Bat Echolocation Research: Tools, Techniques and Analysis

Edited by R Mark Brigham et al

This 167-page book features 26 presentations by the world's top echolocation scientists, covering the latest research on virtually every aspect of echolocation research and ....

Cougar Management Guidelines

Tom Beck et al

Compiled by the Cougar Management Guidelines Working Group, this book represents an exhaustive three-year analysis and provides essential information into what is known ....

Ecology Of Small Mammals of Desert and Montane Ecosystems

P Singh and I Prakash

Small mammals (Rodents and Insectivores) constitute 31.18% of total mammal species found in India. In spite of their abundance, this largest group among mammals has received ....

Faune de France, Volume 89: Cetaces de France

Daniel Robineau

Detailed taxonomy, history, description, keys, biology and ecology with illustrations of all whale and dolphin species found in the French waters of the Mediterannean, the ....

The Laboratory Primate

Edited by Sonia Wolfe-Coote

The Laboratory Primate details the past and present use of primates in biomedical research, and the husbandry, nutritional requirements, behaviour, and breeding of each ....

The Laboratory Rat

Edited by Mark A Suckow, Steven H Weisbroth and Craig L Franklin

This title covers a variety of topics, including: rat genetics and genomics, both spontaneous and induced disease; state-of-the-art technology for housing and husbandry; ....

Marine Mammals of the North Atlantic

CC Kinze

Despite strong public interest in marine mammals and the incredible popularity of whale watching, particularly in the North Atlantic, many marine mammal populations remain ....

Rats

A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

Robert Sullivan

Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Robert Sullivan-intrepid journalist, ....

Right Whales: Natural History and Conservation

P Clapham

This unique portrait contains a text packed with facts and field experiences, alongside rare photographs of the whales. It reveals their natural history, discusses their ....

Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal

D Owen and D Pemberton

This is the first book published on the animal that has the distinction of being the world's largest marsupial carnivore, and it is packed with information that has never ....

Tiger

Susie Green

Historical and cultural account of the tiger, showing how the decline of its natural habitat and relentless pressure from poachers and farmers have turned a naturally ....

War Elephants

John M Kistler

This work tells the largely forgotten tale of war elephants. Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian powers boasted of their pachyderm ....

Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages

Aleks Pluskowski

Compares responses to wolves in Britain and southern Scandinavia in medieval times, exploring distribution of wolves in the landscape, impact as predators on both animals ....

The World of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: Natural History and Conservation

Tony Martin

Whales, dolphins, and porpoises form the fascinating order of cetaceans. This easy-to-read introduction to their diversity contains information on some 85 species. ....

Biometrics of Birds throughout the Greater Caribbean Basin

Wayne J Arendt, John Faaborg, George E Wallace and Orlando H Garrido

Includes morphometrics table and individual species files on CD. ....

Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know

John Farndon

First identified in China, this apparently merciless virus which originated in chickens has the potential to mutate, possibly killing thousands, even millions, of people. But ....

Bird Sounds of Goa and South India

Hannu Jannes

Covers 100 species. ....

The Bird Sounds of Sri Lanka

D Warakagoda

The first audio guide to the birds of Sri Lanka for use as an identification guide or to provide a pleasant nature 'soundscape'. It features 99 species grouped in ten habitat ....

Birds of European Cities

Birds of European Cities is the first book to describe any aspect of the natural history of man-made habitats across Europe or any other continent. The urban habitats present in ....

Common Birds in Oman

An Identification Guide

J Eriksen and H Eriksen

Some 400 colour photographs are included in this book to help identify 250 species of birds, which cover all the common, and many not so common, birds found in Oman. Species ....

Feathers and Eggshells: The Bird Journal of a Young London Girl

Natalie Lawrence

The author of this book is a teenager with a passion for wild birds. Here Natalie Lawrence takes us on an extended tour of her favourite bird watching area - Hampstead ....

National Geographic Complete Birds of North America

Jonathan Alderfer

The National Geographic Complete Book of Birds covers every bird species in North America, as well as all migrants. The entries are organized by 82 family groups, ....

RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching

David Chandler and Mike Unwin

This new RSPB-endorsed book is a practical, exciting and comprehensive introduction to watching birds, for children aged 8-12 years. Fully illustrated throughout with colour ....

SASOL Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa

N Arlott et al

This eagerly awaited new edition of The Sasol Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa (1st ed., 1996) has been brought fully up to date with the third edition ....

Why Birds Sing

One Man's Quest to Solve an Everyday Mystery

David Rothenberg

The richness and variety of birdsong is both a scientific mystery and a source of wonder. David Rothenberg has a unique approach to this fascinating subject - a musician ....

Woodpeckers of North America

Frances Backhouse

A comprehensive, profusely illustrated natural history of all 28 North American species of woodpeckers. ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Bay Islands and Cayos Cochinos, Honduras

JR McCranie, LD Wilson and G Kohler

The Bay Islands and Cayos Cochinos are home to 55 amphibian and reptile species, 12 of which are endemic to these islands. Hog Island Boas occur here as well as five species ....

Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World

E Beltz

Covers the history of the frog, its unique anatomical makeup, its place in the natural world, and threats that are seriously reducing its numbers. It includes all 31 families ....

Atlantic Salmon in Maine

Because of the pervasive and substantial decline of Atlantic salmon populations in Maine over the past 150 years, and because they are close to extinction, a comprehensive ....

Fish Biomechanics

Robert E Shadwick and George V Lauder

The first in two decades to exclusively integrate physiological and biomechanical studies of fish locomotion, feeding and breathing, making this book both comprehensive ....

Fish Physiology, Volume 21

The Physiology of Tropical Fishes

Edited by Adalberto Luis Val Val et al

The Physiology of Tropical Fishes is the 21st volume of the well-known Fish Physiology series and consists of 12 chapters. The purpose of the book is to consolidate and ....

Haie im Mittelmeer

Alle 49 Arten

Allessandro De Maddalena and Harold Bänsch

Detailed descriptions of all 46 types of sharks found in the Mediterrannean, richly illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings. ....

Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas

Edited by John N Rinne, Robert M Hughes and Bob Calamusso

Dramatic changes have occurred in the functioning of larger rivers because of social values and policies, land use, inchannel causes, and alien species. These changes have ....

Atlas Preliminaire de Repartition Geographique des Mollusques Stygobies de la Faune de France (Mollusca: Rissoiodea: Caenogastropoda)

A Bertrand

Taxonomy and distribution of 75 stygobiont molluscs found in France. ....

Bengaliidae Du Monde (Insecta: Diptera)

AZ Lehrer

This monograph reveals spectacular and previously unknown, taxonomic diversity of the new myrmecophilous dipteran family Bengaliidae. ....

Damselflies and Dragonflies (Odonata) of Ontario: Resource Guide and Annotated List

PM Catling and VR Brownell

Annotated list of 168 species of odonata in Ontario including conservation status, flight period, habitat, distribution and identification. ....

Deep-Sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico

K Larsen

This book deals with a large number of deep-sea taxa of Tanaidacea from the Gulf of Mexico, primarily collected during the Deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos Study and the North ....

Diptera Diversity: Status, Challenges and Tools

DJ Bickel, T Pape and R Meier

This is the first comprehensive synopsis of the biodiversity of Diptera, which with more than 150,000 described species contain more than one tenth of all described animal ....

Field Guide to Dragonflies of Hong Kong

KDP Wilson

One hundred and twelve species have now been recorded in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and all of them are illustrated in this 2nd edition. ....

Hong Kong Butterflies

P Yik-fui Lo and WL Hui

Hong Kong Butterflies is the first butterfly guidebook in Hong Kong complete with information on 238 local species. In addition to knowledge about butterflies, the book ....

Insect Ecology

An Ecosystem Approach

Edited by Timothy D Schowalter

New edition of this useful text, which integrates the traditional emphasis on insect diversity, life history adaptations, and species interactions with insects roles in ....

Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates

Edited by H König and A Varma

Soil microorganisms play a major role in the degradation and recycling of organic material. Microbes are involved in the food web and strongly contribute to soil ....

Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries

Edited by Bruce Phillips

Lobsters: Biology, Management and Exploitation is an extremely comprehensive book covering the major commercially exploited species of lobsters worldwide. Divided into ....

Nature's Versatile Engine

Insect Flight Muscle Inside and Out

Edited by Jim Vigoreaux

This first edition book integrates knowledge from all disciplines that study muscle function, from single molecule biophysics to flight aerodynamics. Nature's Versatile ....

Nomina Carabidarum - a Directory of the Scientific Names of Ground Beetles

Insecta Coleoptera "Geaephaga" : Trachypachidae and Carabidae Incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae

W Lorenz

All published family-, genus- and species-group names of the ground beetles of the world, including synonims, most important unavailable names, incorrect original or ....

Sea Lice of Taiwan

Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Calligidae

JS Ho and CL Lin

Systematic List of Extant Ground Beetles of the World

Insecta Coleoptera "Geaephaga" : Trachypachidae and Carabidae Incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae

W Lorenz

All published family-, genus- and species-group names of the ground beetles of the world, including synonims, most important unavailable names, incorrect original or ....

Veldgids Schelpen

RH De Bruyne

A field guide to shells that can be found along the coast of the Netherlands, Belgium, the Wadden Sea and Heligoland. ....

High-Resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology

Peter J Harries

This volume delves into a spectrum of theoretical as well as applied aspects of high-resolution stratigraphic approaches in paleontology. It explores how increasingly ....

Hominid Fossils CD-ROM - An Interactive Atlas

James Ahern

The CD-based interactive atlas includes over 75 key fossils that are important for a clear understanding of human evolution. The QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) "object" ....

Interpretation of Biological and Environmental Changes Across the Neoproterozoic Cambrian Boundary

Edited by LE Babcock

The Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition was a time of fundamental change in the biosphere. Between about 570 and 510 million years ago, marine organisms underwent ....

Micropaleontologia

Edited by Eustoquio Molina

Neogene, Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania

A Window into the Evolutionary History of East Africa

Edited by Terry Harrison

Contributions to this volume detail paleontologic research in Manonga Valley, and shed important light on the evolutionary development of eastern Africa. Chapters provide ....

Studies on Mexican Paleontology

Edited by FJ Vega et al

The most relevant contributions on Mexican Paleontology are described by specialists. Diverse aspects of almost every fossil group are reviewed. Information on recent ....

Rotifera X

Rotifer Research: Trends, New Tools and Recent Advances

Edited by A Herzig, RD Gulati, CD Jersabek and L May

This volume reflects the latest developments in the research of a global community of rotifer researchers, who came together at Illmitz, Austria in 2003. Contributions are ....

Above the World: Stunning Satellite Images From Above Earth

R Fiennes

See the earth as never before in this brand new book featuring amazing photographic views of the world. The "Photographic Atlas of the World" is far more than an atlas or a ....

The Blue

UNESCO

Richly illustrated with breathtaking photographs, this book is dedicated to the Earth's seascapes. It captures the true beauty of the oceans and the creatures that inhabit ....

Curious Incidents in the Garden at Night-Time

The Fantastic Story of the Disappearing Night

Allan Shepherd

"A passionate celebration of the biodiversity and wildlife on our doorsteps. Perfect for gardeners who love a good yarn" ....

Eight Preposterous Propositions

From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming

Robert Ehrlich

Contains a series of case studies of some of the most controversial topics in the natural and social sciences, and serves as a primer for evaluating the evidence for the ....

Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity

Andrew Robinson

Einstein's universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics, as Andrew Robinson shows in this authoritative, accessible illustrated ....

Electronic Brains

Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age

Mike Hally

By the 1960s, IBM had beaten all rivals and dominated the world computer market. But IBM came late to the race. From the 1930s to the 1960s, small, independent teams on four ....

Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals, 1750-1900

L Lippincott

This book examines humankind's relationship with the animal kingdom as depicted in art. Included are paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs ranging from ....

Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science

Simon Mitton

The first astronomer to publicize his subject on radio and television, Sir Fred Hoyle rose to national prominence in the 1950s as a result of his controversial ideas on the ....

Lewis and Clark

Across the Divide

Carolyn Gilman

Gilman draws from 50 different leading institutions to reassemble the authentic artifacts of Lewis and Clark's journey across then-Indian lands. The book gives a ....

The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and their Promise

Ann Parson

Stem cells could be the key that unlocks cures to scores of diseases and illnesses. Their story is at once compelling, controversial, and remarkable. Part detective story, ....

Self-Portrait with Turtles: A Memoir

David M Carroll

Autobiography of the author of "The Year of the Turtle". ....

Spiegel van de Natuur

Het Natuurbeeld in Cultuurhistorisch Perspectief

MGC Schouten

Supressing the Diseases of Animals and Man

Theobald Smith, Microbiologist

Claude E Dolman and Richard J Wolfe

Based primarily on personal papers and correspondence that have remained in the possession of Smith's family, this is a biography of Theobald Smith, widely considered ....

Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Clarence Glacken

Strangely, we missed this seminal work on publication. To our amazement it is still in print! ....

What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Science in the Age of Certainty

Edited by John Brockman

"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org ....

Antarctica From South America

B Stonehouse

This the latest of Bernard Stonehouses' Antarctica travelogues. It is based on his previous work The Last Continent: Discovering Antarctica but has been revised since hsi ....

Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert

BK Tyagi and QH Baqri

A unique melange of scientific investigations on diversified ecological subjects pertaining to different organism groups, from as tiny as protozoa to as giant as ....

Collins Field Guide to British Wildlife Sounds

Geoff Sample

New field guide with CD. ....

Environmental Histories of New Zealand

E Pawson

Presents an interdisciplinary account of one of the most rapid and extensive transformations of nature in human history: that which followed Maori and then European ....

Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Aldemaro Romero and Sarah E West

This book is a non-technical interdisciplinary collection of 12 essays, each of which uses natural or social science methods. The essays analyze a representative set of ....

Fauna of Saudi Arabia: Index to Vols 1-20

W Buttiker and F Krupp

The Gambia Traveller's Map

Historia Natural de Chamela

Edited by FA Noguera et al

Island at the End of the World

The Turbulent History of Easter Island

Stephen Roger Fischer

Good general account of the famous island, recently brought into focus again by Jared Diamond's 'Collapse'. ....

Jungles of Sri Lanka

Jean C Roche and Anthony Walker

Five concerts from most of the island's habitats, followed by a sound guide specifically isolating 43 particular species. 11 of Sri Lanka's 23 endemics are included, and many ....

Lonely Planet Travel Guide: South Pacific

Geert Cole, Leanne Logan, Susannah Farfor et al

Memories of Welsh Islands

M Gillham

A comprehensive account of the author's visits to the offshore islands of South and Welsh Wales recording the rich and diverse natural life, mainly bird, botanic and marine ....

Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente

Vv.Aa

Richly illustrated book on the geology, climate, flora and fauna of the National Park on La Palma, Canary Islands. ....

Parque Nacional del Teide

MA Hernandez et al

Detailed guide to the geology, climate, flora and fauna of Tenerife's national park. ....

Rodlistade Arter i Sverige 2005 / The 2005 Red List of Swedish Species

U Gardenfors

The 2005 Red List of Swedish Species is an account of animal, plant and fungi species whose populations in Sweden are considered not to be viable in a long-term perspective. ....

Spectrum Guide to Namibia

Comprehensive guide to this breathtaking country for both the business and leisure traveller, with more than 200 colour ....

To the Mouths of the Ganges

An Ecological and Cultural Journey

Frederic C Thomas

Vivid and invaluable account of the ecology and culture of the lower Ganges Delta. It is surprising how little literature there is on the this area. ....

Algae and their Biotechnological Potential

Edited by Feng Chen and Yue Jiang

Algae are important organisms that include seaweeds and a number of single-celled and multicellular microscopic forms. Algae are ubiquitous; they inhabit almost everywhere ....

Alstroemerias de Chile

Diversidad Distribucion y Conservacion

M Munoz and A Moreira

Covers 33 species, emphasis on conservation. ....

Basic and Applied Aspects of Seed Biology

Edited by RH Ellis, M Black, AJ Murdoch and TD Hong

The Fifth International Workshop on Seeds was held at the University of Reading, UK, from 10 to 15 September, 1995. Some 230 seed scientists, from a wide range of ....

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 46: Freshwater Diatoms from Ile de la Possession (Crozet Archipelago, Subantarctica)

Bart Van de Vijver, Yves Frenot and Louis Beyens

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 47: Marine Cocconeis Ehrenberg

(Bacillariophyceae) species and related taxa from Kerguelen's Land

Catherin Riaux-Gobin and Oscar Romero

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 50: Preliminary Phylogeny of the Family Surirellaceae (Bacillariophyta)

Elizabeth C Ruck and Patrick Kociolek

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 51: The genus Stauroneis in the Arctic and (Sub-)Antarctic Regions

Bart Vijver, Louis Beyens and Horst Lange-Bertalot

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 52: A Survey of Alveolate Species of the Diatom Genus Cocconeis (Ehr.) with Remarks on the New Section

&bAlveolatae

Mario/Romero, Oscar De Stefano

Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Basis of Phytoremediation

G Kvesitadze, G Khatisashvili, T Sadunishvili and J Ramsden

Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows how systematic application of the results of investigations ....

Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States

Edited by EM Coombs

Undesirable invasive plants are infesting public and private lands in the USA at an alarming rate. These nonnative species destroy native habitats, threaten endangered ....

Caribbean Spice Island Plants

Trees, shrubs and climbers of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique

William D Hawthorne, Dean Jules and Guido Marcelle

This is a book for browsers, an annotated catalogue, and a photo-guide to the plants of Grenada. The simple format makes it ideal for complete botanical beginners, but it is ....

Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

Edited by NW Legon and A Henrici

The first comprehensive checklist of the fungi of Great Britain and Ireland, providing publication references and brief habitat, frequency and distribution details for all ....

Communication in Plants

Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life

Edited by Frantisek Baluska, Stefano Mancuso and Dieter Volkmann

Plant neurobiology is a newly emerging field of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization - from molecules up to ecological ....

Discoveries in Photosynthesis

Edited by Govindjee, JT Beatty, H Gest and JF Allen

Life Is Bottled Sunshine" [Wynwood Reade, Martyrdom of Man, 1924]. This inspired phrase is a four-word summary of the significance of photosynthesis for life on earth. The ....

Disease and Insect Resistance in Plants

DP Singh and Arti Singh

The book covers in detail the principles and practices of conventional plant breeding as well as newer and recent biotechnological tools such as marker assisted selection and ....

Ecophysiology of High Salinity Tolerant Plants

Edited by M Ajmal Khan and Darrell J Weber

The halophytes are highly specialized plants, which have greater tolerance to salt. They can germinate, grow and reproduce successfully in saline areas which would cause the ....

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Volume 9: Rutaceae - Zygophyllaceae

Julian A Steyermark, Paul E Berry, Kay Yatskievych and Bruce K Holst

The final volume in the series Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, illustrated with 503 black-and-white drawings by Venezuelan artist Bruno Manara,covering over half of the 971 ....

Fungi Europaei: Polyporaceae s.l.

Annarosa Bernicchia

Complete description in Italian and English of more than 270 species, most of them accompanied by a colour photograph and micrograph, taxonomic notes and identification ....

Fungi of Australia

Hygrophoraceae

AM Young

The family Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales) includes some of the most beautiful examples of gilled fungi. Many species are brilliantly coloured and their shapes are exquisitely ....

Fungi of Northern Europe, Volume 3: the Genus Hebeloma

J Vesterholt

This book provides identification keys, detailed descriptions, colour photographs and drawings of the microscopical features of 45 species known from northern European. ....

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 28

Edited by Jules Janick

Contributors. Dedication: M. Allen Stevens (Fredrick A. Bliss). 1. Plant Nomenclature and Taxonomy: An Horticultural and Agronomic Perspective (David M. Spooner, Wilbert L. ....

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 29

Wild Apple and Fruit Trees of Central Asia

Edited by Jules Janick

Contributors; Dedication: Calvin R. Sperling - Philip L. Forsline; 1. Collection, Maintenance, Characterization, and Utilization of Wild Apples of Central Asia - Philip ....

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 31

Edited by Jules Janick

Contributors; Dedication: Dale E. Kester - Thomas M. Gradziel; 1. Girdling: Physiological and Horticultural Aspectsn - R. Goren, M. Huberman, and E. E. Goldschmidt; ....

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 32

Edited by Jules Janick

Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in the horticultural sciences. The emphasis is on applied topics including the production of fruits, ....

Improvement Strategies of Leguminosae Biotechnology

Edited by Pawan K Jaiwal and Rana P Singh

Legumes include many very important crop plants that contribute very critical protein to the diets of both humans and animals around the world. Their unique ability to fix ....

Improvement Strategies of Leguminosae Biotechnology

Edited by Pawan K Jaiwal and Rana P Singh

Volume 10B presents the current state and future prospects of in vitro regeneration and genetic transformation expression and stability of transgenes modification of traits in ....

In Vitro Culture of Mycorrhizas

Edited by S Declerck, DG Strullu and JA Fortin

The technique of in vitro cultivation of root organs has been developed over the past few decades and opens up new ways of studying plant-fungi associations. It is a ....

An Introduction to Plant Breeding

Peter Caligari and Jack Brown

A knowledge of how plants are bred is absolutely essential to all crop and plant scientists and is an integral part of all agriculture and plant sciences undergraduate ....

Lotus Japonicus Handbook

Edited by Antonio J Marquez

Legumes are very important plants playing a central role in biological research. They are a key component of sustainable agricultural systems because of symbiotic nitrogen ....

Norsk Flora

J Lid and DT Lid

Standard flora for Norway, covering the 2880 higher plants, including a full systematic comentary with notes on ecology and distribution. ....

Orchards

Through the Eyes of An Artist

J Latimer

Celebrates the wonderfully diverse nature of orchards in Britain. Over a two year period, artist Jonathan Latimer travelled across the country in a bid to document ....

Photomorphogenesis in Plants and Bacteria

Function and Signal Transduction mechanisms

Edited by Eberhard Schäfer and Ferenc Nagy

This unique resource reviews progress made by scientists researching the ambient changes in the wavelength, intensity, direction and duration of light and how it affects plant ....

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment

Edited by Barbara Demmig-Adams, William W Adams III and Autar Mattoo

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment examines the processes whereby plants monitor environmental conditions and orchestrate their response ....

Photosystem II

The Light-Driven Water:Plastoquinone Odixoreductase

Edited by Thomas J Wydrzynski and Kimiyuki Satoh

Dedicated to the memory of one of the early pioneers in this field of research, Professor Gerald T. Babcock, the 34 inclusive chapters of the present volume cover all ....

Plant Biotechnology and in vitro Biology in the 21st Century

Edited by Arie Altman, Meira Ziv and Shamay Izhar

Proceedings of the IX International Congress of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, Jerusalem, Israel 14-19 June 1998. ....

Plant Tissue Culture Engineering

Edited by S Dutta Gupta and Yasuomi Ibaraki

Decades of research in plant tissue culture has passed through many challenges, created new dreams and resulted in landmark achievements. This has been possible not only due to ....

Plant-Microbe Interactions

Edited by BB Biswas and HK Das

This comprehensive volume provides a detailed review of current research covering different modes of interaction between microbes and plants. Included among the ....

Plants and Climate Change

Edited by Jelte Rozema, Rien Aerts and Hans Cornelissen

The book Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past. The chapters describe how ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 65

Edited by K Esser, U Luttge, W Beyschlag and J Murata

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 67

Genetics-Physiology-Systematics-Ecology

Edited by K Esser, U Lüttge, W Beyschlag and J Murata

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. ....

Reproductive Allocation in Plants

Edited by Edward Reekie and Fakhri A Bazzaz

. The Resource Economy of Plant Reproduction P. Staffan Karlsson and Marcos Mendez I. Introduction II. Historical Prelude III. The Principle of Allocation IV. Reproductive ....

A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon, Volume 15

Part B: Ferns and Fern-Allies

Edited by Monika Shaffer-Fehre

The Structure and Function of Plastids

Edited by Robert R Wise and J Kenneth Hoober

The Structure and Function of Plastids is Volume 23 in the Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series. This volume provides a comprehensive look at the biology of ....

Thirty Years of Photosynthesis

1974 - 2004

Edited by Grahame J Kelly and Erwin Latzko

This is a reader that gives a complete overview of the history of photosynthesic carbon metabolism research up to the very latest state of the art. ....

Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

Edited by Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Aharon Oren and Ana Plemenitas

This book intends to provide an overview of current research on halophilic microorganisms, highlighting the diversity of life forms adapted to tolerate high salt ....

Allelopathy

A Physiological Process with Ecological Implications

Edited by Manuel J Reigosa, Nuria Pedrol and Luis Gonzalez

This book provides the reader with relevant information about actual knowledge of the process of allelopathy, covering all aspects from the molecular to the ecological level. ....

Avian Influenza

Prevention and Control

Edited by Remco S Schrijver and G Koch

Avian Influenza has become one of the biggest threats for human and animal health. The old paradigm was that the disease in waterfowl, poultry, pigs and man was caused by ....

Behaviour and Neurodynamics for Auditory Communication

Edited by Jagmeet Kanwal and Gunter Ehret

How do their brains encode the large amounts of sensory information so rapidly and how do they use this to cope with their environment? These questions not only concern the ....

Biology of Inositols and Phosphoinositides

Edited by A Lahiri Majumder and BB Biswas

volume describes the current status of the biology of inositols and phosphoinositides with an emphasis on the development in the area since the publication of volume 26 in ....

DNA Barcoding of Life, Volume 360, Number 1462

V Savolainen

An international consortium of major natural history museums, herbaria and other organizations has launched an ambitious project, the `Barcode of Life Initiative', to ....

Introducing Biological Rhythms

Willard L Koukkari and Robert B Sothern

Subtitled `A Primer on the Temporal Organization of Life, with Implications for Health, Society, Reproduction, and the Natural Environment.' ....

Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds: Adaptation to Exotic Environments

Edited by Joseph Seckbach

In this Journey to Microbial Worlds we present the diversity of microorganisms, from the state of fossil microbes in Archaean age rocks to the possibilities of extraterrestrial ....

Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants

Edited by Harinder PS Makkar and Christopher S McSweeney

Until recently, knowledge of ruminant gut microbiology was primarily obtained using classical culture based techniques, which probably only account for 10 to 20% of the ....

Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes

Edited by Erko Stackebrandt

Systematic biology has a far wider application than merely the provision of a reliable classification scheme for new strains. With the framework of the hierarchic system ....

Pseudomonas, Volume 4: Molecular Biology of Emerging Issues

Edited by Juan-Luis Ramos and Roger C Levesque

The first three volumes of the Pseudomonas series covered the biology of pseudomonads in a wide context, including the niches they inhabit, the taxonomic relations among members ....

Rise and Fall of Epithelial Phenotype

Concepts of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

Pierre Savagner

Epithelial phenotype is a dynamic stage of differentiation that can be modulated during several physiological or pathological events. The rapid conversion to a mesenchymal-like ....

Selective Sweep

Edited by Dmitry Nurminsky

Selective Sweep deals with the theory and practice of detection of recent adaptive evolution at the genomic level from the patterns of DNA polymorphism. Recent advances in ....

Zoological Record, Volume 141 (2005)

Biosis

Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought

RJ Bird

A critique of the basic tenets of Darwinism, this book argues that randomness is a means of infinite order, not disorder. It claims that complexity does not arise from random ....

The Chemistry of Evolution

The Development of Our Ecosystem

RJP Williams and JR Frausto Da Silva

Conventionally, evolution has always been described in terms of species. The Chemistry of Evolution takes a novel, not to say revolutionary, approach and examines the ....

Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate

Mladec Caves and their Remains

Edited by Maria Teschler-Nicola

The Upper Paleolithic fossils of the Mladec caves, South Moravia, excavated at the end of the 19th century, hold a key position in the current discussion on modern human ....

Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies

Frederic L Pryor

Drawing upon the disciplines of economics, anthropology, statistics, and history, and employing a new and unified analytic approach, Frederic L. Pryor reformulates in this ....

Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

Edward J Larson

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Summer for the Gods", Edward J. Larson takes us on a guided tour of Darwin's "dangerous idea," from its theoretical antecedents in the early ....

Life As we Know It

Edited by J Seckbach

Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes and finally to various ....

Life in the Universe

From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on Other Worlds

Edited by J Seckbach, J Chela-Flores, T Owen and F Raulin

The year 2003 was the 50th anniversary of the seminal experiment of Stanley Miller. This was a unique opportunity for highlighting the current interest in this most ....

Origins

Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life

Edited by J Seckbach

Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Biodiversity of Microbial Life in the Universe is the sixth unit of the book series Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and ....

The Revenge of Gaia

James Lovelock

New installment of Lovelock's writings on Gaia, in which he argues that the only way for humankind to come to terms with Gaia now, and have a chance of surviving, is to embrace ....

A Changing World

Challenges for Landscape Research

Edited by Felix Kienast, Sucharita Ghosh and Otto Wildi

Landscape Research has been established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. During the ....

Complexity in Landscape Ecology

DG Green, N Klomp, G Rimmington and S Sadedin

Interactions matter. To understand the distributions of plants and animals in a landscape you need to understand how they interact with each other, and with their ....

Dood Doet Leven

De Natuur van Dode Tieren

Edited by Ruud Lardinois

A rare and fascinating look at what happens to the carcasses of large animals if left to nature. Explicit photographs. ....

Ecologia de los Vertebrados de Chile

F Jaksic

The Ecology of Poole Harbour

Edited by J Humphreys and VJ May

Poole Harbour's unique combination of physical characteristics provide for a rich and productive ecological community recognised for its internationally significant bird ....

Elements of Ecology

Robert Leo Smith and Thomas M Smith

Provides a clear introduction to ecology. Far reaching in its coverage, the Fourth Edition Update not only presents the principles of ecology but shows their relationship ....

Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space

Edited by Theano S Terkenli and Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre

This book seeks to contribute to theoretical advances, analytical approaches and applied studies in the broader inter-disciplinary field of contemporary landscape transformation ....

Molecular Ecology

Joanna Freeland

"Molecular Ecology" provides a comprehensive introduction to the many diverse aspects of this subject. The book unites theory with examples from a wide range of taxa in a ....

Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems

Richard V Sole and Jordi Bascompte

Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the ....

Stable Isotope Techniques in the Study of Biological Processes and Functioning of Ecosystems

Edited by M Unkovich et al

This book has a very strong practical orientation, telling readers what methodologies are available using stable isotopes, how studies should be designed and executed to ....

The Shrinking World: Ecological Consequences Of Habitat Loss

Ilkka Hanski

Professor Ilkka Hanski describes and analyzes the knowledge and consequences of the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats caused by human activities. The author emphasizes ....

Theoretical Ecology Series

Transdisciplinary Challenges for Landscape Ecology and Restoration Ecology: Anthology of Studies on Mediterranean and Global Issues

Edited by Zev Naveh

Capitalizing on forty years of intensive ecological studies, this anthology presents a collection of widely dispersed major publications on theoretical and practical ....

The Arid Frontier

Interactive Management of Environment and Development

Edited by Hendrik J Bruins and Harvey Lithwick

The arid frontier has been a challenge for humanity from time immemorial. Drylands cover more than one-third of the global land surface, distributed over Africa, Asia, ....

Asian-Pacific Coasts and their Management: States of Environment

Edited by Nobuo Mimura

Coastal zones form a huge variety of natural environments, providing rich resources to humans. They are the place where active interaction occurs between land-based activities ....

Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in the Rhizosphere

Edited by PM Huang and GR Gobran

The rhizosphere in soil environments refers to the narrow zone of soil influenced by the ....

Dryland Ecohydrology

Edited by Paolo D'Odorico and Amilcare Porporato

Ecohydrology emerges as a new field of research aiming at furthering our understanding of the earth system through the study of the interactions between the water cycle and ....

Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Oak Forests

Edited by Maarten Kappelle

This comprehensive synthesis systematically covers the entire range of natural and managed oak forests in the highlands of tropical America. Originally, these forests were ....

Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters

Edited by Josef Krecek and Martin Haigh

Internationally, the wetlands of headwater and upland regions provide many valuable environmental services. They influence flood flows, sediment loads and aquifer recharge; ....

The Evolution of Competitive Strategies in Global Forestry Industries

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by J-A Lamberg, J Näsi, J Ojala and P Sajasalo

This book presents an analysis of the evolution of competitive strategies within the forestry industry. Although the discussion takes place in a relatively narrow field of ....

Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment

Edited by JC Winterwerp and C Kranenberg

Cohesive sediment, or mud, is encountered in most water bodies throughout the world. Often mud is a valuable resource, synonymous with fertile land, enriching the natural ....

Forestry Pesticide Aerial Spraying

Spray Droplet Generation, Dispersion, and Deposition

JJ Picot and DD Kristmanson

The book deals quantitatively with the generation, dispersion, and deposition of pesticide droplets on vegetation and with off-target drift of undeposited droplets. A ....

From Landscape Research to Landscape Planning

Aspects of Integration, Education and Application

Edited by B Tress, G Tres, G Fry and P Opdam

Research policy favours projects that integrate disciplinary knowledge and involve non-academic stakeholders. Consequently, integrative concepts - interdisciplinarity and ....

Geology and Ecosystems

Edited by Igor S Zektser

This book is the result of an international working group entitled `Geology and Ecosystems' that was organized by the IUGS commission on Geological Sciences for ....

The Impact of Desert Dust Across the Mediterranean

Edited by Stefano; Chester, R Guerzoni

The atmosphere is an important pathway for the transport of continentally-derived material to the oceans. In this respect the Mediterranean Sea is of special importance ....

Lake Verevi, Estonia - A Highly Stratified Hypertrophic Lake

Edited by Toomas Koiv and Ingmar Ott

The present book summarises investigations on Lake Verevi (surface 12.6 ha, mean depth 3.6 m), located in the Estonian town of Elva, initiated since 1929. The seventeen ....

Land Degradation

Edited by AJ Conacher

Papers Selected from Contributions to the Sixth Meeting of the International Geographical Union's Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification, Perth, Western ....

Managing Wetlands

An Ecological Economics Approach

Edited by R Kerry Turner, Jeroen CJM van den Bergh and Roy Brouwer

Addresses the critical issues surrounding the destruction of wetlands across Europe, employing a range of analytical methods drawn from a variety of disciplines which bridge ....

Manual for Soil Analysis - Monitoring and Assessing Soil Bioremediation

Edited by R Margesin and F Schinner

Reliable methods for monitoring and assessing soil quality are a prerequisite for successful soil bioremediation projects. The fifth volume of Soil Biology presents ....

Microbial Activity in the Rhizosphere

Edited by KG Mukerji, CM Manoharachary and J Singh

The rhizosphere is a very complex environment. The interactions among microorganisms and the plant roots are essential for the nutrition, growth and productivity of the plant. ....

The New Dimensions of the European Landscape

Edited by RHG Jongman

This Frontis Publication is based on the workshop on "The New Dimensions of the European Landscape" that was held in Wageningen on 10-12 June 2002. The workshop was aimed at ....

Nucleic Acids and Proteins in Soil

Edited by P Nannipieri and K Smalla

With millions of different bacterial species living in soil, the microbial community is extremely complex, varying at very small scales. Microbe-driven functions are essential ....

Our Earth's Changing Land

An Encyclopedia of Land-use and Land-cover Change

Edited by Helmut Geist

Provides an understanding of how land has changed over the last 300 years. This A-to-Z encyclopedia addresses various aspects of the science of land-use change. It focuses on ....

Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies

Experiences in Southern Africa

M Ramutsindela

Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original Western idea of a national park ....

Unsaturated-zone Modeling

Progress, Challenges and Applications

Edited by RA Feddes, GH de Rooij and JC van Dam

Mankind has manipulated the quantity and quality of soil water for millennia. Food production was massively increased through fertilization, irrigation and drainage. But ....

Valuing Agroforestry Systems

Methods and Applications

Edited by Janaji RR Alavalapati and D Evan Mercer

There is a growing interest and need for enhancing economic and policy research in agroforestry. So far, no single reference book provides adequate coverage of applied ....

Biodiversity in Ecosystems

Principles and Case Studies of Different Complexity Levels

Edited by Anselm Kratochwill

This volume does not aim at merely adding to the vast and increasing number of individual publications on `biodiversity'. Rather it is our objective to investigate ....

Marine Biodiversity

Patterns and processes, Assessment, Threats, Management and conservation

Edited by H Queiroga et al

This volume presents selected contributions given to the 38th European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2003. ....

Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century

Edited by GP Sackett, G Ruppenthal and K Elias

Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century describes how and why nursery ....

Transboundary Conservation

A New Vision for Protected Areas

RA Mittermeier et al

A transboundary conservation area refers to an area that straddles international boundaries and is managed cooperatively for conservation purposes and may include ....

Advances in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide: International Approaches to Reduce Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Edited by S Lombardi, LK Altunina and SE Beaubien

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advances in CO2 Geological Sequestration in Eastern and Western European Countries, held in Tomsk, Russia, November ....

The Bedrock of Opinion: Science, Technology and Society in the Siting of

High-Level Nuclear Waste

G Sundqvist

The issue of nuclear waste is about managing some of the most dangerous material ever to exist. This has to be done safely, and in a way that remains safe for many thousands of ....

Bioreactors for Waste Gas Treatment

Edited by C Kennes and MC Veiga

Air pollution, a major concern at the end of the 20th century, still remains a significant problem to be solved today. Traditionally, industrial waste gases have ....

Carbon and its Domestication

AM Mannion

Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its ....

Climate Change and European Leadership

A Sustainable Role for Europe?

Edited by J Gupta and MJ Grubb

This book provides an authoritative and far-reaching, yet controversial analysis of European efforts to implement and secure global action on climate change, and how this ....

Climate: The Force That Shapes Our World and the Future of Life on Earth

J Hoffman and G Ochoa

Spectacular state-of-the-art imagery and the latest scientific knowledge highlight a breathtaking guide to nature's most cataclysmic forces. Encyclopedic in scope and ....

Climatic Change and its Impacts

An Overview Focusing on Switzerland

M Beniston

Climatic Change is a rapidly evolving domain that has prompted the publication of numerous scientific works in recent years, reflecting both the public and scientific ....

Eating the Sun

Oliver Morton

Eating the Sun" is the story of the discovery of a miracle: the source of life itself. ....

Environmental Change

Key Issues and Alternative Perspectives

Frank Oldfield

Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Approaches describes and explains the current and future significance of past and contemporary environmental and climatic ....

Global Change Impacts on Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

New Directions from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Edited by Nick Harvey

This book focuses on the potential impacts of global change on coastal environments in the Asia-Pacific region. The region is significant because phenomena such as the Asian ....

Global Change and Mountain Regions:

An Overview of Current Knowledge

Edited by Uli M Huber, Harald KM Bugmann and Mel A Reasoner

Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global environmental change ....

Global Change and Protected Areas

Edited by G Visconti, M Beniston, ED Iannorelli and D Barba

The scope of this book is to show that protected areas may be the regions where early signs of the impact of global change can be observed. These signs are not limited to ....

Green Trading Markets

Developing the Second Wave

Peter C Fusaro and Marion Yuen

The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. To keep pace with growing electricity demands, the U.S and developing countries are turning more ....

The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future

Edited by Henry F Diaz and Raymond S Bradley

The Hadley and Walker Circulations are fundamental regulators of the Earth's energy budget. Although the Hadley Circulation is a well-known concept, surprisingly little ....

Hazardous Decisions: Hazardous Waste Siting in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada

D Huitema

The location of hazardous waste facilities can be approached in dramatically different ways. This book describes various possible approaches in terms of the institutions ....

Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies

Edited by Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Luc Hens and Vyvyan C Howard

This book examines the health effects of waste deposit sites, incinerators and other options for waste management, focusing in particular on the impacts of halogenated ....

Heavy Metals: A Problem Solved?

Methods and Models to Evaluate Policy Strategies for Heavy Metals

Edited by E van der Voet, Jeroen B Guinee and Helias A Udo de Haes

Most publications on heavy metals and the environment have focused on environmental pathways and risks. The present book establishes a link between the environmental risks ....

An Introduction to Global Spectral Modeling

TN Krishnamurti, HS Bedi, V Hardiker and L Ramaswamy

This introductory book on numerical weather prediction focuses on the spectral transform method, which is an important component for global weather forecasts at numerous ....

Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy

R Schwarze

The Kyoto Protocol is a landmark international agreement to tackle the problem of global climate change. Most operational details of the Protocol, however, were not decided in ....

Light Absorption and Absorbents in Sea Waters

Bogdan, Dera, Jerzy Wozniak

This book provides a detailed description of light absorption and absorbents in seawaters with respect to provenance, region of the sea, depth of the occurrence and ....

Man-Made and Natural Radioactivity in Environmental Pollution and Radiochronology

Edited by Richard Tykva and Dieter Berg

The basic goal of this book is to examine the complex state of radioactivity in the environment, including its sources and applications. In principle, there are two sources ....

Marine Biogeochemical Cycles

Rachael James

A very useful textbook. Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Biogeochemical Processes in Seawater 3 The accumulation of Deep-sea Sediments 4 Deep-sea Sediments and Palaeoceanography 5 ....

Metals in Society and in the Environment

Lars, Reuther, Rudolf Landner

Subtitled `A Critical Review of Current Knowledge on Fluxes, Speciation, Bioavailability and Risk for Adverse Effects of Copper, Chromium, Nickel and Zinc.' ....

The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean

Structure, Dynamics and Applications

Alexander Soloviev and Roger Lukas

The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean provides a comprehensive account of the structure and dynamics of this important component of the ocean. The book develops the relevant ....

Nonlinear Physical Oceanography: A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño

Henk A Dijkstra

In this book, the methodology of dynamical systems theory is applied to investigate the physics of the global ocean circulation. Topics include the dynamics of the Gulf Stream ....

Observing Land from Space: Science, Customers and Technology

Edited by Michel M Verstraete, Massimo Menenti and Jouni Peltoniemi

This volume offers a broad overview of the science and technology of remote sensing, its policy implications, and the needs of operational users in the context of climate change ....

Ocean Weather Forecasting

An Integrated View of Oceanography

Edited by EP Chassignet and Jacques Verron

The field of physical oceanography has matured to a point where it is now conceivable to combine numerical models and observations via data assimilation in order to provide ....

Oil Pollution and its Environmental Impact on the Arabian Gulf Region

Edited by M Al-Azab, W El-Shorbagy and S Al-Ghais

Situated within the richest oil area in the world, the Arabian Gulf represents a stressed ecosystem with scarce published data and environmental studies. ....

On the Compatibility of Flexible Instruments

Edited by CJ Jepma and Wytze van der Gaast

The Third Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention was held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the result being the Kyoto Protocol. Among the matters accepted by the ....

Palladium Emissions in the Environment

Analytical Methods, Environmental Assessment and Health Effects

Edited by Fathi Zereini and Friedrich Alt

To date the investigations of metal emissions from automotive catalysts has focused mainly on platinum. Since 1993, however, platinum has been increasingly replaced by ....

Past and Present Water Column Anoxia

Edited by Lev N Neretin

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, 4-8 October 2003. ....

Remote Sensing and Climate Modeling: Synergies and Limitations

M Beniston and Michel M Verstraete

This book for the first time covers state-of-the-art research in two domains which are largely complementary, but which have until now not made optimum use of their ....

Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements

Edited by Alfio V Parisi, Jeff Sabburg and Michael G Kimlin

Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements provides comprehensive information about the scattered and filtered solar UV environment, the techniques to measure this ....

Society, Behaviour, and Climate Change Mitigation

Edited by Eberhard Jochem, Jayant A Sathaye and Daniel Bouille

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and discernible human influence on global change. Limiting the changing ....

Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change: An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the IPCC

T Skodvin

Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and ....

Underground Injection Science and Technology

Edited by C-F Tsang and JA Apps

Chapters by a distinguished group of international authors on various aspects of Underground Injection Science and Technology are organized into seven sections ....

Understanding Radioactive Aerosols and their Measurement

SD Schery

This book is an introduction to radioactivity and aerosols for the scientifically literate reader with little or no previous exposure to either of these subjects. It ....

Uranium in the Aquatic Environment

Edited by B Merkel, B Planer-Friedrich and C Wolkersdorfer

This book addresses scientists and engineers involved in the areas of uranium mining and milling sites, clean-up measures, emissions of nuclear power plants and radioactive ....

Uranium in the Environment

Mining Impact and Consequences

Edited by Broder J Merkel and Andrea Hasche-Berger

This book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Congress held in September 2005, in Freiberg, Germany. It addresses scientists and engineers involved in ....

The Weather Makers

The History and Future Impact of Climate Change

Tim Flannery

We have read an advance proof of this new book by Tim Flannery - and the publisher's hype is absolutely right: this is THE book on THE issue of the day. One of the reasons ....

Applied Stratigraphy

Edited by Eduardo AM Koutsoukos

Few, if any, fundamental disciplines in the earth sciences have seen so many dramatic changes and developments as stratigraphy. The discipline has come to be applied ....

Care of Astronomical Telescopes and Accessories

A Manual for the Astronomical Observer and Amateur Telescope Maker

M Barlow Pepin

Commercially-made astronomical telescopes are better and less expensive than ever before, and their optical and mechanical performance can be superb. When a good-quality ....

Catchment Dynamics and River Processes

Edited by C Garcia and RJ Batalla

Maria Sala introduced experimental and field-based studies on soil and fluvial processes in Spain during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Research on this broad topic has grown ....

Climatic Geomorphology

M Gutierrez Elorza

During the past few decades climatic geomorphology has been substantially enlarged in knowledge, thanks to numerous detailed investigations, the application of a large number ....

A Crack in the Edge of the World

The Great American Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In ....

Cyclic Developments of Sedimentary Basins

Edited by JM Mabesoone and VH Neumann

Cyclic Development of Sedimentary Basins presents the controversial subject of the cyclic phenomena in the earth's evolutionary history and its reflection in the ....

Elegant Solutions

Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

P Ball

Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the 'beauty' of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, ....

Environmental Simulation Chambers: Application to Atmospheric Chemical Processes

Edited by Ian Barnes and Krzysztof J Rudzinski

Proceedings of the NATO Advances Research Workshop on Environmental Simulation Chambers: Application to Atmospheric Chemical Processes, held in Zakopane, Poland, from 1 to 4 ....

Geological Atlas of Africa: With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology, Geohazards and Geosites of Each Country

Thomas Schlüter

This is the first attempt to summarize the geology of Africa by presenting it in an atlas and to synthesize the stratigraphy, tectonics, economic geology, geohazards and ....

Geology Today: Understanding Our Planet

BW Murck

Contains a brief history of the geologic theories about continental drift, and the observations that ultimately led to the development of the theory of plate tectonics. ....

Geology and Geochemistry of Oil and Gas, Volume 52

GV Chilinger and L Buryakovsky

This book discusses the progress that is being made through innovations in instrumental measurements of geologic and geochemical systems and their study using modern ....

Geology of North-West Borneo

Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah

CS Hutchison

A comprehensive compilation of all aspects of the geology of Northwest Borneo and the contiguous South China and Sulu Seas. The sedimentary formations are described, their ....

The Geology of Southern Vancouver Island

CJ Yorath and H Nasmith

Vancouver Island's peaceful, bucolic nature betrays little of its violent natural history, but in "Geology of Southern Vancouver Island" fascinating events in the ....

Geomagnetism

Principles and Applications in Earth Sciences

Roberto Lanza and Antonio Meloni

Initially, this book reviews the general characteristics of the Earth's magnetic field and the magnetic properties of minerals, and then proceeds to introduce the multifold ....

Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas

Edited by J Kalvoda and CL Rosenfeld

This volume presents a collection of papers by specialists contributing to the activities of the International Geographical Union Commission on `Natural Hazard ....

Geophysics of the Canary Islands

Results of Spain's Exclusive Economic Zone Program

Edited by Peter Clift and Juan Acosta

Reprinted from Marine Geophysical Researches, Vol. 24, Nos 1-2, 2005. ....

Groundwater Geophysics

Edited by Reinhard Kirsch

Geophysical techniques can map the underground conditions apart from boreholes. The use of these methods for hydrogeological applications is demonstrated for mapping of porous ....

Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) : Calvinist Chemist and Physician

R Knoeff

Herman Boerhaave, who held professorships in medicine, botany, and chemistry at the University of Leiden, is often considered the most important medical teacher after ....

Life as We Do Not Know It

The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life

Peter Ward

A principal investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute, which funds a program to study "life as we do not know it"-investigating the possibility of life on other planets ....

Medical Geology: Effects of Geological Environments on Human Health

MM Komatina

The main objective of the book Medical Geology: Effects of Geological Environments on Human Health is to show how the geological environment affects human health and to ....

Methods in Modern Biophysics

Bengt Nölting

Incorporating recent advances, this second edition presents a fresh and timely introduction to modern biophysical methods. This innovative text surveys and explains ....

Minerals and Their Localities

JH Bernard

Encyclopedic listing of every known mineral species, with paragraph-size discussions for each species, emphasizing formation conditions and major worldwide localities. ....

The Moon and How to Observe It

Peter Grego

This revolutionary new book is written for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. The ....

Patrick Moore: The Autobiography

Patrick Moore

Throughout his distinguished career, Patrick Moore has, without a doubt, done more to raise the profile of astronomy among the British public than any other figure in the ....

Philip's Stargazing 2006

Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest

Philip's Stargazing 2006 is a month-by-month guide to the ever-changing night sky. It will help starwatchers to see all the year's most fascinating events, whether observing ....

Russia's Cosmonauts

Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center

Rex D Hall, David J Shayler and Bert Vis

With the aid of unique photographs, first-hand interviews and historical resources, Rex Hall, Dave Shayler and Bert Vis explain, for the very first time, how Russian citizens ....

Schrödinger's Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum

Colin Bruce

For the better part of a century, attempts to explain what was really going on in the quantum world seemed doomed to failure. But recent technological advances have made the ....

Science and Ireland - Value For Society

Edited by RC Mollan

This volume contains an introduction to 'Dublin's Fair City', together with information about Irish contributions to the historical development of the physical sciences. The ....

The Science of Aliens

Jack Challoner

This stunning volume features cutting-edge, digital imagery showing what twenty-first-century scientists are finding out about the possibilities of alien life. ....

The Seven Hills of Rome

A Geological Tour of the Eternal City

Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello and Donatella De Rita

From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. Why did this historic city become so much more influential than its neighbor, ....

Simple Stargazing

Anton Vamplew

A first-time skywatcher's guide from bright new talent, BBC Blue Peter astronomer, Anton Vamplew. Working at the planetarium in Greenwich, Anton has met hundreds of enthusiastic ....

The Star Guide

Robin Kerrod

First astronomy title from Christopher Helm, the natural history publishers. This introductory guide looks set to become a useful pocket book for anyone looking up to the ....

The Titans of Saturn: Leadership and Performance Lessons from the Cassini- Huygens Space Mission

B Groen and C Hampden-Turner

This book tells the story behind the brilliant success of the Cassini-Huygens space mission to Saturn's largest moon. Titan's atmosphere is similar to that of primitive ....

Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race

David Scott and Alexei Leonov

Growing up on either side of the Iron Curtain, Alexei Leonov and David Scott shared the same dream -- to become a pilot. Excelling at flying, they were chosen by their ....

Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period

Edited by Mordechai Feingold and Victor Navarro-Brotons

The past two decades have witnessed a striking re evaluation of early modern institutions of higher learning as impoverished intellectual centers, hostile to new ....

Visions of Mars

Olivier De Goursac

Visions of Mars offers a visual tour of the main geographic features of Mars as they have been recorded by twenty years of remote-sensing missions, ranging from the Viking ....

AFS Manual of Fish Culture Series

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

A New Perspective on Future Land Use Patterns

Edited by Floor Brouwer and Bruce A McCarl

Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use patterns are foreseen in the next couple of decades ....

Allergy Matters

New Approaches to Allergy Prevention and Management

Edited by LJEJ Gilissen, HJ Wichers, HFJ Savelkoul and RJ Bogers

In Western societies, the incidence and prevalence of respiratory and food-related allergies have increased rapidly over the past decades. Changes in life style, e.g. in ....

Applications of Cell Immobilisation Biotechnology

Edited by Viktor Nedovic and Ronnie Willaert

Cell immobilisation biotechnology is a multidisciplinary area, shown to have an important impact on many scientific subdisciplines - including biomedicine, ....

Applied Microbiology

Edited by A Durieux and J-P Simon

This book illustrates the major trends in applied microbiology research with immediate or potential applications. The diversity of the chapters allows coverage of a large ....

Bayesian Statistics and Quality Modelling in the Agro-Food Production Chain

Edited by MAJS Van Boekel, A Stein and AHC Van Bruggen

The food market is changing from a producer-controlled to a consumer-directed market. A main driving force is consumer concern about agricultural production methods and food ....

Biological Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment

Edited by Y-P Wang, M Lin, Z-X Tian, C Elmerich and WE Newton

This volume covers all aspects of fundamental and applied nitrogen-fixation research, extending from biochemistry and chemistry through genetics, regulation and physiology to ....

Bridging Laboratory and Field Research for Genetic Control of Disease Vectors

Edited by BGJ Knols and C Louis

Contemporary research on genetic control of disease-transmitting insects knows two kinds of scientists: those that work in the laboratory and those known as `field people'. Over ....

Cancer as an Environmental Disease

Edited by P Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L Hens, VC Howard and N Van Larebeke

These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports ....

Climate and Water

Transboundary Challenges in the Americas

Edited by Henry F Diaz and Barbara J Morehouse

Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between ....

Coercive and Discursive Compliance Mechanisms in the Management of Natural Resources - A Case Study from the Barents Sea Fisheries

Geir Honneland

The debate in the social sciences on the management of common resources crosses interdisciplinary boundaries. Regulation brings little gain if the established rules are ....

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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the ....

Competitive Intelligence

From Black Ops to Boardrooms

Larry Kahaner

Competitive intelligence reveals where the market is going, who is leading it, and why. This text provides a series of case studies which show companies how to establish ....

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Goods by Applying Contingent Valuation Method: Some Japanese Case Studies

US Ahmed and G Keinosuke

Contingent valuation is one of the means of incorporating socio-environmental considerations in cost-benefit analysis. The authors of this book have examined ....

Current Advances in Coconut Biotechnology

Edited by C Oropeza et al

The coconut palm occupies a significant place in the world economy as an important subsistence and cash crop in all the areas where it is cultivated. Unfortunately, yields ....

Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-term Radioactive Waste Governance

Thomas Flüeler

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. Traditionally, it has been considered as ....

Dictionary of Energy

CJ Cleveland

With the topic of energy resources and environmental impacts at the forefront of news stories and political discussions, interest in energy now spans a broad selection of ....

The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment

Edited by John Davenport and Julia L Davenport

Human transport by land, sea and air has increased exponentially through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological ....

The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources

Series Editor: Ian J Bateman

The last decade has seen free market economies rise to a position of almost complete dominance of the world economic order. Yet at the same time this dominance has thrown ....

Effects of Urbanization on Aquatic Ecosystems

Edited by Larry R Brown, Robert M Hughes, Robert Gray and Michael R Meador

This book includes a variety of case studies addressing the effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems at locations ranging ....

Endocrine Disrupters

Environmental Health and Policies

Edited by Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Luc Hens and Vyvyan C Howard

During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing. Many of these chemical ....

Energy and the Environment

Edited by Adrian Bejan, Peter Vadasz and Detlev G Kröger

This book describes the state of the art at the interface between energy and environmental research. The contributing authors are some of the world leaders in ....

Energy at the Crossroads

Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

Vaclav Smil

Begins with an overview of the C20's long-term trends and achievements in energy production. The author then discusses energy prices, the real cost of energy, and ....

Energy for Rural Livelihoods

A Framework for Sustainable Decision Making

A Doig, S Dunnett, T Jackson, S Khennas, Y Mulugetta and K Rai

The manual demonstrates how integrating technical, economic, social, institutional and environmental criteria form the basis of 'good practice' in rural energy planning and ....

Engineering and Manufacturing for Biotechnology

Edited by M Hofman and P Thonart

Early integration is the key to success in industrial biotechnology. This is as true when a selected wild-type organism is put to work as when an organism is engineered for ....

The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future

Dutch Committee for Environmental Long-Term Policy

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an ....

Environmental Change and Malaria Risk

Global and Local Implications

Edited by Willem Takken, Pim Martens and Robert J Bogers

In the past decade global change, mainly caused by climate change, and its effect on the society has been on the forefront of world news. Indeed, the issue has become a standard ....

Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops

Edited by JHH Wesseler

Concern about the environmental impacts of transgenic crops is one of the major reasons for the EU's quasi-moratorium on GMOs. The contributions in this book show that the ....

Environmental Health Impacts of Transport and Mobility

Edited by P Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L Hens and CV Howard

Transport and mobility are essential parts of the current organization of society. Complex activities are interwoven in such a way that problems occurring from the actual ....

Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics

Eco-technological Practices for Sustainable Development

SN Ghosh and VR Desai

Water is a precious natural resource which is crucial to our survival. It needs to be used judiciously in the context of an increasing population not only to sustain ....

Environmental Politics in Southern Europe

Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanizing Society

Edited by K Eder and M Kousis

`Europe is sometimes credited with a `polis,' but not a `demos'. Political integration and economic globalisation cannot diminish local identity and social memories. This ....

The Environmental Protection Agency

Robert W Collin

History and overview of the EPA. ....

The Environmental Protection Agency: Structuring Motivation in a Green Bureaucracy - Conflict Between Regulatory Style and Cultural Identity

Robert McMahon

By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the ....

Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management

Principles and Practices

Paolo F Ricci

This book is about the legal, economical, and practical assessment and management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational ....

Environmental and Technology Policy in Europe

Technological Innovation and Policy Integration

Edited by GJ Schrama and S Sedlacek

Technology is a crucial factor for environmental policy aimed at industry. Stimulation of the development and application of new technologies is a regular policy issue in most ....

Ethics for Life Scientists

Edited by Michiel Korthals and Robert J Bogers

Life sciences have huge controversial social implications. In doing experiments with animals, plants or humans the welfare of these living beings can be hampered; in ....

The Evolution of Natural Water Regimes in Europe

Transitions in Water Rights and Water Policies

I Kissling-Nat and S Kuks

All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate ....

Fundamentals of Cell Immobilisation Biotechnology

Edited by Viktor Nedovic and Ronnie Willaert

Cell immobilisation biotechnology is a multidisciplinary area, shown to have an important impact on many scientific subdisciplines, including biomedicine, pharmacology, ....

Gender, Water and Development

Anne Coles and Tina Wallace

There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be ....

Governance of Water-Related Conflicts in Agriculture

New Directions in Agri-Environmental and Water Policies in the EU

Edited by FM Brouwer, I Heinz and T Zabel

The book contributes to a better understanding of the role such co-operation can play in complying cost-effectively with European environmental legislation, in particularly the ....

Greening Society

The Paradigm Shift in Dutch Environmental Politics

Edited by PJ Driessen and P Glasbergen

This book shows how the environmental policy pursued in The Netherlands has undergone a revolutionary change: a change referred to as a paradigm shift. A new trend can be ....

Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management

Conditions for Regime Change and Sustainability

Hans Bressers and Stefan Kuks

All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate ....

Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy

MM Lowenthal

The world of intelligence is filled with intrigue, but at its core, the information-secret or otherwise-is valuable to governments for the power it affords ....

International Environmental Law and Policy in Africa

Edited by Beatrice Chaytor and Kevin R Gray

This book features a series of essays on environmental law and policy in Africa from experts within and outside the region. It primarily aims to demonstrate how African ....

International Governance on Environmental Issues

Edited by Mats Rolén, Helen Sjöberg and Uno Svedin

In this book, a number of distinguished people with experience of environmental affairs contribute their views on the lessons learned from environmental governance so far, the ....

Introduction to Sustainability

Road to a Better Future

Nolberto Munier

This book develops a supporting structure for sustainable development, following a natural set of steps to reach an established goal. It provides the tools to navigate ....

Land Use Simulation for Europe

Edited by JC Stillwell and HJ Scholten

Land use change is driven by a variety of forces, including spatial policies formulated at supra-national, national, regional and local levels. The main focus of this book is ....

Linking Research and Marketing Opportunities for Pulses in the 21st Century

Edited by R Knight

Proceedings of the Third International Food Legumes Research Conference. ....

Marine Resource Damage Assessment

Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage

Edited by Frank Maes

The contributions to this book are partly the output of a Belgian research project (1998-2002) and a related international conference (2003) on ....

Modern Aquaculture in the Coastal Zone

Lessons and Opportunities

Edited by J Coimbra

The successful development of coastal aquaculture in the opening years of the new millennium will depend upon solution of a multiplicity of economic, sociological, ....

Molecular Diagnosis of Salmonid Diseases

Edited by Carey O Cunningham

This is the first comprehensive collection of molecular techniques for diagnosing diseases important in the culture and conservation of salmonid fish. It brings together ....

Molluscan Fisheries of India

KA Narasimham

This is the first comprehensive book to be published on the molluscan fisheries and their aquaculture in India. It contains 15 chapters. The chapter on introduction is ....

Natural Resources and Economic Development

Edward B Barbier

'Much of the development economics community still seems unconvinced that natural resource conservation has much to do with lifting the poor out of poverty. In a fine ....

New Approaches to Food-Safety Economics

Edited by AGJ Velthuis, LJ Unnevehr, H Hogeveen and RBM Huirne

This book is notable for its coverage of the entire range of food safety economics issues from "farm to table", including consumer issues, production supply chain ....

Novel Frontiers in the Production of Compounds for Biomedical Use

Volume 1

Edited by A van Broekhoven, Fred Shapiro and Jozef Anne

This book presents a selection of the most recent approaches for the production of novel biotechnological compounds for biomedical applications. In order to better focus on the ....

Nutrition and Fish Health

Carl D Chhorn Lim/Webster

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: France

OECD

This book presents the results of a peer review of France's environmental policies and programmes. It systematically looks at environmental management (air, water, ....

The Oceans: Key issues in Marine Affairs

Edited by Hance D Smith

The oceans provide a truly millennial challenge for both the development and management of planet earth by humankind. Awareness of the nature and scale of this challenge, the ....

PGPR: Biocontrol and Biofertilization

Edited by Zaki A Siddiqui

PGPR have gained world wide importance and acceptance for agricultural benefits. These microorganisms are the potential tools for sustainable agriculture and the trend for the ....

Physics and Chemistry Basis of Biotechnology

Edited by M de Cuyper and JW Bulte

The recent advances in the field of Biotechnology cannot simply be ascribed to one scientific discipline. Rather, scientists from various backgrounds, ranging from ....

Presenting and Representing Environments

Edited by Graham Humphrys and Michael Williams

The presentation and representation of the environment can be found in every academic discipline and is a subject of increasing attention by the media. Scientists use ....

Price, Principle, and the Environment

M Sagoff

Mark Sagoff has written an engaging and provocative book about the contribution economics can make to environmental policy. He argues that economics can be helpful in ....

Propagated Fish in Resource Management

Edited by Mary Nickum, Patricia Mazik, John Nickum and Don MacKinlay

This book contains the peer-reviewed technical papers presented at a June 2003 symposium examining the effective use of fish culture as a tool for fisheries resource management. ....

Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals

K Asante-Duah

Risks to humans as a consequence of chemical exposures are a complex issue with worldwide implications, especially in our modern societies. The effective management of ....

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape

Brad Lancaster

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 is the core of the complete three-volume ....

Refocus Marine Renewable Energy Report

Global Markets, Forecasts and Analysis 2005-2009

Adam Westwood

Important collection of information, disgracefully priced. There is something almost Stalinistic about this `cold war' approach to publishing. We must not let the renewable ....

Regulation for Chemical Safety in Europe: Analysis, Comment and Criticism

Edited by DM Pugh and JV Tarazona

Many European Union Directives seek to minimize the potential for harm to humans and the environment arising from the use of chemicals. This book takes an interdisciplinary, ....

Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism

A.J Veal

This edition retains the wide coverage of tourism and specific marketing of the first edition and, in addition, provides material covering recent developments. The book is ....

The Selected Works of Arne Naess

Arne Naess

Very frustrating that the publishing of Naess' important work seems to be a story of extremes. On the one hand, there is no affordable single volume summary of his ....

Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement

Edited by SM Jain, DS Brar and BS Ahloowalia

The basic purpose of this book is to describe the relative value of each method of improving various agricultural crops by using parasexual techniques. While no book can ....

The Sustainability of Rural Systems

Geographical Interpretations

Edited by I Bowler, C Bryant and C Cocklin

A Study Initiated by the International Geographical Union's Commission on The Sustainability of Rural Systems. ....

Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources Series

Series Editor: S Kant

An adequate economic theory of sustainability cannot be based on the neo-classical paradigm that is at the root of most sustainability issues. A new economic theory, ....

Sustainable Development of European Cities and Regions

Edited by Gerrit H Vonkeman

Sustainable development has been the basic goal of the European Union since the Treaty of Amsterdam. After an in-depth analysis of the concept, the book goes on to translate ....

Sustainable Protein Production and Consumption: Pigs or Peas?

Edited by Harry Aiking, Joop de Boer and Johan Vereijken

Sustainable Protein Production and Consumption: Pigs or Peas? is a book that presents and explores the PROFETAS programme for development of a more sustainable food system by ....

Theileria

D Dobbelaere and D McKeever

The deadly nature of the Theileria parasite and the exquisite cunning, displayed when survival strategies are called for, inspire both awe and fascination, if not admiration, ....

This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment

Edited by M Hessing, R Raglon and C Sandilands

Introduces the literature about women and the environment in Canada. It looks at the ways women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, and features a ....

Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue

P Cafaro

Thoreau's Living Ethics is the first full, rigorous account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. Focused on Walden but ranging widely across his writings, the study situates ....

Understanding Industrial Transformation

Views from Different Disciplines

Edited by Xander Olsthoorn and Anna J Wieczorek

'A system is just like truth's tail, but the truth is like a lizard. It will leave the tail in your hand and escape; it knows that it will soon grow another one.' [Ivan ....

Valuing Cultural Heritage

Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts

Edited by S Navrud and RC Ready

`An excellent introduction to an important, and often neglected, topic. Valuing Cultural Heritage combines a useful primer on the theory of economic valuation followed by a ....

The World Summit on Sustainable Development

The Johannesburg Conference

Edited by Luc Hens and Bhaskar Nath

This book provides an overview of the most important issues as they are dealt with in the Johannesburg "World Summit on Sustainable Development's Plan of Implementation". It ....

Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure II

Edited by Nikolay Kolchanov, Ralf Hofrstaedt and L Milanesi

This work is a follow-up of the International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure (BGRS-2004), held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2004. It ....

Biostatistical Analysis

Jerrold H Zar

An introductory textbook as well as a useful reference work, this book presents a broad collection of data analysis techniques which will address the statistical needs of the ....

Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy

Edited by JB Pawley

Third edition of a classic text in biological microscopy includes detailed descriptions and in-depth comparisons of parts of the microscope itself, digital aspects of data ....

Introductory Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists

Nigel Walford

Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics

The New Avenues in Bioinformatics

Edited by J Seckbach and E Rubin

Bioinformatics has ignited the imagination of scientists, entrepreneurs and the general public. At the meeting place of two fast growth disciplines, biology and computer ....

Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Processes in Time

JK Lindsey

Many observed phenomena, from the changing health of a patient to values on the stock market, are characterised by quantities that vary over time: stochastic processes are ....

The Structure and Dynamics of Networks

Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Duncan Watts

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept--and the reality--of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what ....

World Spatial Metadata Standards: Scientific and Technical Characteristics, and Full Descriptions With Crosstable

Edited by H Moellering

This book represents years of work by the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission during the 1995-2003 ICA cycles. ....

Current Trends in Audience Research and Elevation

Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections

Suzanne Keene

During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a ....

Library Public Relations, Promotions and Communications

A How To Do It Manual

L Wolfe

Chapters in this manual explain: how to position today's library in terms of policy issues, funding programmes and technical opportunities; how to develop a PR plan; build ....

Museum Archives: An Introduction

D Wythe

Offers a comprehensive overview of archival work in a museum setting. Skillfully written by a team of museum-based archivists, this volume draws on decades of experience in ....

Urban Network: Museums Embracing Communities

JA Spitz and M Thom

The main goal of this book is to improve the equality of access to museum learning for all people. This work allows museum members to share effective practices and resources, ....