Baleines et Dauphins: Histoire Naturelle et Guide des Especes [Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: A Natural History

Annalisa Berta

The 90 species of the order Cetacea are some of the most diverse, intelligent, and elusive animals on the planet. Highly migratory, they live beneath remote skies thousands of miles away from land. The huge distances they cover and the ...

Bats of Colima, Mexico

Cornelio Sanchez-Hernandez, Maria De Lourdes Romero-Almaraz, Gary D Schnell and Michael Kennedy

The tiny state of Colima on Mexico\s Pacific coast is one of the three most biodiverse hot spots in the world. Straddling temperate and tropical zones, with rugged topography ranging from a volcanic mountaintop to sandy beaches, the state ...

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 ...

Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Interface

Kerry M Dore, Erin P Riley and Agustin Fuentes

Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to ...

Guide des Chevaux d'Europe [Guide to the Horses of Europe]

Elise Rousseau and Yann Le Bris

This comprehensive guide presents all European horse breeds, from the most famous and the rarest and least well known, to those who come from other parts of the globe, but are frequently bred in Europe. For each breed the book provides ...

High Altitude Primates

Nanda B Grow, Sharon Gursky-Doyen and Ali Krzton

The basic goal of High Altitude Primates is to compile the most up to date research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially in comparison to lowland population ...

Horse/Human

An Emotional Bond

Bob Tabor and Katharine Merlin

Soulful, enigmatic, graceful, beautiful – so many words come to mind when describing a horse, but no word can capture the true essence of a horse quite like an exquisite photograph. Acclaimed photographer Bob Tabor has ...

Horses: Portraits by Derry Moore

Derry Moore, Sir Richard Stagg, Ian Balding, Sir Humphrey Wakefield and Countess of Euston Clare

Derry Moore's photographs celebrate the extraordinary beauty in the trappings and traditions of the equestrian world. Offering a privileged glimpse into the lives of jockeys and cavalrymen, Spanish riding schools, and Midwestern rodeo ...

Le Chevreuil [Roe Deer]

Philippe Carruette, Pascal Etienne and Marc Mailler

This book introduces the reader to the secret life of the roe deer, a familiar yet mysterious little deer. Its history, morphology, behaviour, relationship to man and imagination are explained in detail and illustrated with 160 colour ...

Le Sanglier [The Boar]

Pascal Etienne

Also known as the "black beast", the boar does not fail to impress with its secretive behaviour, its broad shoulders and large tusks. Although rarely seen, it lingers in the minds of the walker who walks the vast forests, as the ...

Les Vaches Ont une Histoire: Naissance des Races Bovines [Cows have a History: The Birth of Bovine Breeds]

Bernard Denis and ëmile Baudement

Animal breeds have not existed since the dawn of time. They have been shaped by man, often in little time. Until the early twentieth century, peasants did not care to select their cattle, provided that they survived. It is from that time ...

Pocket Photo Guide to the Mammals of South-East Asia

Charles M Francis

This compact, easy-to-use identification guide describes 192 species of mammals found in South-east Asia, covering each major genus. The book features thumbnail silhouettes, a regional distribution map, and up-to-date tips on the best wildlife ...

The Longhorns

J Frank Dobie and Tom Leo

The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds.

The Way of the Hare

Marianne Taylor

The Brown Hare is an animal we all know but rather rarely see, even though it is quite common, active by day and lives in the wide open spaces of classic lowland countryside. It can make itself almost invisible, lying still in its form ...

Australian Bird Guide

Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers and Rohan Clarke

This is the ultimate field guide to Australian birds, modelled on the hugely successful Collins Bird Guide for European Birds. There are around 3-4 species per plate, with the very finest specially commissioned illustrations and detailed text ...

Birds of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Chandrakasan Sivaperuman, G Gokulakrishnan, J Dinesh and PT Rajan

Two hundred and eighty four species of birds were recorded from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, belonging 56 families under 17 orders. Of these, 155 species were residents, 58 were local migrants, 64 were trans-continental migrants, 6 were ...

Birds of the Pacific Northwest

John Shewey and Tim Blount

Birds of the Pacific Northwest describes and illustrates more than 400 bird species commonly encountered in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. This comprehensive, full-colour guide is organized to follow the order ...

Field Guide to Birds of the Kruger National Park

Warwick Tarboton and Peter G Ryan

The essential guide to bird ID in Kruger National Park, South Africa. - Distribution maps accurately pinpoint recorded sightings - Full-colour photographs of each species - Includes more than 500 species - Vagrants and ...

Instinctive Behaviour in Birds

Kaushik Deuti and Mousumi Roy

The authors are of the opinion that birds are nothing but "glorified reptiles" from which they have descended as evidenced from fossils like Archaeopteryx, so most of the basic behaviour in birds is instinctive like that of reptiles ...

Jungle Folk

Indian Natural History Sketches

Douglas Dewar

"You will find no lack of superlatives among our Indian birds" writes Douglas Dewar in this superb and idiosyncratic book about some of the most interesting birds to be found in the country. From the common crow ...

Nightingales in November

A Year in the Lives of Twelve British Birds

Mike Dilger and Darren Woodhead

Have you ever wondered what 'our' birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eaves of our homes? The One Show's natural history star Mike Dilger ...

No Way But Gentlenesse

A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life

Richard Hines

The inspiration for an older brother's novel, A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the iconic film Kes. Barry and Richard Hines both grew up in Hoyland Common, a South Yorkshire mining village. But after ...

Oregon Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Beaver State is the permanent or migratory home of 628 species of birds, including the state bird – the western meadowlark. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ...

Pennsylvania Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Pennsylvania is the permanent or migratory home of 426 species of birds, including the state bird – the ruffed grouse. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion map ...

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Ecuador and Galapagos

Clive Byers

Although it is one of South America's smallest countries, Ecuador is home to nearly 1,600 species of birds. This is thanks to the huge variety of habitats created by the Andes. The country is a birder's paradise and an increasingly popular ...

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of Thailand

Michael S Webster and Chew Yen Fook

Thailand is one of Asia's leading tourist destinations and a treasure trove for anyone interested in wildlife. This little guide to the birds of Thailand is an excellent introduction for birdwatchers, residents and visitors to the country alike.

RSPB Spotlight: Kingfishers

David Chandler

Usually observed as a flash of blue and orange from a riverbank, most people are aware of Kingfishers, but few of us are familiar with the intricacies of their day-to-day lives. With their long, dagger-like bills, bright blue ...

Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2014

Mark Holling and Rare Breeding Birds Panel

This September issue of British Birds contains the 40th report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. This report documents the status of 100 rare or scarce species that were recorded breeding, or potentially breeding, in the UK in ...

Roberts Bird Guide

A Comprehensive Field Guide to Over 950 Bird Species in Southern Africa

Hugh Chittenden, Greg Davies and Ingrid Weiersbye

The Roberts Bird Guide (2nd Edition) has gone to great trouble to concentrate on, and illustrate, difficult-to-identify species and family groups such as raptors, warblers, cisticolas and waders. Special attention has been given ...

South Carolina Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Palmetto State is the permanent or temporary home of 427 species of birds, including the state bird – the Carolina wren. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion ...

Stories for Birders and Other Observers

Andrea Vojtko

Birders are among the keenest observers and five of the eleven short stories in this collection are inspired by imagination while birding or connecting with nature. Ida Pilcher is inexplicably followed wherever she goes by a dozen turkeys ...

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2017

Neil Gartshore

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook has been the essential work of reference for British birdwatchers since first published in 1981. Whatever you need to know, you'll find it in The Yearbook. - Special features including items on ...

The Complete Garden Bird Book

How to Identify and Attract Birds to Your Garden

Mark Golley, Stephen Moss and David Daly

This bestseller combines full identification and behavioural features of over 70 common garden bird species with detailed information on attracting birds to your garden. The clear illustrations and text are presented in an easy-to-use format ...

The Most Perfect Thing

Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg

Tim Birkhead

"I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg" – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different ...

The Second Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas

Wayne J Mollhoff

The Second Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas presents range maps and species accounts of 225 species. This project used standardized atlas criteria and methods to re-survey the breeding avifauna of Nebraska. The author used the data ...

The Sensory Ecology of Birds

Graham R Martin

This is the first integrated synthesis of avian sensory ecology, explaining the broad principles and taking the reader into the sensory world of birds from an evolutionary and ecological perspective.

Where to Watch Birds in Northern & Eastern Spain

Ernest FJ Garcia and Michael Rebane

This region embraces an impressive range of habitats from the Pyrenees to the sun-drenched Catalan coast. As a consequence the area is rich in birdlife and full of potential for visiting birders. Almost 200 sites are described in this ...

Wintervogel [Winter Birds]

Lars Jonsson

In Wintervögel Lars Jonsson portrays 58 bird species, which can be observed at home during the cold season. Beautiful watercolours feature well-known visitors on bird feeders, such as blue tits, nuthatches or greenfinches.

Black-Breasted Leaf Turtles

The Natural History, Captive Care And Breeding of Geoemyda spengleri and Geoemyda japonica

Anthony Pierloni

Turtle expert, Anthony Pierlioni, takes us into the lives of Leaf Turtles, both in the colourful fallen leaves of their habitats in nature and in creative and inspiring enclosures around the world. These captivating turtles – the ...

Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Ano 1500 [Extinct Amphibians and Reptiles:

Pedro Galan Regalado

This book describes for the first time all species of amphibians and reptiles that have gone extinct since the beginning of the Modern Age. A large majority of disappearances have occurred since the early twentieth century, coinciding with ...

New Zealand Lizards

David Chapple

This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more ...

Rattlesnakes

J Frank Dobie

Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures – rattlesnakes – their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies ...

Ryugujo Wa Futatsu Atta: Umigame no Kaiyu Kodo to Seikatsu-Shi no Takei [Life History Polymorphism and Migratory

Hideo Hatase

This book looks at the life history polymorphism and spawning behaviour of Japanese sea turtles.

The Status and Distribution of Reptiles in the Western Ghats, India

Conservation Assessment and Management Plan

Chelmala Srinivasulu, Bhargavi Srinivasulu and S Molur

The reptile assessment is a review of the conservation status of the reptiles belonging to Western Ghats and peninsular India. This report summarises results for the Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Workshop for assessing ...

Venezuela y Sus Tortugas [Venezuela and its Turtles]

Pedro Trebbau and Peter CH Pritchard

This book provides an accurate account of the biological characteristics of each species of Venezuelan turtle. This is important to make research and conservation more effective. Pritchard and Trebbau's book will serve as a cornerstone ...

Venomous Encounters

Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia

Peter Hobbins

How do we know which snakes are dangerous? This seemingly simple question caused constant concern for the white settlers who colonised Australia after 1788. Facing a multitude of serpents in the bush, their fields and their homes, colonists ...

Sharks and Other Deadly Ocean Creatures Visual Encyclopedia

Derek Harvey

Dive into Sharks and Other Deadly Ocean Creatures Visual Encyclopedia to discover everything there is to know about the ocean's biggest predators. Brought to life with cutting-edge CGI technology, more than 200 shark ...

Victoria's Galaxiid Fishes

Rudie H Kuiter

Galaxiid fishes are of Gondwana origin and well represented in Victoria. All known members are described and illustrated with multiple images, including many apparently new species. With nearly all natural habitats destroyed and predators ...

A Catalogue of the Irish Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

James P O'Connor, R Nash and MG Fitton

The Irish ichneumonid fauna is reviewed and a checklist provided. Data are given for 1137 definite species, of which 222 are documented from Ireland for the first time.

A Catalogue of the Irish Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera)

James P O'Connor, R Nash, DG Notton and NDM Fergusson

Volume 7 offers a catalogue of the Irish hymenopteran superfamilies Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea.

A Global Overview of the Conservation of Freshwater Decapod Crustaceans

Tadashi Kawai and Neil Cumberlidge

A Global Overview of the Conservation of Freshwater Decapod Crustaceans introduces updated information on conservation issues, providing an overview of what is needed to advance the global conservation of freshwater decapods ...

A Guide to Australian Tiger Beetles

Mark R Golding

An excellent photographic guide to Australia's carnivorous tiger beetles written by an expert in the field.

Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping

Next Steps for the Thinking Beekeeper

Christy Hemenway

Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of ...

Advances in Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Entomopathogenic Nematodes of the Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae

David J Hunt, Khuong B Nguyen, Sergei E Spiridonov and Sergei A Subbotin

In Advances in Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Entomopathogenic Nematodes of the Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae the numerous species of Steinernema and Heterorhabditis described since the previous volume, published in 2007 ...

Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics

Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy and Shakunthala Sridhara

Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems ...

Beekeeping for Beginners

Andrew Richards

All too often, books written for new beekeepers carry far too much information which can be confusing for the reader. Andrew's book is an exception and will help the novice to quickly grasp the basics of beekeeping. How much time will ...

Butterflies of Bonai, Odisha

A Field Guide for Beginners

Pratyush P Mohapatra, Vivek Sarkar, Arun Kumar Mishra and Manoj V Nair

This book covers 157 species of butterflies, depicted on 158 colour plates. Except for a few butterflies, most of them are distributed in different parts of Odisha, India. The book covers 29 species of Skippers, 12 Swallow-tails ...

Butterflies of Europe and Neighbouring Regions

Patrice Leraut

This guide presents exclusively Butterflies of Europe and neighbouring regions (including North Africa). They cover the families Papilionidae, Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Riodinidae and Nymphalidae (now incorporating the Satyrinae ...

Butterflies of St. Kitts and Nevis

And the Northeastern Leeward Islands, West Indies

Paul M Catling and Brenda Kostiuk

This guide, based on a survey in 2013 and 2014, covers most of the approx. 70 species of butterflies in the northeastern Leeward Islands. As far as the literature is concerned, the survey added two species to the list for St. Kitts which ...

Catalogue des Coleopteres de France, Supplement 2: Index, Errata, Donnees Nouvelles [Catalogue of Coleoptera of France

Marc Tronquet

Second update to the Catalogue des Coleopteres de France (2014). Includes Index, Errata and New Data.

Die Heuschrecken Deutschlands und Nordtirols: Bestimmen, Beobachten, Schutzen [The Locusts of Germany and North Tyrol:

Jurgen Fischer, Daniela Steinlechner, Andreas Zehm, Dominik Poniatowski and Thomas Fartmann

With this book it is possible to identify all the grasshopper species in Germany and North Tyrol based on excellent comparative images. It highlights important features using enlarged close-ups, instructional texts and arrows, making it ...

Economic and Ecological Significance of Arthropods in Diversified Ecosystems

Sustaining Regulatory Mechanisms

Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy and Shakunthala Sridhara

Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems ...

Fauna Iberica, Volume 42: Coleoptera: Latridiidae

Jose Carlos Otero Gonzalez and Maria Jose Lopez

This monograph of the Fauna Ibérica series is dedicated to the Coleopteran family Latridiidae and represents the first synthesis for the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. In the general chapters a summary is given ...

Genetically Modified Insects

1st Report of Session 2015-16

House of Lords - Science and Technology Committee and John Roundell Palmer Selbourne

The problems caused by infectious disease and agricultural pests are real. Genetically modified (GM) insects have the potential to address both these problems. The UK is a world leader in the development of this technology. The European ...

Guide d'Identification des Papillons de Jour de Suisse [Identification Guide to Butterflies of Switzerland]

Vincent Baudraz and Michel Baudraz

This guide allows readers to easily identify the 216 species of butterflies and red Zygaenid moths of Switzerland. An intuitive determination key based on simple visual criteria is used to arrive at an identification without any prior ...

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Brentidae: Nanophyinae [English / Czech]

Karel Schon

This issue deals with the species of the beetle subfamily Nanophyinae, family Brentidae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

Icones Insectorum Europae Centralis: Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae, Criocerinae

Jan Bezdek and Roman Mlejnek

This issue deals with the species of the beetle families Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, and the Chrysomelid subfamilies Donaciinae, and Criocerinae. A key to identification of central European species is given.

Icons of Evolution

Pacific Island Tree-Snails of the Family Partulidae

Justin Gerlach

The partulid tree-snails of the Pacific Islands are today best known for their tragic recent history. Following the introduction of predatory snails a third of partulid species are now extinct and almost all others threatened with extinction ...

Insect Research of Central China, Volume 10 [Chinese]

Yuan Guohui

Insect Research of Central China, Volume 10 contains a total of 19 research, review and progress papers.

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 21 [English / French / German]

Carolus Holzschuh, Tania R Dos Santos Silva and P Teocchi

Volume 21 contains contributions in several languages on longicorn beetles of Africa, Asia and South America.

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 22 [French]

Pierre Juhel

Volume 22 contains a taxonomic revision of the beetle genus Cloniophorus.

Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw

Jeremy Sewall, Marion Lear Swaybill and Scott Snider

For centuries, oysters have had the power to sustain and delight, inspiring writers and artists, lowly cooks and four-star chefs, laborers and gourmands, and everyone in between. A feast for the eyes and the palate oysters also are rich ...

Pegs, Pouches, and Spines

Systematics and Comparative Morphology of the New World Litter Bug Genus Chinannus Wygodzinsky, 1948

A Knyshov, S Leon, R Hoey-Chamberlain and Christiane Weirauch

Dipsocoromorpha, the minute litter bugs, are minuscule true bugs with substantial undescribed biodiversity. The authors taxonomically revise the genus Chinannus Wygodzinsky, 1948 (Dipsocoromorpha: Schizopteridae: Ogeriinae) ...

Pennsylvania Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The tiger swallowtail is one of over 2,000 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information on their life cycle and features ...

RSPB Spotlight: Bumblebees

Richard F Comont

Bumblebees are some of our most familiar insects, and are among the few that are almost universally viewed as 'friendly' – their low buzzing is the quintessential sound of our gardens in the summertime.

Research Materials on Mecoptera in China [English / Chinese]

China Scientific Book Services (CSBS)

This book compiles the following 27 papers: 1. Structures of the Female reproductive systems in Panorpidae (Mecoptera) with remarks on their Taxonomic Significance 2. Six new species of Mecoptera from China ...

South Carolina Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

South Carolina's state insect – the eastern tiger swallowtail – is one of over 850 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species ...

The Parnassiinae of the World, Volume 6: Addendum to Vols. 1 to 5

Jean-Claude Weiss and Jacques Rigout

Volume 6 is the last volume of the series, containing classification, easy classification, addenda to volumes 1 to 5, and an index for volumes 1 to 6.

Weird Butterflies & Moths

Ronald Orenstein and Thomas Marent

There are more than 200,000 species of butterflies and moths. Many, in fact, are still uncategorized. This fascinating book reveals a rare and close up look at the odd beauty and behaviour of some of the strangest of these tiny creatures ...

A Field Guide to the Common Fossils of China [Chinese]

Tang Yonggang

This book introduces common fossils, and covers what fossils are, how to find them, and provides a chapter on fossils and geological time. The book focuses on the famous Chinese paleontological fossils, invertebrate fossils, the subphylum ...

Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out

Kenneth Carpenter

How can palaeontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain? Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (high-spined lizard) ...

Cambro-Ordovician Studies VI

John R Laurie, IG Percival, JB Jago, JR Paterson and Glenn A Brock

Contains the following 18 articles 1. Trilobites and sedimentary facies of the upper Coquena formation (late Tremadocian; 'Notopeltis orthometopa' Zone), Cordillera Oriental, Northwestern Argentina ...

Darriwilian to Sandbian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest China

Yuandong Zhang, Daniel Goldman, Stig Bergstrom and Stanley Finney

Darriwilian to Sandbian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest China analyzes the significance of these exquisite, mostly pyritic, graptolites of the middle to late Ordovician period from North China and Tarim, China ...

Devonian Paleoenvironments of Ohio

Rituparna Bose and David AT Harper

Carbonate depositional systems in the Paleozoic geologic time represent fewer studies in paleoecological interactions than the siliciclastic systems. To evaluate this difference, the paleontology of the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation ...

Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs

Steve Parker

Dinosaurus was published in 2003, now 13 years have passed during which there have been dozens of discoveries. Many incredible discoveries made 2015 a banner year. For example: - Yi qi ...

Dynamic Paleontology

Using Quantification and Other Tools to Decipher the History of Life

Mark AS McMenamin

Using a series of case studies, Dynamic Paleontology demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. Written in an engaging and informative style, Dynamic Paleontology outlines the best ...

Earth's Climate and Orbital Eccentricity

The Marine Isotope Stage 11 Question

Andre W Droxler, Richard Z Poore and Lloyd H Burckle

Weather bureaus around the world have accumulated daily historical records of atmospheric conditions for more than a century to help forecast meteorological conditions three to five days ahead. To gain insight into the impact of possible ...

Extinct Birds

Julian P Hume

Extinct Birds was the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of the bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. It has become the ...

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 155 [English]

Lower Cretaceous Ammonites IX: Turrilitoidea 2 - Baculitidae, Including the Upper Cretaceous Representatives

Jaap Klein

This Fossilium Catalogus volume largely follows the excellent and very complete works about the family Baculitidae of Klinger & Kennedy (1993, 1997 and 2001). All quoted literature in this part has been consulted ...

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 156 [German]

Catalogus Trilobitorum cum Figuris (Trilobites Carbonici et Permici, VIII. Phillipsiinae et Griffithidinae)

Gerhard Hahn and Renate Hahn

This eighth part of the catalog to deal with the Carboniferous and Permian trilobites treats the subfamilies Phillipsiinae, Phillipps 1836, and Griffithidinae, Hupé 1953. The Phillipsiinae includes 7 genera, 2 subgenera ...

Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology

Macrofossils

Sreepat Jain

Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters ...

Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous Wetland

A Multidisciplinary Synthesis after 25 Years of Research on an Exceptional Fossil Lagerstatte from Spain

Francisco Jose Poyato-Ariza and Angela D Buscalioni

At human scale, 25 years seems time enough to relate academic and scientific experiences. The particular experiences presented in Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous Wetland are based, first of all, on the earliest works and research at Las Hoyas ...

Palaeobiological Catalogue of Rajasthan and Gujarat

Chirananda De and Pralay Mukherjee

From the introduction: "Preparation of a complete palaeobiological catalogue for a vast region involves detailed considerations of regional as well as local lithostratigraphy and geological maps. A brief review of the work is ...

Proceedings of XXIII Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy and International Symposium on Global

N Malarkodi, Gerta Keller, AN Reddy and BC Jaiprakash

The XXIII ICMS was held on December 9-11, 2011, at the Department of Geology, Bangalore University, where ICMS was originally conceived, organized and hosted in 1971. The XXIII ICMS focused on Micropaleontological and Stratigraphical ...

Structured Deposition of Animal Remains in the Fertile Crescent During the Bronze Age

Jose Luis Ramos Soldado

Although most of the animal remains recorded throughout the archaeological excavations consist usually of large assemblages of discarded and fragmented bones, it is possible to yield articulated animal skeletons in some cases. Most of the ...

The Amazing World of Dinosaurs

An Illustrated Journey Through the Mesozoic Era

James Kuether

Dinosaurs have filled us with wonder since the first monstrous bones were pulled from the earth thousands of years ago. For centuries, we imagined dinosaurs as giant, clumsy brutes – but science has since revealed them to be so much ...

The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

The Flowering of Early Animal Life

Xian-Guang Hou, Richard J Aldridge, Peiyun Cong, Sarah Gabbott, Xiaoya Ma and Mark A Purnell

The Chengjiang biota is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries ever made. The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang is the first book in English to provide fossil enthusiasts with an overview of the fauna.

The Emerald Planet

How Plants Changed Earth's History

David Beerling

The Earth's climate has been dramatically shifting since life evolved. The Emerald Planet reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving and recording climatic change. Along the way a number of fascinating puzzles ...

The Extreme Proterozoic

Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate

Gregory S Jenkins, Mark AS McMenami, Christopher P McKay and Linda Sohl

Earth climate is uniquely determined at any time by the varied interactions of its components: lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere (ocean, lakes and rivers) and cryosphere. Over the past 544 million years (the Phanerozoic Eon) ...

Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe

Peter Joseph Hayward and John S Ryland

This authoritative guide, now thoroughly updated in a new edition, enables accurate identification of the common components of the inshore benthic invertebrates of the British Isles and adjacent European coasts, as well as a substantial ...

Ningaloo: Reflections on the Reef

Leith Holtzman

Discover the pristine yet little-known World Heritage Ningaloo Reef in the north west coastal region of Western Australia. For ten years the author has led groups of people into the blue waters of Ningaloo to swim with the majestic whales ...

Underwater Guide to the Red Sea

The Best Diving & Snorkelling Sites with ID Guide to Reef Fishes, Invertebrates, Corals and Megafauna

Lawson Wood

The Red Sea has over 1,000 species of invertebrate and over 200 species of soft and hard coral, fomting the basis of a marine ecoystem which includes 1,100 species of fish, of which just under 20% are endemic. The high level of endemism ...

1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die

Michael Bright and Koichiro Matsuura

Now revised and updated in collaboration with UNESCO, 1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die is the definitive guide to awesome nature, celebrating hundreds of millions of years of the Earth's history.

A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare

A Journey Through the Remotest Place

Michael J Yochim

The remotest place in the country, outside of Alaska, is a region in Yellowstone National Park ironically named the Thorofare for its historic role as a route traversed by fur trappers. A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare is a ...

Adelie: Terre & Mer [Land & Sea]

Vincent Munier, Laurent Ballesta and Luc Jacquet

For the first time, photographers Vincent Munier and Laurent Ballesta have travelled together to discover the natural treasures of Adélie Land, in Antarctica. Vincent Munier has explored the ice field and the bird colony ...

Ancient Earth Journal: The Late Jurassic

Notes, Drawings, and Observations from Prehistory

Juan Carlos Alonso and Gregory S Paul

Through detailed illustrations and descriptive narrative, readers will experience a thrilling, thoroughly enjoyable ride through the most popular time period of prehistory. What would it be like to see a living, breathing dinosaurs ...

Animal Internet

Nature and the Digital Revolution

Alexander Pschera, Elisabeth Lauffer and Martin Wikelski

A bestial Brave New World is on the horizon: Some 50,000 creatures around the globe – including whales, leopards, flamingoes, bats and snails – are being equipped with digital tracking devices. The data gathered and studied ...

Bhitarkanika: The Mesmerizing Mangrove

Abasar Beuria and Basudeb Pal Majumdar

A photographic portfolio to Bhitarkanika. This is the second largest mangrove ecosystem in India, with an area of 672 square kilometres of wildlife sanctuary, of which 175 sq km was declared a national park in 1998. Situated in the district ...

Bitter Waters

The Struggles of the Pecos River

Patrick Dearen

Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled.

Botanical Painting with Gouache

A Step-by-Step Guide

Simon Williams

A practical guide to using gouache in botanical painting, by a leading botanical painter. Gouache is an opaque water-based medium, often called body colour, that produces crisp and vibrant paintings, and is becoming increasingly popular ...

Bugs

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Butterfly

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Call of the Wild

Akshay Lall and Mike Pandey

This book is a selection of pictures clicked by 17 year old Akshay Lall over the last four years. A veteran of 30 expeditions to wildlife sanctuaries in India and Kenya, Akshay has clicked thousands of pictures – this book presents ...

Creatures Close Up

Philippe Martin and Gillian Watts

This stunning book looks at nature using a revolutionary method of extreme close-up photography. Philippe Martin creates his close-ups by "stacking" images inside his computer. To create one picture, he takes dozens ...

Die Fahrt der Beagle: Darwins Illustrierte Reise um die Welt [The Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition of

Charles Darwin

When the HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on December 27, 1831, Charles Darwin was only twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal reveals him to be a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology ...

Dinosaurs

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Discovering Cadborosaurus

Paul H Leblond, III,John Kirk and Jason Walton

Discovering Cadborosaurus will lay out for the reader the evidence of the possible existence of this serpent-like creature. There have been many eye-witness accounts of an unusual but distinctive large marine animal along the ...

Dodos

Melissa Higgins and Gail Saunders-Smith

Dodos were strange, flightless ice age birds that became extinct in the 1700s. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, life cycle, and threats, bringing dodos to life like never before.

Enfant et Nature: A Travers Trois Siecles d'Ouvres pour la Jeunesse [Children and Nature: Three Centuries of Books

Valerie Chansigaud

Based on an iconography both exceptional and unknown, this book is a cultural history of the complex relationship of children with nature through three centuries of works for youth.

Falcons in the City

The Story of a Peregrine Family

Chris G Earley and Luke Massey

A charming story about a nest of wild birds that alarm, then charm, their city landlords. What happens when a peregrine falcon chooses to lay its eggs high atop a Chicago condominium balcony? Here is the story of a family of ...

Fish

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Fishing and Flying

Terence Horley and Charles F Tunnicliffe

As a pilot, the author flies from the remote highlands of Scotland to the quiet creeks of Cornwall, packing into the gun wells of a fighter, or the baggage space of a transport plane, his fishing-rod and a box of flies. In two hundred million ...

Fred the Chaffinch

The History of Farming

John Miles and Barry Robson

This is the sixth book in the series based on a bird which gives its name to the history of farming. The story takes you around the history of the bird from its first remains found in a cave in Derbyshire to the first drawing found on ...

Giraffe

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Going Fishing

James Negley Farson and Charles F Tunnicliffe

James Negley Farson never failed to take his fishing rod wherever he went. As much an autobiography as it is a book on fishing, Going Fishing describes Farson's vast exepriences river fishing while travelling the world.

International Garden Photographer of the Year, Collection 9

Tyrone McGlinchey, Curtis McGlinchey and Andrea Jones

This stunning hardback volume showcases the winners and best entries for the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) competition 9 and accompanies a major exhibition at Kew Gardens in Spring 2016. The exhibition tours the ...

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty

Reflections on a Science Classic

Robert J Richards and Lorraine Daston

Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the ...

Le Bestiaire Enigmatique de la Cryptozoologie [The Enigmatic Bestiary of Cryptozoology]

Benoit Grison

What if a real giant squid was hiding behind the mythical Kraken? What if the coelacanth, long believed to have disappeared 70 million years ago, was still alive? If the man of Flores, the prehistoric dwarf hominid, had survived until the ...

Losing Eden

An Environmental History of the American West

Sara Dant

Losing Eden traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there.

- Discusses key events and topics from the Beringia migration ...

Lysenko's Ghost

Epigenetics and Russia

Loren Graham

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West, now claim that discoveries in the ...

Marahuaka [English]

Armando Michelangeli Ayala, Fabian Michelangeli Ayala, Reinaldo Stevie Borges and Walter Smitter

From the introduction: "This work has been written following and developing the chronicles on the Expeditions to the Marahuaka Massif, Venezuela, organized and directed by the Terramar Foundation, and carried out between ...

Mavis the Songthrush

The Slug and Snail Terminator

John Miles and Barry Robson

This is yet another urban bird needing the help of the gardeners of our towns and cities to provide food and cover to make this bird successful. The story tells of the relationship with the Black Country and the town’s football team ...

Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts

Encounters with Cryptid Creatures

Ken Gerhard

This compelling compendium presents a wide variety of amazing and bizarre creatures, from the Minnesota Iceman to the Beast of Boggy Creek to the White Bluffs Screamer. Draw back the curtain and marvel at the astounding assemblage of ...

Natural Interests

The Contest Over Environment in Modern France

Caroline Ford

Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests ...

New Zealand

A Natural World Revealed

Tui de Roy and Mark Jones

Award-winning international wildlife photographer Tui de Roy spent much of her life living on and photographing the Galapagos Islands before setting up her base in New Zealand. From here, she travels the world capturing breathtaking images ...

New Zealand's Rivers

An Environmental History

Catherine Heather Knight

New Zealand's Rivers: An Environmental History explores the relationship between New Zealanders and their rivers, explaining how they have arrived at a crisis point, where fresh water has become their most contested resources ...

Norman Nicholson's Nature

Ian O Brodie

Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson was born, on 8 January 1914, in Millom. Then an industrial town, it lies on Cumbria's coastal margins between the Duddon estuary and Black Combe, an outlier of the Lakeland Fells. Norman died in 1987 as ...

Penguins

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Plastic Reason

An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms

Tobias Rees

Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a ...

Porcupines to Polar Bears

Adventures of a Wildlife Veterinarian

Jerry Haigh

Jerry Haigh shares his adventures as a wildlife veterinarian with the University of Saskatchewan, whether in a clinic at the base of spectacular Mount Kenya in Africa or on the Canadian prairies. Haigh has healed wild animals such as ...

Printing Wildlife

Approaches to Wildlife Printmaking

Lisa Hooper

This book, the second in the Langford Press series on techniques, aims to take you behind the scenes as printmaker Lisa Hooper creates her prints inspired by nature. Sitting alongside the highly acclaimed series of Wildlife Art books ...

Scientific Babel

The Language of Science - From the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English

Michael D Gordin

Today's global scientists are a resolutely monoglot community, using exclusively English – but its dominance was anything but inevitable and only very recent. In a sweeping history, from the Middle Ages to the present ...

Sea Journal

Lisa Woollett

This beautiful and unusual book brings together a year's wanderings along Britain's shores with compelling stories of their natural history, geology and evolution – from ancient myth to current science – and the author ...

Sky of Our Manufacture

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

Jesse Oak Taylor

The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses ...

Snakes

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

Alan Mikhail

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have been locked into relationships with other animals. Humans ate, fought, prayed, and moved with animals. In this original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts ...

The Discovery of a Northwest Passage

Robert McClure and Anthony Dalton

For centuries, colonial powers searched for a sea passage that would link the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. The route, known as the Northwest Passage, would cut thousands of miles from sea travel and open up commercial trade to and from Asia ...

The Fat of the Land

John Seymour, Sally Seymour and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

In the 1970s, John Seymour's book The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international bestseller, inspiring a generation to 'down-shift' to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since.

The Golden Shore

California's Love Affair with the Sea

David Helvarg and Ted Danson

From the first human settlements to the latest marine explorations, The Golden Shore tells the tale of the history, culture, and changing nature of California's coasts and ocean. Helvarg takes the reader on both a geographical ...

The Greatest Show in the Arctic

The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905

PJ Capelotti

In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the ...

The Jungle Call

Sanjoy Das and Ruskin Bond

From the preface: "My love life with the jungles of India started during my college days, unfortunately, in the company of a few trigger-happy young boys. I remember with remorse the days when I was under the delusion that anything ...

The River

Helen Humphreys

We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions?

The Sacred Combe

A Search for Humanity's Heartland

Simon Barnes and Pam Guhrs-Carr

We've all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A little greener and more fertile than the world outside. Here the birds are slightly more exotic, slightly more confiding, the grass greener and the fruit sweeter.

The Tree Climber's Guide

Adventures in the Urban Canopy

Jack Cooke

A wonderful cocktail of engaging writing, beautiful illustration and heartfelt appreciation for the natural world. An essential oddity for any book collection. In this charming, witty and exquisitely illustrated companion, Jack Cooke ...

The Ultimate Guide to Sea Glass

Finding, Collecting, Identifying, and Using the Ocean's Most Beautiful Stones

Mary Beth Beuke and Lisl Armstrong

As the owner of one of the world's most elaborate sea glass collections, Mary Beth Beuke gets to talk about these prized ocean gems on a daily basis. Unfortunately, with each passing day, sea glass becomes more and more difficult to ...

Through Glacier Park

The Log of a Trip with Howard Eaton

Mary Roberts Rinehart and Rick Rinehart

When Mary Roberts Rinehart's travelogue, Through Glacier Park, was first published in 1916, the already famous mystery writer introduced readers to recently minted national park and to the scenic wonders of Montana and to the adventures ...

Under Ohio

The Story of Ohio's Rocks and Fossils

Charles Ferguson Barker

There is much more for children to discover about Ohio than first meets the eye. Under Ohio: The Story of Ohio's Rocks and Fossils, by geologist Charles Ferguson Barker, takes young readers underground to reveal the fascinating ...

Understanding Collapse

Ancient History and Modern Myths

Guy D Middleton

Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse – how we ...

Walden: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau, J Lyndon Shanley and John Updike

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition – introduced by noted American ...

Weeds: Simple Lessons for Children

Robert Lloyd Praeger, S Rosamund Praeger and RJ Welch

Originally published in 1913, as part of the Cambridge Nature Study Series, Weeds: Simple Lessons for Children was written by the renowned Irish botanist and author Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865-1953). Intended for the young ...

Whales

Pegasus

Exploring the animal world is an adventure and reading about it is fun. This Amazing Animal series will take you to the animal kingdom and let you meet some weird and fascinating creatures from bugs to snakes and from giraffes ...

Where the Wild Thyme Blew

Growing up with Nature in the Fifties and Sixties

Peter Marren

Copies of the original edition (#229678) signed by the author are available while stocks last. Due to the book's overwhelming popularity it will be reprinted in October with small revisions confined to ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 Desk Calendar

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26. As usual, a wall calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available, see related titles below for more products.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 Wall Calendar

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26. As usual, desk calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available, see related titles below for more products.

A Catalogue and Index of the Publications of The Irish Biogeographical Society (1977-2004)

James P O'Connor

This book compiles a catalogue and index of the publications of The Irish Biogeographical Society (1977-2004).

A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana

119 Unique Places to Explore

Steven Higgs and James Alexander Thom

This is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indiana by trail, water, or road. Featuring 95 beautiful color photos and 5 maps ...

A Natural History of the Hedgerow

And Ditches, Dykes and Dry Stone Walls

John Wright

Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, hedgerows have been a feature of our landscape and our history. The Romans were keen hedge builders, the Anglo-Saxons gave us the word "hege" and in the nineteenth century ...

Baffin Island

Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67

Jack D Ives

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s ...

Biodiversity of Nijhum Dweep National Park

Mohammed Mostafa Feeroz and Mohammad Zashim Uddin

Nijhum Dweep National Park, which supports the largest wetland bird species community of the country, is one of the best National Parks in Bangladesh. The park is notable because it contains the world's largest population of Indian ...

Canyonlands National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Canyonlands National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map. These lightweight references offer a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information of what ...

Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas

Exploration and Conservation of Subterranean Biodiversity

GO Graening, Dante B Fenolio and Michael E Slay

Speleobiology, the study of cave life, is a relatively new science. The diversity of species that live in caves, springs, and aquifers is just beginning to be documented, and much of the underground world has yet to be explored.

Diversity of Higher Animals and its Relation to the Vegetation Pattern in the Coastal Belt of Ganjam District, Odisha

Gitanjali Mishra, Santosh Kumar Patra and Hemanta Kumar Sahu

From the preface: "India is one of the signatories of the Convention of Biological Diversity and is therefore committed not only to the conservation but also to sustainable and equitable utilization of its genetic resources ...

Fauna and Flora of Atlantic islands

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Fauna and Flora of the Atlantic Islands, Dublin 24 -27 August 2004

TJ Hayden, DA Murray and James P O'Connor

Contains the proceedings of the 5th international symposium on the fauna and flora of the Atlantic islands, held in Dublin, from the  24 -27 August 2004.

From Black to Green

Midlands to Mid-Wales (& the World) Through a Countryman's Eyes

Fred Slater

This book is an account of the work and legacy of Cardiff University's former Field Centre at Llysdinam in Mid-Powys, as seen through the eyes of its Director Dr Fred Slater. Fred is well-known in Wales as a professional ecologist and ...

From a Limestone Ledge

Some Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in Texas

John Graves, Bill Wittliff and Glenn Wolff

Now back in print – the third volume in the acclaimed Brazos Trilogy by John Graves, who is widely acknowledged as Texas's most beloved writer. This is a collection essays and other writing about country life in Texas.

Good Water

Kevin Holdsworth

In essays that combine memoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells here – about ...

Island on Fire

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

Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

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

Kamikochi no Shizen-Shi: Chikei no Henka to Kahan-Rin no Dotai Hozen [Kamikochi Nature: Dynamics and Conservation of

Wakamatsu Nobuhiko

The Kamikochi Natural History Study Group here summarizes the results of surveys and research conducted for more than 20 years in Kamikochi, a remote mountainous highland valley within the Hida Mountains range, in the western region of ...

Lake Tahoe Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Lake Tahoe Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some of the ...

Mt. Rainier National Park Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Mt. Rainier National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go ...

Ohio Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammal – the white-tailed deer – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Buckeye State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and ...

Oklahoma Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Great Plains Trail in Oklahoma is a road-based wildlife viewing trail that covers an incredible 1,777 miles and includes 33 counties. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammals, birds ...

Oregon Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammal – the beaver – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Oregon. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammal ...

Pennsylvania Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state mammal – the white-tailed deer – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Pennsylvania. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Rhode Island Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

It may be the smallest state in the nation, but Rhode Island's habitats support thousands of species of animals and invertebrates. Rhode Island Wildlife is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for the nature enthusiast exploring ...

South Carolina Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state insect – the praying mantis – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout South Carolina. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Springer & Cohutta Mountains Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

National Geographic, James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Springer & Cohutta Mountains Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to ...

The Bedside Ark

A Riotous Assembly of Unrespectable Southern African Creatures

David Muirhead

This riotous assembly of unrespectable creatures comprises 42 short accounts of southern Africa's vibrant collection of wild animals. From the one-of-its-kind aardvark to the wilfully ignorant ostrich; the Houdini-like ...

The Big Muddy

An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples, from Hernando De Soto to Hurricane Katrina

Christopher Morris

In the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to ...

The North Norfolk Coast

A Short Introduction

Anthony Cook

The North Norfolk Coast is one of the UK's most beautiful natural coastlines. In The North Norfolk Coast, Anthony Cook provides an introduction to the origin and physical development of the North Norfolk Coast between Hunstanton ...

Under a Flaming Sky

The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

Daniel James Brown

On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over two thousand people. Daniel James Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in Under a Flaming Sky, the most gripping and ...

Wild Southwest

The Landscapes and Wildlife of Southwest England

Nigel Hicks

A book about the wildlife and landscapes of southwest England, covering the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset, richly illustrated with high quality photography. With an entertaining, yet informative text ...

Wildlife of Southern Africa

A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of the Region

Vincent C Carruthers

A field guide to the wildlife of southern Africa, describing over 2,000 plants and animals, with accurate illustrations in full colour. This book has been a trusted field companion for many years. Comprehensively updated, the fourth edition ...

A Botanist's Vocabulary

1300 Terms Explained and Illustrated

Susan K Pell and Bobbi Angell

The technical terms used to describe plants can be daunting, but they are essential for accurate identification and communication. This comprehensive glossary gives concise definitions of the terms that describe color, shape, texture ...

A Pictorial Guide to Common Garden Plants

A Reference Manual of 207 Ornamental Plants Grown in India

Balkar Singh, Nidhan Singh and Krishan Kumar

This book provides the basic information about more than 200 ornamental plant species or varieties being raised in gardens of North Indian plains. The information is compiled in a language easily comprehensible to both laymen and specialists ...

Ancient Trees in Lijiang [Chinese]

Deng Lilan and Zhang Cunzheng

Based on a detailed investigation of ancient trees in Lijiang, China, 838 individual ancient trees were recorded in Lijiang City, with 38 species belonging to 20 families and 35 genera. Among them a total of 200 gymnosperms; 18 angiosperms ...

And Some Brought Flowers

Plants in a New World

Mary Alice Downie, Mary Hamilton and EJ Revell

Originally published in 1980, And Some Brought Flowers partners 70 stunning full-colour watercolours of plants discovered by early travelers to North America with numerous excerpts from the writings of early explorers and settlers ...

Atlas of 200 Kinds of Well-Chosen Wild Fruit in Zhejiang [Chinese]

Li Genyou and Chen Zhenghai

This book has taken years of hard work by the authors. From a total of 708 kinds of wild fruits, berries and ornamental plants from Zhejiang, China, they selected two sets of 100 primary species to introduce to the reader. Each comes with ...

Atlas of Native Trees in Suzhou [Chinese]

Ge Dawei and Cheng Haizhong

In this book, the native tree species in Suzhou, China are mainly classified in the form of maps, and they are introduced in the form of pictures with a few words, which are both intuitive and practical. Since ancient times, the plant ...

Atlas of Wild Woody Plants in Jingangtai Mountains [Chinese]

Wang Qirui and Ye Xiyang

The Jingangtai mountains are located in the Shangcheng county, Henan Province, Central China. This book describes more than 300 species woody plants from the area.

Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants

Christine Vos and Kemal Kazan

Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants summarizes our current knowledge on belowground defence strategies in plants by world-class scientists actively working in the area. The volume includes chapters covering belowground defence ...

Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour

Billy Showell

In this beautiful book, Billy Showell provides a fascinating and invaluable insight into the materials, methods and techniques she uses to produce stunning botanical paintings in watercolour. Billy Showell is a well-respected ...

Bolets Del Port: Maestrat, Matarranya, Terres de l'Ebre [[Mushrooms of Parque Natural dels Ports: Maestrazgo, Matarranya

Manolo Arrufat

A complete book on mushrooms in the Spanish region of Port, on the border between Catalonia and Aragon. Although it is not a guide in the classic sense of the term, it presents the best aspect of a guide: thorough descriptions, photographs ...

Bolets de Catalunya, Volume 35

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 del Port II: Maestrat, Matarranya, Terres de l'Ebre [Mushrooms of Parque Natural dels Ports II: Maestrazgo, Matar

Manolo Arrufat and Ferran Royo

A field guide to mushrooms of the Parque Natural dels Ports in the Spanish regions of Maestrazgo, Matarranya, and Terres de l'Ebre. In this book the reader will find a brief introduction which, in simple terms ...

Botanical Excursions in the Canary Islands / Excursiones Botanicas por las Islas Canarias

David Bramwell and Alex Bramwell

This guide to the natural areas of the Canary Islands and its flora tries to highlight the most important and spectacular endemic species. After showing some aerial images of the islands, the book goes on to describe the different environments ...

Bromeliaceae of Venezuela

Native and Cultivated

Francisco Oliva-Esteva and Julan A Steyermark

A flora to the native and cultivated Bromeliaceae of Venezuela, richly illustrated with colour photos and line drawings.

Color Illustrations of Common Xylophyta in Zhejiang Province [Chinese]

Chen Zhenghai

For this book, more than 1,400 species of woody plants were screened and 381 common species and 550 other are introduced to the reader here. For each of the common species colour photographs are shown, together with the name, scientific ...

Comanche Marker Trees of Texas

Steve Houser, Linda Pelon and Jimmy W Arterberry

In this unprecedented effort to gather and share knowledge of the Native American practice of creating, designating, and making use of marker trees, an arborist, an anthropologist, and a Comanche tribal officer have merged their wisdom ...

Common Macrofungi in Central Yunnan [Chinese]

Zhang Ying

This is a photographic field guide to common macrofungi in Central Yunnan, China.

Des Hommes et des Graines: Au Fil de l'Histoire et des Cultures [Of Men and Seeds: On Their History and Culture]

Nathalie Vidal

For man, seeds are one of the most common food sources on earth. But that's not the only thing. With time and needs, man has learned to extract from them, by crushing, grinding or maceration, an incredible diversity of food and ...

Eden [15th Anniversary Edition]

Tim Smit

Updated, with stunning new photographs. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the impossible was delivered. From the sterile depths of a disused china clay pit in Cornwall rose one of the most remarkable and ambitious ventures ...

Edible Plants of the Rocky Mountains

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Jason Schwartz

Edible Plants of the Rocky Mountains is a simplified guide to familiar and widespread species of edible berries, nuts, leaves and roots found in North America. This beautifully illustrated guide identifies the most familiar plants ...

Emerging Trends in Value Addition to Plants and Plant Products

K Manikya Kumari

This book brings together papers presented at a two day National Conference entitled 'Emerging Trends in Value Addition to Plants and Plant Products' during 24th and 25th July 2014, held at and organized by St. Joseph's College ...

Endemi u Hrvatskoj Flori [Endemic Species of the Croatian Flora]

Toni Nikolic, Milenko Milovic, Sandro Bogdanovic and Nenad Jasprica

The endemic flora of Croatia is unique and several times richer than the expected average. This book is rich with original information about the endemic plants in the Croatian territory, and after detailing all species belonging to the ...

Ethnobotany & Taxonomy of Angiosperms

Alka Chaturvedi

The present compendium is a compilation of papers presented during the XV Annual Conference of IAAT at Nagpur, India during 19-20 October, 2005. The contents of the volume range from traditional classical taxonomic aspects to molecular ...

Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians

Patricia Whereat-Phillips and Nancy J Turner

Myrtlewood is most often thought of as beautiful wood for woodworking, but to Native people on the southern Oregon coast it was an important source of food. The roasted nuts taste like bitter chocolate, coffee, and burnt popcorn.

Field Guide to Common Plants of Africa [Chinese]

Sun Guojun

Field Guide to Common Plants of Africa introduces plants in taxonomic fashion, covering a total of 85 families, and 303 plant species.

Flora Japonica

Masumi Yamanaka, Hideaki Ohba and Martyn Rix

Japanese indigenous plants have fascinated botanists and horticulturalists for the past two centuries, and their discoveries still have a strong influence on the plants of today. Botanists such as Kaempfer, Thunberg, von Siebold, and ...

Flora dos Estados de Goias e Tocantins: Colecao Rizzo, Volume 46: Balanophoraceae [Flora of the states of Goias and

Piero Giuseppe Delprete

Volume 46 of this Brazilian flora deals with the family Balanophoraceae.

Flora dos Estados de Goias e Tocantins: Colecao Rizzo, Volume 47: Verbenaceae [Flora of the states of Goias and

Fatima Regina Goncalves Salimena

Volume 47 of this Brazilian flora deals with the family Verbenaceae.

Flora of the Cook Islands

WR Sykes

Flora of the Cook Islands is a complete account of plants found wild in the Cook Islands and plants common in cultivation. Descriptions and keys are provided for 108 fern species and 567 flowering plant species. Of these, 104 fern ...

Flora of the Myxomycetean Fungi from Western Maharashtra

VD Ranade and KR Ranadive

In India very scant information is available about the taxonomy of Myxomycetes. Major contributions on taxonomy of Myxomycetes have been by past authors from North-East India and South-East India. Very meagre research work on taxonomy of ...

Flora: Une Histoire Illustree des Fleurs de Jardin [Flora: An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower]

Brent Elliott

Tells the story of the evolution of garden flowers, with illustrations from the archive of the Royal Horticultural Society. Many of the illustrations are of historical importance in charting the development of garden flowers and include ...

Forage and Poisonous Plants of Ningxia [Chinese]

Li Kechang and Guo Sijia

This book describes forage and poisonous plants from Ningxia, an autonomous region in China, belonging to 69 families 471 species of important forage plants. The book provides Chinese, scientific and English names, and has a scientific ...

Freshwater Benthic Diatoms of Central Europe

Common Species Used in Ecological Assessment

M Cantonati, MG Kelly and Horst Lange-Bertalot

This is an English updated edition of Diatomeen im S�áwasser-Benthos von Mitteleuropa. Diatoms are usually part of any successful quatic monitoring program. They are efficient indicators of water quality, etc. They are used in established ...

Fungi in Ecosystem Processes

John Dighton

This new edition of Fungi in Ecosystem Processes continues the unique approach of examining the roles of fungi from the perspective of ecosystem functions. It explores how fungi have adapted to survive within particular constraints ...

Garden Revolution

How Our Landscapes Can be a Source of Environmental Change

Larry Weaner and Thomas Christopher

A successful garden is rewarding, stimulating, and environmentally friendly. Unfortunately, traditional gardening practices don't often deliver on that promise. Not only are these outdated methods resource- and time-consuming, they ...

Gardening for Birds, Butterflies & Bees

Everything You Need to Know to Create a Wildlife Habitat in Your Backyard

Attracting birds and butterflies has never been simpler with the tips, tricks and plant picks in this handy guide. Plus, you'll help support the dwindling bee population, which is essential to the future of gardening. Whether you're ...

Gesneriaceae of South China [English / Chinese]

Wei Yigang

Gesneriaceae of South China is the product of a programme of research that began in 1993. It covers more than 85% of the species of southern China and over 65% of the species known from China as a whole. 304 species (including ...

Guia de Bolets per dur Sota el Brac [Mushroom Guide to Carry on the Field]

Ramon Pascual

This is a classical guide to Catalonian mushrooms for the general public with two distinctive features compared to existing guidelines: firstly, a fun and entertaining introduction in the form of interviews, and the other, a presentation ...

Guide des Lichens de France: Lichens des Roches [Guide to Lichens of France: Lichens on Rocks]

Chantal van Haluwyn, Juliette Asta and Michel Bertrand

A modern guide on lichens on mineral substrates like rocks, walls, etc. 320 species and subspecies treated. Detailed datasheets designed to avoid confusion with similar species. More than 500 photographs illustrating all the important ...

Guide des Lichens de France: Lichens des Sols [Guide to Lichens of France: Soil Lichens]

Chantal van Haluwyn, Juliette Asta, Jean-Claude Boissiere, Philippe Clerc and Jean-Pierre Gaveriaux

After the success of the guide on tree lichens, here is a guide to soil lichens. Do you want to identify soil lichens? The collection of Guides des Fous de Nature is for you!

Guide to the Properties and Uses of Southern African Wood

Stephanie Dyer, Barry James and Danielle James

Guide to the Properties and Uses of Southern African Wood is a fully illustrated, scientifically accurate guide to the characteristics, properties and uses of wood from 140 Southern African tree species.

Handbook of Photosynthesis

Mohammad Pessarakli

Since the publication of the previous editions of the Handbook of Photosynthesis, many new ideas on photosynthesis have emerged in the past decade that have drawn the attention of experts and researchers on the subject as well as ...

Herbarium Orbis

Frederik Lisak

Herbarium Orbis pays tribute to plants as aesthetic phenomenons. With surprisingly facsimiles of beautiful plant specimens and insightful text the lavishly illustrated volume is an art book and encyclopedia likewise. Divided into ...

Ladders to Heaven

How Fig Trees Shaped Our History, Fed Our Imaginations and Can Enrich Our Future

Mike Shanahan

They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers… rainforest royalty… more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways.

Lichens of Finland

Soili Stenroos, Saara Velmala, Juha Pykala and Teuvo Ahti

In the introduction topics such as lichen characters, taxonomy, habitats, and threatened taxa are discussed. Also, an overview of lichen research in Finland is provided. The detailed treatment of taxa includes genus and species descriptions ...

Medicinal Flora of Funiushan Mountain, Volume 5, Part 2 [Chinese]

Gao Zhiming

Medicinal Plants of Funiushan Mountain will be published in seven volumes. Volume 5 is divided into 2 parts. Part 2 records the poisonous plants of Dicotyledoneae. It deals with 220 species poisonous plants belonging to 16 families ...

Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Jason Schwartz

This beautifully illustrated guide highlights the most familiar species of medicinally relevant, widespread trees, shrubs and wildflowers. Laminated for durability, this one ounce pocket guide provides simplified, essential information ...

NGS Gardens to Visit 2016

The National Gardens Scheme (NGS)

Published annually in spring and previously known as The Yellow Book, NGS Gardens to Visit 2016 lists nearly 4,000 gardens open for visiting. It is packed with full-colour photographs and informed comment. Fully updated ...

Oklahoma Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Did you know that the number of Oklahoma wildflowers species ranks third in the nation, behind California and Texas? The state tree, the redbud, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout ...

Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia), Volume 4

Orchidaceae, Vandoideae

Marta Kolanowska and Dariusz L Szlachetko

The fourth and final volume in this 4-volume series deals with the orchid subfamily Vandoideae.

Orchidees de la Martinique [Orchids of Martinique]

Pierre Coutinard

This book presents the diversity of orchids of Martinique with photos taken in the wild. You will also find data sheets, scientific and, where they exist, vernacular names, characteristics, lifestyle and geographical distribution.

Oregon Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Eco-regions ranging from coastal dunes and mountain forest provide a host of habitats for Oregon flora. The state tree, the Douglas Fir, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state ...

Pennsylvania Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Keystone State claims Eastern Hemlock as its state tree, one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique ...

Plant Life of the Dolomites: Atlas of Flora

Erika Pignatti and Sandro Pignatti

Plant Life of the Dolomites: Atlas of Flora offers distribution maps of over 2200 individual species living in the Dolomite area, presenting detailed records on the local range of every species growing in the area studied, from ...

Plantas Uteis de Minas Gerais e Goias: Na Obra dos Naturalistas [Useful Plants of Minas Gerais and Goias]

Maria das Gracas Lins Brandao

This book includes the study of 90 native species of Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil, used for various purposes and mentioned in the works of eight British and French naturalists who visited the country during the nineteenth century ...

Proceedings National Seminar on Plant Resource Management and Conservation Strategies in N.E. Region, 2011 [India]

Guwahati, Assam, India Department of Botany Cotton College and PK Baruah

The national seminar on Plant Resource Management and Conservation Strategies in N.E. Region organised by the Department of Botany, Cotton College, Guwahati-1, was held on the 18th and 19th of February, 2011 at A.C. Dutta Bhavan, Botany ...

Pure Cultures of Algae

Their Preparation and Maintenance

EG Pringsheim and FE Fritsch

Originally published in 1946, Pure Cultures of Algae presents an account of the practical conclusions reached by the author during many years of experimentation with algae, drawing attention to the possibilities opened up by algae ...

RHS How Do Worms Work?

A Gardener's Collection of Curious Questions and Astonishing Answers

Guy Barter

Ever wondered how worms breathe? Or why exactly trees are so big? RHS How Do Worms Work? covers all aspects of gardens and gardening, and will satisfy all your horticultural curiosity. Packed with photographs, vintage engravings ...

RHS Pruning & Training

What, When, and How to Prune

Christopher Brickell and David Joyce

Cultivate your perfect garden with RHS Pruning & Training's unrivalled guidance for over 800 trees, shrubs, and climbing plants. Fully updated by the RHS experts, RHS Pruning & Training uses clear, step-by-step ...

RSPB Gardening for Wildlife

A Complete Guide to Nature-friendly Gardening

Adrian LR Thomas

There is something uplifting about having butterflies in your flowerbeds, frogs in your water feature and birds in your bushes, and knowing they're there because of you. Rich in detail and accessible in style, Gardening for ...

RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife

Peter Holden and Geoffrey Abbott

This popular RSPB field guide is a rich resource of information on our most familiar garden wildlife. For the second edition RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife sections have been updated and some expanded to offer ...

Rhode Island Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the blue violet is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Rhode Island. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs ...

Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 2

Gefasspflanzen: Grundband

Eckehart J Jager

This flora, which has proven itself for decades already, is constantly updated and its 21st edition continues to help the reader find species names and learn interesting facts about distribution, ecology and sociology of certain vascular ...

Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos

Ratan Lal Banik

Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of ...

South Carolina Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

South Carolina's rich flora includes more than 680 species of wildflowers. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers and also includes an ecoregion map featuring ...

Taxonomic Outline of Medicinal Plants [Chinese]

Yuan Xiaofeng

This book will allow graduate and undergraduate students to master the method of identifying medicinal plants, based on the author's experience. The book recognizes seven categories: medicinal algae, fungi, plants, lichens, mosses ...

The Algae

VJ Chapman and DJ Chapman

A print-on-demand reprint of this classic introduction to algae. The first half treats all the major groups of algae, while the second half of the book treats their biology in-depth.

The Comps of Mexico: A Systematic Account of the Family Asteraceae, Chapter 21

Subtribe Zaluzaniinae: Hybridella, Zaluzania - Subtribe Zinniinae: Heliopsis, Philactis, Sanvitalia, Tehuana, Trichocory

Billie L Turner

The Comps of Mexico is a long-running series of systematic accounts of all the tribes and genera of the family Asteraceae. Chapter 21 in this treatment deals with several subtribes, namely Zaluzaniinae (genera Hybridella ...

The Genus Melastoma in Borneo

Including 34 New Species

Khoon Meng Wong

It was thought that only nine species of Melastoma existed on the island of Borneo in 2001. The present account enumerates 41, including 31 new species, providing the taxonomic bases for the significant changes in species recognised ...

The Keys of Shanghai Vascular Plants [Chinese]

Ma Jinshuang

The Keys of Shanghai Vascular Plants includes plants in 202 families, 1100 genera and 2991 species, all of which are keyed here following the latest data from plants status surveys and historical data collection, conducted in ...

Trees of Yap

A Field Guide

Marjorie V Cushing Falanruw

Trees of Yap, first published in 2015 as Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-249, is an up-to-date field guide for identifying the trees found on the island of Yap, Micronesia (and applicable to much of the southern ...

Tsvetnoi Atlas Rastenii Kryma, Kniga 1 [Colour Atlas of Crimean Plants, Book 1]

LP Vakhrusheva and NV Vorob'eva

The authors give a detailed description of each plant, write of its application, explain the origins of the plant's name, and familiarize the reader with legends and true stories about them. The book consists of five parts, each of ...

Tsvetnoi Atlas Rastenii Kryma, Kniga 2 [Colour Atlas of Crimean Plants, Book 2]

LP Vakhrusheva

The authors give a detailed description of each plant, write of its application, explain the origins of the plant's name, and familiarize the reader with legends and true stories about them. The book consists of five parts, each of ...

Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Volume 2: Ecology of Central European Non-Forest Vegetation, Coastal to Alpine

Christoph Leuschner and Heinz Ellenberg

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe's plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria ...

Wetland Plants for Sustenance of Mankind

SK Sood and Romita Sharma

This invaluable compendium provides its readers with exhaustive details of 203 underutilized Himalayan wetland plants belonging to 156 genera under 66 families with predominance of polypetalous groups. It is supplemented with updated ...

Yucca: Vorkommen, Bestimmen und Pflegen aller Arten aus Nordamerika [Yuccas: Occurrence, Identification and Care of all

Ramona Ondrovic and Stefan Ondrovic

When the authors started their investigations of yuccas 10 years ago, there was little to find for the reade on the German literary market. In garden books, the yuccas were only mentioned alongside other plants (palms, cacti, etc.) as an ...

Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation, Volume 4

Vijai Kumar Gupta and Anil K Verma

Volume 4 of the series Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation comprises a vast body of research on the subject and has been designed in such a way as to serve biologists, ecologists, environmentalists and conservationists ...

Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing

Nicola Ackerman

The third edition of Aspinall's Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing is the ideal text for both student and qualified veterinary nurses as it covers the entire veterinary nursing syllabus. Now written in the main by veterinary ...

Atlas de Dermatologie Porcine [Atlas of Porcine Dermatology]

J-M Gourreau, R Drolet, G-P Martineau, H Morvan, Paul-Pierre Pastoret, D Pin and W Scott

This Atlas, which has been lavishly illustrated, is the first of its kind and fills a gap in the global veterinary literature. The advantage of this book is that it takes into account all aspects of porcine dermatology (it covers ...

Atlas of Porcine Dermatology

J-M Gourreau, R Drolet, G-P Martineau, H Morvan, Paul-Pierre Pastoret, D Pin and W Scott

This Atlas, which has been lavishly illustrated, is the first of its kind and fills a gap in the global veterinary literature. The advantage of this book is that it takes into account all aspects of porcine dermatology (it covers ...

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

Neel Ahuja

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. ...

Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short Introduction

Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman

The earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular, rhythmic and, therefore, predictable ...

Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction

Richard Passingham

Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientifically. This began to change with the ...

Ebola Virus Disease

From Origin to Outbreak

Adnan Qureshi

Ebola Virus Disease: From Origin to Outbreak covers Ebola virus disease in its entirety from its origins through major outbreaks in the past to the present day outbreak. It contains information on the West Saharan response to Ebola ...

Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial Cells

Novel Insights into Disease Mechanisms

Cheryl A Nickerson, Neal R Pellis, C Mark Ott and Sandra H Magnus

Many breakthroughs in biological research and translational healthcare advancements have been achieved by studying the response of biological systems to extreme environments. The spaceflight platform provides a unique environment where ...

High-Pressure Microbiology

Chris Michiels, Douglas H Bartlett and Abram Aertsen

Explains the variety of effects of and adaptations to high pressure in microorganisms. - Summarizes the major findings in this field, and stimulates a cross-fertilization between the piezophile and the nonpiezophile high-pressure ...

Introducing Epigenetics

A Graphic Guide

Cath Ennis and Oliver Pugh

Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to ...

Learning and Memory

Eric R Kandel, Yadin Dudai and Mark R Mayford

We learn and remember information by modifying synaptic connections in the neuronal networks of our brain. Depending on the type of information being stored, these changes occur in different regions and different circuits of the brain.

Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Aysha Divan and Janice Royds

Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field in life sciences, and its applications are wide and growing. We can now harness the power of ...

Redesigning Life

How Genome Editing Will Transform the World

John Parrington

Since the birth of civilisation, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximize agricultural production and cater to our tastes in pets. The observation of ...

Social Life of Animals

Sukanya Datta and Babita Biswas

The world of animals is really fascinating. Unlike the human race, animals come in myriads of shapes, colours and show an astounding range of behaviour. They don't speak like humans, but they can communicate among themselves quite ...

Studying Animal Languages Without Translation

An Insight from Ants

Zhanna Reznikova

The author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals. To do so, she pursues a fundamentally new approach to studying animal communication ...

The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways

John E McMurry and Tadhg P Begley

The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways was written for an audience of advanced undergraduates and graduate students who want a deeper understanding of the chemical reactions that take place in living organisms. The authors ...

The Social Neuroscience of Human-Animal Interaction

Lisa S Freund, Sandra McCune, Layla Esposito, Nancy R Gee and Peggy McCardle

Our relationships with animals, as anyone with a beloved dog or cat knows, can be among the most significant in our lives. But why are we so attached to our pets? What kind of health, developmental, and psychological impacts do animals ...

Vision in the Animal World

Reginald H Smythe

A print-on-demand reprint of this introductory book on vision in the animal world, describing the various kinds of eyes in foremost vertebrates, how they function, and how well they are adapted to the needs of their owners. A few chapters ...

Wilder Sex: Das Liebesleben der Tiere [The Nature of Sex: The Ins and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom]

Carin Bondar and Susanne Schmidt-Wussow

In Wilder Sex, 'biologist with a twist' Carin Bondar presents the fascinating diversity of the reproductive habits of the animal kingdom, and through approachable explanations and humorous examples succeeds in making an ...

A Companion to Dental Anthropology

Joel D Irish, G Richard Scott and Clark Spencer Larsen

Companion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines of the field of dental anthropology – from its origins and evolution through to the latest scientific ...

Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2

The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity

Cinzia Verde and Guido di Prisco

The second volume of Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments – The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity from the series From Pole to Pole integrates the marine biology contribution of the first tome ...

Built on Bones

15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death

Brenna Hassett

Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life ...

Darwin's Bridge

Uniting the Humanities and Sciences

Joseph Carroll, Dan P McAdams, Edward O Wilson, Alice Dreger, David Sloan Wilson and Jo Gottschall

Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences explores the meaning of consilience and considers the unity of human evolution, human nature, social dynamics, art, and narrative. The term "consilience" in its ...

Evolution and Transitions in Complexity

The Science of Hierarchical Organization in Nature

Gerard AJM Jagers op Akkerhuis

Evolution and Transitions in Complexity discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close ...

History Within

The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules

Marianne Sommer

Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ...

Human Paleontology and Prehistory

Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak

Assaf Marom and Erella Hovers

The aim of Human Paleontology and Prehistory is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak ...

My European Family

A Genetic Adventure Across 54,000 Years

Karin Bojs

Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. So as part of the healing process, she decided to use DNA research to learn more about herself, her family and the ...

The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life

Richard P Shefferson, Owen R Jones and Roberto Salguero-Gomez

The existing theory on the evolution of senescence assumes that because ageing is inevitable in humans, this must be the case for all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding ...

The Metabolic Ghetto

An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease

Jonathan CK Wells

Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are especially susceptible.

The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis

New Insights from KSD-VP-1/1

Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Denise F Su

The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis describes a 3.6 million-years-old partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis from the Woranso-Mille, central Afar, Ethiopia. This specimen is the first adult ...

Applied Ecology

Monitoring, Managing, and Conserving

Anne E Goodenough and Adam Hart

We live in a complex and dynamic world. Understanding how to monitor, manage and conserve species and habitats – the goal of applied ecology – is of ever-increasing importance. Applied Ecology shows students ...

Perspectives on Ecology

A Critical Essay

Koula Mellos

Perspectives on Ecology is a critical analysis of the principal views on ecology including the neo-Malthusian, the expansionist, those of eco-development and of radical ecology comparing and evaluating their relative contributions ...

Reinvention of Australasian Biogeography

Reform, Revolt and Rebellion

Malte C Ebach

Biogeography, the study of the distribution of life on Earth, has undergone more conceptual changes, revolutions and turf wars than any other scientific field. Australasian biogeographers are responsible for several of these great upheavals ...

A Thinking Person's Guide to America's National Parks

Robert E Manning, Rolf Diamant, Nora J Mitchell and David Harmon

The book delves into issues affecting an array of parks: the iconic western national parks like Yellowstone; the urban parks such as Golden Gate National Recreation Area; historic sites including the Statue of Liberty National Monument ...

Catalogo de Furnas (Cuevas) Marinas: Parque Nacional Maritimo-Terrestre de las Islas Atlanticas de Galicia

Jose Higinio Diz

The book contains information on over 50 "furnas" (cavities excavated by the force of sea in rock fissures), hidden under the immense masses of granite in the Cies Islands, the Isla Sur o de San Martiño, the Isla Norte ...

Coastal Systems

Simon K Haslett

Oceans, land, and atmosphere comprise three dynamic forces that contribute to the physical and ecological evolution of coastlines. Coasts are responsive systems, themselves dynamic with identifiable inputs and outputs of energy and material ...

Exceptional Mountains

A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes

O Alan Weltzien

Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped ...

Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia

Randall W Myster

The Amazon basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is bounded to the north by the Guiana crystalline shield and to the south by the Brazilian ...

Forest Under Story

Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest

Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich and Frederick J Swanson

Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem's trees, wildlife ...

Gender and Forests

Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging Issues

Carol J Pierce Colfer, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlene Elias and Lorena Aguilar

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches ...

Lakes of the World with Google Earth

Understanding Our Environment

Anja M Scheffers and Dieter H Kelletat

Featuring satellite imagery from Google Earth, Lakes of the World with Google Earth provides a unique, highly visual tour of lakes across the globe, from the simple to the complex, the nearby to the remote. Clear text accompanies ...

Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

Felipe Bravo, Valerie LeMay and Robert Jandl

Climate change shaped the political agenda during the last decade with three issues as hot topics: commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, impact and mitigation of climate change. Given the significant role that forests ...

National Report on Sustainable Forest Management

State Forestry Administration

The National Report on Sustainable Forest Management, compiled by the State Forestry Administration combines various national forest inventories, results from monitoring, investigation and statistical information, and references ...

Parques Nacionales de Espana [National Parks of Spain]

Eduardo Martinez de Pison and Javier Sanchez

Parques Nacionales de España is the first book that brings together the best images of the 15 parks of the Spanish National Parks Network, one of the most prominent and biodiversity rich networks of the European continent ...

Plant, Soil and Microbes, Volume 1

Implications in Crop Science

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Mohd Sayeed Akhtar and Siti Nor Akmar Abdullah

The interactions between the plant, soil and microbes are complex in nature. Events may be antagonistic, mutualistic or synergistic, depending upon the types of microorganisms and their association with the plant and soil in question.

Plant, Soil and Microbes, Volume 2

Mechanisms and Molecular Interactions

Khalid Rehman Hakeem and Mohd Sayeed Akhtar

The interactions between the plant, soil, and microbes are very complex in nature and may be antagonistic, mutualistic, or synergistic, depending upon the types of microorganisms and their association with the plant and soil.

Seashore Ecology of New Zealand and the Pacific

John Morton

This huge book is from one of New Zealand's most respected scientists, Professor John Morton, and is the culmination of a life's work. Professor Morton and Dr Bruce Hayward (scientific editor) have painstakingly documented and ...

Upwelling Systems of the World

A Scientific Journey to the Most Productive Marine Ecosystems

Jochen K ñmpf and Piers Chapman

Upwelling systems are special places in the oceans where nutrient-enriched water is brought into the euphotic zone to fuel phytoplankton blooms that, via marine food-web interactions, create the world's richest fish resources.

Urban Forestry

Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces

Robert W Miller, Richard J Hauer and Les P Werner

Fully updated and greatly enhanced, the Third Edition of Urban Forestry addresses current issues in planning, establishing, and managing trees, forests, and other elements of nature in urban and community ecosystems. The authors ...

Urban Forests

A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape

Jill Jonnes

Nature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cityscapes, living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four ...

Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Volume 1: Ecology of Central European Forests

Christoph Leuschner and Heinz Ellenberg

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe's plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria ...

Backcasts: A Global History of Fly Fishing and Conservation

Samuel Snyder, Bryon Borgelt, Elizabeth Tobey, Jen Corrinne Brown and Chris Wood

"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect." – Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all ...

Biodiversity for Sustainable Development

KP Laladhas, Preetha Nilayangod and Oommen V Oommen

Divided into three sections, Biodiversity for Sustainable Development explores the three main pillars of sustainable development, namely economy, environment and society, and their interlinkages at the regional level. The first ...

Biodiversity, Environment and Functional Biology

M Serajuddin

From the preface: |Biodiversity is considered to be one of the key components of our basic life support systems. It is now widely recognized that the gene, species and ecosystem that are being lost at an increasingly accelerating ...

Bioprospecting: Successes, Potential and Constraints

Russell Paterson, Nelson Lima and David L Hawksworth

Bioprospecting: Successes, Potential and Constraints considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a foreword by David Hawksworth. The organisms addressed include plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and phages ...

Citizen Scientist

Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

Mary Ellen Hannibal

A science writer, mourning the recent loss of her father, finds solace in citizen science, with its promise to slow and reverse another kind of loss she's been deeply grappling with: the unprecedented mass extinction of species ...

Dead Zone

Where the Wild Things Were

Philip Lymbery

Climate change and habitat destruction are not the only culprits behind so many animals facing extinction. The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat is equally devastating and it is vital that we confront this problem if we are to ...

Economics of Biodiversity

I Sundar

The knowledge of economics of biodiversity is very essential to understand the linkages between biodiversity and economics and conflict between economic growth and biodiversity conservation. This book gives an idea about application of ...

Last of the Giants

The Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Dominant Species

Jeff Campbell

Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no ...

Make It a Green Peace!

The Rise of a Countercultural Environmentalism

Frank Zelko

Make it a Green Peace! explores the complex intellectual and cultural roots of Greenpeace, tracing the development of the organization from its emergence amidst the various protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s to the end of ...

Returning North with the Spring

John R Harris

At winter's end in 1947, driven by the devastating loss of a son killed in World War II, naturalist Edwin Way Teale and his wife Nellie followed the dawning spring season northward in an amazing 17,000 mile odyssey from the Everglades ...

Species Diversity of Animals in Japan

Masaharu Motokawa and Hiroshi Kajihara

Species Diversity of Animals in Japan summarizes the status quo of the knowledge about the biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals that live in Japan. Consisting of some 6,800 islands that are arrayed for ...

The Chicken and the Quetzal

Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest

Paul Kockelman

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation ...

To Save the Earth

The American Environmental Movement

Jules Archer and Erin Peabody

With today's climate change, our environmental problems aren't going away any time soon. To Save the Earth looks at the lives of four extraordinary Americans who fought to save our earth. John Muir, a pioneer of conservation ...

Wild Things, Wild Places

Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

Jane Alexander

A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists ...

Zooming in on Europe's Zoos

Sheridan's Guide to Europe's Zoos 2010-2015

Anthony Sheridan

Again Anthony Sheridan gives us an extensive overview over the leading European Zoos, which he is rating in updated versions of his ranking lists concerning visitor factors, education and conservation, management and organisation.

A Cultural History of Climate Change

Tom Bristow and Thomas H Ford

Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, A Cultural History of Climate Change examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change ...

An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy

Felix R FitzRoy and Elissaios Papyrakis

The 2nd edition of An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy explains the key scientific, economic and policy issues related to climate change in a completely up-to-date introduction for anyone interested, and students ...

Atmospheric Chemistry

Richard P Wayne and Ann M Holloway

There is a recognition that Man's local activities can have a global impact, possibly irreversible, on the atmosphere with political repercussions that have raised awareness of the importance of the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere ...

Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet

Abhijit Mitra and Sufia Zaman

The ever increasing emission of carbon dioxide due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, unplanned tourism and alteration of land use pattern is causing unprecedented changes to marine biodiversity. Irrespective of political philosophy ...

Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change

Anticipating, Assessing and Adapting to Future Change

Mark S Reed, Lindsay C Stringer and Christiana Figueres

Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them. Less still is known about how these processes are likely to interact in different ...

Retreat from a Rising Sea

Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

Orrin H Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis and Keith C Pilkey

Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level ...

Setting Up a Weather Station and Understanding the Weather

A Guide for the Amateur Meteorologist

Roger Brugge

This fascinating and well-illustrated book, which is packed with valuable information and advice, provides a complete guide to observing, recording and understanding the weather and to setting up an amateur weather station. As the author ...

Solar Variability and Its Effects on Climate

Judit M Pap and Peter Fox

Solar Variability and Its Effects on Climate presents a state-of-the-art description of the most recent results on solar variability and its possible influence on the Earth's climate and atmosphere. Our primary goal in doing ...

Sound Propagation Through the Stochastic Ocean

John A Colosi

The ocean is opaque to electromagnetic radiation and transparent to low frequency sound, so acoustical methodologies are an important tool for sensing the undersea world. Stochastic sound-speed fluctuations in the ocean, such as those ...

Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region

From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation

Gerassimos A Papadopoulos

Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events ...

A Geologic Walk around La Defense

Daniel Obert, Michel Steinberg and Jean-Charles Dartigues

The La Défense district sits at the heart of the Paris basin, a vast accumulation of sedimentary rocks, in a series of layers, almost 3 km thick. These rocks were deposited over the last 250 million years in the shallow seas that ...

Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin

Yujiro Ogawa, Ryo Anma and Yildirim Dilek

Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes. They are also an important component of continental growth both vertically and laterally.

Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy

Sedimentology and stratigraphy are neighbors yet distinctly separate entities within the earth sciences. Sedimentology searches for the common traits of sedimentary rocks regardless of age as it reconstructs environments and processes of ...

Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of the Niger Delta

Oluwafeyisola S Adegoke, Ajibola S Oyebamiji, James J Edet, Peter L Osterloff and Ogbonnaya K Ulu

Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of the Niger Delta is available just as exploration and production activities are moving into the little known deep water terrain of the Niger Delta. A thorough ...

Coastal Cliffs

Morphology and Management

Eric Bird

Coastal Cliffs: Morphology and Management offers an insight into the global occurrence, geomorphology, evolution, weathering and erosion of coastal cliffs and bluffs. Stabilization and preservation of cliffs are treated in detail ...

Colour Atlas of Glacial Phenomena

Michael J Hambrey and Jurg C Alean

Colour Atlas of Glacial Phenomena provides an illustrated guide to the wide variety of features found on and around the world's glaciers and ice sheets as well as the products of glacial erosion and deposition. It stresses ...

Dead Sea Transform Fault System: Reviews

Zvi Garfunkel, Zvi Ben-Avraham and Elisa Kagan

The Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental collision zone. Its geology and geophysics provide a natural laboratory for investigation of the surface ...

Disturbances in Geospace

The Storm-Substorm Relationship

A Surjalal Sharma, Yohsuke Kamide and Gurbax S Lakhina

Advancing our knowledge of the Sun-Earth connection and our capabilities to predict conditions in near-Earth geospace has captured the attention of geospace, solar and other scientists, prompting initiatives in many countries.

Earth's Low-Latitude Boundary Layer

Patrick T Newell and Terry Onsager

From the preface: "We imagine the reader of this preface standing at the AGU bookstall wondering if the tome in hand is worth buying. The answer is “no”, except for certain trifling exceptions. Those who wish ...

Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism

James DL White, John L Smellie and David A Clague

Subaqueous explosive eruptions are common, and in earth's early history were ubiquitous. Although they are unlike eruptions we find on land, they operate with the same fundamental processes. Deep-sea eruptions modify important seafloor ...

Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces

Mark A Donelan, WM Drennan, ES Saltzman and R Wanninkhof

The transfer of gases across the air-water interface has received much attention over the past two decades, particularly in light of increased societal interest in the exchange of greenhouse gases and pollutants between natural water ...

Geographical Investigations

Field Studies Council (FSC) and Open University (OU)

Independent investigation is worth 20% of the marks in A level Geography. This new guide is intended to support students through the process of planning, collecting and presenting data, analysis and evaluation.

Geological Structures

An Introductory Field Guide

Chris Pellant and Helen Pellant

Geological Structures is an easy-to-use, highly informative photographic field guide that introduces the great variety of geological features to be found all around us. The authors' beautiful photography, extended captions ...

Geological Walk in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris

Daniel Obert, Michel Steinberg and Jean-Charles Dartigues

This book invites to an unprecedented discovery of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, located on a small limestone plateau well protected at the end of a gulf. The reader will learn the astonishing coexistence between the walls of two ...

Geology and Paleontology of the Quaternary of Uruguay

Martin Ubilla and Sergio Martinez

Geology and Paleontology of the Quaternary of Uruguay provides an updated review and criticism of the progress of the continental, transitional and marine Quaternary deposits of Uruguay. It is primarily based on an analysis of ...

Geology of the South Wales Coalfield, Part 3: The Country around Cardiff

Memoir for sheet E263

RA Waters and DJD Lawrence

This memoir describes the district around the City of Cardiff and Barry situated beyond the southern margin of the South Wales Coalfield. The variable geology encompasses gently folded Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous rocks, now largely ...

Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars

Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance

John L Smellie and Benjamin R Edwards

The study of volcano-ice interactions, or 'glaciovolcanism', is a field experiencing exponential growth. This comprehensive volume presents a discussion of the distinctive processes and characteristics of glaciovolcanic eruptions ...

Green Chemistry

An Introductory Text

Mike Lancaster

Sustainable development, the circular economy and environmental issues are at the forefront of public and Government concern. The field of green chemistry aims to provide environmentally benign products from sustainable resources, using ...

Hawaiian Volcanoes

Deep Underwater Perspectives

Eiichi Takahashi, Peter W Lipman, Michael J Garcia, Jiro Naka and Shigeo Aramaki

In the summer of 1963, when a group of Japanese scientists arrived at the aged building of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, run by the U.S. Geological Survey, there began a program of cooperation and friendship between American and Japanese ...

Holocene Palaeotsunami Landfalls and Neotectonic Dynamics in the Western and Southern Peloponnese (Greece)

The Past as a Key to the Present and Predictor of the Future

Andreas Vott and Dieter H Kelletat

The eastern Mediterranean has been hit by numerous tsunami landfalls during the past millennia. This Supplementary Issue of Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie features the results of studies, conducted along the coasts of the western ...

Inside the Subduction Factory

John H Eiler

Subduction zones helped nucleate and grow the continents, they fertilize and lubricate the earth's interior, they are the site of most subaerial volcanism and many major earthquakes, and they yield a large fraction of the earth's ...

Mineral Resources in the Arctic

Rognvald Boyd, Terje Bjerkgard, Bobo Nordahl and Henrik Schiellerup

All available information on the most important metal- and diamond deposits in the Arctic has been assembled in a book (accompanied by a map) and in a database. These sources provide information on 28 diamond deposits and 207 large, very ...

Moon Owners' Workshop Manual

From 4.5 Billion Years Ago to the Present

David M Harland

There is renewed interest in the Moon in recent years, with the news that a Chinese lunar rover landed on the Moon in January 2014, and NASA announcing that it is looking for private partners to land a robot on the Moon's surface ...

Mountain Building in the Uralides

Pangea to the Present

Dennis Brown, Christopher Juhlin and Victor Puchkov

Extending for more than 2000 kilometers from the islands of Novaya Zemlya in the north to the Aral Sea in the south, the Uralide orogen forms the geographical and geological divide between Europe and Asia. For more than a century the ...

Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste

Ole G Mouritsen, Klavs Styrbaek and Mariela Johansen

Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces ...

Mt. Etna

Volcano Laboratory

Sonia Calvari, Mauro Coltelli, Ciro del Negro and Susanna Falsaperla

For thousands of years man has marvelled at the gigantic structure that makes up Mt. Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, and has lived side by side with the mountain, which despite its intense eruptive activity has always been ...

Natural Gas Hydrates

Occurrence, Distribution, and Detection

Charles K Paull and William P Dillon

Natural Gas Hydrates is published at a time when there is a growing interest in gas hydrates and major expansion in international research efforts. The first recognition of natural gas hydrate on land in Arctic conditions was ...

Naturens Menstre: Hvorfor Naturen Ser Ud, Som Den Ger [Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

Philip Ball and Inger Eleanor Hall Winkelmann

Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf.

Northeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide

Where and How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems and Minerals

Kathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette Matlins

Covers the following norheastern US states: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont ...

Northwest Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide

Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals

Kathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette Matlins

Covers the following northwestern US states: Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced ...

Outcrops Revitalized

Tools, Techniques and Applications

Ole J Martinsen, Andrew J Pulham, Peter DW Haughton and Morgan D Sullivan

Outcrops are fundamental to everything we hope to achieve in geological understanding. They are gateways to geological processes, earth history and they help ground-truth remote sensing applications. With increasing resolution of subsurface ...

Petrolipalynology

Dexin Jiang, Eleanora I Robbins, Yongdong Wang and Huiqiu Yang

Petrolipalynology addresses the principles and methods for determining petroleum source rocks based on fossil spores and pollen. Studying petroliferous basins in China, we discovered that there are often as many as three different ...

Platinum-Nickel-Chromium Deposits

Geology, Exploration and Reserve Base

SK Haldar

Platinum-Nickel-Chromium Deposits: Geology, Exploration, and Reserve Base is the first reference book to combine information on the discovery of numerous minerals within existing deposits.

Project Mercury

America in Space Series

Eugen Reichl

Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the ...

Quantifying Life

A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology

Dmitry A Kondrashov

Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche ...

Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy

Concepts and Applications

Henry W Posmentier and George P Allen

Sequence stratigraphy has experienced a virtual explosion of applications in recent years. During that time, the concepts upon which sequence stratigraphy is based have been evolving to conform to new observations as well as new types of ...

Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

Michael Shermer

For fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep scientific understanding ...

Southeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide

Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals

Kathy J Rygle, Stephen F Pedersen and Antoinette Matlins

Covers the following southeastern US states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Whether you’re digging ...

Southwest Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide

Where and How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems and Minerals

Kathy J Rygle and Stephen F Pedersen

Covers the following southwestern US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced rockhound or ...

Space Weather

Paul Song, Howard J Singer and George L Siscoe

Space Weather provides a comprehensive overview of our current observational knowledge, theoretical understanding, and numerical capability with regard to the phenomena known as space weather. Space weather refers to conditions ...

Stratigraphy & Timescales

Michael Montenari

Stratigraphy & Timescales covers current research across a wide range of stratigraphic disciplines, providing information on recent developments for the geoscientific research community. This fully commissioned review publicly ...

Telescopes: A Very Short Introduction

Geoff Cottrell

From the first, telescopes have made dramatic revelations about the Universe and our place in it. Galileo's observations of the Moon's cratered surface and discovery of Jupiter's four big satellites profoundly altered the ...

Testing Modern Biostratigraphical Methods

Application to the Ammonoid Zonation Across the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary

Carina Klein

Carina Klein examines the quality of the existing modern ammonoid zonation based on three methods, being Unitary Associations (UA), Constrained Optimization (CONOP) as well as Ranking and Scaling (RASC). The author sets out which of these ...

The Columbia Icefield

Robert William Sandford

The Columbia Icefield is the largest sub-polar accumulation of glacial ice in North America. Because it is possible to drive to the second largest glacier flowing out of the Columbia Icefield, it is the best-known ice age featuring ...

The Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: The Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen

Harald G Dill

The Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: The Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen will broaden readers' understanding of pegmatites in a special geodynamic setting, dealing with the emplacement of the Hagendorf-Pleystein Pegmatite ...

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700

Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America

Brian F Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenji, Tsuji Yoshinobu, Ueda Kazue and Da Yamaguchi

A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing ...

Timescales of the Paleomagnetic Field

James ET Channell, Dennis V Kent, William Lowrie and Joseph G Meert

To mark the 70th birthday of Neil D. Opdyke, a Chapman Conference entitled "Timescales ofthe Internal Geomagnetic Field" was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville on March 9-11, 2003. This AGU Chapman Conference was ...

Volcanism and the Earth's Atmosphere

Alan Robock and Clive Oppenheimer

Volcanic activity can have a profound effect on the Earth's atmosphere and environment across many spatial and temporal scales. From being the source of most gases in the atmosphere over geologic time scales, to producing climate change ...

Volcanoes: Encounters Through the Ages

David M Pyle

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world, volcanoes have intrigued many people, who ...

Battleground Alaska

Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness

Stephen W Haycox

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska. And no state takes in more federal money per capita, which accounts for a full third of Alaska's economy. This seeming paradox underlies the story Stephen Haycox tells in ...

Big Farms Make Big Flu

Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science

Rob Wallace and Mike Davis

Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry ...

Biotechnology Fundamentals

Firdos Alam Khan

A single source reference covering every aspect of biotechnology, Biotechnology Fundamentals, Second Edition breaks down the basic fundamentals of this discipline, and highlights both conventional and modern approaches unique to ...

Earth Democracy

Justice, Sustainability and Peace

Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy remains one of Vandana Shiva's key works, in which she addresses some of the most pressing issues of our age – the privatization of our natural resources, the looming environmental crisis, and the rising ...

Environmental Law in Scotland

An Introduction and Guide

Francis McManus

This pathfinding textbook concentrates the regulation of pollution in Scotland, including the common law controls. It includes sections on nuisance (including statutory nuisance), noise, air pollution (including climate change), waste ...

Farmageddon in Pictures

The True Cost of Cheap Meat in Bite-Sized Pieces

Philip Lymbery

Farmageddon in Pictures is a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices – delivered in handy, bite-sized pieces. Clear, direct text, lavishly illustrated with full-colour photography and ...

International Environmental Law and Policy

David Hunter, James Salzman and Durwood Zaelke

The most widely adopted text in the field, this comprehensive, multidisciplinary casebook analyzes all aspects of international environmental law and policy, including the major environmental treaty regimes, customary law principles and ...

Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources

Rangeland Co-Management, Property Rights and Access in Mongolia

Sandagsuren Undargaa

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology ...

Pure and Modern Milk

An Environmental History Since 1900

Kendra Smith-Howard

In the dairy aisle of the supermarket, one milk carton features cows grazing on a verdant pasture, backed by a forest and undulating hillside. On another, a cow's wide-eyed face beckons the thirsty drinker. To the casual shopper ...

Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy

Carl Gillett

Grand debates over reduction and emergence are playing out across the sciences, but these debates have reached a stalemate, with both sides declaring victory on empirical grounds.

Science and Sensibility

Negotiating an Ecology of Place

Michael Vincent McGinnis

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiation ...

Staying with the Trouble

Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J Haraway

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch ...

The Future of Meat Without Animals

Brianne Donaldson and Christopher Carter

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, costs less, and requires a fraction of the energy inputs. These products are no longer relegated ...

The John Nix Farm Management Pocketbook

John Nix

The John Nix Farm Management Pocketbook 2017 Edition is packed with new information and more detailed analyses that have not hitherto been available. These include - An easy to read and interpret commentary and analysis of ...

The Modern Savage

Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals

James McWilliams

In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement.

Transforming the Fisheries

Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons

Patrick Bresnihan

There is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry ...

Understanding Renewable Energy Systems

Volker Quaschning

By mid-century, renewable energy must cover all of our energy supply if we are to phase out nuclear and successfully stop climate change. Now updated and expanded, the 2nd edition of Understanding Renewable Energy Systems ...

Who Really Feeds the World?

The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

Vandana Shiva

The world's food supply is in the grip of a profound crisis. Humanity's ability to feed itself is threatened by a wasteful, globalized agricultural industry, whose relentless pursuit of profit is stretching our planet's ecosystems ...

Essentials of Probability Theory for Statisticians

Michael A Proschan and Pamela A Shaw

Essentials of Probability Theory for Statisticians provides graduate students with a rigorous treatment of probability theory, with an emphasis on results central to theoretical statistics. It presents classical probability theory ...

Introduction to Environmental Modeling

William Gray and Genetha A Gray

Introduction to Environmental Modeling presents an understanding of how basic physical descriptions can be translated into mathematical analogues that provide an opportunity to investigate environmental processes.

Probabilistic Models of Population Evolution

Scaling Limits, Genealogies and Interactions

Etienne Pardoux

This expository book presents the mathematical description of evolutionary models of populations subject to interactions (e.g. competition) within the population. The author includes both models of finite populations, and limiting models ...

Species Concepts in Biology

Historical Development, Theoretical Foundations and Practical Relevance

Frank E Zachos

Frank E. Zachos offers a comprehensive review of one of today's most important and contentious issues in biology: the species problem. After setting the stage with key background information on the topic ...

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics

Using Microsoft Excel 2016

Neil J Salkind

Based on Neil J. Salkind's bestselling text, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, this adapted Excel 2016 version presents an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is clear, informative ...

What If There Were No Significance Tests?

Lisa L Harlow, Stanley A Mulaik and James H Steiger

The classic edition of What If There Were No Significance Tests? highlights current statistical inference practices. Four areas are featured as essential for making inferences: sound judgment, meaningful research questions ...

But Can I Start a Sentence with

Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A

The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff and Carol Fisher Saller

Q. Is it "happy medium" or "happy median"? My author writes: "We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme."

Doing Global Science

A Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise

InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)

This concise introductory guide explains the values that should inform the responsible conduct of scientific research in today's global setting. Featuring accessible discussions and ample real-world scenarios ...

Land Resource Atlas of West Bengal

National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning

This volume presents qualitative and quantitative information on physical and cultural themes from published and unpublished sources that relate to administration, demography, land, climate, water, soil and infrastructure. Providing maps ...

Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review

Andrew Booth, Anthea Sutton and Diana Papaioannou

Showing you how to take a structured and organized approach to a wide range of literature review types, Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review helps you to choose which approach is right for your research.

The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

Bryan A Garner

Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's popular "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision ...

The PhDictionary

A Glossary of Things You Don't Know (but Should) About Doctoral and Faculty Life

Herb Childress

Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering ...

What Every Science Student Should Know

A Survival Guide for Undergrads

Justin L Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H Zureick and Daniel K Lee

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students [...] We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict ...

Zoological Collections of Germany

The Animal Kingdom in its Amazing Plenty at Museums and Universities

Lothar A Beck

Zoological Collections of Germany is devoted to the knowledge of up to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving animals by generations of scientists. Zoological Collections are a huge resource for modern animal research ...