The Elephant's Secret Sense

The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa

C O'Connell

In The Elephant's Secret Sense, the internationally renowned field scientist Caitlin O'Connell tells the fascinating story of her unexpected discovery of a ....

Erforschung Biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei, Band 10

Proceedings of the Asiatic Wild Ass Conference

Edited by Annegret Stubbe et al

Proceedings of the International "Asiatic Wild Ass Conference". The contributions deal with the status, conservation and habitat of the Wild Ass (Equus hemionus). Most papers ....

Genetic Resources of Wild Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla in China

Yang Bohui

This is the first book on genetic resources of Wild Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla in China. It introduces animal code, Chinese name, English name, Latin name, common name, ....

The Great Apes

Cyril Ruoso and Emmanuelle Grundmann

Being our closest relatives, it's not surprising that Great Apes hold an elevated place in our interest of wildlife. This book introduces the different species of apes and ....

Meerkat Manor

The Story of the Flower of the Kalahari

Tim Clutton-Brock

Meerkat Manor, a television series now in its 3rd year (with 2 more seasons contracted) following the fortunes of a group of Meerkats has recently attracted sensational viewing ....

Meerkat Manor - DVD: Series 2

Bill Nighy

This nature series from Animal Planet follows the lives of a family of meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert. With complicated relationships and rivalries, the show captures ....

A Natural History of the Brown Mouse Lemur

Sylvia Atsalis

Provides the most complete look at the behavior and ecology of mouse lemurs. ....

Polar Bears

Proceedings of the 14th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, 20-24 June 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA

Edited by Jon Aars, Nicolas J Lunn and Andrew E Derocher

These proceedings provide an overview of the ongoing research and management activities on polar bears in the circumpolar arctic. Together with the previous 13 proceedings, ....

I Roditori Italiani

Ecologia, impatto sulle attività umane e sugli ecosistemi, gestione delle popolazioni

D Capizzi and L Santini

Despite the importance of the Rodents in many environmental contexts, this is the first book in Italy containing all the aspects related to these vertebrates. The importance of ....

Roedores

Guia de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

IE Gomez Villafane, M Mino, R Cavia, K Hondara and P Courtalon

Photo identification guide to the rodents of the province of Buenos Aires. Includes photos of the skull and teeth. The description includes information on morphological ....

Tiger Jungle

The Epic Tale of Bandhavgarh

Iain Green

The world of the tiger is in turmoil; latest research shows that the entire population in India may be lower than 2000 animals and decreasing. Hidden away in Central India, ....

The Wolf Almanac

A Celebration of Wolves and Their World

Robert H Busch

The newly revised reference work on the history and evolution of wolves, their biology and physiology, behavior and sociology, and their mythology. It is considered the best ....

Arrivals and Rivals

A Year of Competitive Twitching

Adrian M Riley

An account of competitive twitching by two leading British birders, this book describes in an informed and lively manner the struggle in 2002 to become nationally recognised ....

At-Sea Distribution and Abundance of Seabirds off Southern California

A 20-Year Comparison

JW Mason et al

Atlas de las Aves del Paraguay

Hugo del Castillo and Robert P Clay

Distribution maps for 707 bird species found in Paraguay. In addition to the distribution map, each species account includes the scientific name, common name, ....

Atlas of Bird Distribution in New Zealand 1999-2004

CJR Robertson, P Hyvonen, MJ Fraser and CR Pickard

The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ) launched the publication of the most comprehensive survey of New Zealand's avifauna in August 2007. ....

The Atlas of the Birds of Central Mozambique

Vincent Parker

This book describes the geographical distribution, abundance and seasonality of all bird species which were observed in the Mozambican provinces of Manica, Sofala and Tete ....

Best of BirdGuides Volume 1

BirdGuides

A compilation of the very best BirdGuides footage shot over the past year. Over 50 species to feast your eyes on covering some of the most desirable and sought-after ....

Beyond Mayfield: Measurements of Nest-Survival Data

Edited by Stephanie L Jones and Geoffrey R Geupel

Bird

The Ultimate Illustrated Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

Rob Hume and Peter Hayman

"Bird" is the ultimate illustrated guide to every species that regularly breeds in or visits Europe. Each species is covered in great detail. Up to 20 illustrations are ....

Bird Songs from Around the World

Les Beletsky

Discover two hundred of the world's most spectacular birds in Bird Songs from Around the World, the follow-up to the US best-seller Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds ....

Bird Songs of the Pacific States

Thomas G Sander

This audio guide presents the primary songs of 132 bird species found in the Pacific States (California, Oregon and Washington). They include more than 100 songbird species ....

A Birder's Guide to Southern California

Brad Schram

The vast, varied topography that is Southern California has recorded over 555 naturally occurring bird species, many of which are near endemics to its geography. Each of ....

Birds and People

Bonds in a Timeless Journey

Nigel J Collar, Patricio Robles Gil, Jamie Rojo and Adrian J Long

A portfolio drawn from the world's greatest bird photographers drives the message of this book home. The book is split into five chapters looking at all aspects of human's ....

Birds in Yunnan

Ji Weizhi

There are 848 species of wild birds recorded in Yunnan, which makes up nearly 9% of the birds recorded in the world and 65.5% of those in China. Due to its typical richness in ....

The Birds of Holy Island

Ian Kerr

Originally called Lindisfarne, Holy Island in the North-East of England is a National Nature Reserve and a wetland of international significance - six internationally ....

Birds of Oregon

A General Reference

Edited by Mathew G Hunter, Alan L Contreras and David B Marshall

Birds of Oregon is the first complete reference work on Oregon's birds to be published since Gabrielson and Jewett's landmark book in 1940. Five years in the making, ....

Birds of the Gambia and Senegal

Paul van Hoek and Chris Groenendijk

The result of three birding trips to the Gambia and Senegal in November 2003, March 2004 and November 2006, this DVD shows 125 different bird species on it along with some local ....

Birdwatching Walks Around Morecambe Bay

John Wilson and David Hindle

Morecambe Bay is set against the magical dropback of the Lakeland Fells; it is an ever-changing world of water and sand moulded by the constant ebb and flow of the tides, ....

Birdwatching Walks in Bowland

John Wilson and David Hindle

The Forest of Bowland is a truly stunning and immensely important Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Many species of birds - some of them rare - are there to be enjoyed ....

CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses

Edited by JB Dunning

Comprehensive and extensive in its scope, the CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses compiles the most up-to-date information available from a wide range of literature sources ....

China Bird Report 2005

Edited by China Ornithological Society

Records for the China Bird Report 2005 sourced from 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four cities and one special administrative region (exclusive Hong Kong and ....

Cyprus Bird Report 2006

Edited by Colin Richardson

A full systematic list of all 288 species recorded in 2006, site maps, colour photos, 4 firsts papers, and the 2006 ringing report. ....

Encyclopedia of Aviculture

Glen Holland

Initiated as a book on African birds that feature in private avicultural and zoological collections around the globe, it soon became apparent that much of the information ....

Finding Birds in Darwin, Kakadu and the Top End

Northern Territory Australia

Niven McCrie and James Watson

The second edition of this comprehensive guide lists 50 sites with localities for all Top End birds. All sites are described in detail and include accurate maps. ....

Foraging Dynamics of Seabirds in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean

LB Spear, DG Ainley and WA Walker

The Goshawk

TH White

Between human beings and other animals there exists both an unbridgeable gulf and an insurmountable attraction. T. H. White was a young author searching for a subject who ....

The Grouse

Artists' Impressions

S Gudgeon, K Sykes and B Hoskyns

Nine of the foremost living wildlife artists - Simon Gudgeon, Ashley Boon, Ben Hoskyns, Terence Lambert, Rodger McPhail, Derek Robertson, Jonathan Sainsbury, Keith Sykes, and ....

A Guide to the Bird Sounds of the Colombian Andes / Guia Sonora de las Aves de los Andes Colombianos

M Alvarez, V Caro, O Laverde and AM Cuervo

Almost 20% of the world's bird species live in Colombia, the majority of them in the Andes region. ....

Guía Para la Identificación de las Aves de Paraguay

Tito Narosky and Dario Yzurieta

Identification guide to all 680 species of birds found in Paraguay, with 1500 colour illustrations of the birds and a distribution map for each species. The species ....

Guía de Aves del Chaco Húmedo

Richard Elsam

A readable guide to some of the commoner species that inhabit the Humid Chaco eco-region. Covers 250 species, each species with a colour illustration and some with a ....

Identifying Birds by Colour

Norman Arlott

It is not always easy for the amateur birdwatcher to correctly identify a bird from the glimpse that is seen as it flies past, but you do notice and remember its colour. And ....

Important Bird Areas in the United Kingdom Overseas Territories

Priority Sites for Conservation

Edited by Sarah Sanders

A new directory of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in the United Kingdom's 14 Overseas Territories highlights their massive global biological importance. ....

Rare Birds Yearbook 2008

Edited by Erik Hirschfeld

The purpose of the book is to put focus on the most endangered species in the world - their current situation, future prospects and what can be done to save them for coming ....

The State of UK's Birds 2006

RSPB

This is the eighth 'The State of the UK's Birds Report', published in 2007 and containing results from annual, periodic and one-off surveys and studies from as ....

The Status of Coastal Waterbirds in South-east Asia

Results of Waterbirds Surveys in Malaysia (2004-2006) and Thailand and Myanmar (2006)

David Li and Rosie Ounsted

The Status of Coastal Waterbirds and Wetlands in Southeast Asia: Results of Waterbird Surveys in Malaysia (2004-2006) and Thailand and Myanmar (2006) presents a ....

The Woodcock

Artists' Impressions

S Gudgeon, K Sykes and B Hoskyns

The woodcock is a mysterious, unpredictable, secretive bird, loved by many sportsmen and naturalists alike. For centuries artists have been inspired by this iconic bird; its ....

A Comparative Anatomy of the Neck Region in Lizards

A Research Study

Amal Al Hassawi Mubarak

Based on a Ph.D. thesis, this title covers a major group of reptile lizards with systematic analysis based on the observation and anatomy of the neck region. ....

Contributions to the History of Herpetology: Volume 2

Kraig Adler

This book consists of three sections, each world-wide in coverage. The first and longest section, by Kraig Adler, is a series of completely new biographies of the leading ....

Crocodile

The Largest Reptile

Gordon Grigg

This book focuses on the many skills that crocodilians have which have enabled their survival since the Mesozoic. Crocodylus porosus is equally at home in the sea and ....

A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar

F Glaw and M Vences

The second edition is a fully revised edition of this key guide, providing detailed descriptions for all known Malagasy amphibians and reptiles. It is comprehensively ....

Timber Rattlesnakes in Vermont and New York

Biology, History, and the Fate of an Endangered Species

Jon Furman

Today, small populations of timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) quietly inhabit parts of Rutland County in Vermont, and Warren, Washington, and Essex counties in New ....

Venomous Snakes of the World

Mark O'Shea

Features all major and unusual venomous snakes, their range, habitats and venom, along with personal anecdotes (including snakebite stories). Written by Mark O'Shea - one of ....

Voices of the Night

The Calls of the Frogs and Toads of Eastern North America

A classic audio guide to the voices of 36 species of frogs and toads found in eastern North America. Includes an informative narrative on taxonomy, distribution and natural ....

Anglerfish (Lophius spp) in Nordic Waters

Trond Thangstad, Otte Bjelland and Kjell H Nedreaas

The demand for anglerfish (also called monkfish) for human consumption has increased in the last couple of decades because of the delicate consistency of its meat, resulting in ....

Darwin's Fishes

An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology and Evolution

Daniel Pauly

In Darwin's Fishes, Daniel Pauly presents an encyclopaedia of ichthyology, ecology and evolution, based upon everything that Charles Darwin ever wrote about fish. Entries ....

Fish Life in Special Environments

Edited by Philippe Sebert and DW Onyango

Living organisms are endowed with ingenious adaptive mechanisms to cope with the problems of special environments. Fish make an excellent model to depict the interplay ....

Fish Osmoregulation

Edited by Bernardo Baldisserotto and Juan Miguel Mancera Romera

Fish live in environments with a wide variety of chemical characteristics (fresh, brackish and seawater, acidic, alkaline, soft and hard waters). From an osmoregulatory ....

The Jaws of Death

Sharks as Predator, Man as Prey

X Maniguet

Biggest of all fish and the best equipped for hunting, sharks live in every ocean. No natural predator except the killer whale threatens them, and they possess an ....

The Origin of Higher Clades

Osteology, Myology, Phylogeny and Evolution of Bony Fishes and the Rise of Tetrapods

Rui Diogo

The book provides insight on the osteology, myology, phylogeny and evolution of Osteichthyes. It not only provides an extensive cladistic analysis of osteichthyan ....

Beekeeping

Inspiration and Practical Advice for Would-be Smallholders

Andrew Davies

It's no shock that the beekeeping trend is steadily on the rise. These fascinating and beautiful insects can be kept anywhere, whether your garden is a large country plot or ....

British and Irish Butterflies

A Complete Identification, Field and Site Guide to the Species, Subspecies and Forms

Adrian M Riley

This lavishly illustrated butterfly book is the first to cover all the adult forms found in the British Isles, including sub-species, written by a highly experienced ....

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 66

Nova Especie de Hesperandra (Zikandra) Santos-Silva e chave o subgenero

Antonio Santos-Silva

Catalogue et Atlas des Coleopteres d'Alsace, Tome 16

Oedemeridae, Pythidae, Salpingidae, Pyrochroidae, Scraptiidae, Aderidae, Anthicidae, Meloidae, Rhipiphoridae, Mordellidae, Melandryidae, Tetratomidae, Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tenebrionidae

HJ Callot and F Matt

Collins Butterfly Guide

The Most Complete Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe

Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington

This classic guide to the butterflies of Britain and northern Europe enters its third edition as part of the authoritative `Collins Guide' series. ....

Comprehensive Index to The Festivus 1970 - 2005

Vol. XXXVII (Supplement)

Esperiana Memoir, Volume 4: The Lepidoptera of the Brandenberg Massif in Namibia Part 2

Edited by W Mey

Fauna Helvetica 20: Apidae 5

F Amiet, M Herrmann, A Müller and R Neumeyer

The 5th volume concerning the bees of Switzerland treats the genus Ammobates, Ammobatoides, Anthophora, Biastes, Ceratina, Dasypoda, Epeoloides, Epeolus, Eucera, ....

Faune de France, Volume 86: Hymenopteres Specidae d'Europe Occidentale Volume 3

Jacques Bitsch

Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods

Edited by Wayne Hunter and Chittaranjan Kole

Mapping of animal genomes has generated huge databases and several new concepts and strategies, which are useful to elucidate origin, evolution and phylogeny. ....

Les Genres Crossotus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates

J Sudre, P Teocchi, G Sama and F Rousset

The Hawk Moths of North America

James P Tuttle

Although the hawk moths are among the most recognized moths in the world, aside from a small number of economically important species, surprisingly little is known about the ....

Insect Physiology and Biochemistry

JL Nation

Based on nearly 40 years of teaching, this best-selling text presents a clear description of the principles, fundamentals, and terminology of insect physiology. This ....

A Monograph of the Aphodiini Inhabiting the United States and Canada

(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)

Robert D Gordon and Paul E Skelly

Natural Beekeeping

Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture

R Conrad

Ross Conrad brings together the best organic and natural approaches to keeping honeybees healthy and productive. Readers will learn about non-toxic methods of controlling mites, ....

Nudibranchs of the World

Helmut Debelius and Rudie H Kuiter

This book sets a new benchmark for Nudibranch identification. It presents nudibranchs that have been photographed by the authors over a period of more than 30 years, along ....

Palaearctic Macrolepidoptera, Volume 1: Notodontidae

Alexander Schintlmeister

Volume 1 of this new series is authored by Dr Alexander Schintlmeister, Germany, the leading authority in these beautiful moths. The book is the first comprehensive work on ....

RES Handbook Volume 4 Part 2: The Carabidae

(Ground Beetles) of Britain and Ireland

Martin L Luff

The Carabidae (ground beetles) are a cosmopolitan family, with an estimated 40 000 species worldwide. The prime purpose of this book is to enable the reliable ....

Revision of the Genus Eodorcadion Breuning, 1947

Mikhail L Danilevsky

Swallow Butterflies

Biology and Ecology of a Few Indian Species

Jagannath Chattopadhyay

Taxonomic Catalogue of the Leafhoppers (Membracoidea), Part 1

Cicadellinae

Stuart H McKamey

Worldwide Door Snails

Hartmut Nordsieck

Contains articles on the land snail family Clausiliidae and lists of its valid taxa. The respective articles either give general information on the family or deal with special ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 143: Catalogus Haramiyorum cum Figuris

(Allotheria Mesozoica)

G Hahn and R Hahn

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 144: Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III

Bochianitoidea Ancyloceratoidea Ptychoceratoidea

J Klein, R Busnardo, M Company, G Delanoy et al

Messel: Schätze der Urzeit

Gabriele Gruber and Norbert Micklich

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 53

Edited by David William Sims

Dive Red Sea

The Ultimate Guide

Simon Rogerson and John McIntyre

Of the eight nations with Red Sea coastlines, Egypt has attracted the greatest number of diving visitors, and continues to do so. 'Dive Red Sea' offers fresh new insights into ....

Under the Sea-Wind

Rachel Carson

Originally published in 1941, "Under the Sea-Wind" presents a naturalist's picture of ocean life. This book is her breathtaking canvas of the fierce, competitive struggle for ....

About the Size of It

The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things

Warwick Cairns

"About the Size of It" is a serious, but seriously funny book about measuring things. Readers will find out: Why an old Wellington boot is as important an instrument of ....

Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers

Jack Drafahl and Sue Drafahl

In just a few short years, the underwater digital camera went from a novelty item to the predominant method for capturing underwater images. In this new book, underwater ....

The Andes and the Amazon

Carlos S Carbonell

This book is the journal of a study trip that Carlos S Carbonell made with five other men in 1948. They travelled through Argentina, Bolivia and Peru to Lima, and from there ....

The Art of Diving

Adventures in the Underwater World

Nick Hanna and Alex Mustard

The Art Of Diving brings together award winning photographer Alexander Mustard with leading author Nick Hanna in a remarkable book, which captures the soul of scuba diving ....

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

Peter Doherty

In this engaging book, Peter Doherty recounts his unlikely path to becoming a Nobel Laureate. Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, he tells how he developed an ....

Bernard Heuvelmans: Un Rebelle de la Science

JJ Barloy

Biography of the "Father of Cryptozoology" (1916 - 2001). ....

Bloom

Ron Van Dongen

In "Bloom", respected floral photographer Ron van Dongen works in colour for the first time. His bold still-lifes of richly coloured flowers on solid backgrounds delight and ....

Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project

Rosie Martin and Meriel Thurstan

This bestselling botanical illustration title new in paperback. Devised by experienced teacher and award-winning artist Rosie Martin, this course is based on the botanical ....

The Botanists and Mountain Guides of Snowdonia

Dewi Jones

An account of the characters involved and the plants found during an era when plant-hunters walked the mountains of Snowdonia. ....

Charles Darwin's Letters

From the Origin of Species to The Descent Of Man: A Selection of Charles Darwin's Letters from 1860-1870

Frederick Burkhardt

A highly readable selection of Darwin's correspondence from the publication of Origin of Species to his first public statements on the question of human descent. ....

Country Fair

The Countryside Companion

Edited by Macdonald Hastings

Here you will find advice and information on every imaginable country topic, from how to understand the behaviour of rooks to how to clean a shotgun, from when and how to prune ....

Dawson Turner

A Norfolk Antiquary and his Remarkable Family

Edited by Nigel Goodman

Digital Nature and Landscape Photography

M Lucock

Landscape photography is one of the last bastions of film; gradually, however, that is changing and more and more leading landscape photographers are adopting digital ....

The Digital Photography Book: Volume 2

Scott Kelby

In the follow-up to the successful first edition, this book provides photographers with nearly 200 ideas and suggestions for shooting dramatically sharper, more colorful, and ....

A Diver's Guide to the Art of Underwater Photography

Creative Techniques and Camera Systems for Digital and Film

Andrea Ferrari and Antonella Ferrari

Eight highly readable, innovative chapters about motivation, equipment, technique, mindframe, philosophy, artistic and media influences, camera models and brands, ....

Global Safari

James Parry

On a world tour through a variety of dramatic landscapes, from the pack ice of the Arctic to the desert wastes of Arabia, "Global Safari" explores fifty of the most ....

Great Ocean Adventures

Monty Halls

The filming of the television series "Great Ocean Adventures" was an extremely ambitious undertaking, taking a crew of five with a shoestring budget on a complete ....

How to Fossilise Your Hamster

Mick O'Hare

How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus (includes helpful ....

Landscape Photographer of the Year, Collection 1

Edited by Charlie Waite

This collection brings together over 170 of the very best images from the inaugural Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. ....

Margaret Mee - Marianne North: Exploratrices Intrepides

Ruth A Stiff and Laura Ponsonby

A richly illustrated catalogue, produced to accompany an exhibition of works by the two talented botanical artists and travellers on display at the Mona Bismarck Foundation in ....

The Never-ending Days of Being Dead

Marcus Chown

In Chown's most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today: Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here? ....

The New Earth from Above: 365 Days

Yann Arthus-Bertrand et al

Completely revised and updated, "The New Earth from Above: 365 Days" has all-new photographs and text, including twelve essays on conservation and other global ....

Patterns of the Earth

Bernhard Edmaier

Bernhard Edmaier's source book of the extraordinary and abstract natural patterns that occur on the earth's surface features over 500 photographs by this award-winning aerial ....

Sacred Earth

Places of Peace and Power

Martin Gray

Acclaimed photographer and anthropologist, Martin Gray spent the last 20 years on an amazing pilgrimage: he visited 1,000 sacred sites in 80 countries around the world. His ....

The Scuba Diving Handbook

John Bantin

Whether you are looking for an introduction to the basics or advanced diving techniques to improve your skills, this indispensable guide will help you get the most out of your ....

Shark Man

My Obsession with the Great White Shark

Theo Ferreira

When a large wave unceremoniously dumped an enormous shark onto the rocks less than three metres away from eleven-year-old Theo Ferreira, the young boy was terrified. ....

The Snoring Bird

Bernd Henrich

From the bestselling author of "Winter World" comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature shaped his own life. ....

Super Crunchers

How Anything Can Be Predicted

Ian Ayres

Companies used to rely on human experts and their years of experience to guide them. Now, cutting-edge organizations are mining the data and crunching numbers instead, to ....

Top Wreck Dives of the World

Edited by Jack Jackson

This book explores the fascinating world of shipwrecks and wreck diving. Their great historical interest aside, shipwrecks shelter diverse communities of marine creatures ....

Traversa

A Solo Walk Across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean

Fran Sandham

"Traversa" is a fascinating account of the hardships and hilarity Fran Sandham experienced during his epic solo journey on foot across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast ....

Tribe Series 1-3 DVD

Bruce Parry

Former Royal Marine officer and expedition leader Bruce Parry, sheds the trappings of a western existence and lives alongside tribes, such as the forest people of central ....

True to Form

David Bennett

David's love of the outdoors and Natural History has focused itself through painting and drawing. The work in this book has been completed over the last few years and includes ....

Two's Company, Three Is Complexity

Neil Johnson

What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained by complexity, an unsolved scientific puzzle which is considered by many to be ....

What Are You Optimistic About?

Edited by John Brockman

In 2007 the leading online forum for scientists and thinkers, www.edge.org, issued its third annual question: 'What are you optimistic about, and why?' As with its ....

What Shat That?

The Pocket Guide To Poop Identity

Matt Pagett

Ever wondered what wild creatures visit your garden at night, or which animal produces the world's biggest poop? Well, here is the book that will solve all those debates and ....

William Dunbar

Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest

Arthur H DeRosier

In 1804, while Lewis and Clark were still making their way up the Missouri River, Thomas Jefferson formulated a plan for a similarly ambitious exploration of the southern ....

The World as I See It

Albert Einstein

Einstein believed in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutual helpfulness, and in the high mission of science. Intended as a plea for these beliefs, this book, like no other ....

The Wrong Kind of Snow

Rob Penn and Antony Woodward

It is a fact universally acknowledged that the British are obsessed with the weather. The "Wrong Kind of Snow" is the complete daily companion to this national phenomenon. ....

The Ferocious Summer

Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica

Meredith Hooper

Antarctica's capacity to create, store and disperse ice is critical to the way our planet functions. But along the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula there has been a ....

Galapagos

Islands Born of Fire

Tui De Roy

Ever since the days of Darwin, the Galapagos Islands have captured the imagination of the world. This book captures the ethereal - even haunting - quality of these islands, ....

The Lake District

The Panoramas

Mark Denton

Mark Denton's distinctive photography reveals some of the finest-ever wide-lens images of the Lakes, a landscape of great scenic beauty and one of the UK's most popular ....

Solomon Islands

A South Seas Journey

Michael McCoy

A photographic exploration of the marine and terrestrial environments of the Solomons. The photographs were taken over a period of more than 25 years and encompass virtually ....

Waterside Walks in Britain

AA

Enjoy the best of Britain's waterside areas with this fascinating collection of guided walks taking you step-by-step along the seashore, rivers, canals, inland lakes, streams ....

A Wild Life on Exmoor

Johnny Kingdom

Johnny Kingdom is the English countryside made flesh. He has lived his whole life on Exmoor, from his childhood catching moles to sell their skins, to his early wild days of ....

Wildlife Walks in Britain

AA

Enjoy the best of Britain's wildlife areas with this fascinating collection of guided walks taking you step-by-step through nature reserves, wildlife parks, towns, villages ....

The Yorkshire Dales

Landscape and Geology

Tony Waltham

This book is the first in an exciting new series that tells the story of some of Britain's most beautiful landscapes. Written with the general reader - the walker, the ....

Algae of the Peat Bog Inmodlniczka near Krakow (Wyznya Krakowsko - Czestochowska Upland, Poland)

Jolanta Piatek

Atlas of the Vegetation of Madagascar / Atlas de la Vegetation de Madagascar

Justin Moat and Paul Smith

Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island, and is recognized as one of the world's top ten hotspots for biodiversity. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 plant ....

Les Bambusees (2 Volume Set)

EG Camus

This 2 volume set (Volume 1. Text; Volume 2. Plates) deals with historic and bibliographic details of bamboos which are found all over the world in different ....

Betrock's Landscape Palms

Alan W Meerow

Scientific information for 126 landscape palms and includes such topics as fertilization, pest and disease problems, transplanting and care, salt, drought and ....

Britains Favourite Plants

Over 1,000 Plants Chosen by the Nation's Top Nurseries

Edited by Geraldine Sweeney

Compiled by the Royal Horticultural Society, this is the ultimate handbook for gardeners wishing to find out about key plant species for their garden. With plants arranged in a ....

Bryophytes of Colorado

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts

William A Weber and Ronald C Wittman

Region of coverage includes Colorado. A useful source for the mountainous regions of the interior western United States. Includes catalogs of genera and species that provide a ....

Clematis for Small Spaces

Raymond Evison

Clematis have long enjoyed popularity in gardens large enough to accommodate them- and now, with the arrival of a new generation of cultivars that excel in mixed borders, ....

Colour

Jane Packer

Jane Packer showcases a unique variety of stunning flowers and individual varieties of foliage, not in alphabetical order, but simply by colour. Within chapters of Red, White, ....

The Curious World of Carnivorous Plants

A Comprehensive Guide to their Biology and Cultivation

Wilheim Barthlott, Stefan Porembski, Rudiger Seine and Inge Theisen

Plants that trap and eat animals have inspired awe since before the days of Darwin. Lured into the danger zone by optical, tactile, and olfactory strategies, the prey ....

Desmids of the Lowlands

Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidiaceae

PFM Coesel and J Meesters

Algal species and in particular desmids are important indicators of water quality. Because of their preferential occurrence in vulnerable habitats, desmids lend themselves ....

The Diatoms

Biology and Morphology of the Genera

FE Round, RM Crawford and DG Mann

This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera. Diatoms are important as perhaps the ....

Dispersal in Plants

A Population Perspective

Roger Cousens, Calvin Dytham and Richard Law

This advanced textbook is the first to explore the consequences of plant dispersal for population and community dynamics, spatial patterns, and evolution. It successfully ....

Down to Earth with Helen Dillon

Helen Dillon

In this book Helen Dillon encapsulates, in her inimitable witty and accessible style, her lifetime of gardening know-how, deep love of plants, and assured sense of design. ....

Eucalypts of the Sydney Region

A Bushwalker's Guide

Gary Leonard

Eucalypts of the Sydney Region describes 77 eucalypt species that are commonly found in the Sydney Basin, between Newcastle in the north and the Shoalhaven and ....

Ferns and Fern-Allies of Tripura: North East India

NC Das

The state of Tripura is one of the richest and interesting Botanical regions in North East India, which is floristically incompletely known. The present work is the outcome ....

Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh

Plants of the Bible and the Qu'ran

Lytton J Musselman

This book celebrates the plants of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran. From acacia, the wood of the tabernacle, to wormwood, whose bitter leaves, as absinthe, ....

Flora Briofitica Ibérica, Volumen 1

Edited by Juan Guerra

Flora Malesiana, Series 1: Volume 18: Apocynaceae

(subfamilies Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae)

DJ Middleton

The family Apocynaceae has recently been much expanded to include the Asclepiadaceae. The Apocynaceae in the traditional sense now comprises two of the five subfamilies: ....

Flora of Siberia, Volume 13: Asteraceae (Compositae)

Edited by LI Kashina

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Dracaenaceae

G Mwachala and PK Mbugua

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Polygalaceae

Jorge Paiva

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Sterculiaceae

Edited by HJ Beentje and SA Ghazanfar

Freshwater Algae of the Southeastern United States, Part 8

Chrysophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Raphidophyceae, Cryptophyceae and Dinophyceae

Gary E Dillard

Fungi non Delineati 37: Basidiomicetos raros de la Peninsula Iberica

ML Castro and B Blanco-Dios

Fungi non Delineati 38: Entoloma nuevos o interesantes de la Peninsula Iberica

J Vila and F Caballero

Fungi non Delineati 39: Funghi clavioidi

G Campagnola

Fungi non Delineati 40: Indice Pars 1-39

Fungi non Delineati 41 - 42: Cortinarius Ibero-Insulares I

Grupo Ibero-Insular de Cortinariologos

Going Organic

The Good Gardners Guide to Solving the Problems

Bob Flowerdew

In Bob's common-sense style, "Going Organic" proves to be an approachable, practical and pleasurable read. With his vast experience as an organic gardener, he takes you through ....

Growing Palm Trees in Hawai`i

And Other Tropical Climates

David Leaser

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced gardener, this handy reference is the perfect instruction manual for growing palm trees in Hawaii and other tropical ....

Guía de Arboles y Arbustos del Chaco Húmedo

Maria del Carmen Peña-Chocarro, Juana Egea Juvinel et al

A handsome photographic guide to some of the more distinctive trees and shrubs of the Humid Chaco, an area of the country that is frequently ignored by field workers. Species ....

Icones Pleurothallidiinarum XXIX: A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador, Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia

Systematics of Miscellaneous Small Genera, Addenda New Genera, Species and Combinations (Orchidaceae)

Carlyle A Luer

Part three of four presents 100 new species of Stelis. The new species are presented alphabetically in three artificial sections, groups of more or less allied species with ....

Introductory Plant Biology

Kingsley Stern

This introductory text assumes little prior scientific knowledge on the part of the student. It includes sufficient information for some shorter introductory botany courses ....

John Brookes

Garden and Landscape Designer

Barbara Simms

After a foreword by John Brookes himself and a brief introduction, "The Story of John Brookes" reveals all the influences that have come to bear on John's work plotting the ....

The Lichen Genus Micarea (Lecanorales, Ascomycota) in Poland

Pawel Czarnota

A taxonomic revision of Polish lichen collections belonging to the genus Micarea in its broad sense is presented. 34 species are recognized, of which two, are new to science. A ....

Lichenologische Nebenstunden

Contributions to lichen taxonomy and ecology in honour of Klaus Kalb

Andreas Frisch, Ute Lange and Bettina Staiger

The Little Book of Compost

For a Healthy Garden and Happy Planet

Allan Shepherd

A fun and practical guide to compost from the bestselling author of 'The Little Book of Slugs' and 'The Organic Garden'. Whether you're crazy about compost or just keen to ....

A Manual of Indian Forest Botany

NL Bor

This book deals with systematic nomenclature of plants found in India, with distribution. ....

The Medieval Flower Book

C Fisher

Focuses on one hundred major varieties of flowers and plants that appear in medieval manuscripts and provides intriguing explanations of their uses, history and symbolism. ....

Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies

Revealing their Natural History

Carolyn F Dodson and William W Dunmire

More than a field guide, Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies offers cultural and botanical essays that present useful and fascinating facts about ....

Out of the Woods

The Armchair Guide to Trees

Will Cohu

Can you identify that tree outside the window? Probably not. Most of us don't know an oak from a sycamore, let alone a beech from a birch. It's time to turn over a new ....

Photobiology

The Science of Life and Light

Edited by Lars Olof Björn

Originally published by Springer Netherlands ....

Pines of South East Asia

PK Srivastava and N Bhar

Pines are unique species of high economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual significance. They provide a multitude of benefits to human beings, including highly ....

Plant Embryogenesis

Edited by Maria Fernanda Suare and Peter Bozhkov

The advent of the postgenome era has brought a remarkable evolution in modern plant embryology. In Plant Embryogenesis, the authors focus on the common developmental ....

The Plant-Book

A Portable Dictionary of the Higher Plants

Edited by DJ Mabberley

Mabberley's Plant-Book is internationally accepted as an essential reference text for anyone studying, growing or writing about plants. In over 20,000 entries this ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 69

Edited by Ulrich E Lüttge, W Beyschlag and Jin Murata

With one volume published each year, this series keeps scientists and students current with the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. This ....

RHS Bamboos and Grasses

Simple Steps to Success

Jon Ardle

This book presents simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS. Follow RHS show-how and know-how for a garden that looks great all year round (whatever ....

RHS Grasses

Roger Grounds

Grasses are the keynote plants of twenty-first century gardening. They provide year-round interest and are hugely versatile offering a diversity of size, form, colour ....

RHS New Gardening

How to Garden in a Changing Climate

Matthew Wilson

The book first considers how we should garden today and what the new gardening means. Thematic chapters identify the benefits and potential of your site, look at the ....

A Review of the Genus Pritchardia

Donald R Hodel

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the genus Pritchardia in over 75 years. Pritchardia palms, sometimes called loulu palms, are found on islands in the ....

Roses of Mughal Garden

Brahma Singh

Roses of Mughal Garden is a photographic record of the roses in the Mughal Garden at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Mughal Garden is one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, and ....

The Royal Horticultural Society Diary 2008

Frances Lincoln Ltd

The RHS diary and address book for 2008 are illustrated with colour prints from three great nineteenth century multi-volume anthologies of rare and unusual plants from around ....

Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife

Dominic Couzens

There is no wildlife closer to us than that found in our gardens - or indeed, in our houses - so it follows that many of those creatures we love, such as foxes and ....

Selection Methods in Plant Breeding

I Bos and P Caligari

Written for plant breeders, researchers and post-graduate students, this book provides a comprehensive review of the methods and underlying theoretical foundations used for ....

Theatrum Rosarum

Le Rose Antiche E Moderne

Elena Accati and Elena Costa

A reference work detailing more than 5,500 old and modern roses. The entries for each rose details information for identification, based on field data concerning more that ....

Trees and their Bark

A Selection with Stories and Pictures

John Mortimer and Bunny Mortimer

The emphasis on this book is on the often unappreciated subject of tree bark. Using over 270 photos the authors show the wonderful range of colours and textures of bark over a ....

Trees of Rashtrapati Bhavan

Brahma Singh

The book is a pictorial presentation of the trees of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Since its commissioning in 1929 (the then Viceroy's House) 160 tree species have been added to the ....

Vegetables I

Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae and Cucurbitaceae

Edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez

This significant work will be high on every horticulturalist's Christmas list. ....

The Wild Flowers of Kanchenjunga Biosphere Reserve, Sikkim

D Maity and GG Maiti

This book takes a positive approach to highlight 260 wild flowers found in the areas of Sikkim, as well as in the Himalayas including Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The account ....

World Checklist of Cyperaceae

Sedges

Raphael Govaerts and David A Simpson

The sedge family, Cyperaceae, is the third largest family of monocotyledonous plants. They are of significant economic importance, especially among rural communities in the ....

World Checklist of Dioscoreales

Yams and their Allies

Rafael Govaerts, Paul Wilkin and Richard MK Saunders

Dioscoreales are a small but systematically and economically significant order of monocotyledons. The most diverse and important member is the yam genus, Dioscorea L., a ....

Zambian Plants

Their Vernacular Names and Uses

Dennis G Fowler

An essential reference for any botanist working in Zambia, this comprehensive list of vernacular plant names is not only cross-referenced to the most up to date scientific ....

Animal Cell Technology

From Biopharmaceuticals to Gene Therapy

Edited by Leda Castilho, Angela Moraes, Elisabeth Augusto and Mike Butler

Animal Cell Technology will provide an insight into biological and engineering concepts related to mammalian and insect cell technology, as well as provide an overview of the ....

Animal Tracking Basics

Jon Young and Tiffany Morgan

Tracking wildlife successfully requires more than just looking for trails and scat. It requires an awareness of how an animal behaves in its environment - how it finds food, ....

The Bacteria

Their Origin, Structure, Function and Antibiosis

Arthur L Koch

Understanding antibiotic chemotherapy at the ecological level is necessary for more permanent advances in development and in the usage of antibiotic agents both old, new, ....

Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying

Fluid Dynamics, Biomimetic Robots, and Sports Science

Edited by Naomi Kato and Shinji Kamimura

Biomechanics studies of animals in swimming and flying can serve an increasing role in understanding the mechanisms that enable animals to move effectively and efficiently in ....

Biology

For the IB Diploma

Andrew Allott

This guide has been updated to meet the needs of students taking the IB Diploma Programme Biology from 2007. It is highly illustrated and concepts are precisely and ....

Dietary Modulation of Cell Signaling Pathways

Edited by Surh Young-Joon et al

Because fine-tuning of cellular signaling pathways is pivotal for maintaining homeostasis in the living organism, disruption of any of the signal transduction ....

Emerging Protozoan Pathogens

Edited by Naveed Khan

Fast advances have been made in the field of protozoology, specifically around the area of emerging protozoan pathogens. This timely volume provides the reader with a current ....

Experimental Endocrinology and Reproductive Biology

Edited by C Haldar, M Singaravel, SR Pandi-Perumal and DP Cardinali

The volume is broadly divided into four main sections: (I) Experimental endocrinology; (II) Reproductive biology and clinical endocrinology; (III) Developmental endocrinology; ....

Expression Systems

Methods Express

Michael R Dyson and Yves Durocher

"Expression Systems: Methods Express" is a comprehensive research guide that describes both the key new techniques and more established methods. Every chapter discusses the ....

Forensic Biology

Identification and DNA Analysis of Biological Evidence

Richard Li

Addressing the important subject of forensic DNA analysis, Forensic Biology: Identification and DNA Analysis of Biological Evidence provides a concise scientific ....

Handbook of Human Immunology

Maurice O'Gorman and Albert Donnenberg

"The Handbook of Human Immunology, Second Edition" is a complete guide to molecular and cellular immunology for practicing clinicians. It combines basic explanations of ....

Jane Goodall

The Woman Who Redefined Man

Dale Peterson

Peterson shows clearly and convincingly how truly remarkable Goodall's accomplishments were and how unlikely it is that anyone else could have duplicated them. Peterson ....

Mass Spectrometry in Metabolomics

Edited by Mike Burrell

Each chapter is written by an expert and contains background information, theory, pitfalls and benefits and practical applications. Data processing is emphasized in all ....

Modeling Biomolecular Networks

An Introduction to Systems Biology

Anirvan M Sengupta

This book describes the essentials of a mathematical description of the dynamics of biochemical networks. It covers both deterministic and stochastic aspects of the ....

Molecular Biology of the Cell - Reference Edition

Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff et al

Ideal for libraries, laboratories, and researchers, this Reference Edition of 'Molecular Biology of the Cell' offers an alternative to the student edition by providing the ....

Molecular Biology of the Cell - Student Edition

Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff et al

For nearly a quarter century Molecular Biology of the Cell has been the leading cell biology textbook. This tradition continues with the new Fifth Edition, which has been ....

Paramecium Genetics

G Beale

In this definitive reference, the author lends 50 years of experience in the subject to Paramecium Genetics. Paramecia were among the first organisms used to clarify genetic ....

Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects

Mechanisms and Consequences

Edited by D Whitman and TN Ananthakrishnan

This book explores the profound importance of phenotypic plasticity as a central organizing theme for understanding biology. Chapters take a broad, integrative approach ....

Structural Proteomics

High-Throughput Methods

Edited by Bostjan Kobe, Mitchell Guss and Thomas Huber

Structural genomics is a newly emerging field that has arisen following the successful footsteps of the major sequencing efforts generally bundled under the heading ....

Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears?

And Other Zoological Curiosities

Matt Walker

This is the first professionally researched miscellany guide to the animal kingdom, packed with fascinating and bizarre facts. Did you know that the male flour beetle is ....

The Codes of Life

The Rules of Macroevolution

Edited by Marcello Barbieri

Building on a range of disciplines - from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics - this book draws on the expertise of leading names in the study of organic, ....

Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins

Edited by John G Fleagle and Christopher C Gilbert

For nearly a half century, Dr. Elwyn Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of ....

Family Relationships

An Evolutionary Perspective

Edited by Catherine A Salmon and Todd K Shackelford

Kinship ties - the close relationships found within the family - have been a central focus of evolutionary biological analyses of social behaviour ever since biologist ....

In the Light of Evolution

Adaptation and Complex Design

Edited by John C Avise and Francisco J Ayala

In December 2006, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on "Adaptation and Complex Design" to synthesize recent empirical findings and conceptual approaches ....

Introduction to Biological Evolution

Kenneth V Kardong

This book offers an introduction to the principles and significance of Darwinian evolution. It differs from most other textbooks on evolution in three fundamental ways: ....

The Third Chimpanzee

The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Jared Diamond

We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet - having founded civilizations and religions, developed ....

Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective

Tessa Pollard

As a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing ....

Assessment and Control of Biological Invasion Risks

Biological invasion, an issue of growing importance due to the significant increase in international transportation and trade, can disturb the balance of local ecosystems and ....

Community Ecology

Peter J Morin

Standard textbook for community ecology and population, and community ecology courses. Revised edition in preparation, due to be published in 2008. ....

The Ecological World View

Charles Krebes

Knowledge of the natural world and the way humans interact with the planet's ecosystems is increasingly important in understanding the applied problems that are so recurrent in ....

Detritus and Decomposition in Ecosystems

Zafar Reshi and Sumira Tyub

The present book is a detailed assessment of the pools and fluxes of detritus in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Besides presenting a comprehensive analysis of the process ....

Managing World Heritage Sites

Anna Leask and Alan Fyall

World Heritage Sites are some of the most recognised locations around the world. They include natural sites such as the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef and cultural ....

Monitoring and Evaluation of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development

Jan de Graaff, John Cameron, S Sombatpanit, C Pieri and J Woodhill

This book provides diverse information and know-how to implement appropriate methodology and cost-efficient monitoring and evaluation systems better suited to access the impacts ....

The Nature and Properties of Soils

Nyle C Brady and Ray R Weil

Designed to make the study of soils a fascinating and intellectually satisfying undertaking. New photographs, diagrams and special boxes make the text more engaging. It ....

Urban Ecology

An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

Edited by J Marzluff, E Shulenberger, W Endlicher, M Alberti, G Bradley et al

Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to ....

Urban Regions

Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

Richard Forman

With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for ....

Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment

A Watershed Perspective

Edited by Wei Ji

As a wetland of international importance located in China, the Poyang Lake Basin's incredible topographical and biological diversity has provided a congregating point for ....

Wetlands

William J Mitsch and James G Gosselink

For more than two decades, William Mitsch and James Gosselink's Wetlands has been the premier reference on wetlands for ecologists, land use planners, and water resource ....

Conservation and Development Interventions at the Wildlife/Livestock Interface

Edited by Steven A Osofsky

During a forum held at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress in South Africa in 2003, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the IUCN SSC Veterinary and Southern Africa ....

Evaluating Effectiveness

A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas

Marc Hockings et al

The Framework for management effectiveness developed by the IUCN World Commission for Protected Areas was published in the first version of this Best Practice Guideline. It ....

Identification and Gap Analysis of Key Biodiversity Areas

Targets for Comprehensive Protected Areas Systems

Penny F Langhammer et al

Important Bird Areas and Important Plant Areas have already been identified in more than 170 countries. The Key Biodiversity Areas approach builds on the work done to date, in ....

The Impact of Ozone on Nature Conservation

A Review and Recommendations For Research and Policy

T Morrissey, MR Ashmore, LD Emberson, S Cinderby and P Buker

Ozone is globally the most important gaseous pollutant causing effects on vegetation. However, while a number of reviews have evaluated the evidence of impacts of ozone on ....

The Status and Distribution of European Mammals

Edited by Helen J Temple and Andrew Terry

Numerous scientific studies show that biodiversity in Europe has been declining rapidly for some time and that this pattern has been matched by the great periods of expansion ....

Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes

Defining the Role of the Northern Seas in Climate

Edited by Robert R Dickson, Jens Meincke and Peter Rhines

The two-way oceanic exchanges that connect the Arctic and Atlantic oceans through subarctic seas are of fundamental importance to climate. Change may certainly be imposed ....

Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years

Edited by S Brönnimann, J Luterbacher, T Ewen, HF Diaz, RS Stolarski and U Neu

The past 100 years are a key period for understanding climate variability and climate change as it marks the changeover from a climate system dominated by natural influences ....

Environmental Aspects of Dredging

Edited by RN Bray

Expanding a port, deepening a navigation channel or creating new land for development, introduces changes to our physical, social, economic and political environment. Changes ....

Environmental Life Cycle Costing

David Hunkler, Kerstin Lichtenvort and Gerald Rebitzer

Although life cycle costing is touted as one of the three pillars of sustainability, few texts have explored the environmental side of such assessments. Defining and ....

Essentials of Oceanography

Harold V Thurman and Alan P Trujillo

Designed for courses in oceanography taught to students with no formal background in mathematics or science. ....

Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems

Edited by Diana Aga

Leading experts cover critical issues regarding the occurrence, persistence, treatment, and transformations of pharmaceuticals in the environment and in water treatment ....

Global Catastrophes

A Very Short Introduction

Bill McGuire

Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. "Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction" focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet ....

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part 5Q

Water Pollution: The Black Sea Environment

Edited by Andrey G Kostianoy and Aleksey N Kosarev

This fascinating book features a systematic description of the knowledge accumulated on the physical oceanography, marine chemistry and pollution, marine biology and geology, ....

Handbook of Estimation Methods for Chemical Mass Transport in the Environment

Edited by Louis Thibodeaux and Donald Mackay

Focusing on theory, correlations, and predictive methods, Handbook of Estimation Methods for Chemical Mass Transport in the Environment addresses major data requirements for ....

A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming

MS Northcott

Significant climate change as a consequence of human pollution of the atmosphere looks increasingly likely. Some change is already occurring but quite ....

Principles of Toxicologic Risk Assessment

Grete Ostergaard

Unlike many existing books on toxicology that cover either toxicity of a particular substance or toxicity of chemicals on particular organ systems, "Principles of ....

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 194

Edited by David M Whitacre

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor ....

The Rough Guide to Weather

Robert Henson

Whether you're an adventurer who enjoys wild weather, a traveller seeking climate details for Madagascar or Mumbai, or simply curious about those charts on the evening ....

Storm Force

Britain's Wildest Weather

Paul Hudson

Storms are the most eye-catching of all types of weather and often hit the headlines. They can bring violent winds, torrential rain, thunder, lightning, devastating ....

Storm World

Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Chris Mooney

One of the leading environmental journalists and bloggers working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate in global meteorology and weather forecasting: whether the ....

Surviving the Century

Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges

Herbert Girardet

Environmental and human catastrophe looms ever larger for planet Earth. From the need to build sustainable cities to house growing billions to transforming the international ....

The Toxicologist's Pocket Handbook

Michael J Derelanko

Originally published to provide quick and portable access to the most frequently needed information in the original bestselling CRC Handbook of Toxicology, this new pocketbook ....

Transport of Escherichia Coli in Saturated Porous Media

Jan Willem Foppen

When wastewater infiltrates into the soil, groundwater may be contaminated. If the distance from source of pollution to point of groundwater abstraction is small, there is ....

We Are the Weather Makers

The Story of Global Warming

Tim Flannery

Tim Flannery's international bestseller, "The Weather Makers" has sold over a million copies and influenced politicians, movie stars, even business leaders - after reading ....

With Speed and Violence

Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

Fred Pearce

As Pearce began work on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. Now he presents this up-to-date ....

America in Space

NASA's First Fifty Years

Neil Armstrong

The story of Americas space age is told with more than 400 carefully selected images, beginning with the 1950s test pilots and venturing ever faster and higher into the ....

Astronomy: The Structure of the Universe

AE Roy and D Clarke

Updated and expanded to include the many exciting developments in modern astronomy and experimental observations, "Astronomy: Structure of the ....

Bang! The Complete History of the Universe

Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott

In 2006, rock legend and experienced amateur astronomer Brian May joined the legendary expert Sir Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Chris Lintott to tell the story of the ....

Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics

Cynthia Furse, Carl H Durney and Douglas A Christensen

Completely revised and updated, Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics facilitates the process of interdisciplinary research by introducing life scientists to the basic ....

Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy

J Mitton

This lavishly illustrated new dictionary written by an experienced writer and consultant on astronomy provides an essential guide to the universe for amateur astronomers of all ....

Cities and Economies

Yeong-Hyun Kim and John Rennie-Short

"Cities and Economies" explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the ....

Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future

Jon Norberg and Graeme Cumming

Working for a sustainable future involves understanding the complex interactions between natural and social systems, and in recent years, a body of theory relating to this ....

Cosmology

Steven Weinberg

This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives ....

Earth Then and Now

Potent Visual Evidence of Our Changing World

Fred Pearce

"Earth Then and Now" records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past one hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, ....

Economic Geography

Edited by Ronald M Martin and Peter Sunley

Economic geography has long been a key branch of human geography as a whole, but in recent years the subject has undergone considerable theoretical, empirical and public ....

Environmental Hydrogeology

James W LaMoreaux

Today's environmental problems present a great challenge to geoscientists, requiring an understanding of environmental hydrogeology and its applications. This book, written by ....

Evaporation

Edited by John Gash and Jim Shuttleworth

The development of evaporation measurement techniques are documented first, commencing with the Wagon Wheel Gap catchment water balance (1921), through mass budget to water ....

Exploring the Moon

The Apollo Expedition

David Harland

David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in ....

The Fabric of the Cosmos (Penguin Celebrations)

Brian Greene

This book will send your imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride! ....

Gemstones of the World

Walter Schumann

"Gemstones of the World" is truly the single volume that every hobbyist, jeweller, jewellery maker and rockhound needs: it's the cornerstone of the field. And this updated ....

History of Astronomy

Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest

As we approach the 400th anniversary of Galileo's birth, there is no better time for this extraordinary volume examining centuries of evolution in astronomy. From ....

The Life and Death of Planet Earth

How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

Peter Ward and Don Brownlee

This is a vivid description of the second half of the life of our planet. Combining their knowledge of evolution with their understanding of the life cycle of stars and ....

Minerals First Discovered in Switzerland and Minerals Named After Swiss Individuals

Philippe Roth

This book offers extremely thorough accounts of all mineral species whose type localities lie in Switzerland - there are 64 of these - and just-as-detailed accounts of ....

The Next New World

A Visual Tour of Mars

Gregory L Vogt

This is essentially a picture book with beautiful and exciting images that provide a visual tour of Mars. All the major regions and topographical features are shown and ....

Not Even Wrong

The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics

Peter Woit

"Not Even Wrong" tells a fascinating and complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle there ....

An Ocean of Air

A Natural History of the Atmosphere

Gabrielle Walker

In 1960, Captain Joseph Kittinger fell to earth from the edge of space and survived. He stepped from the basket of a gigantic helium balloon into an appalling, hostile ....

Opening the Frontiers of Space

A Comprehensive Guide for Future Astronaut Tourists

Erik Seedhouse

Recent surveys have provided new and updated information into public insights of the nascent space tourism industry. Erik Seedhouse uniquely explores in detail the ....

Quantum Enigma

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner

Everyone knows that sub-atomic particles have some very strange qualities. Light sometimes behaves like a particle, sometimes like a wave. Objects separated by vast ....

The Rough Guide to the Earth

Martin Ince

From the opening and closing of oceans over millions of years to the overnight reshaping of landscapes by volcanoes, the Earth beneath our feet is constantly changing. "The ....

Salyut - The First Space Station

Triumph and Tragedy

Grujica S Ivanovich

This remarkable book offers a unique insight into the people involved in the development of the Salyut space station and the crews assigned to operate it. It describes the ....

The State of the Universe

A Primer in Modern Cosmology

Pedro G Ferreira

It is science's last and greatest challenge: fathoming the depths of the night sky. The objective: to crack the cosmic code, to unravel the blueprint for nature's grandest ....

Uncertainty

Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science

David Lindley

"Uncertainty" chronicles the birth and evolution of one of the most significant findings in the history of science - called the Runcertainty principles - and the clash of ideas ....

Useless Arithmetic

Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future

Orrin H Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis

Writing for the general, nonmathematician reader and using examples from throughout the environmental sciences, Pilkey and ....

1001 Ways You Can Save the Planet

Practical Ideas to Heal and Change the World

Joanna Yarrow

Do my shopping and eating habits really affect the health of the planet? What is biodiversity and what can I do to support it? What are greenhouse gases and are they ....

African Water Resource Database. GIS-based Tools for Inland Aquatic Resource Management: 2. Technical Manual and Workbook (Includes 2 DVDs)

J Jenness et al

The African Water Resource Database (AWRD) is a set of data and custom-designed tools, combined in a geographic information system (GIS) analytical framework aimed at ....

Animal Spy

Animal Welfare Behind Enemy Lines

Terry Spamer and Gordon Thorburn

After years working for the RSPCA, Terry Spamer became the first freelance undercover agent investigating animal maltreatment. He has endeavoured to seek out large-scale ....

The Atlas of Health

Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease

Diarmuid O'Donovan

This is a major new graphic profile of global health. The atlas maps the causes and incidences of the major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental ....

Bioeffects and Therapeutic Applications of Electromagnetic Energy

Riadh Habash

Using a multidisciplinary approach that combines physics, biology, medicine, risk assessment, and engineering, Bioeffects and Therapeutic Applications of Electromagnetic ....

Biomaterials Fabrication and Processing Handbook

Paul K Chu and Xuanyong Liu

Interest in biomaterials, which are widely used to replace or augment hard tissues, continues to grow. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the Biomaterials Fabrication and ....

Biosafety First

Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms

Edited by T Traavik and LL Ching

The challenges for risk identification, assessment and management posed by genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms are some of the most demanding issues ....

Biotechnology and International Law

Edited by Francesco Francioni and Tullio Scovazzi

As with any rapid technological development, the biotechnology revolution is putting great strains on the ability of law to adapt to new challenges and threats. Although ....

Capitalism

As If the World Matters

J Porritt

When first published in 2005, 'Capitalism as if the World Matters', by one of the leading eco-warriors of our time, shocked both a generation of environmentalists and a ....

Character and Environment

A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics

Ronald L Sandler

Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to ....

Computational River Dynamics

Weiming Wu

Includes numerical methods for open-channel flows, such as SIMPLE algorithms on staggered and non-staggered grids, projection method, and stream function and vorticity ....

Les Conventions Locales de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et de l'Environnement

Legalite et coherence en droit senegalais

Laurent Granier

Cut Carbon, Grow Profits

Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability

K Tang and R Yeoh

Cut Carbon, Grow Profits illustrates what every corporation needs to know in order to manage the carbon and sustainability challenges facing societies, cities, individuals ....

Designs on Nature

Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

S Jasanoff

Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and ....

The Economics of Nature Policy

Theory, Modelling and Applications

CM van der Heide

Policy decisions and government initiatives based on economic analyses are often contested by critics. This valuable new book argues, however, that economics can and ....

Ecosystems and Sustainable Development VI

Edited by E Tiezzi, JC Marques, CA Brebbia and SE Jorgensen

Combining sciences and thoughts is essential for the sustainability of ecosystems as well as for understanding human life. Ecology, economics, chemistry, physics, ....

Energy and the Natural Heritage

CA Galbraith and JM Baxter

Energy and the Natural Heritage looks closely at the impacts that energy use and generation have on our wildlife and landscapes. ....

Environment and Society

Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues

Charles L Harper

This integrative book about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from ....

Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment

Edited by CA Brebbia, E Kakaras and K Aravossis

The current emphasis on sustainable development is a consequence of the general awareness of the need to solve numerous environmental problems resulting from our modern ....

Environmental Protection in China

Land Use Management

Edited by Jeff Bennett, Xuehong Wang and Lei Zhang

Faced with intensified environmental degradation and decreased agricultural land productivity, the Chinese Government has sought policy interventions to reverse both of ....

Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries

Edited by David Pearce

This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows of goods and services ....

Escaping the Resource Curse

Edited by Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D Sachs and Joseph E Stiglitz

The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. ....

Farm Management Pocketbook

J Nix

The handbook for farm managers. ....

Global Diasporas

Robin Cohen

The first edition of this book showed how the ancient Greek concept of diaspora could be refurbished to understand many aspects of ethnic diversity and international migration. ....

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)

Environment for Development

UNEP

The fourth report in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides a comprehensive, scientifically credible, ....

Global Food and Agricultural Institutions

D John Shaw

The institutions included in this book - four United Nations bodies, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development ....

Gobernanza del Agua en America del Sur

Dimension Ambiental

Edited by Alejandro Iza and Marta B Rovere

Case studies of the legal and institutional framework that governs issues in water resource management in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, ....

Governance for Sustainable Development

Edited by Jens Newig, Jan-Peter Vos and Jochen Monstadt

Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance. The complexity of the task expounds limits of steering in three dimensions: ....

The Green Marketing Manifesto

John Grant

We are currently eating, sleeping and breathing a new found religion of everything 'green'. At the very heart of responsibility is industry and commerce, with everyone now ....

Green Philanthropy

Funding Charity Solutions to Environment Problems - A Guide for Donors and Funders

Bernard Mercer

Only a tiny proportion of giving in the UK goes to environmental charities, despite growing public concern about the natural world, according to this report by New ....

Green Rooms

Over 100 Eco-Friendly and Ethical Escapes Around the World

AA

We've mastered the basics of recycling, switching off lights and buying fair trade coffee at home. Now we're looking for a more ethical way to take a break as well. ....

Green Up!

An A-Z of Environmentally Friendly Home Improvements

Will Anderson

Green Up! is a compact reference guide to greening your house, from minor improvements - such as what paint to use - to major ones, such as how to choose and install solar ....

Groundwater Flow Understanding

From Local to Regional Scale

J Joel Carrillo Rivera and M Adrian Ortega Guerrero

Any sustainable groundwater development programme requires knowledge of the prevailing flow system, extending from local to regional scale. This book of selected papers, ....

Growing Food

A Guide to Food Production

Tony Winch

This handbook offers a quick and easy reference guide for individuals and organisations that are involved with the production of food, from both agriculture and horticulture. ....

Handbook of Applied Biomedical Microbiology

A Biofilms Approach

Edited by Daryl S Paulson

Biofilms now account for over 80 percent of microbial infections in the body. The Handbook of Applied Biomedical Microbiology presents an in-depth discussion of medically ....

An Introduction to Sustainable Development

Peter P Rogers, Kazi F Jalal and John A Boyd

The most comprehensive textbook ever written on sustainable development, pilot tested worldwide. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global ....

Judges and the Rule of Law

Creating the links : environment, human rights and poverty

Edited by Thomas Greiber

Judges play a critical role in the development, enforcement and compliance with environmental law. To showcase the role of the judiciary in upholding the rule of law, ....

Legitimacy in European Nature Conservation Policy

Case Studies in Multilevel Governance

Edited by Jozef Keulartz and Gilbert Leistra

This volume focuses on the issue of legitimacy in the context of European nature conservation policy. It provides insights in the way in which democratic legitimacy is ....

Living Green Page-A-Day Calendar 2008

Workman Publishing

New for 2008, a calendar that makes living green hip, easy, and fun a full year of do-able daily tips for walking more softly on the planet. Tips like forgoing ....

Microbial Biotechnology in Horticulture, Volume 2

Edited by RC Ray and OP Ward

Volume 2 highlights subjects like food biotechnology, coffee and cocoa fermentation, applications of microbial enzymes in food processing, single cell protein and wine ....

Models for an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

EE Plaganyi

This report reviews the methods available for assessing the impacts of interactions between species and fisheries and their implications for marine fisheries management. A ....

More Urban Water

Design and Management of Dutch Water Cities

Fransje Hooimeijer and Wout Toorn Vrijthoff

An integral approach to the relation of urbanism and water management in Dutch water cities and to adjustments necessary to upgrade water management systems to the ....

The New Green Consumer Guide

Julia Hailes

Green consumerism is on the rise, but many of us are confused by an avalanche of information - much of it conflicting. We want to do the right thing to help save energy ....

Ocean Environment and Fisheries

MPM Reddy

This book contains detailed information on the physical, chemical and biological oceanographic features at various depths for all the 15 regions of the Atlantic, ....

Ocean Wave Energy

Current Status and Future Prespectives

Edited by Joao Cruz

The authors of this reference provide an updated and global view on ocean wave energy conversion for wave energy developers as well as for students and professors. The book ....

Oceans Past

Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations

Edited by David J Starkey, Poul Holm and Michaela Barnard

Rarely has humanity's underestimation of the impacts of its activities been so starkly demonstrated as in the marine environment. For centuries the seas appeared to offer ....

Peak Everything

Waking Up to the Century of Decline in Earth's Resources

Richard Heinberg

The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, food production and energy consumption. As the population shifted from rural areas to urban cities, the human ....

Policies for Sustainable Governance of Global Ecosystem Services

J Ranganathan, M Munasinghe and F Irwin

This book provides a compilation of policy, institutional and governance recommendations from eighteen leading international experts, in response to the Millennium Ecosystem ....

Protecting Nature

Organizations and Networks in Europe and the USA

Edited by CSA Van Koppen and WT Markham

This book offers a comparative analysis of organizations and networks involved in nature protection in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the UK ....

Rationality and the Environment

Decision Making in Environmental Politics and Assessment

Bo Elling

Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision making processes. The result is that within these essentially ....

The Revenge of Gaia (Penguin Celebrations)

James Lovelock

For millennia, humankind has exploited the Earth without counting the cost. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight ....

Rice Biology in the Genomics Era

Edited by HY Hirano, A Hirai, Y Sano and T Sasaki

There are few more emotive, or important, crops in the world than rice - the staple food for a huge proportion of the world's population. ....

Rights of Way

A Guide to Law & Practice

John Riddall and John Trevelyan

Known to many as, simply, `the Blue Book', Rights of Way: a guide to law and practice is the definitive guide to rights-of-way law in England and Wales. ....

Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism

Elizabeth Fisher

Over the last decade the regulatory evaluation of environmental and public health risks has been one of the most legally controversial areas of contemporary government ....

Seamounts, Deep-sea Corals and Fisheries

Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries - an ubiquitous ocean floor feature, a key marine ecosystem, and an important human activity: together they have created one of the ....

The Sustainable Development Paradox

Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe

Edited by David C Gibbs and Rob Krueger

Sustainability - with its promise of economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental integrity - is hardly a controversial goal. Yet scholars have generally ....

A Thousand Barrels a Second

The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World

Peter Tertzakian

Chief energy economist and investment strategist Tertzakian delivers an informed and provocative look at the future of oil, providing advice to those making multimillion ....

Tourism and Development in the Developing World

David J Telfer and Richard Sharpley

Tourism is widely considered as an effective contributor to socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. However, despite the almost universal adoption ....

The Use of Nuclear Weapons and the Protection of the Environment During International Armed Conflict

Erik Koppe

In 1996, the International Court of Justice delivered an Advisory Opinion on the legality of the use of nuclear weapons in which the Court stated that "while the ....

Vital Signs 2007-2008

The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Worldwatch Institute

The award-winning Worldwatch Institute reveals the often overlooked key trends that tell the true health of our planet. ....

Wadi Hydrology

Sen Zekai

Arguably the first book devoted entirely to examining this important resource, Wadi Hydrology presents up-to-date methodologies required for sustainable management of wadis ....

Water As A Human Right For The Middle East and North Africa

Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada

Analyzes the legal development of the concept of water as a human right; its implications for the national governments, as well as the impact of the implementation ....

Water Resources Management IV

Edited by CA Brebbia and AG Kungolos

As population increase boosts demand, and pollution and climate change adversely affect availability, the management of water resources is becoming an issue of growing ....

Water and Disasters

Edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Norio Okada

This book is the first major attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, the many issues associated with water and disasters. It is particularly relevant and topical in ....

World Food Security

A History Since 1945

DJ Shaw

This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for ....

The World of Lakes

Lakes of the World

Mary J Burgis and Pat Morris

The World of Lakes explains the properties of lake water, the formation of lakes, their dramatic seasonal patterns, and the communities of plants and animals that they support. ....

The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model

Foundation of the Spatial Data Infrastructure

Earl F Burkholder

As the demand for spatial data products increases, the global spatial data model (GSDM) offers a new model for handling digital spatial data. It preserves the integrity of ....

Advances in Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Edited by Xinming Tang, Yaolin Liu, Jixian Zhang and Wolfgang Kainz

Developments in Geographic Information Technology have raised the expectations of users. A static map is no longer enough; there is now demand for a dynamic representation. Time ....

Biological Monitoring

Theory and Applications

Edited by ME Conti

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the use of bioindicators both in assessing environmental quality and as a means of support in ....

Cartographic Science

A Compendium of Map Productions, with Derivations

Donald Fenna

From basic projecting to advanced transformations, "Cartographic Science" explores the science of cartography, or the depiction of a curved world on a flat surface. Supported ....

Design and Analysis of Experiments

Classical and Regression Approaches with SAS

Leonard Onyiah

Recently, there has been a welcome attempt to emphasize the analysis of experimental data as a regression problem involving dummy variables. With the growth of statistical ....

Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science

Karen K Kemp

Geographic information science is an emerging field that combines aspects of many different disciplines. As a result, GIScience literature is spread widely across the ....

GPS for Land Surveyors

Jan Van Sickle

Completely revised and updated, this third edition reflects the increased importance of GPS in the everyday practice of surveyors and mappers. Providing an accessible yet not ....

Handbook of Cryopreparation Methods for Electron Microscopy

Annie Cavalier, Daniele Spehner and Bruno Humbel

There has been exponential growth in cryo-electron microscopy methods over the last twenty years. Using an accessible, consistent format to explain the material, Handbook ....

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Forests

Kalacska Margaret

With each of its chapters peer-reviewed, this unique volume illustrates the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing with regard to a variety of forest applications, with ....

Image Processing for Remote Sensing

CH Chen

Edited by leaders in the field, with contributions by a panel of experts, Image Processing for Remote Sensing explores new and unconventional mathematics methods. The ....

An Introduction to Statistical Inference and its Applications with R

Michael W Trosset

With an emphasis on explaining how and why statistical methods are used to analyze data, An Introduction to Statistical Inference and its Applications with R introduces several ....

Kinetic Modelling in Systems Biology

Oleg Demin

Providing a comprehensive overview of traditional and modern techniques in computational systems biology, Kinetic Modelling in Systems Biology offers a systematic presentation ....

MATLAB Demystified

David McMahon

This self-teaching guide is the fast and easy way for anyone to learn to use MATLAB software to solve computational problems. Packed with hundreds of sample equations and ....

A Primer on Linear Models

John Monahan

Since the linear model forms the groundwork for most applied statistics, a course on the theory of the linear model is often required in most graduate statistics programs. A ....

Principles of Modeling Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Spatial Analysis

Shi Wenzhong

Modeling uncertainties in geographic information science is essential to the development of the field. This book addresses one of the fundamental theoretical issues: ....

Probability and Random Processes with R

Kenneth Baclawski

Based on the popular probability course by Gian-Carlo Rota of MIT, Probability and Random Processes with R provides a calculus-based introduction to probability. The text ....

Python for Bioinformatics

Sebastian Bassi

Python is a popular computer language used in a wide range of applications, from peer-to-peer software to dynamic generated web pages. Python for Bioinformatics provides ....

Remote Sensing of the European Seas

Edited by Vittorio Barale and Martin Gade

The enclosed and marginal seas surrounding the European continent exhibit a wide spectrum of environmental traits, ranging from sub-polar to sub-tropical climates, from ....

Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories

Daniel Mandallaz

Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize the given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest ....

Signal Processing for Remote Sensing

CH Chen

Highlighting the data acquisitions segment of remote sensing, this book covers Normalized Hilbert Transfroms and Its Applications, Statistical Pattern Recognition, ....

Struck by Lightning

The Curious World of Probabilities

Jeffrey S Rosenthal

Human beings have long been both fascinated and appalled by randomness. On the one hand, we love the thrill of a surprise party or the freedom of not knowing what tomorrow will ....

Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning

Principles and Processing

Joe Shan and Charles K Toth

This volume provides the first systematic, yet in-depth, introduction to the basic theories and principles of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology and data ....

The Times Atlas of the World: Reference Edition

Mid-range atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. ....