution made by biological anthropology to human welfare lies in the fundamental understanding it can provide of the dynamic interrelationships between ....

Biological Perspectives on Human Pigmentation

A Robins

Skin colour is perhaps the most decisive and abused physical characteristic of humankind. This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of how and why human ....

Body Composition in Biological Anthropology

Roy J Shephard

This volume provides a thought-provoking perspective on the empirical and analytic study of body form and composition. The techniques used for measuring body components such as ....

The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo

R Amundson

In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental ....

Darwin

Discovering the Tree of Life

Niles Eldredge

The celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday in 2009 begins in November 2005 with the opening of a major exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, ....

Darwin: The Indelible Stamp

The Evolution of an Idea

Edited by JD Watson

For the first time ever in one volume, here are four of the most influential works of Charles Darwin, reprinted in their entirety, each illuminated by commentary from eminent ....

Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution

JF Haught

Acknowledging that Darwinian biology has considerably deepened our understanding of life, John Haught argues that we should dig even deeper than Darwin and that religious ....

The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations

Francisco M Salzano and Maria C Bortolini

The human genetic make-up of Latin America is a reflection of successive waves of colonization and immigration. To date there have been few works dealing with the biology ....

The Evolution of Ageing and Longevity

Thomas Kirkwood and Daryl Shanley

One of the central aspects in the ecology and evolution of organisms' life histories is how long they live. The recent and ongoing explosioin of interest and advances in this ....

Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates

Perspectives from the Fossil Record

Edited by Hans-Dieter Sues

Although herbivory probably first appeared over 300 million years ago, it only became established as a common feeding strategy during Late Permian times. Subsequently, ....

The Evolution of Modern Human Diversity

A Study on Cranial Variation

Marta Mirazon Lahr

Exactly how modern humans evolved is a subject of intense debate. This book deals with the evolution of modern humans from an archaic ancestor and the differentiation of ....

The First Boat People

Steve Webb

The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of ....

How Homo Became Sapiens

On the Evolution of Thinking

Peter Gärdenfors

In this compelling new work, Peter Gardenfors attempts to solve one of the big mysteries surrounding human existence - the evolution of complex thought. He starts by taking in ....

Human Biological Variation

James H Mielke, Lyle W Konigsberg and John H Relethford

The text explores human biological variation in its broadest sense from the molecular to the physiological and morphological. The main emphasis is on the microevolutionary ....

Human Biologists in the Archives

Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations

D Ann Herring and Alan C Swedlund

Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological `field' is not ....

Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations

Lorena Madrigal

A comprehensive study of the microevolution of Caribbean populations of African descent, this book reviews the conditions endured by the slaves during their passage and in the ....

Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology

Stanley J Ulijaszek

Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology considers various ways in which measurements of energy intake, ....

Human Growth in the Past

Studies from Bones and Teeth

Edited by Robert D Hoppa and Charles M Fitzgerald

Until now, studies of dental and skeletal growth and development have often been treated as independent disciplines within the literature. Human Growth in the Past takes a fresh ....

Human Senescence

Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives

Douglas E Crews

Much research on the biology of senescence is on cell-lines, nematodes or fruit flies, that are only of peripheral relevance to the problems encountered in humans. Human ....

Human Variability and Plasticity

Edited by CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor and Barry Bogin

Plasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment, particularly when these are stressful. Humans ....

The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes

John Reinhard

This book takes armchair adventurers and archaeological enthusiasts not only to the excavation, but back through Peruvian history as it revisits the 1995 discovery of the ....

Methods in Human Growth Research

Roland C Hauspie, Noel Cameron and Luciano Molinari

In order to gain an understanding of the dynamics of human individual and average growth patterns it is essential that the right methods are selected. There are a variety of ....

Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution

Alan Fix

Migration and colonization are major forces affecting the frequency, spatial pattern and spread of genes in human populations. Here, Alan Fix reviews theories of migration ....

Molecular Applications in Biological Anthropology

Edited by EJ Devor

This volume presents a selection of pioneering research studies in which molecular techniques have been used to address key questions, for example about the human genetic ....

Molecular Biology and Human Diversity

Edited by Anthony J Boyce and CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

Considerable attention is now being paid to the use of molecular evidence in studies of human diversity and origins. Much of the early work was based on evidence from ....

Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa

Entering the 21st Century

Edited by Dawn Chatty

Massive volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. Much of interest for those working at the ....

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

Robert Boyd and Peter J Richerson

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects ....

Primate and Human Evolution

Susan Cachel

Primate and Human Evolution provides a synthesis of the evolution and adaptive significance of human anatomical, physiological and behavioral traits. Using ....

Research Strategies in Human Biology

Field and Survey Studies

Edited by Gabriel Ward Lasker and CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

This book is about doing research, not about the results obtained. Those engaged on their first research may have had plenty of preparation about the techniques and results ....

Richard Dawkins

How a scientist changed the way we think

Edited by Alan Grafen

Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, this sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of ....

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

A commemorative anniversary edition of the landmark work first published 30 years ago. There is a new introduction by Richard Dawkins, plus the original prefaces and Robert ....

Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective

Edited by Anne L Grauer and Patricia Stuart MacAdam

A growing body of literature indicates that diseases can affect women and men differently. As sex differences extend far beyond biology, it is crucial to adopt a ....

This Land Was Theirs

A Study of Native North Americans

Wendell H Oswalt

This Land Was Theirs examines the traditional and contemporary lifeways of twelve North American Indian tribes. Ranging from the Netsilik hunters who straddle the Arctic Circle ....

Unknown Boundaries

Exploring Human Evolutionary Studies

Robert Foley

The last twenty years have seen a resurgence of interest in human evolution in many aspects. A distinction can be made between 'narrow' (general acceptance that human ....

Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

In Pursuit of Virulence Management

Edited by U Dieckmann, JAJ Metz, MW Sabelis and K Sigmund

Emerging diseases pose a continual threat to public health. Short multiplication time and high variability allow pathogens to evolve very rapidly. It is therefore imperative ....

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination

Animal Behaviour and Floral Evolution

Edited by L Chittka and JD Thomson

Important breakthroughs have recently been made in our understanding of the cognitive and sensory abilities of pollinators: how pollinators perceive, memorise and react to ....

Ecological Communities and Processes in a Mojave Desert Ecosystem

Rock Valley, Nevada

Philip W Rundel and Arthur C Gibson

Deserts provide a harsh and inhospitable environment for plants and animals, and the ecosystem is correspondingly fragile and prone to disruption by a variety of external ....

Ecology of Populations

Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg and Veijo Kaitala

The theme of the book is the distribution and abundance of organisms in space and time. The core of the book lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and ....

The Ecology of a Garden

The First Fifteen Years

J Owen

First published in 1991, this is a classic book on wildlife in a British garden. Now in paperback. ....

Nonequilibrium Ecology

Klaus Rohde

Ecology has long been shaped by ideas that stress the sharing of resources and the competition for those resources, and by the assumption that populations and communities ....

Pattern and Process in Host-Parasitoid Interactions

BA Hawkins

How is the staggering biodiversity of the parasitoid insects maintained? This book explores patterns in host-parasitoid interactions, including parasitoid community ....

Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion

FM Schauffler

Turning to Earth offers a window into the heart of environmental change, moving beyond the culture's traditional reliance on policy reforms and technological measures. It ....

Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest

Edited by F Stuart Chapin, Mark W Oswood, Keith van Cleve and Leslie A Viereck

The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now ....

The American Wilderness

Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States

Thomas R Vale

The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States explores the division between how Americans embrace protected landscapes and how they consider ....

The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness

Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature

John N Randolph

Using quotations from newspaper reports, Congressional testimonies, personal interviews, and his own recollections, John Randolph traces the development of Alabama's ....

Biodiversity of Mangrove Ecosystems

K Kathiresan and SZ Qasim

Covers all the intricacies of the mangrove habitats, their characteristics, global distribution floral diversity in different parts of the world and occurrence of over 877 ....

The Biology of Temporary Waters

D Dudley Williams

This new volume updates and replaces the same author's 1987 book, `Ecology of Temporary Waters' (Chapman and Hall, 1987). ....

Biomes of Brazil: An Illustrated Natural History

Francis Dov Por, Vera Imperatriz-Fonseca and Frederico Lencioni Neto

Introduction to the eight most important biomes of Brazil. The book is bilingual Portugese-English. ....

Conflicts in the Countryside

The New Battle for Britain

D Bellamy

At a conference called by the Royal Society for the Arts, their President, HRH Prince Philip, laid down a Royal Challenge: that all parties with specific interests in the ....

Coral Reef Conservation

Edited by Isabelle Cote and John Reynolds

Coral reefs are the 'rain forests' of the ocean, containing the highest diversity of marine organisms and facing the greatest threats from humans. As shallow-water coastal ....

Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities

The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program

Edited by EN Bernard

Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world's oceans. Because of the geographical extent of U.S. coastlines, an earthquake ....

Development and Testing of a Criteria and Indicators System for

Sustainable Forest Management at the Local Level

Thorsten Mrosek

Case study at the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, Canada. ....

Earth Repair

A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration

Marcus Hall

Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration travels between the US and Italy to see that restoration has taken many forms over the past two hundred ....

Encyclopedia of American National Parks

HK Rothman and Sarah Dant Ewert

Encompassing more than 370 diverse areas - including vast tracts of wilderness, spectacular scenery and habitat, historic places, and urban parks - the U.S. National ....

The Environment in Asia and Pacific Harbours

Edited by E Wolanski

Worldwide, urbanization has already reached unprecedented levels in the estuarine and coastal zone. This is particularly the case in the Asia Pacific region where mega-cities ....

Environmental Assessment: The Regulation of Decision Making

J Holder

Environmental Assessment is an inherently interdisciplinary mechanism which is concerned with the input and quality of information about the likely effects of development upon ....

Forest Hydrology

An Introduction to Water and Forests

Mingteh Chang and Stephen F Austin

Covers issues on water, forests, the water-forest relation, watershed research, and hydrologic measurements, and provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the impact of ....

Grasslands of the World

FAO plant production and protection series 34

Edited by JM Suttie, SG Reynolds and C Batello

This book brings together information on the contrasting characteristics, condition, present use and problems of the world's main natural grasslands. Since grassland is ....

Habitat Threats in the Sagebrush Ecosystem

Edited by Michael J Wisdom, Mary M Rowland and Lowell H Suring

Threats to sagebrush habitats are many, varied, and now manifesting over vast areas. This book describes methods and example applications to identify and map these threats ....

How Much is An Ecosystem Worth?

Assessing the Economic Value of Conservation

World Bank

Despite international commitments to reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national levels by 2010, recent evidence indicates that ....

The Hudson River Estuary

Edited by Jeffrey S Levinton and John R Waldman

The Hudson River Estuary is a comprehensive look at the physical, chemical, biological and environmental management issues that are important to our understanding of the ....

Imperial Gullies

Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho

Kate Barger Showers

Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. In 'Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho', ....

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Forestry in Central Europe

Ewald Rametsteiner, Gerhard Weiss and Klaus Kubeczko

Outcome of research 2001-2003 through the EFI Regional Project Centre INNOFORCE. Draws on 30 case studies on forestry innovations in eight countries. ....

Key Issues for Mountain Areas

Edited by Martin F Price, Libor Jansky and Andrei A Latsenia

Mountain areas cover almost one quarter of the earth's land surface, with a quarter of the global population living on them or very close by, and they are sources of water, ....

The Kingdom and the Republic: Forest Governance and Political Transformation in Thailand and the Philippines

Antonio P Contreras

This study inquires into the dynamics of state-civil society relations within the context of policy making for the conservation and utilization of forest resources in ....

The Long Road to Recovery

Community Responses to Industrial Disaster

James K Mitchell

This book is about community responses to industrial disasters that, going far beyond routine mishaps, constitute "surprise" disasters. These disasters are producing ....

Management of Marine Ecosystems

Edited by Ian Boyd, Sarah Wanless and CJ Camphuysen

The sustainable exploitation of the marine environment depends upon our capacity to develop systems of management with predictable outcomes. Unfortunately, marine ....

Marine Biodiversity

Patterns and Processes

Edited by Rupert F G Ormond, John D Gage and Martin V Angel

The biodiversity of many ecosystems is under threat and although seas cover the majority of our planet's surface, far less is known about the biodiversity of marine environments ....

Modernizing Nature

Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development 1800-1950

S Ravi Rajan

Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying ....

Norway Spruce Conversion

Options and Consequences

Edited by H Spiecker et al

Up to the end of the 19th century, many European forests suffered from devastation and soil deterioration, which caused fears of timber shortage. In order to counteract this ....

The Ocean At Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium

B Brunner

The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated man for centuries-the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes ....

Old Land, New Landscapes

A Story of Farmers, Conservation and the Landcare Movement

Chris Williams

This is the story of a group of farmers in central western New South Wales fighting to rehabilitate and revegetate land degraded by 100 years and more of farming. As ....

Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel

Theo Allofs, Russell A Mittermeier et al

Published in association with Conservation International, this is a superbly illustrated volume on the area's ecology, people, plants, animals and conservation efforts. ....

The People of the Sea

Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania

Paul D'Arcy

Provides the synthetic study of ocean-people interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870. This book emphasizes Pacific Islanders' relationships with the sea during a ....

Samoan Rainforest

A Guide to the Vegetation of the Samoan Archipelago

W Arthur Whistler

Southeast Asia Tsunami

One of the World's Greatest Natural Disasters in Modern Times

Robert Shangle

A book of photographic images and descriptive text remembering the events of December 26, 2004, when the Tsunami hit South-East Asia. ....

A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean

The Blue Plan's Environment and Development Outlook

Guillaume Benoit and Aline Comeau

The definitive examination of the development and environment of the Mediterranean Basin and the 22 countries and territories that surround it, spanning five decades from 30 ....

Tsunami!

Walter C Dudley and Min Lee

The first edition of this book provided readers with a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawaii. This second edition adds many eyewitness accounts of the ....

The Vulnerability of Cities

Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

Mark Pelling

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of ....

Wetland Restoration Handbook for Wisconsin Landowners

A Thompson and C Luthin

This handbook encourage responsible and effective restoration of wetlands. The authors provide insight into all aspects of the field. New pictures, photos and chapters were ....

Wetland Restoration Manual

The Wildlife Trusts' Water Policy Team

The Wildlife Trusts' definitive work on wetland restoration, creation and management, this 16-chapter, 660-page, ring-bound manual contains all the information you will need ....

Where River Meets the Sea

Exploring Australia's Estuaries

L Turner, D Tracey, J Tilden and B Dennison

Estuaries are dynamic coastal waterways where salt and fresh water mix. Where River Meets Sea describes the value and status of Australia's 974 estuaries and takes readers ....

Woodland Management

A Practical Guide

Christopher Starr

Introductory book. ....

Checklist of Cites Species

Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America

Richard Brewer

"A must-read for people interested in land conservation! Written for land trust members, volunteers and supporters - as well as anyone concerned about land use and the ....

Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications

Fred Van Dyke

Undergraduate textbook covering the key principles governing conservation. It assumes a basic knowledge of cellular, ....

Conservation Education and Outreach

A Handbook of Techniques

Susan K Jacobson, Mallory D McDuff and Martha C Monroe

The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions. This book presents the theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach ....

Conservation and Biology of Small Populations

The Song Sparrows of Mandarte Island

James NM Smith, Lukas F Keller, Amy B Marr and Peter Arcese

This book explores the factors affecting the survival of small populations. As the human impact on Earth expands, populations of many wild species are being squeezed into ....

Environmentalism and the Government, 1844-2002

The Evolution of Conservation and Preservation in the U.S

Richard Harmon and Thomas J Curran

This volume traces the history of conservation on the local and state level, from 1844 to 2002. When he assumed office in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt, building on a few ....

Ethics for a Small Planet: Communication Handbook on the Ethical and Theological Reasons for Protecting Biodiversity

Biodiversity Project

This handbook on the ethical and theological underpinnings of biodiversity conservation is a tool to open a broader conversation on the ethical considerations related to ....

First Choice or Fallback?

An Examination of Issues Relating to the Application of Appendix III of CITES to Marine Species

A Willock, M Burgener and A Sancho

This study looks at the appropriateness of Appendix III of CITES as a tool for conserving marine species. ....

Large Herbivore Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation

Edited by Kjell Danell, Roger Bergstrom, Patrick Duncan and John Pastor

Most large herbivores require some type of management within their habitats. Some populations of large herbivores are at the brink of extinction, some are under ....

Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis

Navjot S Sodhi and Barry W Brook

The first comprehensive report of the current state the region's biotas. ....

Sparing Nature

The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity

Jeffrey K McKee

McKee contends that explosive human population growth has led to the extinction of countless species in the earth's plant and animal communities. He demonstrates that ....

Threatened Animals of Western Australia

AA Burbidge

Documents the current state of research into and management of threatened animals in Western Australia. It looks at factors that ....

UK Inshore Special Protection Areas: A Methodological Evaluation of Site Selection and Definintion of the Extent of An Interest Feature Using Line Transect Data

CA McSorley, A Webb, BJ Dean and JB Reid

Many seabird species form important wintering aggregations in UK inshore marine waters. This report presents the current scientific methodological basis for site selection and ....

Wildlife Stewardship and Recreation on Private Lands

Delwin E Benson, Ross Shelton, Don W Steinbach and Judy F Winn

"... a thought-provoking book about a topic that is increasingly important. It will be very useful for conservationists, landowners, hunters, wildlife watchers, biologists, ....

The Carbon Cycle

Edited by TML Wigley and DS Schimel

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is imperative to stabilizing our future climate. Our ability to reduce these emissions combined with an understanding of how much ....

Climate

Edited by Jennie Hoffman

A unique guide to the Earth's climate, past, present and future Climate-related topics are seldom out of the news, from the increasing understanding of the forces that shaped ....

Climate Change

Turning Up the Heat

A Barrie Pittock

The book discusses the major impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems and past civilizations, and describes how scientists are predicting future change. It also ....

Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries

Edited by MH Glantz

This unique volume addresses the potential implications of global warming for fisheries and the societies which depend on them. Using a `forecasting by analogy' approach, which ....

Emissions Trading for Climate Policy

US and European Perspectives

Edited by Hans Hansjürgens

The 1997 Kyoto Conference introduced emissions trading as a new policy instrument for climate protection. Bringing together scholars in the fields of economics, political ....

Environmental Chemistry

S E Manahan

Completely revised and updated, the seventh edition of this classic text contains new chapters on industrial ecology as it relates to the emerging area of 'green' chemistry. ....

Environmental Chemistry

Chemistry of Major Environmental Cycles

Teh Fu Yen

Deals with the five global cycles - lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, and biosphere. This book covers the chemistry of energy resources and aspects of ....

Global Warming

A Reference Handbook

Gary C Bryner

The Growth and Decay of Ice

GSH Lock

Ice exists in water, in air, in earth and in living organisms. The purpose of this book is to describe in mathematical, physical and biological terms, the growth and decay of ....

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis

M Dilley et al

Natural Disaster Hotspots presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots, areas at relatively high risk of loss from one or more natural hazards. It ....

Principles of Toxicology

Karen E Stine and Thomas M Brown

This revised second edition expands the diversity of the book by adding chapters on the role of toxicology in genomics, mechanisms of cell death, pharmacology and drug ....

Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation

HF Moed

This book deals with the evaluation of scholarly research performance, and focuses on the contribution of scholarly work to the advancement of scholarly knowledge. Its ....

Diamonds

Vicky Paterson

'Diamonds make the ultimate statement about wealth and status, where 'bling' often speaks louder than words.' From Preface to Diamonds.Why do we desire diamonds? Where ....

Extreme Events

Reconstruction from Natural Records and Hazard Risk Assessment

Jonathan Nott

The assessment of risks posed by natural hazards such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis or cyclones, is often based on short-term historical records that may not ....

Geology of Skye

Guide No 2

P Yoxon and GM Yoxon

This book unfolds the geological evolution of Skye, and in doing so tells a story of past scenic landscapes, of now extinct animals, of violent volcanoes, not hundreds or ....

Georgia Geological Society Guidebooks

The Georgia Geological Society was founded to bring people together who had a common interest in the field of geology and the geological history of the US state of Georgia. ....

Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle

James Lawrence Powell

The centerpiece of scenic grandeur in the American West is the Grand Canyon, one of the great natural wonders of the world. How it came to be has captured the imagination not ....

Hawaiian Volcanoes

Clarence E Dutton

Hawaiian Volcanoes, written by Clarence E. Dutton as part of the 1883 Annual Report of the U.S. Geological Survey, is the first comprehensive study of volcanism in Hawai`i. In ....

Mineral Species First Described from Greenland

Special Publication 8

OV Peterson

This is an annotated and illustrated compendium, which focuses on the 76 mineral species first described from Greenland over the interval 1799 (cryolite) to 2005 ....

NASA: The Complete Illustrated History

Michael H Gorn

This book tells the remarkable story of space exploration from the early twentieth century to the present, with compelling coverage - including a wealth of illustrations - ....

The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains

Edmund Stump

The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains is the part of the orogenic system that formed at the Pacific continental margin of present-day Antarctica. According to a ....

Saturn

Alan Lawrie

Saturn V was the largest, most powerful rocket ever produced. Developed in the 1960s, in response to President Kennedy's call for a moon landing by the end of the decade, it ....

Spacecam

Photographing the Final Frontier

Terry Hope

Photographs of space have always been fascinating and extraordinary and never more so than now that space telescopes such as Hubble are bringing us strange and beautiful ....

Volcanoes of Light / Vulcani de Luce

A Photographic Journey on Sicily's Volcanoes / Viaggio Fotografico sui Vulcani

Marco Fulle

Fantastic photographic montage of Sicily's volcanoes. ....

The 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty

Sharing Conservation Burdens and Benefits

WA Shepard and AW Argue

Culminating in the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty, Canada and the US carried out long and contentious negotiations to provide a framework for cooperation for conserving and ....

Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development

Joseph Cooper, Leslie Marie Lipper and David Zilberman

This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in the economic literature of management of agricultural biotechnology and biodiversity in agricultural and economic ....

Agricultural Globalization, Trade, and the Environment

Edited by CB Moss, GC Rausser, A Schmitz, TG Taylor and D Zilberman

The chapters collected here explore a number of different issues, including the operation of the tariff-rate quotas established under the Uruguay Round Agreement, the ....

Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature

K Thomson

For 200 years before the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, findings in the sciences of the earth and of nature threatened religious belief based on the literal ....

Biology and Freedom

An Essay on the Implications of Human Ethology

SA Barnett

Biology and Freedom is an essay on human nature: an attempt to make a just assessment of a species often presented as predominantly and unavoidably violent, grasping, selfish ....

Braving the Currents: Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West

Tamra Pearson D'Estree and Bonnie BG Colby

Braving the Currents systematically identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define success in complex multi-party natural resource disputes. The authors elucidate ....

Capitalism: As if the World Matters

Jonathon Porritt

As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, humanity, by necessity, is ....

The Case for Animal Rights

T Regan

More than twenty years after its original publication, "The Case for Animal Rights" has a new and fully considered preface, in which Regan responds to his critics and defends ....

Cash Crop Halophytes Recent Studies

Edited by H Lieth and M Mochtchenko

The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in losses of arable land from salinisation. In Europe this is especially hard for the farmers in the Mediterranean ....

A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture

Edited by Richard E Just and Rulon D Pope

After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious. Many competing risk models have been ....

Contemporary Environmental Politics

From Margins to Mainstream

John Barry, Andrew Dobson and Piers Stephens

This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics, presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since ....

Diplomacy on the Jordan

International Conflict and Negotiated Resolution

Munther J Haddadin

The Jordan River waters are essential for the development and well being of the people of its basin. Plans for the development of its water resources were considered since the ....

Ecological Economics

An Introduction

Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl

Looks set to become the standard text. ....

The Economics of Water Demands

Steven Renzetti

Freshwater resources are growing increasingly scarce and conflicts over potable water are becoming more common. In order to deal with these problems and to allocate water, ....

The Economics of Water Resources: The Contributions of Dan Yaron

Edited by Ariel Dinar and David Zilberman

The primary focus of the book is the interaction between quantity and quality in water resource management at various levels and sectors. The chapters cover field, farm, and ....

Environment, Inc

From Grassroots to Beltway

Christopher J Bosso

Professional organizations that advocate on behalf of environmental issues have become a permanent part of the American political landscape, representing 11 million members, and ....

Environmental Citizenship

Edited by Andrew Dobson and Derek Ball

Promoting environmental citizenship as a path to achieving sustainability -- encouraging people to act according to the public environmental good -- offers an alternative to the ....

Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds

A Global Perspective

Timothy Doyle

Drawing on his primary fieldwork in six countries, environmental researcher Timothy Doyle argues that there is, in fact, no one global environmental movement; rather, there ....

Environmental Sociology

A Social Constructionist Perspective

John A Hannigan

'the best introduction to the social constructionist approach to environmental problems available today' - Environmental Politics ....

Fair Trade for All

How Trade Can Promote Development

Joseph E Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist ....

Freshwater Forum Special Issues

Freshwaters of New Zealand

Edited by J Harding et al

Freshwaters of New Zealand has been written by a team of eighty scientists and managers. It provides an up-to-date survey and synthesis on the knowledge of the streams, rivers, ....

Gaia: Medicine for an Ailing Planet

James Lovelock

Compelling and controversial, Lovelock is one of the outstanding scientist-philosophers of our generation. In this updated edition of his classic work, he presents a complete ....

George W. Bush's Healthy Forests

Reframing the Environmental Debate

Jacqueline Vaughn and Hanna J Cortner

The authors detail Bush administration reframing of America's environmental debate, identifying players, events, and strategies that expedited a policy shift that impacts ....

Governing Water

Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building

Ken Conca

Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a ....

Handbook of Sustainability Research

Edited by Walter Leal Filho

Introduces concepts, ideas and methods of sustainability research based on real examples. ....

How Buildings Work

The Natural Order of Architecture

Edward Allen

Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants ....

International Commission and the Power of Ideas

Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F Cooper and John English

First major study of the nature and impact of international commissions, such as the Brandt Commission, World Commission on Environment and Development, Commission on Dams, ....

Knowledge Generation and Technical Change

Institutional Innovation in Agriculture

Edited by Steven Wolf and David Zilberman

Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to ....

The Logic of Sufficiency

Thomas Princen

What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a ....

Managing Crisis, Threats, Dilemas, Opportunities

Uriel Rosenthal, R Arjen Boin and Louise K Comfort

In this book, the editors, with 25 notable contributors, expand the knowledge of crisis management, focusing on case studies of high-profile events that have occurred in recent ....

Mankind and the Oceans

Edited by Nobuyuki Miyazaki, Zafar Adeel and Kouicki Ohwada

The oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface and play an important part in our lives by controlling climate and weather conditions; hosting shipping, ....

Moral Authority of Nature

Edited by L Daston and F Vidal

This work offers an extensive account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful or valuable. The essays here cover a diverse array of topics, ....

The New Famines

Why Famines Exist in an Era of Globalization

Stephen Devereux

Exploring the paradox that is the persistence of famine in the contemporary world, this book looks at the way the nature of famine is changing in the face of globalization and ....

Organic Vegetable Production

A Complete Guide

Edited by Margi Lennartsson

Provides a practical guide to the production of organic vegetables across a range of organic farming systems in temperate areas. This book covers all aspects of production, ....

Our Common Interest: An Argument

The Commission For Africa

The Commission for Africa finds the conditions of the lives of the majority of Africans to be intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind. We insist upon an ....

Plan B 2.0

Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Lester R Brown

Recommendations for a more sustainable future by a leading American thinkers and environmental lobbyist. ....

Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development

Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen

Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- ....

Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy

Nancy J Myers and Carolyn Raffensperger

The precautionary principle calls for taking action against threatened harm to people and ecosystems even in the absence of full scientific certainty. The rationale is that ....

Promoting Community Resilience in Disasters

The Role for Schools, Youth, and Families

Kevin Ronan and David M Johnston

When large-scale disasters occur, they typically strike without warning-regardless of whether the cause is natural, such as a tsunami or earthquake, or human-made, such as a ....

Public Participation in the Governance of International Freshwater Resources

Carl Bruch, Libor Jansky et al

Clean water is essential to human survival, yet it is increasingly scarce. Despite pressures on this crucial resource, people often have little or no opportunity to ....

Regulating Bioprospecting

Institutions for Drug Research, Access, and Benefit Sharing

Padmashree Gehl Sampath

Bioprospecting--the search for useful biochemical compounds and genes in nature--has been the focus of international negotiations for more than a decade. This book examines ....

Self-Sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming

Robert Tripp

Low external input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There is a growing need for self-sufficient ....

The State and the Global Ecological Crisis

Edited by J Barry and R Eckersley

Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological ....

Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources

Research from Africa and India

Libor Jansky, Martin J Haigh and Haushila Prasad

River headwaters are the primary source of fresh water for millions of people downstream, particularly in Africa and India. Acting as drainage basins for water runoff ....

Vanishing Species

Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman

Susan R Playfair

The story of the ongoing debate between the New England communities of fishermen, federal regulators, scientists and environmentalists. Based in large part on interviews ....

Water from the Moors: The Life and Works of Joseph Foord

Isabel Anne McLean

This fascinating new book published by the National Park Authority explores the eighteenth century water races that transformed the landscape of the North York Moors ....

The Will to Create: Goethe's Philosophy of Nature

Astrida Orle Tantillo

Renowned for his contributions to the literary world, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) believed his greatest accomplishments were in the fields of science and ....

Wisdom for a Livable Planet

CN McDaniel

This book offers equal parts education and inspiration for readers looking for an introduction to today's critical environmental issues. Author and biologist Carl N. ....

Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis

Robert De Levie

Excel is the leading spreadsheet both in its widespread distribution and in its computational features. In scientific research, spreadsheets are often used to organize ....

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter Diggle, Patrick Heagerty, Kung-Yee Lian and Scott Zeger

The first edition of Analysis for Longitudinal Data has become a classic. Describing the statistical models and methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, it covers both the ....

Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis

Modeling Change and Event Occurrence

Judith D Singer and John B Willett

Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. In ....

Computational Statistics

Hierarchical Bayes and MCMC Methods in the Environmental Sciences

Edited by Jim Clark and Alan Gelfand

New statistical tools are changing the ways in which scientists analyze and interpret data and models. Many of these are emerging as a result of the wide availability of ....

Ecological Informatics

Understanding Ecology by Biologically-Inspired Computation

Edited by Friedrich Recknagel

Provides an introduction to the scope, concepts and techniques of this newly emerging discipline. It illustrates numerous applications of Ecological Informatics for stream ....

Experimental Design for the Life Sciences

Graeme D Ruxton and Nick Colegrave

Experimental Design for the Life Sciences teaches the reader how to effectively design experiments, to ensure that today's students are equipped with the skills they need to ....

Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics

JW Wagele

This book offers an introduction to the theory of Phylogenetic Systematics and is a companion for all biologists who want to analyze morphological or molecular data with ....

Geographic Information Systems and Science

PA Longley et al

Landmark text capturing and redefining the richness and diversity of GIS, in an accessible form. Presents a clearly-defined path to a world of learning about GIS, using ....

The Geometry of Ecological Interactions

Simplifying Spatial Complexity

Ulf Dieckmann, Richard Law and JAJ Matz

The field of theoretical ecology has expanded dramatically in the last few years. This volume gives detailed coverage of the main developing areas in spatial ecological ....

Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data

Edited by Theodore A Walls and Joseph L Schafer

A new class of longitudinal data has emerged with the use of technological devices for scientific data collection. This class of data is called intensive longitudinal data ....

Remote Sensing of Coastal Aquatic Environments

Technologies, Techniques and Applications

Edited by RL Miller et al

Coastal waters are important ecological systems and vital assets for many nations. Coastal waters are also complex, dynamic environments where a vast array of coupled ....

Building a Successful Career in Scientific Research

A Guide for PhD Students and Postdocs

Phil Dee

From PhD student to post-doc, Phil Dee has been sharing his career experiences with fellow scientists in his regular and acclaimed Science Next Wave column since 2000. Now ....

Creating a Comprehensive Information Literacy Plan: A How-to-Do-It Manual and CD Rom for Librarians

JM Burkhardt and MC Macdonald

In college and university libraries across the nation, information literacy has become more than just an area of instruction-it has become part of the core mission of the ....

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists

Edited by Bernard Lightman

During the nineteenth century there was no clear boundary line between those who were considered to be part of the scientific community and those who were seen as outsiders. ....

Exhibition Experiments

S Macdonald and P Baru

The last two decades have seen a proliferation of experiments with museological form. Museums and exhibitions have been established in many parts of the world, often ....

Learning to Read and Manage Information Literacy Instruction

ES Grassian and JR Kaplowitz

As institutions develop a variety of courses-credit and non-credit, physical and online- to meet the information literacy needs of their students, new challenges for leading and ....

The Little Green Data Book 2005

The World Bank

Pocket sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. ....

Managing Digital Rights: A Practitioner's Guide

Edited by P Pedley

This book is a practical guide to the use of digital content. It deals with the question of how electronic information can be used legitimately, outlining the issues to be ....

Managing Electronic Records

Edited by J McLeod and C Hare

One of the biggest challenges faced by any organization today is that of managing electronic records, a vital but complex undertaking involving multiple roles within the ....

New Museums

R Barreneche

The mission and purpose of the museum is rapidly evolving: museums today are frequently more than repositories for historical art: they can be research centers, memorials, ....

Research Methods in the Biosciences

Debbie Holmes, Peter Moody and Diana Dines

Research Methods in the Biosciences demystifies the process of research to equip every biosciences student with the skills they need to get the most out of their ....

Reshaping Museum Space

Edited by S Macleod

At no other point in their modern history have museums undergone such radical reshaping as in recent years. Challenges to create inclusive and accessible spaces open to ....

State of the World 2005

Redefining Global Security

Worldwatch Institute

Since September 11, 2001, many governments have reasserted the centrality of traditional, military-focused security. Emphasizing the opportunities for creating a ....

State of the World 2006: China, India and the Future of the World

Worldwatch Institute

In this 23rd edition of State of the World - long established as the most authoritative and accessible annual guide to our progress towards a sustainable future - the studies ....