Bats in the Garden

Shirley Thompson

This book is aimed at young people wishing to encourage bats into their gardens. Unfortunately there is no recipe for bringing bats back to your gardens. Whereas a newly ....

Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques

Macaca Mulatta of Cayo Santiago and Beyond

Edited by Qian Wang

The introduction of rhesus macaques to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the subsequent development of the CPRC for biomedical research, continues its long history ....

Evolutionary History of Bats

Fossils, Molecules and Morphology

Edited by Gregg F Gunnell and Nancy B Simmons

Advances in morphological and molecular methods continue to uncover new information on the origin and evolution of bats. Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and ....

Ice Bear

The Arctic World of Polar Bears

Steven Kazlowski

This is a stunning collection of photographs by acclaimed "polar bear photographer" Steven Kazlowski. Featuring mostly never-before-published images, this simple yet ....

Long-Term Field Studies of Primates

Edited by Peter M Kappeler and David P Watts

Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field ....

The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain

60 Years of Primatological Research on the Japanese Macaques of Arashiyama

Edited by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Michael A Huffman and Paul Vasey

The Arashiyama group of Japanese macaques holds a distinguished place in primatology as one of the longest continuously studied non-human primate populations in the world. The ....

The Natural History of the Proboscis Monkey

John CM Sha, Ikki Matsuda and Henry Bernard

This book describes the natural history of the proboscis monkey found on Malaysian Borneo. ....

Odontocetes: The Toothed Whales

Boris M Culik

The conservation status of the toothed whales has worsened dramatically since 2001. Since then, more species have been listed in the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable and Nearly ....

Primate Sexuality

Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings

Alan F Dixson

This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - ....

Steinmarder in Unterschiedlichen Lebensräumen

Ressourcen, Räumliche und Soziale Organisation

Mathias Herrmann

Language: German ....

Whale Watching in Australia and New Zealand Waters

Peter Gill and Cecilia Burke

Includes the ecology and behaviour of whales and dolphins; identification notes, accompanied by detailed colour illustrations and location maps for each species; and a ....

Best Birdwatching Sites: Dorset

Neil Gartshore

Dorset is among the top six birding counties in Britain with 417 species on the bird list and a formidable reputation for rarities and large numbers of migrants each year. ....

Birding Sri Lanka

Malcolm Rymer

Features an overview of Sri Lanka, it's topography, climate, habitats along with useful references for planning a trip. This film explores coastal wetlands in the western wet ....

Birds Britannia

Why the British Fell in Love with Birds

Stephen Moss

Birds and bird lore provide a fascinating window onto our social and cultural history, and can tell us much about our changing relationship with the British landscape, our ....

Birds in Africa

An Introduction and Survey to the Birdlife of Africa

Rainer Christian Ertel

This is an English translation of the German book "Vogel in Afrika", which covers 1,300 species breeding or migrating in Africa. There is a colour photo and a distribution map ....

Birds of Kerala

Status and Distribution

C Sashikumar, J Praveen, M Jafer Palot and PO Nameer

This is the most complete book on the birds of the Indian state Kerala to date, describing all 453 species of birds found in the state, and an additional 49 birds that ....

Birds of the Horn of Africa

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Socotra

Nigel Redman, Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe

The Horn of Africa has the highest endemism of any region in Africa, and around 70 species are found nowhere else in the world. Many of these are confined to the isolated ....

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2012

Edited by Hilary Cromack and David Cromack

For the past 32 years, "The Birdwatcher's Yearbook" has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive reference work for the British birdwatching scene. In 336 pages, the ....

A Checklist of the Birds of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands and Guide to Status and Record Submission

West Midland Bird Club

- Want to know what birds you might see at this time of year in the West Midlands? - Want to know whether the bird you have just seen is normal around here or something ....

A Conservation Framework for Hen Harriers in the United Kingdom

Alan Fielding, Paul Haworth, Phil Whitfield, David McLeod and Helen Riley

The hen harrier is considered a vulnerable bird species within Europe, and is included on the red-list of birds of conservation concern in the UK. The UK Government has ....

DVD Guide to British Birds of Prey

Paul Doherty

Specially filmed footage shows you all the regular British birds of prey and some of the rarer ones as well. Both day-flying birds of prey (raptors) and owls are featured; in ....

A Dictionary of the Turacos

Robert G Black

This dictionary lists all of the terms, both common English names and scientific, that have been used for any of the turacos since their original discovery and description. In ....

Freshwater Birds of Ireland

Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody

Almost all the world's birds come to fresh water on a regular basis. In Ireland hundreds can be observed eating, drinking and washing on river and canal banks, in reservoirs, ....

Fulmarine Petrels

Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher

This DVD introduces the captivating fulmarine petrels through video footage supported by photographs and maps. Full commentary is offered. The DVD has a menu for choice between ....

Granivorous Birds in Ecosystems

Edited by J Pinowski

This book was first published in 1977. It deals with the importance of weed seed and grain-eating birds in natural and agricultural environments. These birds are to be found ....

Guia de Nidos de Aves del Paraguay

Martin R De La Pena

This guide describes the eggs and nests of birds found in Paraguay. Each entry shows a colour photo of the nest with eggs, and a drawing of the typical locality. ....

The Importance of North-Eastern Mongolia for Migrating Pacific Golden Plovers

Spring 2005

JJ Wijmenga, J Jukema, J Reneerkens, S Gombobataar, B Gantulga et al

Language: English, with English and Russian summary. ....

In the Field, Among the Feathered

A History of Birders and Their Guides

Thomas R Dunlap

America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing ....

The Owls of Australia

A Field Guide to Australian Night Birds

Stephen Debus, Jeff Davies and David Hollands

This book summarises the features and biology of Australian nocturnal birds, which include some of the most impressive birds found in this region. The owls, and their ....

Soaring with Fidel

An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond

David Gessner

One September, after writing about ospreys on Cape Cod for years, David Gessner impulsively decided to follow the birds on their annual migration. Each fall these ....

Teach Yourself Bird Sounds

Garden and Woodland Birds

Dominic Couzens and John Wyatt

The original "Teach Yourself Bird Sounds" series was published in the 1990s as a series of ten cassettes, each featuring a different habitat. This overdue CD version begins ....

Die Vogelwelt der Insel Helgoland

The Birds of the Island of Helgoland

J Dierschke, V Dierschke, K Hüppop, O Hüppop and KF Jachmann

Language: German with extensive English summaries, methods chapter bilingual in German and English. Index contains German, English and Latin species names. ....

Biology and Conservation of Tropical Asian Amphibians

Edited by Indraneil Das, Alexander Haas and Andrew Alek Tuen

This book contains the conference proceedings from the conference "Biology of the Amphibians in the Sunda Region, South-east Asia", that was held from 28 September 2009 ....

Parasitologie bei Schlangen, Echsen und Schildkröten

Ein Handbuch für die Reptilienhaltung

P Schneller and N Pantchev

Language: German ....

365 Fish

Antal Vida and Tamas Kotai

From the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) to the grey gurnard (Trigla gurnardus), from the Mediterranean hake (Merluccius merluccius) to the kajiki or a'u (Makaira nigricans), ....

The Fauna of Hebei, China: Pisces

Wang Suo-an

The volume of fishes of "The Fauna of Hebei" is edited and compiled based on the materials of fish studies during 1877-1962, and on the scientific reports on fish ....

Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast

Martin F Gomon, Dianne Bray and Rudie H Kuiter

This book brings together the latest scientific knowledge on more than 860 species inhabiting Australia's temperate southern waters, from the Recherche Archipelago at the ....

The Fresh-water Fishes of North Borneo

Robert F Inger and Chin Pui Kong

North Borneo (now Sabah) is situated at the northern tip of Borneo Island (the third largest island in the world), it lies between 5 and 7 degrees north of the Equator. It ....

Apis Through the Looking Glass

Graham Royle

This publication provides a close-up look at the internal and external structures of the honeybee. It's content is based upon a lecture 'Honeybee Anatomy' which was presented to ....

Befriending Bumble Bees

A Practical Guide to Raising Local Bees

Elaine Evans, Ian Burns and Marla Spivak

In "Befriending BumbleBees", you will learn how to raise your own colonies of bumble bees. This step-by-step guide provides you with all the information you will need to ....

Die Bockkäfer Mitteleuropas

B Klausnitzer

Language: German ....

Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Insects

Jon F Harrison, Arthur H Woods and Stephen P Roberts

Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems. They play critical roles in ecological food webs, remain devastating ....

The Fauna of Hebei, China: Aphidinea

Qiao Gexia

This volume of "The Fauna of Hebei" deals with the Aphidinea, suborder Sternorrhyncha, order Homoptera, class Insecta. There are 251 species, 106 genera and 13 families ....

The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae

Song Daxiang

This volume of animals of Hebei deals with the Order Araneae, Class Arachnida, Subphylum Chelicerata, Phylum Arthropoda. A total of 141 genera, 296 species belonging to 2 ....

The Fauna of Hebei, China: Crustacea

Song Daxiang

This volume of animals of Hebei deals with the Subphylum Crustacea, Phylum Arthropoda. A total of 396 species belonging to 239 genera, 118 families, 19 orders and 3 classes are ....

Fossil and Extant Spiders (Araneae) - Fossile und Heutige Spinnen

Jörg Wunderlich

Language: English ....

Giant Silkmoths

Colour, Mimicry and Camouflage

Philip Howse and Kirby Wolfe

The most spectacular wild silkmoths live in tropical and subtropical forests and include the elegant moon moths with delicate pale green wings and long tails, the huge atlas ....

Honey Bees of Borneo

Exploring the Centre of Apis Diversity

Nikolaus Koeniger, Gudrun Koeniger and Salim Tingek

This book is a reliable and fascinating guide to one of Borneo's natural wonders: the diversity of honey bees, their intriguing societies and their adaptations to the complex ....

Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior

A Tribute to Randolf Menzel

Edited by Giovanni C Galizia, Dorothea Eisenhardt and Martin Giurfa

This book is the sequel to a similar book, edited by Randolf Menzel and Alison Mercer, "Neurobiology and Behavior of Honeybees", published in 1987. It is a "Festschrift" for ....

Malocologia Mediterranea

T Cossignani, R Ardovani, P Micali, M Tisselli, Cossignani V and A Cecalupi

Language: English and Italian ....

Marine Shells of the Seychelles

Alan G Jarrett

Contains detailed descriptions and colour photographs of more than 500 gastropods and over a hundred bivalves. Published in 2000, this book is now available again. ....

Recent Freshwater Ostracods of the World

Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida

Ivana Karanovic

Their story began 500 million years ago, but we only started to get to know them in 1746, when Linne described the first ostracod species. Vividly portraying the freshwater ....

Die Rüsselkäfer Baden-Württembergs

Joachim Rheinheimer and Michael Hassler

Language: German ....

Révision des Anthene Africains (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

Michel Libert

Language: French ....

The Secret World of Slugs and Snails

Life in the Very Slow Lane

David George Gordon and Karen Luke Fildes

A preeminent expert on the small wonders of the natural world, David George Gordon playfully and thoughtfully sheds light on the fascinating lives of slugs and snails. ....

The Sirex Woodwasp and Its Fungal Symbiont:

Research and Management of a Worldwide Invasive Pest

Edited by Bernard Slippers, Peter de Groot and Michael John Wingfield

The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. It now also threatens pines ....

I Tachinidi della Fauna Italiana (Diptera Tachinidae)

Cerretti Pierfilippo

Language: Italian ....

Tropical Lepidoptera, Volume 14, Number 1-2: Crambidae of Aldabra Atoll

JC Shaffer and E Munroe

This is the final work Eugene Munroe published on Crambidae, or grass moths, before his death in 2008. This volume of the journal "Tropical Lepidoptera" treats the Crambidae ....

Extinct Birds

Julian Hume and Michael P Walters

This is the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting ....

Flying Monsters with David Attenborough (3D)

Matthew Dyas

In "Flying Monsters", Sir David Attenborough sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic Pterosaurs whose wingspans of up to 40 feet were equal to that of a modern-day ....

Georgia before People

Land of the Saber-tooths, Mastodons, Vampire Bats and Other Strange Creatures

Mark Gelbart

The Natural History of Georgia with emphasis on the Rancholabrean Land Mammal Age of the Late Pleistocene. This book is written, published, edited and formatted by the author ....

Planet Dinosaur

"Planet Dinosaur" tells the stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer ....

Riddle of the Feathered Dragons

Hidden Birds of China

Alan Feduccia

Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible ....

Survivors

The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Richard Fortey

The history of life on Earth is far older -- and far odder -- than many of us realise. In this book, acclaimed author Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil ....

Mediterranean Seagrasses

Edited by Juan M Rua-Z and Juan Manuel Ruiz

Seagrass communities are of the most productive and complex marine ecosystems. But increasing human development of coastal zones, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea, ....

A Photographic Guide to Seashore Life of Australia

Keith Davey

This handy, pocket-sized guide is an ideal traveling companion for anyone exploring Australia's coastline. Coastal rock pools and beaches are alive with myriad forms of sea ....

The Age of Wonder

How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

In this book, Richard Holmes tells the colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave ....

The Animals of Spain

An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction with Other Animals, 1492-1826

Abel A Alves

Writings from 1492 to 1826 reveal that the history of animals in the Spanish empire transcended the bullfight. The early modern Spanish empire was shaped by its animal ....

The Birds of America

John James Audubon and David Allen Sibley

This is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is ....

Blogging for Nature

Mark Avery

This book is a selection of 143 out of 750 blogs written between 2009 and 2011 and appearing on the RSPB's website as "Mark Avery's blog". It covered evils as diverse as ....

The Book of Fruits

The Complete "Pomona Brittanica"

George Brookshaw

Language: English, French, German ....

Cameras into the Wild

A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928

Palle Bogelund Petterson

The men and women cinematographers and directors who shot film in wilderness areas at the turn of the 19th century are some of the unsung heroes of documentary film-making. ....

Catalogue des Plantes Indigenes des Pyrenees et du Bas Languedoc

Avec des Notes et Observations sur les Especes Nouvelles ou Peu Connues

George Bentham

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

Cicerone Guides: Everest - A Trekker's Guide

Trekking Routes in Nepal and Tibet

Kev Reynolds

A guidebook to Everest and the Khumbu region of Nepal, one of the great trekking regions of the world. All the main trekking routes, including from Lukla (and Jiri) to Namche, ....

Cicerone Guides: Hiking and Biking Peru's Inca Trails

Trekking and Mountain Biking in the Sacred Valley

William Janacek

This guide describes half- and full-day routes, as well as multi-day trips, and includes seven different routes that give access to Machu Picchu via largely unknown Inca roads ....

Cicerone Guides: Walking on Harris and Lewis

30 Routes in the Outer Hebrides

Richard Barrett

This walking guide describes 30 day walks all over the Isle of Harris and Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. All easily accessible from Stornaway or Tarbet. Routes vary from short ....

Cicerone Guides: Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms

Including the Cairngorms, Lochnagar and Creag Meagaidh

Allen Fyffe

Fully updated sixth edition of this superb winter climbing guide to the best routes in the Cairngorms and on Creag Meagaidh, Lochnagar and Braeriach. With a complete range of ....

The Copernican Question

Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order

Robert S Westman

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus ....

Denying Science

Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality

John Grant

This is an intelligent, insightful, and entertaining exploration of the serious issue of how modern science is being misrepresented and distorted. Is global warming just ....

Digital Close-Up Photography Q and A

Great Tips and Hints from a Top Pro

Paul Harcourt Davies

When the camera gets close-up, it reveals details of colour, shape and texture we might never notice in real life. With this gorgeously illustrated step-by-step guide, Paul ....

Digital SLR Handbook

John Freeman

This is the definitive practical guide to getting the most out of your digital SLR camera, written by top working photographer, John Freeman. Full of inspiring photography ....

Drawing Inspiration from the Hula Valley

Zev Labinger and Edna Gorney

The artwork in this book forms a unique portrait of the Hula Valley, an important agricultural region in northern Israel. This area is located at the crossroads of ....

Edward Wilson's Antarctic Notebooks

David M Wilson, Christopher Wilson, Nicholas Reardon and Edward Wilson

Dr. Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912) is widely regarded as one of the finest artists ever to have worked in the Antarctic. Sailing with Captain Scott aboard ....

The English Flower Garden

Style, Position, and Arrangement

William Robinson

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

FYI (Popular Science)

229 Curious Questions Answered by the World's Smartest People

Bjorn Carey

Ever wondered if you could beat a T. rex in an arm-wrestling match? If modern alchemists have cooked up any gold yet? And if vinyl really sounds better than other recording ....

Fall Foliage

The Mystery, Science, and Folklore of Autumn Leaves

Charles WG Smith and Frank Kaczmarek

"Fall Foliage" is a celebration of one of nature's most spectacular, beloved, and fleeting phenomena. Equal parts field handbook and travel guide, this visually stunning ....

The Field Book of Country Queries

The Field Magazine

Help is at hand in this charming and invaluable potpourri of questions from the readers of "The Field" with answers from their knowledgeable columnists. A vast range of ....

Forest Life and Adventures in the Malay Archipelago

Eric Mjöberg

In the early 20th century, Borneo was already a magnet for naturalists. This book recounts the travels, research and observations of Eric Mj~berg through the heartland of ....

Geographies of Nineteenth-century Science

Edited by David N Livingstone and Charles W J Withers

In this book, David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is ....

A Geological Excursion Guide to the North-West Highlands of Scotland

Edited by Kathryn M Goodenough and Maarten Krabbendam

This excursion guide covers the classic geology of the North-west Highlands between Ullapool and Durness, including the Moine Thrust Zone, the Lewisian gneisses, and the ....

The Golden Age of Flowers

Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600-1800

Celia Fisher

The 17th and 18th centuries saw a 'flowering' of botanical illustration and witnessed the production of some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever produced, ....

Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England, 2-volume Set

From its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System

Richard Pulteney

Richard Pulteney (1730-1801) was a Leicestershire botanist and physician, whose medical career suffered from a lack of aristocratic patronage and his Anabaptist religious ....

History of the Meteorological Office

JM Walker

Malcolm Walker tells the story of the UK's national meteorological service from its formation in 1854 with a staff of four to its present position as a scientific and ....

Inside Nature's Giants, Season 1

Elephant, Whale, Crocodile, Giraffe

David Dugan

This DVD contains the first four episodes of this series, originally broadcast in 2009. This Bafta award-winning series gets under the skin of the largest animals on the ....

Isaac Newton's Scientific Method

Turning Data into Evidence About Gravity and Cosmology

William L Harper

This book examines Newton's argument for universal gravity and his application of it to resolve the problem of deciding between geocentric and heliocentric world systems by ....

The Lost Land Collection - DVD

S Backshall, G Buchanan, J Evans, G McGavin and A Rabinowitz

This DVD boxset includes the three episodes of the TV series; "Lost Land of the Jaguar", "Lost Land of the Volcano", and "Lost Land of the Tiger". Watch an intrepid team of ....

Marion and Prince Edward

Africa's Southern Islands

Aleks Terauds, John Cooper, Steven L Chown and Peter Ryan

This book tells the story of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, South Africa's southernmost territories; their fiery origins, their discovery and exploitation, the ....

Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D.

2-volume Set

James Edward Smith and Pleasance Smith

Originally published in 1832, this two-volume life of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) was posthumously compiled by his wife, Pleasance (1773-1877). Smith trained originally ....

Moby-Duck

The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beeachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

Donovan Hohn

When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and ....

Natural Environment and Culture in the Mediterranean Region

Edited by Recep Efe, Munir Ozturk and Ibrahim Atalay

The Mediterranean Basin is the largest of the five Mediterranean-climate regions, and one of the largest archipelagos in the world. The basin is located at the intersection ....

Neuroscience For Dummies

Frank Amthor

Research into the human brain has exploded in recent years, and neuroscience has become a major program at many universities and a required course for a wide range of studies. ....

The Origins of the Telescope

Edited by Halbert Van Helden, Sven Dupre, Rob Van Gent and Huib Zuidervaart

The origins of the telescope have been debated since the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride led local dignitaries, popular writers and ....

Parrots

The Complete Plates

Edward Lear, Francesco Solinas and Solphia Willmann

This collection contains 42 large (33 x 49 cm) loose leaf reproductions of Edward Lear's illustrations. Included is a booklet of the same size containing an essay in English, ....

Paxton's Flower Garden, 3-volume Set

Sir Joseph Paxton and John Lindley

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

Pocketguide to Eastern Streams

T Travis Brown and Shanda Brown

This guide contains species accounts and photos for 225 plants, trees, insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds commonly found in and around ....

Prales Virgin Forest Mionsi

Josef Sudek and Rudolf Janda

Located in the Czech Republic's Beskid Mountains, the pristine Mionsi Forest has long attracted the attention of artists in the region. Photographer Rudolf Janda was one of ....

The Price of Altruism

George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

Oren Harman

Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most ....

The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle

Edited by Douglas Gough

Fred Hoyle was a remarkable scientist, and made an immense contribution to solving many important problems in astronomy. Several of his obituaries commented that he had made ....

Scott's Last Expedition

Steve Parker

In November 1910 Robert Falcon Scott set off from New Zealand on the greatest quest of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration - to reach the South Pole in Antarctica, the most ....

Sea Life of the Aleutians

An Underwater Exploration

Reid Brewer, Heloise Chenelot, Shawn Harper and Stephen Jewett

A wealth of natural treasures remains to be discovered throughout our world's oceans. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an underwater journey in the ....

The Shocking History of Electric Fishes

From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology

Stanley Finger and Marco Piccolino

This book looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes literally became "electrical", and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are ....

The Story of South Yorkshire Botany

Graeme LD Coles

This book tells the story of botany in South Yorkshire from the 16th to the late 20th century and complements the "South Yorkshire Plant Atlas" in providing additional and ....

Studies of Plant Life in Canada

Or, Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain

Catherine Parr Strickland Traill and Agnes Fitzgibbon Chamberlin

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

The Subtropical Garden

Or, Beauty of Form in the Flower Garden

William Robinson

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

The West Highland Way

Milngavie to Fort William

Terry Marsh

The 95 miles (152km) of the West Highland Way passes through the lush lowlands north of Milngavie into the rugged landscapes of Loch Lomond, Glen Falloch and Strath Fillan ....

A Tour of the English Lakes

with Thomas Gray and Joseph Farington RA

John R Murray

In 1769 Thomas Gray (best known for his 'Elegy in a Country Chuchyard') made a tour of the English Lakes, and recorded it in a journal that is now widely accepted as the first ....

Understanding Close-Up Photography

Creative Close Encounters With or Without a Macro Lens

Bryan Peterson

In his sixth book, renowned photographer, popular instructor, and best-selling author Bryan Peterson challenges and inspires us to see close-up photography in new ways when ....

The Vegetable Garden

Werner Dressendorfer and Petra Lamers-Schutze

This collection contains 46 large (33 x 49 cm) loose leaf reproductions of Vilmorin's illustrations. Included is a booklet of the same size containing an essay in English, ....

Walk into Prehistory

Discovering over Forty of the Greatest Ancient Sites of Britain and Ireland

Bill Bevan

A unique illustrated guidebook to walking 40 of Britain and Ireland's most important and impressive prehistoric monuments. ....

Walk!

A Celebration of Striding Out

Colin Speakman, Ben Fogle and Sir Chris Bonington

With its forewords by the adventurer Ben Fogle and explorer Chris Bonington, this is a remarkable book that breaks entirely new ground. It brings together ....

The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History

From the Dawn of Life to the Present Day

Christopher Lloyd and Andy Forshaw

This wallbook tells the complete story of natural history from the formation of the Earth to the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary science. A3 in size and comprising a ....

The Wild Garden

or, Our Groves and Shrubberies Made Beautiful

William Robinson

An Irish-born gardener and writer, William Robinson (1838-1935) travelled widely to study gardens and gardening in Europe and America. He founded a weekly illustrated ....

Wildlife Film-making

Looking to the Future

Edited by Piers Warren

What does the future of wildlife film-making hold for us all? Whether you are a budding film-maker, an experienced amateur or a seasoned professional, this new book - an ....

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio 21

Edited by Rosamund Kidman Cox

Presenting the year's very best wildlife images, "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" Portfolio 21 is the latest memorable collection of photographs from this highly ....

With a New Eye

The National Parks Photographic Project

Stephen Johnson

Over a decade in the making, Johnsons extraordinary chronicle of the first digital landscape project features photographs of 50 national parks. ....

A Year in the Life of the Bowland Fells

Andy Stansfield

Once the hunting reserve of kings and princes, today the Forest of Bowland is both a recreational haven for the public and a biodiverse region of international importance. ....

Arctic Autumn

A Journey to Season's Edge

Pete Dunne

From Nunavut and the Barren Lands of Canada to the westernmost edge of Alaska and back to Churchill, Manitoba, Pete Dunne's experiences in the Arctic comprise wilderness, ....

Blue Guide Crete

Pat Cameron

This completely re-written eighth edition of "Blue Guide Crete" focuses on the long history of the largest Greek island, from Minoan civilization to the present day. It ....

Blue Guide Florence

Alta Macadam

The tenth edition of this accessible, scholarly guide to the city of the Renaissance. An essential handbook for any traveller who wants to fully understand the development of ....

Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands

Nigel McGilchrist

The result of five years of fresh research by author Nigel McGilchrist, and detailed editing by Michael Metcalfe and Heinrich Hall, this is the first full Blue Guide ....

Blue Guide Hay-on-Wye

Robin Saikia

The only full guidebook treatment of this charming Welsh border town, famous for its second-hand bookstores and annual Book Festival. Meticulously researched and lovingly ....

Blue Guide India

Sam Miller

The guide contains superb plans of cities, cave sites and temple complexes, as well as illustrations of architecture and sculpture. Organised state by state, each chapter ....

Blue Guide: Istanbul

John Freely

This is the long-awaited sixth edition of the Blue Guide to this fascinating city, which straddles Europe and the Orient and whose history goes back to the days of ancient ....

Blue Guide: Rome

Alta Macadam

The tenth edition of this popular guide to the Eternal City. An essential handbook for any traveller who wants to fully understand and know Rome. Completely updated, this ....

The Book of the Burren

Edited by JW O'Connell and A Korff

This is the first comprehensive book on North Clare's Burren region, with over 60 colour plates and 150 original illustrations and photographs. It is both a practical guide and ....

A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast and Gulf of Mexico

Coastal Habitats, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, Fish, and Other Wildlife

Noble S Proctor and Patrick J Lynch

This superb book, with its unique focus on the entire marine coastal environment, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date field guide available on the southeastern Atlantic ....

Himalayan Flowers, Trees and Animals

Tej Kumar Shrestha, Sabina Shrestha and Atmaz Kumar Shrestha

This book describes untouched and hidden aspects of the natural history of the most bizarre mammals, birds, butterflies and insects visiting trees and flowers. It presents ....

A History of Ancient Britain

Neil Oliver

Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In "A History Of Ancient Britain" Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of ....

A History of Scotland

Look Behind the Mist and Myth of Scottish History

Neil Oliver

Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, ....

The River Shannon

A Journey Down Ireland's Longest River

Aiveen Cooper

The Shannon, the longest river in the British Isles, has inspired poetry and songs, its history is intimately connected with the history of Ireland, and there are sites of ....

Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Alabama

Robert Kral et al

This is the first comprehensive statewide checklist of vascular plants for Alabama in over 100 years. Despite numerous county-level and regional plant checklists, Alabama has ....

The Beach Book

Jerry Gosnell

This is a guide to the common plants on the dunes and the seaweed of rock pools along the east coast of South Africa. An array of flora from beach dune to coastal forest are ....

Botany for Dummies

Rene Fester Kratz

"Botany For Dummies" gives you a thorough, easy-to-follow overview of the fundamentals of botany, helping you to improve your grades, supplement your learning, or review ....

Cultivation and Diseases of Proteaceae

Leucadendron, Leucospermum and Protea

Pedro W Crous, Sandra Denman, Joanne E Taylor, Lizeth Swart and Mary Palm

The Proteaceae represent one of the Southern Hemisphere's most prominent flowering plant families, the cultivation of which forms the basis of a thriving export industry. ....

The Curious Gardener

A Year in the Garden

Anna Pavord

In "The Curious Gardener", Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening. From what to do in each month ....

The Desmids of the Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles

David B Williamson

The two posters show line drawings prepared by David Williamson and are designed to aid the identification of this morphologically diverse and most species-rich group, as ....

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Edited by F Martin and Sophien Kamoun

This textbook looks at the different pathways via which plants and microbes interact. ....

Endemic Trees of Jamaica

Keron C St E Campbell

This book documents all 316 species of endemic trees from around the island. ....

I Fiori del Monte Baldo

Antonio Testi

Language: Italian and German ....

Flora Australiensis - 7-Volume Set

A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory

George Bentham and Ferdinand von Mueller

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes Fasciculo Complementario, Vol. 26

Principales Hospederos y Algunos Otros Datos Ecológicos de las Especies de Viscaceae en el Estado de Querétaro

Jerzy Rzedowski and Graciela Calderón de Rzedowski

Language: Spanish ....

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 171: Celastracaea

Maria Eugenia Molina-Paniagua and Francisco G Lorea-Hernández

Language: Spanish ....

Flora of Hong Kong, Volume 4

Hong Kong Herbarium and South China Botanical Garden

Language: English, species names in English, Latin, and Chinese. ....

The Genera of Hyphomycetes

Keith Seifert, Gareth Morgan-Jones, Walter Gams and Bryce Kendrick

This is the essential reference for the identification of moulds to all those who work with these fungi, including plant pathologists, industrial microbiologists, mycologists ....

The Genera of the Parmulariaceae

Carlos Antonio Inacio and Paul F Cannon

The morphologically variable family Parmulariaceae (Fungi, Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes) is widespread in the tropics. The biological relationship between fungus and plant has ....

The Genus Agaricus in Britain

Geoffrey Kibby

The genus Agaricus includes both the common Field Mushroom and the cultivated mushroom, both enormously important as sources of food. But as well as these two species there are ....

Great Gardens of Spain

Anneli Bojstad and Eduardo Mencos

Acclaimed writer/photgrapher team Anneli Bojstad and Eduardo Mencos look at 40 of Spain's most beautiful gardens. Large and small, historical and contemporary, classical ....

Green Plants and Herbs of Greece

Vangelis Papiomytoglou and Nikos Nikitidis

Greece is a country in which dietary traditions have been formed more or less over millenia. Research has shown that the domestication and systematic utilisation of wild ....

A Guidebook to the Macrofungi of Fraser's Hill

BK Thi, SS Lee, N Zainuddin and HT Chan

This guidebook provides information on the macrofungi of Fraser's Hill, a hill resort located on the Titiwangsa Ridge in the state of Pahang in Malaysia. A brief introduction ....

Hawaiian 'Awa

Views of an Ethnobotanical Treasure

Edited by Ed Johnston and Helen Rogers

A comprehensive illustrated guidebook to `awa in Hawaii-includes scientific identification of Hawaiian varieties, cultural significance including ....

Hypocreales of the Southeastern United States

An Identification Guide

GJ Samuels, AY Rossman, P Chaverri, Belgium Overton and K Poldmaa

An illustrated guide is presented to the members of the ascomycete order Hypocreales that are known to occur in the southeastern states of the United States, including North ....

Mangroves of Sabah

An Introduction to Flora and Fauna

R Nilus, AYC Chung, JT Pereira, JB Sugau, J Tangah, S Sabran and RFY Chong

To the casual eye, mangroves do not look like any other forests, but they thrive in this amphibious environment. Every living being is a product of the environment, moulded by ....

Manual of the New Zealand Flora - 2-Volume Set

Thomas Frederick Cheeseman

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection ....

Measuring Roots

An Updated Approach

Edited by Stefano Mancuso

Roots represent half of the plant body -- and arguably the more interesting half. Despite its obvious importance for the whole plant, until recently our knowledge of the ....

Metal Toxicity in Plants: Perception, Signaling and Remediation

Edited by Dharmendra K Gupta and Luisa M Sandalio

Heavy metal accumulation in soil and water from natural sources or anthropogenic activities have produced severe environmental contamination in some parts of the world ....

Microchemical Methods for the Identification of Lichens

A Orange, PW James and FJ White

Gives advice for the techniques used in the chemical testing of lichen specimens. This second edition has additions and corrections. ....

Missouri Botanical Garden

Green for 150 years, 1859-2009

Edited by Elizabeth McNulty

For the first time, the complete story of the "most beautiful place in St. Louis" is told in Missouri Botanical Garden: Green for 150 Years. This oversized, hard cover book ....

The Mosses of Madre de Dios, Peru

Piers Majestyk and John Janovec

In this field manual the authors present a guide to the mosses currently known from eastern Madre de Dios, Peru, with focus on the Los Amigos River watershed and ....

My Garden, the City and Me

Rooftop Adventures in the Wilds of London

Helen Babbs

This book charts, over one year, her first steps with plants and the discoveries she makes along the way as she tussles with garden pests, watches falcons from the top of a ....

New Zealand's Native Trees

A Comprehensive Illustrated Encyclopedia

John Dawson and Rob Lucas

New Zealand's native trees are truly remarkable. From the massive kauri - the third-largest tree in the world - the showy pohutukawa and rata, and the ubiquitous ....

The Orchids of Nepal

Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti

A scholarly and beautifully illustrated monograph representing the most up-to-date work on the orchid species of Nepal. In all, the author illustrates and describes 302 orchid ....

Our Plot

Cleve West

Cleve West is one of Britain's top garden designers. He is also a true allotmenteer, heading off to his plot whenever he can to get his hands dirty, find peace and ....

Pests of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers

David V Alford

Ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers have always been extremely popular and there is large demand - whether in gardens or parks - for alpines, bedding plants, cacti, cut ....

Plants in Alpine Regions

Cell Physiology of Adaption and Survival Strategies

Edited by Cornelius Lutz

This book brings together experts from different fields, who used a broad spectrum of methods to investigate the physiological and cellular adaptation of ....

Pooley's Trees of Eastern South Africa

Richard Boon

This is a fully revised edition of the best selling "Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei" (1993). ....

RHS Plant Finder 2011-2012

Edited by Janet Cubey and Judith Merrick

The 2011-2012 "RHS Plant Finder" is now out and celebrates its 25th edition. This is a comprehensive directory of cultivated plants matched up with suppliers around the ....

The South Yorkshire Plant Atlas

Edited by GTD Wilmore, J Lunn and JS Rodwell

This is the first fully documented flora for the former South Yorkshire Metropolitan County, containing the Districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. The ....

Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge

Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity

Edited by John A Parrotta and Ronald Trosper

Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, this volume examines the history, current status and likely future trends in the development and application of ....

Trees of Britain and Ireland

Edward Milner

A treasure-trove of tree facts and photographs, "Trees of Britain and Ireland" is a celebration of the trees of Britain and Ireland with a history of their development, ....

Trees of New Zealand

Stories of Beauty and Character

Peter Janssen and Mike Hollman

This is a new kind of tree book, not a guide to species or simply a photographic study, it is a collection of individual portraits of the most remarkable trees in New Zealand. ....

Wardle's Native Trees of New Zealand and their Story

John Wardle

"Wardle's Native Trees of New Zealand" contains a wealth of information about all of New Zealand's trees, from the commonplace to the quirky. Every species is described - how ....

Wildflowers of Ireland

A Personal Record

Zoe Devlin

Many years ago Zoe Devlin was shown a wild orchid by a relative, the late Dr Kathleen Lynn, and this sparked a lifelong interest in wildflowers. Here is Zoe's personal record ....

Advanced Protocols for Animal Transgenesis

An ISTT Manual

Edited by Shirley Pease and Thomas L Saunders

This laboratory manual, published in cooperation with the International Society for Transgenic Technology (ISTT), provides almost all current methods that can be applied to ....

Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing

Theory and Protocols

Edited by Stefan Stamm, Chris Smith and Reinhard Luhrmann

All eukaryotic messenger RNAs are derived from precursors, the pre-mRNAs, by an extensive series of nuclear modifi cations. Most notably, the removal of introns and the ....

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment

Patricia L Keen and Mark HMM Montforts

This book explores the role that environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics plays in ecosystem and human health. The text features a ....

Atlas of Human Brain Connections

Marco Catani and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

One of the major challenges of modern neuroscience is to define the complex pattern of neural connections that underlie cognition and behaviour. Brain connections have been ....

Bacteria

The Benign, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Trudy M Wassenaar

This book introduces bacteria and basic microbiological concepts to readers without previous background in the subject. Each chapter explores a particular self-contained ....

Bacterial Molecular Networks

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Denis Thieffry, Jacques Van Helden and Ariane Toussaint

Network-based representations have become pervasive in most fields in biology. "Bacterial Molecular Networks: Methods and Protocols" provides authoritative ....

Bioanalytics for Beginners

Reinhard Renneberg

This book is a translation of the successful German text, "Bioanalytik fur Einsteiger". This volume goes far beyond simply reviewing modern and sophisticated biochemical and ....

Biological Shape Analysis

Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium

Edited by Pete E Lestrel

This title includes proceedings that describe the current state of research dealing with biological shape analysis. The quantitative analysis of the shape of biological ....

Biomechanics of the Brain

Edited by Karol Miller

The mechanical properties of living tissues continue to be the major topic of biomechanical investigations. Most researchers have investigated load-bearing tissues, ....

Biophysical Techniques

Iain Campbell

Many current questions in biology are probed by using a range of biophysical methods, often in tandem. These increasingly powerful and sophisticated tools allow us to study ....

Biophysics

A Physiological Approach

Patrick F Dillon

Specifically tailored to life science students, this textbook explains quantitative aspects of human biophysics with examples drawn from contemporary physiology, genetics ....

The Book of Deadly Animals

Gordon Grice

Consider, if you can, the case of Jacob Fowler, who heard what he thought was the sound of his own skull cracking between the jaws of a grizzly bear - only to discover that it ....

Carbohydrate Microarrays

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Yann Chevolot

Carbohydrate microarrays emerged as a key technology for the deciphering of the glycospace by providing a multiplex technology where tens to hundreds of ....

Cellular Domains

Ivan R Nabi

Cellular domains play vital roles in a wide range of cellular functions. Defining cellular domains and understanding the molecular basis of their formation is essential ....

Chemical Genomics

Edited by Haian Fu

Advances in chemistry, biology, and genomics coupled with laboratory automation and computational technologies have led to the rapid emergence of the multidisciplinary ....

Chemical Genomics and Proteomics

Reviews and Protocols

Edited by Edward D Zanders

Chemical genomics technology has been steadily improving, delivering new biological probes and drugs, and the explicit use of the term "chemical proteomics" has increased ....

Chemical Proteomics

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Gerard Drewes and Marcus Bantscheff

The multidisciplinary science of chemical proteomics studies how small molecules of synthetic or natural origin bind to proteins and modulate their function. In "Chemical ....

Comprehensive Chromatography in Combination with Mass Spectrometry

Edited by Luigi Mondello

This book provides a detailed description of various multidimensional chromatographic separation techniques. The editor first provides an introduction to the area and then ....

Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology

Frank J Dye

Incorporating the many new terms that have emerged since the first edition was published, this new edition gives readers the standard reference for the field today. ....

Emerging Model Organisms, Volume 1

A Laboratory Manual

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Until recently, a small number of model organisms has been the focus of most research in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. But in the last few years, due in part ....

Emerging Model Organisms, Volume 2

A Laboratory Manual

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

This second volume of the groundbreaking "Emerging Model Organisms" series expands the collection of species presented in the first volume. Leading experts provide 18 new ....

Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Reactions II

Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Processes

Edited by Rainer Mahrwald

Organocatalysis has emerged as one of the hot topics in organic chemistry in recent years, as confirmed by the rapid-growing interest that researchers have shown in this ....

Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Reactions I

Enantioselective Oxidation, Reduction, Functionalization and Desymmetrization

Edited by Rainer Mahrwald

Organocatalysis has emerged as one of the hot topics in organic chemistry in recent years, as confirmed by the rapid-growing interest that researchers have shown in this ....

Environmental Physiology of Livestock

RJ Collier and JL Collier

Environmental stress is one of the most significant factors affecting livestock performance and health, and it is only expected to increase with effects of global ....

Flexible Viruses

Structural Disorder in Viral Proteins

Vladimir Uversky and Sonia Longhi

This book provides up-to-date information on experimental and computational characterization of the structural and functional properties of viral proteins, which ....

From Genes to Genomes

Concepts and Applications of DNA Technology

Jeremy W Dale, Malcolm von Schantz and Nicholas Plant

The third edition of this highly successful textbook introduces the key techniques and concepts involved in cloning genes and in studying their expression and variation. ....

Frontiers in Sensing Systems

From Biology to Engineering

Edited by Friedrich Barth, Joseph A C Humphrey and Mandyam V Srinivasan

Biological sensing organs have -- due to their optimized specialization throughout evolution -- an enormous potential for technical, industrial and medical applications. ....

Genetic Testing

Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame

Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi and Angus Clarke

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many ....

Genetics

Analysis of Genes and Genomes

Daniel L Hartl and Elizabeth W Jones

Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest data from this every changing field, the Eighth Edition of "Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes" provides a clear, balanced, ....

How Vertebrates Moved Onto Land

Vincent Bels et al

Among vertebrates, the evolutionary transition from an aquatic or amphibious to a fully terrestrial life seems to have occurred potentially more than once within the clade. ....

The Human Genome

Book of Essential Knowledge

John Quackenbush

The DNA sequence that comprises the human genome--the genetic blueprint found in each of our cells--is undoubtedly the greatest code ever to be broken. Completed at the dawn of ....

Human Population Genetics

John H Relethford

"Human Population Genetics" will provide an introduction to mathematical population genetics, along with relevant examples from human (and some non-human primate) ....

Imaging in Developmental Biology

A Laboratory Manual

Edited by James Sharpe and Rachel O Wong

New imaging technologies have revolutionized the study of developmental biology. Where researchers once struggled to connect events at static timepoints, imaging tools now ....

Interplay Between Metal Ions and Nucleic Acids

Edited by Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel and Roland KO Sigel

This book provides a most up-to-date view on metal ion-nucleic acid interactions; the characterization of which is covered in solution and in the solid state. The volume ....

Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry

Student Solutions Manual

Morris Hein, Scott Pattison, Susan Arena and Kathy Mitchell

This title is intended to be partnered with "Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry",10th Edition. ....

Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry

Morris Hein, Scott Pattison, Susan Arena and Leo R Best

The most comprehensive General, Organic, and Biochemistry book available, this tenth edition continues its tradition of a solid development of problem-solving skills, ....

Introduction to Genomics

Arthur M Lesk

Our genome is the blueprint to our existence: it encodes all the information we need to develop from a single cell into a hugely complicated functional organism. But it is more ....

The Living Gut

An Introduction to the Identity, Location and Activity of Gastro-intestinal Micro-flora and their Benefits on Health and Performance of Animals

W N Ewing and D J A Cole

"The Living Gut" was first published in 1994 and made a significant contribution to the understanding of the gastrointestinal tract in animal nutrition. This new edition has ....

Molecular Analysis and Genome Discovery

Edited by Ralph Rapley and Stuart Harbron

"Molecular Analysis and Genome Discovery", second edition is a completely revised and updated new edition of this successful book. The text provides a comprehensive overview ....

Molecular Machines in Biology

Workshop of the Cell

Edited by Joachim Frank

The concept of molecular machines in biology has transformed the medical field in a profound way. Many essential processes that occur in the cell, including transcription, ....

Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robots

Jeffrey Krichmar and Hiroaki Wagatsuma

Neuromorphic and brain-based robotics have enormous potential for furthering our understanding of the brain. By embodying models of the brain on robotic platforms, ....

Phonological Architecture

A Biolinguistic Approach

Bridget D Samuels

This book bridges linguistic theory and the biological sciences, presenting a comprehensive view of phonology from a biological perspective. Its back-to-basics ....

Principles of Genetics

Take Note!

D Peter Snustad and Michael J Simmons

In the rapidly advancing science of genetics, currency and accuracy are critical in any book. This book presents the most up-to-date developments in genetics as well as the ....

Protein Expression in Mammalian Cells

Methods and Protocols

Edited by James L Hartley

Through all of the recent progress provided by high throughput DNA sequencing technologies, it has become clearer and clearer that the study of proteins and protein ....

Protein Folding and Misfolding

Shining Light by Infrared Spectroscopy

Edited by Heinz Fabian and Dieter Naumann

Infrared spectroscopy is a new and innovative technology to study protein folding/misfolding events in the broad arsenal of techniques conventionally used in this ....

Proteomics of Biological Systems

Protein Phosphorylation Using Mass Spectrometry Techniques

Bryan M Ham

Phosphorylation is the addition of a phosphate (PO4) group to a protein or other organic molecule. Phosphorylation activates or deactivates many protein enzymes, causing or ....

RNA Infrastructure and Networks

Edited by Lesley J Collins

RNAs form complexes with proteins and other RNAs. The RNA-infrastructure represents the spatiotemporal interaction of these proteins and RNAs in a cell-wide network. "RNA ....

RNA Interference Technology

From Basic Science to Drug Development

Edited by Krishnarao Appasani, Andrew Fire and Marshall Nirenberg

RNA Interference (RNAi) technology has rapidly become one of the key methods used in functional genomics. RNAi is used to block the expression of genes and create phenotypes ....

Race and the Genetic Revolution

Science, Myth, and Culture

Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including law, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology, examine the impact of modern genetics on the ....

Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Regulation and Function

Edited by BN Mallick, SR Pandi-Perumal, RW McCarley and AR Morrison

Spanning over half a century of investigation into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of topics in REM sleep biology. ....

Sensation and Perception

Jeremy M Wolfe et al

This book is written to introduce students to their own senses. Human sensory and perceptual experience is emphasized, and the neuroscientific underpinnings of that ....

Sleep

A Very Short Introduction

Steven W Lockley and Russell G Foster

Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? ....

Stem Cells

A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan Slack

The topic of stem cells has been very high profile in the media in recent years. There is much public interest in stem cells but also much confusion and misinformation, with ....

Student Solutions Manual and Supplemental Problems to Accompany Genetics : Analysis of Genes and Genomes, Eight Edition

Daniel L Hartl and Maryellen Ruvolo

This must-have student resource contains complete solutions to all end-of-chapter problems in "Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes", Eighth Edition, by Daniel L. ....

Studies in Viral Ecology

Microbial and Botanical Host Systems

Edited by Christon J Hurst

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in microbes and plants), including the types of ....

Studies in Viral Ecology

Animal Host Systems

Edited by Christon J Hurst

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in animals), including the types of transmission ....

Transcriptional Regulation

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Ales Vancura

Through many recent remarkable developments, perhaps the most significant advancements in the study of transcriptional regulation are the development of genome-wide approaches ....

Transmembrane Dynamics of Lipids

Edited by Philippe F Devaux and Andreas Herrmann

As the building blocks of biological membranes, lipids have a very complex set of behaviors that, when defective, can be a major distributor of diseases, including ....

Unnatural Amino Acids

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Loredano Pollegioni and Stefano Servi

Even though they are present in nature, non-proteinogenic amino acids are usually defined as unnatural or non-natural. Beside their structural diversity, interest in ....

Wildlife Forensics

Methods and Applications

Jane Huffman and John Wallace

This book provides an accessible and practical approach to the key areas involved in this developing subject. The book contains numerous global case studies throughout the ....

The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'agov Volume II

Ancient Flames and Controlled Use of Fire

Nira Alperson-Afil and Naama Goren-Inbar

The manipulation of fire by early hominins was a turning point in our evolutionary history. Once 'domesticated', fire provided warmth, light and protection from predators, ....

The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'agov Volume III

Mammalian Taphonomy. The Assemblages of Layers V-5 and V-6

R Rabinovich, S Gaudzinski-Windheuser, L Kindler and N Goren-Inbar

Multidisciplinary research on the Early-Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov has yielded abundant climatic, environmental, ecological and behavioral records. The 15 ....

The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel Volume I

The Wood Assemblage

Naama Goren-Inbar, Ella Werker and Craig S Feibel

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, located in the Dead Sea Rift valley, is one of the oldest non-African sites to have yielded evidence for the activities of groups of hominin ....

Arguing for Evolution

An Encyclopedia for Understanding Science

Sehoya Cotner and Randy Moore

This book provides readers with a single source for the scientific evidence supporting evolution. The book shows how scientists have tested predictions predicated on ....

Asian Paleoanthropology

From Africa to China and Beyond

Edited by Christopher Norton and David R Braun

This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers ....

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology

Arthur C Aufderheide and Conrado Rodriguez-Martin

This book was first published in 1998. It is a major reference work for all those interested in identification of disease in human remains. Many diseases leave ....

Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe

One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study

Edited by Silvana Condemi and Gerd-Christian Weniger

Since the Western world first became aware of the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene human has been a regular focus of interest among specialists and also among ....

Ethnozooarchaeology

The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships

Umberto Albarella and Angela Trentacoste

This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, ....

Evolution

The Molecular Landscape

Edited by Bruce Stillman, David Stewart and Jan Witkowski

This volume is based on presentations by the world-renowned investigators who gathered at the 74th annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology to celebrate the ....

Evolution

The Human Story

Alice Roberts

Travel back 8 million years with "Evolution: The Human Story" and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern ....

Evolution and Belief

Confessions of a Religious Paleontologist

Robert J Asher

Can a scientist believe in God? Does the ongoing debate between some evolutionists and evangelicals show that the two sides are irreconcilable? As a paleontologist and a ....

The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia

Edited by Michael D Petraglia and Jeffrey I Rose

The contemporary deserts of Arabia form some of the most dramatic arid landscapes in the world; yet, during many times in the past, the region was well-watered, containing ....

The Evolution of Infectious Agents in Relation to Sex

Andre J Nahmias, Dan Danielsson and Susa Beckman Nahmias

This volume explores the evolution of infectious agents that are sexually-transmitted or transmissible in humans and animals. This subject has received little attention until ....

Human Biology

An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective

Sara Stinson

This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and ....

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan

Edited by Erella Hovers and David R Braun

An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins' ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and ....

Modelling Natural Action Selection

Edited by Anil Seth, Tony Prescott and Joanna Bryson

Action selection is the task of doing the right thing at the right time. It requires the assessment of available alternatives, executing those most appropriate, and resolving ....

Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study

Edited by Nicholas J Conard and Jurgen Richter

The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Bonn/Germany. This present book ....

New Studies in Neurobehavioral Evolution

Edited by John Irwin Johnson, H Philip Zeigler and Patrick R Hof

This volume derives from a conference on New Studies in Neurobehavioral Evolution, convened as a tribute to the life work and influence of Wally Welker, an outstanding ....

On the Origin of Species

The Illustrated Edition

Charles Darwin and David Quammen

2009 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the ....

Physics of Self-Organization and Evolution

Werner Ebeling and Rainer Feistel

This thoroughly updated version of the German authoritative work on self-organization has been completely rewritten by internationally renowned experts and experienced book ....

Pragmatic Evolution

Applications of Evolutionary Theory

Edited by Aldo Poiani

Of what use is evolutionary science to society? Can evolutionary thinking provide us with the tools to better understand and even make positive changes to the world? ....

Stress Ecology

Environmental Stress as Ecological Driving Force and Key Player in Evolution

Christian EW Steinberg

Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the mutation threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestations of population ....

From DNA to Social Cognition

Edited by Richard P Ebstein, Simeone Shamay-Tsoory and Soo Hong Chew

Decision-making is an integral part of our daily lives. Researchers seek a complete understanding of the decision-making process, including the biological and social basis ....

Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science

Edited by Kathie C Weathers, David L Strayer and Gene E Likens

This textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have had a general biology course, but no further training in ecosystems, but also researchers and ....

Urban Ecology

Patterns, Processes, and Applications

Edited by Jari Niemelä et al

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that is increasingly challenging human society. It is therefore crucially important to ensure that the relentless expansion of cities and ....

250 Victorian Waterfalls

Ray Barber and Ian Wacey

This book details 250 waterfalls in Victoria, Australia. Information includes source, gps co-ordinates, closest town, distance and approximate time from Melbourne, Directions ....

The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands

Arnold G van der Valk

Global wetlands exhibit significant differences in both hydrology and species composition and range from moss-dominated arctic peatlands to seasonally-flooded ....

Continuous Cover Forestry

Edited by Timo Pukkala and Klaus von Gadow

Although the majority of the world's forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the ....

The Desert

Wildlife on the Last Frontier

James Parry

Deserts are extreme environments. Occupying about 20 per cent of the world's land surface, they are subject to some of the harshest conditions on the planet, being places ....

Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability

Anton Imeson

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current ....

Designing and Conducting a Forest Inventory - Case: 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland

E Tomppo, J Heikkinen, HM Henttonen, A Ihalainen, M Katila, H Makela et al

This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996-2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation ....

The Ecology of Snow and Ice Environments

Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Andy Hodson and Martyn Tranter

Snow and ice environments support significant biological activity, yet the biological importance of some of these habitats, such as glaciers, has only recently gained ....

Growing from Seed

An Introduction to Social Forestry

Celeste Lacuna-Richman

Social forestry and its most well-known variant, community forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests. During this time, forests have provided ....

A Guide to Methods for Estimating Microbial Numbers and Biomass in Fresh Water

JG Jones

This book looks at the main methods used in quantifying the biomass and numbers of microbes in freshwater samples with the aim of making the choice of method to fit a ....

Habitats and Ecological Communities of Indiana

Pre-settlement to Present

Edited by John O Whitaker and Charles J Amlaner

This book assesses the health and diversity of Indiana's eight wildlife habitats, providing detailed analysis, data-generated maps, color photographs, and complete lists ....

Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests

A Practitioner's Guide to Forest Genetics

Edited by Wickneswari Ratnam and Chuck Cannon

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rainforest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in ....

Post-fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

Edited by Francisco Moreira, M Arianoutsou, Piermaria Corona and J de las Heras

In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45,000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and ....

Protected Areas, Sustainable Land?

Edited by Catherine Aubertin and Estienne Rodary

Protected areas, such as nature reserves, national parks and marine conservation areas, are the main tool of nature conservation policies and are increasing on a worldwide ....

RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation, 10-Volume Set

RFF research on forests and land use spans natural, rural, and urban settings. This collection of ten classic books includes three works by Marion Clawson, perhaps the most ....

The Restoration of Nature in Japan

A Challenge to Ecological Engineering

Edited by Toshio Hirose

This book is an English translation of "A Challenge of Nature Restoration from the Standpoint of Ecological Engineering" published in Japanese. It traces the environmental ....

Sustaining Young Forest Communities

Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA

Edited by Cathryn Greenberg, Beverly Collins and Frank Thompson

This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated ....

Biodiversity in Agriculture

Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability

Edited by Paul Gepts et al

The introduction of plant and animal agriculture represents one of the most important milestones in human evolution. It contributed to the development of cities, alphabets, ....

Capitalism and Conservation

Edited by Dan Brockington and Rosaleen Duffy

Through a series of case studies from around the world, "Capitalism and Conservation" presents a critique of conservation's role as a central driver of global capitalism. The ....

Carnivore Ecology and Conservation

A Handbook of Techniques

Edited by Luigi Boitani and Roger A Powell

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities ....

Fencing for Conservation

Restriction of Evolutionary Potential or a Riposte to Threatening Processes?

Edited by Michael J Somers and Matthew Hayward

How can we best protect the world's biodiversity in the face of the growing human population? This question is the central theme of contemporary conservation biology. The ....

Reintroduction Biology

Integrating Science and Management

Edited by John G Ewen, Doug P Armstrong, Kevin A Parker and Philip J Seddon

This book aims to further advance the field of reintroduction biology beyond the considerable progress made since the formation of the IUCN/SSC Re-introduction ....

Tropical Island Recovery

Cousine Island, Seychelles

Michael J Samways, Peter Hitchins, Orty Bourquin and Jock Henwood

Tropical island species and ecosystems are threatened worldwide as a result of increasing human pressure. Yet some of these islands also lend themselves to ....

Applications of Toxicogenomics in Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment

Edited by Darrell R Boverhof and B Bhaskar Gollapudi

This book provides a timely overview of toxicogenomics, with special emphasis on the practical applications of this technology to the risk assessment process. Introductory ....

Attitude towards Solid Waste Management

The role of psychosocial factors

Femi Ilevbare

One of the most challenging problems facing mankind is the issue of waste disposal. This is because humankind is now producing more waste than ever before, creating an ....

Climate Change and Policy

The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty

Edited by Gabriele Gramelsberger and Johann Feichter

The debate on how mankind should respond to climate change is diverse, as the appropriate strategy depends on global as well as local circumstances. As scientists are ....

Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources

Edited by Walter Leal Filho

This book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It contains examples and case studies from a wide range of ....

Collection of Municipal Solid Waste in Developing Countries

United Nations Human Settlements Program

This book is written for developing countries. Since it seeks to encourage the designing of waste collection systems based on local information, the approach is valid in any ....

Depolymerization of PET and Other Plastic Wastes

Solid waste managment (Degradation/Recycling of Plastic Waste)

Zainab Abbas

A comparative study of hydrolysis of PET waste and other plastic waste (compact discs, polyethelene, polystyrene) has been carried out under various reaction conditions. PET ....

The Earth's Cryosphere and Sea Level Change

Edited by Lennart Bengtsson et al

This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the ....

The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change

Edited by Walter Leal Filho

A unique feature of this book is its strong practice-oriented nature: it contains a wide range of papers dealing with the social, economic and political aspects of climate ....

Environmentally Sound Management of Municipal Solid Waste

A Cleaner and Greener Plan for The City of Kandy, Sri Lanka

Mokshana Wijeyeratne

The city of Kandy is the capital of the Central Province & Kandy District of Sri Lanka. Home to over 110,000 people, the city is undergoing rapid urbanization and growth. As ....

Experiences of Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

Edited by Walter Leal Filho

It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps ....

Fundamentals of Numerical Weather Prediction

Jean Coiffier

Numerical models have become essential tools in environmental science, particularly in weather forecasting and climate prediction. This book provides a comprehensive overview ....

Global Change

Interviews with Leading Climate Scientists

Georg Gotz

Seven interviews with leading climate scientists cover both fundamental research (climate modeling, global warming, sea level change, melting of the ice caps, natural ....

Global Climate Change

Book of Essential Knowledge

Ernest Zebrowski

How can we decipher exactly what really are the effects of environmental damage? Where can we go to get dependable, clearly-written information so we can join in the ....

Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I

Production, Usage and Environmental Occurrence

Edited by Bernd Bilitewski, Rosa Mari Darbra and Damià Barceló

Chemical additives are used to enhance the properties of many industrial products. Since their release into the environment is a potential risk for man and nature, their fate ....

Green Building with Concrete

Sustainable Design and Construction

Edited by Gajanan M Sabnis

Packed with case studies highlighting construction companies that regularly recycle between 70% and 95% of concrete from their waste streams, this book presents practical, ....

Hospital Waste Management in One of the Developing Countries

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Current Practices of Solid Waste Segregation, Disposal and Recycling

Yin Lai Yee Oo

Segregation of recyclable waste from general waste is necessary to optimise resource recovery. Recyclable waste may originate from different places, including hospitals. ....

Hot

Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Mark Hertsgaard

A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation who'll inherit the problem ....

Impact of Utilizing Solid Waste Management on Nuclear Pollution

Solid Waste Management in Urban Planning

Behzad Nadi, Elmira Shamshiry and Masoumeh Rezaei

This book aims to introduce management directives and procedures for nuclear waste disposal. ....

Introduction to the Physical and Biological Oceanography of Shelf Seas

John H Simpson and Jonathan Sharples

In this exciting and innovative textbook, two leading oceanographers bring together the fundamental physics and biology of the coastal ocean in a quantitative but accessible ....

Loop Management of Solid Waste in Indonesia

Practices, Treatments

Sarwoko Mangkoedihardjo

Solid waste management, in addition to technical management, is prioritized in community management where urban population densities have grown to levels that induce solid waste ....

Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk

Beyond Fragmented Responses

Phil O'Keefe and Geoff O'Brien

Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a ....

Marine Debris in Alaska

Coordinating Our Efforts

Edited by Michael Williams and Erika Ammann

The extended abstracts in this book help coordinators organize marine debris prevention and removal in Alaska, including education and outreach. The book summarizes a 2008 ....

Municipal Solid Waste

Recycling and Cost Effectiveness

Mohamed Alweali

Currently, the management of solid waste represents a major economic and environmental issue throughout the world. Trends in waste generation show an increase in the volumes ....

Municipal Solid Waste Management

Processing - Energy Recovery - Global Examples

P Jayarama Reddy

Comprehensive presentation and overall picture of municipal solid waste management, including waste generation and characterization, waste reduction ....

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Mysore, India: Problems and Prospect

Generations, Collections and Storage, Transportation, Treatments and Disposal, Composting and Vermicomposting

Ishwar Chandra Yadav, Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi and AG Devi Prasad

This book provides basic as well as new methods of municipal solid waste (MSW) management including generation, collection and storage, transportation, and treatment ....

Municipal Solid Waste: Bangladesh Perspective

Present Scenario and Management of Municipal Solid Waste and its Composition, Characteristics and Recovery Potential in Bangladesh

Amimul Ahsan and Muhammed Alamgir

The Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation, composition, physical and chemical characteristics, and the recovery potential are obtained in four major cities of ....

No Waste

Managing Sustainability in Construction

Uly Ma

Sustainability is a critical issue for the construction industry. In the short term, sustainability is often seen as a "must do" item. In the longer term, all contractors ....

Polyfluorinated Chemicals and Transformation Products

Edited by Thomas P Knepper and Frank T Lange

Due to their unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency, polyfluorinated chemicals (PFC) have become essential in numerous technical applications. However, many PFCs brought to ....

Protecting the Environment

Edited by Sherman Hollar

Even though a growing number of people have begun to consider the impact of their actions on the environment, the planet remains vulnerable to human activity and the ....

Protecting the Global Environment

Gary C Bryner

Borne of an amalgam of social science, fieldwork, and a passionate commitment to justice, this book brings debates about climate change to a new level, compelling ....

Reconstructing Earth's Climate History

Inquiry-Based Exercises for Lab and Class

Kristen St John, R Mark Leckie, Kate Pound, Megan Jones and L Krissek

The context for understanding global climate change today lies in the records of Earth's past. This is demonstrated by decades of paleoclimate research by ....

Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius

Russel Gehrke

This inventive guide explains how to create a variety of practical, environmentally friendly items you can use for yourself or resell for profit. "Recycling Projects for ....

Recycling of Polymer Wastes

Thermoplastic elastomers from waste plastics and rubber

Anandhan Srinivasan

Polymeric materials have been widely used in a spectrum of applications. With the tremendous growth of the automobile industry, a huge amount of non-biodegradable polymer ....

Solid Waste Management

Present and Future Challenges

Edited by Jagbir Singh and AL Ramanathan

There is no subject in the world more vital to the future and sustainability of planet Earth for future generations than that of waste management and all that that ....

Solid Waste Managment

Techno-economic assessment of municipal solid waste management in the occupied Palestinian territories

Ammar J Al Khateeb and Issam A Al-Khatib

Solid waste management needs a strong legislative framework as well as reinforcement measures besides professional institutions to be implemented. In the study area ....

Solid Waste Technology and Management

Edited by Thomas Christensen

The availability of sound technical information is an important starting point for meeting the challenges of solid waste management in a sustainable way, and "Solid Waste ....

Solid and Liquid Waste Management

Recovery of Precious Metal from Secondary Sources

Sabir Syed

The emergence of environmental management as an important discipline in addition to its role as an empirical set of procedures and guidelines is not just challenging, it is ....

Sustainable Solid Waste Management

Phuntsholing City, Bhutan

Ngawang Gyaltshen K

It was never envisaged that solid waste could become a big nuisance to the community of Bhutan. From the very beginning solid waste management was the most neglected of all ....

Universities and Climate Change

Edited by Walter Leal Filho

Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regional and local solutions ....

Waste as a Social Dilemma

Issues of Social and Environmental Justice and the Role of Residents in Municipal Solid Waste Management in Delhi, India

Adriana Holmberg Milea

In Delhi, as in many other large cities in the developing world, the inappropriate management of municipal solid waste is a significant flaw in the quality of life of its ....

Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment

Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures

Edited by Janine M H Selendy

Written by authorities from various related specialties, this book presents the most complete treatment possible of the conditions responsible for water- and ....

The Weather Almanac

A Reference Guide to Weather, Climate, and Related Issues in the United States and its Key Cities

Steven L Horstmeyer

"The Weather Almanac", 12th Edition is a resource for a variety of climate and meteorological data including both domestic and international weather trends, historical ....

Anglesey Geology

A Field Guide

Jack Treagus

Language: English and Welsh in facing columns ....

Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science

Edited by Jean-Pierre Lasota

Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Astronomers use (and often develop) the latest technology, the ....

Biotransformations in Organic Chemistry

A Textbook

Kurt Faber

The use of biocatalysts, employed either as isolated enzymes or whole microbial cells, offers a remarkable arsenal of highly selective transformations for state-of-the-art ....

Buoyancy Driven Flows

Edited by Eric P Chassignet, Claudia Cenedese and Jacques Verron

Buoyancy is one of the main forces driving flows on our planet, especially in the oceans and atmosphere. These flows range from buoyant coastal currents to dense overflows in ....

The Computer

A Very Short Introduction

Darrel Ince

Computers have changed so much since the room-filling, bulky magnetic tape running monsters of the mid 20th century. They now form a vital part of most people's lives. And ....

Cosmic Explosions in Three Dimensions

Asymmetries in Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Edited by Peter Hoflich, Pawan Kumar and J Craig Wheeler

Supernovae and gamma-ray bursts are the strongest explosions in the Universe. Observations show that, rather than being symmetrical, they are driven by strong jets of ....

Dwarf Galaxies: Keys to Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Proceedings of Symposium 3 of JENAM 2010

Edited by Polychronis Papaderos, Simone Recchi and G Hensler

Dwarf galaxy research constitutes an extremely vibrant field of astrophysical research, with many long-standing questions still unsettled and new ones constantly arising. The ....

Dynamic Models in Earth-Science Instruction

WH Yoxall

First published in 1983, this book describes the construction and in-laboratory use of basic earth-science equipment, including the flume, rainfall simulator, wind tunnel and ....

Electromagnetism

Nature's Force That Shapes Our Lives

Lawrence W Fagg

The author shows how, of the four forces of physical nature, it is the electromagnetic force that activates all of the nature around us as well as our bodies and brains. This ....

Exploring the Solar System

Peter Bond

Drawing upon the latest results from the second golden age of Solar System exploration, author Peter Bond provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of the planets, ....

Field and Theory

Lectures in Geocryology

Edited by Michael Church and Olav Slaymaker

This collection of papers by internationally known scientists in the field of geocryology was originally presented as a series of lectures at the University of ....

The Finite Element Method

An Introduction with Partial Differential Equations

Alan J Davies

The finite element method is a technique for solving problems in applied science and engineering. The essence of this book is the application of the finite element method to ....

Geodynamics of the Mexican Pacific Margin

Edited by WL Bandy, Y Taran, CM Gutierrez and V Kostoglodov

This book presents the results of studies from various disciplines whose common goal is to better understand the complex geodynamic processes that exist along the Pacific ....

Geology For Dummies

Alecia M Spooner

Geology is the study of the earth's history as well as the physical and chemical processes that continue to shape the earth today. "Geology For Dummies" is the most ....

The Grand Design

New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science ....

Heliophysics: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos

Edited by Carolus J Schrijver and George L Siscoe

Heliophysics is a developing scientific discipline integrating studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and climatic environments. Over the past few ....

Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region

Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference

Edited by Wayne Orchiston, Tsuko Nakamura and Richard Strom

This book provides readers with the results of recent research from some of the world's leading historians of astronomy on aspects of Arabic, Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and ....

The History of Mathematics

A Very Short Introduction

Jacqueline Stedall

Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but ....

Homer's Secret Odyssey

Kenneth Wood and Florence Wood

Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2,500 years ....

The Ice Age in the Lake District

Alan Smith

Most of us are familiar with the phrase 'The Ice Age'. It conjures up a picture of great ice sheets and glaciers covering the landscape, a time of perpetual winter and of harsh ....

An Introduction to Forensic Geoscience

Elisa Bergslien

This book provides fundamental training in geoscience as developed though the lens of its forensic applications. It incorporates a range of topics including geophysical ....

Lakeland Rocks

An Introductory Guide

Edited by Alan Smith

This is a simple introductory guide to the rocks of the English Lake District. It attempts to introduce the common rock types to be found in the district and explain how ....

Landscapes Around Keswick

Alan Smith

The booklet briefly explains the geology of the Keswick area illustrating the main features with a simple geological map and cross sectional diagram of the area. It then ....

Light Scattering Reviews 7

Alexander A Kokhanovsky

"Light Scattering Reviews" (volume 7) is aimed at the description of modern advances in radiative transfer and light scattering. The following topics will be considered: the ....

Limits, Limits Everywhere

The Tools of Mathematical Analysis

David Applebaum

A quantity can be made smaller and smaller without it ever vanishing. This fact has profound consequences for science, technology, and even the way we think about numbers. ....

Mission Earth

Our Planet Explored by Satellite

Dirk H Lorenzen

There is no other heavenly body that is as intensely observed as Earth. Alongside the daily cloud formations used for the weather forecast, the "heavenly eyes" give us ....

Moon

A Brief History

Bernd Brunner

Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd ....

Number-Crunching

Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction

Paul J Nahin

How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a ....

The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites

Derek Sears

Chondrites are the largest group of meteorites. They can provide unique insights into the origins and early evolution of our solar system, and even into the relationships ....

Orogenesis: The Making Of Mountains

Michael Johnson and Simon Harley

Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide - either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or ....

Physical Geography

Great Systems and Global Environments

William M Marsh and Martin M Kaufman

The physical geography of Earth is explained through the systems that shape the planet's lands, waters, and atmosphere. Written in an easy narrative style, each chapter combines ....

The Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Pavel D Naselsky, Dmitry I Novikov and Igor D Novikov

Spectacular observational breakthroughs, particularly by the WMAP satellite, have led to a new epoch of CMB science long after its original discovery. Taking a physical ....

Protoplanetary Dust

Astrophysical and Cosmochemical Perspectives

Edited by Daniel Apai and Dante Lauretta

Planet formation studies uniquely benefit from three disciplines: astronomical observations of extrasolar planet-forming disks, analysis of material from the early ....

Quantitative Geology of Epicontinental Sediments of the Late Jurassic in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland

Reinhart Gygi

The book summarizes about 40 years of the author's research on sedimentary geology in an epicontinental (shelf) sea during the Late Jurassic in northern Switzerland. It presents ....

Relativistic Celestial Mechanics of the Solar System

Sergei Kopeikin, Michael Efroimsky, George H Kaplan and John D Anderson

This authoritative book presents the theoretical development of gravitational physics as it applies to the dynamics of celestial bodies and the analysis of precise astronomical ....

Sandstone and Sea Stacks

A Beachcomber's Guide to Britain's Coastal Geology

Ronald Turnbull

This book is a celebration of Britain's coastal geology - ammonites and sand, sea stacks and wavecut platforms. It goes paddling in the rock pools to examine the rock samples so ....

Special Topics in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

Edited by Mohamed A Sakr and Atilla Ansal

geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics, as well as their interface with engineering seismology, geophysics and seismology, have all made remarkable progress ....

Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys

Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010

Edited by Andre Moitinho and Joao F Alves

The symposium "Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys" was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010. It served as a platform for discussing what and how recent, ....

The Story of the Bowder Stone

Alan Smith

The Bowder Stone is one of the most popular visitor attractions of the Lake District. For hundreds of years it has been the subject of awe, speculation and amazement. This ....

Structural Geology Algorithms

Vectors and Tensors

Richard W Allmendinger, Nestor Cardozo and Donald M Fisher

State-of-the-art analysis of geological structures has become increasingly quantitative but traditionally, graphical methods are used in teaching. This innovative lab book ....

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

5th International Symposium

Edited by Yamada Y et al

Submarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential. This potential poses a threat to human life as well as ....

The Sun Recorded Through History

Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents

JM Vaquero and M Vazquez

Today, the Sun is observed using different techniques that provide an almost instantaneous 3-D mapping of its structure. Of particular interest is the study of its ....

Superconductivity

A Very Short Introduction

Stephen Blundell

Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious ....

Terrestrial Hydrometeorology

W James Shuttleworth

Both hydrologists and meteorologists need to speak a common scientific language, and this has given rise to the new scientific discipline of hydrometeorology, which deals ....

White Dwarf Atmospheres and Circumstellar Environments

Edited by Donald W Hoard

Written by selected astronomers at the forefront of their fields, this timely and novel book compiles the latest results from research on white dwarf stars, complementing ....

Adapting Institutions

Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience

Edited by Emily Boyd and Carl Folke

Global environmental change is occurring at a rate faster than humans have ever experienced. Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services are the two main global ....

Advances in Passive Cooling

Edited by Mat Santamouris

Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such devices has become a significant cause for concern. ....

Advances in Water Desalination

Noam Lior

Desalination is a dynamically growing field with more research, more engineering, more applications, more countries, more people and with more training programs. This book ....

Assessing the Wind Resource

A Practical Guide to the Most Important Phase of Developing a Wind Project

Michael Brower et al

This is a practical, authoritative guide to the siting and installation of a high-quality wind energy project, providing analytical methods for assessing the wind ....

Biocatalysis for Green Chemistry and Chemical Process Development

Edited by Junhua Tao and Romas Joseph Kazlauskas

This book describes recent progress in enzyme-driven green syntheses of industrially important molecules. The first three introductory chapters overview recent technological ....

Bioenergy for Sustainable Development in Africa

Edited by Rainer Janssen and Dominik Rutz

This work builds on the results of the COMPETE Bioenergy Competence Platform for Africa, which was supported by the European Commission and coordinated by WIP Renewable ....

Breaking the Sheep's Back

The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry

Charles Massy

The $10 billion collapse of the wool industry is considered one of Australia's biggest business disasters, and for the first time, the shocking true story behind this colossal ....

Cars and Carbon

Automobiles and European Climate Policy in a Global Context

Edited by Theodoros I Zachariadis

This volume contains articles from leading analysts and researchers on sustainable transportation, who provide critical reflections on how automobile-related climate ....

Chemical Marine Monitoring

Policy Framework and Analytical Trends

Edited by Philippe P Quevauviller, Patrick Roose and Gert Verreet

Part of the "Water Quality Measurement" series, this text focuses on chemical marine monitoring, highlighting policy frameworks and analytical trends with an emphasis on ....

Civil Liability for Animals

Peter North

A comprehensive analysis of liability for animals this book covers harm done by dangerous and straying animals including both dangerous and non-dangerous species. ....

Clean Energy Nation

Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels

Gerald McNerney and Martin Cheek

Dangerous CO2 emissions, massive oil spills, dwindling supplies: the problems with fossil fuels are driving a long overdue reassessment of America's energy policies. US ....

Clean Soil and Safe Water

Edited by Francesca F Quercia and Dragana Vidojevic

This book addresses questions of relevance to governments and industry in many countries around the world, in particular concerning the link between contaminated-land-management ....

Environmental Inequalities beyond Borders

Local Perspectives on Global Injustices

Edited by JoAnn Carmin and Julian Agyeman

Multinational corporations often exploit natural resources or locate factories in poor countries far from the demand for the products and profits that result. Developed ....

Environmental Law And Sustainability After Rio

Edited by Jamie Benidickson, Benjamin Boer, Antonio H Benjamin and Karen Morrow

This book examines the development of environmental law in the period since the ground-breaking 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or 'Earth ....

Environmental Politics

The Age of Climate Change

Robert Garner

The impact of the environment in general, and climate change in particular, is now entrenched as a key political concern. The comprehensively revised third edition of this ....

Eradication

Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

Nancy Leys Stepan

The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian. Yet eradication, used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of a disease to zero by ....

Farm Management Pocketbook

John Nix

The John Nix "Farm Management Pocketbook" is the most widely used and most trusted agricultural costing book in the UK and is now in its 42nd edition. As always, it has ....

Food

Jennifer Clapp

Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of world's population gains a livelihood from agriculture and we all consume ....

The Frailty Model

Luc, Janssen, Paul Duchateau

Clustered survival data are encountered in many scientific disciplines including human and veterinary medicine, biology, epidemiology, public health and demography. Frailty ....

The Future of Electricity Demand

Customers, Citizens and Loads

Edited by Tooraj Jamasb and Michael Pollitt

What will electricity and heat demand look like in a low-carbon world? Ambitious environmental targets will modify the shape of the electricity sector in the ....

The God Species

How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans

Mark Lynas

In this book, Mark Lynas shows us how we must use our technological mastery over nature to protect the planet from ourselves. Building on recent scientific discoveries, Mark ....

Green Culture

An A-to-Z Guide

Edited by Kevin Wehr

This eleventh volume in the SAGE series on Green Society explores the on-going paradigm shift in culture and lifestyles toward promoting a sustainable environment. After years ....

Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality

World Health Organisation

This fourth edition of the World Health Organization's "Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality" builds on over 50 years of guidance by WHO on drinking-water quality, which has ....

Handbook of Sustainable Energy

Edited by Ibon Galarraga, Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino and Anil Markandya

Major contemporary issues and debates relating to the sustainable use of energy are addressed in this far-reaching Handbook. The contributing authors discuss the ongoing ....

Human Rights and the Environment

Edited by Dinah Shelton

In this topical collection, Professor Dinah Shelton brings together seminal articles published since the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that discuss and ....

Introduction to Environmental Economics

Edited by Nick Hanley, Jason Shogren and Ben White

An understanding of economics is vital to any understanding of why environmental problems occur and what best to do about them. This book provides an introduction to the ....

Let Them Eat Carbon

The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit from Them

Matthew Sinclair

Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world ....

Navigating Climate Change Policy

The Opportunities of Federalism

Edited by Edella C Schlager, Kirsten H Engel and Sally Rider

This timely volume challenges the notion that because climate change is inherently a global problem, only coordinated actions on a global scale can lead to a solution. It ....

The New Carbon Economy

Constitution, Governance and Contestation

Edited by Peter Newell, Maxwell T Boykoff and Emily Boyd

This book provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a ....

New Species and Technology Developments in Aquaculture

Edited by Ravi Fotedar and Bruce Phillips

This book brings together a huge wealth of commercially vital information relelvant to a wide range of applications within the aquaculture industry. ....

Noise Control

The Law and Its Enforcement

Christopher N. Penn

In recent years there has been growing public awareness of, and concern about, the adverse effects of noise, which has resulted in a substantial strengthening of statutory ....

Political Ecology

A Critical Introduction

Paul Robbins

This fully updated new edition introduces the core concepts, central thinkers, and major works of the burgeoning field of political ecology. ....

The Politics of Saving the Environment

Edited by Michael Anderson

Even as environmental consciousness and green habits become increasingly embedded with numerous individuals, many of the planets natural resources and species remain in ....

Power and People

The Benefits of Renewable Energy in Nepal

Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Avjeet Singh and Hussain A Samad

This report is an output of the technical assistance activity carried out over 2008-2010 to the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), which is the renewable energy agency ....

Responsible Tourism

Harold Goodwin

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors. At the same time, it has many negative outsourced effects. As a response to the ....

Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment

Sandra E Shumway

This book focuses primarily on the issues surrounding environmental sustainability of shellfish aquaculture. The chapters in this book will provide readers with the most ....

Structured Decision Making

A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices

R Gregory, L Failing, M Harstone, G Long, T McDaniels and D Ohlson

This book is about the creative and messy process of making environmental management decisions. The approach described here is Structured Decision Making, a distinctly ....

Systems Biology and Livestock Science

Edited by Marinus FW te Pas, Henri Woelders and Andre Bannink

This unique animal science reference, the first of its kind to apply the latest research in systems biology specifically to livestock science, offers a comprehensive ....

Tables for the Hydraulic Design of Pipes, Sewers and Channels: Volume 2

HR Wallingford and DIH Barr

This book is the second of two self-supporting volumes that make up the 8th edition of "Tables for the Hydraulic Design of Pipes, Sewers and Channels". It provides an ....

Techno-Fix

Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment

Michael Huesemann

Nanotechnology, genetic engineering, miracle drugs... we are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the ....

Transboundary Water Resources Management

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Edited by Jacques G Ganoulis, Alice Aureli and Jean J Fried

Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practical examples of effective ....

Water and Sustainable Agriculture

IF Garcia-Tejero et al

Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Consequently, ....

Working with wildlife

Guidance for the Construction Industry

J Newton, B Nicholson and R Saunders

The UK has a long history of wildlife conservation dating back to the establishment of royal hunting grounds, such as the New Forest, in the 11th century. However, the 20th ....

Bioinformatics for High Throughput Sequencing

Edited by Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, Michael Hackenberg and Ana M Aransay

Next generation sequencing is revolutionizing molecular biology. Owing to this new technology it is now possible to carry out a panoply of experiments at an unprecedented ....

Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy

Nina Berova, Robert W Woody, Prasad Polavarapu and Koji Nakanishi

This two-volume set provides an introduction to the important methods of chiroptical spectroscopy in general, and circular dichroism (CD) in particular, which are ....

Data Management of Protein Interaction Networks

Mario Cannataro and Pietro H Guzzi

Current protein-protein interaction (PPI) databases do not offer sophisticated querying interfaces and especially do not integrate existing information about proteins. Current ....

Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 1

Introduction to Experimental Design

Oscar Kempthorne and Klaus Hinkelmann

This book provides a general introduction to the philosophy, theory, and practice of designing scientific comparative experiments and also details the intricacies that are ....

Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 2

Advanced Experimental Design

Oscar Kempthorne and Klaus Hinkelmann

The development and introduction of new experimental designs in the last fifty years has been quite staggering and was brought about largely by an ever-widening field of ....

Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 3

Special Designs and Applications

Klaus Hinkelmann

This third volume in the series discusses special modifications and extensions of designs that arise in certain fields of application such as genetics, bioinformatics, ....

Dynamic Regression Models for Survival Data

Torben Martinussen and Thomas H Scheike

In survival analysis there has long been a need for models that goes beyond the Cox model as the proportional hazards assumption often fails in practice. This book studies ....

The Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Genetics

Nan M Laird and Christoph Lange

This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting ....

Handbook of Statistical Systems Biology

Michael Stumpf, David J Balding and Mark Girolami

Systems Biology is now entering a mature phase in which the key issues are characterising uncertainty and stochastic effects in mathematical models of biological ....

Linear and Nonlinear Models

Fixed effects, random effects, and total least squares

Joseph L Awange and Erik Grafarend

This book presents a nearly complete treatment of linear and weakly nonlinear regression models within the first 8 chapters. The point of view is both an algebraic view as well ....

Logistic Regression

A Self-Learning Text

David G Kleinbaum and Mitchel Klein

This very popular textbook is now in its third edition. Whether students or working professionals, readers appreciate its unique "lecture book" format. They often say the ....

Modern Issues and Methods in Biostatistics

Mark Chang

Classic biostatistics, a branch of statistical science, has as its main focus the applications of statistics in public health, the life sciences, and the pharmaceutical ....

Noise-Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences

Luca Ridolfi, Paolo D'Odorico and Francesco Laio

Randomness is ubiquitous in nature. Random drivers are generally considered a source of disorder in environmental systems. However, the interaction between noise and nonlinear ....

Numerical Methods for the Life Scientist

Binding and Enzyme Kinetics Calculated with GNU Octave and MATLAB

Heino Prinz

Enzyme kinetics, binding kinetics and pharmacological dose-response curves are currently analyzed by a few standard methods. Some of these, like Michaelis-Menten enzyme ....

Proportional Hazards Regression

John O'Quigley

The place in survival analysis now occupied by proportional hazards models and their generalizations is so large that it is no longer conceivable to offer a course on the ....

Protein NMR Spectroscopy

Practical Techniques and Applications

Edited by Gordon Roberts and Lu Yun Lian

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique in structural biology for obtaining high resolution 3-D structures of proteins, second only, and ....

Regression with Linear Predictors

Per Kragh Andersen and Lene Theil Skovgaard

This text provides, in a non-technical language, a unified treatment of regression models for different outcome types, such as linear regression, logistic regression, and ....

The Statistical Analysis of Interval-censored Failure Time Data

Jianguo Sun

This book collects and unifies statistical models and methods that have been proposed for analyzing interval-censored failure time data. It provides the first comprehensive ....

The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events

Richard J Cook and Jerald F Lawless

This book presents models and statistical methods for the analysis of recurrent event data. The authors provide broad, detailed coverage of the major approaches to analysis, ....

Statistics for Anthropology

Lorena Madrigal

Anthropology as a discipline is rapidly becoming more quantitative, and anthropology students are now required to develop sophisticated statistical skills. This book ....

The Statistics of Gene Mapping

David O Siegmund and Benjamin Yakir

This book details the statistical concepts used in gene mapping, first in the experimental context of crosses of inbred lines and then in outbred populations, ....

Survival and Event History Analysis

A Process Point of View

Odd O Aalen, Oernulf Borgan and Hakon K Gjessing

Time-to-event data are ubiquitous in fields such as medicine, biology, demography, sociology, economics and reliability theory. Recently, a need to analyze more complex ....

Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy

Bruce Hapke

Reflectance and emittance spectroscopy are increasingly important tools in remote sensing and have been employed in most recent planetary spacecraft missions. They are ....

Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology

An Introduction

Claude E Duchon and Robert Hale

This book provides an accessible overview of this notoriously difficult subject. Clearly structured throughout, the authors develop sufficient theoretical foundation to ....

UNIX and Perl to the Rescue!

A Field Guide for the Life Sciences (and Other Data-rich Pursuits)

Keith Bradnam and Ian Korf

Your research has generated gigabytes of data and now you need to analyse it. You hate using spreadsheets but it is all you know, so what else can you do? This book will ....

Dictionary of Botany

English - Spanish / Spanish - English

Kenneth Allen Hornak

By far the world's largest, most accurate, and most in-depth English-Spanish, Spanish-English work in botany: a wealth of terms compiled from thousands of botanical ....

Effective Learning in the Life Sciences

How Students Can Achieve Their Full Potential

David Adams

This book aims to help students achieve his or her true potential by learning how to solve problems creatively in laboratory, field or other workplace setting. Each chapter ....

Research Ethics for Scientists

A Companion for Students

C Neal Stewart

This book will be about best practices in all the major common areas of research management and practice that are common to scientific researchers, especially those in ....

Writing Science

How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded

Joshua Schimel

As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined by getting papers into print, but by getting ....