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Mammals
 

A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of South-East Asia

Malaysia, Singapore, Thailan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Bali, Borneo & The Philippines

Chris R Shepherd and Loretta Ann Shepherd

A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of South-East Asia contains high quality photographs from some of the area's top nature photographers, which are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, including nomenclature ... ....

160 pages | 300+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781906780715 | #201466A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

African Cats

The Story Behind the Film

Keith Scholey and Amanda Barrett

The film African Cats (2011) takes place in the heart of Africa, the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, where in place of justice and fairness, raw power rules the day. Lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, gazelles and other ... ....

208 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 06/2011 | 9781423134107 | #201821A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris

Liza M Veiga, Adrian A Barnett, Stephen F Ferrari and Marilyn A Norconk

The neotropical primate family Pitheciidae consists of four genera Cacajao (uacaris), Callicebus (titis), Chiropotes (bearded sakis) and Pithecia (sakis), whose 40+ species display a range of sizes, social organisations, ecologies and ... ....

450 pages | 25 colour & 88 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780521881586 | #200352A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Great Tuskers of Africa

Johan Marais and David Hadaway

There was a time in Africa when great tuskers roamed at will, from the deserts of Namibia to Mozambique, from Ethiopia to South Africa. Today, due to the growth of human settlement and the hunt for ivory, the large elephant herds have been ... ....

222 pages | photos, paintings |

Hardback | 12/2006 | 9780143025061 | #163579A | £58.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780143530466 | #201694A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Guide to the Land mammals of Britain

Rebecca Farley-Brown and Carol Roberts

With new colour illustrations for 2012, this guide covers all the main land mammals found in Britain. The text gives further background information on each species.

8 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Unbound | 01/2012 | 9781908819000 | #200858A | £2.99 Add to basket

 

Hedgehog Rehabilitation

A Guide to the Rescue, Rearing, Nursing, Care, Diagnosis, Treatment, Welfare and Release of the Hedgehog Erinaceus Europ

Kay Elizabeth Bullen, Keith Jones and Jane Durrant

Practical manual, aimed at people actively involved, or seriously wanting to become involved, in hedgehog rehabilitation. Deals with all aspects from an understanding of their natural history to equipping and running a unit, major causes ... ....

140 pages | 25 b/w photos |

Paperback | 07/2002 | 9780954359003 | #201381A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Mammals of Africa (6-Volume Set)

Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold and Ja Kalina

contains the very latest information and detailed discussion of the morphology, distribution, biology and evolution (including reference to fossil and molecular data) of every currently recognized species of African land mammal.

3760 pages | 660 colour illustrations, 2000+ b/w illustrations, 1100 colour distribution maps, tables |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781408122570 | #192339A | £600.00 Add to basket

 

Snow Leopard

Stories from the Roof of the World

Don Hunter and Robert Bateman

Like no other large cat, the snow leopard evokes a sense of myth and mysticism, strength and spirit shrouded in a snowy veil, seldom seen but always present. Giving a voice to the snow leopard, this collection of powerful first person ... ....

216 pages | 16 colour photos |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781607321934 | #201465A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

The Vanishing Herds

The Wild Water Buffalo

Anwaruddin Choudhury

The Vanishing Herds: The Wild Water Buffalo gives an account of the distribution, ecology, behaviour, and conservation of the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) in India, which is the forebear of all domestic buffalos. ....

184 pages | colour photos, b/w photos, illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 12/2010 | 9789380652009 | #187842A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Vicuna

The Fibre of the Gods

Loro Piana and Bruna Rotunno

After Baby Cashmere and The Lotus Flower, Loro Piana tells us the story of the vicuña and its coveted fibre. The vicuña is a small camelid that lives in the high alpine areas of the Andes. Prized since the ... ....

144 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9788857213866 | #200977A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Bats

Les Hall and Steve Parish

Bats are an amazing group of animals - they are the only mammals to have mastered true powered flight, yet they remain some of the most misunderstood and persecuted creatures.

96 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9781741935141 | #201348A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Kangaroos and Their Relatives

Karin Cox and Steve Parish

Fifty living macropod species inhabit the Australian mainland and the continent's adjacent islands. This Wild Australia Guide features every one of these delightful native mammals. Enhanced with beautiful photographs, which ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2008 | 9781741933239 | #201520A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Mammals

Karin Cox and Steve Parish

Australia is the only country in the world where representatives of the three major mammal types (placentals, marsupials and monotremes) are found. The country's sustained isolation from the rest of the world has all ...

112 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2008 | 9781741933253 | #201522A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Sea Mammals and Where to Watch Them

Lynne Adcock

Australians are lucky to live alongside more than half of the world's marine mammal species. 

This practical Wild Australia Guide takes the reader underwater with colour photos and authoritative text ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2008 | 9781741933284 | #201527A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wolves in the Land of Salmon

David Moskowitz

Wolves. We love them, idolize them, and are fascinated by them. We also hate them, fear them, and blame them. The wolf's relationship with humans is complex and can be emotionally wrought, depending on whether one is a hunter, rancher ... ....

316 pages | 100 colour photos, 16 b/w illustrations, 10 maps |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781604692273 | #199465A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia

Morton Strange

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia is a newly revised edition of the first – and best – comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Indonesia. Because of its vast size and geographical location, Indonesia ... ....

554 pages | 920 colour photos, distribution maps |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780804842006 | #201461A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Adventures Among Birds

F. J. Waydelin

Hitherto unpublished books describing experiences of old egg collectors at first hand come to light only rarely. Adventures Among Birds, prepared by F. J. Waydelin in 1944, is a case in point. It covers boyhood bird-nesting in ... ....

167 pages | 1 colour photo, b/w photos |

Hardback | 01/2012 | #201376A | £47.99 Add to basket

 

Birdwatching in Wales (Region 0)

Paul Doherty

With a coast rich in seabirds, woodlands with warblers and flycatchers, uplands with grouse and birds of prey and wetlands with wildfowl and waders, Wales has a lot to offer birdwatchers. Paul Doherty has picked twelve key sites, one for ... ....

runtime: 2 h 11 min, region 0 |

Hardback | 09/2012 | #200852A | £16.74 Add to basket

 

Eagles of Africa

Eagles of Africa celebrates the eagles of Africa in evocative text and compelling photography: Colour photographs of all 26 eagle species occurring on the African mainland – a first in publishing history.

216 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781920289669 | #201107A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Fascinating Australian Birds

Don Goodsir, Tony Oliver and Nicola Oram

This is an illustrated field guide to the better-known and special interest birds which you are likely to see when you visit Australia. It features beautiful full colour illustrations and handy facts about each bird's habitat, nesting ... ....

139 pages | 100 colour illustrations, 100 colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781921596735 | #200978A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Southern African LBJ's Made Simple

Doug Newman and Gordon King

Southern African LBJs made simple is an important new guide to the cryptic little birds that are known as 'little brown jobs' amongst birdwatchers. Using colour coding and careful design, the reader is systematically ...

136 pages | 120 colour photos, 200 colour illustrations, b/w distribution maps, includes CD |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9781770077997 | #201424A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Birdnester's Bedtime Book

W. M. Trobe

This latest book by Bill Trobe represents the fruition of an idea he has had in mind for some years. He makes the point that when he began collecting omithological literature, the cost of books both new and secondhand amounted to only ... ....

400 pages | b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2012 | #201377A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2013

Hilary Cromack and David Cromack

Even in this internet age, nothing can beat having all the information you need as a birdwatcher in one handy volume. For the past 33 years, The Birdwatcher’s Yearbook has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive reference ... ....

326 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780956987631 | #201720A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

The RHS Birdwatcher's Notebook

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)

The RHS Birdwatcher's Notebook is a practical companion for every birdwatcher. As well as plenty of space for recording what you saw and when, it includes useful reference information on how to identify unknown birds, tips ... ....

144 pages | 27 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2010 | 9780711231566 | #201345A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Birds

Lynne Adcock and Steve Parish

This great southern continent has been separated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. In that time, its flora and fauna have evolved uniquely. Many of Australia's bird species are found nowhere else on the planet, while ... ....

96 pages | colour illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 12/2008 | 9781741934250 | #201511A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Parrots

Karin Cox and Steve Parish

Raucous screeching and a sudden low-flying glint of red, green and blue is a wild Australian experience: a passing squadron of parrots. But which species were they? Where were they going, and why?

The nature of parrots ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 06/2008 | 9781741933260 | #201526A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia

Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali

Indraneil Das

A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia contains high quality photographs from the regions's top nature photographers, which are accompanied by detailed species descriptions including nomenclature, size ... ....

176 pages | 300+ colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781906780708 | #201460A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Reptilian Cytogenetics and Genomics

E Olmo

Reptiles occupy a key position in the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates. Their evolutionary history is well known, they show a wide morphological and ecological variety, and they have a particularly complex system of sex differentiation ... ....

226 pages |

Hardback | 04/2010 | 9783805594905 | #201316A | £158.00 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Freshwater Turtles

John Cann

Research into Australia's freshwater turtles has progressed greatly in the last fifteen years. A number of new species have been formally described, thus increasing our appreciation of the complex biology and diversity of these beautiful ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2008 | 9781741934120 | #201518A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Frogs

Ian Morris and Lynne Adcock

Lynne Adcock shares her expert knowledge on the secret life of Australian frogs. This practical Wild Australia Guide introduces Australia's various frog and toad families, informs about where they live and their life cycles ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 11/2009 | 9781741934113 | #201519A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

Conservation, Ecology, and Management of Catfish

The Second International Symposium

Paul H. Michaletz and Vincent H. Travnichek

Catfish species occur worldwide and are of increasing interest to anglers, biologists, aquaculturists, aquarists, and conservationists.  This book explores the incredible diversity of catfish in size, life history, and ecology. ....

780 pages |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781934874257 | #201234A | £92.50 Add to basket

 

Current Views on Fish Welfare

Hans van de Vis, Anders Kiessling, Gert Flik and Simon Mackenzie

Current Views on Fish Welfare summarises the view of more than 80 experts in the field of fish welfare, collected over a period of more than five years in an international network entitled “Welfare of Fish in European Aquatic ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9789400753822 | #200782A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Hammerhead Sharks / Pesci Martello

A De Maddalena and Alex Buttigieg

This book gives a detailed account of the hammerhead shark. This species is the easiest recognizable shark species. Hammerhead Sharks answers questions such as:"Why is their head shaped like a hammer?" and "Are they ... ....

96 pages |

Paperback | 01/2009 | #201220A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Pesci del Mediterraneo

Stefano Gargiullo and Claudio Gargiullo

Illustrates 378 species of fish that live in the Mediterranean sea. This book gives details on their identification, habits, and geographical distribution. It is aimed at fishermen and biologists, but remains accessible to the general public. ....

216 pages |

Paperback | 01/1982 | #201218A | £44.50 Add to basket

 

Sex Determination and Differentiation in Fish

A. Cnaani

Sexual development in fish is characterized by extraordinary variation, including genetic and environmental sex determination, male and female heterogamety, single gene and polygenic systems, protandry, protogyny and simultaneous hermaphroditism ... ....

122 pages |

Hardback | 08/2009 | #201322A | £66.50 Add to basket

 

Systematics, Biology, and Distribution of the Species of the Oceanic Oarfish Genus Regalecus (Teleostei, Lampridiformes,

Tyson R Roberts

The oarfish is an almost mythical animal which may pertain to cryptozoology, considering how much it has at times fascinated or terrified fishermen, sailors and scientists all around the world since the Middle-Age. This splendid monograph ... ....

268 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, b/w line drawings, tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9782856536773 | #201290A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Marine Fishes

Tony Ayling and Steve Parish

From the unusual mating systems of weedfish that give birth to live young, to the man-killing reputation of the awe-inspiring great barracuda, Australian marine fish cover a spectacular and diverse range of sizes, shapes and colours. ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 11/2008 | 9781741934229 | #201523A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

A Survey of Entomology

Gene Kritsky and Frank N Young

This book provides a concise, highly readable introduction to the study of insects, including their structure, biology, behavior, evolution, and a review of the insect orders with special emphasis on the major insect families. The new edition ... ....

240 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2011 | 9781462044498 | #200840A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Aquatic Oligochaeta of the Netherlands and Belgium

Ton van Haaren and Jan Soors

Bristle worms, or oligochaetes, are a large and diverse group of invertebrates. Most oligochaetes living in this region live in fresh or brackish water: no fewer than 124 species in total. They play an important ecological role thereby ... ....

400 pages | 200+ photos and illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9789050113786 | #201610A | £131.00 Add to basket

 

Barfisar i Sverige

En Falthandbok

Carl-Cedric Coulianos

A field guide to the approxmately 50 species of shield bugs found in Sweden.

127 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #201498A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Building Beehives For Dummies

Howland Blackiston

The easy way to build your own beehives and beekeeping equipment Building Beehives For Dummies is the follow-up book to the bestselling Beekeeping For Dummies . It provides everything you need to learn how to build some of the ... ....

312 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781118312940 | #201719A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans: Volume 4(1)

(Contribuciones al Estudio de los Crustaceos del Pacifico Este)

Michel E Hendrickx

The first volume of issue 4 of a series of volumes on marine crustaceans from the east Pacific includes 10 contributions on different aspects of crustaceans biology, fishery, distribution, management and ecology in the region of the east ... ....

158 pages | 24 plates with colour illustrations; b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 01/2006 | 9789703213245 | #201440A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans: Volume 4(2)

(Contribuciones al Estudio de los Crustaceos del Pacifico Este)

Michel E Hendrickx

The second volume of the fourth issue of a series of volumes on marine crustaceans from the east Pacific includes 8 contributions on different aspects of crustaceans biology, fishery, distribution, management and ecology in the region of .. ....

195 pages | 1 b/w photo, b/w illustrations, tables |

Paperback | 01/2007 | 9789703213245 | #201447A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans: Volume 5(1)

(Contribuciones al Estudio de los Crustaceos del Pacifico Este)

Michel E Hendrickx

The first volume of issue 5 of a series of volumes on marine crustaceans from the east Pacific includes 8 contributions on different aspects of crustaceans biology, fishery, distribution, management and ecology in the region of the east ... ....

98 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables |

Paperback | 01/2008 | 9789703213245 | #201448A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Functional Morphology and Diversity

Les Watling and Martin Thiel

Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management. One reason for the increasing ... ....

464 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780195398038 | #198762A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

Guide to Insects of the British Isles

Field Studies Council (FSC) and Richard Lewington

Written and illustrated by renowned natural history artist Richard Lewington, this new 8 panel fold-out chart is a guide to the main groups (orders) of insects on land and in water. Avoiding technical jargon, this chart shows you precisely ... ....

8 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Unbound | 09/2012 | 9781908819055 | #200855A | £2.99 Add to basket

 

Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Nymphalidae Part 5

Subfamily Nymphalinae

GC Bozano and A Floriani

The fifth volume in the series covering Nymphalidae deals with the subfamily Nymphalinae, and covers three tribes: Nymphalini, Kallimini, and Junoniini.

90 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2012 | #201319A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Guide to the Ladybird Larvae of the British Isles

Peter Brown, Helen Roy, Richard Comont, Remy Poland and Chris Shields

Ladybird larvae are often found, but not well known, as they look so different from adult ladybirds. This 8-panel fold-out chart with illustrations of the larvae of the 26 ladybird species featured on the earlier ...

8 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, 1 b/w illustration |

Unbound | 09/2012 | 9781908819048 | #200857A | £2.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Agricultural Entomology

Helmut F van Emden

Handbook of Agricultural Entomology by Helmut van Emden is a landmark publication for students and practitioners of entomology applied to agriculture and horticulture. It can be used as a reference and as a general textbook. ....

328 pages | 400+ colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780470659137 | #199910A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

House Dust Mites and Storage Mites (Acari: Oribatida: Astigmatina)

Identification Keys

Krzysztof Solarz

There are no detailed differential diagnoses and identification keys to the pyroglyphid dust mites and other domestic mites, which hinders acarological diagnostics in faunistic studies of both house-dust-mite and storage-mite allergies. ....

120 pages | b/w photos |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788361358480 | #200877A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

How to use a Horsley Board for Swarm Control

Michael Badger

An effective swarm control technique in beekeeping. How to use a Horsley Board for Swarm Control includes diagrams and straight forward step by step guide on using the board.

16 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #201453A | £3.99 Add to basket

 

Key to the Earthworms of the UK and Ireland

Emma Sherlock

Illustrated in colour throughout, this groundbreaking new AIDGAP guide should enable users to identify all 27 species of earthwoms found living freely in the UK and Ireland. Extensively tested and refined in identification workshops ... ....

44 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour tables |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781908819024 | #200864A | £8.50 Add to basket

 

Quagga and Zebra Mussels

Biology, Impacts, and Control

Thomas F Nalepa and Don Schloesser

The introduction and rapid spread of the zebra mussel in North American waters has caused great concern among industrial and recreational users of these waters. This bivalve mollusk is a biofouler that attaches to any firm substrate ... ....

544 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781439854365 | #199250A | £76.99 Add to basket

 

Un Guide Pratique pour la Gestion des Mouches des Fruits (Tephritidae) d'Importance Economique en Afrique

S Ekesi and MK Billah

A 7-chapter book with contributions from six authors with rearing and handling experiences on fruit flies in Africa. It provides information on the life cycle, damage symptoms, species composition, distribution and host plants of major ... ....

100 pages | colour illustrations |

Spiralbound | 01/2006 | #201478A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Beetles and Bugs

Patrick Honan

Australia's beetles and bugs may be small – but if we look hard enough, they show us some of the most bizarre and fascinating lifestyles and behaviours on our planet. This Steve Parish Wild Australia Guide opens up the miraculous ... ....

96 pages | colour illustrations, maps |

Paperback | 11/2008 | 9781741934076 | #201508A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Butterflies and Moths

Patrick Honan

Spectacular colourful flying insects brighten up many natural surrounds. A sudden glint of red, green, blue and brown is a wild Australian experience the passing flitter of butterflies or moths. But which species are they? How do they ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2008 | 9781741934069 | #201514A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Spiders

Patrick Honan

Australia is home to more than 2000 known species of spiders – and it is estimated that four times that number actually exist in this country waiting to be discovered! Within the ranks of Australian spiders we find some of the most ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2008 | 9781741934083 | #201528A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 147

Catalogus Typorum Trilobitorum Germaniae: I. Trilobites Cambrici, Ordovicici et Silurici - Saxa Erratica Inclusa II.

Martin Basse

This volume is a two-part catalogue of trilobites with German type localities, focusing on trilobites from the Devonian and the Carboniferious, as those are the most numerous groups in Germany. Original summary in German:

386 pages |

Paperback | 01/2009 | 9783823615392 | #201677A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 148

Lower Cretaceous Ammonites V - Desmoceratoidea

Jaap Klein and Zdenik Vasicek

The superfamily Desmoceratoidea, as presented in this Fossilium Catalogus, has representatives that persisted until the end of the Cretaceous. We have only included families, subfamilies and genera that are restricted to or ... ....

316 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783823616276 | #201678A | £138.00 Add to basket

 

From Clone to Bone

The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Palaeobiology

Robert J Asher and Johannes Muller

Since the 1980s, a renewed understanding of molecular development has afforded an unprecedented level of knowledge of the mechanisms by which phenotype in animals and plants has evolved. In this volume, top scientists in these fields ... ....

400 pages | 16 colour & 65 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781107003262 | #200902A | £64.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/1970 | 9780521176767 | #200903A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Global Environments Through the Quaternary

Exploring Evironmental Change

David E Anderson, Andrew S Goudie and Adrian G Parker

We are in the grip of global warming: sea levels are rising; glaciers are melting, Arctic sea ice is thinning, meteorological events are becoming more extreme. But how do these changes compare with the environmental changes that have occurred ... ....

424 pages | 16 colour plates, ~200 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2007 | 9780198742265 | #164118A | £31.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780199697267 | #201684A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Late Cretaceous Eocene West Antarctica Biota and Its Intercontinental Affinities

Marcelo Reguero, Francisco Goin, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Sergio Marenssi and Tania Dutra

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and ... ....

124 pages | 17 colour & 32 b/w illustrations, 6 tables |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9789400754904 | #200785A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Mammoths and the Environment

Valentina V Ukraintseva

The study of fossilised remains of herbivorous animals, particularly those rare findings with well-preserved gastrointestinal tracts filled with plant remains, is crucial to our understanding of the environment in which they lived. ....

328 pages | 107 b/w illustrations, 16 tables |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781107027169 | #201243A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

More Paleozoic Fossils

Bruce L. Stinchcomb

In this second book on Paleozoic fossils, over 840 all new specimens from this period are provided, organized by biologic (taxonomic) position. It is a real eye candy feast for fossil enthusiasts. Come and explore the fossil evidence for ... ....

160 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9780764340307 | #201397A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation, Volume 1

The Palaeoproterozoic of Fennoscandia as Context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

Victor A. Melezhik, , A. R. Prave, E. J. Hanski, A. E Fallick, A. Lepland, L. R. Kump and Strau

Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that ... ....

510 pages | 152 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642296819 | #200959A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation, Volume 2

The Core Archive of the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

Victor A. Melezhik, , A. R. Prave, A. E Fallick, E. J. Hanski, A. Lepland, L. R. Kump and Strau

Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that ... ....

576 pages | 568 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642296581 | #200956A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation, Volume 3

Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project

Victor A. Melezhik, , A. R. Prave, A. E Fallick, L. R. Kump, H. Strauss , A. Lepland and Hanski

Earth's present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes. Punctuating that evolution were several extraordinary events ... ....

528 pages | 177 colour & 12 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642296697 | #200788A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

The Historical Atlas of Prehistoric Life

Michael Benton

The history of the Earth and the history of life are endlessly fascinating to readers who want to know about origins: where did the landscape come from, where did life come from, where did humans come from? Many may think the story has ... ....

400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780785829102 | #201399A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Vascular Plants and Paleobotany

Philip Stewart and Sabine Globig

This book presents an important collection of new research that sheds new light on many aspects of the evolutionary patterns of gymnosperms, angiosperms, and pteridophtes. The book includes a new complete chloroplast genome sequence study ... ....

340 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781926692982 | #201216A | £94.99 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

Animali Marini Pericolosi

Ferruccio Chiesa

This book covers marine animals dangerous to man, and gives advice on what to do when an accident happens during your holiday on the beach. It characterises pathology, diagnosis and treatment for a range of stings, bites etc.

176 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2002 | 9788886253147 | #201231A | £48.50 Add to basket

 

Freshwater Diatom Floristic of the Late Eocene Florissant Formation, Clare's Quarry Site, Central Colorado, USA

J. Patrick Kociolek and Mary Ellen Benson

136 pages | 34 plates, 4 illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783443570491 | #201804A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Poissons de l'Ocean Indien Et de la Mer Rouge

Marc Taquet and Alain Diringer

An identification guide to over 1200 species of fish found in depths up to 60 m in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Includes over 1500 colour photos and an indentification key. Each species account gives information on the morphology ... ....

679 pages | 1500+ colour photos, b/w illustrations, 1 colour map |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9782759217663 | #200808A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

River Monsters

Jeremy Wade

Over ten feet long, it weighs in at nearly a quarter of a ton. Covering its back are armoured plates made of bone. Five hundred stiletto-sharp teeth line its long crocodilian jaws. It's a prehistoric beast of staggering proportions ... ....

320 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781409127383 | #200979A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Marine Life

Tony Ayling and Steve Parish

Spectacularly beautiful or barely noticeable – Australian marine life is an astonishing world of colour and complexity. From the death-dealing jab of a textile cone shell to the synchronised mass spawnings of corals – each creature ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 11/2009 | 9781741934236 | #201524A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

(Dis)entangling Darwin

Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy

Sara Graca da Silva, Fatima Vieira and Jorge Bastos da Silva

Charles Darwin’s curiosity had a remarkable childlike enthusiasm driven by an almost compulsive appetite for a constant process of discovery, which he never satiated despite his many voyages. He would puzzle about the smallest things ... ....

245 pages |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781443837323 | #199242A | £53.50 Add to basket

 

Angels in the Undergrowth

John R. J. Taylor

John R. J. Taylor has had an obsession with tangled wild places since he was a child and now he has put together a fascinatingly cerebral and beautiful collection of images from his personal archive. His images are wonderfully idiosyncratic ... ....

152 pages | 140 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780956626431 | #201390A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Antarctica

A Biography

David Day

For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Captain Cook sailed further south than any of his rivals but ... ....

624 pages | 16 b/w plates |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780199670550 | #199236A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Beyond the Blue Horizon

How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

Brian Fagan

We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring ... ....

336 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781408825068 | #201462A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Canon EOS Rebel T4i/650D Digital Field Guide

Rosh Sillars

Master every detail of this exciting new touchscreen dSLR Canon's new introductory-level dSLR camera boasts some revolutionary features that will be new even to Canon veterans. This convenient guide effectively explains every button ... ....

288 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781118169131 | #201572A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: St Oswald's Way and St Cuthbert's Way

Long-distance Trails in Northumberland and the Borders

Rudolf Abraham

In easy stages, this guidebook describes two long-distance trails through Northumberland and the Borders. St Oswald's Way is 97 miles from Heavenfield, near Hadrian's Wall. St Cuthbert's Way is 62 miles from Melrose, and crosses ... ....

192 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781852846695 | #201255A | £12.95 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: The Cape Wrath Trail

Iain Harper

A guide to a 200-mile, three-week trekking epic through the Scottish Highlands from Fort William to Cape Wrath. This is the most challenging long-distance trail in the British Isles, and it offers an unparalleled adventure through wild ... ....

144 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781852846671 | #201252A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: The Northern Caminos

Norte, Primitivo and Ingles

Dave Whitson and Laura Perazzoli

Three different pilgrimage routes through northern Spain to the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela: the Camino del Norte (a 790 km five-week coastal route from Irun), Camino Primitivo (which splits from the Norte at Sebrayo for the ... ....

192 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781852846817 | #201256A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: The Northern Fells

Mark Richards

A Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards exploring 23 summits in the Northern Fells of the Lake District, including a wide range of walks old and new, between Keswick to the south and Caldbeck to the north. Among the summits ... ....

256 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781852845469 | #201249A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: Trekking in Ladakh

Radek Kucharski

This Cicerone guide gives detailed descriptions of eight separate treks across a wild environment of high mountain passes and remote Buddhist monasteries. Each trek is broken down into multiple stages, and has information on difficulty ... ....

384 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781852846756 | #201244A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: Trekking in the Zillertal Alps

Trekking and Peaks in the Austrian Tyrol

Allan Hartley

Guidebook to trekking the Zillertal Rucksack Route, which traverses the very best of the range located in the Austrian Tyrol spanning the Italy-Austria border. It links huts together along good tracks without having to cross glaciers ... ....

160 pages | colour photos, colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781852847173 | #201276A | £16.95 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: Walking in Malta

33 Routes on Malta, Gozo and Comino

Paddy Dillon

The Maltese Islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino bask in sunshine at the heart of the Mediterranean, between Europe and Africa. That location has ensured that the islands have been colonised time and time again, leaving them with a colourful ... ....

224 pages | 80 colour photos, 50 colour maps |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781852847197 | #201272A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Cicerone Guide: Walking the Munros, Volume 1

Southern, Central and Western Highlands

Steve Kew

This guidebook is Volume 1 of a two-part set, detailing 69 exciting and challenging routes to climb 139 Munro mountains, covering the southern, central and western highlands. Bound in a hard-wearing, waterproof PVC cover, it includes all ... ....

272 pages | 80 colour photos, 60 maps |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781852847180 | #201248A | £14.95 Add to basket

 

Delicate Art

Artists, Wildflowers & Native Plants of the Canadian Rockies

Marybeth Laviolette

This book highlights the paintings and photography of six artists in Alberta who with passion and long moments of observation have made an inspired contribution to wildflower art. Covering a period of one hundred years to the present ... ....

160 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781927330050 | #201177A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Digital Outdoor Photography

101 Top Tips

Heather Angel

Award-winning wildlife photographer Heather Angel has created a comprehensive, must-have guide for anyone eager to create amazing nature, wildlife, landscape and macro photos. Through 101 of her best time-tested tips, each one beautifully ... ....

176 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781454701170 | #201382A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Encyclopedia of Flowers

Flower Works by Makoto Azuma Photographed by Shunsuke Shiinoki

Kyoko Wada

Flowers have been a universal cultural object for millennia. They are an important aesthetic element in everyday life worldwide, and have played a highly symbolic role in art throughout the ages. Over the past few years, Makoto Azuma has ... ....

512 pages | 200 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9783037783139 | #201375A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Flora of Suffolk

A Catalogue of the Plants (Indigenous or Naturalized) Found in a Wild State in the County of Suffolk

John Stevens Henslow and Edmund Skepper

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

An influential professor of botany at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) revived his department and helped develop the current University ... ....

156 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781108055673 | #201559A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Flower

Paintings by 40 Great Artists

Celia Fisher

This is a book about flowers and about painters. The author has chosen forty of her favourite flower paintings and as she is both expert gardener and art historian, she has all manner of fascinating things to say about the flowers, the ... ....

96 pages | 45 colour illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9780711233614 | #201436A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era

God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars

Adam Laats

This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought ... ....

268 pages |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781137021014 | #201398A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Headwaters

Walking to British River Sources

Phil Clayton

Headwaters: Walking to British River Sources visits the sources of more than fifty rivers in Great Britain, from the longest and best known to some of the shortest and most eccentric. Phil Clayton describes a series of walks ... ....

224 pages | 300+ colour photos, colour illustrations, and maps |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780711233638 | #201434A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Holding On

Iain Scott

Holding On features a stunning new collection from lain Scott, one of the world's best wildlife photographers. Tigers, lions, elephants and wolves are all included, as well as aardvark, black and white rhinos, meerkats, and ... ....

166 pages | 221 colour photos |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781899131051 | #201470A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Lynn Margulis

The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel

Dorion Sagan

Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist whose intellectual energy and interests knew no bounds. Best known for her work on the origins of eukaryotic ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781603584463 | #201391A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Mastering the Nikon D800

Darrell Young

Mastering the Nikon D800 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D800 camera. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex ... ....

576 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781937538057 | #201449A | £30.99 Add to basket

 

More Than Birds

Adventurous Lives of North American Naturalists

Val Shushkewich

The fascinating development of natural history studies in North America is portrayed through the life stories of 22 naturalists in More Than Birds: Adventurous Lives of North American Naturalists. The 19th century saw early North ... ....

288 pages | 60 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781459705586 | #201473A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Nature Lover's Almanac

365 Days of Kinky Bugs, Stealthy Critters, Prosperous Plants, and Celestial Wonders

Diane Olson and Adele Flail

Did you know that: We all have follicle mites living on our faces? In India, the humble pigeon is a symbol of lust? Jumping spiders sometimes watch TV with you? Healthy garden soil has the same characteristics as a good chocolate cake? ....

224 pages | 150 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781423622246 | #201425A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

No Space But Their Own

Poems About Birds

Joy Howard and Andrew Motion

An anthology of contemporary poetry, with original artwork, celebrating our love of birds and the enrichment that encounters with them bring to our lives. Fifty pence from the sale of each book will be donated to the RSPB.

80 pages | 6 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2010 | 9780955295256 | #201547A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Picturing the Book of Nature

Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

Sachiko Kusukawa

Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium and Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica are landmark publications in the history of ... ....

304 pages | 121 colour plates, 16 b/w photos, 2 tables |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9780226465296 | #201282A | £28.99 Add to basket

 

Reindeer Botanist

Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977

This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum ... ....

600 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781552385869 | #199867A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin and Desmond King-Hele

Erasmus Darwin has often been cited as the most widely talented man of the past 250 years. He excelled in medicine and poetry, was an inventor and wide ranging man of science, and founded several societies. This 2006 collection of 460 of ... ....

690 pages |

Hardback | 12/2006 | 9780521821568 | #162263A | £118.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781107412705 | #200834A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

The Great Animal Orchestra

Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

Bernie Krause

Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound. He has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes and has archived the sounds of over 15,000 species--half of the wild soundscapes he has on tape don't ... ....

277 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781781250006 | #196785A | £12.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2013 | 9781781250013 | #201247A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

The Herpetological Legacy of Linnaeus

A Celebration of the Linnaean Tercentenary

This special issue of Bibliotheca Herpetologica contains the proceedings of a symposium held on July 14, 2007 in conjunction with the 2007 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 11–16, 2007, St. Louis ... ....

148 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #200829A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

The Leicestershire Coleopterists

200 Years of Beetle-Hunting

Derek Lott

The Leicestershire Coleopterists: 200 Years of Beetle-Hunting tells the story of a remarkable set of people, the Leicestershire coleopterists. The study of Leicestershire beetles has proceeded in bursts of activity carried out ... ....

60 pages | 12 plates with photos and illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2009 | 9780956281500 | #201697A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

The Price of Gold

Poems About the Honey Bee

Joy Howard and Cathy Benson

A collection of poems celebrating honey bees. The current crisis of health in bee populations make this an important time to recognise their importance to us. With original artwork by Cathy Benson. Fifty pence from the sale of each book ... ....

72 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9780955295270 | #201548A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Bird Photography

Steve Parish

Steve Parish, whose highly successful career as one of Australia's best-loved nature photographers spans 50 years, shares his specialist knowledge and love of photographing birds, providing detailed and practical information ... ....

112 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map |

Paperback | 11/2009 | 9781741935165 | #201509A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Flora Photograhy

Steve Parish

Steve Parish, whose highly successful career as one of Australia's best-loved nature photographers spans 50 years, shares his specialist knowledge and love of flora photography and provides detailed and practical information on equipment ... ....

112 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map |

Paperback | 11/2009 | 9781741935158 | #201517A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Landscape Photography

Steve Parish

Australia houses a spectacular range of landscapes. From the aquamarine waters of coral reefs to the deep iron-red desert dunes. And from alpine gums in snow to sunbaked savannas – this is a beautiful continent. What better way to ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2008 | 9781741933314 | #201521A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Wildlife Photography

Steve Parish

Australia enjoys an abundance of unique wildlife – from inspiring marine mammals to colourful birds, countless species of insects and the well-known and well-loved favourites including kangaroos, Emus, wombats and Koalas.

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2008 | 9781741933307 | #201529A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 Desk Calendar

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 22. These are the same winning images as the larger wall calendar, but in a handy desk calendar-sized format.

colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | #200547A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 Wall Calendar

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 22. These are the same winning images as the desk calendar, but in a large format.

colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2012 | #200546A | £9.59 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

A Portrait of Ice

Caleb Cain Marcus

A Portrait of Ice is the second monograph by Caleb Cain Marcus. His first monograph included a foreword by Robert Frank. These new photographs are daringly sparse images of glaciers from Patagonia, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand ... ....

72 pages | 30 colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9788862082341 | #201383A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Above Scotland

The National Collection of Aerial Photography

Dave C Cowley and James Crawford

The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The high, rugged peaks of the Cairngorms look down on the rounded hills of the southern uplands. Wild moorlands run into fertile flood-plains. The coastline ranges from soft sandy ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2009 | 9781902419626 | #201155A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Above Scotland - Cities

From the National Collection of Aerial Photography (Book & 3D Viewer)

James Crawford, Allan Williams and Rebecca M Bailey

The past two centuries have marked the age of the city in Scotland. Powered by industrial growth and driven by social change, much of the nation has been transformed from the rural to the urban. But the stories of our cities began long ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 09/2010 | 9781902419657 | #201156A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts about the English Countryside

Ruth Binney

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts about the English Countryside explores the flora and fauna, customs and traditions that give the English countryside its unique charm and special identity. From the standing stones and carvings ... ....

144 pages | 100 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2011 | 9780715339015 | #201354A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Andean Deserts / Desiertos Andinos

The Enchanted Garden / El Jardin Magico / Le Jardin Feerique

Bernard Francou

Bernard Francou has lived in the Andes for twenty years, frequenting the highlands, glaciers and ice deserts, where he works as Director of Research at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), in the field of study ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9789978369234 | #201385A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Antarctica

An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent

Gabrielle Walker

There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent – its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the ... ....

404 pages | 16 plates with colour photos, b/w maps |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9781408811108 | #196229A | £19.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781408830598 | #201392A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Becoming Water

Glaciers in a Warming World

Mike Demuth

This book takes the reader on a tour of Canada's glaciers, describing the stories they tell and educating the reader about how glaciers came to be, how they work and what their future holds in our warming world. By visiting Canada ... ....

168 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781926855721 | #201202A | £14.50 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Duide: Istria

Croatian Peninsula, Rijeka, Slovenian Adriatic

Rudolf Abraham

Located at the head of the Adriatic, the Istrian peninsula is host to some of Croatia's most famous sites, including Pula's Roman amphitheatre, UNESCO protected Byzantine mosaics in Porec, picturesque medieval hill towns and ... ....

192 pages | colour photos, 25 maps |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781841624457 | #201007A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Access Africa

Safaris for People with Limited Mobility

Gordon Rattray

In Europe, 14% of the adult population is classed as disabled; the figure is 21% in the US. But the horizons of people with limited mobility, whether through disability or age, are fast expanding. This guidebook is the first to explore the ... ....

368 pages | 16pp colour photos & 28 maps |

Paperback | 08/2009 | 9781841622866 | #200988A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Armenia

With Nagorno Karabagh

Nicholas Holding

Armenia is in many ways an enigma: a strongly Christian country yet ruled for most of the last 2,000 years by outsiders who were not Christian; a country where the symbol of Mount Ararat is omnipresent even though the biblical mountain ... ....

320 pages | 16pp colour photos & 31 maps |

Paperback | 05/2011 | 9781841623450 | #200994A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Bahia

The Heart of Brazil's Northeast

Alex Robinson

When Brazilians are far from home they dream of Bahia – of its powder-fine beaches and reef-ringed islands; of waterfalls in the Diamond mountains of the arid sertao, of cobbled streets and pastel-painted houses in Salvador.

272 pages | colour photos, 30 maps |

Paperback | 11/2010 | 9781841623290 | #200995A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Borneo

Sabah Sarawak Brunei

Tamsin Thiessen

Straddling the equator, Borneo is the third largest island in the world. Largely covered in rainforest, with a magnificent coastline, it is easy to see what attracts visitors. Comprised of Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei, Borneo's unique ... ....

336 pages | colour photos, 36 maps |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9781841623900 | #200996A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Flanders

Northern Belgium: from Brussels and Bruges to Breweries, Battlefields and Bike Rides

Emma Thomson

Most people think they have Flanders – the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium – figured out: beer, chocolate and the EU are the standard tag lines. However, dig beneath the surface and you will discover a region of quirky ... ....

368 pages | 16pp colour photos & 40 maps |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9781841623771 | #201003A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Georgia

Tim Burford

At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Georgia unassumingly offers visitors the best of the Caucasus region - beautiful churches, wild and unspoiled countryside perfect for hiking and cycling, welcoming locals, homemade wines and marathon ... ....

288 pages | 16pp colour photos & 14 maps |

Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781841623573 | #201004A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Haiti

Paul Clammer

Sharing the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, Haiti is culturally the most African of Caribbean countries, and one that is largely unknown to visitors, except through popular cliches of aid dependency and 'voodoo' ... ....

240 pages | colour photos, 21 maps |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781841624150 | #201006A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Somaliland

with Addis Ababa and Eastern Ethiopia

Philip Briggs

Little known to the outside world, Somaliland has much to offer the truly intrepid traveller. This pioneering guidebook introduces one of the world's least chartered travel destinations. Author Philip Briggs covers everything from the ... ....

192 pages | colour photos, 19 maps |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781841623719 | #201029A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Swaziland

Mike Unwin

Swaziland is Africa's second smallest country and its last remaining absolute monarchy. Dwarfed by neighbouring South Africa, this tiny, landlocked nation punches well above its weight in terms of both nature and culture.

336 pages | colour photos, 27 maps |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781841624006 | #201028A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: Taiwan

Steven Crook

Taiwan is one of the most crowded countries on Earth but beyond the ocean of people and vehicles, far from the neon and noise that confronts new arrivals, there's an island of breathtaking mountain vistas, bird-rich forests and ... ....

352 pages | colour photos, 33 maps |

Paperback | 11/2010 | 9781841623306 | #201027A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guide: The Northwest Passage

Atlantic to Pacific - A Portrait and Guide

Tony Soper

The Northwest Passage is an ice-choked waterway with spectacular landscapes and a powerful history of naval endeavour. It is also an unfolding opportunity for adventurous travel. The five-century dream of a trade route to Asia by way of ... ....

160 pages | colour photos, tb/w illustrations |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781841624389 | #201026A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Bradt Travel Guides: Jordan

Carole French

With its stunning Red Sea resorts and Blue Flag beaches, world famous heritage sites, deserts and sophisticated capital, Jordan is an increasingly popular holiday destination. Bringing this fabulous country to life through words ... ....

320 pages | colour photos, 39 maps |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781841623986 | #201008A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Bushveld

A South African Field Guide

Lee Gutteridge

This is the first comprehensive photographic field guide to be published in southern Africa that covers a cross-section of the most prominent animals, plants, birds, insects and tracks and signs of a particular region. It also includes a ... ....

704 pages |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781920143534 | #200480A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Chile Highlights

Tim Burford

Chile has some of the most dramatic scenery in the world and trying to decide where to go is a challenge. Attractions range from the Atacama, the world driest desert, to the snow-capped Andes mountain range, coastal rainforest, glaciers ... ....

272 pages | 272pp colour photos inc 10 maps |

Paperback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781841624082 | #201030A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Coast: BBC Series 6 & 7

Nicholas Crane

Coast takes the shoreline as its starting point, moving inland and outwards to the sea as it explores life on the outer reaches of this island country we live on, and beyond to other shores. Host Nicholas Crane is joined by a ... ....

4 discs, runtime: 12 h, region 2, rating: E |

Paperback | 09/2012 | #200980A | £40.00 Add to basket

 

Danum Valley

The Rain Forest

Hans P. Hazebroek, Tengku Zainal Adlin and Waidi Sinun

Danum Valley Conservation Area is a 438 square kilometres tract of relatively undisturbed lowland dipterocarp forest in Sabah, Malaysia. Through this superbly illustrated, multi-faceted and adventure-filled opus, Danum's mysterious ... ....

615 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 08/2011 | 9789838121354 | #201417A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

Features of the Serpent Trail

This long-distance footpath in Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire, the Serpent Trail links the remaining fragments of lowland heath in the western part of the South Downs National Park. This new 12-panel fold-out chart features some of the ... ....

12 pages | colour illustrations |

Unbound | 01/2012 | #200862A | £3.99 Add to basket

 

Galapagos Surreal

Fernando Espinosa Chauvin

From serene iguanas to ghostly cacti, the splendor of the Galapagos Islands is reflected in the photographs of this body of work. Rich compositions and a calculated palette of black, white and shades of grey emphasize the contrasts and ... ....

108 pages | 88 b/w photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9789978369425 | #201386A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk

A Cultural and Natural History

Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Artic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was namen by Joht Franklin during a ... ....

138 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780988000902 | #199868A | £37.50 Add to basket

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9780988000919 | #200971A | £29.50 Add to basket

 

Namibia's Coast

Ocean Riches and Desert Treasure

Tony Robertson, Alice Jarvis, John Mendelsohn and Roger Swart

Rugged, sometimes bleak or forbidding, and largely uninhabited, the Namibian coast is a fascinating and complex mix of richness and paucity. The warm and dry Namib Desert stands in stark contrast to the cold waters of the Benguela current ... ....

192 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789994500161 | #200484A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

North America's Amazing Nature / Splendida Natura del Nord America

Roberto Bartoloni

Amongst many National Parks and dramatic landscapes this book includes the Everglades in Florida with its herons, spoonbills, storks, and pelicans; the Colorado Plateau, with its bizarre geological features and multitude of coloured rock ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9788895157344 | #201384A | £22.95 Add to basket

 

North Norfolk's Wildlife

Discovering Its Birds and Natural History

Andrew Bloomfield and Gary Smith

North Norfolk’s wildlife and landscapes are rich and dynamic; indeed some of Britain’s greatest natural sights and spectacles can be encountered. North Norfolk has justifiably become famed for its breeding terns, shorebirds ... ....

144 pages | 154 colour photos, 1 colour map |

Hardback | 05/2009 | 9780952245919 | #201422A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Okavango

Africa's Last Eden

Frans Lanting

This is Frans Lanting's vibrant tribute to Old Africa revisited on its 20th anniversary. Botswana, many say, represents the last of Old Africa. And in the heart of this arid land lies a place as inspiring and as incongruous as the ... ....

252 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9783836534154 | #201182A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Okavango

Africa's Last Eden

For a year, between 1988 and 1989, Frans Lanting roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana, living by the rhythms of the water and the movements of the animals as he captured them on film. The National Geographic had ... ....

252 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9783836534154 | #201168A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Peru Highlights

Alexander Stewart

Peru is a country that enchants millions of visitors every year. In such a diverse country, deciding on whether to concentrate on history and culture, outdoor activities, ancient cultures or wildlife is a challenge for even the most experienced ... ....

272 pages | colour photos, 9 maps |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781841624402 | #201031A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

River Notes

A Natural and Human History of the Colorado

Wade Davis

Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix.

176 pages | 5 maps |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781610913614 | #201393A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Scotland's Landscapes

The National Collection of Aerial Photography

James Crawford

As the glaciers of the last Ice Age receded, humans ventured into the far north, exploring a wild, fertile territory. Nomadic hunter-gatherers at first, they made the decision to stay for good – to farm and to build. The landscapes ... ....

224 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781902419824 | #201153A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods

Andrew M. Barton

The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods is both a fascinating introduction to the forests of Maine and a detailed but accessible narrative of the dynamism of these ecosystems. This is natural history with a long view, starting with ... ....

304 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781584658320 | #201395A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

The Dirty Colors of Growth

China's Huai River

Andreas Seibert

China's spectacular growth has brought not just prosperity, but also serious damage to the environment. For photojournalist Andreas Seibert, the present state of the Huai River is a clear example of these problems. Several stretches ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9783037782958 | #201213A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Firth of Forth

An Environmental History

T.C. Smout and Mairi Stewart

The Firth of Forth combines a rich wildlife with a history of long and intense human activity around its shores and in its waters. At one time, herring, cod and haddock, with many other edible fish, were vastly more numerous, but seals ... ....

240 pages |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781780270647 | #201181A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

The Sacred Headwaters

The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass

Wade Davis

A visual feast and plea to save an extraordinary region in North America for future generations. In a rugged knot of mountains in northern British Columbia lies a spectacular valley known to the First Nations as the Sacred ...

160 pages | 80 colour photos, 1 map |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781553658801 | #201374A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

The Seasons of Cumberland Island

A breathtaking look at one of America's most beautiful barrier islands

Fred Whitehead

Cumberland Island is the largest and most beloved of the Georgia barrier islands. Although it can be reached only by boat, more than forty thousand people make the trip each year to enjoy the island's natural splendor and solitude. As on most ... ....

112 pages | 118 colour photos, 1 map |

Hardback | / | #200109A | £35.95 Add to basket

 

Turned Out Nice Again

Contemplating the Weather

Richard Mabey

This is an exploration of our preoccupation with the weather, as heard on BBC Radio 3: Changing Climates. In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact ... ....

128 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781781250525 | #201292A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Dangerous and Deadly Wildlife

Ted Lewis and Steve Parish

Many visitors to Australia feel slightly nervous at the thought of a continent teeming with incredibly dangerous and ferocious animals. Our fascination with folklore and terrifying tales of native killers has created fear in the minds of ... ....

96 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2008 | 9781741934052 | #201516A | £22.50 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

A Catalogue of Irish Seaweeds

Michael D Guiry

An updated systematic catalogue of the seaweeds of the island of Ireland is presented with sources, habitats, distributions, and notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution.

249 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 10/2012 | 9783905997101 | #201331A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 62

Recent Trends in Medicinal Plants Research

Lie-fen Shyur and Allan SY Lau

Plants and other living organisms have great potential to treat human disease. There are two distinct types of biomedical research that seek to develop this potential. One type of research explores the value of medicinal plants as traditional ... ....

468 pages |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780123945914 | #201285A | £139.99 Add to basket

 

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 63

Mitochondrial Genome Evolution

L Marechal-Drouard

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Features a wide range of reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology ... ....

488 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9780123942791 | #201515A | £183.00 Add to basket

 

Algae for Biofuels and Energy

Michael A Borowitzka and Navid R Moheimani

Microalgae are one of the most studied potential sources of biofuels and bioenergy. This book covers the key steps in the production of renewable biofuels from microalgae – strain selection, culture systems, inorganic carbon utilisation ... ....

220 pages | 27 colour & 69 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9789400754782 | #201321A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Allelopathy

Current Trends and Future Applications

Zahid A Cheema, Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Wahid

Allelopathy is an ecological phenomenon by which plants release organic chemicals (allelochemicals) into the environment influencing the growth and survival of other organisms. In this book, leading scientists in the field synthesize ... ....

528 pages | 50 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642305948 | #201221A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to the Trees from the North of the Republic of Congo

David J Harris, Jean-Marie Moutsambote, Emile Kami, Jacques Florence and Samuel Bridgewater

An introduction to the trees of northern Congo. Each of the species is fully illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs. Text on identification, ecology and distribution is provided for each species.

256 pages |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9781906129804 | #201014A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Bioevaluation of World Transport Networks

Andrew Adamatzky

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a monstrous single cell well known for its task-solving abilities – solves computational geometry and logical problems, navigates robots and generates music. The slime mould could ... ....

380 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9789814407038 | #201180A | £77.99 Add to basket

 

Biotechnology for Medicinal Plants

Micropropagation and Improvement

Suman Chandra, Hemant Lata and Ajit Varma

Plant-based medicines play an important role in all cultures, and have been indispensable in maintaining health and combating diseases. The identification of active principles and their molecular targets from traditional medicine provide ... ....

477 pages | 14 colour & 35 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9783642299735 | #201323A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Botany

An Introduction to Plant Biology

James D Mauseth

As new information is introduced and environmental changes occur, Plant Biology continues to develop and evolve as a science. Updated and revised to keep pace with these developments, the Fifth Edition of ..

696 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2008 | 9780763753450 | #177730A | £39.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781449665807 | #200966A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

British Boletes

With Keys to Species

Geoffrey Kibby

Boletes are some of the most popular fungi around the world, both because they are often choice edibles and also because of their frequently exotic colours and large size. There are approximately 80 species in Britain and this book aims ... ....

78 pages | 104 colour photos and b/w line drawings |

Spiralbound | 07/2012 | #201056A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Checklist of Fungi of Malaysia

SS Lee, SA Alias, EGB Jones, N Zainuddin and HT Chan

The Checklist of Fungi of Malaysia aims to provide the latest information on the fungi known to occur in Malaysia and is compiled from published documents scattered in the literature. It has taken five years to prepare and document ... ....

556 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789675221828 | #201699A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Common Wildflowers of Spain

Austen F Colwell

Few places in the world have such a diversity of wildflowers as the Iberian peninsular and Common Wildflowers of Spain testifies well to that fact. Author Austen Colwell has built on his weekly wildflowers feature in ...

189 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 04/2008 | 9788489954724 | #199522A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Crassulaceae of India

NB Singh, UC Bhattacharyya and BP Uniyal

The Crassulaceae of India is based on detailed herbarium studies and extensive field trips, especially in the difficult terrains of the Himalaya by the senior author, where most of the Indian Crassulaceae members are located. ....

310 pages | 21 b/w distribution maps |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9788121101851 | #201211A | £67.50 Add to basket

 

Ethnobotanical Studies on Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of Himalaya

SK Sood, Sanjay K Sharma, Neelam Kumar and Harish Kumar

This book is a simple-to-read manual providing a wealth of information on the utilization of 126 trees, 106 shrubs, 11 undershrubs, and 47 climbers by the indigenous people inhabiting more than 384 villages of Jogindernagar tehsil ... ....

546 pages | 75 plates with 295+ photos, 6 illustrations, maps, 11 tables |

Hardback | 09/2009 | 9788189304676 | #201286A | £161.00 Add to basket

 

Etlingera of Sulawesi

Axel Dalberg Poulsen

The genus Etlingera is one of the largest genera in the ginger family and exhibits an amazing morphological diversity throughout its range from India, through Malesia and to the Pacific. The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is at ... ....

247+ colour photos, b/w photos, 47 b/w line drawings, distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #200850A | £93.50 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to Eucalypts: Volume 2

South-western and Southern Australia

MIH Brooker and DA Kleinig

The third edition of this volume has been expanded and completely revised, and includes an additional seventy species.

The genus 'Eucalyptus' includes over 800 species of which over 326 are treated in Australia.

428 pages | Col photos, maps |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781876473723 | #193029A | £149.99 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to Trees of the Pacific Northwest

Phillipa Hudson

This laminated guide features twenty-six native trees commonly found from Alaska to Oregon, providing common and Latin names accompanied by colour photographs of identifying features such as bark, leaves or needles, flowers, cones, seeds ... ....

Unbound | 03/2012 | 9781550175721 | #201178A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Flora Iranica, Volume 179: Papilionaceae VII, Astralagus V

D Podlech, AA Maassoumi and Sh Zarre

Volume 179 in this series treats more of the genus Astralagus, which is a large genus of about 3000 species of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae (also known as Papilionaceae), subfamily Faboideae.

312 pages | 37 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | #199590A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Flore du Gabon, Volume 43: Phyllanthaceae

MSM Sosef, LN Banak and HPB Bourobou

This sixth volume of the new editorial line of the Flora of Gabon, after three books with several families, is entirely devoted to a single family, Phyllanthaceae. This family, once considered the subfamily Phyllanthoideae within ... ....

108 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783823616344 | #201327A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Flore du Gabon, Volume 44: Cyperaceae

MSM Sosef

This volume covers the Cyperaceae, of which there are 15 genera and 171 species in Gabon.

230 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783823616399 | #201328A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Flowers

Carolyne Roehm

It has been more than a decade since Carolyne Roehm first shared her love of gardening and flower arranging. Now, for the first time ever, she turns her own photographic lens to that passion with Flowers, showcasing more than ... ....

288 pages | 300+ colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9780770436766 | #201166A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Fungal Biology in the Origin and Emergence of Life

David Moore

The rhythm of life on Earth includes several strong themes contributed by the Kingdom Fungi. So why are fungi ignored when theorists ponder the origin of life? Casting aside common theories that life originated in an oceanic primeval soup ... ....

230 pages | 28 b/w illustrations, 2 tables |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781107652774 | #200261A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Fungal Secondary Metabolism

Methods and Protocols

Nancy P Keller and Geoffrey Turner

Filamentous fungi have long been known for their ability to produce an enormous range of unusual chemical compounds known as secondary metabolites, many of which have potentially useful antibiotic or pharmacological properties.

300 pages | 32 colour & 28 b/w illustrations, 11 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781627031219 | #201333A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

How Do Spores Select Where to Settle?

A Holographic Motility Analysis of Ulva Zoospores on Different Surfaces

Matthias Heydt

In this thesis, Matthias Heydt applies digital in-line holography to achieve for the first time a complete three dimensional and real time motion analysis of Ulva zoospores, both in solution and in the vicinity of different surfaces. ....

196 pages | 44 colour & 77 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2011 | 9783642172168 | #201224A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Intermountain Flora: Volume 2A

Subclasses Magnoliidae - Caryophyllideae

Noel H Holmgren, Patricia K Holmgren, James L Reveal, Daniel E Atha and Richard Spellenberg

Volume 2, Part A, of Intermountain Flora, treating Cronquist’s subclasses Magnoliidae, Hamamelididae, and Caryophyllidae, concludes the taxonomic treatments for the series.

Treated in this, the eighth part, are ... ....

742 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2012 | #136882A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Isoprenoid Synthesis in Plants and Microorganisms

New Concepts and Experimental Approaches

Isoprenoids are important in primary and secondary metabolism. They have implications in a myriad of physiological processes notably in plants, microorganisms and parasites, and biological activities at the cellular, organism, and ecosystem ... ....

524 pages | 40 colour & 132 b/w illustrations, 24 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781461440628 | #201219A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Lake Nyasa Climatic Region

Floristic Checklist

Roy E. Gereau, Asukile R. Kajuni, Tim R. B. Davenport and Henry J. Ndangalsi

The Lake Nyasa Climatic Region described in this study is composed of the Livingstone, Kipengere, Mbeya, and Umalila ranges, Mporoto Ridge, Mt. Rungwe, and the Kitulo Plateau. The region is located on the rift escarpment at the northeast ... ....

118 pages |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781935641100 | #201421A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

MIDTAL (Microarrays for the Detection of Toxic Algae)

A Protocol for a Successful Microarray Hybridisation and Analysis

Jane Lewis, Linda K Medlin and Robin Raine

MIDTAL (Microarrays for the Detection of Toxic Algae) presents protocols for microarray hybridization of toxic algae.

96 pages | illustrations |

Spiralbound | 01/2012 | 9783905997088 | #201335A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden

Lawrence Lederman

Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden celebrates the 30,000 specimens that adorn the landscape of The New York Botanical Garden, a National Historic Landmark. This new visual tribute features lavish photographs by ... ....

272 pages | 206 colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781580933339 | #201474A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Marine Plants of the Canary Islands

Ricardo J Haroun Tabraue, Maria Candelaria Gil-Rodriguez and Wolfredo Wildpret de la Torre

Marine Plants of the Canary Islands contains more than 260 pictures from the marine habitats of the Canary Islands covering 200 seaweed species and some seagrasses. Colour photos and easy to use descriptions make it possible ... ....

358 pages | 260+ colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2009 | 9788461246816 | #201184A | £47.99 Add to basket

 

Meerespflanzen der Kanarischen Inseln

Ricardo J Haroun Tabraue, Maria Candelaria Gil-Rodriguez and Wolfredo Wildpret de la Torre

Meerespflanzen der Kanarischen Inseln contains more than 260 pictures from the marine habitats of the Canary Islands covering 200 seaweed species and some seagrasses. Colour photos and easy to use descriptions make it possible ... ....

360 pages | 260+ colour photos, colour distribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2009 | 9788461246809 | #201185A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Morphological Traits of Ganoderma lucidum Complex highlighting G. Tsugae var. janniei

The Current Generalization

Solomon P Wasser, Ivan V Zmitrovich, Maryna Ya Didukh, Wjatcheslav A Spirin and Vera F Malysheva

This book is devoted to the Ganoderma lucidum complex (Ganodermataceae, Polyporales) with special attention to the G. tsugae lineage of this complex. The book provides a review of species subdivision concepts in ... ....

187 pages | b/w photos, colour illustrations, b/w line drawings |

Hardback | 01/2006 | 9783906166490 | #201288A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Mycoheterotrophic Flowering Plants

Vincent S.F.T. Merckx

Over the course of evolution, several plant lineages have found ways to obtain water, minerals, and carbohydrates from fungi. Some plants are able exploit fungi to such extent that they lose the need for photosynthesis. The ability of a ... ....

390 pages | 20 colour & 50 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781461452089 | #200778A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Photosynthesis

Genetic, Environmental and Evolutionary Aspects

Philip Stewart and Sabine Globig

In order to function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a large array of pigments, enzymes, and other compounds to function, and these chemicals have ... ....

338 pages | Illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781926692630 | #201214A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Phytocartographical Syntheses of the Czech Republic, Volume 4

Jitka Stepankova and Bohumil Slavik

Volume 4 in this series summarizing data on the distribution of vascular plants in the Czech Republic. This volume, covers another 252 species of 23 families, including, amongst others, Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, Lamiaceae ...

162 pages | ddistribution maps |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788020020628 | #198924A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Phytopathology in Plant

Philip Stewart and Sabine Globig

This volume includes the latest research into the diseases that affect non-vascular plants. The chapters bring to light the most recent studies of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease cycles, economic impact, plant disease ... ....

334 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781926692807 | #201215A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Phytoplasma

Methods and Protocols

Matt Dickinson and Jennifer Hodgetts

Phytoplasmas are a group of bacteria that are capable of multiplying and causing severe diseases in a wide range of plant species and are transported between plants by insect vectors in which the bacteria can also multiply. Phytoplasmas ... ....

434 pages | 45 colour & 23 b/w illustrations, 29 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781627030885 | #201222A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Plankton Algae of Southeast Asia

Takaaki Yamagishi

This book is a taxonomic report on Plankton Algae found in samples collected from Southeast Asia covering Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia.

A total number of 670 taxa containing 66 taxa of Cyanophyceae, 26 taxa of Chrysophyceae ... ....

250 pages | 71 b/w plates |

Hardback | 12/2010 | 9788121107662 | #201289A | £90.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress

Narenda Tuteja and Sarvajeet Singh Gill

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

580 pages | 15 colour & 16 b/w illustrations, 16 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781461450009 | #200781A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Roberto Fritsche-Neto and Aluizio Borem

The rapid population growth and the increase in the per capita income, especially in the group of emerging countries referred to as BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has created huge pressure for the expansion ... ....

183 pages | 8 colour & 16 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9783642305528 | #201223A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands

C Sudhakar Reddy and Chris Sladden

The ecosystem of Lakshadweep Islands is very fragile and many natural and anthropogenic interventions posing a great threat to its biodiversity. The need for comprehensive information on vegetation and flora has been felt ever since the ... ....

166 pages | 400 colour photos, illustrations, maps, tables |

Hardback | 04/2011 | 9788121107846 | #201284A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Life of the Dolomites

Vegetation Structure and Ecology

Erika Pignatti, Sandro Pignatti and Philip Isenberg

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

600 pages | 400 colour & 200 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9783642310423 | #201283A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Mineral Nutrients

Methods and Protocols

Frans JM Maathuis

The study of plant mineral nutrition has both academic and applied aspects to it. Today, research into plant mineral nutrition is more pertinent than ever in the face of a growing world population and the increasing need for sustainable ... ....

342 pages | 17 colour & 13 b/w illustrations, 18 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781627031516 | #201337A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Plant Organogenesis

Ive De Smet

Organogenesis entails the regulation of cell division, cell expansion, cell and tissue type differentiation, and patterning of the organ as a whole. It is essential to gain insight into how organs are initiated and how they develop. ....

360 pages | 24 colour & 17 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781627032209 | #200769A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Resources of Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu, India

R Vijayasankar, K Ravikumar and P Ravichandran

Plant Resources of Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu, India is the result of extensive field research in the Javvadhu hills of eastern ghats and its adjoinings within Tiruvannamalai district. The district not only harbours a ... ....

756 pages | 300+ colour photos, illustrations, tables |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9788121107365 | #201217A | £119.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Responses to Drought Stress

From Morphological to Molecular Features

Ricardo Aroca

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple strategies that plants have developed to cope with drought, one of the most severe environmental stresses. Experts in the field present 17 chapters, each of which focuses on a ... ....

637 pages | 18 colour & 39 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9783642326523 | #200767A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Plants and Heavy Metals

Antonella Furini

This title focuses on the many aspects of the interaction between plants and heavy metals. Not only it describes the effects of heavy metal toxicity on the plant cell and its organs but it also examines the mechanisms that plants adopt ... ....

100 pages | 4 colour & 1 b/w illustrations, 2 tables |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9789400744400 | #201279A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Poplars and Willows

Trees for Society and the Environment

J G Isebrands and J Richardons

Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood products. This book synthesizes the latest research on poplars and willows in an accessible format, providing ... ....

624 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781780641089 | #199702A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Primulaceae d'Italia

e dei Territori Limitrofi

E di Anchisi, A Bernini, E Piaggi and F Polani

This monograph treats the family Primulacaea, also known as the primrose family, as found in Italy.

288 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 01/2004 | 9780000000895 | #199003A | £52.50 Add to basket

 

RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening

Christopher Brickell

This is fully revised and updated edition of the world's finest and most authoritative source of gardening advice, from the experts at the RHS. Marking 20 years since first publication, the updated edition of the RHS Encyclopedia ... ....

760 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781409383949 | #200239A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques

A Step-by-Step Guide to Key Skills for Every Gardener

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)

This step-by-step guide to essential Royal Horticultural Society gardening practice is a must-have reference showing modern methods to a new generation of gardeners. Compiled by leading RHS specialists in every area of gardening, the book ... ....

480 pages | 1600 colour illustrations and 100 colour photographs |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781845337322 | #200294A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Illustration of Common Medicinal Plants in Taiwan, Volume 1

Huang Zengquan and Gao Wenhui

This series is comprised of a total of three volumes, in which 1217 wild or cultivated medicinal plants are recorded. The first volume in this series contains 328 medicinal plants. The name, spoecies name, family name, variant name ... ....

356 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2009 | 9789860209303 | #201280A | £146.00 Add to basket

 

The Illustration of Common Medicinal Plants in Taiwan, Volume 2

Huang Zengquan

This series is comprised of a total of three volumes, in which 1217 wild or cultivated medicinal plants are recorded. The name, spoecies name, family name, variant name, morphology, producing area, distribution, content, pharmacology ... ....

490 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789860296358 | #201281A | £122.00 Add to basket

 

The Little Book of Popular Perennials

A Guide to the Selection and Cultivation of Your Favourite Plants

Maureen Little

If, like most of us, you love perennials and grow them in your garden, this new, straightforward book is for you. It is an easy-to-use, portable reference text on every aspect of growing and caring for a thoughtful selection from this ... ....

256 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781905862900 | #201169A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Mediterranean Cystoseira (With Photographs)

Ergun Taskin, Regine Jahn, Mehmet Ozturk, Giovanni Furnari and Mario Cormaci

In this study, all Cystoseira taxa (at species and infraspecific level) reported from the Mediterranean Sea by several authors are evaluated. A total of 41 taxa (at species and infraspecific level) are reported as current from the Mediterranean Sea ... ....

75 pages | 50 colour & 21 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789758628216 | #201012A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

The Miracle of Trees

Olavi Huikari

What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? Here, Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on a journey deep into the secrets of these ... ....

64 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781904263791 | #201164A | £5.99 Add to basket

 

The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs

Karla Dakin, Lisa Lee Benjamin and Mindy Pantiel

Until recently, most green rooftop gardens were little more than variations on sedum mats on four inches of soil. Now, designers are creating cutting-edge green roofs that focus not only on critical environmental issue like heat, storm ... ....

312 pages | 166 colour photos, 34 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781604693126 | #200017A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

The Science of Algal Fuels

Phycology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology

Richard Gordon and Joseph Seckbach

This volume, The Science of Algal Fuels (volume 25 of COLE), contains 26 chapters dealing with biofuels contributed by experts from numerous countries and covers several aspects of algal products, one being "oilgae from algae ... ....

510 pages | 125 colour & 43 b/w illustrations, 32 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9789400751095 | #201329A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Transgenic Cotton

Methods and Protocols

Baohong Zhang

Cotton is the most important textile and cash crop and is widely cultivated in more than 70 countries, including the United States, China, and India. Because its long life cycle and complicated genetic background, it is hard to improve ... ....

352 pages | 28 colour & 27 b/w illustrations, 27 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781627032117 | #200780A | £85.50 Add to basket

 

Trees and Shrubs of Alberta

Kathleen Wilkinson

Seventy-seven of Alberta's native and naturalized trees and shrubs are described and illustrated in this comprehensive pictorial field guide. Featuring such common coniferous species as spruces, pines and junipers, it also reveals the ... ....

192 pages | 180 colour photos and b/w line drawings |

Paperback | 03/2010 | 9781551058542 | #201624A | £28.50 Add to basket

 

Tricholomas of North America

A Mushroom Field Guide

Alan E Bessette, William C Roody, Arleen R Bessette and Steven A Trudell

More than 100 mushrooms in the genus Tricholoma have been reported in North America. Most are relatively large, showy mushrooms that grow on the ground near many species of temperate forest trees, both hardwoods and conifers.

224 pages | 186 colour photos |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780292742338 | #199211A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Une Introduction Aux Arbres Du Nord De La Republique Du Congo

David J Harris, Jean-Marie Moutsambote, Emile Kami, Jacques Florence and Samuel Bridgewater

An introduction to the trees of northern Congo. Each of the species is fully illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs. Text on identification, ecology and distribution is provided for each species.

256 pages |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9781906129811 | #201016A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

Weed Anatomy

Hansjoerg Kraehmer and Peter Baur

The primary objective of Weed Anatomy is to provide a comprehensive insight into the anatomy of around 50 globally-important weeds and to understand how plants may react to environmental events such as herbicide application. ....

544 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780470659861 | #201594A | £250.00 Add to basket

 

Wild Australia Guide: Native Plants

Cathy Hope and Steve Parish

Australia enjoys a vast array of unique and fascinating plants that are not only vital to our ecosystem but provide a spectacular environment. This Wild Australia Guide features up-to-date information on the state of our native ... ....

112 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 10/2008 | 9781741934243 | #201525A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Wild Flowers of Sri Lanka

Arittha Wikramanayaka

Wild Flowers of Sri Lanka offers a window into the amazing world of wild flowers on the island of Sri Lanka. Each flower is illustrated with a colour photo, as well as a black-and-white scan of the leaves, vital for ... ....

349 pages | colour & b/w photos |

Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789559982821 | #199014A | £34.99 Add to basket

 
Animal & General Biology
 

Amino Acid Metabolism

David A Bender and David A Bender

Amino Acid Metabolism, 3rd Edition covers all aspects of the biochemistry and nutritional biochemistry of the amino acids. Starting with an overview of nitrogen fixation and the incorporation of inorganic nitrogen into amino acids ... ....

478 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9780470661512 | #199140A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology

Mark Stoneking

Filling a unique and unmet need for introductory molecular anthropology texts, An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology covers basic genetic concepts, such as what genes are, what they do, and how they are inherited.

250 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781118061626 | #201194A | £53.50 Add to basket

 

Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice

Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice presents practical and realistic methods for all veterinary professionals working with owners to improve patients' welfare within the constraints of everyday practice. It provides useful ... ....

244 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781444334876 | #201537A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Dermatology

Hilary Jackson and Rosanna Marsella

The BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Dermatology begins by providing the reader with a grounding in examination and investigative techniques. The second section of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Dermatology provides ... ....

296 pages | colour photos |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781905319275 | #201577A | £88.99 Add to basket

 

BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Haematology and Transfusion Medicine

Michael J Day and Barbara Kohn

The first edition of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Haematology and Transfusion Medicine was a leader in its field, and this new edition has been eagerly awaited.

The basic principles of haematology, which form ... ....

348 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9781905319299 | #201539A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

BSAVA Manual of Feline Practice

A Foundation Manual

Severine Tasker and Andrea Harvey

A source of practical and easy-to-follow advice for veterinarians in general practice who encounter a wide variety of common feline problems. The BSAVA Manual of Feline Practice is divided into three sections: an introduction to ... ....

400 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781905319398 | #201576A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

BSAVA Pocket Book for Vets

Sheldon Middleton

The BSAVA Pocketbook for Vets aims to provide the new graduate (and possibly the not so new) with a precise and quick guide to the important drugs, tests and procedures most commonly encountered in small animal practice ... ....

224 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781905319510 | #201578A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

BSAVA/VPIS Guide to Common Canine and Feline Poisons

VPIS

BSAVA/VPIS Guide to Common Canine and Feline Poisons presents thumbnail sketches of pertinent information relating to poisoning of small animal pets by commonly encountered substances, plants and other items. For each agent ... ....

184 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781905319459 | #201579A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Bacterial Cell Surfaces

Anne H. Delcour

In recent years, molecular microbiology has emerged as a top, cutting-edge biological discipline, thanks to the multi-disciplinary and integrative approaches taken by investigators seeking to understand the intricacies of the microbial ... ....

434 pages | 15 colour & 50 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781627032445 | #200770A | £98.99 Add to basket

 

Bacterial Spores

Current Research and Applications

Ernesto Abel-Santos

Bacterial endospores are dormant structures produced by stressed bacterial cells. Due to their intrinsic resistance, endospores are perfect vehicles for causing infection. A number of endospore-producing bacteria can cause diseases ... ....

292 pages | colour & b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9781908230003 | #201303A | £225.00 Add to basket

 

Brain Aromatase, Estrogens, and Behavior

It is well known that the class of steroid hormones known as estrogens have powerful effects on organs related to reproduction such as the uterus and the breast. What is less well known is that estrogens also profoundly modulate brain ... ....

560 pages | 96 illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780199841196 | #201686A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Cell Senescence

Methods and Protocols

Lorenzo Galluzzi, I Vitale, O Krepp and G Kroemer

Cell senescence is the process whereby cells permanently lose the possibility to proliferate without undergoing cell death, and occurs in a plethora of distinct model organisms. In Cell Senescence: Methods and Protocols, expert ... ....

586 pages | 55 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 15 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781627032384 | #200771A | £113.00 Add to basket

 

Chromosome Structure and Function

A. Houben

Our understanding of the function and structure of chromosomes and their interrelationship has grown in recent years. The chapters in this issue describe the advances that have been made possible by combining microscope techniques with ... ....

180 pages |

Hardback | 07/2009 | 9783805592123 | #201318A | £103.00 Add to basket

 

Duplicity Theory of Vision

From Newton to the Present

Bjorn Stabell and Ulf Stabell

The duplicity theory of vision concerns the comparisons (both differences and similarities) and interaction between the cone and rod systems in the visual pathways, with the assumption that the cone system is active during daylight vision ... ....

238 pages | 15 illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2009 | 9780521111171 | #201187A | £73.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781107412842 | #201309A | £26.99 Add to basket

 

Epidemiology for Field Veterinarians

An Introduction

Evan Sergeant and Nigel Perkins

Intended as an introduction for veterinarians and other animal health professionals interested in and wishing to apply epidemiological methods in their day-to-day work, this book provides a practical guide for those new to the field. ....

256 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781845936914 | #199724A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Equine Genomics

Bhanu P. Chowdhary

The complete mapping of the horse genome sequence makes a significant contribution to understanding equine biology. Equine Genomics provides a timely comprehensive overview of equine genomic research. Chapters detail key ... ....

336 pages |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780813815633 | #201581A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Essential Microbiology

Stuart Hogg

Essential Microbiology 2nd edition is a fully revised comprehensive introductory text aimed at students taking a first course in the subject. It provides an ideal entry into the world of microorganisms, considering all aspects of ... ....

512 pages |

Hardback | 06/2005 | 9780471497530 | #149295A | £130.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 04/2013 | 9781119978909 | #201634A | £34.95 Add to basket

 

Essentials of Genetics

William S Klug, Michael R Cummings, Charlotte A Spencer and Michael A Palladino

Known for its focus on conceptual understanding, problem solving, and practical explanations, this best-seller strengthens problem solving coverage and explores the essential genetics content today’s students need to know. ....

624 pages | illustrations, tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780321803108 | #201163A | £40.99 Add to basket

 

Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy

John C Avise

Covering both the internal and external incubation of offspring, this book provides a biology-rich survey of the natural history, ecology, genetics, and evolution of pregnancy-like phenomena. From mammals and other live-bearing organisms ... ....

368 pages | 60 b/w illustrations, 39 b/w line drawings |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780231160605 | #198802A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Fluorescent Analogues of Biomolecular Building Blocks

Design and Applications

The first book to serve as both an introduction and state-of-the-art biophysical applications of fluorescent probe, Fluorescent Analogues of Biomolecular Building Blocks focuses on design, synthesis, and implementation of new ... ....

300 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781118175866 | #201195A | £83.50 Add to basket

 

Genomics of Tree Crops

RJ Schnell and PM Priyadarshan

Trees that are indispensably supportive to human life pose a formidable challenge to breed them to suit to human needs. From soft drinks to breweries to beverages to oil to tires, the value added products from trees give a spectrum of ... ....

380 pages | 19 colour & 5 b/w illustrations, 11 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781461409199 | #201207A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Life's Ratchet

How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos

Peter M. Hoffmann

Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos shows how the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine – and to life itself. The cells in our bodies consist of molecular ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780465022533 | #201571A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Limits of Patentability

Plant Sciences, Stem Cells and Nucleic Acids

Andreas Hubel, Ulrich Storz and Aloys Huttermann

SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. In Limits of Patentability the limits of patentability are addressed, a ... ....

54 pages | 2 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9783642328404 | #200775A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Meiosis

R. Benavente and J.-N. Volff

Meiosis is a key event in the life of all sexually reproductive organisms. As a consequence of recombination and segregation of maternal and paternal sets of chromosomes, it represents the largest natural source of genetic variability. ....

160 pages |

Hardback | 10/2008 | 9783805589673 | #201326A | £279.00 Add to basket

 

Metabolomics in Practice

Successful Strategies to Generate and Analyze Metabolic Data

Michael Lammerhofer and Wolfram Weckwerth

Unlike other handbooks in this emerging field, this guide focuses on the challenges and critical parameters in running a metabolomics study, including such often-neglected issues as sample preparation, choice of separation and detection ... ....

440 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9783527330898 | #201132A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Microbial Pathogenomics

H. De Reuse and S. Bereswill

Microbial Pathogenomics contains a unique collection of reviews demonstrating how genomics has revolutionized our understanding of virulence, host-adaptation strategies and the evolution of bacterial pathogens. Current technologies ... ....

214 pages |

Hardback | 08/2009 | 9783805591928 | #201325A | £299.00 Add to basket

 

Molecular and Evolutionary Cytogenetics of Domestic Animals

D.A.F. Villagomez and W.A. King

This collection of papers illustrates the renewed interest in and importance of the discipline among an elite group of scientists working around the world. It covers both basic and applied aspects of animal chromosome and genome studies ... ....

226 pages |

Hardback | 11/2009 | 9783805593465 | #201317A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Oocyte Physiology and Development in Domestic Animals

R Krisher

Oocyte Physiology and Development in Domestic Animals reviews the most recent advances in the research of physiological and biochemical mechanisms underlying oocyte growth and development, providing readers with the fundamental ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780470959206 | #201191A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins

Kinetics and Mechanism

Virender K Sharma and Steven E Rokita

Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins summarizes the chemical mechanisms and detailed kinetics of amino acid and peptide oxidation to help understand how proteins break down or dissociate when under stress in biological ... ....

412 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780470627761 | #199149A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Phylogenomics

A Primer

Rob DeSalle

Phylogenomics introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the field of phylogenomics, the discipline that integrates evolutionary biology and genomics. The book presents an overview of the interlinking aspects of molecular ... ....

288 pages | 170 colour illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780815342113 | #201415A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Physical Principles in Sensing and Signaling

With an Introduction to Modeling in Biology

Robert G Endres

Although invisible to the bare eye, bacterial cells are large enough to make complex decisions. Cells are composed of thousands of different molecular species including DNA, proteins, and smaller molecules, allowing them to sense their ... ....

184 pages | 69 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9780199600632 | #201689A | £44.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780199600649 | #201690A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Plant Centromere Biology

Jiming Jiang

Plant Centromere Biology is dedicated to plant centromere research. Chapters cover the structure of centromeres from several plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, maize, wheat and beet, while other sections cover ... ....

208 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781119949213 | #201593A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Plant Transposable Elements

Impact on Genome Structure and Function

Marie-Angele Grandbastien and Josep M Casacuberta

Transposable elements are DNA sequences with the capacity to move within a genome. Although their presence and impact has long been known, the recent genome-wide analysis of many eukaryotic genomes has uncovered their major role in genome dynamics ... ....

363 pages | 34 colour & 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9783642318412 | #200773A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

Polyploidy and Genome Evolution

Pamela S Soltis and Douglas E Soltis

Polyploidy – whole-genome duplication (WGD) – is a fundamental driver of biodiversity with significant consequences for genome structure, organization, and evolution. Once considered a speciation process common only in plants ... ....

723 pages | 50 colour & 16 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642314414 | #199606A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing

Paul Aldridge and Louise O'Dwyer

Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing is a quick reference focusing on the practical application of emergency and critical care skills, including step-by-step guides with detailed photographs to assist the reader ... ....

256 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780470656815 | #201575A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Protein Engineering Handbook, Volume 3

Stefan Lutz and Uwe Theo Bornscheuer

An introduction to 17 innovative and commercially important approaches to engineering novel and improved proteins for diverse applications in biotechnology, chemistry, bioanalytics and medicine. As such, key developments covered in this ... ....

502 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9783527331239 | #201612A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control

John W.B. Hershey, Nahum Sonenberg and Michael B. Mathews

The synthesis of proteins by ribosomes is a fundamental cellular process. Cells must tightly control protein synthesis to maintain homeostasis and regulate proliferation, growth, differentiation, and development. Indeed, aberrant ... ....

352 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781936113460 | #201408A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Repetitive DNA

The experimental data that have been generated using new molecular techniques associated with the completion of genome projects have changed our perception of the structural features, functional implications and evolutionary dynamics of repetitive ... ....

230 pages |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9783318021493 | #201324A | £289.00 Add to basket

 

Reverse Genetics of RNA Viruses

Applications and Perspectives

Anne Bridgen

Reverse genetics, the genetic manipulation of RNA viruses to create a wild-type or modified virus, has led to important advances in our understanding of viral gene function and interaction with host cells. Since many severe viral human ... ....

408 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780470979655 | #201121A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff

Lila Miller and Stephen Zawistowski

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff, Second Edition is the premier reference on shelter medicine. Divided into sections on management, species-specific animal husbandry, infectious disease, animal cruelty, shelter ... ....

744 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9780813819938 | #201580A | £53.99 Add to basket

 

The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

From the Lost Ark to the New 300 - and Beyond

Karl PN Shuker

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and laymen alike appear to have been peculiarly confident that the world had been thoroughly explored and most of its creatures named and documented. Few, if any, large animals still await ... ....

368 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9781616461089 | #196152A | £95.50 Add to basket

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781616461300 | #201350A | £44.50 Add to basket

 

The Human Microbiota and Microbiome

J R Marchesi

Thousands of different microbial species colonize the human body, and are essential for our survival. This book presents a research-level review of the current understanding of human microbiomes, the functions that they bring to the host ... ....

280 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781780640495 | #199697A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

The Nature of Nutrition

A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

Stephen J Simpson and David Raubenheimer

Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive ... ....

260 pages | 8 colour & 61 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780691145655 | #201291A | £34.95 Add to basket

 

The Prokaryotes

Prokaryotic Physiology and Biochemistry

EF DeLong, E Stackebrandt, S Lory and F Thompson

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to ... ....

710 pages | 60 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9783642301407 | #199443A | £513.00 Add to basket

 

The Prokaryotes

Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology

EF DeLong, E Stackebrandt, S Lory and F Thompson

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to .. ....

600 pages | 100 colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9783642301223 | #199442A | £513.00 Add to basket

 

The Synapse

Morgan Sheng, Bernardo Sabatini and Thomas C. Sudhof

Synapses are bulbous structures where two neurons communicate. Neurotransmitter molecules released from the pre-synaptic terminal of one neuron diffuse to the post-synaptic terminal on the other, binding to receptors that lead to ... ....

300 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781936113026 | #201456A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes

Concepts, Strategies and Techniques

Michael F. Carey, Craig L. Peterson and Stephen T. Smale

Strategies for studying gene regulation mechanisms have changed dramatically over the past several years in light of the emergence of complete genome sequences for many organisms as well as the development of ...

620 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 01/2009 | 9780879697778 | #201451A | £155.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 01/2009 | 9780879697624 | #201452A | £107.00 Add to basket

 

Ultrastructural Plasticity of Cyanobacteria

Olga I Baulina

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the cell biology of cyanobacteria, a group of phototrophic microorganisms performing an important function in the biosphere. The chapters present the author's and her colleagues' pioneering ... ....

212 pages | 12 colour & 102 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9783642327803 | #201314A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Understanding Microbes

An Introduction to a Small World

Jeremy W Dale

We can't see them, but microbes are the dominant form of life on Earth. They make up half of the world's biomass. They were here billions of years before we were, and they will be here after we are gone. Without their activity ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781119978800 | #201192A | £59.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781119978794 | #201542A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Veterinary Cytogenetics

W.A. King, L. Iannuzzi and D.A.F. Villagomez

This special topic issue on Veterinary Cytogenetics is dedicated to the Swedish scientist Ingemar Gustavsson, one of the pioneers of domestic animal cytogenetics, whose ground-breaking research has shaped this discipline for over 40 years. ....

188 pages |

Hardback | 05/2008 | 9783805585613 | #201320A | £103.00 Add to basket

 

Veterinary Forensics

Animal Cruelty Investigations

Melinda D Merck

Veterinary Forensics, Second Edition is a practical reference on applying veterinary forensic findings in animal cruelty cases. Now providing a greater focus on findings in animals, the second edition continues to offer guidance ... ....

424 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780470961629 | #201129A | £75.58 Add to basket

 
Evolutionary Biology
 

Accelerating Evolutionary Change through Adaptive and Directed Mutation

Milton H Saier

Mutation provides the molecular basis for evolutionary change. Directed mutation occurs specifically in response to the stress condition that the induced mutation relieves, while adaptive mutation is defined as a mutation that occurs at variable ... ....

82 pages |

Paperback | 01/2012 | 9783805599207 | #201315A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

Genetics, Evolution, Variation

G Richard Scott and Joel Irish

Researchers have long had an interest in dental morphology as a genetic proxy to reconstruct population history. Much interest was fostered by the use of standard plaques and associated descriptions that comprise the Arizona State University ... ....

500 pages | 8 colour & 107 b/w illustrations, 47 tables |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781107011458 | #199589A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton

A Paleopathology Perspective

Ethne Barnes

Written by one of the most consulted authorities on the subject, Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton is the pre-eminent resource for developmental defects of the skeleton. This guide focuses on localized ... ....

232 pages | photos, illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781118013885 | #201127A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

Darwin Among the Machines

The Evolution of Global Intelligence

George Dyson

As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information ... ....

304 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780465031627 | #201418A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Grandfather's Tale

The Story of Human Evolution and Dispersal

Gene Lessard

Where did we come from? Who are our ancestors? How did we go about filling nearly overy niche on earth from the Arctic tundra to the tropical forests? This is the story of our evolution beginning in Africa around 6 million years age with ... ....

440 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781477618103 | #201570A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Life's Vital Link

The Astonishing Role of the Placenta

YW Loke

The development of the placenta was a pivotal event in evolution. Without it, we would still be laying eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring. It represents the critical link between the foetus and the mother, but its character is .. ....

256 pages | 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780199694518 | #201149A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Masters of the Planet

The Search for Our Human Origins

Ian Tattersall

When Homo sapiens made their entrance 100,000 years ago they were confronted by a wide range of other early humans – Homo erectus, who walked better and used fire; homo habilis who used tools; and of course the .. ....

288 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780230108752 | #197691A | £16.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781137278302 | #201435A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

The Fragile Wisdom

An Evolutionary View on Women's Biology and Health

Grazyna Jasienska

So many women who do everything right to stay healthy still wind up with breast cancer, heart disease, or osteoporosis. In The Fragile Wisdom, Grazyna Jasienska provides an evolutionary perspective on the puzzle of why disease ... ....

298 pages | 19 b/w illustrations, 3 tables |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780674047129 | #201394A | £25.95 Add to basket

 
Ecology
 

African Ecology

Benchmarks and Historical Perspectives

Clive Alfred Spinage

In view of the rapidly changing ecology of Africa, this work provides benchmarks for some of the major, and more neglected, aspects, with an accent on historical data to enable habitats to be seen in relation to their previous state, for ... ....

1603 pages | 4 colour & 328 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9783642228711 | #201229A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes

Stephen Wratten, Harpinder Sandhu, Ross Cullen and Robert Costanza

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands). They underpin life on earth, provide major inputs ... ....

217 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781405170086 | #201586A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Halophiles and Hypersaline Environments

Current Research and Future Trends

Antonio Ventosa, Aharon Oren and Yanhe Ma

This book presents the latest results in the exploration of halophilic bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses. Basic and molecular aspects as well as possible biotechnological applications of halophiles are highlighted by leading scientist ... ....

407 pages | 28 colour & 55 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2011 | 9783642201974 | #201287A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Novel Ecosystems

Intervening in the New Ecological World Order

Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs and Carol Hall

Land conversion, climate change and species invasions are contributing to the widespread emergence of novel ecosystems, which demand a shift in how we think about traditional approaches to conservation, restoration and environmental ... ....

392 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781118354223 | #201585A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Population and Community Ecology of Ontogenetic Development

Andre M de Roos and Lennart Persson

Most organisms show substantial changes in size or morphology after they become independent of their parents and have to find their own food. Furthermore, the rate at which these changes occur generally depends on the amount of food they ... ....

448 pages | 125 b/w illustrations, 10 tables |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780691137575 | #198824A | £44.95 Add to basket

 

The Balance of Nature and Human Impact

Klaus Rohde

It is clear that nature is undergoing rapid changes as a result of human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries and urbanisation. What effects do these activities have? Are they disturbing equilibria in ecological ... ....

450 pages | 12 colour & 42 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781107019614 | #199738A | £64.99 Add to basket

 
Habitats & Ecosystems
 

Calcareous Mires of Slovakia

Landscape Setting, Management and Restoration Prospects

Ab Grootjans, Andre Jansen and Viera Sefferova Stanova

Slovakia is rich in wetlands, being by springs, brooks, as well as peat moors and bogs. Calcareous Mires of Slovakia discusses a number of these areas. Each chapter treats a specific area in-depth, and treats topics ... ....

256 pages | colour illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9789050114417 | #201546A | £45.99 Add to basket

 

Ecorestoration of the Coalmine Degraded Lands

Subodh Kumar Maiti

The book adopts an application-oriented approach for ecorestoration of coalmine degraded. The theoretical aspects of ecorestoration, and steps involved in ecorestoration process and experimental aspects of thorough analytical procedures ... ....

469 pages | 11 colour & 47 b/w illustrations, 114 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9788132208501 | #200787A | £117.00 Add to basket

 

Environmental Hazards

Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

Keith Smith

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the ... ....

496 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2008 | 9780415428651 | #173119A | £32.99 Add to basket

Hardback | 11/2008 | 9780415428637 | #173120A | £110.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780415681063 | #201159A | £32.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780415681056 | #201161A | £110.00 Add to basket

 

Features of the Meres and Mosses of Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire

Pete Boardman

This new 12 panel fold-out chart showcases the wildlife of the Meres and Mosses landscape of Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire. Although not well known outside the local area, this landscape has the largest groups of natural lakes ... ....

12 pages | colour illustrations |

Unbound | 01/2012 | #200860A | £3.99 Add to basket

 

Global Challenges in Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Volume 2

Erlend Moksness, Einar Dahl and Josianne Stottrup

Growing pressure from increasingly diverse human activities coupled with climate change impacts threaten the functional integrity of coastal ecosystems around the globe. A multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding drivers .... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780470657560 | #201583A | £140.00 Add to basket

 

Infectious Forest Diseases

P Gonthier

Today, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection ... ....

704 pages |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781780640402 | #199646A | £145.00 Add to basket

 

Managing Visitor Safety in the Countryside

Visitor Safety in the Countryside Group

Leisure and recreational use of the countryside continues to increase, as do the often conflicting demands of a wide range of users. Managing Visitor Safety in the Countryside is a completely up to date guide for the owners and ... ....

90 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2011 | 9780956984401 | #199682A | £16.50 Add to basket

 

Mid-Atlantic Freshwater Wetlands

Advances in Wetlands Science, Management, Policy and Practice

Robert P. Brooks, and Denice Heller Wardrop

The lands and waters of the Mid-Atlantic Region (MAR) have changed significantly since before the 16th century when the Susquehannock lived in the area. Much has changed since Captain John Smith penetrated the estuaries and rivers during ... ....

397 pages | 21 colour & 56 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781461455950 | #200795A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Resilience and the Cultural Landscape

Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments

Tobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling

All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural landscape' and 'resilient ... ....

350 pages | 68 b/w illustrations, 13 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781107020788 | #201533A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Responses to Coastal Erosion in Alaska in a Changing Climate

A Guide for Coastal Residents, Business and Resource Managers, Engineers, and Builders

Orson P. Smith and Mikal K. Hendee

This well-illustrated book addresses the basics of coastal erosion along Alaska’s huge and diverse shoreline, and reviews options for responses available to residents and managers of coastal resources. Readers will find recommendations ... ....

120 pages |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9781566121651 | #201330A | £47.99 Add to basket

 

The ASEAN Heritage Parks

A Journey to the Natural Wonders of Southeast Asia

Monina T Uriarte

The book traces the background of the ASEAN Heritage Parks Programme and describes features of the ASEAN Heritage Parks such as information on the habitats and ecosystems, rich wildlife, threats to natural resources ... ....

292 pages |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9789719416432 | #201340A | £56.50 Add to basket

Hardback | 01/2010 | 9789719416432 | #201341A | £67.50 Add to basket

 

The Mongolian Ecosystem Network

Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes

Norio Yamamura, Fujita Noboru and Maekawa Ai

The aim of this book is to describe what is currently occurring in the Mongolian grasslands, to analyze how various factors creating environmental problems interact, and to suggest solutions for sustainable management of the grasslands. ....

331 pages | 27 colour & 102 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9784431540519 | #200783A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

The Plough that Broke the Steppes

Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914

David Moon

This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. From the early-eighteenth century, settlers moved to the semi-arid but fertile grasslands from wetter, forested regions in central and northern Russia and Ukraine, and from ... ....

304 pages | 3 b/w illustrations, 4 maps |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780199556434 | #199107A | £64.99 Add to basket

 
Conservation & Biodiversity
 

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation

Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action

Ben Collen, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jonathan EM Baillie and Sarah M Durant

As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing pressure. Scientists and policy makers are frequently hampered by a lack of information on biological systems, part ... ....

486 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781444332926 | #201540A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Biosequestration and Ecological Diversity

Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

Wayne A. White

Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earth's forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher levels of waste in the form of greenhouse gases – as well as a diminished capacity ... ....

250 pages | 15 colour & 16 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781439853634 | #201493A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Care of Australian Wildlife

For Gardeners, Landholders, Motorists and Wildlife Carers

Even Australians in the heart of cities have frequent encounters with wildlife and we are increasingly aware of how difficult it is for these animals to survive in our modified landscape. The book takes us into the world of ...

Paperback | 09/2004 | 9781741102079 | #201183A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Earth At Risk

Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Stephanie McMillan, Arundhati Roy, Thomas Linzey and Aric McBay

The planet is under serious threat from industrial civilisation, yet until now environmentalists have not considered strategies that might actually prevent the looming biotic collapse the Earth is facing.

288 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781604866742 | #201205A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

No Turning Back

The Life and Death of Animal Species

Richard Ellis

Nearly every species that has lived on earth is extinct. The last of the dinosaurs was wiped out after a Mount Everest-sized meteorite slammed into the earth 65 million years ago. The great flying and marine reptiles are no more.

448 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 10/2005 | 9780060558048 | #201423A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia

Balancing Improved Livelihoods, Biodiversity Conservation and Land Protection

Victor Squires

This volume of 18 chapters is the work of more than 30 authors, many of whom are natives of the Central Asian region or are researchers who have dedicated a large part of their working lives to studying the development dynamics in this ... ....

499 pages | 71 colour & 20 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9789400753662 | #200779A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Rare Birds

The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction

Elizabeth Gehrman

David Wingate is known in Bermuda as the birdman and in the international conservation community as a living legend for single-handedly bringing back the cahow, or Bermuda petrel – a seabird that flies up to 82,000 miles a year ... ....

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780807010761 | #201152A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

The Pursuit of Complexity

The Utility of Biodiversity an Evolutionary Perspective

Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis

What use is biodiversity, and does it matter if species die out? These controversial questions arouse considerable debate. Most people believe they represent a moral dilemma, but The Pursuit of Complexity shows that it is possible ... ....

120 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9789050114431 | #201239A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

The Wild Duck Chase

Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest

Martin J. Smith

The Wild Duck Chase takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest-the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Since 1934, the duck ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9780802779526 | #201165A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Winged Obsession

The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler

Jessica Speart

Endangered species of butterflies were as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. And in this cutthroat $200 million business, no one made more money than, or posed as great an ecological danger as, Yoshi Kojima ... ....

311 pages | no illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2011 | 9780061772436 | #200236A | £22.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9780061772443 | #201032A | £13.99 Add to basket

 
Environmental Science
 

Advances in Ultrasound Technology for Environmental Remediation

Ta Yeong Wu, Ningqun Guo, Chee Yang Teh and Jacqueline Xiao Wen Hay

Over the past ten years, innovative technologies have shown that advanced oxidation processes are highly promising when applied to the remediation of polluted water or wastewater as they don't generate any sludge or solid material of ... ....

150 pages | 2 colour & 9 b/w illustrations, 9 tables |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9789400755321 | #200793A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Airborne Measurements for Environmental Research

Methods and Instruments

Manfred Wendisch , Jean-Louis Brenguier and Alexander Kokhanovsky

This first comprehensive review of airborne measurement principles covers all atmospheric components and surface parameters. It describes the common techniques to characterize aerosol particles and cloud/precipitation elements, while also ... ....

641 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9783527409969 | #201606A | £99.99 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology

James R. Holton and Gregory J. Hakim

This revised text presents a cogent explanation of the fundamentals of meteorology, and explains storm dynamics for weather-oriented meteorologists. It discusses climate dynamics and the implications posed for global change. The new edition ... ....

552 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2004 | 9780123540157 | #144403A | £49.99 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780123848666 | #201504A | £57.99 Add to basket

 

Apocalyptic Planet

Field Guide to the Everending Earth

Craig Childs

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780307379092 | #201568A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters

Impacts and Mitigation for Ecosystems and Societies

Charles R Goldman, Michio Kumagai and Richard D Robarts

Effects of global warming on the physical, chemical, ecological structure and function and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems are not well understood and there are many opinions on how to adapt aquatic environments to global warming ... ....

480 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781119968665 | #201133A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Change and the Energy Problem

Physical Science and Economics Perspective

David Goodstein and Michael Intriligator

This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations ... ....

200 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9789814407090 | #201495A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards

Bill McGuire and Mark Maslin

Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards provides a valuable new insight into how climate change is able to influence, modulate and trigger geological and geomorphological phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruption ... ....

344 pages |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780470658659 | #201590A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Climate Update

What the Science Tells Us

Charles Fletcher

Places strong emphasis on the peer-reviewed literature in reporting the impacts of climate change on the ocean, terrestrial ecosystems, the water cycle, human communities, dangerous weather patterns, and potential future Earth systems. ....

120 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781118057537 | #201591A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory

Eric B. Sansone and George Lunn

Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory describes practical procedures for the destruction of hazardous chemicals and biological agents in the laboratory in which they are used. The book is a continuation and expansion ... ....

800 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780470487556 | #201607A | £83.50 Add to basket

 

Endocrine Disrupters

Hazard Testing and Assessment Methods

Peter Matthiessen

This book describes methodology and applications for endocrine disrupter toxicity testing, an issue of considerable urgency, because of international regulatory authorities currently considering such testing schemes.

384 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780470932094 | #201124A | £83.50 Add to basket

 

Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing

Frank R Spellman

Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of hard-to-reach underground resources. While hydraulic fracturing allows access to previously unobtainable energy supplies, the technology can cause serious ... ....

477 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781466514676 | #201179A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

Facts about Global Warming

Rational or Emotional Issue?

Miroslav Kutilek and Donald R Nielsen

"Our friends used to ask us: Why do you butt into the affairs of climatology when your own subject is soil science and mainly soil physics and soil hydrology? Answering them, we always say that we have at least three good reasons. ....

380 pages |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9783923381586 | #201370A | £61.99 Add to basket

 

Health in the Green Economy - Transport Sector

Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation

World Health Organization (WHO)

Cycling, walking and rapid transit systems are associated with a wide range of health benefits that need to be reflected more systematically in transport and development policies. Health benefits may include: reduced risk of heart disease ... ....

130 pages |

Paperback | 11/2011 | 9789241502917 | #199990A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Humans in the Landscape

An Introduction to Environmental Studies

Kai N. Lee, William Freudenburg and Richard Howarth

This is the first textbook to fully synthesise all key disciplines of environmental studies. Humans in the Landscape draws on the biophysical sciences, social sciences and humanities to explore the interactions between cultures ... ....

432 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780393930726 | #201721A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Lake Effect

Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds and Recurrent Snows

Mark Monmonier

Blending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the societal impacts of extreme weather. Along the way, he introduces readers to natural philosophy ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780815610045 | #201413A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Land Use and the Carbon Cycle

Science and Applications in Coupled Natural-Human Systems

Daniel G Brown, Derek T Robinson, Nancy HF French and Bradley C Reed

As governments and institutions work to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate, there is an increasing need to understand how land-use and land-cover change is coupled to the carbon cycle, and ... ....

400 pages | 25 colour & 53 b/w illustrations, 28 tables |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781107011243 | #199506A | £79.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781107648357 | #199507A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

Coordinated Agricultural Research Through GRACEnet to Address Our Changing Climate

Mark Liebig

Global climate change is a natural process that currently appears to be strongly influenced by human activities, which increase atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG), in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and ... ....

572 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780123868978 | #201420A | £78.99 Add to basket

 

Oil Spill Risk Management

David Dietrich

Oil Spill Risk Management is designed to help scientifically astute non-specialists understand basic geophysical and computational fluid dynamics concepts relating to oil spill simulations, and related modeling issues and challenges ... ....

400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781118290385 | #201601A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Oil in the Environment

Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

John A Wiens

What light does nearly 25 years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified?

450 pages | 101 colour & 4 b/w illustrations, 12 maps, 27 tables |

Hardback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781107027176 | #201531A | £64.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 05/2013 | 9781107614697 | #201532A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Research, Action and Policy

Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change

Margaret Alston and Kerri Whittenbury

Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change presents the voices of women from every continent, women who face vastly different climate events and challenges. The book heralds a new way of understanding ... ....

304 pages | 4 colour & 13 b/w illustrations, 2 colour tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9789400755178 | #200794A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Rising Seas

Past, Present, Future

Vivien Gornitz

The Earth’s climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming’s most far-reaching threats. Sea level ... ....

320 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9780231147392 | #199811A | £27.50 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780231147385 | #199812A | £62.50 Add to basket

 

Silent Spring (50th Anniversary Edition)

Rachel Carson and Caroline Lucas

Impassioned, poetic and brilliantly written, Silent Spring is now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. In it, Rachel Carson exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread ... ....

368 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780141391526 | #201157A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

The Weather and Climate

Emergent Laws and Multifractal Cascades

Shaun Lovejoy and Daniel Schertzer

Advances in nonlinear dynamics, especially modern multifractal cascade models, allow us to investigate the weather and climate at unprecedented levels of accuracy. Using new stochastic modelling and data analysis techniques, this book ... ....

512 pages | 24 colour & 325 b/w illustrations, 20 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781107018983 | #200991A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

The White Planet

The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World

Jean Jouzel, Claude Lorius and Dominique Raynaud

From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World takes readers on a spellbinding ... ....

336 pages | 1 b/w photo, 33 b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 3 tables |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9780691144993 | #198823A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

The Whole Story of Climate Change

E. Kirsten Peters

This is an intelligent look at the invaluable contribution geology has made to our understanding of climate change. In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media.

340 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781616146726 | #201489A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Too Hot to Touch

The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste

William M Alley and Rosemarie Alley

Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain repository project.

350 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781107030114 | #201176A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Tropic of Chaos

Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

Christian Parenti

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti ...

312 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781568587295 | #201409A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Daniel Vallero and Trevor M Letcher

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the ... ....

530 pages | 95 colour & 15 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780123970268 | #201491A | £60.99 Add to basket

 

Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems

Fate and Transport Processes in the Water Environment

David A. Chin

Detailing the fundamental equations that describe the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems covers the practical application of these equations to engineering design ... ....

472 pages |

Hardback | 05/2006 | 9780471718307 | #157230A | £104.00 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781118078600 | #201642A | £83.50 Add to basket

 
Physical Sciences
 

A Walk Through the Southern Sky

A Guide to Stars, Constellations and Their Legends

Milton Heifetz

A Walk Through the Southern Sky is a beautifully illustrated guide to the stars and constellations of the southern hemisphere. By following the simplified and easy-to-use starmaps, readers will be able to identify constellations ... ....

128 pages | 20 colour illustrations, 48 maps |

Paperback | 09/2007 | 9780521689458 | #167892A | £15.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781107698987 | #201480A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Acquisition and Analysis of Terrestrial Gravity Data

Leland Timothy Long and Ronald Douglas Kaufmann

Gravity surveys have a huge range of applications, indicating density variations in the subsurface and identifying man-made structures, local changes of rock type or even deep-seated structures at the crust/mantle boundary. This important ... ....

192 pages | 72 b/w illustrations, 10 tables |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781107024137 | #200843A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics

Richard Fitzpatrick

This accessible text on classical celestial mechanics, the principles governing the motions of bodies in the Solar System, provides a clear and concise treatment of virtually all of the major features of solar system dynamics.

288 pages | 73 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781107023819 | #201138A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Astrophysical Jets and Beams

Michael D. Smith

Astrophysical jets are spectacular displays of gas or dust ejected from a range of cosmic bodies; they are seemingly ubiquitous on scales from comets to black holes. Astrophysical Jets and Beams reviews our understanding of jet ... ....

240 pages | 84 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780521834766 | #201664A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Celestial Dynamics

Chaoticity and Dynamics of Celestial Systems

Christoph Lhotka and Rudolf Dvorak

Written by an internationally renowned expert author and researcher, this monograph fills the need for a book conveying the sophisticated tools needed to calculate exo-planet motion and interplanetary space flight. It is unique in ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9783527409778 | #201617A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Magnetic fields are important in the Universe and their effects contain the key to many astrophysical phenomena that are otherwise impossible to understand. This book presents an up-to-date overview of this fast-growing topic and its ... ....

224 pages | 55 b/w illustrations, 1 table |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780521631631 | #200849A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Cosmos (Deluxe Edition)

Giles Sparrow and Dava Sobel

A landmark in popular science publishing, Cosmos is a giant-format account of the ultimate journey – a 13.7-billion-light-year- (or 130-billion-trillion kilometre-) voyage from our world, past planets, moons, stars, nebulae, white ... ....

224 pages | colour photos, comes in slipcase |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781780877280 | #201158A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Deformation and Gravity Change

Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism and Climate Change, Volume 3

Detlef Wolf, , Miguel A Santoyo and Joso Fernandez

This book is the third of a series highlighting this topic of major importance for recent developments in geodynamics. Temporal variation of deformation and gravity fields recorded by geodetic measuring techniques (either from ground ... ....

214 pages | 10 colour & 20 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9783034804592 | #200790A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Discovering the Cosmos

R.C. Bless

The revised edition of this book has been prompted by explosive growth in the quantity and quality of astrophysical data and theory since the first edition was published. This streamlined new edition serves as the primary text for a ... ....

768 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9781891389719 | #200190A | £66.99 Add to basket

 

Do Whales Get the Bends?

Answers to 118 Fascinating Questions about the Sea

Tony Rice

Using a question and answer format, this entertaining narrative addresses a multitude of general interest questions about the sea, sea life, seabirds and man's relationship with the sea. Have you ever wondered: Does drinking seawater ... ....

176 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | 05/2010 | 9781408113264 | #201389A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Dunes

Dynamics, Morphology and Geological History

Andrew Warren

Dunes: Dynamics, Morphology and Geological History is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It discusses the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history and ... ....

304 pages |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781444339680 | #200309A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution's Destiny

Co-evolving Chemistry of the Environment and Life

Robert JP Williams and Ros Rickaby

Evolution's Destiny: Co-evolving Chemistry of the Environment and Life is written as an addition to Darwin's work and that of molecular biologists on evolution so as to include views of it from the point of view of chemical ... ....

342 pages | 100 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781849735582 | #201562A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

From Luminous Hot Stars to Starburst Galaxies

Peter S Conti, Paul Crowther and Claus Leitherer

Luminous hot stars represent the extreme upper mass end of normal stellar evolution. Before exploding as supernovae, they live out their lives of a few million years with prodigious outputs of radiation and stellar winds, dramatically affecting ... ....

329 pages |

Hardback | 08/2008 | 9780521791342 | #173293A | £83.00 Add to basket

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Fundamental Planetary Science

Physics, Chemistry, and Habitability

Jack Lissauer and Imke de Pater

A quantitative introduction to the Solar System and planetary systems science for advanced undergraduate students, this engaging new textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motion ... ....

450 pages | 32 colour & 300 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780521853309 | #201428A | £69.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780521618557 | #201429A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Gamma Ray Bursts

Chryssa Kouveliotou, Ralph AMJ Wijers and Stan Woosley

Cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have fascinated scientists and the public alike since their discovery in the late 1960s. Their story is told here by some of the scientists who participated in their discovery and, after many decades of ... ....

360 pages | 9 colour & 113 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780521662093 | #200844A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Geochemistry

William M White

Geochemistry provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of geochemistry. Geochemistry first lays out the 'geochemical toolbox': the basic principles and techniques of modern geochemistry, beginning with ... ....

656 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780470656686 | #201588A | £37.50 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 04/2013 | 9780470656679 | #201589A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities

Pankaj S Joshi

Physical phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology involve gravitational collapse in a fundamental way. The final fate of a massive star when it collapses under its own gravity at the end of its life cycle is one of the most important questions ... ....

283 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2007 | 9780521871044 | #172765A | £83.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781107405363 | #201307A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Innovation in Astronomy Education

Jay M Pasachoff, Rosa M Ros and Naomi Pasachoff

Astronomy leads to an understanding of the history and nature of science, and attracts many young people to education in science and technology. But while in many countries astronomy is not part of the standard curriculum, many scientific ... ....

384 pages | 60 line diagrams, 40 half-tones |

Hardback | 07/2008 | 9780521880152 | #173290A | £89.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781107412873 | #201310A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Maser Sources in Astrophysics

Malcolm Gray

Masers are observed at a range of scales – from comets, through star-forming clouds, to galactic nuclei – and have many astrophysical applications, for example measuring cosmological distances. Written for postgraduate students ... ....

430 pages | 58 b/w illustrations, 10 tables |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780521879804 | #201665A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Molecular Collisions in the Interstellar Medium

David Flower

In the interstellar medium – the space between the stars in galaxies – new stars are born from material that is replenished by the debris ejected by stars when they die.

195 pages | 35 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 03/2007 | 9780521844833 | #162470A | £89.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781107407770 | #201723A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

On Being

A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence

Peter Atkins

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward reality ... ....

128 pages |

Hardback | 03/2011 | 9780199603367 | #200036A | £10.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780199660544 | #200037A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy, 2013

Patrick Moore

This fully updated 2013 edition of this essential guide features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a special picture ... ....

544 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780230767508 | #201172A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life

Ralph Pudritz, Paul Higgs and Jonathon Stone

Several major breakthroughs have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating 2007 book explores some of the most important problems in this field. It examines how planetary systems ... ....

315 pages | 61 b/w photos, 23 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 12/2007 | 9780521875486 | #170717A | £83.00 Add to basket

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Prize Fight

The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science

Morton A Meyers

We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by ... ....

272 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780230338906 | #201136A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Pulsar Astronomy

Andrew Lyne and Francis Graham-Smith

Over the last 40 years, an astonishing range of astrophysics has become accessible through pulsar astronomy. The body of literature on this rapidly growing research area is vast and observational techniques now cover the whole of the ... ....

330 pages | 6 b/w photos, 160 b/w illustrations, 22 tables |

Hardback | 03/2012 | 9781107010147 | #201663A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Seventeen Equations That Changed the World

Ian Stewart

This is a unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus. From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere ... ....

288 pages |

Paperback | 02/2012 | 9781846685316 | #197896A | £15.99 Add to basket

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Solar Astrophysics

Peter V Foukal

This revised edition describes our current understanding of the sun – from its deepest interior, via the layers of the directly observable atmosphere to the solar wind, right up to its farthest extension into interstellar space. ....

480 pages |

Hardback | 03/2004 | 9783527403745 | #162694A | £110.00 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 03/2013 | 9783527411030 | #201544A | £105.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9783527411740 | #201545A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Space Atlas

An Illustrated Atlas

James S. Trefil and Buzz Aldrin

National Geographic presents a new one-stop guide to the planets, stars and outer reaches of the universe in the new book Space Atlas by James Trefil and with a foreword by astronaut Buzz Aldrin. By combining the unparalleled ... ....

336 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781426209710 | #201173A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Spillover

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others perish. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on? It takes months to establish that the cause is a ...

320 pages | b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781847920102 | #199440A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Stellar Evolution Physics (2-Volume Set)

In Stellar Evolution Physics, Icko Iben describes the microscopic physics operating in stars and how stars respond macroscopically, showing the intricate interplay between these processes. Volume 1, intended for graduate students ... ....

1460 pages | 625 b/w illustrations, 85 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781107602533 | #201432A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Stellar Evolution Physics, Volume 1

Physical Processes in Stellar Interiors

Icko Iben

Stellar Evolution Physics, Volume 1 describes the microscopic physics operating in stars and demonstrates how stars respond from formation, through hydrogen-burning phases, up to the onset of helium burning. Intended for beginning ... ....

864 pages | 313 b/w illustrations, 54 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781107016569 | #201430A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Stellar Evolution Physics, Volume 2

Advanced Evolution of Single Stars

Icko Iben

Stellar Evolution Physics, Volume 2 explains the microscopic physics operating in stars in advanced stages of their evolution and describes with many numerical examples and illustrations how they respond to this microphysics. ....

600 pages | 313 b/w illustrations, 31 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781107016576 | #201431A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

The Chemistry Between Us

Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction

Larry Young and Brian Alexander

How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors sur­rounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we'll ever make, are ... ....

310 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781591845133 | #201401A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

The Dynamic Earth

An Introduction to Physical Geology

Brian J Skinner and Stephen C Porter

With authoritative and detailed coverage, this book addresses all key areas of physical geology, as well as recent events that have shaped our world. This new edition is updated to address the latest in geoscientific research, theory and ... ....

656 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781118523018 | #201241A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

The Infinity Puzzle

How the Quest to Understand Quantum Field Theory Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the World's Most

Frank Close

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists – an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman – made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large ... ....

399 pages | 8 b/w plates, b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780199593507 | #192922A | £16.99 Add to basket

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The Life and Death of Stars

Kenneth R Lang

In this well-illustrated text, Kenneth R. Lang explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the enigmatic nebulae some stars leave behind in their violent ends. Free of mathematical equations ... ....

374 pages | 32 colour & 155 b/w illustrations, 42 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781107016385 | #201471A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Universal Sense

How Hearing Shapes the Mind

Seth S Horowitz

Every day, we are surrounded by millions of sounds – ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more attention-grabbing sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process ... ....

305 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781608190904 | #201411A | £21.99 Add to basket

 

Theoretical Astrophysics

An Introduction

Matthias Bartelmann

A concise yet comprehensive introduction to the central theoretical concepts of modern astrophysics, presenting hydrodynamics, radiation, and stellar dynamics all in one textbook. Adopting a modular structure, the authors illustrate a ... ....

316 pages |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9783527410040 | #201616A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Titan

Surface, Atmosphere and Magnetosphere

Ingo Muller-Wodarg, Caitlin A Griffith, Emmanuel Lellouch and Thomas E Cravens

Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, shares remarkable similarities with Earth. Its thick atmosphere is composed primarily of nitrogen; it features the most complex organic chemistry known outside of Earth and, uniquely, hosts an ... ....

384 pages | 35 colour & 179 b/w illustrations, 31 tables |

Hardback | NYP 04/2013 | 9780521199926 | #200836A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Ultraviolet and X-ray Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere

Uri Feldman, Ken Phillips and Enrico Landi

The solar atmosphere, above the Sun's surface layers, reaches mega-kelvin temperatures and high levels of dynamic activity through processes involving a pervading magnetic field. This 2008 book explores one of the principal means of ... ....

359 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 06/2008 | 9780521841603 | #173292A | £107.00 Add to basket

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Voyager

101 Wonders Between Earth and the Edge of the Cosmos

Stuart Clark

You are about to embark on a journey that will take you to the edge of the Universe and the beginning of time. You will cross 46.5 billion light years of space, exploring 101 celestial wonders ranging from comets to quasars.

240 pages | colour photos |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781848875432 | #201174A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

World in the Balance

The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

Robert P. Crease

In this epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales and instruments for measurement, Robert P. Crease traces the evolution of the system, from the use of flutes to measure distance in the dynasties of ancient China ... ....

320 pages | 35 illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780393343540 | #201475A | £12.99 Add to basket

 
Sustainable Development
 

1000 Tips by 100 Eco Architects

Guidelines on Sustainable Architecture from the World's Leading Eco-architecture Firms

Marta Serrats

The process of executing an architectural plan, a building or a landscape, can be disastrous for the environment. The construction process, whether it is erecting a building or excavating a landscape, is destructive. Toxic land sites are ... ....

320 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781770850415 | #201160A | £29.95 Add to basket

 

Animal Health Economics

An Introduction

Jonathan Rushton

Producing a healthy herd is crucial to economic success at farm and national level. Considering individual animals and herds as economic units makes health an economic consideration. Animal health economics is principally concerned with ... ....

256 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781845939588 | #199730A | £74.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781845939595 | #199731A | £39.95 Add to basket

 

Bankrupting Nature

Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockstrom

This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as ... ....

208 pages | 30 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780415539692 | #201494A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Biopesticides

Pest Management and Regulation

Alastair Bailey, David Chandler, Wyn P Grant, Justin Greaves, Gillian Prince and Mark Tatchell

Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticide methods are becoming less readily available due to increasing ... ....

240 pages | 2 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 10/2010 | 9781845935597 | #179747A | £75.00 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781845939779 | #200969A | £37.50 Add to basket

 

Biotechnology of Neglected and Underutilized Crops

Jain S Mohan and S Dutta Gupta

The world food supply depends on few crops species, termed as `major crops'. Almost 95% of the world food requirement is met by 30 plant species. There is a great need to broaden the exploitation of the plant genetic diversity in order to avoid ... ....

400 pages | 40 colour & 34 b/w illustrations, 53 tables |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9789400754997 | #200776A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Blue Revolution

Unmaking America's Water Crisis

Cynthia Barnett

Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what's now our largest crop – the lawn. ....

296 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780807003282 | #201212A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

But Will the Planet Notice?

How Smart Economics Can Save the World

Gernot Wagner

You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Put bluntly, whatever you do personally – eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius – the planet doesn't care. Nor, for that matter, does the economy. And when confronting ... ....

272 pages | 9 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780809032730 | #201210A | £11.99 Add to basket

 

City Cycling

John Pucher and Ralph Buehler

Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers ... ....

368 pages | 15 colour & 3 b/w photos, 19 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 23 tables |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780262517812 | #201492A | £19.95 Add to basket

 

Climate Change and Human Security

The Challenge to Local Governance Under Rapid Coastal Urbanization

Michael R. Redclift, David Manuel-Navarette and Mark Pelling

The challenge presented by climate change is, by its nature, global. The populations of the Mexican Caribbean, the focus of Climate Change and Human Security, are faced by everyday decisions not unlike those in the urban North. ....

192 pages |

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9781848443723 | #201637A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Co-benefits of Sustainable Forestry

Ecological Studies of a Certified Bornean Rain Forest

Kanehiro Kitayama

Tropical rain forests are increasingly expected to serve for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation amid global climate change and increasing human demands for land. Natural production forests that are legally designated ... ....

173 pages | 24 colour & 25 b/w illustrations, 22 colour tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9784431541400 | #200933A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Coffee: Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production

A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders and Researchers

Jean Nicolas Wintgens

An outstanding and currently the only comprehensive handbook for the coffee-professional. 40 authors from the leading coffee-growing countries present the most recent technologies applied to coffee husbandry. The book features 900 careful ... ....

1040 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9783527332533 | #201615A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Country Capacity Building in Planning, Assessment and Systematic Observations of Forests

With Special Reference to Tropical Regions

Karan Deo Singh

This book is intended to support the forestry institutions in the tropical countries in the planning, assessment and systematic observation of forests required to fulfill their obligations as laid in international conventions such as the ... ....

248 pages | 11 colour & 28 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642322914 | #200786A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Creating Green Roads

Integrating Cultural, Natural and Visual Resources into Transportation

James L. Sipes and Matthew L. Sipes

In Creating Green Roads, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don't have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minimally impact the environment while improving quality of life. The authors examine ... ....

288 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781610913584 | #200327A | £56.99 Add to basket

 

Delivering a Sustainable Built Environment

An Industry Insider's View

Mike Malina

Delivering a Sustainable Built Environment offers peer-to-peer insights from leading practitioners who are experts in working with low carbon, renewable, and energy efficient technologies. A resource to dip into when asked to ... ....

280 pages |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781405194174 | #201622A | £54.99 Add to basket

 

Desalination

Water from Water

Jane Kucera

This is the first volume to cover desalination in such depth and detail, offering engineers, technicians, and operators full coverage of the applications, economics, and expectations of what will certainly become one of the most important ... ....

500 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781118208526 | #201605A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Developing Biofuel Bioprocesses Using Systems and Synthetic Biology

Sylvia M. Clay, and Stephen S. Fong

Advances in technological and analytical methods have fostered rapid growth of systems biology and synthetic biology. There continues to be rapid changes and discoveries in both fields with a small number of recent peer-reviewed reviews ... ....

75 pages | 8 colour illustrations |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781461455790 | #200768A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Dreaming the Future

Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature

Kenny Ausubel and David W Orr

Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes the opportunity for breakthrough ... ....

211 pages |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781603584593 | #201402A | £17.50 Add to basket

 

Environmental Economics

Theory and Policy

Alfred Endres and Iain L. Fraser

This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or present every possible topic. Instead ... ....

400 pages | 55 b/w illustrations, 4 tables |

Hardback | 11/2010 | 9781107002142 | #200671A | £99.99 Add to basket

Paperback | 11/2010 | 9780521173926 | #200672A | £37.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Governance

The Challenge of Legitimacy and Effectiveness

Karl Hogl, Eva Kvarda, Ralf Nordbeck and Michael Pregernig

Environmental policy making has become an experimental field for new modes of governance. This timely book focuses on three prominent characteristics of new governance arrangements: the broad participation of non-state actors, the attempt ... ....

352 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781849802703 | #201629A | £84.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Justice and Federalism

Dennis C. Cory, Tauhidur Rahman, Satheesh Aradhyula, Melissa Burns and Miles Kriger

Within the United States, minority and low-income communities currently bear a disproportionate amount of risk associated with pollution and other harmful environmental practices. The environmental justice movement is working to change ... ....

232 pages |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781781001394 | #201631A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership

Redefining Who Leads and How

John C Gordon

The important new approach to leadership that John Gordon and Joyce Berry explain in this book is built upon the experiences of environmental and natural resource organizations as they contend with complex, long-term problems.

160 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780300111347 | #201206A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Environmental and Energy Law

Karen E Makuch and Ricardo Pereira

Despite bringing prosperity, industrialisation generally leads to increasing levels of pollution which has a detrimental impact on the environment. In response, legislation which seeks to control or prevent such impact has become common. ....

676 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781405177870 | #201406A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Ethics and Global Environmental Policy

Cosmopolitan Conceptions of Climate Change

Paul G. Harris

This collection of provocative essays re-evaluates the world's failed policy responses to climate change, in the process demonstrating how cosmopolitan ethics can inform global environmental governance. A cosmopolitan worldview ... ....

224 pages |

Hardback | 07/2011 | 9780857931603 | #201643A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Farming for Food and Water Security

Eric Lichtfouse

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation ... ....

279 pages | 49 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9789400744998 | #200910A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Flight at Dawn

Leadership is not about the Leader

Antony Frost

We live complex and busy lives. Returning to nature can often provide glimpses into the simplicity we left behind centuries ago. Flight at Dawn presents examples from our natural environment that can teach us how to succeed both ... ....

216 pages |

Paperback | 05/2012 | 9781920292065 | #200481A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Governance, Democracy and Sustainable Development

Moving Beyond the Impasse?

James Meadowcroft, Oluf Langhelle and Audun Ruud

This insightful book deals with governance of the environment and sustainable development. The contributors explore the difficulties developed countries are experiencing in coming to terms with environmental limits and the resultant ... ....

360 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781849807562 | #201626A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Governing International Rivers

Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine

Tun Myint

This important book employs the theory of polycentricity, a system with several centres as an analytical concept to explain the multilayered international environmental governance of river basins. It introduces a new methodological framework ... ....

288 pages | Illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781781001479 | #201623A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Green Architecture Now

Philip Jodidio

Green architecture used to be on the fringes, but it has gone mainstream and this new volume shows how, why, and where. This is not a technical handbook, but rather a guided tour from one end of the globe to another where ... ....

416 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9783836535892 | #201162A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Green Chemistry for a Sustainable Future

Istvan T. Horvath and Paul T. Anastas

Green Chemistry for a Sustainable Future presents the most important concepts and tools of green chemistry that can be used to make future products, processes, and technologies sustainable. The context of green chemistry within ... ....

350 pages |

Hardback | 12/2011 | 9780470503515 | #201599A | £63.50 Add to basket

 

Green House

Sustainable Design at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

Patrick Belew, Meredith Davey, Paul Baker and Andrew Grant

This book explores the sustainable design principles and innovative engineering behind the development of two of the world's largest conditioned public conservatories or biomes. Nestled within waterfront gardens, the biomes are the ... ....

86 pages | 350 colour photos |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9781935935568 | #201387A | £15.95 Add to basket

 

Green Networking

Francine Krief

Green Networking focuses on green networking which is an important topic for the scientific community composed of engineers, academics, researchers and industrials working in the networking field. Indeed reducing the environmental ... ....

304 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781848213784 | #201619A | £83.50 Add to basket

 

Greening Frankenstein

Innovation for Sustainability

Kurt Seemann, Matthew Parnell and Dora Marinova

This book aims to publish a new message and novel ideas into the literature that links design, technology and sustainability. We are aiming, through research and critical exposition, to articulate new conceptual tools to describe and ... ....

250 pages | 5 colour & 20 b/w illustrations, 5 tables |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9789400720121 | #200791A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems

Mohammad S. Obaidat

Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems gives a comprehensive guide on the fundamental concepts, applications, algorithms, protocols, new trends and challenges, and research results in the area of ...

730 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780124158443 | #201472A | £105.00 Add to basket

 

Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

Ryutaro Ohtsuka and Stanley J Ulijaszek

This book was first published in 2007. The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past century, leading to dramatic changes in the health profiles of all populations represented in ... ....

324 pages |

Hardback | 05/2007 | 9780521837927 | #162270A | £87.00 Add to basket

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781107406223 | #200990A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Improving Irrigation in Asia

Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal

Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan and Ganesh P Shivakoti

Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of ... ....

160 pages |

Hardback | 08/2011 | 9781849801447 | #201641A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems

Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems provides professionals, students, and policy makers with an in-depth view of various aspects of water and nutrient us in crop production. the book covers topics ... ....

328 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9780813819891 | #201632A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Little Black Lies

Corporate & Political Spin in the Global War for Oil

Jeff Gailus

Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious ... ....

192 pages |

Paperback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781926855684 | #201201A | £14.50 Add to basket

 

Low Carbon Communities

Imaginative Approaches to Combating Climate Change Locally

Michael Peters, Shane Fudge and Tim Jackson

Community action is a vital strategy in the fight against climate change and has increasingly informed government policy, academic inquiry and grassroots action since the start of this century. This timely and engaging volume explores ... ....

304 pages |

Hardback | 09/2010 | 9781848445895 | #189651A | £78.00 Add to basket

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Making Fishery Agreements Work

Post-agreement Bargaining in the Barents Sea

Geir Honneland

Why do people obey the law? And why do states abide by their international commitments? These are among the questions raised in this important book. The setting is the Barents Sea, home to some of the most productive fishing grounds on ... ....

160 pages | maps |

Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780857933621 | #201633A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Materials for a Sustainable Future

Trevor M Letcher, Janet L Scott, Laurie Peter and Justin Salminen

Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday lives and this book is a non-exhaustive look at materials and how they relate to sustainability. This concerns not only the elements that could be in short supply in the ... ....

648 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781849734073 | #201175A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Nanophysics of Solar and Renewable Energy

Edward L. Wolf

This easy accessible textbook provides an overview of solar to electric energy conversion, followed by a detailed look at one aspect, namely photovoltaics, including the underlying principles and fabrication methods. Professor Wolf, an ... ....

270 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783527410521 | #201463A | £84.99 Add to basket

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Oil

Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power and market growth. The legacy of this age of ... ....

200 pages |

Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780745649269 | #201566A | £12.99 Add to basket

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On a Sustainable Future of Earth's Natural Resources

Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar

On a Sustainable Future of Earth's Natural Resources is divided into three sections with individual chapters contributed by experts on different facets of earth sciences, natural resources, management and related issues. ....

540 pages | 35 colour & 100 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9783642329166 | #200784A | £153.00 Add to basket

 

Organic Fertilisation, Soil Quality and Human Health

Eric Lichtfouse

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation ... ....

358 pages | 53 b/w illustrations, 13 tables |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9789400741126 | #200909A | £135.00 Add to basket

 

Powering Planet Earth

Energy Solution for the Future

Nicola Armaroli, Nick Serpone and Vincenzo Balzani

In their book Nicola Armaroli, Vincenzo Balzani and Nick Serpone uncover the background details associated with a transition to sustainable energy production that are routinely swept under the table in public discussions. They are not ... ....

264 pages |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9783527334094 | #201608A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Public Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy

Philipp H. Pattberg, Frank Biermann, Sander Chan and Ayaem Mert

The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg is remembered mainly for the promotion of a novel form of global governance: the so-called 'partnerships for sustainable development'.

288 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 04/2012 | 9781849809306 | #201644A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Renewable Energy Systems

The Earthscan Expert Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies for Home and Business

Dilwyn Jenkins

Renewable Energy Systems is the long awaited guide to the possible for anyone interested in renewables at home or work. It sweeps away scores of common misconceptions while clearly illustrating the best in renewable and energy ... ....

264 pages | 218 colour illustrations, 13 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781849713696 | #200191A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Retrofitting to Manage Surface Water

C Digman, Richard Ashley, D. Balmforth, V. Stovin and J. Glerum

As urban areas develop, natural drainage processes are changed. Paved areas are constructed and piped drainage systems built. Yet they deprive communities of the many benefits of natural drainage processes. A different approach is needed ... ....

272 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 04/2012 | 9780860177159 | #201450A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

Risk Assessment for Environmental Health

Mark G Robson and William A Toscano

Written by experts in the field, this important book provides an introduction to current risk assessment practices and procedures and explores the intrinsic complexities, challenges, and controversies associated with analysis of environmental ... ....

664 pages |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781118424063 | #200845A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Russia's Energy Policies

National, Interregional and Global Levels

Pami Aalto

Russia's vast energy reserves, and its policies towards them have enormous importance in the current geopolitical landscape. This important book examines Russia's energy policies on the national, interregional and global level. ....

288 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9781849800297 | #201639A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Separation and Purification Technologies in Biorefineries

Shri Ramaswamy, Huajiang Huang and Bandrau Ramarao

Separation and Purification Technologies in Biorefineries presents a comprehensive discussion of separation and purification technologies for use in current and future biorefineries.

622 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9780470977965 | #201613A | £120.00 Add to basket

 

Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics

Albert O Aweto

Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics, where several hundred million people depend on this system of agriculture for their livelihood. This book documents and systematizes ... ....

216 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781780640433 | #199695A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Small World Big Ideas

Satish Kumar

There's an activist in all of us, and you don't have to shout about it to be heard. To prove it, Satish Kumar has invited eleven of those activists he most admires, in areas ranging from environmental change to human rights, to ... ....

144 pages |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781908005571 | #201208A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Solar Energy at Urban Scale

Benoit Beckers

Increasing urbanization throughout the world, the depletion of fossil fuels and concerns about global warming have transformed the city into a physical problem of prime importance. Solar Energy at Urban Scale proposes a ... ....

256 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 06/2012 | 9781848213562 | #201618A | £110.00 Add to basket

 

Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater

Eugene W Rice, Rodger B Baird, Andrew D Eaton and Lenore S Clesceri

The new 22nd edition advances the science of water analysis with input and consensus of hundreds of water and wastewater experts from around the world. Laboratories worldwide rely on this essential, comprehensive reference as a trusted source of ... ....

1496 pages | 7 plates with colour illustrations, 27 plates with b/w line drawings; b/w illustrations, t |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780875530130 | #199251A | £247.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainability Assessment

Pluralism, Practice and Progress

Alan J Bond

Sustainability assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why sustainability ... ....

296 pages | 100 illustrations, 19 tables |

Paperback | 07/2012 | 9780415598491 | #200192A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainability Science for Watershed Landscapes

James Roumasset, Kimberly M. Burnett and Arsenio Molina Balisacan

Sustainability Science addresses the central challenge facing global society of how to reduce poverty and meet demands of a large human population desiring a good life while simultaneously maintaining the environment that provides ... ....

346 pages |

Paperback | 01/2010 | 9789814279963 | #201342A | £56.99 Add to basket

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, Volume 11

Eric Lichtfouse

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change ... ....

264 pages | 42 colour & 12 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9789400754485 | #200777A | £126.00 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development

A History

Anne E. Egelston

This book documents the influence of nongovernmental organizations on the rise of the sustainable development movement in international politics. It adds to the body of scholarly research on non-governmental organizations, by examining the ... ....

124 pages | 1 table |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9789400748774 | #200796A | £89.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development Drivers

The Role of Leadership in Government, Business and NGO Performance

Kees Zoeteman

Sustainable development cannot be prescribed – rather, it results from conscious personal choices in government, business and NGOs. This thought-provoking book explores both the origins and future of the global sustainable development ... ....

384 pages | Illustrations |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9780857934895 | #201628A | £94.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making

Theory, Practise and Quality Assurance

Anneke von Raggamby and Frieder Rubik

This pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle.

336 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780857932549 | #201630A | £79.99 Add to basket

 

Sustainable Energy Landscapes

Designing, Planning, and Development

Sven Stremke and Andy van den Dobbelsteen

With experts from different related fields discussing their approaches to energy-conscious planning and design, this comprehensive book presents state-of-the-art research, education, and design practice with respect to sustainable energy ... ....

528 pages | 199 colour illustrations, 33 tables |

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9781439894040 | #201204A | £81.99 Add to basket

 

The Bioregional Economy

Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Molly Scott Cato

In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalised economy, and its extended supply chains, with a more 'local' ... ....

272 pages | 9 b/w photos, 24 b/w illustrations, 11 tables |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780415500821 | #201496A | £29.99 Add to basket

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The Challenge of Energy Security in the 21st Century

Trends of Significance

Hooman Peimani

The Challenge of Energy Security in the 21st Century: Trends of Significance seeks to inform all those concerned about energy security, whether national, regional or international bodies, of certain factors, which must be taken ... ....

198 pages |

Paperback | 01/2011 | 9789814311618 | #201339A | £37.95 Add to basket

 

The Energy of Slaves

Oil and the New Servitude

Andrew Nikiforuk

Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now regard ... ....

272 pages |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781553659785 | #201403A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

The Geopolitics of Natural Resources

David Lewis Feldman

This significant collection examines the diverse ways natural resources are managed and controlled and the controversies that arise regarding their use, allocation, and protection resulting from governance decisions and policies.

672 pages |

Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780857930743 | #201636A | £215.00 Add to basket

 

The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia

David Lewis Feldman and Ivan Blokov

In recent years, international, inter-governmental entities have acknowledged the importance of civil society for engaging stakeholders in environmental change, especially at the local community level, and in promoting democracy.

208 pages |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780857938503 | #201638A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity

Paolo De Castro, Felice Adinolfi, Fabian Capitanio, Salvatore Di Falco and Angelo Di Mambro

In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and ... ....

176 pages |

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780415638241 | #201499A | £19.99 Add to basket

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The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass Processing and Conversion

Nick Gathergood and Haibo Xi

Providing readers with a basic knowledge of biopolymers, The Role of Green Chemistry in Biomass and Processing and Conversion offers a score of methods and solutions to integrate green chemistry that will lead to cleaner burning ... ....

504 pages |

Hardback | 12/2012 | 9780470644102 | #201614A | £83.50 Add to basket

 

The Water-Energy Nexus in the American West

Douglas S. Kenney and Robert Wilkinson

The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious resources are at stake. The Water-Energy Nexus in the American West ... ....

296 pages | illustrations, maps |

Hardback | 11/2011 | 9781849809368 | #201645A | £69.95 Add to basket

 

Transition to a Green Economy

Benefits, Challenges and Risks from a Sustainable Development Perspective

United Nations

The concept of a green economy has become a center of policy debates in recent years. During the recent global financial crisis, the United Nations General Assembly and several UN agencies underscored that the crisis represented an opportunity ....

96 pages |

Paperback | 03/2012 | 9789211046168 | #200003A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Transport, the Environment and Public Health

Classic Papers on Non-Motorised Travel

Stephen P. Greaves and Jan Garrard

Transport, the Environment and Public Health: Classic Papers on Non-Motorised Travel brings together a collection of seminal articles published in the past twelve years focused around non-motorised transport (NMT).

396 pages |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9780857938626 | #201627A | £130.00 Add to basket

 

Transport, the Environment and Security

Making the Connection

Rae Zimmerman

Effective means of transport are critical under both normal and extreme conditions, but modern transport systems are subject to many diverse demands. This path-breaking book uniquely draws together the typically conflicting arenas of ....

288 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9781849800204 | #201625A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Water

All That Matters

Paul Younger

The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their water sources, and now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water ... ....

160 pages |

Paperback | NYP 12/2012 | 9781444156812 | #201170A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

Water

Water is our planet's most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world's population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend ... ....

Hardback | NYP 10/2012 | 9780745650326 | #200846A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Water Drops

Celebrating the Wonder of Water

Peter E. Black

In this engaging book, hydrologist Peter E. Black celebrates the wonder of our planet's most precious natural resource. In these brief, nontechnical essays, readers are introduced to water's unique scientific properties, the vital ... ....

200 pages |

Hardback | 01/2012 | 9781438444871 | #200038A | £42.75 Add to basket

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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

The Economics of Eco Systems

Tony Juniper

Money doesn't grow on trees. Or does it? From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, nature provides 'natural services', 24/7. Recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life ... ....

288 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781846685606 | #201295A | £9.99 Add to basket

 
Data Analysis
 

Advances in Fish Tagging and Marking Technology

Jeremy McKenzie, Bradford Parsons, Andrew Seitz, R. Keller Kopf, Matthew Mesa and Q Phelps

Fish marking and tracking is a fundamental tool for fisheries management and research. In recent years the technologies and analytical procedures available for marking and monitoring fisheries have evolved. The 31 chapters in this volume ... ....

560 pages |

Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781934874271 | #201235A | £96.50 Add to basket

 

Algorithmic and AI Methods for Protein Bioinformatics

Yi Pan

Delivered by one of the leading bioinformaticians in the field, this book teaches the basis of protein bioinformatics by incorporating articles from an array of industry and academic professionals. It hones in on the analysis of protein ... ....

400 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781118345788 | #201197A | £80.50 Add to basket

 

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter J Diggle, Patrick J Heagerty, Kung-Yee Liang and Scott L Zeger

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

400 pages |

Hardback | 12/2002 | 9780198524847 | #156247A | £60.00 Add to basket

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Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry

Ingvar Eidhammer, Harald Barsnes, Geir Egil Eide and Lennart Martens

This book provides all the necessary knowledge about mass spectrometry based proteomics methods and computational and statistical approaches to pursue the planning, design and analysis of quantitative proteomics experiments.

376 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781119964001 | #201134A | £59.99 Add to basket

 

Gas Chromatography

Colin Poole

This is a single source of authoritative information on all aspects of the practice of modern gas chromatography. It has comprehensive coverage of modern gas chromatography including theory, instrumentation, columns, and applications ... ....

688 pages | illustrations |

Hardback | 07/2012 | 9780123855404 | #201419A | £125.00 Add to basket

 

Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography

A Guide for Practitioners

Bernard A Olsen and Brian W Pack

This book provides background information, guidance for method development, and a discussion of applications in the field of hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC.) The book serves as a valuable reference tool for scientists ... ....

312 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781118054178 | #201193A | £66.95 Add to basket

 

Imaging

A Laboratory Manual

Rafael Yuste

In recent years, imaging has rapidly become a tremendously valuable approach in nearly every field of biological research. Finding the right method and optimizing it for data collection can be a daunting process, even for an established ... ....

952 pages | illustrations |

Paperback | 11/2010 | 9780879699369 | #201454A | £107.00 Add to basket

Hardback | 11/2010 | 9780879699352 | #201455A | £155.00 Add to basket

 

Laboratory Protocols in Fungal Biology

Current Methods in Fungal Biology

Vijai Kumar Gupta and Maria Tuohy

Laboratory Protocols in Fungal Biology presents the latest techniques in fungal biology. This book analyzes information derived through real experiments, and focuses on cutting edge techniques in the field. The book comprises 57 ... ....

622 pages | 41 colour & 59 b/w illustrations, 38 tables |

Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781461423553 | #200774A | £180.00 Add to basket

 

MATLAB and Design Recipes for Earth Sciences

How to Collect, Process and Present Geoscientific Information

Martin Trauth and Elisabeth Sillmann

The overall aim of the book is to introduce students to the typical course followed by a data analysis project in earth sciences. A project usually involves searching relevant literature, reviewing and ranking published books and journalism ... ....

304 pages | 51 colour & 2 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783642325434 | #200789A | £62.99 Add to basket

 

Methods in Forest Canopy Research

Margaret D Lowman, Timothy D Schowalter and Jerry F Franklin

The forest canopy is a largely unexplored scientific frontier whose potential for humankind has barely been scratched. Thousands of canopy species have never been described. Insights into the function and structure of forest ecosystems ... ....

256 pages | 25 b/w photos, 30 colour & 6 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | NYP 12/2012 | 9780520273719 | #198809A | £41.95 Add to basket

 

Optics in Instruments

Applications in Biology and Medicine

Jean Pierre Goure

Optics in Instruments: Applications in Biology and Medicine presents the basic knowledge necessary to understand how optics is involved in instruments. The role of optical instruments is very important and affects all areas of ... ....

352 pages |

Hardback | NYP 02/2013 | 9781848212442 | #201620A | £96.95 Add to basket

 

Pitfalls and Errors of HPLC in Pictures

3rd. Revised and Enlarged Edition

Veronika R. Meyer

The third edition of this popular problem-solving guide for this widely-used method includes eleven completely new examples and several updated ones, adding up to over 100 potential pitfalls and errors in HPLC. Each example is presented ... ....

230 pages |

Paperback | NYP 02/2013 | 9783527332939 | #201602A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Salt Tolerance

Methods and Protocols

Sergey Shabala and Tracey Ann Cuin

Soil salinity is destroying several hectares of arable land every minute. Because remedial land management cannot completely solve the problem, salt tolerant crops or plant species able to remove excessive salt from the soil could contribute .. ....

446 pages | 26 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 8 tables |

Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781617799853 | #201209A | £113.00 Add to basket

 

Problem Solving and Data Analysis Using Minitab

A Clear and Easy Guide to Six Sigma Methodology

Rehman M. Khan

Problem Solving and Data Analysis using Minitab presents example-based learning to aid readers in understanding how to use MINITAB 16 for statistical analysis and problem solving. Each example and exercise is broken down into ... ....

432 pages |

Hardback | NYP 01/2013 | 9781118307571 | #201621A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Solving Differential Equations in R

Karline Soetaert, Jeff Cash and Francesca Mazzia

Mathematics plays an important role in many scientific and engineering disciplines. Solving Differential Equations in R deals with the numerical solution of differential equations, a very important branch of mathematics. Our aim ... ....

264 pages | 13 colour & 50 b/w illustrations, 10 tables |

Paperback | 06/2012 | 9783642280696 | #201646A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Taming the Complexity of Evolutionary Dynamics

From Microscopic Models to Schema Theory and Beyond

Riccardo Poli and Christopher R Stephens

The study of complex adaptive systems is among the key modern tasks in science. Such systems show radically different behaviours at different scales and in different environments, and mathematical modelling of such emergent behaviour is ... ....

490 pages |

Hardback | 07/2013 | 9783642173608 | #201396A | £64.99 Add to basket

 

Tools and Techniques in Biomolecular Science

Aysha Divan and Janice Royds

Tools and Techniques in the Biomolecular Sciences reviews the theoretical concepts and experimental details underpinning the broad range of modern technologies that are currently being used to advance our understanding of the .. ....

640 pages | 252 b/w illustrations |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780199695560 | #198987A | £34.99 Add to basket

 
Reference
 

A Dictionary of Zoo Biology and Animal Management

A Guide to the Terminology Used in Zoo Biology, Animal Welfare, Wildlife Conservation and Livestock Production

Paul A. Rees

A Dictionary of Zoo Biology and Animal Management is intended as a guide to the terminology used in a wide range of animal-related programmes of study including agriculture, animal care, animal management, animal production ... ....

296 pages |

Paperback | NYP 03/2013 | 9780470671474 | #201582A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Dictionary of DNA and Genome Technology

Paul Singleton

DNA technology is evolving rapidly, with new methods and a fast-growing vocabulary. This unique dictionary offers current, detailed and accessible information on DNA technology to lecturers, researchers and students throughout the biomedical ... ....

528 pages |

Paperback | 02/2010 | 9780470747315 | #183311A | £29.95 Add to basket

Hardback | 02/2010 | 9780470747322 | #183312A | £90.00 Add to basket

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781118447581 | #201130A | £89.99 Add to basket

Paperback | NYP 11/2012 | 9781118447574 | #201131A | £32.50 Add to basket

 

How to Write a Paper

George M Hall

This concise paperback is one of the best known guides to writing a paper for publication in biomedical journals. Its straightforward format – a chapter covering each of part of the structured abstract – makes it relevant and ... ....

168 pages |

Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780470672204 | #200822A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (20-Volume Set)

McGraw-Hill Editors

Celebrating more than 50 years of bringing knowledge to readers at all levels of study, the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 11th Edition provides need-to-know information in the major disciplines of ... ....

100 colour illustrations, 13,000 b/w illustrations |

Hardback | NYP 11/2012 | 9780071792738 | #201167A | £1750.00 Add to basket

 

Scientific Communication for Natural Resource Professionals

Cecil A. Jennings, Thomas E. Lauer and Bruce Vondracek

This book is a "how to" guide to most forms of modern scientific communication, containing practical advice on improving communications and publishing success. Includes chapters on preparing and submitting manuscript ...

180 pages |

Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781934874288 | #201232A | £44.99 Add to basket