Bat Survey Guidelines for Professional Ecologists

Good Practice Guidelines

Bat Conservation Trust (BCT)

Following a public consultation, redrafting and an extensive review process the Bat Conservation Trust has produced Bat Survey Guidelines for Professional Ecologists: Good Practice Guidelines 3rd edition. In line with the latest ...

Bats in the Anthropocene

Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

Christian C Voigt and Tigga Kingston

Bats in the Anthropocene focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing ...

Bats of Britain and Europe

Christian Dietz and Andreas Kiefer

A comprehensive guide to the 45 bat species that occur across Britain and Europe, based on recent taxonomic advances and newly described species over the last few years. The extensive introduction details the remarkable biology of bats ...

Bear Necessities

Rescue, Rehabilitation, Sanctuary, and Advocacy

Lisa Kemmerer

What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why were sloth bears trained to dance? What does Chinese medicine have to do with black bears in North America? Skilled grassroots activists, dedicated ...

Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour

Brian Hare and Shinya Yamamoto

The articles presented in Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour have previously been published in a Special Issue of Behaviour, Volume 152, Parts 3-4 (March 2015). Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour includes two ...

Common and Iconic Mammals of Japan [English / Japanese]

Mark Brazil and Masayuki Yabuuchi

This bilingual guide, covering 56 of Japan's nearly 200 species of mammals, was designed as an easily portable, laminated chart. A range of common and widespread species, along with a selection of Japan's more iconic and exciting ...

Ecology and Behaviour of Indian Rhino in the Brahmaputra Floodplain Habitat of Assam, India

Buddhin Ch Hazarika

The lndian Rhino, which is widely recognised to be the state animal of Assam has returned from the brink of extinction over the last century owing to a number of conservation success stories in Assam and Nepal.

Elephant Journey

The True Story of Three Zoo Elephants and Their Rescue from Captivity

Rob Laidlaw and Brian Deines

In 2013, people across North America were riveted by the story of Toka, Thika, and Iringa, the last three elephants at the zoo in Toronto, Ontario. Lonely for a larger herd, sick from the cold climate, and weak from standing for long day ...

Forgotten Horses

Discovering the Beauty of North America's Abandoned Equines

Tony Stromberg and Robert Redford

When horses outlive their usefulness to humans, they are often deemed disposable – auctioned off and sent to the slaughterhouse. But thanks to the work of rescue organizations and horse sanctuaries, many of these magnificent ...

Four Years for the Rhino

An Experience of Anti-Poaching Operations

Kamal Jung Kunwar and Govinda Raj Bhattarai

From the preface: "From the fourth week of October 2006, when I began serving an unjust jail term, I kept asking myself: “What can I possibly do to conserve the rhinos? How can we stop the poaching of rhinos?

Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals

Jonathan Kingdon

Originally published in 2004, the Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals quickly became the field guide of choice to take on African safaris. Its compact format makes it ideal for use in the field, while its coverage is the most ...

Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whale Watching in Britain and Europe

Mark Carwardine

A new and fully updated edition of this popular title, which is the definitive guide to watching whales, dolphins and porpoises in British and other European waters. A fascinating introduction to whales and whale watching is followed by ...

Our Primate Family

Stories of Conservation and Kin

Lou Grossfeldt, David Blissett and Dame Jane Goodall

Lou Grossfeldt has always wanted to work with animals. Today she is one of Australia's leading experts on primate husbandry and care. Lou has spent more than two decades working to help save our primate family from extinction, and to ...

Reaching for the Canopy

A Zoo-Born Orangutan's Journey Back to the Wild

Kylie Bullo

"Temara had done her species proud and proven that captive orangutans do have a place in the jungle of tomorrow. I felt honoured that I was by her side during the first part of her remarkable world-first journey."

Rewilded: Saving the South China Tiger [English / Chinese]

Li Quan

Rewilded is the amazing story of Li Quan's unfaltering efforts to save the most ancient, yet most endangered, South China tiger on the brink of extinction. This English-Chinese bilingual book is Ms. Quan's personal account of ...

Spirit of the Tiger

Majestic Lord of the Jungle

Aditya Singh and Nikhil Devasar

Imbued with the scent of the earth, green leaves washed by incessant rains, Spirit of the Tiger thrillingly captures all that is wonderful about the king of the jungle – stalking, hunting, sharing kills and fighting ...

Sugarcane Tiger

The Phenomenon of Wildlife in Tarai Farmlands

Rahul Shukla, Shrivridhi Shukla, Samridhi Shukla and Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam

Wild animals are not confined to an existence inside forests, and much wildlife, including large carnivores, lives in farmlands outside the institutionalized forests, parks, and reserves. Our knowledge base as to how dangerous mammals ...

The Dwarf and Mouse Lemurs of Madagascar

Biology, Behavior and Conservation Biogeography of the Cheirogaleidae

Shawn Lehman, Ute Radespiel and Elke Zimmermann

The dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar are two very species-rich lemur genera, yet there is a relative paucity of information on this primate family in published literature. In this first ever treatment of the Cheirogaleidae, international ...

The Horse

A Biography of Our Noble Companion

Wendy Williams

Through the life of the horse, natural and human history meet. They have been our companions in work and leisure for thousands of years; as a species we have profited immeasurably from their resilience, strength and intelligence.

Trailing the Tiger

Atul Dhamankar

The tiger has been a part of Atul Dhamankar's lfe for the last 23 years. He has studied this magnificent predator in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra and some other tiger jungled of India. He spent sleepless nights on a ...

Voices in the Ocean

A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

Susan Casey

Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability, and intelligence seem like an aquatic mirror of mankind. In recent decades, we have learned ...

Working Dogs

A Celebration of an Australian Icon

Working Dogs celebrates the contribution of the remarkable animals in Australia's communities and on its farms. This attractive 200-page hardback has over 300 photographs featuring the dogs that are a familiar and enduring ...

A Birder's Guide to Washington

Jane Hadley and Washington Ornithological Society

Few states show more dramatic contrasts in their environment than Washington. Elevations range from sea level to over 14,000 feet. Precipitation varies from over 200 inches annually on the Olympic Peninsula, nurturing a temperate rain forest ...

A Chorus of Cranes

The Cranes of North America and the World

Paul A Johnsgard and Thomas D Mangelsen

Accompanied by the stunning photography of Thomas D. Mangelsen, A Chorus of Cranes details the natural history, biology, and conservation issues surrounding the abundant sandhill crane and the endangered whooping crane in North ...

A Guide to Finding Birds in Odessa Region, Ukraine

Paul Goriup

Many people are aware that Odessa is a large port city situated on the northwest coast of the Black Sea, well known for its history and culture within the Roman, Ottoman and Russian empires, followed by a period in the former Soviet Union ...

A Selection of the Birds of Sri Lanka

John Banks and Judy Banks

A selection of 279 bird species seen in Sri Lanka, which includes the more uncommon, rare and vagrant species.

An Ornithological and Cultural Guide to the Birds of Gunayala / Una Guía Ornitologica y Cultural a las Aves de Gunayal

Monica Martínez Mauri, George R Angehr, Daniel Buitrago Rosas, Cristina Zafra and Sara Spalding

Contains ornithological and ethnographic information about the birds that live permanently and temporarily in the western part of the Gunayala reserve, northeast Panama. Includes texts on birds in the mythical universe; ritualistic life ...

Archives of the Menzbier Ornithological Society, Volume 1: Collected Papers of the XIII International Ornithological Con

VP Belik

This book contains the proceedings of the XIII International Ornithological Conference of Northern Eurasia, held in Orenburg April 30 - May 6, 2010. Articles cover the history of the Menzbier Ornithological Society, palaeoornithology ...

Archives of the Menzbier Ornithological Society, Volume 2: In Memoriam: Evgeny N. Kurochkin (July 12, 1940 - December

VP Belik

The second volume of MOS Archives is dedicated to the memory of Evgeny N. Kurochkin – the Honorary President of the Menzbier Ornithological Society who has made a great contribution to the integration of the scientific community of ...

Avon Atlas 2007-11

Richard L Bland and M Dadds

The Avon Atlas 2007-11 summarises the work of some 530 observers in the 17 hectads of the Avon BTO area between 2007 and 2011. All 403 tetrads were surveyed, the majority for four hours in summer and four in winter.

Birding Trails: Wisconsin

Steve Betchkal

Over 100 birding trails with over 200 species. Describes each birding trail with a list of key birds, the best time of year to visit each trail, the type of terrain, size, and complete directions to each area, many with maps of each trail ...

Birds Never Get Lost

Colin Pennycuick and Sandy Pennycuick

Birds fly very efficiently, doing little work themselves, and gaining large amounts of energy from the atmosphere. Whether on local flights or migration, they have the freedom to fly anywhere they please. It is because of this that scientists ...

Birds of Baima Snow Mountain [Chinese / Tibetan]

Ge Ma Jiangchu

This book describes 353 bird species found in Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China, which represents 28% of China's domestic birds. Photos of the different sexes facilitate identification and increase its usefulness ...

Birds of Borneo

Susan Myers

Birds of Borneo is the first comprehensive guide to the varied avifauna of this island biodiversity hotspot, which comprises the tiny state of Brunei, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian state of Kalimantan ...

Birds of Mauritius and Rodrigues / Birds: Ile Maurice - Rodrigues

Jacques de Speville

Birds of Mauritius and Rodrigues makes a presentation of the bird species that still exist today in the Mauritian territory. These species can be divided into four main groups: the Endemic, the Native, the Migratory and the Exotic ...

Birds of Nashik District

A Conservation Guide

Bishwarup Raha

Nashik district in Maharashtra, India, has been blessed with more than 340 species of birds found in forests, grasslands and wetlands, out of which 27 birds are listed as threatened bird species (Birdlife International). There are ...

Birds of Our Neighbourhood [India]

Kiran Purandare and Ajey Hardeekar

This book introduces the reader to 40 species of birds that can be easily seen in India's neighbourhoods. It is full of interesting observations made by a sensitive author. The text is well-complemented by excellent photographs.

Birds of Southern Eyre Peninsula

Colin Gill

Illustrates 190 of the most common birds likely to be encountered on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

Birds of Uganda

A Photographic Guide

Quentin Meunier and Sherry McKelvie

Birds of Uganda is an introduction to, and a visual celebration of, Uganda's splendid birdlife. It is superb photographic companion to your usual field guide. It is packed with 900 images of 280 species. Bird names are given ...

British Birds Report on Rare Birds in Great Britain in 2014

Nigel Hudson and British Birds Rarities Committee

Report on Rare Birds in Great Britain in 2014 The 57th annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee presents details of rare birds recorded in Britain in 2014. The headline event is the inclusion, from ...

British Birds: Names, Facts, Myths

Geoffrey Green

British Birds: Names, Facts, Myths explores the intriguing world of the names of British birds. Uniquely the book examines in detail the wide range and meaning of local and common names, the derivation and meaning of the official ...

Common and Iconic Birds of Japan [English / Japanese]

Mark Brazil and Masayuki Yabuuchi

This bilingual guide, covering 122 of Japan's nearly 700 species of birds, has been designed as an easily portable, laminated chart. A range of common and widespread species, along with a selection of Japan's more iconic and exciting ...

Conservacion Colombiana 21: Birds of Colombia 2014 / Aves de Colombia 2014

Oswalso Cortes

This issue contains a revision of status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia in 2014, and several articles detailing recordings of species new to the country.

Ferrantia, Volume 72: Aberrant Plumages in Grebes Podicipedidae

An Analysis of Albinism, Leucism, Brown and Other Aberrations in All Grebe Species Worldwide

Andre Konter

Records of aberrant grebes Podicipedidae of all species worldwide (i.e. mentioned in the ornithological literature; reported by museums of natural history; retrieved via the internet; stemming from own observations) were aggregated in a ...

Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds

Dave Watts and David Baker-Gabb

This 2015 reprint is an unmodified reprint of the 2003 second edition. Photographic treatment of 185 of the 200 species naturally occurring in Tasmania. Species entries are accompanied by full-colour photograph and include common ...

Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland

Mark Golley and David Daly

Stunningly illustrated and simple to use, this brand new, fully updated, edition of a practical and informative guide is a must for any birdwatcher's pocket. Whether observing what is feeding, nesting or bathing in your garden, or ...

Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname

Arie L Spaans, Otte H Ottema and Jan Hein JM Ribot

Suriname, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern South America, is a relatively small country compared to most other South American countries. It nevertheless has a rich avifauna. By the end of 2014, 746 species (including 760 ...

Grey Geese

The Genus Anser

Eileen Rees

This Poyser monograph looks closely at the geese of the genus Anser – the so-called grey geese, a group that mainly breeds in the high Arctic but visits lower latitudes in winter. The species include swan goose, tundra and ...

Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers

C Hilary Fry, Kathie Fry and Alan Harris

Dazzling in their beauty, many of the 123 species of kingfisher, bee-eater and roller are very poorly known. Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers provides a review of the group showing every species, all the main races and most ...

Knitted Birds

Over 30 Fun Feathered Friends for You to Knit

Nicola Fijalkowska

Twitching to knit? Get off to a flying start with this book, which contains all the instructions you need to bring a flock of characterful birds to life. With full, clear patterns for both quick and more involved projects, you will find ...

Mexico: Pacific Coast Birds [English / Spanish]

Robert Dean

This is a laminated fold-out guide for birds in Baja California, the Sea of Cortez, and along the Pacific Coast. Wing span is given in centimetres. For some species both males and females are pictured.

Pankheru - Colours on Wings

A Field Guide to the Birds to Dadra & Nagar Haveli

MRG Reddy

Lush green forests and rolling hills epitomize the natural beauty of the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Western India. Situated in the foothills of the Sahyadri mountain range, the Union Territory is blessed with a rich ...

Peru: Birds of Wetlands Beaches and Oceans / Aves de Humedales, Playas y Oceanos

Robert Dean

This laminated A4 sheet illustrates the birds of Peru's wetlands, beaches and oceans. Wingspan is given in centimetres.

Pete Dunne on Bird Watching

A Beginner's Guide to Finding, Identifying and Enjoying Birds

Pete Dunne

Pete Dunne has taught birding to beginners for years, but he has never found the right book to help them get started. Now the popular birding author identifies the skills and tools available to people with any amount of interest, great ...

SASOL 300 Easy-to-See Birds

Chevonne Reynolds and Nicholas Tye

This practical, straight forward guide to some of the most commonly seen birds in southern Africa is aimed at beginner birders, or even juniors. Less daunting than a full-blown fieldguide, it's handy and accessible, combining simple ...

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2016

Neil Gartshore

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook is now in its 36th year and, since its inception in 1981, has been published by Buckingham Press. The Yearbook was created by John Pemberton who edited the 1981-2001 editions before passing the ...

The Goshawk

TH White and Helen Macdonald

With a foreword by Helen Macdonald, author of the multi-award-winning H Is For Hawk. 'No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and ...

The Story of the Norwich Peregrines

Andy Thompson

The story of the cathedral peregrines has entranced Britain for several years. Here's a book packed with magnificent images – and text – telling the story of these beautiful birds and their years of nesting high on the ...

Tous les Oiseaux d'Europe [All the Birds of Europe]

Aurelien Audevard and Frederic Jiguet

This guide present all 860 European bird species in one volume, including breeding, wintering, migratory, but also rare species. All species are illustrated, including those seen only once in Europe, or those that will likely be seen in ...

Voegel Faettern im Winter [Feeding Birds in Winter]

Holger Haag

This little practical guide informs you concisely about everything worth knowing on feeding birds in winter. It includes many tips for observation and identification of birds, and of course on animal feeding to help you enjoy the bird life ...

Waders in a Changing Environment of North Eurasia: Materials of the 9th International Conference (February 4-6, 2012, Ki

AO Shubin

Contains the proceedings of the 9th International Conference, "Waders in a Changing Environment of North Eurasia", held February 4-6, 2012, Kislovodsk, Russia.

Where to Watch Birds in Northern France / Ou Voir les Oiseaux dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Quentin Dupriez

With over 420 bird species already observed, Nord–Pas-de-Calais, the northernmost region of France, is not to be outdone by some mroe famous destinations, and is a hot spot for watching birds in France. Because of its geography ...

All about Indian Snakes

Myths and Facts

MS Pradhan and SS Talmale

Snakes have been associated with myths and curiosity, apart from being an object of fear due to the possession of incomplete and/or inappropriate knowledge. The probable reason for this may be their cold appearance due to the possession ...

Asian Pitvipers

Breeding Experience & Wildlife

Dick Visser

Asian Pitvipers is a combination of travelling experiences, long-term breeding experience (Dick's as well as some other breeder's) and data from the literature available. Among the photos some recently described species ...

Europaeische Sumpfschildkroeten: Lebensweise, Haltung, Nachzucht [European Pond Turtles: Biology, Keeping, Breeding]

Bernd Wolff

European pond turtles are popular pond inhabitants that have been held in decorative outdoor ponds and have been successfully bred in captivity for the last 150 years. One can't imagine today's terrarium hobby without this endangered ...

Natural History of Neotropical Treeboas (Genus Corallus)

Robert W Henderson

Nine species comprise the arboreal boid genus Corallus. Combined, they range from Guatemala in northern Central America to southeastern Brazil in South America, and two species occur on islands in the West Indies. Based on extensive ...

Serpents d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient [Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East]

Philippe Geniez

They live hidden from sight and move almost silently. They sneak into the undergrowth and even climb trees. Snakes both scare and fascinate. This guide aims to improve people's knowledge, so as to come to a greater understanding of ...

The Anoles of Honduras

Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation

James R McCranie and Gunther Koehler

The lizard genus Anolis contains more species than any other genus of reptile, bird, or mammal. Caribbean members of this group have been intensively studied and have become a model system for the study of ecology, evolution ...

The Book of Frogs

A Lifesize Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

Tim Halliday

Recent intense scrutiny of amphibian conservation status makes this title a timely archive in the context of the frogs dramatic decline. Frogs are adversely affected by loss of habitat, pollution by agricultural and industrial chemicals ...

Biology and Culture of Percid Fishes

Principles and Practices

Patrick Kestemont, Konrad Dabrowski and Robert C Summerfelt

This extensive work focuses on an important group of temperate freshwater fish, approaching the topic from the perspectives of both biology and aquaculture. It compiles the latest research on fish belonging to the Percidae family and ...

Biology and Ecology of Anguillid Eels

Takaomi Arai

Anguillid eels have fascinated biologists for centuries due to their spectacular long-distance migrations between freshwater habitats and their spawning areas far out in the ocean. Biology and Ecology of Anguillid Eels provides ...

Fish Reproductive Biology

Implications for Assessment and Management

Tore Jakobsen, Michael J Fogarty, Erlend Moksness and Bernard A Megrey

This fully up-to-date, expanded and revised new edition has been written and compiled by some of the world's leading experts on fish reproduction and fisheries science. Following an introductory chapter ...

Fishes of the Maldives

Indian Ocean

Rudie H Kuiter and Tim Godfrey

The perfect reference book for researchers, divers and snorkellers. Containing over a thousand colour photographs, Fishes of the Maldives provides details for almost every shark, ray and fish likely to be encounted in this region ...

Herring Tales

How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History

Donald S Murray

Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English enjoy ...

Marine Fishes of Southern Fujian, China, Volume 1 [Chinese]

Min Liu, Xiao Chen and Sheng-Yun Yang

The first of two volumes, Marine Fishes of Southern Fujian, China, Volume 1 covers 186 species of fishes belonging to 141 genera, 83 families and 25 orders, found off the coast of Fujian, a province on the southeast coast of ...

Marine Fishes of Southern Fujian, China, Volume 2 [Chinese]

Min Liu, Xiao Chen and Sheng-Yun Yang

The second of two volumes, Marine Fishes of Southern Fujian, China, Volume 2 covers a further 186 species of fishes belonging to 154 genera, 86 families, and 17 orders, found off the coast of Fujian, a province on the southeast ...

Piranhas: Saegesalmler in der Natur und im Aquarium [Piranhas: Serrasalmidae in the Wild and in the Aquarium]

Wolfgang Staeck

In addition to angelfish and the neon tetra, piranhas are certainly the most famous fish of the South American subcontinent. The mere name of this fish will trigger memories of sensational reports on their dangerousness and aggressivenes ...

Poissons d'Eau Douce et de Peche d'Europe Occidentale et Centrale [Freshwater Fish of Western and Central Europe]

Bent J Muus, Preben Dahlstroem and Archibald Quartier

This practical book provides the main characteristics of freshwater fish in Western and Central European water bodies, their lifestyles, food, and the waters where they are most often observed (mountain streams, estuaries and brackish water ...

Requins: Un Monde Fascinant [Sharks: A Fascinating World]

Alexandrine Civard-Racinais and Alain Beneteau

Discover the extraordinary diversity of sharks and their superpowers, meet a diver who photographs them in their natural environment, unlock the secrets of their migrations, dive in a cage for a face-to-face encounter with a great white ...

Review of the Splendid Perches, Callanthias (Percoidei: Callanthiidae)

Jr.,William D Anderson, G David Johnson and Carole C Baldwin

The family Callanthiidae contains two genera, Callanthias (with seven species) and Grammatonotus (with six nominal species). William D. Anderson, G. David Johnson, and Carole C. Baldwin provide characters that distinguish ...

Same Zukan [Shark Picture Book]

Tanaka Akira

A re-edited pocket version of the Shark Encyclopedia. Introducing species such as great white shark, whale sharks, and remarkable forms of Japanese sawshark, this introductory book features information on appearance and ecology ...

Skin of the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus Nardo, 1827): Microstructure, Properties and Industrial Use [Russian]

AB Kiladze and OF Chernova

This monograph is devoted to original data on morphology and technological aspects of the Sandbar shark's skin. The brief biological characteristics of the species, its distribution area and dynamics of the catch volume are given.

The Fishes of New Zealand: A Comprehensive Guide (4-Volume Set)

Clive D Roberts, Andrew L Stewart and Carl D Struthers

Explore, discover and identify every known species of New Zealand fish in this encyclopaedic and beautifully illustrated guide.

The Fishes of New Zealand represents the culmination of decades of collecting and taxonomic research by ...

The Leather of Stingray (Dasyatididae): A Morphological and Technological Aspect [Russian]

AB Kiladze and OF Chernova

The book is an original morphological and technological research of stingray’s leather (Dasyatididae), considered in the context of deep processing of fishery products. A brief biological characteristic of rays, as well as an assessment ...

A Guide to Mosquitoes of Australia

Cameron Webb, Richard C Russell and Stephen Doggett

A Guide to Mosquitoes of Australia explores the biodiversity of this fascinating group of insects. Mosquitoes are annoying, and can be deadly, but they can also be beautiful. This book provides a pictorial guide to almost 100 ...

A Monograph on Indian Tenuipalpidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with their Economic Importance and Keys to Genera and Species

Surinder Kumpar Gupta and Pubali Mandal

This monograph describes the Indian Tenuipalpidae, a family of flat mites or false spider mites. It includes keys to 15 genera and describes their economic importance and zoogeography.

A Review on Paronellinae (Collembola: Paronellidae) of India

Ashis Kumar Hazra

A taxonomic and systematic account of the Paronellinae, a subfamily of the Collembola or springtails, as found in India.

A Selection of the Butterlies of Sri Lanka

John Banks and Judy Banks

This book has its origins in the author's desire to know more about the numerous butterflies they encountered in the field when engaged in their interest in ornithology. As it was not possible to carry rare and valuable butterfly books ...

Advances in Helminth Research in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book contains following research papers in English or Chinese with English abstract, which published in related journals in recent years: 1. Advances in the Study of Helminth Mitochondrial Genomes and Their Associated ...

An Apiary Guide to Swarm Control

Wally Shaw

This booklet originally published by the Welsh Beekeepers Association is a very sound introduction to swarm control for all small scale beekeepers.

An Introduction to Common Spiders of Sri Lanka

Ranil P Nanayakkara, Channa Bambaradeniya and Merrill J Fernando

This pictorial guide to the spiders of Sri Lanka offers clear and comprehensive information which equips anyone with an interest with illustrated information on how to identify spiders that they encounter.

Atlas of the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Europe

Vincent J Kalkman, Jean-Pierre Boudot and Fons Peels

This is the first detailed and complete overview of the distribution of the dragonflies and damselflies of Europe. An important reference work for professionals and amateurs alike. - Covers the distribution and habitat selection ...

Bibliography on the Butterflies of Russia and Adjacent Countries (1758-2008) [English / Russian]

Vasily K Tuzov

Vasily Tuzov, who is well known as editor of Butterflies of Russia, has been preparing this bibliography for more than 30 years. It includes a total of about 8500 resources and more than 3500 authors. This book can help everybody who studies ...

Biology of Horseshoe Crabs Tachypleus tridentatus [Chinese]

Hong Shuigen

China is one of the world's few countries to have horseshoe crab resources. With 95 percent of the world's horseshoe crabs found there, it is safe to that this is the horseshoe crab's home. Today, due to rapid economic development ...

Butterfly Gardening

How to Encourage Butterflies to Your Garden

Jenny Steel

This second guide in the Gardening with Nature Series gives step by step advice on how to encourage butterflies to your garden. Jenny Steel describes the importance of providing shelter and avoiding the use of pesticides, with ...

Catalogue of the Insects of Japan, Volume 8: Diptera (2-Volume Set) [Japanese]

This 2-volume set deals with all Diptera species ever recorded from Japan (124 families, 1668 genera and 7658 species, in 1101 pages). Though this publication is made mainly in Japanese, scientific names, original descriptions, original ...

Cephalopods: Amazing and Beautiful Creatures [Japanese]

Mine Mizu Ryo and Kubodera Tsune Onore

A pictorial guide to cephalopods.

Cerambycidae Sul-Americanos (Coleoptera), Taxonomia, Volume 13: Lamiinae: Hemilophini, Parte 1

Ubirajara R Martins

Volume 13 is the first of several parts dealing with the subfamily Lamiinae, tribe Hemilophini. Includes identification keys.

Cerambycidae Sul-Americanos (Coleoptera), Taxonomia, Volume 14: Lamiinae: Hemilophini, Parte 2

Ubirajara R Martins

Volume 14 is the second of several parts dealing with the subfamily Lamiinae, tribe Hemilophini. Includes identification keys.

Coastal Crabs of Dongsha Island [Chinese]

Shi Xide

Dongsha, an undisturbed island, has a natural and ecological wealth and has a high diversity of crustaceans and crabs, which are pictured in this book.

Collection of Mussels with Byssus in China [Chinese]

Shi Qiong

This book is divided into two parts. The first part is a general account, the second part a systematic account. A total of 250 species of mussels with byssus are identified. They belong to 60 genera in 20 families.

Coquillages Marins: Plus de 1000 Especes des Mers du Monde [Marine Shells: More than 1000 Species of the World's Oceans

Gert Lindner

A richly illustrated guide to 1000 species of marine shells from around the world.

Evolutionary Population Genetics of Drosophila ananassae

Pranveer Singh

Evolutionary Population Genetics of Drosophila ananassae introduces readers to classical population genetics and the ways in which it can be applied to practical problems, including testing for natural selection, genetic drift ...

Faviids of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

C Raghunathan, Tamal Mondal and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman

An extensive taxonomic work on the Faviid corals of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, describing 99 species belonging to 18 genera.

Galen i Humlor: En Berattelse om Sma men Viktiga Varelser [A Sting in the Tale]

Dave Goulson, Helena Sjostrand Svenn and Gosta Svenn

Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his ground-breaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect ...

Ghana's Other Gold: Butterflies of the Ghanaian Rainforest (All Regions)

John Banks

This is a film about butterflies of the West African rainforest, photographed entirely in one of its smaller but fascinating countries, Ghana, once famous for its gold, but increasingly on the map for its growing concern for its wildlife ...

Green Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Europe

Robert Goodden and Rosemary Goodden

Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, this guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered butterfly species in Britain and Europe. Each butterfly's habits, range and important ...

Hemipteres de France, de Belgique, du Luxembourg et de Suisse [Hemiptera of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerlan

Romain Garrouste

Cicadas, aphids, leafhoppers, planthoppers, scale insects and other bugs all belong to the same order of insects, Hemiptera. This book brings together the latest knowledge on this order, which is one of the most diverse on the planet.

Handbook of Zoology: Echinoderms, Volume 1

Echinoidea with Pentameral Symmetry

Heinke AG Schultz

Handbook of Zoology: Echinoderms, Volume 1 is the first of two books about sea urchins (echinoids) since 1953 (Th. Mortensen). The detailed and coloured illustrated descriptions enable the reader to identify all species living ...

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Byrrhidae [English / Czech]

Milan Boukal

This issue deals with the species of the beetle family Byrrhidae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae [English / Czech]

Daniel Kubisz and Vladimír Svihla

This issue deals with the species of the beetle family Oedemeridae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Sphaeritidae, Histeridae [English / Czech]

Tomas Lackner

This issue deals with the species of the beetle families Sphaeritidae and Histeridae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

In Pursuit of Butterflies

A Fifty-Year Affair

Matthew Oates and Patrick Barkham

Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival.

Kama-Sutra des Petites Betes [The Kama Sutra of Little Bugs]

Lorraine Bennery

An ode to Mother Nature and her insatiable desire for perpetual life. Threesomes, swingers, polygamy... and you thought we're the only ones to be promiscuous in the field of love? Not only are these behaviours customary in ...

L'Atlas des Coccinelles de Maine-et-Loire [Atlas of the Ladybirds of Maine-et-Loire]

Olivier Durand and Sylvain Barbier

A distribution atlas to the ladybugs found in Maine-et-Loire, a department in west-central France, describing the 68 species found in the department. It includes distribution maps, phenological illustrations, bibliographic references ...

Les Libellules de Maine-et-Loire: Inventaire et Cartographie [The Dragonflies of Maine-et-Loire: Inventory and Cartograp

Michel Charrier

Distribution atlas to the dragonflies of Maine-et-Loire, a department in west-central France.

More Than Honey

The Survival of Bees and the Future of Our World

Markus Imhoof and Claus-Peter Lieckfeld

"If 70 percent of all cattle or 30 percent of all chickens were to die annually, states of emergency would be declared everywhere. The death of bees is at least that dramatic and with even more far-reaching consequences.

Non-Marine Ostracoda from China [Chinese]

Yu Na

The book deals with ostracod biology, classification methods, and extant non-marine ostracods. The book describes 43 genera 82 species and includes identification keys. Each species is shown in a detailed anatomical drawing and a distribution ...

Pictorial Handbook on Damselflies and Dragonflies (Odonata: Insecta) of Rajasthan

Gaurav Sharma

This monograph introduces the dragon- and damselflies of the Indian state of Rajasthan, and contain a sizeable introduction the study area, as well as an extensive selection of chapters dragon- and damselfly biology.

Pollination Biology, Volume 1

Pests and Pollinators of Fruit Crops

Dharam P Abrol

Pollination Biology, Volume 1 covers interplay between pest management strategies and safety of pollinators. Detailed information is provided on pests and pollinators of temperate, subtropical and tropical fruit crops. Most of the ...

Queen Rearing Essentials

Lawrence John Connor

At the request of readers and instructors, Dr. Connor has added sixty more pages of techniques and queen management ideas. He has expanded the concept of the queenless builder colony for use by those beekeepers who want to graft more ...

Research Materials of Flies in China

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This material, all written in English, contains 27 papers published in recent years in Chinese journals on the Diptera. It reflects reseach advances in the field from 2000-2012. See table of contents for more details.

Research Materials of Mosquitoes in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book contains 21 papers published in recent years in Chinese journals on the subject of mosquitoes in China. It reflects research advances in the field from 2000-2012. See table of contents for more details.

Research Materials of Mosquitos in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

Research Materials on Neuroptera in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book contains following papers: 1.    Study On The Fauna of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) From Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Chinese) 2.    Taxonomic Study on Female of Four Species of the ...

Research Progress on Odonata of China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This research collection contains the following twenty papers, taken from various Chinese journals:

1. Catalogue of Chinese Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) (Chinese) 2. The First Record of the Genus Hylaeothemis with ...

Rhinoceros Beetles of the World, Volume 1: New World [Japanese]

Teruhiko Shimizu

This book covers North and South American species of Rhinoceros Beetles. It illustrates tribes Cyclocephalini (39 spp.), Agaocephalini (22 spp.), Pentodontini (55 spp.), Oryctini (75 spp.), Dynastini (50 spp.), and Phileurini (38 spp.).

Safe to Chew

An Anthology

Lawrence John Connor, Kim Randy and Robert G Muir

The success of this collection will be measured by whether or not you find yourself smiling with a tilt of your head and musing to yourself, "I never would have thought of that". Certainly, this is a new and ambitious undertaking ...

Spirals in Time

The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

Helen Scales

Stories of seashells stretch from the deep past into the present day. They are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Shell-makers (members of the phylum Mollusca) are among the most ...

Study on the Taxonomy of the Diogenidae From China Seas [Chinese]

Sha Zhongli, Xiao Lichan and Wang Yongliang

Study on the Taxonomy of the Diogenidae From China Seas includes three parts. The first part is a general introduction to diogenid crustacea, a family of hermit crabs, including their systematic position, morphological characters ...

The Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of Eastern Turan, Tarbagatai, Saur and South-Western Altai, Volume 2: Danai

Sergei A Toropov and Alexander B Zhdanko

The second volume of this series combines characters of a scientific work and photo album and may be used as an illustrated guide to butter´¼éies of the superfamily Papilionoidea in Eastern Turan, Tarbagatai, Saur and South-Western ...

The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia

Michael Braby

As biologically fascinating as they are beautiful, butterflies are a pleasure to watch and an important group of invertebrates to study. This second edition of the award-winning book The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia ...

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 28

Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region

Stephen D Cairns

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, a continuation of Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, is a series dedicated to the inventory and description of the deep-sea fauna of the world, with special emphasis on the most extensive ...

World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 14: Coleoptera: Elmidae and Protelmidae

Manfred A Jach, Jan Kodada, Michaela Brojer, William D Shepard and Jr.,Fedor Ciampor

World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 14: Coleoptera: Elmidae and Protelmidae contains a complete list of subfamilies, tribes, subtribes, genera, subgenera, species and subspecies, and their synonyms described before 2015.

ZooKeys 510: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Myriapodology, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Ivan H Tuf and Karel Tajovsky

This special proceedings volume of ZooKeys contains selected contributions presented during the 16th International Congress of Myriapodology, which was held in Olomouc, Czech Republic from 20 to 25 July 2014. The volume consists ...

Basal Late Miocene Mammal Fauna from Tapar and Pasuda, Kachchh

Ansuya Bhandari, Martin Pickford and Brahma Nand Tiwari

The Kachchh Peninsula, Gujarat, western India, contains a series of Neogene terrestrial and marine deposits overlying Palaeogene, Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks. Previous studies based on rare and scattered occurrences of terrestrial mammals ...

Die Geschichte des Lebens in 100 Fossilien [A History of Life in 100 Fossils]

Paul D Taylor, Aaron O'Dea and Gudrun Kraebs

This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found. Die Geschichte des Lebens in 100 Fossilien travels through 3.5 billion years of Earth's history and across all ...

Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, Part 3A1: Basal Tetrapoda

Jennifer A Clack and Andrew RC Milner

The last two decades or so there have witnessed a renaissance of scientific interest in the origin of tetrapods, driven by spectacular discoveries of fish-like sarcopterygians with tetrapod characters and very primitive tetrapods.

Ferrantia, Volume 71: Le Jurassique au Luxembourg (1) - Vertebres, Echinodermes et Cephalopodes du Bajocien

Robert Weis and Ben Thuy

From the introduction: "The Lower Bajocian (Middle Jurassic: approximately 170 million years) strata are the youngest marine deposits exposed on the Luxembourg territory. The fossils recovered from these strata document ...

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 2: Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds, Fascicle 5 (Serial no.9): Ornithischian Dinosaurs [C

Dong Zhiming

This fascicle contains all published ornithischian dinosaurs until 2010, for a total of 77 species, and 63 genera.

Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa

Physical and Human Dimensions

Jasper Knight and Stefan Grab

Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed ...

Zeitkapsel Bernstein: Lebewesen Vergangener Welten [Amber Time Capsules: Life of Past Worlds]

Carsten Groehn, Melanie Hornemann, Ulrich Joger, Andre Koch, Ralf Kosma and Fritz J Krueger

Amber is not only an old commodity and one of the few gemstones of biological origin – often it also contains fossil creatures trapped in the resins that date back millions of years. These plants and animals are often recognized ...

Coral Reef Fishes of the South China Sea: The Xisha, Nansha and Zhongsha Islands [English / Chinese]

Fu Liang

This book follows in the footsteps of several exploratory underwater Chinese missions inventorizing the marina reef fauna of several island in the South China Sea. Using submersible observation, reef fish were directly observed in their ...

Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Band 7/2-3 [English]

Chelicerata: Acari III

Reinhard Gerecke, Terence Gledhill, Harry Smit and Vladimir Pesic

For the first time in limnofaunistic bibliography, the present taxonomic knowledge about the different clades of chelicerata having adapted to an aquatic or amphibious lifestyle along various evolutionary pathways is brought together in ...

Shinkai Seibutsu: Yu Kai de Henteko nai Kimono Tankobon [Deep-Sea Organisms: A Book of Strange Creatures]

Ishigaki Koji

A richly illustrated introduction to 60 species of truly bizarre deep-sea organisms.

Was Lebt in Tuempel, Bach und Weiher?: Pflanzen und Tiere Unserer Gewaesser [What Lives in Lakes, Streams and Pond? The

Wolfgang Engelhardt, Peter Martin, Klaus Rehfeld and Joerg S Pfadenhauer

The popular freshwater field guide presents 400 plants and animals with detailed drawings. Information on invasive plants and animals is also noted. In addition to information, this field guide offers an overview of the types of water ...

100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes

A Magical Menagerie of Kirigami Templates to Copy, Fold, and Cut Includes 8 Preprinted Color Templates

Marion T Nichols

Create endless animal themed snowflakes with the unique and imaginative templates that crafters and artists will love! Let it snow – animals! In 100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes, artist and teacher Marion Nichols proves ...

A Shepherd's Life

William Henry Hudson, Adam Thorpe and Howard Phipps

Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, we meet men and women of humble birth, poachers, gypsies, farmers and labourers striving to survive on the land.

Abode of the Gods

Tales of Trekking in Nepal

Kev Reynolds

On eight treks in Nepal's Himalaya; to Kanchenjunga, Manaslu, Annapurna, Everest, Langtang, Dolpo, Api and Mugu, the true spirit of trekking is captured in Kev Reynolds' reverence, curiosity and ongoing love of the world's ...

Africa on Safari

Tonya Illman and Kym Illman

Drama and beauty abound on the plains of Africa and in this superb collection of images, Australian photographers Kym and Tonya lllman present an intimate insight into Earth's greatest wilderness. This lavish book is the result of the ...

Being a Beast

Charles HW Foster

Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.

Bill Oddie Unplucked

Columns, Blogs and Musings

Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie has been the voice and face of birding broadcasting for more than three decades. Those of a certain age will fondly remember Bill as the shortest and hairiest of the trio of The Goodies, a popular and long-running ...

Birds, Art & Design

Larry Barth

Legendary bird carver Larry Barth has created a stunning retrospective of his life's work, including sculptures from museum exhibits and rarely seen pieces from private collections. This is a must-have book for every bird lover ...

Blue Ice

Alex Bernasconi, Julian Dowdeswell and Peter Clarkson

Blue Ice is the new book from photographer Alex Bernasconi whose unique approach to wildlife photography has been honoured with multiple prestigious awards. Bernasconi's breathtaking panoramas reveal the spectacular beauty of ...

Brush with Gondwana

The Botanical Artists Group, Western Australia

Janda Gooding, Margaret Pieroni, Katrina Syme, Philippa Nikulinsky, Pat Dundas and Ellen Hickman

Seven leading botanical artists are brought together in this beautifully illustrated book. Author Janda Gooding shares the stories behind each artist's illustrations and reveals a rich and diverse record of Western Australia's ....

Bushcraft - A Family Guide

Fun and Adventure in the Great Outdoors

John Boe and Owen Senior

Fun and exciting things for families to do together in the great outdoors! Whether it is a mini adventure into the woods and countryside, a camping trip or simply exploring your own back garden, it's hard to get enough outdoors time ...

Cicerone Guides: Hadrian's Wall Path Map Booklet

1:25,000 OS Route Mapping

Mark Richards

All the mapping you need to complete the 84 mile (135 km) Hadrian's Wall Path from Bowness-on-Solway in Cumbria to Wallsend, Newcastle. One of the UK's most visited national trails, it typically takes a week to walk, and is suitable ...

Cicerone Guides: The GR5 Trail

Through the French Alps: From Lake Geneva to Nice

Paddy Dillon

The final section of the GR5, also known as the Grande Traversée des Alpes, runs from the shores of Lac Leman, over the French Alps, to reach the Mediterranean coastline at Nice. The route measures 674 kilometres (420 miles) and ...

Cicerone Guides: The Lea Valley Walk

Leigh Hatts

The Lea Valley Walk describes the Lea Valley Walk, a 53-mile long-distance path from Luton to the Thames. It follows the River Lea from its source near Leagrave to East India Dock opposite Greenwich, with an alternative finish ...

Cicerone Guides: The National Trails of England, Scotland and Wales

Paddy Dillon

Inspirational guidebook to Britain's National Trails – 19 long-distance walking routes through England, Wales and Scotland. Together, these routes (National Trails in England and Wales and Scotland's Great Trails) cover ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking Hadrian's Wall Path

National Trail: Described West-East and East-West

Mark Richards

Guidebook and integral map booklet to walking the 84-mile Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail along the Roman Wall from Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend, Newcastle. The trail typically takes a week to walk, and is suitable for beginners ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking and Trekking Corfu

The Corfu Trail and 22 Day-Walks

Gillian Price

This book to the Greek island of Corfu presents a selection of 22 superb day walks along with the 150 km long-distance Corfu Trail. The day walks range from 3.5 to 18 km in length and begin from a number of popular holiday destinations ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking in Andalucia

36 Routes in Andalucia's National Parks

Guy Hunter-Watts

Guidebook to 36 walks in Andalucia. The Sierra Nevada regions of Aracena, Grazalema, Los Alcornocales and the Gaucin, La Axarquia, the Alpujarras and Cazorla each have 6 day walks. Walking routes in the Cordillera Betica mountains range ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking in Carmarthenshire

30 Day Walks Exploring the Mountains, Valleys and Coastline of South-West Wales

Jim Rubery

Walking in Carmarthenshire presents 30 contrasting day walks exploring the mountains, valleys and coastline of Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. Ranging from 2 to 10 miles in length and suitable for walkers of all abilities ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking on Arran

The Best Low Level Walks and Challenging Mountain Routes

Sian Pritchard-Jones, Paddy Dillon and Bob Gibbons

An essential guidebook to the Annapurna region; the most popular trekking area in Nepal and a magnet for those who love mountains. Walking on Arran describes 14 treks, such as the classic Annapurna Circuit, as well as introducing ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking on Harris and Lewis

30 Day Walks Exploring the Islands

Richard Barrett

This walking guidebook describes 30 day walks all over the Isles of Harris and Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. The walks range from 2 to 14 miles (4-22 km) in length, and are easily accessible from Stornaway or Tarbet. Routes vary from ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking on the Gower

30 Walks Exploring the AONB Peninsula in South Wales

Andrew Davies

Walking on the Gower presents 30 circular day walks in the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), taking in the rich variety of landscapes across this beautiful area of South Wales. Ranging from 21/2 to 14 miles long ...

Cicerone Guides: Walking the Cape Wrath Trail

Through the Scottish Highlands from Fort William to Cape Wrath

Iain Harper

Walking the Cape Wrath Trail describes the Cape Wrath Trail, a long-distance trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath crossing the wild north west of the Scottish Highlands. The route is described from south to north in 14 stages ...

Cicerone Guides: Walks and Treks - The High Mountains of Crete

The White Mountains, Mt. Ida and Lassithi

Loraine Wilson

Guidebook to walking and trekking the high mountains of Crete. The largest of the Greek Islands, Crete's mountains provide breathtaking walking and wilderness to this popular island. The routes in The High Mountains of Crete ...

Climate, Fire and Human Evolution

The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene

Andrew Y Glikson and Colin Groves

Climate, Fire and Human Evolution outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo ...

Creatures of the Deep

The Pop-Up Book

Ernst Haeckel and Maike Biederstadt

The book Art Forms in Nature is a collection of prints, made by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, of an enormous variety of flora and fauna from the sea-including microscopic Radiolaria, starfish and jelly fish-and since Prestel published it in 1998 ...

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans

A Spice Odyssey

Gary Paul Nabhan

Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice ...

Darwin: All That Matters

Alison M Pearn

Charles Darwin's name is among the most recognised in the world, and more than 100 years after his death his books are still best-sellers; there are more than ten modern editions of the most famous ...

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 eyes ...

Disrupted Landscapes

State, Peasants, and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

Stefan Dorondel

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstaking ...

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis

Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

Robert R Gioielli

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Four Hedges

Clare Leighton, Carol Klein and David Leighton

Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, she turned her creativity to the land.

Green Voices

Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse

Richard D Besel, Bernard K Duffy and Philip C Wander

The written works of nature's leading advocates – from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few – have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively ...

Hikaru Ikimono wa Naze Hikaru?: Hotaru Kurage Kara Mimizu Kumohitode Made [Why do Glowing Creatures Shine: From Fireflie

Oba Yuichi

Why do glowing creatures exist? What is their role? And by what mechanism do they glow? This book introduces Whether both familiar organisms, such as firefly and jellyfish, to unfamiliar bioluminescent organisms such as squid, mushrooms ...

In the Bush

Explore & Discover New Zealand's Native Forests

Gillian Candler and Ned Barraud

In the Bush is the fourth title in the popular and award-winning Explore & Discover series. The successful author and illustrator combination of Gillian Candler and Ned Barraud, turn their attention to the New Zealand bush ...

In the Country

Kenneth Allsop, Brian Jackman and James Lynch

At the end of the 1960s, Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled amid the sunken lanes, ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. He was at his very happiest here.

Ireland's Animals

Myths, Legends & Folklore

Niall Mac Coitir and Gordon D'Arcy

Niall Mac Coitir provides a comprehensive look at the folklore, legends and history of animals in Ireland, and describes their relations with people, being hunted for food, fur, sport, or as vermin, and their position today. A final section ...

Ireland's Birds

Myths, Legends & Folklore

Niall Mac Coitir and Gordon D'Arcy

Birds have been part of our culture for thousands of years. They have inspired poets and painters, and feature in many legends and place names. Here Niall Mac Coitir provides a comprehensive look at the mythology, legends and folklore of ...

Ireland's Trees

Myths, Legends & Folklore

Niall Mac Coitir and Grania Langrishe

Niall Mac Coitir brings to life the myths, legends and folklore associated with native Irish trees, much of which persists to this day. Two main themes emerge: the tree as a marker of important places such as royal sites or holy wells ...

Ireland's Wild Plants

Myths, Legends & Folklore

Niall Mac Coitir and Grania Langrishe

Ireland's wild plants have been part of our culture and folklore from the earliest times, featuring in the Brehon Laws, early Irish poetry and herbal medicine. Plants are described in seasonal order and different aspects are examined ...

Island Years, Island Farm

Frank Fraser Darling and Iain Stewart

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, Frank Fraser Darling's fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. Surviving treacherous boat journeys, a broken leg, and hell-bent storms, he made ...

James Hector

Explorer, Scientist, Leader

Simon Nathan

James Hector was the dominant personality in the small nineteenth-century scientific community in New Zealand. As the first scientist employed by the government, he was the founder of the Geological Survey (now GNS Science), Colonial ...

James Sowerby

The Enlightenment's Natual Historian

Paul Henderson

James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all at a key historical time ...

Keywords for Environmental Studies

Join Adamson, William A Gleason and David Naguib Pellow

Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this ...

La Theorie des Centres d'Origine des Plantes Cultivees [The Theory of the Centres of the Origin of Cultivated Plants]

Nikolay Ivanovitch Vavilov and Michel Chauvet

The Russian author Nikolaï Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943) is considered one of the greatest botanists and geneticists of his time. He was among the first scientists to have grasped the importance of the link between biodiversity and ...

Le Bestiaire Sauvage: Histoires et Legendes des Animaux de Nos Campagnes [The Wild Bestiary: Stories and Myths of the A

Bernard Bertrand

Bear, wolf, fox, bat, eagle, cuckoo, tit, viper, salamander, grasshopper, ant, spider... most animals presented in this book are not unknown to the general public. But what is the nature of this knowledge, when you know the ...

Letters from Skokholm

RM Lockley, Adam Nicolson and Charles F Tunnicliffe

When R.M. Lockley settled on Skokholm, an uninhabited island off the Pembrokeshire coast, he was 24 years old. It was a boyhood dream to be 'with birds and flowers in some remote place', to live like Robinson Crusoe.

Lilies and Objects

Sabine Moritz and Matt Price

Following on from her publication Roses, Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz here turns her attention to lilies, which she first began depicting in the mid 1990s. Working on paper to produce fifty-nine charcoal, pastel and oil ...

Memoirs of Black Entomologists

Reflections on Childhood, University, and Career Experiences

Eric W Riddick, Michelle Samuel-Foo, Willye W Bryan and Alvin M Simmons

Twenty black entomologists from the U.S. and around the world share the stories of what drew them to a career in this field, as well as their advice for black and minority students looking for a rewarding career in the entomological sciences ...

Monster Trek

The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot

Joe Gisondi

Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every state except Hawaii. Interest in this creature, which many believe to be as mythical as a leprechaun, is as strong today as ever, with the wildly popular show Finding Bigfoot persists ...

Mountain: A Life on the Rocks

Steve Backshall

Steve Backshall has been climbing since his teens and has a genuine love affair with the mountains, and with an environment that has the power to make a human being feel very small, very vulnerable and very alive.

Nature Contained

Environmental Histories of Singapore

Timothty P Barnard

How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political, social and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore's ...

New Zealand's Working Dogs

Andrew Fladeboe

Andrew Fladeboe came to New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship to immerse himself in rural life and document the traditional New Zealand working dog. He travelled to numerous South Island stations and worked alongside farmers and their ...

On a Wing and a Prayer

One Woman's Adventure into the Heart of the Rainforest

Sarah Woods

When writer and intrepid traveler Sarah Woods set about discovering the jungles of Central and South America, her quest took her into some of the most remote tangles of vine-knotted jungles on the planet. In Panama's rain-soaked ...

Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World

Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven and Arjan Zuiderhoek

Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production and consumption levels, it was unparalleled until the early ...

Physics: A Short History from Quintessence to Quarks

John L Heilbron

How does the physics we know today – a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry – link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old ...

Polar: A Photicular Book

Dan Kainen and Carol Kaufmann

Seeing is believing: Photicular technology is a phenomenon. Through its innovative lenticular process, sliding lenses, and four-colour video imagery, readers discovered the magic of animals bounding and leaping, and then came face to face ...

RSPB Wildlife in Your Garden

Packed with Top Tips for Enjoying and Spotting Wildlife!

Mike Dilger

Discover the amazing wildlife you can find in your own garden with this fascinating guide! Find out all about garden birds, animals, plants and creepy-crawlies. Turn the pages to discover colourful butterflies, friendly robins, shy hedgehogs ...

Reclaimers

Ana Maria Spagna

For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and ...

Reminiscences of a Wildlife Photographer

TNA Perumal

"Anyone interested in wildlife or in the art of photography should sit with him and by osmosis they will learn. And if you cannot sit with him, then sit with his images. They speak his language, which is the language of nature ...

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

John Thistle and Graeme Wynn

The ranchers who resettled BC's interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition – from grasshoppers and wild and feral horses ...

Roses

Sabine Moritz

A beautiful collection of studies of roses by cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz. Roses presents thirty-seven charcoal, pastel and oil pastel drawings of roses created by Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz between 2004 and 2009.

Sebastiao Salgado - GENESIS

Poster Box

Sebastiao Salgado

This inspiring print set Sebastião Salgado - GENESIS offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as ...

Shackleton's Journey

William Grill

Shackleton's Journey is a unique visual re-telling Ernest Shackleton's landmark expedition crossing the Antarctic from one pole to the other. William Grill's impeccably researched and informative illustrations celebrate ...

Shackleton's Journey Activity Book

William Grill

Find your way across Antarctica with the help of your of guide Sir Ernest Shackleton. Features over 35 activities and games, illustrated by Kate Greenaway Award winner William Grill.

Shrinking the Earth

The Rise and Decline of American Abundance

Donald Worster

The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society ...

Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters

Jason A Ramos and Julian Smith

A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes. Forest and ...

Southern Surveyor

Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel

Michael Veitch

"The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive volcanoes are all associated with these places. We're discovering things all the time." For ten years, the RV Southern Surveyor represented ...

Sovereign Sugar

Industry and Environment in Hawai'i

Carol A MacLennan

Although little remains of Hawai'i's plantation economy, the sugar industry's past dominance has created the Hawai'i we see today. Many of the most pressing and controversial issues – urban and resort development ...

Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation

An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies

Marco G Meniketti

In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth ...

The Art of Painting Flowers in Oil & Acrylic

Discover Simple Step-by-Step Techniques for Painting an Array of Flowers and Plants

David Lloyd Glover, Varvara Harmon, James Sulkowski and Judy Leila Schafers

This comprehensive book opens with a guide to essential information on the necessary tools and materials for both sketching and painting, including pencils, paints and brushes, palettes, supports, and mediums. In addition to learning about ...

The Bauer Brothers

Images of Nature

Paul Martyn Cooper, Franz Bauer and Ferdinand Bauer

The art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer was praised by the poet and botanist Johann Goethe as the perfect expression of the aims of botanical illustration. The Bauer Brothers: Images of Nature examines the contrasting lives of Franz ...

The Cape to Cape Track Guidebook

Incorporating the Meelup Trail

Jane Scott, Ray Forma and Patricia Negus

The Cape to Cape Walk Track is located in the far south-west corner of Western Australia, just 250 km south of Perth. It meanders along the whole length of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, which forms the backbone of the spectacular ...

The Central Fells

Wainwright's Illustrated Walking Guide to the Lake District Book 3

Alfred Wainwright and Clive Hutchby

One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook.

The Curious Nature Guide

Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You

Clare Walker Leslie

With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie offers adults of all ages an invitation to step outside for just a few minutes a day, reignite the sense of wonder and curiosity ...

The Erotic Life of Manuscripts

New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences

Yii-Jan Lin

Since the New Testament's inception as written text, its manuscripts have been subject to all the dangers of history: scribal error, emendation, injury, and total destruction. The traditional goal of modern textual criticism has been ...

The Impossible Five

One Man's Search for South Africa's Most Elusive Animals

Justin Fox

For many people, visiting South African game reserves is all about ticking off the 'Big Five'. But what about those animals you've got almost zero chance of seeing? Justin Fox goes in search of South Africa's most elusive ...

The Jungle at the Door

A Glimpse of Wild India

Joan Myers

Like millions of other children worldwide, Joan Myers was inspired at an early age by Rudyard Kipling's stories and books about the jungles of India. And, so, given the opportunity to visit wildlife refuges in India, she jumped at the ...

The Lost Amazon

The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes

Wade Davis, Richard Evans Schultes, Andrew Weil and Chris Murray

In 1941, Richard Evan Schultes, often referred to as the "father of ethnobotany", took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Columbian Amazon. Twelve years later he resurfaced having traveled to ...

The Meaning of Wilderness

Essential Articles and Speeches

Sigurd F Olson and David Backes

Sigurd F. Olson (1899-1982) was one of the greatest environmentalists of the twentieth century. A conservation activist and popular writer, Olson introduced a generation of readers to the importance of wilderness. He served as president ...

The Natural Heritage of the World

The Most Beautiful National Parks, Protected Areas and Biosphere Reserves

Monaco Books

The last remaining animal paradises on Earth, magnificent geological formations and outstanding natural landscapes represent a unique treasure and are now under the protection of the world community. In view of the progressive global ...

The Oxford Handbook of Food History

Jeffrey M Pilcher

The historical study of food, culture, and society has become established within the academy based on a generation of high-quality scholarship. Following the foundational work of the French Annales school, the International Committee for ...

The People and the Bay

A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour

Nancy B Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank

The People and the Bay explores the complicated relationship between Hamilton Harbour and the people who came to reside on its shores. From the time of European settlement through to Hamilton's rise as an industrial city ...

The Sacred Combe

A Search for Humanity's Heartland

Simon Barnes

"A special place, a place of your own, a secret garden where life is somehow more alive than it is outside. The place is wilder and yet kinder, the creatures that live here are less tame but somehow more confiding. It's both ...

The Secrets of Sand

A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand

Gary Greenberg, Carol Kiely and Kate Clover

From the beach to the moon – explore the incredible hidden world of sand, seen through a microscope. To the naked eye, the tiny particles that make up sand are less than inspiring. Under the microscope, however, it's ...

The Selous in Africa

A Long Way from Anywhere

Robert J Ross, Rolf D Baldus, Bryan Christy and Walter Jubber

The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is Africa's oldest and largest protected area. Proclaimed in 1896 and bigger than Switzerland, the Selous is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Selous remains one of Africa's largest ...

The Shark and the Albatross

Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth

John Aitchison

The Shark and the Albatross is the story of a cameraman's encounters with animals in remote, exotic and dangerous places. John Aitchison gives vivid descriptions of the lives of polar bears and penguins, seals and ...

The Tiger That Swallowed the Boy

Exotic Animals in Victorian England

John Simons

The Tiger That Swallowed the Boy asks an important question: If you were born in rural England in 1837 and died in 1901 and never travelled more than thirty miles in any direction would you have seen a hippopotamus before you ...

The Voyage of the Beagle

Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure Aboard Fitzroy's Famous Survey Ship

James Taylor

The Beagle has become synonymous with Charles Darwin and his groundbreaking title On the Origin of Species. But how did Darwin come to be on board? Now reissued in paperback, in a single volume all the various strands of the Beagle story ...

The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature

Christopher D Lloyd, Patrick Skipworth and Andy Forshaw

Explore life on earth with the most visually stunning timeline of evolution ever created, stretching back 4 billion years to the first signs of life in the seas. Then witness the emergence of multi-cellular life, the colonisation of the ...

This Land

Joe Cornish, Roly Smith and Bill Bryson

Joe Cornish is widely acknowledged as Britain's finest landscape photographer. In this new collection he explores fifty of the most amazing landscapes in Britain. Taking its cue from these Isles' extraordinarily diverse geology ...

Tisala

Richard Seward Newton

This piece of contemporary fiction starts in 1960 with David, a young London biologist researching in the Scottish Islands encounters a Blue Whale – Tisala. David becomes convinced that the whale is trying to communicate.

Tracks in the Wild

Betsy Bowen

Animal tracks always tell a story. You just have to recognize the signs. As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why. There are secrets to be learned in the ...

Unbekannter Planet: Die Erstaunliche Vielfalt unserer Tierwelt [Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures]

Ross Piper, Hanne Henninger, Heike Rosbach and Tina Goepfert

The familiar tigers, elephants, eagles, fish, and insects of the animal kingdom account for only a tiny proportion of known species. The true picture of animal life on our planet is much more diverse.

Urban Wilderness: Encounter Urban Nature / Begegnung mit Urbaner Natur

Roland Maurmair

The wilderness begins at our front door, but we rarely notice. City dwellers today rely more and more on modern technologies and numerous media channels and are increasingly losing the ability to navigate their own environment, let alone ...

Varmints and Victims

Predator Control in the American West

Frank Van Nuys

It used to be: If you see a coyote, shoot it. Better yet, a bear. Best of all, perhaps? A wolf. How we've gotten from there to here, where such predators are reintroduced, protected, and in some cases revered, is the story ...

Walking Round in Circles

Twenty-seven Circular Walks in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park

Jane Scott and Patricia Negus

This book meticulously describes a variety of circuit walks in the Leeuwin–Naturaliste Ridge in Western Australia’s Southwest. The walks vary in length from 2 – 17 km. - 27 Walks - Detailed and up-to-date ...

Whose Beak is This?

Gillian Candler and Fraser Williamson

A picture book for 3-6-year-olds, Whose Beak is This? lets children guess the identity of iconic New Zealand birds from the pictures of their beaks, while finding out some facts about the birds along the way. This fun approach is ...

Wild Guide - Southern and Eastern England

Norfolk to New Forest, Cotswolds to Kent (Including London)

Daniel Start, Lucy Grewcock and Elsa Hammond

This compendium of adventures features the best wild places to visit in south east England, including ideas for local food and accommodation. From the swimming rivers, secret beaches and lost ruins of Norfolk and Suffolk, to the ancient ...

Woodland Craft

Ben Law and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Accompany woodsman Ben Law as he celebrates the amazing diversity of craft products made from materials sourced directly from the woods. Including brooms, rakes, pegs, spoons, chairs, baskets, fencing, yurts and even a caravan, the items ...

Yesterday's Ocean

A History of Marine Life on California's Central Coast

Marc Shargel

This concise history of the marine abundance of the central California coast looks back in time to draw a vivid portrait of a marvelous abundance of marine life, of which only a pale shadow exists today. Filled with amazing photos of ...

A Field Guide to Ice

James HC Fenton

This booklet is an introduction to the landscapes of polar and other glacial regions. It is an essential guide whether you are visiting in person or travelling from the comfort of your armchair. As well as ice and snow, it also includes ...

A Naturalist's Guide to the Santa Barbara Region

Joan Easton Lentz, Peter Gaede and Stuart Wilson

The Santa Barbara region is at the cusp of Northern and Southern California, where animals and plants from both areas mingle and create ecosystems of great diversity. In the first-ever comprehensive nature guide to the area, accomplished ...

A Pictorial Guide to Uda Walawe National Park

Sarath Kotagama

Uda Walawa National Park is an important Protected Area in southern Sri Lanka that is home to a variety of plant and animal species, including not only elephants, leopards and deer that the reserve is famed for, but also rare migratory ...

A Summer of Wildlife

100 Great Days Out Watching Wildlife

James Lowen

This original and colourful guide to British summer wildlife experiences is packaged into daily suggestions for what, when, where and how to see the best of British summer wildlife. For both the experienced wildlife tourist and the novice ...

All About Garden Wildlife of Australia

Garry Sankowsky

This book, the second title in an exciting new series, investigates the ever-popular subject of the wildlife which can be found in Australian backyards. Early chapters explore the basics of what can be expected in gardens of various types ...

Amazonian Resources

Microbiota, Fauna & Flora

Bruno Sampaio Santanna, Renata Takeara and Maxwel Adriano Abegg

The Amazon forest is one of the world's most complex, unknown and threatened ecosystems that holds a considerable part of biodiverse species in different groups. This ecosystem needs greater scientific attention so that we can better ...

Antarctica: South of 60 Degrees Latitude Parallel

Arnold Zageris

Breath-taking in its superlatives, Antarctica mesmerizes visitors with its compelling beauty, awe-inspiring landscapes and imposing grandeur. No continent is its equal. Antarctica has the heights, the winds, the climate and the aridity.

Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country

Kelby Ouchley

Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands, marshes, and even uplands to ...

Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya / Biodiversit? t und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Volume 1

Matthias Hartmann and Henryk Baumbach

Series covering biodiversity research in the Himalayas (taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics and biogeography); including geology, geography, botany, veterinary zoology, zoology, especially entomology (which comprises more than 60% of the ...

Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya / Biodiversitaet und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Volume 2

Matthias Hartmann and Joerg Weipert

Series covering biodiversity research in the Himalayas (taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics and biogeography); including geology, geography, botany, veterinary zoology, zoology, especially entomology (which comprises more than 60% of the ...

Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya / Biodiversitaet und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Volume 3

Matthias Hartmann and Joerg Weipert

Series covering biodiversity research in the Himalayas (taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics and biogeography); including geology, geography, botany, veterinary zoology, zoology, especially entomology (which comprises more than 60% of the ...

Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya / Biodiversitaet und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Volume 4

Matthias Hartmann and Joerg Weipert

Series covering biodiversity research in the Himalayas (taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics and biogeography); including geology, geography, botany, veterinary zoology, zoology, and especially entomology (which comprises more than 60% of the ...

Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya / Biodiversitaet und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Volume 5

Matthias Hartmann and Joerg Weipert

Series covering biodiversity research in the Himalayas (taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics and biogeography); including geology, geography, botany, veterinary zoology, zoology, and especially entomology (which comprises more than 60% of the ...

Days in the Wild

Biswajit Roy Chowdhury

The author has had the privilege of roaming vast stretches of wild India, its many pristine nooks and remote corners, often aimlessley, where he was witness to rare and exciting sights that provided deep insights into the ways of nature ...

Eden Project: The Guide (2015 Edition)

Eden Project

This is a revised and updated highly illustrated guide to the Eden Project in a pocket-sized format. The guide gives a flavour of the sort of things the Eden Project does and takes the reader on a tour of the exhibits, introduces them to ...

Fauna of Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh

Kailash Chandra

This volume presents an overview of the diversity of fauna found in  Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Fauna of Poland: Characteristics and Checklist of Species, Volume 4 [Polish]

Wieslaw Bogdanowicz, Elzbieta Chudzicka, Irmina Pilipiuk and Ewa Skibinska

This 4th volume of the Fauna of Poland, an excellent work of reference, deals with vertebrates (Vertebrata), including birds (Aves) which section was compiled by Andrzej Dyrcz. Each section comprises a text commentary describing ...

Fauna of Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary Maharastra

RM Sharma and KA Subramanian

Information on diversity and distribution of faunal resources at habitat, local and regional scale is the key to biodiversity conservation in India. Thus surveying, collection and inventorisation of faunal resources becomes imperative to ...

Faunal Diversity of Churdhar Wildlife Sanctuary Himachal Pradesh

Avtar Kaur Sidhu, I Sharma, U Saikia and K Saini

This volume presents an overview of the diversity of fauna found in Churdhar Wildlife Sanctuary in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

Feuer, Fluten, Hagelwetter: Naturkatastrophen in Baden-Wuerttemberg [Fires, Floods, Hailstorms: Natural Disasters in Bad

Thomas Adam

On emergency, suffering, and the art of survival: When, 200 years ago in Indonesia, the volcano Tambora erupted, a terrible "year without a summer" followed in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. And which German native does ...

Few and Far Between

On the Trail of Britain's Rarest Animals

Charlie Elder

Seeking both the beautiful and the bizarre, Charlie Elder goes in search of Britain's rarest and most endangered animals. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK, and meeting up with experts along the way, he tracks down secretive ...

Green Guide to Garden Wildlife of Britain and Europe

Bob Gibbons and John Davis

Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, this guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the species most commonly encountered in gardens of Britain and Europe. Each species' habits, range and important ...

Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart

Stephen Moss and Laurie Campbell

In the very north of Britain, far from the bustling cities and picturesque countryside to the south, lies Western Europe's greatest wilderness: the Scottish Highlands. This is a land shaped by the flow of ancient ice, where ...

Il Mediterraneo Dentro di Moi [The Mediterranean Within Us]

Roberto Salmon

The Mediterranean, so small when seen from a satellite, so vast for the Phoenicians and the Romans, is actually an immensely rich sea, complex and varied from the geological, natural, historic, cultural, and anthropological point of view ...

Il Parco Naturale di Porto Conte [The Natural Park of Porto Conte]

The Regional Natural Park of Porto Conte falls entirely within the territory of the city of Alghero, in the province of Sassari in northwestern Sardinia, Italy. The protected area is a strategic border between major environmental areas ...

India Naturally

Bittu Sahgal and Anish Andheria

The high Himalaya, verdant peninsular forests, sparkling wetlands, mighty rivers, rolling grasslands and productive coasts – India has been blessed with all these and more. There was a time when some people believed that protecting ...

Katanga: Des Animaux et des Hommes [Katanga: The Animals and the People](2-Volume Set)

Michel Hasson

Sold together in a single slipcase, these two contrasting volumes tackle the relationship that has always existed between human society and fauna in Katanga, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Africa. The first ...

Les Traces d'Animaux: 100 Vertebres dans Votre Poche [Animal Tracks: 100 Vertebrates in Your Pocket]

Jacques Morel

This book presents the tracks of 100 species of European vertebrates. The presentation of real-size prints, sometimes under different circumstances, draws attention to the variability of the traces and the difficulty of reading them.

Light & Landscape

The New Zealand Photographs of Andris Apse

Andris Apse and Robbie Burton

There is no other photographer in this country who has so convincingly captured the huge sweeping grandeur of the New Zealand landscape than Andris Apse. He was the first to realise the potential and then master the use of panoramic photography ...

Living Between Juniper and Palm

Nature, Culture, and Power in the Himalayas

Ben Campbell

Living between Juniper and Palm discusses issues of sustainability, ecology, and environment in the Himalayas, particularly among the Tamang people of Nepal. Indigenous environmental knowledge is revealed – covering forest ...

Lough Swilly

A Living Landscape

Andrew B Cooper

Lough Swilly is one of the largest of Ireland's sea loughs. Long noted for its scenic beauty, it is also the site of several momentous events in Ireland's history: the Flight of the Earls in 1607 took place from Rathmullan.

Midwest Foraging

115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach

Lisa M Rose

From fields to woodlands, riverbeds, and lakesides and even in our own neighborhoods the beautiful Midwest is rich in delicious wild edibles.Herbalist, forager, and urban farmer Lisa M. Rose helps you find peppery watercress and delectable ...

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

Simon Winchester

The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook and his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey.

Peru: Extreme Planet / Perou: Planete Extreme / Peru: Planeto Extremo (All Regions, 2DVD)

Jean-Thomas Renaud

Peru: Extreme Planet is a three-part documentary series that follows one of the world’s top wildlife photographers, Cyril Ruoso, and two scientific reporters, on an adventurous journey through Peru as they cross three of ...

Small Wonders

A Close Look at Nature's Miniatures

Stanley Breeden and Kaisa Breeden

Award-winning nature photographers Stanley and Kaisa Breeden explore Australia's small animal life to reveal the wonder and beauty of looking closely into nature. Their specially developed digital photography techniques make it possible ...

The English Countryside

Ruth Binney

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

The Everest Effect

Nature, Culture, Ideology

Elizabeth Mazzolini

In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs.

The Highlands

Critical Resources, Treasured Landscapes

Jr.,Richard G Lathrop

Think of the Highlands as the "backyard" and "backstop" of the Philadelphia–New York–Hartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million acres across Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, the ...

The Lincolnshire Landscape

An Exploration

Jon Fox

This unique and beautiful book explores the countryside of Lincolnshire from the Wash to the Humber, revealing its rich natural heritage and ecology, as well as the fascinating and layered human history that has left traces in the landscape ...

The Rough Guide to Taiwan

The Rough Guide to Taiwan – now in full colour throughout – is the ultimate travel guide to one of Asia's most exciting, yet often overlooked, destinations. The Rough Guide to Taiwan helps you to uncover ...

The Tadoba Inheritance

Bittu Sahgal and Lakshmy Raman

The Tadoba–Andhari Tiger Reserve, one of India’s most exciting and best-protected wildernesses, is fast turning into the country's finest, most secure tiger habitat. Located in the Chandrapur district, Tadoba is the oldest ...

The Wild Wisdom Quiz Book

WWF India

Who is the head of the elephant family? a. Matriarch b. Patriarch c. Tusker d. Elderphant Which is the only snake that builds a nest? a. Rattlesnake b. Rat snake c. King Cobra d. Mamba ...

Vol au Dessus du Parc Naturel Regional Normandie-Maine / Flight over the Regional National Park Normandie-Maine

Manche - Orne - Sarthe - Mayenne

Jerome Houyvet and Valentin Biret

Halfway between Perche and Brittany, halfway between the Loire Valley and Normandy, the Normandie–Maine Regional Natural Park, France, is, historically, a buffer area, a strategic issue and a troubled border.

Western Siem Pang

Hidden Natural Wonder of Cambodia

Jonathan Charles Eames

Western Siem Pang: Hidden Natural Wonder of Cambodia celebrates the wildlife, landscape and people of one of the least known and remotest areas of Cambodia. By following the lives and changing fortunes of the wildlife ...

A Field Guide to Forest Trees of Southern Thailand, Volume 1

Acanthaceae-Escalloniaceae

Simon Gardner, Pindar Sidisunthorn and Kongkanda Chayamarit

Southern Thailand has one of the richest tree floras in the world and contains 75% off all native trees found in Thailand. This series will cover 2400 species over three volumes. Two thirds of all these species are covered in detail and ...

A Foundation Monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae)

John RI Wood, Bethany RM Williams, Thomas C Mitchell, Mark A Carine, David J Harris and R Scotland

This “foundation monograph” of the genus Convolvulus represents a new initiative in terms of taxonomic monography, being an attempt to bring together the global approach of the traditional monograph with the more ...

A Manual of Liverworts and Hornworts of Himachal Pradesh, India

SK Singh and DK Singh

This manual includes a total of 150 valid names from the State of Himachal Pradesh, India, of them 140 taxa (128 species, 6 subspecies, 5 varieties and 1 forma) belonging to liverworts and 10 species to hornworts, based on literature and ...

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 74

Land Plants - Trees

Christophe Plomion and Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 74th volume, the series features several reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant ...

Algues Marines: Proprietes, Usages, Recettes [Seaweeds: Edible, Available, & Sustainable]

Ole G Mouritsen and Jonas Drotner Mouritsen

Until recently, seaweed for most Americans was nothing but a nuisance, clinging to us as we swim in the ocean and stinking up the beach as it rots in the sun. With the ever-growing popularity of sushi restaurants across the country, however ...

Applied Ethno-Botany

Dhiraj Acharya

Discusses different aspects of applied etnhobotany in South Asia.

Arboretum: A History of the Trees Grown in Britain and Ireland

Owen Johnson

In this groundbreaking book, Britain's renowned tree expert Dr. Owen Johnson reveals how generations of adventurous gardeners have transformed Britain and Ireland into one gigantic arboretum: a collection of specimen trees gathered ...

Bolets de Catalunya, Volume 33

Societat Catalana de Micologia (SCM)

Another 50 sheets in this ongoing series treating the fungi of Catalonia. See below table for a listing of the species treated in this volume.

Bolets de Catalunya, Volume 34

Societat Catalana de Micologia (SCM)

Another 50 sheets in this ongoing series treating the fungi of Catalonia. See below table for a listing of the species treated in this volume.

Chasing the Rose

An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside

Andrea Di Robilant and Nina Fuga

From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as ...

Collins Wild Flower Guide

David Streeter, Christina Hart-Davies, Felicity Cole and Lizzie Harper

Featuring all flowering plants, including trees and grasses, and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published.

Complements au Prodrome de la Flore Corse, Volume 15: Asteraceae IV

Jean-Marc Tison, Jan Stepanek, Jan Kirschner and Daniel Jeanmonod

The final volume in the series Compléments au Prodrome de la Flore Corse, which was started in 1910. The final volume deals with the three remaining and most difficult genera in the family Asteraceae: Hieracium ...

Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Wildflowers

Leonard Cronin

This is both a field guide for travellers and a reference book for the home library. It covers more than 590 wildflowers from all parts of the continent. Each species is beautifully illustrated and described in clear, concise language in ...

East African Plant Collectors

Diana Polhill and Roger M Polhill

East African Plant Collectors is a record of some 2,700 people who have collected herbarium specimens in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, designed as a supplement to the now complete ...

Ecologische Atlas van Paddenstoelen in Drenthe [Ecological Atlas of the Mushrooms of Drenthe] (3-Volume Set)

Eef Arnolds, Rob Chrispijn and Roeland Enzlin

This ecological atlas presents the results of an inventory of the fungal flora of the province of Drenthe in the North-eastern part of the Netherlands, collected in the years 1999-2010 by the Stichting Paddestoelen Werkgroep Drenthe.

Encyclopaedia of Mushrooms (2-Volume Set)

Yashwanth Kumar

A 2-volume set describing the mushrooms of India.

Field Guide to Manzanitas

California, North America, and Mexico

Michael Kauffmann, Tom Parker, Michael Vasey and Jeff Bisbee

Manzanitas are the "rock stars" of woody shrub diversity in California, with dozens of species growing in a wide range of habitats in the California Floristic Province. They also grow in 13 other western states and Baja California ...

Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia

Judith M Caton and Richard J Hardwick

A comprehensive outline of how temperate Australian native plants have been used for food, fibre, medicine and everyday convenience. This field guide includes illustrations and descriptions to help identify useful native plants.

Find That Flower

Colour Guide to the Wildflowers of the Cape to Cape Track and Australia's Southwest Corner

Jane Scott

The colour photographs in Find That Flower will help you to identify 304 species of plants, including major weeds, most of which grow throughout the southwest of Western Australia. These plants all occur along the Cape to Cape Town ...

Flora Valentina, Volume 1: Gymnospermae - Angiospermae (I) [Spanish]

G Mateo

A very complete work, to be published in five volumes. This is a compendium of what is known about the wild plants of Valencia, Spain. It provides comprehensive information on more than 3000 species, while acting as a tool to identify ...

Flora Valentina, Volume 1: Gymnospermae - Angiospermae (I) [Valencian]

G Mateo

A very complete work, to be published in five volumes. This is a compendium of what is known about the wild plants of Valencia, Spain. It provides comprehensive information on more than 3000 species, while acting as a tool to identify ...

Flora Valentina, Volume 2: Angiospermae (II) [Spanish]

G Mateo

A very complete work, to be published in five volumes. This is a compendium of what is known about the wild plants of Valencia, Spain. It provides comprehensive information on more than 3000 species, while acting as a tool to identify ...

Flora Valentina, Volume 2: Angiospermae (II) [Valencian]

G Mateo

A very complete work, to be published in five volumes. This is a compendium of what is known about the wild plants of Valencia, Spain. It provides comprehensive information on more than 3000 species, while acting as a tool to identify ...

Flora Valentina, Volume 3: (Angiospermae III) Convolvulaceae - Juglandaceae [Spanish]

A very complete work, to be published in five volumes. This is a compendium of what is known about the wild plants of Valencia, Spain. It provides comprehensive information on more than 3000 species, while acting as a tool to identify ...

Flora del Bajío y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 188

Familia Ephedraceae

Eleazar Carranza Gonzalez

Volume 188 treats the family Ephedraceae, which consists of 1 genus.

Flora of the Northern Caucasus: An Atlas and Identification Book [Russian]

SA Litvinskaya and RA Murtazaliev

This is the most detailed guide published to the flora of the Northern Caucasus and describes 1190 species of plants from 134 families. Some of the species are endemic, rare or endangered, others are at the basis of a variety of vegetation ...

Flowering Plants of Africa, Volume 64: Plates 2301-2320

Twenty full 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 Auriol Batten, one of South Africa's ...

Fundamentals of Molecular Mycology

Devarajan Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeetha and Muniswamy David

Fundamentals of Molecular Mycology provides a complete overview of recent developments and applications in molecular mycology. It serves as a comprehensive guide for the identification of fungi and the application of fungal ...

Gardening Through the Year in Australia

Your Month-by-Month Guide to What to Do When in the Garden

Ian M Spence

Good gardening depends on timing – when to plant and when to prune, when to feed and when to water, when to build and when to maintain. This authoritative and accessible reference book is your infallible guide to a full 12 months ...

Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World

History, Myth and Archaeology

Linda Farrar

A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up ...

Green Guide to Trees of Britain and Europe

John R Press and Colin Emberson

Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, Green Guide Trees offers a wealth of information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered tree species in Britain and Europe. Each tree is described in detail ...

Handbook on the Morphology of Common Grasses

Identification and Characterization of Caryopses and Seedlings

Dhara Gandhi, Susay Albert and Neeta R Pandya

The grass family is one of the largest and most diverse families in the plant kingdom and is of great economic value. Grasses provide human beings and domestic animals with the main necessities of life, add diversity to the landscape and ...

Ideenbuch Nuetzlingshotels: Fuer Igel, Voegel, Kaefer & Co. [Idea Book of Animal Houses: For Hedgehogs, Birds, Beetles

Markus Gastl

Even your garden can be a home for beneficial organisms that very diligently take care of biological control. You can attract the hard-working helpers by building an insect hotel or birdhouse. But there are many more beneficial insects ...

Junipers of the World

The Genus Juniperus

Robert P Adams

Junipers of the World contains a synthesis of data on evolution by examining: Geographic Variation: Pan-Arctic variation in Juniperus communis, etc. Speciation in sections of the genus: Species concepts, Speciation in ...

Le Monde Secret des Champignons [The Kingdom of Fungi]

Jens H Petersen and Denis Richard

The fungi realm has been called the "hidden kingdom", a mysterious world populated by microscopic spores, gigantic mushrooms and toadstools, and a host of other multicellular organisms ranging widely in color, size, and shape.

Leaf Defence

Edward E Farmer

Leaves are among the most abundant organs on earth and are a defining feature of most terrestrial ecosystems. However, a leaf is also a potential meal for a hungry animal and the question therefore arises, why does so much foliage survive ...

Making the Most of Indigenous Trees

Fanie Venter, Julye-Ann Venter and Pitta Joffe

Making the Most of Indigenous Trees is undoubtedly the most significant, useful and practical book ever to be published on this subject in South Africa. This third and revised edition contains 22 more tree species.

Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas

MR Uniyal

The Himalayas are the “treasure-house" or the natural wealth particularly of the medicinal herbs that are the basis of Ayurvedic studies. Gandhamadan, Drounagiri, Sumeru-parvat etc. are some of the famous peaks of the Central ...

Orchids of Margaret River

And Australia's Southwest Capes

Jane Scott

A wonderful introduction to 130 native orchids of the Margaret River and southwest capes region of Western Australia. Full of clear colour photographs, Orchids of Margaret River will aid in identifying orchids found not only in ...

Osiris: Bibliography on the Plants of Egypt and Related Subjects

Arminee Arakelyan, Ashkhen Zakharyan, Ingeborg Waanders and Christian de Vartavan

Since science was requested to assist Egyptology, the study of ancient Egyptian plants made a leap forward. Osiris: Bibliography on the Plants of Egypt and Related Subjects incorporates almost 2400 references on the subject, the ...

Oxford College Gardens

Tim Richardson and Andrew Lawson

The gardens of Oxford's thirty or so colleges are surprisingly varied in style, age and size, ranging from the ancient mound in the middle of New College to the fine modernist design which is St Catherine's. The eighteenth-century ...

Plant Ecology in the Middle East

Ahmad Hegazy

This advanced textbook is about Middle Eastern plants and plant ecology, presented within the wider context of the changing landscape, global climate change, and human history (particularly in relation to agriculture, conflict, and religion ...

Plant Resources of Nagaland

An Illustrated Guide to Various Indigenous Plants and Their Uses

Nagaland Bio Resource Mission

Plant Resources of Nagaland is a picturesque illustration of plants with photographs that enhance the details of the plant and neatly summarize all relevant information. The book highlights the beauty and treasures ...

Plant Variation and Evolution

David Briggs and Stuart Max Walters

We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also offering ...

Pollinator Friendly Gardening

Gardening for Bees, Butterflies, and Other Pollinators

Rhonda Fleming Hayes

Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If you are a beekeeper, are you looking for the ideal plants to keep your colony ...

Pteridophytes of Tripura

NC Das

The author has made an extensive collection of pteridophytes of the entire Indian state of Tripura over the years and has here prepared an up-to-date, comprehensive and illustrated account of the rnorphology and anatomy of these plants ...

Public Garden Management: A Global Perspective (2-Volume Set)

Bijan Dehgan

Public Garden Management: A Global Perspective provides essential information about public gardens and what is involved in designing, managing, and maintaining one. Although suitable as a textbook, its audience will include anyone ...

Reproductive Diversity of Plants

An Evolutionary Perspective and Genetic Basis

Marines Marli Gniech Karasawa

The first part of the Reproductive Diversity of Plants presents the evolution of plants starting from photosynthetic cells to topics like Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, including the evolution of the breeding system. Geological and ...

Rhythms in Plants

Dynamic Responses in a Dynamic Environment

Stefano Mancuso and Sergey Shabala

This second edition of a well-received book focuses on rhythmic behaviour in plants, which regulates all developmental and adaptive responses and can thus be regarded as quintessential to life itself. The chapters provide a timely update ...

Sandmaskrosor i Sverige och Danmark [Dandelions in Sweden and Denmark]

Goran Wendt and Hans Ollgaard

In Sweden and Denmark there are 50 different dandelions and two dwarf dandelions. Unlike ordinary dandelions, these usually grow in natural settings, and many are good indicators species of the level of nature protection. Eleven of them ...

Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic

Arthur C Mathieson and Clinton J Dawes

In Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic, Arthur C. Mathieson and Clinton J. Dawes offer a complete and current treatment of the seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic, including taxonomic descriptions, keys, and 108 plates of detailed ...

Seeing Seeds

A Journey Into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit

Robert Llewellyn and Teri Dunn Chace

There is more to a seed than the plant it will someday become: seeds, seedheads, and pods have their own dazzling beauty that sometimes even surpasses that of flowers. Bitter melon seeds resemble a handful of rubies. And butterfly vine ...

Shades of Green

An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce

Ruth Tittensor

Shades of Green takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of north-west Europe. Sitka spruce has ...

Spices, Plantation Crops, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

A Handbook

SK Tyagi

This book is a single hand source book which deals with all aspects and facts of spices, plantation crops, medicinal and aromatic plants which may meet the requirements of all those who are pursuing their interest in any fields related ...

Syllabus of Plant Families, Volume 4: Pinopsida (Gymnosperms), Magnoliopsida (Angiosperms) p.p.

Subclass Magnoliidae [Amborellanae to Magnolianae, Lilianae p.p. (Acorales to Asparagales)], Orchidaceae

Eberhard Fischer, Wolfgang Frey and Inge Theisen

Part 4 of Engler’s Syllabus of Plant Families – Pinopsida (Gymnosperms) and Magnoliopsida (Angiosperms) p.p.: Subclass Magnoliidae [Amborellanae to Magnolianae, Lilianae p.p. (Acorales to Asparagales)] provides a ...

The Ash Tree

Oliver Rackham

Ash is one of the commonest trees in the British Isles – there are nearly as many ash trees as there are people. Perhaps this is why we take them for granted. Poets write of oak, yew, elm, willow, rarely ash. No books have been written ...

The Book of Pears

The Definitive History and Guide to Over 500 Varieties

Joan Morgan

This wonderfully unique The Book of Pears is an indispensable and one-of-a-kind guide. It tells the story of the pear from its delightful taste and wonderful appearance to breeding and cultivation, following the fruit's journey ...

The Company of Trees

A Year in a Lifetime's Quest

Thomas Pakenham

Thomas Pakenham, indefatigable champion of trees, narrates a story of exploration and discovery, and of life-cycles that are longer than our own. Lavishly illustrated, The Company of Trees recounts his personal quest to establish ...

The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners

Michael Allaby

This must-have reference will help you navigate the complex world of science. It defines more than 6000 words from 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, from abscission (a plant's rejection of an organ) ...

The Flower and the Bee

Plant Life and Pollination

John H Lovell

The Flower and the Bee: Plant Life and Pollination presents the function of bees, beetles, flies and the wind in the pollination of flowers, which have evolved in accordance with their ability to attract and secure the largest ...

The Gymnosperms Handbook

A Practical Guide to Extant Families and Genera of the World

James W Byng

This plant book aims to help identify all extant gymnosperm plants to genus and family level anywhere in the world. The Gymnosperms Handbook is a practical teaching and identification guide, as well as, a useful reference work ...

The Indestructible Houseplant

200 Beautiful Plants That Everyone Can Grow

Tovah Martin and Kindra Clineff

We all need nature in our lives, yet most of our time is spent indoors. So we bring nature in by adding houseplants – but how do we choose the right ones? How do we keep them alive? By making the right choices from the beginning.

The Magical World of Fungi

Patricia Negus, Richard Robinson and Jane Scott

In this unique publication accomplished artist, Patricia Negus, illustates the common fungi of Australia’s southwest in stunning watercolours. Take a journey with Patricia into this little known biological kingdom and share in her ...

The Mosses and Liverworts of Mid-West Wales

Jeffrey W Bates and Michael CF Proctor

An eminently readable description of the rich flora of mosses and liverworts found growing within a large part of West Wales accessible from Aberystwyth. Detailed accounts of the habitats of 643 species and varieties are included together ...

Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke

Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine

Marcello Pennacchio, Lara Jefferson, Kayri Havens-Young and David Sollenberger

Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke ...

Venerable Trees

History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass

Tom Kimmerer

When the first settlers arrived in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, they found an astonishing landscape of open woodland grazed by vast herds of bison. Farmers quickly replaced the bison with cattle, sheep, and horses, but left many of ...

Aquatic Animal Health Code 2015

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The aim of the Aquatic Code is to contribute to improving the health and welfare of aquatic animals (amphibians, crustaceans, fish and molluscs) worldwide and to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in aquatic animals and the ...

Aquatic Animal Health Code 2015 [French]

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The aim of the Aquatic Code is to contribute to improving the health and welfare of aquatic animals (amphibians, crustaceans, fish and molluscs) worldwide and to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in aquatic animals and the ...

Aquatic Animal Health Code 2015 [Spanish]

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The aim of the Aquatic Code is to contribute to improving the health and welfare of aquatic animals (amphibians, crustaceans, fish and molluscs) worldwide and to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in aquatic animals and the ...

Bacteria in Agrobiology: Disease Management

Dinesh K Maheshwari

The future of agriculture greatly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. The application of microorganisms, such as the diverse bacterial species of plant growth promoting bacterial ...

Cheats and Deceits

How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead

Martin Stevens

In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive potential mates for ...

From Molecules to Living Organisms

An Interplay Between Biology and Physics

Eva Pebay-Peyroula, Hugues Nury, Francois Parcy, Rob WH Ruigrok, Christine Ziegler and Cugliandol

From Molecules to Living Organisms gathers lecture notes of courses given at the 2014 summer school on integrated biology in Les Houches, France, Session CII. It addresses an emerging field ranging from molecules to cells and to ...

Herding Hemingway's Cats

Understanding How Genes Work

Kat Arney

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's.

Life's Greatest Secret

The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code

Matthew Cobb

Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world.

Managing Bee Health

A Practical Guide for Beekeepers

John Carr

The crucial role that bees play in the Earth's ecosystem is well known. Over the last decades a dramatic decrease in bee health has been seen on a global scale. This deterioration is seen on a global scale in both domestic and wild bees ...

Plant Transposable Elements

Impact on Genome Structure and Function

Marie-Angele Grandbastien and Josep M Casacuberta

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

Rendering Life Molecular

Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter

Natasha Myers

What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities ...

Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Steffen Harzsch and Guenter Purschke

The nervous system is particularly fascinating for many biologists because it controls animal characteristics such as movement, behavior, and coordinated thinking. Invertebrate neurobiology has traditionally been studied in specific ...

Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People

Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope

L Michael Romero and John C Wingfield

Most physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response come from laboratory experiments using domesticated animals. This book summarizes work to understand stress in natural contexts.

Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2015 (2-Volume Set)

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The value of the Terrestrial Code is twofold: firstly, the sanitary measures recommended are the result of consensus among the Veterinary Authorities of OIE Members, and secondly, it constitutes a reference for terrestrial animals within ...

Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2015 (2-Volume Set) [French]

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The value of the Terrestrial Code is twofold: firstly, the sanitary measures recommended are the result of consensus among the Veterinary Authorities of OIE Members, and secondly, it constitutes a reference for terrestrial animals within ...

Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2015 (2-Volume Set) [Russian]

The value of the Terrestrial Code is twofold: firstly, the sanitary measures recommended are the result of consensus among the Veterinary Authorities of OIE Members, and secondly, it constitutes a reference for terrestrial animals within ...

Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2015 (2-Volume Set) [Spanish]

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

The value of the Terrestrial Code is twofold: firstly, the sanitary measures recommended are the result of consensus among the Veterinary Authorities of OIE Members, and secondly, it constitutes a reference for terrestrial animals within ...

The Evolution of Dialogue: From Microorganisms to Man [Russian]

EN Panov

This book, aimed at the professional ethologist, charts the rise of efficiency of signaling systems in organic evolution – in parallel with the formation of new material preconditions for this, such as the establishment in certain ...

The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual

A Student's Guide to Techniques

James W Zubrick

Written for the laboratory that accompanies the sophomore/junior level courses in Organic Chemistry, Zubrick provides students with a valuable guide to the basic techniques of the Organic Chemistry lab.

The Paradox of Continuity - The Language Rubicon: On the Unbridgeable Gulf between the Signal Systems of Animals and H

EN Panov

This book presents the author's views on the relationship between animal communication and human language, based on his 45 years of experience studying the signaling behavior of insects, reptiles and birds. The proposed system looks ...

The Primary Auditory Neurons of the Mammalian Cochlea

Alain Dabdoub, Bernd Fritzsch, Arthur N Popper and Richard R Fay

The Primary Auditory Neurons of the Mammalian Cochlea details the essential role of the spiral ganglion neurons, elucidates and characterizes their development, their environment, their electrophysiological characteristics, their ...

Zoonotic Viruses of Northern Eurasia

Taxonomy and Ecology

Dimitry Lvov, Mikhail Shchelkanov, Sergey Alkhovsky and Petr Deryabin

Zoonotic Viruses of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomy and Ecology provides a review of modern data of the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of zoonotic viruses in the ecosystems of Northern Eurasia. With climate changes, increasing ...

Closing Human Evolution

Life in the Ultimate Age

Ladislav Kovac

Closing Human Evolution analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts. It offers a novel perspective on the evolution of life on Earth, based on a recent reformulation of the second law of ...

Curvology: The Origins & Power of Female Body Shape

David Bainbridge

In Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape, Cambridge Veterinary Anatomist David Bainbridge applies the science of evolutionary biology to women's bodies, to explain why the human female is the only female animal ...

Death on Earth

Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Jules Howard

As you read these words Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business; eating, reproducing, thriving … Yet the life of almost every single entity draws nearer and nearer to certain death.

Homo - Expanding Worlds: Originale Urmenschen-Funde aus Fuenf Weltregionen [Original Finds of Prehistoric Humans from

Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Gert Scobel and Henning Mankell

Where does man come from? How and where did its first ancestors develop and how did they spread across the entire globe? The authors of this richly illustrated book take the reader on an adventurous journey in our own past and to the beginning ...

Language Evolution

The Windows Approach

Rudolf Botha

How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of ...

Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders)

Vincent H Stefan and George W Gill

Disseminating what is currently known about the skeletal biology of the ancient Rapanui and placing it within the wider context of Polynesian skeletal variation, Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders) is the ...

Sketches of Nature

A Geneticist's Look at the Biological World During a Golden Era of Molecular Evolution

John C Avise

This visually appealing book recounts the history of molecular ecology and evolution as seen through the personal lens of one of its most prolific practitioners, who has studied a panorama of creatures ranging from corals, sponges, and ...

The Origin of Higher Taxa

Palaeobiological, Developmental, and Ecological Perspectives

Tom Kemp

The Origin of Higher Taxa discusses whether the origin of radically new kinds of organisms – new higher taxa – are the result of normal Darwinian evolution proceeding, or whether unusual genetic processes and/or ...

The Vital Question

Why is Life the Way it is?

Nick Lane

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth – and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets ...

Wild Harvest

Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds

Karen Hardy and Lucy Kubiak Martens

Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be ...

Beyond the War on Invasive Species

A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration

Tao Orion and David Holmgren

Invasive species are everywhere, from forests and prairies to mountaintops and river mouths. Their rampant nature and sheer numbers appear to overtake fragile native species and forever change the ecosystems that they depend on.

Ecological Methods

Peter A Henderson and TRE Southwood

The first edition of Ecological Methods was published in 1966 and became an instant classic text. The third edition was published in 2000 authored by Professors Southwood and Henderson. The availability of computer ...

Ecological Systems

Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology

Rik Leemans

Earth is home to an estimated 8 million animal species, 600,000 fungi, 300,000 plants, and an undetermined number of microbial species. Of these animal, fungal, and plant species, an estimated 75 percent have yet to be identified.

Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

Pattern and Process

Monica G Turner and Robert H Gardner

Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial ...

Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems

Peter Petraitis

One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these systems, known as multiple stable states, is well understood ...

The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires

Nature's Phoenix

Dominick A DellaSala and Chad T Hanson

The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems ...

The New Wild

Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation

Fred Pearce

Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmental ...

Thinking about Nature

An Investigation of Nature, Value and Ecology

Andrew Brennan

Ecology – unlike astronomy, physics, or chemistry – is a science with an associated political and ethical movement: the Green Movement. As a result, the ecological position is often accompanied by appeals to holism, and by ...

City in a Park

A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System

Lynn Miller and James McClelland

Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling about 11,000 acres, and is one of the largest landscaped urban park systems in the ...

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 4

Peat - Geology, Combustion, and Case Studies

Glenn B Stracher, Anupma Prakash and Guillermo Rein

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volumes 1-4, presents a fascinating collection of research about prehistoric and historic coal and peat fires. Magnificent illustrations of fires and research findings from countries ...

Dirt - A Love Story

36 Writers Get Down to Earth

Barbara Richardson and Pam Houston

Community farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt. This anthology celebrates the Earth's generous crust, bringing together essays by award-winning scientists, authors, artists ...

Ecology of Soil Decomposition

Sina M Adl

Key topics addressed include spatial stratification, succession patterns over time and biogeochemistry. Featuring new material on soil remediation, the emphasis is placed on the role of species in functional groups.

Federal Ecosystem Management

Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife

James R Skillen

For the better part of the last century, "preservation" and "multi-use conservation" were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs ...

For the Love of Rivers

A Scientist's Journey

Kurt D Fausch

Rivers and streams supply our water and capture our imaginations. We seek the more pristine ones to fish or paddle, to hike along or simply sit and watch. But what is it we are seeing? What is essential about streams and rivers for us as ...

Fynbos: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Megadiverse Region

Nicky Allsopp, Jonathan F Colville and G Anthony Verboom

South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries. It has achieved iconic status as a locus of megadiversity and therefore a place to study the ecological underpinnings of massive evolutionary radiations.

Lakes and Wetlands of Kashmir Himalaya

Ecology, Conservation and Management

DP Zutshi and AR Yousuf

Lakes and Wetlands of Kashmir Himalaya is the first comprehensive compilation and analysis of limnological data collected by various research scholars over a period of more than five decades. It provides scientific information ...

Land Resource Atlas: Vidarbha Region, Maharashtra

C Mandal, Dipak Sarkar, DK Mandal and SN Goswami

This atlas to the Vidarbha region, India, covers eleven districts. At the end of the atlas important soil series databases of each district have been included.

Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services

Science, Policy and Practice

Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Martin Evans, Hans Joosten, Rob Stoneman and Julia Marton-Lefevre

Peatlands provide globally important ecosystem services through climate and water regulation or biodiversity conservation. While covering only 3% of the earth's surface, degrading peatlands are responsible for nearly a quarter of ...

Reconstructing Vegetation Diversity in Coastal Landscapes

Mans Schepers

This dissertation delves into the reconstruction of past vegetation at the most detailed level. It is not the objective to focus solely on the developments in vegetation over time, but to create an image of the landscape that must have ...

Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests

John C Tappeiner II, John D Bailey, Timothy Brian Harrington and Douglas Alan Maguire

Silviculture, once regarded solely as reforestation and growing trees for timber, is understood today as also maintaining forest health, reducing fire potential, benefitting wildlife and aesthetics, and ensuring multiple options for the ...

Stressors in the Marine Environment

Physiological and Ecological Responses - Societal Implications

Martin Solan and Nia Whiteley

This summarises the latest advances in the physiological and ecological responses of marine species to a wide range of potential stressors resulting from current anthropogenic activity, and provides a perspective on future outcomes for ...

Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions

Southeastern Europe

Georgi Zhelezov

This second edition of the book Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions: Southeastern Europe integrates the scientific results and expertise of the researchers from the countries in Southeastern Europe. The book consists of ...

The New Normal

The Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate

David Sauchyn, Harry Diaz and Suren N Kulshreshtha

A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of climate change in the Prairie provinces, along with strategies for adapting to the "new normal." The present climate crisis shows no sign of abatement. On the contrary, it is becoming ...

The Soils of Ecuador

Jose Espinosa, Gustavo Bernal, Julio Moreno and Christian Prat

This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils. Richly illustrated, it provides information on the unique characteristics and distribution of these soils. Due to the influence of the Andes, which vastly modified the ...

The Soils of Spain

Juan F Gallardo

The Soils of Spain provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the soils of Spain gathered by a variety of experts in the field. It presents soils in the region as particularly conditioned by the naturally diverse and ...

Wetlands of West Bengal

Nitai Kundu, Sushma Panigrahy, Mausumi Pal and Anjana Saha

The book is a detailed account of wetland ecosystems in West Bengal. The inventoryof wetlands has been prepared using high resolution satellite data. Wetlands of West Bengal also gives information about the biodiversity associated ...

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics

Preserving Our Evolutionary Heritage in an Extinction Crisis

Roseli Pellens and Philippe Grandcolas

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics is about phylogenetic diversity as an approach to reduce biodiversity losses in this period of mass extinction. Chapters in the first section deal with questions such as the ...

Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean

Bruno David and Thomas Saucede

The Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent is vast, in particular, its history, its isolation, and climate, making it a unique "laboratory case" for experimental evolution, adaptation and ecology. Its evolutionary ...

Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainability in the Americas

Impacts and Adaptations

Francisco Dallmeier, Adam Fenech, Don Maciver and Robert Szaro

Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainability in the Americas compiles the latest research on the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the Americas and the sustainability efforts being made to preserve the ecological ...

Conservation Directory 2015

The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations

III,Arlander C Brown and Lindsey Breuer

The authority on natural resource use and management agencies around the world. Do you want to take action to protect Earth's environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups?

Conservation Directory 2016

The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations

Lindsey Breuer

Do you want to take action to protect Earth's environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2016 is a great resource for budding environment ...

Half-Earth

Our Planet's Fight for Life

Edward Osborne Wilson

History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species ...

Issues and Trends of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India

Lalnuntluanga, John Zothanzama, Lalramliana, Lalduhthlana and HT Lalremsanga

From the preface: "India is rich in wildlife with its exclusive, fascinating and diverse ecosystem. It is among the twelve mega biodiversity countries of the world. The country’s wildlife is extended over the evergreen ...

Problematic Wildlife

A Cross-Disciplinary Approach

Francesco M Angelici

A total of 25 papers have been selected for Problematic Wildlife, of which the majority have been written by zoologists, biologists and/or ecologists. One paper was written by an economist, 3 have an interdisciplinary approach ...

Proceedings of the National Seminar on Traditional Knowledge and Social Practices Promoting Biodiversity Conservation, h

Kolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, Ambarish Mukherjee and Amal Chatterjee

From the preface: "Oriental society and civilization is few thousand years old; naturally, the society particularly through the services of its talented persons like sages, vaidyas (ancient doctors) and philosophers ...

Resurrection Science

Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things

Maura R O'Connor

In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores the extreme measures scientists are taking ...

Treetops at Risk

Challenges of Global Canopy Ecology and Conservation

Margaret D Lowman, Soubadra Devy and T Ganesh

Forest canopies not only support high terrestrial biodiversity but also represent a critical interface between the atmosphere and the earth. They provide goods and services to support diverse human communities and offer opportunities to ...

Wildlife and Wind Farms - Conflicts and Solutions, Volume 2: Offshore

Martin Perrow

Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of ...

25 Myths That are Destroying the Environment

What Many Environmentalists Believe and Why They are Wrong

Daniel B Botkin

This is a book about ecology, environment, nature, and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It is easy-to-read, fun, and doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes ...

Aquatic Ecotoxicology

Advancing Tools for Dealing with Emerging Risks

Claude Amiard-Triquet, Jean-Claude Amiard and Catherine Mouneyrac

Aquatic Ecotoxicology: Advancing Tools for Dealing with Emerging Risks presents a thorough look at recent advances in aquatic ecotoxicology and their application in assessing the risk of well-known and emerging environmental ...

Atmosphere of Hope

Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Timothy Flannery

How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? Or will we be plunged into the dystopian collapses and terrors of civilisations past?

Climatic Changes Since 1700

Stefan Broennimann

In 1890, Eduard Brückner, a leading climate scientist in his time, published a book entitled Klima-Schwankungen seit 1700 (Climatic changes since 1700). In this landmark publication, Brückner studied past climate based ...

Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

Yonggang Liu, Heather Kerkering and Robert Weisberg

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and technological knowledge in coastal ocean observing systems, along with guidance on establishing, restructuring, and improving similar systems. Coastal Ocean Observing Systems is ...

Icebergs: Their Science and Links to Global Change

Grant R Bigg

Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of calving and melting to the geology of their solid deposits and sea floor interactions.

La Nature a l'Epreuve de l'Homme

Valerie Chansigaud

Not a day goes by without us being made aware of pollution, the emergence of a new disease or a health risk: there are fears for one's health when eating, when drinking, and even when breathing. This book is not a history ...

Oceanography of the East Sea (Japan Sea)

Kyung-Il Chang, Chang-Ik Zhang, Chul Park, Dong-Jin Kang, Se-Jong Ju, Sang-Hoon Lee and Mar Wimbush

Oceanography of the East Sea (Japan Sea) reviews the research in various fields of oceanography on the responses of the East Japan Sea to climate change. The uniqueness of the East Japan Sea comes from the rapid and amplified ...

Personal Care Products in the Aquatic Environment

M Silvia Díaz-Cruz and Damia Barcelo

Personal Care Products in the Aquatic Environment offers an overview of the occurrence and distribution of personal care products in continental and marine waters, presents analytical methods and degradation technologies and ...

Pesticides, a Love Story

America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals

Michelle Mart

"Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer". Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn't love synthetic pesticides ...

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change

Joshua D Sarnoff

This innovative research tool presents insights from a global group of leading intellectual property, environment, trade, and industrial scholars on the emerging and controversial topic of intellectual property and climate change.

The End of Doom

Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

Ronald Bailey

In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct.

The High North

Between Geography and Politics

Ryszard M Czarny

The High North: Between Geography and Politics deals with the transformation of the Arctic from an isolated or a distant region to a member of the global community, vulnerable to global changes, and an area frequently in the ...

The Long Thaw

How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate

David Archer

If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hold out (or until we decide to stop burning them), think again.

What Stands in a Storm

Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

Kim Cross and Rick Bragg

April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states in three days, seven hours, and eighteen minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history ...

13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything

John Gribbin

The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behaviour of very large things; quantum theory the behaviour of very small things. In this landmark book, John Gribbin ....

2016 Guide to the Night Sky

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

Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion

A comprehensive month-by-month handbook to the stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere in 2016. This practical guidebook is both an easy introduction to astronomy and a useful reference for seasoned stargazers.

3D, 4D and Predictive Modelling of Major Mineral Belts in Europe

Par Weihed

3D, 4D and Predictive Modelling of Major Mineral Belts in Europe presents the results of the major EU project Promine. For the first time there is now a European database available on mineral deposits, as well as 3D, 4D and ...

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

Scientific Habits of Mind

David J Helfand

We all swim in a sea of Big Data, dangerously vulnerable to the unscientific thinking that now replaces the critical faculties we used to rely on. We seek simple explanations where complexity is required. But as we endeavor to solve global ...

Adventures in Human Being

Gavin Francis

We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on ...

An Introduction to Modern Cosmology

Andrew Liddle

An Introduction to Modern Cosmology Third Edition is an accessible account of modern cosmological ideas. The Big Bang Cosmology is explored, looking at its observational successes in explaining the expansion of the Universe, the ...

Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction

James Binney

Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole.

Brains Explains Quantum Physics

Ben Still

Quantum physics plays a big part in International Rescue's work helping people in distress all across the planet. It plays a big part in your life too...without it we would not have the silicon chip, the laser, computers, or mobile ...

Chemical, Physical and Temporal Evolution of Magmatic Systems

L Caricchi and JD Blundy

Chemical, Physical and Temporal Evolution of Magmatic Systems presents a collection of scientific contributions focusing on the temporal evolution of magmatic and volcanic systems using fieldwork, geochemistry, experimental petrology ...

Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction

A Mike Glazer

Crystals have fascinated us for centuries with their beauty and symmetry, and have often been invested with magical powers. The use of X-ray diffraction, first pioneered in 1912 by father and son William and Lawrence Bragg, enabled us to ...

Die Geologie Europas [The Making of Europe: A Geological History]

Graham Park and Heiner Flick

The continent of Europe, as a recognisable geographic entity, attained roughly its present shape around 20 million years ago. Even since then, the European coastline has undergone significant changes, due mainly to sea-level movements.

Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction

Tim Lenton

When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely ...

Essentials of Geology

Stephen Marshak

Essentials of Geology, Fifth Edition, integrates Marshak's popular and proven text approach with exciting new media and assessment resources that guide students to a clearer understanding of the course material. Marshak has ...

Forces of Nature

Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

"Why is the sky blue?" "Why is the Earth round?" "Why is every snowflake unique?" To answer these and many other questions, Professor Brian Cox will reveal some of the most extraordinary ...

Heliophysics, Volume 4: Active Stars, Their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments

Carolus J Schrijver, Frances Bagenal and Jan J Sojka

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets.

Philip's Month-by-Month Stargazing 2016

The Guide to the Northern Night Sky

Heather Couper, Nigel Henbest and Wil Tirion

Philip's Month-by-Month Stargazing 2016 is a concise guide to the northern-hemisphere night sky, helping starwatchers to see the year's most fascinating events, whether observing with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope ...

Properties and Processes of Crustal Fault Zones, Volume 2

Yehuda Ben-Zion and Antonio Rovelli

Recent theoretical developments, acquisitions of large seismic and other data sets, detailed geological studies and novel laboratory experiments offer new opportunities for advancing the understanding of fault zone and earthquake processes ...

Speleological and Speleogenetic Aspects of the Monti di Capo San Vito (Sicily)

Influence of Morphotectonic Evolution

Rosario Ruggieri

This thesis includes a wealth of cave maps, as well as photos of the caves and karst morphologies. At the heart of the thesis is the important discovery of a flank margin cave with speleothem hiatuses and fossil invertebrate associations ...

Stargazers' Almanac 2016

A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets

Bob Mizon

Explore the night skies with this beautiful illustrated monthly guide to the stars and planets. This large-format almanac allows you to step outside and track the planets, locate the Milky Way, recognise the constellations of the zodiac ...

Stratotype Cenomanien [French]

Nicolas Morel and Patrick De Wever

The poor and sandy soils of the French Le Mans region have enabled the development of heaths, which are nowdays overgrown with resinous trees. Brooms, plants belonging to the tribe Genisteae, a tribe of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and ...

Tectonics of the Himalaya

S Mukherjee, R Carosi, PA van der Beek, BK Mukherjee and DM Robinson

The Himalayan mountain belt, which developed during the India–Asia collision starting about 55 Ma ago, is a dramatically active orogen and it is regarded as the classic collisional orogen. It is characterized by an impressively ...

The Geology of Washington and Beyond

From Laurentia to Cascadia

Eric Swenson Cheney

The 21 chapters of The Geology of Washington and Beyond – an outgrowth of a geologic symposium – present the substantial advances in recent research on the geologic history of Washington State. The 34 contributors ...

The Great Canoe in the Sky

Starlore and Astronomy of the South Pacific

Stephen Chadwick and Martin Paviour-Smith

Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, The Great Canoe in the Sky explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and ...

The International Atlas of Mars Exploration (2-Volume Set)

Philip J Stooke, Matt Golombek and Andrew Chaikin

An essential reference source on Mars exploration from space, blending scientific and historical data with detailed and unique illustrations. This two-volume set charts the chronological history of Mars exploration through missions from ...

The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope

An Optical Guide

Bernhard Pracejus

The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope: An Optical Guide, Second Edition, is a very detailed color atlas for ore/opaque minerals (ore microscopy), with a main emphasis on name and synonyms, short descriptions, mineral groups ...

The Physics Devotional

Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Physics

Clifford A Pickover

From Clifford Pickover - the ingenious author of the phenomenally successful The Math Book and The Physics Book - comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty and wisdom of physics. This gorgeous compendium features ...

The Science of Wine

From Vine to Glass

Jamie Goode

A thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of this essential and groundbreaking reference gives a comprehensive overview of one of the most fascinating, important, and controversial trends in the world of wine: the scientific and ...

The Serengeti Rules

The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters

Sean B Carroll

How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream?

Worlds Beyond Our Own

The Search for Habitable Planets

Sujan Sengupta

This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system – exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ?

Gilles Clement, Sandra Morris and Gilles A Tiberghien

Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the Musée du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener.

A River Runs Again

India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

Meera Subramanian

Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future ...

Against the Grain

Fourteen Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

Bill Hampel

Can we humans simply ignore the fires, the floods, and the increase in deaths brought about by climate change? In Against the Grain, Australian farmers – who bear the brunt of climate change, yet accept the science ...

Apology to a Whale

Words to Mend a World

Cecile Pineda

Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecological thinking, Apology to a Whale addresses what the intersection of relative ...

Ask the Beasts

Darwin and the God of Love

Elizabeth A Johnson

For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine ...

Border Walls Gone Green

Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America

John Hultgren

How is it that self-identified environmental progressives in America can oppose liberalizing immigration policies? Environmentalism is generally assumed to be a commitment of the political left and restrictionism a commitment of the ...

Critical Animal Studies

Thinking the Unthinkable

John Sorenson

Engaging and passionate, this contemporary work provokes new ways of thinking about animal-human interaction. A cutting-edge volume of original essays, Critical Animal Studies examines our exploitation and commodification of ...

Emergent Ecologies

Eben Kirksey

In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and ...

Environmental Management

Ajith Sankar RN

Environmental Management is specially designed as a textbook for all postgraduate management students. The book will be equally useful for students specializing in environmental management, business and sustainability, and energy ...

Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World

Yuson Jung, Jakob A Klein and Melissa L Caldwell

Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements – concepts such as "local", "organic", and "fair trade" – tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist ...

From the Mouths of Dogs

What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human

BJ Hollars

What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of "man's best friend"? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn ...

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection

Incentives and Safeguards

Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E Vinuales

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection.

Islands' Spirit Rising

Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii

Louise Takeda

Haida Gwaii, homeland of the Haida Nation, contains some of the richest natural, cultural, and political landscapes in the world. This isolated archipelago is host to some of the last remaining tracts of intact coastal temperate rainforest ...

Loving Nature, Fearing the State

Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan

Brian Allen Drake and William Cronon

A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American ...

Nature as Sacred Ground

A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism

Donald A Crosby

Nature as Sacred Ground explores a metaphysics for religious naturalism. Donald A. Crosby discusses major aspects of reality implicit in his ongoing explication of Religion of Nature, a religious outlook that holds the natural ...

Of Limits and Growth

The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century

Stephen J Macekura

Of Limits and Growth connects three of the most important aspects of the twentieth century: decolonization, the rise of environmentalism, and the United States' support for economic development and modernization in the Third ...

Our Chemical Selves

Gender, Toxics and Environmental Health

Dayna N Scott

Every day, chemicals trespass into our bodies from water, air, food, and the consumer products present in our homes and workplaces. As public trust in regulatory regimes wanes, evidence of the long-term health risks associated with exposure ...

Plant Theory

Biopower and Vegetable Life

Jeffrey T Nealon

In our age of ecological disaster, Plant Theory joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about ...

Resilience, Adaptation, Sustainability

What Do We Now Mean by 'Future Progress'?

Robert Riddell

Around 1970 the planet and our occupation of it was pretty much a situation of balance; the biospheric absorptive and recycling capacity coping with resource uptake and waste discard. Since then a doubled human mass and carbon gas ...

Return to Nature?

An Ecological Counterhistory

Fred Dallmayr

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory ...

Stolen Harvest

The Highjacking of the Global Food Supply

Vandana Shiva

For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an ....