A Badger's Year (Region 0)

Andrew Sach

This programme forms the most complete record ever made of the life of a family of wild badgers. Secretive and nocturnal by nature, they are notoriously difficult to watch throughout the year, let alone to film. However, this DVD, which ... ....

Cat Sense

The Feline Enigma Revealed

John Bradshaw

Worshipped as gods, feared as demonic servants, seen as both wild opportunists and beloved companions, cats often seem as unfathomable, enigmatic and magical to us today as they did in ancient times.

Die Saugetiere Deutschlands

Beobachten und Bestimmen

Eckhard Grimmberger

From the alpine bat to the pygmy shrew, the aurochs to the wild horse: this completely new book describes all 132 mammal species present in Germany, including vagrants, potential immigrants and refugees. Starting from easy-determining ... ....

Ein Taschenfuhrer Fur Saugetiere Im Sudlichen Afrika

Cillie Burger

Ein Taschenführer Für Säugetiere Im Südlichen Afrika is a handy and compact guide to over a 100 mammal species. This edition has been updated and has an additional 16 new pages of mammals. Each entry ... ....

Herisson d'Europe

Philippe Jourde

A monograph to the hedgehogs of Europe.

Kindred Beings

What 73 Chimpanzees Taught Me About Life, Love, and Connection

Sheri Speede

In September 2008 Dorothy, a female chimp in her late forties, died of congestive heart failure at Cameroon's Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. A photo of Dorothy's funeral, in which Dr. Sherri Speede was cradling ...

Le Chamois

Biologie et Ecologie, Etudes dans le Massif des Bauges

Jean-Michel Jullien

Le Chamois covers the most iconic mammal from the French Alps. Presenting 25 years of research and monitoring, Jean-Michel Jullien describes how the chamois adapt to mountain constraints as well as their population dynamics ... ....

Mammalogy

Terry A Vaughan, James M Ryan and Nicholas J Czaplewski

Mammalogy is the study of mammals from the diverse biological viewpoints of structure, function, evolutionary history, behavior, ecology, classification, and economics. Thoroughly updated, the Sixth Edition of Mammalogy explains ... ....

Mammals of the Kruger National Park and Surrounding Bushveld

Veronica Roodt

This compact guide to Mammals of the Kruger National Park and surrounding bushveld presents all the mammals you are likely to see in the region. Although handy in size, it packs in an astonishing amount of information, with each mammal ... ....

Moles

Rob Atkinson and Belinda Atkinson

Because they live underground moles are beneath the notice of most people except when they torment us with their molehills. Most of us see a mole as simply something to be destroyed, and never get to know the astonishing animal ... ....

Neurobiology of Monotremes

Brain Evolution in Our Distant Mammalian Cousins

Ken Ashwell

The monotremes are an unusual and evolutionarily important group of mammals showing striking behavioural and physiological adaptations to their niches. They are the only mammals exhibiting electroreception (in the trigeminal sensory pathway ... ....

Out on a Limb

What Black Bears Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition

Benjamin Kilham

In Out on a Limb, Ben Kilham invites us into the world he has come to know best: the world of black bears. For decades, Kilham has studied wild black bears in a vast tract of Northern New Hampshire woodlands. At times, he has ... ....

Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates

Alexander Weiss, James E King and Lindsay Murray

The result of a symposium hosted by the American Society of Primatologists, Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates attests to the huge strides made in recent decades by researchers studying primates and their behavior. ....

Sakgids Tot Suider-Afrikaanse Soogdiere

Cillie Burger

Sakgids Tot Suider-Afrikaanse Soogdiere is a handy and compact guide to over a 100 mammal species. This edition has been updated and has an additional 16 new pages of mammals. Each entry contains a detailed description ... ....

Sea Otters of Haida Gwaii

Icons in Human-Ocean Relations

Norm A Sloan and Lyle Dyck

The sea otter is far from the child's cuddly plush toy it so appealing resembles. Is is a scrappy predator living along cold and stormy North Pacific coasts and still in recovery from the folly of overhunting for pelts more than ... ....

The Bottlenose Dolphin

Biology and Conservation

John E Reynolds III, Randall S Wells and Samantha D Eide

The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years. After reviewing historical myths and ...

The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Marco Pina and Nathalie Gontier

How did social communication evolve in primates? In The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their ... ....

The Marine Mammal Observer & Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook

Victoria Todd, Ian Todd, Jane Gardiner and Erica Morrin

The Marine Mammal Observer & Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook is the ultimate guide to marine mammal mitigation during industrial activities. This comprehensive user manual covers all aspects of the discipline, including ... ....

The Nine-Banded Armadillo

A Natural History

WJ Loughry and Colleen M McDonough

The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one." This midsize mammal that looks like a walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating back at least eleven million years, the ... ....

The White Rhino Saga

Ian Player and Julian Rademeyer

The White Rhino Saga – back in print after more than 30 years – is more relevant than ever as our rhino population faces a deadly poaching onslaught. With a new introduction by Julian Rademeyer and a 'missing ... ....

Wolves in Ireland

A Natural and Cultural History

Kieran Hickey

From prehistory to the present day, the wolf has always loomed large in the human imagination. An iconic symbol of the untamed and the wild, the wolf, as Ireland's last great predator, has always provoked fear, excitement, and wonder ... ....

A Birder's Guide to Louisiana

Richard Gibbons, Roger Breedlove and Charles Lyon

If you like seeing large numbers of birds, you'll love Louisiana. Although Louisiana may not have the life-listers appeal of some of the border states, probably no state in the USA can compete with Louisiana in terms of bird spectacles ... ....

A Birder's Handbook to Manipal

Ramit Singal

A Birder's Handbook to Manipal is a comprehensive, up-to-date work covering the 204 species of birds so far known to be found in Manipal, a university town and hill station in the Indian state of Karnataka, India. It is the cumulative ... ....

A Guide to Scots Bird Names

Robin Jackson, Mike Langman and Harry Scott

This is a completely revised edition of a Guide which was originally published in 1996 which reprinted and then sold out.

Arende Van Afrika

Johann Knobel, Alan Kemp and Peter Steyn

Published in cooperation with Game Parks Publishing, Arende Van Afrika celebrates the eagles of Africa in evocative text and compelling photography: - Colour photographs of all 26 eagle species occurring on the African ... ....

Best 100 Birdwatching Sites in Australia

Sue Taylor

Where can you see 400,000 breeding pairs of rockhopper penguins? Where is the best place in Australia to observe Yellow Chats? And where is the only place in Australia you can have a close encounter with nesting Lesser Noddies?

Bird Songs in the Dominican Republic / Cantos de Aves en la Republica Dominicana

George B Reynard

A re-release of a favorite classic from the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, with updated taxonomy and some additional recordings included. Each species is individually tracked, making access to recordings easy. With special attention ... ....

Birdfinding in British Columbia

Russell Cannings and Richard Cannings

From Canada's top birding team comes the definitive guide to finding birds in British Columbia. Veteran naturalist and birdfinder Richard Cannings and his son, Russell, a gifted birder in his own right, use their combined knowledge ... ....

Birding Australia, Tropical North Queensland - Down Under 1 & 2 (Region ALL) (2DVD)

Malcolm Rymer

Australia hosts some 780 kinds of birds, with the diverse habitats of tropical North Queensland alone numbering an astonishing 450+ species. In Down Under wildlife film-makers Ann & Malcolm Rymer spend a month getting ... ....

Birding Australia, Tropical North Queensland - Down Under 1 (Region ALL)

Malcolm Rymer

Australia hosts some 780 kinds of birds, with the diverse habitats of tropical North Queensland alone numbering an astonishing 450+ species.

Birding Australia, Tropical North Queensland - Down Under 2 (Region ALL)

Malcolm Rymer

In this account - Down Under 2 - the second of a pair of two hour DVDs, wildlife film-makers Ann & Malcolm Rymer spend a month getting to know the birds & wildlife of this relatively compact, bird-rich region, documenting a cross-section ... ....

Birds of British Columbia

A Photographic Journey

Glenn Bartley

More species of birds breed in British Columbia annually than anywhere else in Canada. Additionally, hundreds of migratory birds spend a portion of the year here, making BC a birdwatchers paradise. It does not matter if you are a gung-ho ... ....

Birds of Prey of Byelorussia's Poozer'ye [Russian]

VV Ivanovskiy

A colourful treatise on the birds of prey in Byelorussia, with observations on the numbers, biology, ecology and conservation.

Birds of Southern Coastal Karnataka

K Prabhakar Achar

Birds of Southern Coastal Karnataka is the successor to the popular Field Guide to the Birds of Dakshina Kannada.'In this new edition, the illustrations of birds have been replaced by colour photographs.

Birds of the Bible

A Guide for Bible Readers and Birdwatchers

Peter Goodfellow

The Prologue sets the scene by giving a simple description of the topography and climate in Israel, so that readers – wherever they are – may get a sense of what the place is like. The following chapters cover topics such as ... ....

Birdwatching in Colombia

Jurgen Beckers and Pablo Florez

Home to almost 1 900 species (nearly one fifth ofthe world total), Colombia hosts the highest number of birds of any country in the world. Birdwatching in Colombia describes in detail the best and most accessible birding sites ... ....

Caribbean Bird Song / Cantos de Aves del Caribe (3CD)

Puerto Rico south to Grenada, with the Bahamas, Caymans and San Andres

Mark W Oberle

This three-CD set presents the sounds of 283 species including the regular breeding and endemic species as well as common migrants to these bird-rich islands of the Caribbean. This audio guide offers residents, visitors, and ornithologists ... ....

Ein Taschenfuhrer Fur Vogel Im Sudlichen Afrika

Cillie Burger and Ulrich Oberprieler

For both the beginner and the experienced bird-watcher, this compact guide will prove as indispensable as binoculars. Special features: - Practical and user-friendly - Over 400 bird species - Excellent colour photographs ...

Guide des Chants d'Oiseaux d'Europe Occidentale

Andre Bossus, Francois Charron and Franck Faucheux

This field guide contains sonograms and audio recordings on two CDs for the birds of Western Europe.

Identifier les Oiseaux

Eviter les Pieges d'Identification les Plus Complexes

Dominic Couzens, David Nurney and Maxime Zucca

This is a French translation of Birds: ID Insights.

Les Oiseaux des Forets par la Couleur

Marc Duquet, Alban Larousse and Francois Desbordes

A field guide to the shapes and colours of common birds found in forests of France and Western Europe.

Oiseaux des Jardins (Book + CD)

Bertrand Posse, Alain Barbalat, Pierre-Alain Ravussin and Jacques Laesser

A guide to more than 60 species of garden bird. Oiseaux des Jardins aims to present a selection of the most common species and give the reader practical tips: – tips for observation – tips to develop a favorable garden ... ....

Oiseaux des Jardins (Book Only)

Bertrand Posse, Alain Barbalat, Pierre-Alain Ravussin and Jacques Laesser

A guide to more than 60 species of garden bird. Oiseaux des Jardins aims to present a selection of the most common species and give the reader practical tips: – tips for observation – tips to develop a favorable garden ... ....

Oiseaux des Jardins (CD Only)

Fernand Deroussen

Audio CD with recordings of 56 species. The accompanying can be bought separately, or together with the CD.

Ornitologia Italiana, Volume 8: Sturnidae - Fringillida

Pierandrea Brichetti and Giancarlo Fracasso

This volume covers the Sturnidae to Fringillidae. The authors, as in previous volumes, present all the information representing the current knowledge of birds. The volume is organized in tabs with distribution maps, diagrams and checklists .. ....

Pyrrhura Parakeets (Conures)

Aviculture, Natural History, Conservation

Rosemary Low

Pyrrhura Parakeets (Conures) is the most comprehensive treatise on the genus published in any language, resulting from more than 30 years' experience of breeding them, plus observing them in the wild in Argentina, Brazil ... ....

Rare Breeding Birds in the UK In 2011

The July issue of British Birds contains the 38th report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel includes details of 88 species or distinctive races that bred (or showed signs of breeding) in the UK in 2011. It may have been ... ....

Sakgids tot Voels van Suider-Afrika

Cillie Burger and Ulrich Oberprieler

For both the beginner and the experienced bird-watcher, this compact guide will prove as indispensable as binoculars. Special features: - Practical and user-friendly - Over 400 bird species - Excellent colour photographs ...

The Birds of Berkshire

An Atlas and Avifauna

Neil Bucknell, Renton Righelato, Chris Robinson and Brian Clews

The Birds of Berkshire is a complete and up-to-date account of the county's birds, covering all 330 species recorded in the county. It includes maps derived from the results of the second Berkshire bird atlas survey, undertaken ... ....

The Birds of Blashford Lakes

Simon Woolley

A systematic review of the birds of Blashford Lakes, in the Avon Valley, western Hampshire, UK. Contains photo vignettes of 20 species, a full map, seven aerial photos, many graphs and charts, and over 130 pages of detailed analysis of ... ....

The Birds of Sussex

Sussex Ornithological Society

The Birds of Sussex describes the status and changing fortunes of all the wild birds of Sussex. Over two million bird records, and four years of intensive Atlas survey work underpin this compelling book. Included are stunning photographs ... ....

The Birds of the Oksky Nature Reserve (Biology, Abundance, Conservation), Volume 2 [Russian]

Passeriformes

IM Sapetina

A compendium of passerine diversity, ecology and biology in a major nature reserve in central Russia.

The Birds of the Oksky Nature Reserve and Adjacent Territories, Volume 1 [Russian]

Non-Passeriformes

IM Sapetina

A treatise on the nonpasserines of a major nature reserve in central Russia.

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2014

David Cromack

For 34 years The Birdwatcher's Yearbook has been the essential work of reference for active birders and the wider world of ornithology. Every piece of information is checked and updated to ensure each new edition of The Yearbook ... ....

The Blackbird

Sound Portraits of the Blackbird in Song

British Library Sound Archive

The Blackbird is one of the most familiar of all British birds and its song is a great favourite. Enjoy the beautiful melodies created by this much-loved songbird in the British Library's new collection of recordings, which reveal the ... ....

The Breeding Bird Survey 2012

The Population Trends of the UK's Breeding Birds

Kate Risley, Dario Massimino, Stuart E Newson, Mark A Eaton, Andy J Musgrove, David G Noble and Pro

This is the eighteenth annual report of the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), containing the population trends of widespread UK bird species during the period 1994–2012.

The Helm Guide to Bird Identification

Comparing Confusion Species

Keith Vinicombe, Alan Harris and Laurel Tucker

The Helm Guide to Bird Identification covers difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features. Designed as a field companion, it supplements ... ....

The Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of India

Including Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan

Bikram Grewal

The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the birds of India encompassing ... ....

The Penguins of Boulders

False Bay - South Africa

Dirk Schmidt

The Penguins of Boulders is a charming illustration into the lives of one of the most adorable and charismatic creatures on earth – the African penguin. Situated on the eastern shores of False Bay, and in the town of ... ....

The Secret Life of the Sparrowhawk DVD (Region 1 or 2)

Chris Packham

Ten years in the making, The Secret Life of the Sparrowhawk covers the lives of sparrowhawks throughout the year from November to August when all adult and juvenile sparrowhawks disperse and covers why up to 19 species of songbird ... ....

The Welfare of Farmed Ratites

Phil Glatz, Christine Lunam and Irek Malecki

The Welfare of Farmed Ratites reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratites. Although ratites incorporate several families of flightless birds ...

Their Fate Is Our Fate

How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

Peter Doherty

At the heart of Their Fate Is Our Fate by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of ... ....

Weidevogels in een Veranderend Landschap

Meer Kleur in het Grasland

Jan van der Geld, Niko Groen and Ron van 't Veer

Although management and conservation of wader species and farmland has become popular, it seems little effective in conserving bird habitats. Weidevogels in een Veranderend Landschap describes this decline, the visible changes in ... ....

Where to Find Birds in Far North New Zealand (Revised Edition)

A Site Guide

Detlef Davies

Detlef Davies is Regional Representative for the Far North branch of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand and has travelled widely in the country but particularly in his local area, the Far North. This book is a product of this exploration. ....

Wild Birds of Shenzheng [Chinese]

Gives an overview of the wild birds found in Shen Zhen, a city south of Southern China's Guangdong Province.

American Alligator

Ancient Predator in the Modern World

Kelby Ouchley

Having survived since the Mesozoic era, alligators teetered on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. Their recovery in the 1970s and 1980s was largely due to legislative intervention, and today populations are closely monitored throughout ... ....

An Amateur's Guide to Reptiles of Assam

Jayaditya Purkayastha

The book contains description, photograph, distributional map of all the species so far reported from the state of Assam. It includes information on management of snake bite. The book contains information on conservation status of each ... ....

Die Amphibien und Reptilien der Sudwest-Turkei

Michael Franzen, Michael Bussmann, Thomas Kordges and Burkhard Thiesmeier

The amphibian and reptile fauna of Turkey is characterized by high species numbers and a huge variety. In Asia Minor, representatives from the Balkan region, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the deserts of Arabia meet. A special interface ... ....

How Snakes Work

Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes

Harvey B Lillywhite

A heavily illustrated and complete account of the functional biology of snakes, written for an audience of both scientists and a general readership.

Snakes of the World

A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species

Van Wallach, Kenneth L Williams and Jeff Boundy

Snakes of the World covers all living snakes and fossil snakes. It should have a broad appeal not only to conservationists and herpetologists but to naturalists, hobbyists, educators and libraries as it will be the standard reference ... ....

Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia

Marion Anstis

A comprehensive reference on the life histories and patterns of Australian frogs. Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia covers all species of adult frogs and includes illustrated descriptions of the eggs, tadpoles and metamorphs of ... ....

Venomous Snakes of the World

A Manual for Use by U.S. Amphibious Forces

Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and Scott Shupe

Originally published in 1962 (Dept. of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery), now fully updated and colorized, this is the perfect practical guide not only to snake bite survival, but to understand and identify every venomous snake on ... ....

A Pictorial Guide to Victoria's Freshwater Fishes

Rudie H Kuiter

A pictorial guide that includes all the known freshwater species of Victoria, including many of the recently recognised species of Galaxidae, some probably now extinct. Quick-guide with small images are presented instead of keys to the ... ....

Fish Physiology, Volume 33

Organic Chemical Toxicology of Fishes

Keith B Tierney, Anthony P Farrell and Colin J Brauner

Fish Physiology: Organic Chemical Toxicology of Fishes discusses the different types of organic chemical contaminants and their respective toxic effects in fish. This volume also covers the detection of dissolved organic compounds ... ....

The Fishes of India (2-Volume Set)

Being a Natural History of the Fishes Known to Inhabit the Seas and Fresh Waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon

Francis Day

Reprint of a work published in 1875. Volume 1 contains the text, volume 2 the 198 plates.

The Mammoth Book of Shark Attacks

Alex MacCormick and Rod Green

This is the biggest-ever selection of first-hand accounts and news reports of shark attacks, both recent and historical. It shows how sharks are masters of the ocean and how we enter their domain at our own risk. Think you're safe in ... ....

The Trout's Tale

The Fish That Conquered an Empire

Chris Newton

On a chilly January day in 1864 James Arndell Youl stood on the dockside at Southampton supervising the packing and loading of salmon ova bound for Tasmania. It was not the first attempt to export live sporting fish to the Empire ... ....

Wild: 75 Freshwater Tropical Fish of the World

Flick Ford

Wild: 75 Freshwater Tropical Fish of the World features seventy-five detailed watercolour portraits, combined with descriptions of appearance, lifestyle, and suggestions for their placement in natural aquariums.

Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Volume 1

Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae

Adam Slipinski and Hermes E Escalona

Longhorn Beetles – Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33,000 species in 5,200 genera. With over 1,400 species classified in 300 genera, this is the sixth ... ....

A Beekeeper's Progress

John Phipps

From his first hive to fifty of them, from a fascinating hobby to a business venture, John Phipps has worked with honey and bees all his life. As editor of the foremost beekeeping magazine in Britain, John has travelled internationally ... ....

Biggle's Bee Book

Jacob Biggle

"As long as I can remember, even as a boy, there were bees kept on our farm," wrote Jacob Biggle in his preface to The Biggle Bee Book. "If for no other reason than to insure the proper fertilization of fruit and other ... ....

Butterflies of Surrey Revisited

Ken Willmott, Malcolm Bridge, Harry E Clarke and Francis Kelly

In 1995 Surrey Wildlife Trust published Butterflies of Surrey by Graham Collins, the first of the Surrey Wildlife Atlas series. That original volume was a one-author work of 87 pages; it sold out long ago and the time has come for a revisit. ....

Butterflies of the Garo Hills

Sanjay Sondhi, Krushnamegh Kunte, Gaurav Agavekar, Rohan Lovalekar and Kedar Tolekar

Butterflies of the Garo Hills covers 320 species of butterflies from the Garo Hills in Meghalaya, northeastern India. The book contains photographs of each of the species, provides key features for identifying them in the field ... ....

Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)

Allen F Sanborn

This is the third in a series of catalogs and bibliographies of the Cicadoidea covering 1981-2010. The work summarizes the cicada literature, providing a means for easy access to information previously published on a particular species of ... ....

Chironomidae Larvae, Volume 3

Biology and Ecology of the Aquatic Orthocladiinae

Henk KM Moller Pillot

To most people midges are a nuisance – annoying creatures that can spoil a quiet evening or stick to the windscreen of your car in such numbers that you can't see through it. However, there are those who study these tiny insects ... ....

Conservation of the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly in Australia

Donald PA Sands and Tim R New

This survey of one the longest insect conservation campaigns in Australia deals with recovery of one of the most iconic endemic butterflies, the Richmond birdwing, threatened by clearance and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest in ... ....

Empire of the Beetle

How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

Andrew Nikiforuk

Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce ... ....

Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries: Acanthocephala

K Vanamala Naidu

This volume is an attempt to put together all the information available in literature of Acanthocephala. Out of 1250 species known from all over the world, this work deals with 348 species of these parasites occurring in the Indian subcontinent ... ....

Field Guide to the Damselflies of New Guinea

VJ Kalkman and AG Orr

Field Guide to the Damselflies of New Guinea contains nearly 300 colour drawings and over 250 line drawings by Albert Orr and sixteen colour photographs taken in the field by Stephen Richards. New Guinea is one of the least studied ... ....

Fourmis de France

Philippe Wegnez, Christophe Galkowski, Claude Lebas and Rumsais Blatrix

This field guide discusses more than 200 ant species, and details 100 of them in great detail, covering descriptions, distribution, possible confusion species, habitat, and biology. Fourmis de France also gives tips for finding ... ....

Fruit Flies

Biology and Management

Martin Aluja and Pablo Liedo

Fruit flies are enormously important economic pests, as California has learned over the past few years (remember the Mediterranean Fruit Fly?). The problem is expected to get worse, and issues of both basic research and control measures ... ....

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

Sheng Maoling

Ichneumonid Fauna of Jiangxi (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) deals with 372 species and subspecies belonging to 175 genera, 25 subfamilies of the family Ichneumonidae. Of which 70 species are new to science, 7 genus and 8 species ... ....

Insect Resistance Management

Biology, Economics, and Prediction

David W Onstad

Neither pest management nor resistance management can occur with only an understanding of pest biology. For years, entomologists have understood, with their use of economic thresholds, that at least a minimal use of economics was necessary ... ....

Insect-Plant Interactions

Claudia Voelckel and George Jander

This latest volume in Wiley Blackwell's prestigious Annual Plant Reviews brings together articles that describe the biochemical, genetic, and ecological aspects of plant interactions with insect herbivores.. The biochemistry section ... ....

Insectes

Heiko Bellmann and Klaus Riegler

This handy nature guide will help you easily identify over 360 species of insect. Complete with 528 photos. Translated from a German edition.

Keeping Bees with Ashley English

All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More

Ashley English

Keeping Bees with Ashley English offers guidance to help anyone raise a hive (or two or ten) of bees. It includes information about acquiring, housing, maintaining and caring for bees year-round. It features beautiful photographs ... ....

King Crabs of the World

Biology and Fisheries Management

Bradley G Stevens

King Crabs of the World is the first comprehensive reference that discusses king crab systematics, anatomy, biology, life history, behavior, and fisheries management, bringing together published information from scattered sources ... ....

Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

Life at a Microscale

David Evans Walter and Heather Coreen Proctor

Please note: Originally published by the University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999 (for Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Papua New Guinea and Oceania). What creatures live in the dark depths of ... ....

Molecular Biomineralization

Aquatic Organisms Forming Extraordinary Materials

Werner EG Muller

The concept of 'biomineralization' signifies mineralization processes that take place in close association with organic molecules or matrices. The awareness that mineral formation can be guided by organic molecules notably ... ....

Papillons

Heiko Bellmann and Klaus Riegler

Easily identify 295 species of butterflies and their caterpillars with this handy nature guide. Translated from the German edition.

The Fauna of British India, Butterflies (2-Volume Set)

G Talbot

Reprint: originally published in 1939. The study of butterflies has progressed largely during the thirty years which have elapsed since the publication of Bingham’s work in this series. As such it was felt that a revision ... ....

The Fauna of British India, Hymenoptera (2-Volume Set)

Wasps and Bees / Ants and Cuckoo-Wasps

CT Bingham and WT Blandord

Reprint: originally published in 1897.

The Photographic Book of All Butterflies in Taiwan [Chinese]

Lin Chunji and Su Jinping

This book introduces all living 377 species of butterflies in Taiwan. An ecological photo to each species. the morphological characteristics, host plants and adult living habits are described to each species. Covers the following families ... ....

Amazing Amber

Andrew Ross and Alison Sheridan

Used for centuries as a decorative artefact, amber was also treasured for its perceived magical powers, crafted into charms and amulets to heal and ward off evils spirits. Amber also has the unique capacity to preserve fragile life that ... ....

The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction

Jamie Woodward

The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from the continents, the oceans ... ....

The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna

Jack Wittry

The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna is a complete and updated taxonomic guide to this important assemblage and includes descriptions and color photos of species that collectors are likely to find in the field or see in most large collections ... ....

The World of the Dinosaurs

An Exciting Guide to Prehistoric Creatures, with 350 Fabulous Detailed Drawings of Dinosaurs and Beasts and the Places T

Dougal Dixon

This is an essential introduction to the age of the dinosaurs, featuring a directory of more than fifty of the most important prehistoric creatures. It covers all the well-known dinosaur discoveries from North America, South America ... ....

Benthic Fauna of the Bay of Nhatrang, Southern Vietnam, Volume 2

TA Britayev and DS Pavlov

A collection of papers, mostly richly illustrated with colour, on the taxonomy, ecology and distribution of several groups of benthic Polychaeta, Mollusca, Crustacea etc. of southern Vietnam, with descriptions of new species.

Biodiversity in Aquatic Systems and Environments

Lake Biwa

Noboru Okuda, Katsutoshi Watanabe, Kayoko Fukumori, Shin-ichi Nakano and Takefumi Nakazawa

Biodiversity in Aquatic Systems and Environments presents the latest topics in ecological and evolutionary research on aquatic biodiversity from bacteria to fishes, with special reference to Lake Biwa, an ancient lake in western ... ....

International Environmental Law and the Conservation of Coral Reefs

Edward J Goodwin

Coral reefs are important ecosystems which are increasingly threatened by pollution, climate change and habitat change. Coral reefs are economically important to coastal communities living in predominantly developing countries, and also ... ....

Marine Biology

Function, Biodiversity, Ecology

Jeffrey S Levinton

New to This Edition: - Expanded coverage of ecological interactions, global climate change, methods of environmental assessment, and human impact on biodiversity - Seven brand-new "Hot Topics in Marine Biology ... ....

The Gulf of California

Biodiversity and Conservation

Richard C Brusca

Few places in the world can claim such a diversity of species as the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), with its 6,000 recorded animal species estimated to be half the number actually living in its waters. So rich are the Gulf's waters ... ....

A Murmuration of Starlings

The Collective Nouns of Animals and Birds

Steve Palin

A flock of birds, even a skein of geese perhaps – but a cete of badgers, or a grist of bees? The collective nouns of animals and birds have long inspired and intrigued us. Many have their roots in medieval times, in part ... ....

Adventures of the Chickalloon

A Bird's Eye View of Earth

Carol Harris and Bill Oddie

Adventures of the Chickalloon is a book about ecology. Its aim, as the first in a new series of books, is to help children learn important life lessons about issues that are rarely given much time in the school curriculum. ....

Arctic Eden

Journeys Through the Changing High Arctic

Jerry Kobalenko

A stunning celebration of the most beautiful part of the Arctic by its most passionate explorer. In this intimate portrait, Jerry Kobalenko describes a series of journeys he has taken over the past twenty years around the Canadian ... ....

Australasian Nature Photography

ANZANG Tenth Collection

South Australian Museum

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 80 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwana. The South Australian Museum and ... ....

Big Book of Stars & Planets

Emily Bone and Fabiano Fiorin

A big picture book with giant fold-out pages to satisfy the curiosity of every young space enthusiast. Everything children need to know about the solar system, which is dispalyed on a hige double-gate fold. Makes a substantial gift which ... ....

Brilliant Blunders

From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

Mario Livio

We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And that includes five of the greatest scientists in history – Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, Albert Einstein. But the mistakes that these great scientists ... ....

Bush Vet

My Hidden Battles to Save Wildlife

Clay Wilson and Tony Park

On the borders of Chobe National Park, Clay Wilson is an embattled wildlife veterinarian. Not only does he experience great adventure and heart-rendering episodes tending to the wild animals that fall victim to accidents and disease, but ... ....

Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook 2013

Jonathan Downes

The Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook is an annual collection of papers and essays too long and detailed for publication in the CFZ Journal, Animals & Men. With contributions from both well-known researchers, and ... ....

Close-Up and Macro Photography

Art and Techniques

John Humphrey

High magnification photography is immensely exciting and rewarding. Through the close-up lens, everyday objects produce striking images, and small creatures show amazing detail that usually goes unnoticed.

Cover Birds

Robert Gillmor

Now an internationally famous wildlife artist, Robert Gillmor was already a keen bird-watcher at the age of 11 when the Reading Ornithological Club (launched in 1947) invited him to join them as a visitor; at 13 he was elected as their ... ....

Darwin: Portrait of a Genius

Paul Johnson

Darwin's revolutionary career is the perfect vehicle for historian Paul Johnson. Marked by the insightful observation, spectacular wit, and highly readable prose for which Johnson is so well regarded, Darwin brings the gentleman-scientist ... ....

Dawn to Dark Photographs

The Magic of Light

National Geographic

The world's best landscape photography and photojournalism stunningly depicts the passage of a single day, from dawn's first light to the closing moments of sunset. Experience shimmering mornings and opaque nights through the eye ... ....

Flying Blind: One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered

Don Mitchell

When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley ... ....

Forest

Rachel Lockwood

For the past year, Rachel has been working on location in woodland close to her studio. In a series of over 50 oil sketches on paper, she has managed to catch the light in the forest as it changes through the seasons. From autumnal ... ....

Handbuch der Vogelfotografie

Markus Varesvuo, Jari Peltomaki and Bence Mate

This is a German translation of The Handbook of Bird Photography.

Heart of the Hero

The Remarkable Women Who Inspired the Great Polar Explorers

Kari Herbert

Heart of the Hero gives a compelling insight into the lives of some of the world's most famous explorers, through the eyes of the women who inspired them to achieve great things. Author Kari Herbert explores the unpredictable ... ....

How Do Insects Fold and Unfold Their Wings?

An Activity Book

Robin Wootton

This exciting new activity book from the AES is an eye-opener to some of the intricate mechanisms of the insect world. If the wings of insects contain no muscles, how can they fold and unfold them? This book explains how they do it, using ... ....

Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History

Karl PN Shuker

Welcome to a carnival unlike anything that you have ever read about, visited, or even imagined before. Here, before your very eyes, you will encounter bizarre, anomalous creatures of every conceivable (and inconceivable!) kind-a veritable ... ....

My Brief History

A Memoir

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inwards for a revealing look at his own ... ....

Painting Skies and Seascapes

Peter D Rush

The sea and sky have captured the attention of artists for centuries. Their energy and drama, or their tranquility and beauty, can be portrayed powerfully and magnificently in a painting. This encouraging and user-friendly book gives practical ... ....

Photographing Nature in Action

Arnold Wilson

This new book explains how to take great shots of animals moving in water, land and air, as well as perhaps less obvious plant movement. The main topics covered include the functions of your camera, and the fundamentals of good photography ... ....

Romantic Biology, 1890-1945

Maurizio Esposito

Organismal biology is an established scholarly discipline, yet its origins have been obscured by Darwinian histories of biology. Emerging over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, organismal biology stemmed not from the ... ....

Screamer the Swift

John Miles and Barry Robson

The story of a swift, especially written for children. Targetted at children aged 7-10. Beautifully illustrated throughout this tells the story of a swift from the time it leaves the nest until it returns next year.

Seek the Frozen Lands

Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922

Frank Nugent

In extreme sports and survival challenges a rescue is a phone call away. Polar explorers played for real, extraordinary men entering the unknown for years at a time. High on a list of such explorers would be Crozier, McClintock, McClure ... ....

Sydney Parkinson: Ilustracoes Botanicas de Especies Brasileiras

Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima

Sydney Parkinson (c. 1745 – 26 January 1771) was a Scottish Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist. Parkinson was employed by Joseph Banks to travel with him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in 1768 ... ....

The Age of Scientific Naturalism

Tyndall and His Contemporaries

Bernard Lightman and Michael S Reidy

Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any impact on the operations of human life ... ....

The Art of Conservation

25 Years of Birdfair Posters

Robert Gillmor, Martin Davies, Tim Appleton, Lars Jonsson and John Cox

To celebrate their 25 anniversary, The Birdfair, in collaboration with Robert Gillmor, have produced this special book which illustrates their beautifully produced posters – 23 of which were created by Robert Gillmor.

The Best of Outdoorphoto Portfolio 1

A Selection of Our Best Nature Images

Outdoorphoto

Africa is a wonderful region for nature photography. Visitors come from all over the world to experience the many photographic opportunities on offer. The Best of Outdoorphoto Portfolio 1 contains 162 photographs from 50 photographs ... ....

The Frilled Shark

Sara Green

Named for its gills that look like a frilly collar, the frilled shark is unlike any other. Having changed little since prehistoric times, this eel-like shark resembles a mythical sea serpent. Sightings are rare, as the frilled shark ... ....

The Goblin Shark

Sara Green

Its hard to argue with those who call the goblin shark the ugliest shark alive. A long, flat snout, needle-like teeth, and soft, pink flesh combine for a startling sight. The deep-sea dweller doesnt present itself often, leaving scientists ... ....

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 7

Neil Chambers

Following his participation in James Cook’s circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768–71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective work ... ....

The Man Who Planted Trees

Jean Giono and Vanessa Capela

The Man Who Planted Trees (or L’homme qui plantait des arbres’) by French author Jean Giono is a legendary tale written in the 1950’s, which has been translated into a multitude of languages. It tells the ... ....

The Wildlife Artist's Handbook

Jackie Garner

Art has always been inspired by the wildlife around us. Since earliest times we have been continually fascinated by both wildlife and the challenge of representing it. The Wildlife Artist's Handbook sets the scene of how ... ....

The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Volume 1, Fossil Mammalia and Mammalia

Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836

Charles Darwin, Richard Owen and George R Waterhouse

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in five parts between 1839 and 1843, and reissued here in three volumes, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle showcases the ...

The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Volume 2, Birds

Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836

Charles Darwin and John Gould

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in five parts between 1839 and 1843, and reissued here in three volumes, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle showcases the ...

The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Volume 3, Fish and Reptilia

Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836

Charles Darwin, Leonard Jenyns and Thomas Bell

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in five parts between 1839 and 1843, and reissued here in three volumes, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle showcases the ...

Visions of Science

Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

Jim Secord

The first half of the nineteenth century saw new scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world and its processes - concepts of evolution and the vastness of geological time - began to spread.

Walks Along the South West Coast Path

Exmouth to Dartmouth, Featuring the English Riviera Global Geopark

Melanie Border and Ruth Luckhurst

Packed with accessible geological and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto stunning aerial photography, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about ... ....

Whose Garden is It?

Garden Animals Tell Us the Truth About Their Lives

Mary Sully

We are in the garden of 6, Fieldview Close, a house currently occupied by Mr and Mrs Sully, their children Mark and Kate, and their black labrador bitch, Callie; next door stalks a tabby cat - Conchita. All these however are ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 Desk Calendar

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 23. As usual, a wall calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available, see the accessories tab for more products.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 Wall Calendar

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 23. As usual, desk calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available, see the accessories tab for more products.

Winter Wise

Travel and Survival in Ice and Snow

Monty Alford

A man who has spent his professional life measuring the flow of northern rivers, climbed Alaska's Mount McKinley, was a member of both Yale University and Maine University's scientific expeditions to the Antarctic, guided a film ... ....

Woodsman

Ben Law

Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land and the wildlife, and his respect for age old traditions and how to sustain them offers a wonderful, inviting insight into ... ....

A Year in the Life: The Mendip Hills

John Bailey

The stunning landscapes of the Mendip Hills have long been admired by visitors from around the globe, but John Bailey takes us on a journey beyond the spectacular but highly visitored Cheddar Gorge, through the lesser known terrain ... ....

An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

Tom Williamson

While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and ... ....

Animals of Pilanesberg

An Identification Guide

Cillie Burger, Ulrich Oberprieler and Christo Joubert

Pilanesberg Game Reserve is situated in the North West Province in South Africa, west of Pretoria. This A5-sized photographic guide features: - 72 mammal species - 230 bird species - 21 reptiles and amphibians ...

Antarctica Flora & Fauna: Pocket Guide / Antartida Flora & Fauna: Guía de Bolsillo

Marcelo Beccaceci, Gerardo Teo, Diego Florio and Cecilia Gasparrou

This is a fold-out pocket guide to birds, mammals, fish, and plants found in and around Antarctica. For each species the English, Spanish, and scientific name are given, as well as length or wing span.

Drifting into Darien

A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That first baptism ... ....

Geillustreerde Gids tot die Dierelewe van Suider-Afrika

David Bristow

This completely revised and easy-to-use guide to Southern Africa features detailed descriptions and clear, colour illustrations of over 600 of the most common southern African wildlife species that are likely to be encountered.

Hula Valley

Ecology, Hydrology, Agriculture, Nutrient Dynamics, Tourism and Nature Conservation

Moshe Gophen

The book's subject is a comprehensive ecological insight into a natural ecosystem that was strongly modified by human intervention and its management has a significant impact on water, agricultural, natural and touristic resources. ....

Island on Fire

The Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Volcano That Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark

Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

The eruption of Laki is one of history's great untold natural disasters. The eruption, spewing out a poisionous fog, lasted for eight months, but its effects lingered across Europe for years, causing the death of people as far away as .. ....

La Nature en Corse

Giles Faggio, Cecile Jolin and Pierrette Blaise

Corsica offers an exceptional variety of landscapes and environments. High mountains, plains and foothills, forests and scrubs, mountain streams and rivers, coastal marshes and brackish water, not to mention the villagers and urban space ... ....

London Zoo, 1828-1859

Cultural Politics, Public Science and Animal History

Takashi Ito

At the beginning of the Victorian era, London Zoo thrived as the premier resort of the metropolis. It attracted myriads of people from different walks of life, from urban promenaders to gentleman menagerists, from Indian shipbuilders to ... ....

Lost Antarctica

Adventures in a Disappearing Land

James B McClintock

Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock has spent three decades studying the ... ....

Namibia: Reise In Bildern Durch Seine Regionen

Thomas Dressler

Namibia: Reise In Bildern Durch Seine Regionen offers an inspirational meander through a country of remarkable contrasts, a land of towering red dunes, a rugged and wild coast, and an extraordinarily diverse wildlife, many of which ... ....

North America: A World in One Continent

Huw Cordey and Mark R Tercek

The North American continent stretches over 9.5 million square miles, and is home to more than 500 million people, who share it with hundreds of thousands of species of mammals, birds, insects, and plants – many of them extraordinary ... ....

Patagonia Flora & Fauna

Pocket Guide / Guía de Bolsillo

Marcelo Beccaceci, Gerardo Teo and Diego Florio

This is a fold-out pocket guide to birds, mammals, fish, and plants found in and around Antarctica. For each species the English, Spanish, and scientific name are given, as well as length or wing span.

Sudafrika: Reise in Bildern Durch Die Regionen

Toast Coetzer and Samantha Reinders

Sud Afrika: Reise in Bildern Durch Die Regionen is an all-new visual celebration of the scenic splendour, cultural diversity, wildlife and architecture of South Africa’s most extraordinary and magnificent regions.

South Africa: A Visual Tour Through Its Region

Toast Coetzer and Samantha Reinders

South Africa: A Visual Tour Through Its Regions is an all-new visual celebration of the scenic splendour, cultural diversity, wildlife and architecture of South Africa’s most extraordinary and magnificent regions.

The Tourist Travel and Field Guide of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Veronica Roodt

Here is an all-in-one travellers' guide to one of the most extraordinary and beautiful places on Earth. It offers detailed maps, travel information and a photographic field guide in a single, handy volume. The travel guide section of ... ....

The Tourist Travel and Field Guide of the Serengeti National Park

Veronica Roodt

This is an all-in-one travellers' guide to the Serengeti National Park – the vast, iconic reserve in the heart of East Africa. The Tourist Travel and Field Guide of the Serengeti National Park offers detailed maps ... ....

Touring the Natural Wonders of New Zealand

Over 45 Spectacular Routes

Peter Janssen and Andrew Fear

Wild coasts, jaw-dropping cliffs and caves, tranquil bays, thermal hotspots and smoking volcanoes, towering alps and grinding glaciers, primeval forests, lakes and braided rivers, seabird colonies and seal rookeries, offshore islands ... ....

Wildlife Watching in America's National Parks

A Seasonal Guide

Gary W Vequist and Daniel S Licht

From the Great Smoky Mountains to Point Reyes National Seashore, America's national parks are home to some of nature's great wildlife spectacles. Here, Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht, two veterans of the National Park Service ... ....

A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia

Andrew Brown and Buirchell Bevan

An excellent guide with photographs and maps. The accompanying text covers derivation of name, flowering period, description, distribution and habitat, and notes. Eremophila species abound on desolate rocky hills, open spinifex plains ... ....

A Gardener's Guide to Wildlife and Birds and How to Attract Them (2-Volume Set)

Two Practical Books for Animal Lovers with Step-by-step Advice and Over 1700 Photographs

Christine Lavelle, Michael Lavelle and Jen Green

Turn your garden into a wildlife haven by growing the right plants to encourage beneficial insects, aquatic life, backyard birds and animals. A Gardener's Guide to Wildlife and Birds and How to Attract Them includes illustrations ... ....

Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology

Laura Barsanti and Paolo Gualtieri

A single-source reference on the biology of algae, this new edition examines the most important taxa and structures for freshwater, marine, and terrestrial forms of algae. Its comprehensive coverage goes from algae's historical role ... ....

Alpine Plants of the Northwest

Wyoming to Alaska

Andy MacKinnon and Jim Pojar

Spectacular wildflower meadows are among the most beautiful yet extreme ecosystems you will find in alpine habitats of northwest North America. Best-selling authors Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon provide fascinating, comprehensive information ... ....

Bibliography of Indian Poaceae

JH Franklin Benjamin

The present work includes about 4500 references covering the following aspects: papers on taxonomy, external morphology, ecology, phytogeography, utilization, cytology, anatomy, embryology, morphology and palynology, having discussion ... ....

Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes

Building Coherence between Microbial Ecology and Molecular Mechanisms

Keith Davies and Yitzhak Spiegel

Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes intends to review the biological control theme of phytonematodes from several prospects: ecological; applicative as well as commercial state of the art; understanding the ... ....

Biotic Interactions

Pamela C Ronald

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

Bolets de Catalunya: Volume 32

Societat Catalana de Micologia

Another 50 sheets in this ongoing series treating the fungi of Catalonia.

Botanical Heritage of Islands at the Brink of Niagara Falls

Patricia M Eckel

During the 1880's, government and non-governmental organizations began vigorous attempts to restore and preserve the scenery at Niagara Falls. Botanical Heritage of Islands at the Brink of Niagara Falls treats the historic ... ....

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 British Boletes ... ....

Cell Biology

Sarah Assmann and Bo Liu

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

Checklist of Vascular Plants of Kyrgyzstan [Russian]

Georgy A Lazkov and Beishekan A Sultanova

The first checklist of vascular plants (ferns, lycopods, horsetails, conifers and phanerogams) of Kyrgyzstan has been prepared on the basis of literature data, herbarium collections mainly preserved at the Institute of Biology and Soil Science ... ....

Chrysophytes and Related Organisms: New Insights into Diversity and Evolution

Proceedings of the Eight International Chrysophyte Symposium, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, August 12-17

Jirí Neustupa, Joergen Kristiansen and Yvonne Nemcova

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eight International Chrysophyte Symposium, held at the Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, during August 12-17, 2012.

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

Sheng Luan

Plants cannot move away from their environments. As a result, all plants that have survived to date have evolved sophisticated signaling mechanisms that allow them to perceive, respond, and adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions ... ....

Common Plants of Nunavut

Carolyn Mallory and Susan Aiken

Explore the fascinating world of Nunavut's varied plant life in this richly visual, informative book. Through beautiful photographs and a broad range of information including traditional knowledge about plant use compiled through ... ....

Compendium of Apple and Pear Diseases

Turner B Sutton, Herb S Aldwinckle, Arthur M Agnello and James F Walgenbach

Of the many changes in this second edition, the most notable may be the addition of a new section that includes coverage of insects and mites, also known as arthropods. This section alone features 90 species and 160 color images which ... ....

Compendium of Tomato Diseases

Jeffrey B Jones, Thomas A Zitter, M Timur Momol and Sally A Miller

Botanically speaking, tomato is a fruit. But by common understanding it is often considered a vegetable as well. Regardless of which term you use, tomato is the most "Googled" fruit and one of the most commonly grown.

Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World

Ben-Erik van Wyk

In Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World, Ben-Erik van Wyk offers the first fully illustrated, scientific guide to nearly all commercial herbs and spices in existence. Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World covers more ... ....

Ecology and the Environment

Russell K Monson

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

Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants, Volume 7: Flowers

TK Lim

This book continues as Volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers plant species with edible flowers from families Acanthaceae to Facaceae in a tabular form and seventy five selected ... ....

Epiphyllous Liverworts of Eastern Himalaya

Monalisa Dey and DK Singh

Epiphyllous Liverworts of Eastern Himalaya provides a comprehensive taxonomic account of 89 taxa of liverworts belonging to orders Metzgeriales [7 species and one variety in a single genus and family], Porellales [75 species and ... ....

Ethnobotany of Mexico

Interactions of People and Plants in Mesoamerica

Rafael Lira and Alejandro Casas

Ethnobotany of Mexico reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant ... ....

Field Guide to the Orchids of Western Australia

The Definitive Guide to the Native Orchids of Western Australia

Andrew Brown, Kingsley Dixon, Christopher French and Garry Brockman

A definitive guide to the 430 orchid species of Western Australia including the Kimberley. Each species is illustrated by multiple colour photographs and contains information on distribution, identification and flowering times.

Fire Blight

History, Biology, and Management

Tom van der Zwet, Noemi Orolaza-Halbrendt and Wolfgang Zeller

Three world-renowned experts provide comprehensive scientific coverage of this first known plant disease caused by a bacterium. Fire blight is present in 47 countries and affects many common host plants in the rose family worldwide. ....

Flechten Einfach Bestimmen

Ein Zuverlassiger Fuhrer zu den haufigsten Arten Mitteleuropas

Volkmar Wirth and Ulrich Kirschbaum

Lichens are unusual lifeforms. They are not plants in the true sense, but double organisms that consist of a community of life between fungi and algae. Many types brave adverse weather conditions, thrive in all climates and habitats and ... ....

Fleurs des Alpes

Xavier Finkenzeller

Easily identify 400 species of alpine flowers with this handy pocket guide. Fleurs des Alpes includes 445 photos and 228 additional drawings as well as the classification of flowers by colour. Translated from German.

Flora Algarum Marinarum Sinicarum, Tomus 2

Rhodophyta (No. 4) Corallinales

Xia Bangmei

This volume deals with the 55 species belonging to 17 genera, 2 families or subfamilies in Corallinales. Among of them one species is new to China. The book provides the mophological and structural description, locality, habits and distribution ... ....

Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, Volume 17: Chlorophyta: Desmidiales Desmidiaceae, Sectio II: Actinotaenium, Cosmar

Wei Yinxin

This is the second volume of Desmidiaceae of the series. Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, Volume 17 consists of two parts, the first part is general account of Desmidiaceae including the research history, morphology, biology ... ....

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 44

Boletaceae (II)

Zang Mu

This volume is a continuation of Volume 22 Boletaceae (I). It records 115 species belonging to 11 genera, including literature quotation, morphological characters, Latin specific name paraphrase, type locality, living environment ... ....

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 47

Nectriaceae et Bionectriaceae

Zhuang Wen-Ying

This volume deals with systematically the morphology and systematic classification of Nectriaceae and Bionectriaceae fungi. It records 112 species belonging to 26 genera. Among of them 45 species in 11 genera belonging to Bionectriaceae ... ....

Flora of Bhagwan Mahavir Molem National Park and Adjoinings Goa

Mandar Nilkanth Datar and P Lakshminarasimhan

The first comprehensive account of the flora of Bhagwan Mahavir National Park and adjoinings, the only one National Park in Goa which is located in Northern Western Ghats, the Western Ghats is one of the biodiversity hotspots and has ... ....

Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 2-3

Lycopodiaceae through Polypodiaceae

Flora of China Editorial Committee

Volume 2-3 of the illustrations series depicts the lycophytes and ferns. Among the 38 families shown are: Lycopodiaceae (clubmosses); Iso‰taceae (quillworts, hollow, grasslike aquatics); Selaginellaceae (spikemosses, creeping plants with scalelike ... ....

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 89, Part 179: Acanthaceae

Dieter C Wasshausen

The Ecuadorian members of Acanthaceae are revised. Thirty-four genera and 189 species occur in the country: Acanthus (1 sp.), Aphelandra (40 spp.), Blechum (1 sp.), Carlowrightia (1 sp.) ...

Flora of Gangotri National Park Western Himalaya, India

PK Pusalkar and DK Singh

Flora of Gangotri National Park Western Himalaya, India provides a detailed floristic account of 982 taxa of Pteridophytes, [68 Species and one variety in 25 genera and 18 families], Gymnosperms [11 species and one variety in ... ....

Flora of India, Volume 23: Loranthaceae - Daphniphyllaceae

NP Balakrishnan, T Chakrabarty, M Sanjappa, P Lakshminarsimhan and P Singh

Volume 23 covers the Loranthaceae to Daphniphyllacea.

Flora of Madhya Pradesh (Western Part)

V Singh

Flora of Madhya Pradesh (Western Part) presents an account of the flora of M.P. with special reference to Western parts included six districts only. The dominant vegetation of this area is dry deciduous forest dominated by ... ....

Flora of Mizoram, Volume 2: Campanulaceae - Salicaceae

GP Sinha, DK Singh and KP Singh

Volume 2 covers the Campanulaceae to Salicaceae.

Flora of the Four Corners Region

Vascular Plants of the San Juan River Drainage Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

Kenneth D Heil, Jr.,Steve L O'Kane, Linda Mary Reeves and Arnold Clifford

The Flora of the Four Corners Region details the vascular plants that grow In the San Juan River drainage where the boundaries of four states meet. A terrain of rugged wildlands, diverse topography, and ever-changing local climate ... ....

Flora of the Presidency of Madras (3-Volume Set)

JS Gamble

Reprint of a work originally published by Adlard & Son, London, 1921-1928. Includes reproduction of the original title pages. Includes indexes.

Flora of the Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve [India]

Himadri Sekhar Debnath, Goutam Brahma and Soumen Gantait

FIora of Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve [India] gives a detailed account of the mangrove, mangrove associated and back mangrove flora of the Indian Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve. Sunderbans, one of the biosphere reserves ... ....

Flora's Empire

British Gardens in India

Eugenia W Herbert

Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. ....

Flowering Plants of Africa, Volume 63: Plates 2281-2300

Gillian Condy

Colour plates and descriptions of plants appear in this biennial series, which has become a collector’s item of the African and specifically South African flora. This volume is dedicated to Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden ... ....

Fungi non Delineati 65: Russale Rare o Interessanti di Liguria

Fabrizio Boccardo and Carlo Ostellari

The following species are described and illustrated by the authors: Russula flavispora J. Blum ex Romagn., Russula atramentosa Sarnari, Russula fuliginosa Sarnari, Russula werneri Maire ...

Fungi non Delineati 66: Studies on Entoloma

Jordi Vila, Joaquim Carbo, Ferran Caballero, Santiago Catala, Xavier Llimona and Mach Noordeloos

A first approach to the study of the genus Entoloma subgenus Nolanea s.l. using molecular and morphological data ...

Genomics of Soil- and Plant-associated Fungi

Benjamin A Horwitz, Prasun K Mukherjee, Mala Mukherjee and Christian P Kubicek

Genomics of Soil- and Plant-associated Fungi addresses the similarities and also the differences in the genomes of soil saprophytes, symbionts, and plant pathogens by using examples of fungal species to illustrate particular ... ....

Grasses of the Kruger National Park and Surrounding Bushveld

Veronica Roodt

Grasses of the Kruger National Park and Surrounding Bushveld presents some 60 of the grasses you are likely to see in the region. The first section defines grasses and discusses their biology and ecology; the middle section treats ... ....

Guide des Plantes Sauvages Comestibles et Toxiques

Francois Couplan and Eva Styner

A field guide to 200 edible plant species and 80 toxic ones. Precise descriptions give information on nutrition, which parts of a plant to use, optimal harvesting period etc. Numerous comparative tables allow accurate determination to ... ....

Guide to Plant Families of Southern Africa

M Koekemoer

Southern Africa has a total of 225 plant families with the 52 largest families covering over 90% of the flora. The large number of plant species in this region (ca. 24,000) makes identification to species level relatively difficult and ... ....

Guide to Using a Lichen Based Index to Nitrogen Air Quality

Guide to Using a Lichen Based Index to Nitrogen Air Quality provides a simple method for determining gaseous nitrogen pollution that can be used by anyone interested in the impacts of gaseous N on sensitive habitats in the UK. ....

Handbook of the Rubi of Great Britain and Ireland

WCR Watson

Originally published in 1958, Handbook of the Rubi of Great Britain and Ireland describes all the forms of the genus Rubus, which includes blackberries and brambles, found in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands. ....

Herbs of Siddha Medicine (2-Volume Set)

J Raamachandran

This 2-volume set combines volumes 1 and 2 of Herbs of Siddha Medicine. This is a photo identification guide to 200 herbs found in the Tamil Nadu state in Southeast India. Each species account includes a description and methods ... ....

Herbs of Siddha Medicine, Volume 2

The First 3D Book on Herbs

J Raamachandran

Photo identification guide to 100 herbs found in the Tamil Nadu state in Southeast India. Each species account includes a description and methods of use. A 3D viewing glass is included.

Illustrated Medicinal Lichens of China

Wang Li Song and Qian Zi Gang

In the past 30 years, the authors have made folk investigation of medical and edible lichens from the main regions of China and combined their research with related references according to the classification system of Tehler and Wedin ... ....

Loofbomen in Nederland en Vlaanderen

Soorten en Hybriden

Leo Goudzwaard

Loofbomen in Nederland en Vlaanderen describes 268 deciduous tree species and hybrids, and another 400 varieties found in the Netherlands and Flanders. It covers aspects such as characteristic features, history, identification ... ....

Maxillaria: An Unfinished Monograph (2-Volume Set)

Eric Alston Christenson, Patricia A Harding and Mario Blanco

Eric Alston Christenson (1956-2011) was one of the most active orchid taxonomists of modern times, and one of the foremost experts on the taxonomy of Maxillaria. He published at least 7 genera, 35 subgeneric taxa (subgenera and ... ....

Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants

Przemyslaw Wojtaszek

Chemical reactions and interactions between molecules are commonly considered the basis of life, and thus the biochemical nature of cells and organisms is relatively well recognized. Research conducted in recent years, however, increasingly ... ....

Medicinal Plants of the World, Volume 2

Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses, Volume 2

Ivan A Ross

An extraordinary compendium of information on herbal medicine, Medicinal Plants of the World, Volume 2 comprehensively documents the medicinal value of twenty-four major plants species widely used around the world in medical for ... ....

Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Luiz Vital Fernandes Cruz da Cunha and Reinaldo Farias Paiv Lucena

Humans represent just one of many species that constitute the planet's biodiversity. Nevertheless, as the dominant species, humans have been the primary agent of the transformation of natural spaces. Therefore, the study of human ... ....

Nature Helps...

How Plants and Other Organisms Contribute to Solve Health Problems

Heinz Mehlhorn

Nature Helps...of course at first itself by developing measures that give bacteria, fungi, plants and animals a chance to be successful in their struggle for life. As a latecomer on Earth, Homo sapiens was gifted with some droplets of ... ....

Nordic Lichen Flora Volume 5

Cladoniaceae

Teuvo Ahti, Soili Stenros and Roland Moberg

The fifth volume of the Nordic Lichen Flora deals with one macrolichen family, the Cladoniaceae, comprising about 500 species and about 10 genera in the world. In the Nordic countries there are exactly 100 species recognized in ... ....

Phytopathogenic Dothideomycetes

Pedro W Crous, Gerard JM Verkley and Johannes Z Groenewald

This volume of Studies in Mycology is dedicated to the plant health officers of the world, who are constantly confronted by a range of plant pathogenic fungi that cause devastating diseases of agricultural and forestry crops. ....

Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Ulrich Luttge, Erwin Beck and Dorothea Bartels

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plants ... ....

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 16

Fibres

M Brink and EG Achigan-Dako

PROTA 16 deals with the fibres of Tropical Africa. PROTA’s database ‘SPECIESLIST’ presents 1420 species used as such. 515 among them are ‘primary use’ fibres qualifying for treatment in this volume ... ....

Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, Volume 2

The Extra Cape Flora

The Greater Cape Floristic Region of southern Africa, with an estimated 11 423 native vascular plant species, has one of the richest temperate floras in the world. The newly named Extra Cape Subregion comprises the northern, semi-arid ... ....

Pocket Guide Trees of Southern Africa

Piet van Wyk and Braam van Wyk

Southern Africa boasts a rich variety of tree species, both indigenous and exotic. Pocket Guide Trees of Southern Africa is an authoritative introduction to the region’s trees, describing and illustrating 132 species. ....

Sappi Tree Spotting: Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

Val Thomas and Rina Grant

This edition of Sappi Tree Spotting KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape has been updated and revised with the changing of Family groupings. Sappi Tree Spotting: Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Cape will help you to identify trees by its ... ....

Satakunnan Kasvit [Flora of Satakunta, Finland]

Juha Suominen

The vascular plant flora of the biogeographical province of Satakunta (St) is presented. The province is situated in the S part of W Finland: between ca. 60º40' and 62º20' of N latitude, ca. 180 km from S to N, and over ... ....

Seaweeds of the British Isles, Volume 1 Part 3a

Rhodophyta: Ceramiales

Christine A Maggs and Max H Hommersand

This volume is written by leading authorities in red algae. All subfamilies, genera and species are described, notes on ecology and distribution given, and each named species is illustrated by one or more half-tones or line drawings showing ... ....

Seed Ecology IV Conference Proceedings

The 4th International for Seed Science Meeting on Seeds and the Environment

Liu Zhiming

The Fourth International Society for Seed Science Meeting on Seeds and the Environment held in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China on  June 22-26, 2013. The theme of the meeting is seeds and future. Participats from different ... ....

Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities

Robert S Gallagher

The 3rd edition of Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities highlights the many advances in the field of seed ecology and its relationship to plant community dynamics that have taken place in recent years.

Some Japanese Flowers

Kazumasa Ogawa

This is a majestic collection of images from one of Japan's most important early photographers. Captivated in his youth by the new technology of photography, Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) became one of the most enterprising and important ... ....

Suomen Limasienet [The Myxomycetes of Finland]

Marja Harkonen and Elina Varis

All the 213 species of myxomycetes found in Finland are described in this identification book. In the first section the morphology, biology and ecology of myxomycetes are discussed, and advice how to collect and identify them is given. ....

Sustainable Management of Pinus radiata Plantations

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Pinus radiata (radiata pine) is a versatile, fast-growing, medium-density softwood, suitable for a wide range of end-uses. Its silviculture is highly developed, and is built on a firm foundation of over a century of research ... ....

Taxonomic Classification of Hyphomycetes

Zhang Xiuguo

Contents: 1. Fungal Biology (1) Sinomyces: a new genus of anamorphic Pleosporaceae 2. Mycologia (1) Two new species of Ulocladium from Southwest China (2) Three new species of ...

The Illustration of Common Medicinal Plants in Taiwan, Volume 3

Tseng-Chieng Huang and Yuan-Shiun Chang

The final volume in this series covering the angiospermae.

The New Cactus Lexicon Illustrations

David Hunt

From the preface: "The Atlas of Illustrations, published as the second volume of The New Cactus Lexicon in 2006, set out to be the most comprehensive collection of images of these species yet published in book form, and remains a useful reference ... ....

The Wild Flowers in Huangshan

Li Nong

Huangshan is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The Wild Flowers in Huangshan describes 150 species of wild flowers from Huangshan (137 species of which have pictures).

The Wild Plants of Bere, Dursey, Whiddy and other Islands in Bantry Bay

John Akeroyd

The Wild Plants of Bere, Dursey, Whiddy and other Islands in Bantry Bay puts on record the variety of wild plants found in Ireland's most famous natural harbour. This part of West Cork is famed for its dramatic scenery, mild ... ....

Tree Pests and Diseases

An Arborists' Field Guide

Guy Watson

This new guide is a must have for arborists and contains the most common tree pests and diseases likely to be encountered on a day-to-day basis. It is designed to help the arborist to identify and diagnose potential threats, and also ... ....

Understanding Flowers and Flowering

Beverley Glover

This new edition continues to provide the first truly integrated study of the topic – one that discusses both the how and why of flowering plant reproductive biology. New to the second edition: - Includes a new chapter ...

Unsere Alpenflora

Elias Landolt

This field guide to Alpine flora contains extensive introductory sections.

Upland Kenya Wild Flowers and Ferns

A Flora of the Flowers, Ferns Grasses and Sedges of Highland Kenya

Andrew DQ Agnew

First published in 1974, with a revised and expanded edition in 1994, researchers and naturalists have for decades taken Upland Kenya Wild Flowers and Ferns with them to the mid and high altitude parts of Kenya.

Veldgids Paddenstoelen

Plaatjeszwammen en Boleten

Nico Dam and Thomas W Kuyper

Veldgids Paddenstoelen: Plaatjeszwammen en Boleten describes 500 species of gilled mushrooms (Agaricales) and boletes found in the Netherlands, which covers approximately 95% of all observations. Included are detailed ... ....

Who Found Our Ferns?

A History of the Discovery of Britain's Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails

John Edgington and David Pearman

Who Found Our Ferns? tells the story of the discovery of Britain's pteridophytes, from Saxon times to 2012. The lives of those who noticed, collected and described our ferns, horesetails, quillworts and clubmosses are interwoven ... ....

Wildflower: Wonders of the World

Bob Gibbons and Richard Mabey

This is a first-time paperback edition of this popular title. From the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia ...

Wildflowers & Grasses of Virginia's Coastal Plain

Helen Hamilton, Gustavus Hall and Donna Ware

From articles written and published by the first author in newspapers over the past 7 years, a book is being created about Virginia's Coastal Plain wildflowers and grasses.

Wildflowers of the Central Highlands of Namibia

Coleen Mannheimer

This full colour photographic guide to wildflowers, written by a Namibian botanist, covers the central highlands of Namibia. The area concerned is scenically, geologically and topographically very diverse, providing many habitats and ... ....

Animal Communication and Noise

Henrik Brumm

The study of animal communication has led to significant progress in our general understanding of motor and sensory systems, evolution, and speciation. However, one often neglected aspect is that signal exchange in every modality is ... ....

Antibodies: A Laboratory Manual

Edward A Greenfield

The now classic lab manual Antibodies, by Harlow and Lane, has been revised, extended, and updated by Edward Greenfield of the Dana-Farber Cancer Center, with contributions from other leaders in the field. This second edition of ... ....

Biocommunication of Animals

Gunther Witzany

Every coordination within or between animals depends on communication processes. Although the signaling molecules, vocal and tactile signs, gestures and its combinations differ throughout all species according their evolutionary origins ... ....

Bioinorganic Chemistry

An Introduction

Dieter Rehder

Bioinorganic chemistry lies at the interface of inorganic chemistry and biochemistry, and explores the function of inorganic species in living systems - from the iron that helps our red blood cells transport oxygen to our tissues, to the ... ....

Biology: A Global Approach

Jane B Reece

The Pearson Editorial team worked closely with educators around the world to include content especially relevant to students outside of the United States. The Tenth Edition of the best-selling text helps launch students to success in biology ... ....

Color Catalogue for Field Biologists

Gunter Kohler

The accurate description of the coloration in life of organisms represents an important component of the work of any field biologist. The Color Catalogue for Field Biologists helps to produce more objective and detailed descriptions ... ....

DNA Damage and Repair, Volume 3: Advances from Phage to Humans

Jac A Nickoloff and Merl F Hoekstra

Jac A. Nickoloff and Merl F. Hoekstra update and expand their two earlier acclaimed volumes (Vol. I: DNA Repair in Prokaryotes and Lower Eukaryotes and Vol. II: DNA Repair in Higher Eurkaryotes) with cutting-edge reviews by leading ... ....

Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery

John Chitty and Aidan Raftery

Reach for Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery whenever a sick or injured tortoise comes into the surgery. Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery is designed as a concise and practical quick reference for the ... ....

Genetics and Genomics of the Triticeae

Catherine Feuillet and Gary J Muehlbauer

Domestication of cereals in the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago ushered in the beginning of agriculture, and signified a remarkable breakthrough in the advancement of civilization. Today, the crops of the Triticeae tribe, wheat, barley ... ....

Life at the Speed of Light

From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

J Craig Venter

In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' – putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable ... ....

Neurobiology of Chemical Communication

Carla Mucignat-Caretta

The release of pheromones is one of various forms of nonverbal communication many animals use to transmit messages to other members of the same species. Their complex molecular structure allows these chemical messages to contain a great ... ....

Principles of Cell Biology

George Plopper

Written for the undergraduate Cell Biology course, Principles of Cell Biology provides students with an accessible approach to the fundamental concepts of cell biology. The text focuses on the underlying principles that illustrate ... ....

Principles of Molecular Biology

Burton E Tropp

Written for the more concise course, Principles of Molecular Biology is modeled after Burton Tropp's successful Molecular Biology: Genes to Proteins and is appropriate for the sophomore level course. The author begins ... ....

Progress in Parasitology

Heinz Mehlhorn

Parasites threaten the health of animals and humans alike. Especially in times of increasing globalization and global warming, parasites can enlarge their "kingdom" by spreading. At the same time many of the existing medical ... ....

Ribonucleases

Allen W Nicholson

Ribonucleases are a ubiquitous and functionally diverse group of enzymes that have a common ability to cleave RNA. Either through scission of internal phosphodiesters, or removal of nucleotides from RNA 5' or 3' ends, ribonucleases ... ....

Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants

Hitoshi Sawada, Naokazu Inoue and Megumi Iwano

Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to ... ....

Social Behaviour in Animals

With Special Reference to Vertebrates

Niko Tinbergen

Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author's own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and birds, as well as on the literature. The concept 'community' is taken in its ... ....

Teeth: A Very Short Introduction

Peter S Ungar

Teeth are amazing – the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and they must do it again and again over a lifetime without themselves being broken in the ... ....

The Helgoland Manual of Animal Development

Notes and Laboratory Protocols on Marine Invertebrates

Albrecht Fischer and Gary Freeman

Many of the essential problems in developmental and general biology have found their solution using marine invertebrates, and marine stations, research institutions located on the seashore, have played an eminent role by providing both ... ....

The Prokaryotes, Volume 6

Actinobacteria

Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt and Fabiano 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 ... ....

Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (International Edition)

Ken Kardong

This one-semester text is designed for an upper-level majors course. Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution features a unique emphasis on function and evolution of vertebrates, complete anatomical detail, and ... ....

How Forests Think

Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

Eduardo Kohn

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human – and thus distinct from all other ... ....

Mortal Rituals

What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution

Matt J Rossano

On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines ... ....

Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

Robert W Sussman and C Robert Cloninger

Origins of Altruism and Cooperation is derived from a conference held at Washington University, March, 2009. Authors include academics from around the world and across multiple disciplines – anthropology, psychiatry, human ... ....

Our Political Nature

The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

Avi Tuschman

Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits.

Sexual Selection

Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics

Regina H Macedo and Glauco Machado

Sexual Selection: Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics presents new sexual selection research based upon neotropical species. As neotropical regions are destroyed at an alarming rate, with an estimated 140 species of ... ....

The Artistic Ape

Three Million Years of Art

Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris, bestselling author and internationally renowned anthropologist, offers a unique appreciation of art from the most ancient artefact to contemporary event art. Featuring more than 350 illustrations of international art ... ....

The Improbable Primate

How Water Shaped Human Evolution

Clive Finlayson

Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability ... ....

The Year in Evolutionary Biology 2013

Timothy A Mousseau and Charles M Fox

The fifth installment of The Year in Evolutionary Biology series includes reviews on: gene loss, thermogenesis, and the origin of birds; sexual selection in the light of molecular evolutionary genetics; the nine-spined stickleback ... ....

Tooth Development in Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology

Simon Hillson

Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it? Addressing these and other key questions in ... ....

Understanding Evolution

Kostas Kampourakis

Many books focus on what evolution is; several others explain why creationism or intelligent design cannot be considered as alternatives to evolution. However, what they all take for granted is that people properly understand evolution. ....

Eco-Sanctuaries

Communities Building a Future for New Zealand's Threatened Ecologies

Diane Campbell-Hunt and Colin Campbell-Hunt

Over the past 10 years many communities around the country have launched ambitious projects to bring New Zealand's native ecologies back to the mainland. By building predator-proof fences around big areas of land the aim is to protect ... ....

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas

Patterns, Problems and Challenges

Llewellyn C Foxcroft, Petr Pysek, David M Richardson and Piero Genovesi

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas. It provides insights into advances in invasion ecology emanating from work in protected areas ... ....

Soundscape Ecology

Principles, Patterns, Methods and Applications

Almo Farina

Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc. The soundscape that is the object ... ....

Veldgids Exoten

Invasieve Soorten Planten en Dieren

Rob Leewis, Leni Duistermaat, Arjan Gittenberger, Tom van der Have, Menno Soes and van Valkenburg

This field guide describes 150 of the most visible and high-impact invasive exotic species in the Netherlands. It concerns exotics (plants and animals) living on land, or in fresh or salt water. Often exerting a negative influence on ... ....

Where Do Camels Belong?

The Story and Science of Invasive Species

Ken Thompson

Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are in ... ....

Amazing Corbett

A Nature's Dream Destination - India's First National Park and Tiger Reserve

Anup Kumar Sinha and Rita Sinha

This book provides adequate information and data of aspects of the flora and fauna of Corbett National Park so as to create popular awareness among the general public and nature-lovers in particular about the need of protection of forest ... ....

Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems

Opportunities and Challenges

B Mohan Kumar and PK Ramachandran Nair

This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world's leading researchers and professionals in this topic. It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the ... ....

Climate Change, Forests and REDD

Lessons for Institutional Design

Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp and Onno Kuik

A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development of measures for ... ....

Coastal Wetlands of the World

Geology, Ecology, Distribution and Applications

David B Scott, Jennifer Frail-Gauthier and Petra J Mudie

Salt marshes and mangrove forests, the intertidal wetlands of the world's coastlines, provide key ecological services to all areas of the globe. This cutting-edge, richly illustrated book introduces the essential elements of coastal ... ....

Daroji: An Ecological Destination

Samad Kottur, Vijay Mohan Raj, Ganesh H Shankar and Sangita Jindal

Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary is located in Bellary district in Karnataka, India. It is spread over 55.87 km². The sanctuary was exclusively created for the preservation of Indian Sloth bears. It is about 50 km from Bellary and ... ....

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

Erkki Tomppo, Juha Heikkinen, Helena M Henttonen, Antti Ihalainen, Matti Katila and Helen Makela

Designing and Conducting a Forest Inventory - Case: 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996-2003): the planning of the sampling design ... ....

Endophytes of Forest Trees

Biology and Applications

Anna Maria Pirttila and A Carolin Frank

Found in every plant species, the diversity of endophytic micro-organisms can be extremely high within different plant organs and tissue types. In trees, their ecological roles with respect to host tree can vary from latent pathogens ... ....

Endospore-forming Soil Bacteria

Niall A Logan and Paul de Vos

Aerobic endospore-forming bacteria are found in soils of all kinds, ranging from acid to alkaline, hot to cold, and fertile to desert. It is well known that endospores confer special properties upon their owners and play dominant parts ... ....

Forest Soils

Properties and Management

Khan Towhid Osman

Forest soil characteristics are not only unique but their interpretation also differs from cropland soils. Just as there are diverse forest types, there are many soil variants that need different management. Today, forest plantations are ... ....

Heidebeheer

Moderne Methoden in een Eeuwenoud Landschap

Jap Smits and Jinze Noordijk

Management of heaths is a hotly debated topic. With proposed methods ranging from removal of topsoil with vegetation (known in Dutch as "plaggen") to using large herbivorous grazers – all parties involved have their own ... ....

Impact of Global Changes on Mountains

Responses and Adaptation

Velma I Grover, Axel Borsdorf, Jurgen Breuste, Prakash Chandra Tiwari and Flavia Witkowski Frangetto

Impact of Global Changes on Mountains gives a holistic picture of the impact of global changes, including climate change, and also looks at adaptation and mitigation. International case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe ... ....

Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

Christian Messier, Klaus J Puettmann and K David Coates

Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various ... ....

Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests

A Practitioner's Guide to Forest Genetics

Ratnam Wickneswari and Chuck Cannon

Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in ... ....

Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing, Volume 3

Effective Stress Tests

KH Head and RJ Epps

This third volume, Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing, Volume 3: Effective Stress Tests, completes the long-established key handbook for the laboratory testing of soils. The text covers soil testing in terms of effective ... ....

Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat

An Ecological History

George E. Gruell and Sherman Swanson

For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformations in the plants and animals ... ....

Northscapes: History, Technology and the Making of Northern Environments

Dolly Jorgensen and Sverker Sorlin

Northscapes argues that the unique environments of the North have been born of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, these essays examine a broad range of ... ....

Peatlands of the Western Guayana Highlands, Venezuela

Properties and Paleogeographic Significance of Peats

Joseph Alfred Zinck and Otto Huber

The Guayana Highlands in northeastern tropical America, rising from lowland rain forests and savannas up to 3000 m elevation, are characterized by ancient tablelands called tepuis. The peatlands that developed on the tepuis constitute ... ....

Silviculture in the Tropics

Sven Guenter, Michael Weber, Bernd Stimm and Reinhard Mosandl

Silviculture in the Tropics integrates the latest global developments in forestry science and practice and their relevance for the sustainable management of tropical forests. The influence of social dimensions on the development ... ....

Soil Health and Climate Change

Bhupinder Pal Singh, Annette L Cowie and K Yin Chan

Soil Health and Climate Change presents a comprehensive overview of the concept of soil health, including the significance of key soil attributes and management of soil health in conventional and emerging land use systems in the ... ....

Sustaining Young Forest Communities

Ecology and Management of Early Successional Habitats in the Central Hardwood Region, USA

Cathryn H Greenberg, Beverly S Collins and Frank Richard Thompson

There is a rising concern among natural resource scientists and managers about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region. Open sites with grass ... ....

Symbiotic Endophytes

Ricardo Aroca

This Soil Biology volume examines our current understanding of the mechanisms involved in the beneficial effects transferred to plants by endophytes such as rhizobial, actinorhizal, arbuscular mycorrhizal symbionts and yeasts. ....

The Arctic in World Affairs

A North Pacific Dialogue on Arctic Marine Issues

Oran R Young, Jong Deog Kim and Yoon Hyung Kim

The Arctic in World Affairs: A North Pacific Dialogue on Arctic Marine Issues addresses five major themes relating to the maritime Arctic: potential Arctic shipping, Arctic marine environmental protection, Arctic marine living ... ....

The Official Guide to the English Riviera Global Geopark

400 Million Years in the Making...

Melanie Border, Chris Proctor, John Risden and Iain Stewart

Known since Victorian times as the English Riviera, it obtained worldwide recognition when the four towns became the first urban European and Global Geopark and were admitted to the Global Geoparks Network, assisted by UNESCO, in September ... ....

The Soils of Bulgaria

Toma Shishkov and N Kolev

The Soils of Bulgaria offers a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of soils and concepts on their magnitude. The purpose of The Soils of Bulgaria is to introduce readers to the soil problematic and ecology in ... ....

United Arab Emirates Keys to Soil Taxonomy

Shabbir A Shahid, Mahmoud A Abdelfattah, Michael A Wilson, John A Kelley and Joseph V Chiaretti

Central to human life and civilization, soils are an integral part of the physical and cultural environment. Although we may take them for granted, the rise and fall of civilizations is closely linked with the use and abuse of soil and ... ....

Warm-temperate Deciduous Forests

Elgene O Box and K Fujiwara

Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "southern", mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America.

Animal Diversity and their Conservation

DR Khanna, AK Chopra, Rakesh Bhutiani, Gagan Matta and Vikas Singh

The present book is an integrated approach to describing animal diversity and its conservation in order to facilitate better understanding of the animal kingdom. Animal Diversity and their Conservation consists of 22 chapters ... ....

Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation (3-Volume Set)

Vijai Kumar Gupta and Anil K Verma

These three volumes present a compilation of research articles dealing with animal diversity, natural history, and conservation, with special reference to India. It includes bibliographical references and indexes. The books will be a valuable ... ....

Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Prioritizing Policies

Allen Blackman, Rebecca Epachin-Niell, Juha Siikamaki and Daniel Velez-Lopez

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world's remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and ... ....

Biodiversity and Societies in the Pacific Islands

Sebastien Larrue and Arthur Lyon Dahl

Biodiversity and Societies in the Pacific Islands covers topics relating to invasive species and more positive interactions between man and plant on the Pacific islands. With contributions from both scientists in the natural sciences ... ....

Biodiversity in India, Volume 2

T Pullaiah

The second volume includes 5 articles. The first one is on the studies on Genetic variability in Dactyloctenium aegyptium. The second article deals with Phytogeographical investigations on pteridophytic flora of Satpura Hills ... ....

Biodiversity in India, Volume 3

T Pullaiah

The third volume includes eight articles: - Clitocybe Kummer and Lepista (Fr. ) W.G. Smith (Tricholomataceae: Agaricales) in India by Rawla and Brar - The Studies on Genetic Variability in Crow-foot Grass ...

Biodiversity in India, Volume 4

T Pullaiah

India is one of the 12 mega biodiversity countries of the world. This edited volume on biodiversity in India, comprises 7 articles contributed by eminent botanists from different Indian Universities.

Biodiversity in India, Volume 5

T Pullaiah

The present volume 5 of Biodiversity in India includes ten articles with main emphasis on medicinal plants and ethnobotany. For the first time we included of animal diversity. The first article is on Millipedes and their conservation ... ....

Biodiversity in India, Volume 6

T Pullaiah

The present Volume 6 of Biodiversity in India includes eight articles covering diverse subjects. First chapter is about one horned Rhinoceros conservation in Assam followed by the Amphibians in Western Ghats. These two areas ... ....

Floral Diversity and their Conservation

DR Khanna, AK Chopra, Rakesh Bhutiani, Gagan Matta and Vikas Singh

Floral Diversity and their Conservation describes the floral diversity of India and the world and investigates measures to conserve it. The book consists of 30 chapters which highlights the conservation of floral diversity. ....

Restoring Paradise

Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawai'i

Robert J Cabin

Three quarters of the United States' bird and plant extinctions have occurred in Hawaii, and one third of the country's threatened and endangered birds and plants reside within the state. Yet despite these alarming statistics ... ....

The UN's Lone Ranger

Combating International Wildlife Crime

John M Sellar

Illegal trade in wildlife is now recognized as one of the most significant criminal activities in the world, bringing billions of dollars in illicit profits to organized crime groups and networks, which are acknowledged to control much ... ....

Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

A Global Assessment

Thomas Elmqvist

Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have ... ....

A Dictionary of Climate Change and the Environment

Economics, Science, and Policy

R Quentin Grafton, Harry W Nelson, N Ross Lambie and Paul R Wyrwoll

A Dictionary of Climate Change and the Environment bridges the gap between the many disciplines encompassing climate change, environmental economics, environmental sciences, and environmental studies.

Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment

An Innovative Approach to Understanding Ecological Assessments for Contaminated Sites

Lawrence Tannenbaum

In Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment the author, Lawrence V. Tannenbaum, provides a critical review of current practices in the ecological risk assessment field and proposes alternatives that are supported by established .. ....

Assessment of Environmental Impact by Grocery Shopping Bags

An Eco-Functional Approach

Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu and Yi Li

Assessment of Environmental Impact by Grocery Shopping Bags reviews the manufacturing processes of different shopping bags used for grocery purposes, life cycle impacts, modelling of life cycle impacts, carbon and eco-footprints ... ....

Biomanagement of Metal-Contaminated Soils

Mohammad Saghir Khan, Almas Zaidi, Reeta Goel and Javed Musarrat

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems. However, conventional technologies for metal-contaminated soil remediation have often been expensive and ... ....

Das Ende der Nacht

Lichtsmog: Gefahren - Perspektiven - Loesungen

Thomas Posch, Anja Freyhoff, Thomas Uhlmann and Franz Hoelker

Every city dweller is aware that we are seeing fewer stars at night due to the increasing amount of artificial lighting. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, as far as the loss of natural nocturnal darkness is concerned.

Economics of the Oceans

Rights, Rents and Resources

Paul Hallwood

It is an unfortunate truth that our oceans offer valuable resources that are too often used unsustainably. Time and again this is due to the failure of international law to provide a framework for adequate governance.

Global Warming

Engineering Solutions

Ibrahim Dincer, Adnan Midilli, Arif Hepbasil and T Hikmet Karakoc

Global Warming: Engineering Solutions goes beyond discussing the definition and causes of climate change, and offers concrete solutions for solving global warming. Innovative and forward-thinking engineering solutions are needed ... ....

Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region

Sergio M Vicente-Serrano and Ricardo Machado Trigo

The Mediterranean basin represents one of the most important "hot spots" of climate change in the world, with recent trends towards a hotter and drier climate being related to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns.

Looks Like Rain

9,000 Years of Irish Weather

Damian Corless

The name the Romans gave to Ireland was Hibernia, which means 'Land of Winter', and cold feet may have been a factor in their decision to leave the Irish to their own devices. The weather is our main topic of conversation and has ... ....

Meteorology

Understanding the Atmosphere

Steven A Ackerman and John A Knox

Written for the undergraduate, introductory course, the updated Fourth Edition engages students with real-world examples and a captivating narrative. It highlights how we observe the atmosphere and then uses those discoveries to explain ... ....

Plant-Based Remediation Processes

Dharmendra Kumar Gupta

Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that employs higher plants for the clean-up of contaminated environments. Basic and applied research have unequivocally demonstrated that selected plant species possess the genetic potential ... ....

Taken by Storm, 1938

A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Lourdes B Aviles

On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed ... ....

2014 Guide to the Night Sky

A Month-by-month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Britain and Ireland

Storm Dunlop

A comprehensive month-by-month handbook to the stars and constellations visible from Britain and Ireland in 2014. This practical guidebook is both an easy introduction to astronomy and a useful reference for seasoned stargazers.

Atkins' Physical Chemistry

Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula

The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make the tenth edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both lecturers and students. Material within chapters has been ... ....

Beyond the God Particle

Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill

On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson – aka "the God Particle" – was discovered at the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. On March 14, 2013, physicists at CERN confirmed ... ....

Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets

Stephen J Mackwell, Amy A Simon-Miller, Jerald W Harder and Mark A Bullock

The early development of life, a fundamental question for humankind, requires the presence of a suitable planetary climate. Our understanding of how habitable planets come to be begins with the worlds closest to home. Venus, Earth, and ... ....

Constellations: A Field Guide to the Night Sky

Giles Sparrow

Step outside on a clear night, and the number of stars in the night sky can be overwhelming. Take a pair of binoculars or a small telescope with you, and a celestial vista of star clusters and clouds, knots of gas and dust, nearby planets ... ....

Crustal Evolution and Geodynamic Processes in Central Europe

Proceedings of the Joint conference of the Czech and German geological societies held in Plzen (Pilsen) September 16-19

Jiri Zak, Gernold Zulauf and Heinz-Gerd Roehling

Abstracts of the papers and posters presented at the Joint conference of the Czech and German geological societies held in Plzen (Pilsen), September 16 - 19, 2013.

Dictionary of Gemstones and Jewelry

Akira Chikayama and Stephen H Gill

Full color, definitive handbook for the gemologist, jeweler, and rockhound, written by Japan's prioneer gemologist and leading authority on the world of precious stones, now fully translated and updated. Just the right size: not so... ....

Electrifying Atmospheres

Charging, Ionisation and Lightning in the Solar System and Beyond

Karen L Aplin

Electrical processes take place in all planetary atmospheres. There is evidence for lightning on Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is possible on Mars and Titan, and cosmic rays ionise every atmosphere, leading to charged ... ....

Environmental Geology Today

Daniel C Abel and Robert L McConnell

A fresh and modern exploration of environmental geology designed for the undergraduate, introductory environmental geology course for majors and non-majors alike, Environmental Geology Today presents the core geological principles ... ....

New Stars for Old

Stories from the History of Astronomy

Marc Read

Marc Read fuses historical fact with dramatic fiction in this fresh interpretation of astronomy. Bringing the history of astronomy to dramatic life through the eyes of figures such as Aristotle, Galileo and the mind of Sir Isaac Newton ... ....

Northern Lights

A Guide

Pa Brekke and Fredrik Broms

What is more beautiful on a cold winter's night than catching a glimpse of the northern lights or "aurora borealis" dancing across the sky? For thousands of years people in the northern part of the world have ...

Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2014

Special Memorial Edition

Patrick Moore and John Mason

Shortly before his death in December 2012, Sir Patrick Moore began the annual task of planning the fifty-second consecutive Yearbook of Astronomy with his friend and colleague Dr John Mason. This special 2014 edition therefore ... ....

Planetary Geology

An Introduction

Claudio Vita-Finzi and Dominic Fortes

Recent planetary missions by NASA, the European Space Agency, and other national agencies have reaffirmed that the geological processes which are familiar from our studies of the Earth operate on many solid planets and satellites.

Seismic Reflections of Rock Properties

Jack Dvorkin, Mario A Gutierrez and Dario Grana

Seismic Reflections of Rock Properties provides an accessible guide to using the rock physics-based forward modeling approach for mapping the subsurface, systematically linking rock properties to seismic amplitude.

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 ...

The Analysis of Starlight

Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy

John B Hearnshaw

First published in 1987, this is the story of the analysis of starlight by astronomical spectroscopy. Beginning with Joseph Fraunhofer's discovery of spectral lines in the early nineteenth century, this new edition continues the story ... ....

The Compatibility Gene

How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves

Daniel M Davis

The Compatibility Gene is a scientific adventure story set in a new field of genetic discovery – that of the crucial genes that define our relationships, our health and our individuality. Here, Daniel M Davis, one of the ... ....

The Exoplanet Handbook

Michael Perryman

Exoplanet research is one of the most explosive subjects in astronomy today. More than 500 exoplanets are now known, and groups world-wide are actively involved in a broad range of observational and theoretical efforts.

The Finite-Difference Modelling of Earthquake Motions

Waves and Ruptures

Peter Moczo, Jozef Kristek and Martin Galis

Among all the numerical methods in seismology, the finite-difference (FD) technique provides the best balance of accuracy and computational efficiency. The Finite-Difference Modelling of Earthquake Motions offers a comprehensive ... ....

The New Moon

Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation

Arlin Crotts

Explore Earth's closest neighbor, the Moon, in this fascinating and timely book and discover what we should expect from this seemingly familiar but strange, new frontier. What startling discoveries are being uncovered on the Moon? ....

The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy

More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe

Cornelia Dean

This is the very best on physics and astronomy from the New York Times! The newspaper of record has always prided itself on its coverage of physics and astronomy and these 125 articles from its archives feature such esteemed names ... ....

The Sound Book

The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

Trevor Cox

Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers classrooms and concert halls, Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox... ....

Things That Are

Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals

Amy Leach and Amy Leach

From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies – considering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to exploding stars and exploding sea cucumbers – in Things That Are Amy Leach rekindles ... ....

A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy

National Government Interventions in a Global Arena

Frank Wijen, Kees Zoeteman, Jan Pieters and Paul Van Seters

In the current era of globalisation, national governments are increasingly exposed to international influences that present new constraints and opportunities for domestic environmental policies. This comprehensive, revised Handbook ... ....

Advances in Irrigation Agronomy

Fruit Crops

MKV Carr and Elias Fereres

As global pressure on water resources intensifies, it is essential that scientists understand the role that water plays in the development of crops and how such knowledge can be applied to improve water productivity. Linking crop physiology ... ....

Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Paul Martin, Lie Zhiping, Qin Tianbao, Anel Du Plessis, Yves Le Bouthillier and Angela Williams

This timely volume provides fascinating insights into emerging developments in the field of legal governance of the environment at a time when environmental governance is increasingly concerned with far more than legal doctrine.

Environmental Sociology

John Hannigan

The third edition of John Hannigan's classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology offers a ... ....

Essentials of Environmental Public Health Science

A Handbook for Field Professionals

Naima Bradley

Essentials of Environmental Science for Public Health provides guidance on the technical aspects of environmental and public health investigations. The authors provide practical, expert advice on a range of topics from key ... ....

Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies Through the Centuries

Andreas N Angelakis, Peter A Wilderer and Joan Bray Rose

Most of the technological developments relevant to water supply and wastewater date back to more than to five thousand years ago. These developments were driven by the necessity to make efficient use of natural resources, to make ... ....

Exergy: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

Ibrahim Dincer

Exergy: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and ... ....

Experimental Methods in Wastewater Treatment

MCM Van Loosdrecht, J Keller and PH Nielsen

Over the past twenty years, the knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment has advanced extensively and moved away from empirically based approaches to a fundamentally-based first principles approach embracing chemistry, microbiology ... ....

From Enron to Evo

Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia

Derrick Hindery and Susanna B Hecht

Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the extractive frontier deeper into indigenous territories. Centering on a long-term study of Enron and Shell's Cuiabá pipeline ...

Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes

Aldo da Rosa

With energy sustainability and security at the forefront of public discourse worldwide, there is a pressing need to foster an understanding of clean, safe alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power. Aldo da Rosa's highly ... ....

Handbook of Sustainable Energy

Ibon Galarraga, Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino and Anil Markandya

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

Improving Irrigation in Asia

Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal

Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P Shivakoti, Gilbert Levine and Jeff Yoder

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 ... ....

Industry of Nature

Another Approach to Ecology

Elodie Ternaux, Daniel Kula, Michele Ternaux and Jean-Pierre Ternaux

Although information on ecology and sustainability is published and posted daily, it's obvious that most people feel powerless when faced with the state of our environment today. Materials and technologies claim a dominant position ... ....

Integrating Agriculture, Conservation and Ecotourism: Examples from the Field

Examples from the Field

W Bruce Campbell and Silvia Lopez Ortíz

Issues In Agroecology - Present Status and Future Prospectus not only reviews aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values. To provide effective communication ... ....

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 ... ....

Marine Policy

An Introduction to Governance and International Law of the Oceans

Mark Zacharias

Marine Policy provides the reader with a foundation in policy development and analysis and describes how policy, including legal mechanisms, is applied to marine environments around the world. It offers a systematic treatment of ... ....

Mortgaging the Earth

The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development

Bruce Rich

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was supposed to be a turning point for the World Bank. Environmental concerns would now play a major role in its lending - programmes and projects would go beyond economic development to ...

Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems

A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

Chris Elliott

An essential addition to the Earthscan Planning & Installing series, Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems provides vital diagrams, pictures and tables detailing the planning and installing of a micro-hydro ... ....

Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Emergence, Influence and Legitimacy

Philipp H. Pattberg, Frank Biermann, Sander Chan and Aysem 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'.

The Atna River: Studies in an Alpine-Boreal Watershed

Odd Terje Sandlund and Kaare Aagaard

Reprinted from Hydrobiologia, 521. The Atna River: Studies in an Alpine-Boreal Watershed presents a unique set of time series data concerning the environmental and biological dynamics of a pristine alpine-boreal ... ....

The Governance Report 2014

The Hertie School of Governance

Democratic governance faces unprecedented challenges across the OECD world and beyond. Enormous strains will be placed on states' resources and their governing capacities to deal with the combined effects of the financial crisis, climate ... ....

The International Handbook on Non-Market Environmental Valuation

Jeff Bennett

Non-market environmental valuation (NMEV) is undergoing a period of increased growth in both application and development as a result of increasing recognition of the role of economics in environmental policy issues. Against this backdrop ... ....

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy

Sheldon Kamieniecki and Michael E Kraft

Prior to the Nixon administration, environmental policy in the United States was rudimentary at best. Since then, it has evolved into one of the primary concerns of governmental policy from the federal to the local level. As scientific ... ....

The Role of Animals in Emerging Viral Diseases

Nicholas Johnson

The Role of Animals in Emerging Viral Diseases presents what is currently known about the role of animals in the emergence or re-emergence of viruses including HIV-AIDS, SARS, Ebola, avian flu, swine flu, and rabies. It presents ... ....

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 ... ....

Water Security

Managing Risks and Trade-offs

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Water Security: Managing Risks and Trade-offs examines the critical issues surrounding water security (water shortage, water excess, inadequate water quality, the resilience of freshwater systems), providing a rationale for a ... ....

Water and Climate Change Adaptation

Policies to Navigate Uncharted Water

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Water and Climate Change Adaptation sets out the challenge for freshwater in a changing climate and provides policy guidance on how to navigate this new "waterscape". It examines the range and complexity of possible... ....

Water: OECD Report on Managing Water Resources

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The main impacts on water availability and use are due to human activity. Economic expansion and rising living standards will continue to drive the demand for water in the years to come. Over 90% of the projected population growth by ... ....

Wildlife Ecotoxicology

Forensic Approaches

John E Elliott, Christine A Bishop and Christy A Morrissey

Many books have now been published in the broad field of environmental toxicology. However, to date, none of have presented the often fascinating stories of the wildlife science, and the steps along the way from discovery of problems caused ... ....

Advances in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Fisheries and Aquaculture

Summary Version

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Advances in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Fisheries and Aquaculture is an essential guide to understanding the role of spatial analysis in the sustainable development and management of fisheries and aquaculture ... ....

Barcoding Nature

Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss

Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis and Brian Wynne

DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism's genome (a so-called 'micro-genome') can ... ....

Building Bioinformatics Solutions

Conrad Bessant, Darren Oakley and Ian Shadforth

Bioinformatics encompasses a broad and ever-changing range of activities involved with the management and analysis of data from molecular biology experiments. Despite the diversity of activities and applications, the basic methodology and ... ....

Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice

Marcel Boumans

Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. Empirical research involves dealing with all kinds of errors and uncertainties yet there is significant variance in how such results are dealt with ... ....

Geo-information

Technologies, Applications and the Environment

Matthias Lemmens

Geomatics, the handling and processing of information and data about the Earth, is one geoscience discipline that has seen major changes in the last decade, as mapping and observation systems become ever more sensitive and sophisticated. ....

Lab Math

A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench

Dany Spencer Adams

Collects in one place the numbers and equations you rely on for your experiments and use to report your data – what they mean and how to use them – as well as easy-to-follow shortcuts for making the math easier. Written in an ... ....

Laboratory Statistics

Handbook of Formulas and Terms

Anders Kallner

Laboratory Statistics: Handbook of Formulas and Terms presents common strategies for comparing and evaluating numerical laboratory data. In particular, the text deals with the type of data and problems that laboratory scientists ... ....

R Graphs Cookbook

Quick Answers to Common Problems

Hrishi V Mittal

With more than two million users worldwide, R is one of the most popular open source projects. It is a free and robust statistical programming environment with very powerful graphical capabilities. Analyzing and visualizing data with R ... ....

Spatial Simulation

Exploring Pattern and Process

David O'Sullivan and George LW Perry

Across broad areas of the environmental and social sciences, simulation models are an important way to study systems inaccessible to scientific experimental and observational methods, and also an essential complement to those more ... ....

Working in Biosafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories

A Practical Introduction

Manfred Weidmann, Nigel Silman, Patrick Butaye and Mandy Elschner

The first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs. Working in Biosafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b which serves as a standard for many courses ... ....

A Dictionary of Statistics

Graham Upton

This wide-ranging dictionary covers over 2,300 statistical terms in accessible, jargon-free language. All existing entries and web links have been revised and updated to ensure that the content is as relevant as possible. An indispensable ... ....

Dinosaurs and Dioramas

Creating Natural History Exhibitions

Sarah J Chicone and Richard A Kissel

Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduce the history and function of natural history museums and their importance in teaching ... ....

Natural Histories Journal: Fish

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

This attractive journal is the perfect accompaniment to our AMNH books, Natural Histories and Extraordinary Birds.