Atlas der Säugetiere Sachsens

Silke Hauer et al

Atlas of the mammals of Saxony. ....

Badger Behaviour, Conservation and Rehabilitation

70 Years of Getting to Know Badgers

George E Pearce

A fascinating insight into badger biology, life in the sett, rescue and rehabilitation, consultancy, badgers and farming, and badger-watching with George E. Pearce - an expert ....

The Common Hamster (Cricetus cricetus)

Perspectives on an Endangered Species

Edited by Eva Millesi, Hans Winkler and Renate Hengsberger

The Common Hamster is a fascinating species that differs from other hibernating small mammals in several aspects. Females have up to three litters per season and under ....

Guidelines for the in situ Re-introduction and Translocation of African and Asian Rhinoceros

Translocation has become routine in a number of African range states and has played a key role in increasing both white and black rhino numbers. Although less frequent in ....

Koala

Origins of an Icon

Stephen Jackson

Adored for its large fluffy ears, spoon-shaped nose and bright button eyes, the koala is universally recognised and revered as an Australian icon. But it hasn't always been so. ....

Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

A World Handbook for Cetacean Habitat Conservation

Erich Hoyt

The first edition of the widely praised "Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises", published in 2005, led to numerous new marine protected area proposals and a ....

Monkeys on the Edge

Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and their Interface with Humans

Edited by Michael Gumert, Lisa Jones-Engel and Agustin Fuentes

Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the ....

Platypus

The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World

Ann Moyal

When the first specimen of a platypus arrived in England in 1799 it was greeted with astonishment and disbelief. It defied rational explanation, with its webbed feet and ....

Avian Subspecies

Edited by Kevin Winker and Susan M Haig

Best Birdwatching Sites: the Solway

Cumbria/Dumfries and Galloway

John Miles

The Solway estuary is a magical place - an elemental landscape of huge skies and marshes teeming with birdlife, often overlooked in the race for more popular sites in the ....

Bird Songs Bible

Les Beletsky

Bird Songs Bible covers the sights and sounds of every single breeding bird in North America -- nearly 750 in all. This distinctive package features a state-of-the-art ....

Birds in Ireland

Clive D Hutchinson

Illustrated by John Busby This is a comprehensive review of the birds of the Republic and Northern Ireland, written by one of Ireland's leading ornithologists, and is a ....

Birds of Mangrove Area in China

Zhou Fang

Birds of Southern Africa 3 DVD Box Set

Guy Gibbon

This set includes the three volumes of the Birds of Southern Africa covering 550 bird species. ....

Birds of Southern Africa Volume 2

Guy Gibbon

A 60-minute video-sound guide to 120 birds additional to those featured on volume 1. Each bird is shown in live close-up video, together with an on-screen title and the bird ....

Birds of Southern Africa Volume 3

Guy Gibbon

A 60 minute video sound guide to 115 more birds. This third DVD in the series increases the total to 550 species. Each bird is shown in live close up video, together with on ....

Birds of Sri Lanka

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Sri Lanka is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. In terms of species diversity per unit area it ranks high for many group of animals. The birds are a good ....

Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar

Clive Finlayson

The Strait of Gibraltar is famed as one of the major passage points for Palaearctic birds migrating between European breeding grounds and their wintering grounds in Africa. ....

The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2011

The 2011 edition of this essential guide includes a giant address book, birding diary and notebook, up-to-date checklists for birds, butterflies and dragonflies as well as an ....

Birdwatchers' Year

Leo Batten, Jeremy Sorensen, Mike J Wareing and Donald Watson

Digital reprint of a book originally published in 1973. ....

Breeding Birds of Britain and Ireland

John Parslow

Digital reprint of a book originally published in 1973. ....

Cladistics and the Origin of Birds

A Review and Two New Analyses

Frances C James and John A Pourtless

Critical analysis of the widely accepted claim that birds are maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs. ....

Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats

NB Davies

Cuckoos and cowbirds are amongst the select bird groups renowned as professional parasites, who always lay their eggs in the nests ....

Enjoying Ornithology

Edited by R Hickling

Digital reprint of a book originally published in 1983. ....

Finding Birds in Lapland

David Gosney

Covers those parts of Finland and Norway that are north of the Arctic Circle. The book is the first to provide details of exactly where to look for ....

Finding Birds in Lapland - The DVD

David Gosney

Covers those parts of Finland and Norway that are north of the Arctic Circle. The accompanying book is the first to provide details of exactly where to ....

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds

The beauty and drama of the bird world brought to breathtaking life. From hummingbirds weighing less than a coin to monkey-eating eagles, this is a unique celebration of ....

Important Bird Areas

Die wichtigsten Gebiete für den Vogelschutz in Osterreich

M Dvorak

IBAs for Austria ....

Kakapo

Rescued from the Brink of Extinction

Alison Ballance

The kakapo is one of New Zealand's most charismatic yet mysterious birds. It is also one of the world's most threatened species and a New Zealand conservation success story. ....

The Kestrel

Andrew Village

Illustrated by Keith Brockie A valuable and much-needed monograph on one of Europe's commonest and most familiar raptors, about which suprisingly little is known or has been ....

Le Livre des Oiseaux Rares

Dominic Couzens

French language edition of Atlas of Rare Birds. ....

Owls of Europe

H Mikkola

Illustrated by Ian Willis A detailed study of the 17 owl species breeding in Europe and around the Mediterranean. ` ... in my view, the finest book on owls ever ....

RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe

Rob Hume

This is the ultimate photographic guide to the birds of Europe. Produced with the RSPB, "Birds of Britain and Europe" is a stunning, illustrated guide to Europe's bird species. ....

Rare Birds Day by Day

Steve Dudley, Peter Fraser, Tim Benton and John Ryan

This book provides a compilation of rare bird records, not by species or locality, but by the day on which they occurred, with the aim of providing a useful tool for ....

Reproduction and Immune Homeostasis in a Long-lived Seabird, the Nazca Booby (Sula Granti)

Victor Apanius, Mark A Westbrock and David J Anderson

Seventy Years of Birdwatching

HG Alexander

Digital reprint of a book originally published in 1974. ....

The Skuas

RW Furness

Drawings by John Busby The world's six species of skua are authoritatively described in this detailed monograph of the `avian pirates'. ....

The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America

Donald Stokes and Lillian Stokes

The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the new Stokes Field Guide includes more species, more photographs, and more useful identification ....

Thomas R. Howell's Check-list of the Birds of Nicaragua as of 1993

Edited by Juan C Martinez-Sanchez and Tom Will

Watching Birds

J Fisher and J Flegg

Watching Birds has been an introduction and an item of basic equipment to tens of thousands of birdwatchers in the past, and this revised edition, by Dr Jim Flegg, ....

Waterbirds in the UK 2008/09

Graham Austin, Mark Collier, Neil Calbrade, Colette Hall and Andy Musgrove

This report presents the results of WeBS in 2008/09 and includes data from other national and local waterbird monitoring schemes. It provides a single, comprehensive ....

A Winter's Tale from Bulgaria

Malcolm Rymer

Malcolm Rymer's fascination with waterfowl draws him to coastal Bulgaria each February to study the geese on their wintering grounds. ....

Boas and Pythons of the World

Mark O'Shea

Few reptiles command more respect than the mighty boas and pythons. From 11-metre-long anacondas in the Amazon to the diminutive Javelin Sand Boa, no longer than 80 ....

The Biology of Gobies

Edited by Robert A Patzner et al

Among all vertebrates, gobies are second in diversity only to the teleost family Cyprinidae. The Gobiidae consists of more than 200 genera and nearly 2,000 species and ....

Eels

An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish

James Prosek

They are the only fish that spawn in the middle of the ocean but spend their adult lives in freshwater. They can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and even cross over ....

Eggs and Larvae of North Sea Fishes

Peter Munk and Jorgen G Nielsen

Presents the early stages of about hundred common fishes in a standardized, illustrative layout, affording effective guidance to the investigation and identification of these ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Freshwater Fishes

Kamal Uddin Siddiqui

This volume covers the endemic and introduced species of freshwater fishes found in the waters of Bangladesh. In all, 251 species are included from 61 families. ....

Annotierter Katalog der Lasiocampidae aus Vietnam

Annotated Catalogue of Lasiocampidae of Viet-Nam

V Zolotuhin

Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands

Edited by Justin Gerlach and Yuri Marusik

The Seychelles islands are biogeographically interesting, with ancient affinities to Africa and Asia, recent colonizing species from the Indo-Pacific and modern ....

Australian Land Snails

Volume 1: A Field Guide to Eastern Australian Species

J Stanisic, M Shea, D Potter and O Griffiths

Land snails are perhaps among the most misunderstood of Australia's invertebrate fauna. To most people they have a largely unpleasant reputation earned through encounters with ....

Beginner's Guide to Earthworm Farming

Simple Ideas for a Sustainable World

Mary Murphy

Earthworms were described by Darwin as the most important species on our planet and by Aristotle as 'the intestines of the earth'. This book provides all the information ....

The Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of Dzhungar, Tien Shan, Alai and Eastern Pamirs, Volume 2

VL Kazenas and AL Lvovsky

The second volume covers Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Libytheidae, Riodinidae and Lycaenidae. It includes 171 essays in Russian and English and offers data on type locality, ....

Cahiers Magellanes, No. 114

Description of a new species of Ergatini from Ethiopia

Anders Bjornstad and Eric Jiroux

Les Cetoniinae du Sabah

Legrand, Jean-Philippe and Steven Chew Kea Foo

Checklisten der Fauna Oesterreichs, No. 4

Erhard Christian, Wolfgang Schedl and Werner E Holzinger

Covers three insect groups: The Diplura (Author: E. Christian, Vienna), the Symphyta (Author: W. Schedl, Innsbruck) and the Auchenorrhyncha (Autor: W.E. Holzinger, Graz). ....

Conchiglie del Mediterraneo

Guida ai Molluschi Conchigliati

Mauro Doneddu and Egidio Trainito

Identification guide to shells of the Mediterranean, covering 650 species. ....

Conchological Iconography: The Family Volutidae

P Bail and M Chino

This volume includes a revision of recent species of the endemic Far East Asia family Fulgorariinae. ....

Crawfishes of Louisiana

Jerry G Walls and Maleta M Walls

This book identifies the thirty-nine types of crawfishes found in Louisiana, explains their biology, and explores their importance in Louisiana's history, culture, and ....

Eriophyoid Mites

Progress and Prognoses

Edward Ueckermann

Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, ....

Fascinating Insects of Southeast Asia

LEO Braack

Written by one of the world's most respected entomologists, this is the first layman's guide and introduction to Southeast Asia's rich and diverse insect fauna, their habits ....

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore

Khew Sin Khoon

This is the first ever comprehensive photographic guide to all the nearly 300 species of butterflies found in Singapore. The author has spent years accumulating this amazing ....

Flying Dragons

Ghislain Simard

High-speed manoeuvres, instant changes of direction, hovering, reverse flight, dragonflies can do almost anything on the wing. The photographs of Ghislain Simard open ....

Fotoatlas der Zikaden Deutschlands

Photographic Atlas of the Plant- and Leafhoppers of Germany

Gernot Kunz, Herbert Nickel and Rolf Niedringhaus

With the help of the most modern technology, the authors present more than 1200 photographs, as well as concise information on host plants, habitats and phenology, and ....

Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets and Katydids of Mexico

Photographic Guide

Paolo Fontana, Filippo Maria Buzzetti and Ricardo Martiño-Pérez

Guide des Abeilles, Bourdons, Guepes et Fourmis d'Europe

L'identification, le comportement, l'habitat

Hans Bellmann

Guide to the bees, wasps and ants of Europe. Reprint of the 1999 edition. ....

Les Hymenopteres Symphytes dans le Canton de Geneve Hier et Aujourd'hui

Harry Boillat

Identification of Prawns/Shrimps and their Culture

A D Dholakia

Manual of Central American Diptera Volume 2

BV Brown et al

Volume 2 includes details of the 64 remaining families that make up the Cyclorrhapha. These include families of house flies, fruit flies, bot flies, flower flies and many ....

Minimorum Animalium Theatrum

Giovanni Carotti

An excellent personal photographic account of insects and other invertebrates observed by the author in various locations, especially Ecuador. Carotti describes the animals in ....

A Photographic Guide to the Dragonflies of Singapore

HB Tang, LK Wang and M Mmalainen

This guide includes details of all 124 species currently found in the country and almost all are illustrated in brilliant colour photographs. There are additional chapters ....

A Pictorial Guide to the British Ephemeroptera

Craig Macadam and Cyril Bennet

Ephemeroptera, also known as mayflies or up-wing flies, can be seen emerging from the water, resting on nearby vegetation and most commonly 'dancing' above head height, along ....

Queen Bee

Biology, Rearing and Breeding

David Woodward

This title offers everything you ever wanted to know about the biology, rearing and breeding of queen bees. Divided into three major chapters with many sub-sections, "Queen ....

Revision of Genera of the Parasitic Mite Family Macronyssidae Mesostigmata: Dermanyssoidea) of the World

FJ Radovsky

Révision du Genre Conognatha

Tomas Moore and Tiéri Lander

Text in French, keys in French, English and Spanish. ....

Révision du Genre Zonopterus et Des Genres Voisins

Joan Bentanachs, Jeannine Morati and Eduard Vives

Silent Stories

Insect Fossil Treasures from Dinosaur Era of the Northeastern China

Ren Dong

This monograph describes 18 insect orders along with details of fossil sites, palaeogeology, palaeo-ecosystems and insect mimicry. ....

Suomen Sudenkorennot (The Dragonflies of Finland)

Sami Karjalainen

Covers all the 52 species of dragonfly recorded in Finland, of which 51 were observed in the field and photographed by the author over a period of more than ten years. The first ....

Trends in Acarology

Edited by Maurice W Sabelis and Jan Bruin

Mites and ticks are everywhere and acarologists go after them - some explore their bewildering diversity, others try to understand their how and why. For the past 50 ....

Amber

David Penney

This attractive little booklet provides an introduction to the beauty and remarkable history of amber, from its early use by Neolithic people to the medicinal and ....

Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits

Edited by David Penney

The beauty and mysteries of amber have fascinated humankind since its first discovery. Specimens with fossil inclusions inside were particularly revered and still are today, ....

Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey

Naomi Miller

The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer ....

Dinosaur Sex

Michael Brookfield

If you have ever wondered how it was possible for some bizarre (and, in many cases, huge) creatures from millennia ago, to reproduce - without injuring either themselves or ....

Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians

A Historical Perspective

Edited by RTJ Moody, Eric Buffetaut, Darren Naish and D M Martill

First Life

David Attenborough

In fifty years of broadcasting, David Attenborough has travelled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, in this landmark series, he completes his ....

Fossils of the Gault Clay

Edited by J R Young, A Gale, R Knight and A B Smith

The Albian (Lower Cretaceous) Gault Clay of south-east England and north-east France covers only a small area, but contains a wide variety of well-preserved vertebrate and ....

Prehistoric Mammals

Ken McNamara and Peter Murray

In 1909 a rich accumulation of many thousands of bones were excavated from Mammoth Cave in Australia's south-west. Many of the bones far exceeded in size any modern-day native ....

Atlas des Poissons et des Crustacés d'Eau Douce de la Guadeloupe

Dominique Monti, Philippe Keith and Erick Vigneux

Presents 14 species of decapod crustacean and 16 species of fish. Each has a summary of morphology, biology, distribution and threats, as well as a photograph and a ....

Marine Ecology

Processes, Systems, and Impacts

Michel J Kaiser et al

The oceans cover the majority of the Earth's surface; they influence our climate and provide a valuable source of food to billions of people. Yet despite its fundamental ....

Private Lives

An Exposé of Singapore's Freshwaters

Edited by DCJ Yeo, LK Wang and KKP Lim

The latest an this excellent series of nature books from the National University of Singapore, this volume covers the denizens of Singapore's streams, swamps, reservoirs ....

Australasian Nature Photography

ANZANG Sevent Collection

South Australian Museum

Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 50 million years. The South Australian Museum focuses on enhancing ....

Buffon: Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 1: Histoire naturelle, generale particulière, avec la description du cabinet du Roy

GLL de Buffon, Stéphane Schmitt and Cédric Crémière

The first volume in a series of 36. ....

Buffon: Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 2: Histoire naturelle, generale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du Roy

The second volume in a series of 36. ....

Buffon: Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 3: Histoire naturelle, generale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du Roy

Buffon: Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 4: Histoire naturelle, generale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du Roi

Buffon: Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 5: Histoire naturelle, generale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du Roi

Doctor By Nature

Jonathan Couch: Surgeon of Polperro

Jeremy Rowett Johns

Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), surgeon apothecary of Polperro, was one of the pioneering natural historians of his day, paving the way for others such as Darwin and Huxley to ....

The Flower Hunter

The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan

Christine Morton-Evans and Michael Morton-Evans

Ellis Rowan was one of Australia's most accomplished artists and an incredible - if somewhat unexpected - adventurer. During World War I Ellis ventured alone into the ....

For the Love of Nature

E.E. Gostelow's Birds and Flowers

Christobel Mattingley

Ebenezer Edward Gostelow (1866-1944) spent much of his 50-year-long teaching career in country schools across New South Wales. A keen naturalist, he would brighten his ....

John Craven's "Countryfile" Handbook

John Craven

John Craven has been presenting Countryfile since its launch in 1989 and, for the first time, he has distilled all his knowledge and wisdom into "The Countryfile Handbook". ....

Landscape Photographer of the Year Collection 4

AA

'Take a view', the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, is the brainchild of Charlie Waite, one of today's most respected landscape photographers. Together with the ....

Microcosmos

Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20X to Over 22 Million X Magnification

Brandon Broll

Microcosmos is a remarkable photo-journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images. This new edition lifts the book to breathtaking realms. The ....

A Naturalist's Eye

Twenty Somerset Years

Philip Radford

There have been many books about the natural history of Somerset but this title is unique in combining an extremely vivid and entertaining account of days spent in the ....

New Visions of Nature

Complexity and Authenticity

Edited by Martin Drenthen, Jozef Keulartz and James Proctor

This volume focuses on the emergence of new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it ....

Painting Your Gardens

The English Garden in Oils and Watercolours

Lesley E Hollands

A garden offers a haven to be enjoyed and savoured; it also provides ample subjects for the artist. Using a step-by-step approach, this book deals with the more intimate ....

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elizabeth Tova Bailey

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence in a terrarium alongside her bed. She enters the rhythm of life of ....

Urban Safari

Laurent Geslin

Wildlife from far and exotic locations is sometimes more familiar to us than the animals living close by. Mention of wildlife in the cities usually brings to mind pigeons on ....

Visions of Earth

Samuel Bitton et al

Millions of people everywhere on the planet regularly aim their cameras at the landscape that lies around them. Photography becomes a universal artistic outlet, enabling people ....

Where Earwigs Dare

Matt Harvey

A collection of Matt's latest poems - horticultural, whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny. Where Earwigs Dare contains a rich biodiversity of verse, some ....

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 Desk Calendar

This calendar features the same winning images from the 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition as the larger wall calendar, but in a handy desk-sized format. ....

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 Wall Calendar

This wall calendar features winning images from the 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. ....

Wildlife Photography

Stories from the Field

George Lepp and Kathryn Vincent Lepp

This is a personal book that mixes engaging storytelling with technical know-how, from a top nature photographer. Join him on location as he follows lions on the hunt and climbs ....

AA Pocket Book of Britain's Walks

Walking is one of the most popular activities in Britain. Featuring more than 100 routes from across the country, this fantastic, pocket-sized book, offers something for ....

Antarctic Wildlife

A Visitor's Guide to the Wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage and Beagle Channel

James Lowen

A comprehensive photographic field guide that aims to help visitors to this remarkable part of the world - beginner or expert - identify with confidence any bird or marine ....

Birds of India

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Abdul Jamil Urfi

Birds of India: A Literary Anthology takes a new look at natural history writings in India, and brings together for the first time extracts from ancient, medieval, as well ....

Britain's Mammals

A Concise Guide

People's Trust for Endangered Species

The experts at the People's Trust for Endangered Species have compiled this introduction to the mammals in the UK and around its coast. From timid shrews to commonly seen ....

Cold Front

Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters

David Fairhall

The Arctic: land of ice and the six-month day; irresistible goal for explorers and adventurers; enduring source of romance and mystery - and now also a poignant and ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Arthropoda: Arachnida

Zia Uddin Ahmed

In this volume 430 species of arachnids (2 kingcrabs, 13 scorpions, 15 ticks, 101 mites, 299 spiders under 147 genera and 43 families) are described. ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Cumulative Index: Fauna

Zia Uddin Ahmed

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Mammals

Zia Uddin Ahmed

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Protozoa to Gastrotricha

Zia Uddin Ahmed

The Natural History of Cape Clear Island

JTR Sharrock and Robert Gillmor

Digital reprint of a book originally published in 1973. ....

Nature Tales

Encounters with Britain's Wildlife

Edited by Michael Allen and Sonya Patel Ellis

From Nick Baker diving with basking sharks off the Cornish coast to J A Baker's vivid descriptions of peregrines in the Essex countryside, from Gilbert White's observations ....

Seeds of Empire

The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand

Edited by Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson

The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As ....

Sunflower Countryside Guides: Landscapes of Eastern Crete

Jonnie Godfrey and Elizabeth Karslake

A car-touring and walking guide to the region of eastern Crete. There are topographical walking maps and a fold-out touring map covering the whole of Crete, showing the ....

Upside Down World

Early European Impressions of Australia's Curious Animals

Penny Olsen

This book describes how this 'miscellany of the curious' fuelled the rage for Australian natural history amongst the upper classes of Europe, bringing income and, occasionally, ....

The Amazing World of Orchids

Brian Rittershausen and Wilma Rittershausen

Mysterious and alluring, infinitely beautiful and breathtakingly varied, orchids have never been more popular or more widely available, with beautiful specimens available at ....

Atlas Florae Europaeae, Volume 15

Rosaceae (Rubus)

Edited by A Kurtto, HE Weber, R Lampinen and A Sennikov

The third of four volumes to the large, diversified family Rosaceae. The species-rich genus Rubus, notorious for its taxonomic complexity, has never before been mapped to ....

Atlas of the Potential Vegetation of Ethiopia

Ib Friis, Sebsebe Demissew and Paulo van Breugel

Shows the distribution of 12 potential vegetation types that can be mapped using environmental parameters and GIS methodology at the scale of 1:2,000,000. These types ....

Biology of Lichens

Symbiosis, Ecology, Environmental Monitoring, Systematics and Cyber Applications

Edited by T Nash III, L Geiser, B McCune, AM Tomescu and W Sanders

This volume contains selected papers related in part to the IAL 6 Symposium, Asilomar, California, 2008. ....

Biology of Polar Benthic Algae

Edited by Christian Wiencke

Synthesizes the current state of knowledge on the biology of polar benthic marine algae and presents an outlook on their responses to changing environmental conditions in polar ....

California Mosses

B Malcolm, N Malcolm, J Shevock and D Norris

California has one of the most species rich moss floras in North America. During the last 50 years alone the checklist of California mosses has nearly doubled, yet the moss ....

Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats, Volume 1

Stewart McPherson

Growing in some of the most barren and extreme habitats of our world, carnivorous plants are adapted to very specific environmental conditions which must be understood for their ....

Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats, Volume 2

Stewart McPherson

Carnivorous plants are the most unusual of all flowering plants. So called because they have evolved the unique ability to attract, trap, kill and digest insects and other ....

Collins Fungi Guide

The Most Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe

Stefan Buczacki and Christopher Shields

This book covers every macro species of mushroom and toadstool found in Europe, from the North Cape to the heel of Italy. Each species is illustrated in colour, directly ....

Correas

Australian Plants for Waterwise Gardens

Maria Hitchcock

This is the first comprehensive guide to the identification and cultivation of Correas in Australia. It describes 10 species, 26 subspecies and 145 varieties. As well as ....

Eucalypts

A Celebration

John Wrigley and Murray Fagg

Eucalypts are a familiar part of the Australian landscape and an integral part of the Country's identity. They have been farmed and used to build houses, furniture, roads and ....

Evening-Primroses (Oenothera) occurring in Europe

K Rostanski, A Rostanski, I Gerold-Smietanska and P Wasowicz

This work presents 61 species and permanent hybrids of Oenothera occurring in Europe, and provides a key for their identification. The taxa are arranged alphabetically, and ....

A Field Guide to the Flora of South Georgia

Dierdre Galbraith

A handy photographic guide to the 26 native plants that inhabit the fragile ecosystem of South Georgia, together with information on the island, its habitats, botanical ....

Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana, Volume 3 and 4

J Sibthorp, A Strid and B Strid

Each of the 200 species in this volume is presented on a two-page spread with the color plate to the right. In the upper half of the facing left-hand page is text in English ....

Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series II: Seed Plant, Volume 1

R Kiew et al

This volume provides revisions for seed plant families that occur in the Peninsular Malaysia. The book includes general chapters on the seed plant families and vegetation ....

Flora of the British Isles Illustrations 1

Pteridophyta - Papilionaceae

A Clapham, T Tutin and E Warburg

Drawn by Sybil J Rhodes. Reprint of the original 1957 edition. ....

Flora of the British Isles Illustrations 2

Rosaceae - Polemoniaceae

AR Clapham, TG Tutin and EF Warburg

Drawn by Sybil J Roles. Reprint of the original 1960 edition. ....

Flora of the British Isles Illustrations 3

Boraginaceae - Compositae

AR Clapham, TG Tutin and EF Warburg

Drawin by Sybil J Roles. Reprint of the original 1963 edition. ....

Flora of the British Isles Illustrations 4

Monocotyledons

AR Clapham, TG Tutin and EF Warburg

Drawn by Sybil J Boles. Reprint of the original 1965 edition. ....

The Garden of Ideas

250 Years of Australian Garden Style

Richard Aitken

The Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design. From the imaginings of emigrant garden-makers of the late-eighteenth century to the ....

Gramíneas de Zacatecas, México

Yolanda Herrera Arrieta, Paul M Peterson and Armando Cortés Ortiz

Revision of the grasses of Zacatecas, including 91 genera, 284 species, 6 subspecies, 30 varieties, and 4 formas. It provides keys for determination, detailed descriptions, ....

Hostas

An Essential Guide

Richard Ford

Hostas originated mainly in Japan and were not introduced to Britain until the nineteenth century. They were grown and collected in Europe and America for the next two ....

Index Synonymique de la Flore d'Afrique du Nord, Volume 1

Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Monocotyledoneae

A Dobignard and C Chatelain

Indian Lichens

An Annotated Checklist

KP Singh and GP Sinha

This annotated checklist of Lichens of India comprises 2303 species under 305 genera and 74 families. All the genera and species within genera are arranged alphabetically. Each ....

Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Volume 3

Edited by TH Nash III, C Gries and F Bungartz

The third and final volume of this series covers 39 additional lichen genera, with several large and less known groups such as Acarospora, Buellia, Caloplaca and Usnea. It ....

Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America

Denise E Binion, Steven L Stephenson, William C Roody, Harold Burdsall and

Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America, which was written as a companion to Field Guide to Oak Species of Eastern North America, represents the first ....

Malaysia Plant Red List

Peninsular Malaysian Dipterocarpaceae

LSL Chua et al

This publication is Malaysia's first attempt to list indigenous plants into the national Red List. This output is one of the ....

Malaysia Plant Red List

Peninsular Malaysian Dipterocarpaceae

LSL Chua et al

This publication is Malaysia's first attempt to list indigenous plants into the national Red List. This output is one of the many envisaged for the work on threat assessment of ....

Methods for Working with Macrofungi

Laboratory Cultivation and Preparation of Larger Fungi for Light Microscopy

H Clémençon

Nachtrag zur Bibliographie der Flechten in Osterreich

Roman Türk and Josef Hafellner

The "Bibliographie der Flechten und flechtenbewohnenden Pilze in Osterreich" (TURK & POELT 1993) is an attempt to present an overview of the literature covering all ....

The National Plant Collections Directory 2010

This edition details all the current National Plant Collections, split by county, and also contains a list of special open days. ....

Plant-Animal Communication

H Martin Schaefer and Graeme Ruxton

Communication is an essential factor underpinning the interactions between species and the structure of their communities. Plant-animal interactions are particularly diverse ....

Systematics of Calonectaria

A Genus of Root, Shoot and Foliar Pathogens

Lorenzo Lombard et al

The Xerula/Oudemansiella Complex (Agaricales)

Ronald H Peterson and Karen W Hughes

This volume summarizes the taxonomic and phylogenetic knowledge of a small group of fungal, mushroom genera (Homobasidiomycota, Agaricales) centered in Xerula s.l. and ....

Trees of Tropical Asia

An Illustrated Guide to Diversity

JV LaFrankie

Survey of the complete tree flora of tropical Asia in one single volume. It includes an introduction to phylogenetic theory and the modern way of naming trees and moves on to ....

Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country

A Field Guide

Jan Wrede

A field guide to the Texas Hill Country featuring more than 125 species of mostly native, woody plants. The introduction discusses deer, cedar, water, oak wilt, and ....

Wildflowers of the Coastal Plain

A Field Guide

Ray Neyland

This guide provides detailed information on 535 species of herbaceous plants, vines, and shrubs that inhabit the great floristic provinces of the Lower Mississippi Valley, Gulf ....

Wildlife of a Garden: a Thirty-year Study

Jennifer Owen

For 30 years, Owen recorded all the wildlife in her Leicester garden. Using several trapping and monitoring methods, she recorded 2673 species of plants and animals. She ....

The Dissection of Vertebrates

A Laboratory Manual

Gerry De Iuliis and Dino Pulera

"The Dissection of Vertebrates" provides students with a manual combining pedalogical effective text with high-quality, accurate, and attractive visual references. Using a ....

The Evolution of Anisogamy

A Fundamental Phenomenon Underlying Sexual Selection

Edited by Tatsuya Togashi and Paul Alan Cox

Darwin identified the existence of separate male and female gametes as one of the central mysteries of evolutionary biology. 150 years later, the question of why male ....

Homosexual Behaviour in Animals

An evolutionary perspective

Edited by Volker Sommer and Paul L Vasey

Homosexual behaviour is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. Homosexual Behaviour in Animals seeks to examine the evolutionary aspects of same-sex sexual ....

Introduction to Proteins

Structure, Function, and Motion

Amit Kessel and Nir Ben-Tal

Providing a detailed description of the relationship between protein structure, function, and dynamics, this book adopts an energy-oriented approach to discuss ....

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation

Edited by Ken Ashwell

Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of ....

No Way Home

The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations

David S Wilcove

Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across ....

Oxygen and the Evolution of Life

Heinz Decker, Kensal Van Holde and Kensal E Van Holde

This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like ....

Veterinary Parasitology

Edited by Gregory V LaMann

Veterinary parasitology is the study of animal parasites, especially relationships between parasites and animal hosts, and their interactions. Parasites of domestic ....

Defining Darwin

Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse is one of the foremost Charles Darwin scholars of our time. For forty years he has written extensively on Darwin, the scientific revolution that his work ....

Elements of Evolutionary Genetics

Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth

Evolutionary genetics is concerned with nature of the variability used in evolution, and the causes of evolutionary change. The methods of evolutionary genetics are critically ....

Crop Ecology

Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems

RS Loomis, DJ Connor and Kenneth G Cassman

This book is centred on the 'production processes' of crops and pastures - photosynthesis and use of water and nutrients in fields. The book is unique in its ....

Amazonia and Other Forests of Brazil

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

As a young boy living in rural Brazil, Antonio Mendes Pontes' future looked bleak. However, his passion for nature, together with hard work and dedication, led him to ....

Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms

Edited by Gunther Witzany

Communication is defined as an interaction between at least two living agents which share a repertoire of signs. These are combined according to syntactic, semantic and ....

Biology of Earthworms

Edited by Ayten Karaca

Earthworms, which belong to the order Oligochaeta, comprise roughly 3,000 species grouped into five families. Earthworms have been called 'ecosystem engineers'; much like ....

Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market

Opportunities Under REDD

Edited by Margaret Skutsch

Recent developments in international policy on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD+) open the way for crediting of carbon saved by rural ....

Construction in the Landscape

A Handbook for Civil Engineering to Conserve Global Land Resources

T G Carpenter

"Construction in the Landscape" describes the impact of construction on the land and landscape where it takes place. Geographical coverage is necessarily global to reflect ....

Diversity and Biotechnology of Ectomycorrhizae

Edited by Mahendra Rai and Ajit Varma

Ectomycorrhizal fungi play multifunctional roles during symbioses with higher plants. They can serve as bioprotectors, biofertilizers, bioremediators and stress indicators. ....

European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity

Arwyn Jones et al

This atlas is a comprehensive guide to soil biology across Europe, allowing non-specialists to access information about this unseen world. The first part of the ....

Living Landscape

The Extraordinary Story of the East Bay Regional Park District and how it preserved 100,000 acres

Laura McCreery

The story of a unique park system on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay. ....

Natural Capital

Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services

Edited by Peter M Kareiva, Heather Tallis, Taylor H Ricketts, Gretchen C Daily and Po

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ....

Phosphorus in Action

Biological Processes in Soil Phosphorus Cycling

Edited by Else Bunemann, Astrid Oberson and Emmanuel Frossard

Phosphorus (P) is a finite resource which is essential for life. It is a limiting nutrient in many ecosystems but also a pollutant which can affect biodiversity in ....

Physics of Lakes

Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang and Irina P Chubarenko

Lakes are important habitats for many species and have always been extensively used by people for fishing and transport, as sources of drinking water and energy; and for ....

REDD+ in Dryland Forests

Issues and Prospects for Pro-poor REDD in the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa

Ivan Bond et al

Implementing REDD+ programs involves providing sufficient incentives to land users and requires a supportive policy, legal and institutional environment. The lessons from ....

Soil Engineering

Edited by Athanasios P Dedousis and Thomas Bartzanas

The agricultural world has changed significantly during the last years. The excessive use of heavy machinery, waste disposal, the use of agrochemicals and new soil ....

Soil Enzymology

Edited by Girish Shukla and Ajit N Varma

Soil enzymes are one of the vital key mediators involved in nutrient recycling and the decomposition of organic matter and thereby in maintaining soil quality and fertility. ....

Soil Mechanics: Principles and Practice

G Barnes

Providing coverage of the basic principles of soil mechanics for undergraduate students of civil engineering, this new edition has features such as Euro code and key concepts ....

Timber Supply, Land Allocation, and Economic Efficiency

William F Hyde

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making

Edited by Patrick ten Brink

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity, to ....

Management and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Edited by David Leslie Hawksworth

This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for the conservation of ....

Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

Edited by David Leslie Hawksworth

This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity ....

The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Northern Africa

Nieves García, Annabelle Cuttelod and Dania Abdul Malak

This assessment is the first overview of the conservation status of 877 northern African freshwater species belonging to five taxonomic groups - fish, molluscs, dragonflies and ....

Tropical Islands Biodiversity Crisis: The Indo-West Pacific

Edited by David JW Lane

This work assesses the issues facing biodiversity maintenance on tropical islands, and the impacts of biodiversity loss. The emphasis is on the Indo-West Pacific region, which ....

America's Climate Problem

The Way Forward

Robert Repetto

What America does - or fails to do - in the next few years to solve the problem of climate change will largely determine the fate of the earth and humanity for centuries ....

The Atlas of Climate Change

Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing

Since the first edition of this highly acclaimed Atlas was published in 2006, climate change has climbed even further up the global agenda. This new edition features: the ....

Climate Change Adaptation and International Development

Making Development Cooperation More Effective

Edited by Ryo Fujikura and Masato Kawanishi

Climate change impacts upon the world's poorest most heavily. It is therefore essential that international development initiatives focus on improving the ability of developing ....

Climate Change Biology

JA Newman et al

Climate change has moved from a contested phenomenon to the top of the agenda at global summits. Climate Change Biology is the first major textbook to address the critical ....

Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainability in the Americas

Impacts and Adaptations

Edited by Francisco Dallmeier et al

This book compiles the latest research on the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the Americas and the sustainability efforts being made to preserve the ecological ....

Engaging the Public with Climate Change

Behaviour Change and Communication

Edited by Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron O'Neill and Irene Lorenzoni

Despite increasing public awareness of issues around climate change mitigation and adaptation, energy use and other consequent impacts of modern daily lives continue to ....

First Principles of Meteorology and Air Pollution

Mihalis Lzaridis

This book's main objective is to decipher for the reader the main processes in the atmosphere and the quantification of air pollution effects on humans and the ....

Flotsametrics and the Floating World

How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science

Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano

Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. Though he has degrees in engineering and oceanography, he's never held a traditional academic post, choosing ....

Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico

Barry D Keim and Robert A Muller

This book presents a comprehensive history and analysis of the hurricanes that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico from the 1800s to the present, reporting each hurricanes point of ....

Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Ocean

Robert Dinwiddie et al

Explore the last wilderness left on Earth, the Ocean - with this compact guide with a striking new look. From mangrove swamp to ocean floor, mollusc to manatee, Atlantic ....

Moist Processes in the Climate System

A Global Perspective from Earth Observations

Graeme L Stephens

The amount of water in the Earth's atmosphere is tiny compared to all other sources of water on our planet, fresh or otherwise. However, this tiny amount ....

Putting a Price on Carbon in South Africa and Other Developing Countries

Edited by Andrew Marquard and Harald Winkler

How should we be putting a price on carbon, particularly in developing countries? This volume takes up this contested issue and examines how different economic instruments ....

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery

A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response. "Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation" suggests that most of this literature takes a far ....

Visualizing Environmental Science

Linda R Berg

This book follows a unique approach by placing a greater emphasis on visual learning as a means for environmental scientists to understand and connect with the central issues ....

The Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects

James Mullaney and Wil Tirion

This star atlas is devoted to observing the Herschel objects with binoculars and telescopes. It displays over 2500 of the most visually-attractive star clusters, nebulae ....

The Cambridge Star Atlas

Wil Tirion

This classic star atlas is ideal for both beginning astronomers and more experienced observers worldwide. The clear, full-color maps show stars, clusters and galaxies ....

Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope

Neil English

This book has been written for the many amateur astronomers who already own, or are intending to purchase, a refracting telescope or for the specialist who requires a ....

DK Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe

This is the ultimate guided tour of our universe. From the fiery mass of the Sun's core to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, take off into the farthest limits of ....

Eye and Telescope V3.0

The Deep Sky Observing Planner

Thomas Pfleger

This software predicts how an object will look through your telescope. It uses a database of 130,000 entries to help find out which objects will be visible with the ....

Galileo

John Heilbron

Four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the ....

The Night Sky Month by Month

This is an invaluable, user-friendly guide to discovering and navigating the night sky every month. "The Night Sky Month by Month" offers charts for observing stars and ....

Periodic Tales

The Curious Lives of the Elements

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities ....

Philip's Mini Stargazer

Northern Hemisphere

Robin Scagell and David Frydman

This set provides an excellent starter pack suitable for use in the northern hemisphere, containing three essential items to get the beginner started on the fascinating hobby of ....

Philip's Stargazing 2011

Month-by-Month Guide to the Northern Night Sky

Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest

This concise guide to the northern night sky helps starwatchers to see the year's most fascinating events, whether observing with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. The ....

Talking About Life

Conversations on Astrobiology

Edited by Chris Impey

With over 350 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book ....

AIDS and Rural Livelihoods

Dynamics and Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edited by Gabriel Rugalema and Anke Niehof

AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from ....

The Agrarian Vision

Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Paul B Thompson

As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance ....

The Animal Rights Debate

Abolition or Regulation?

Gary L Francione and Robert Garner

Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal-rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of ....

Biomass Energy

Renewable Energy and the Environment

Edited by R Foster, J Witcher, V Nelson, M Ghassemi, LE Mimbela and A Ghassemi

Focusing on geothermal energy systems, this book covers background, theory, power generation technologies, applications, strengths and weaknesses, and useful practical ....

The Common Wealth in Ocean Fisheries

Some Problems of Growth and Economic Allocation

Professor Francis T Christy and Anthony Scott

By examining international fishery resources from a primarily economic and political viewpoint, this book highlights the common property aspects of fisheries, physical ....

Community Orchards Handbook

Sue Clifford and Angela King

Since the 1950s we have lost 60% of our orchards through development or neglect, and even though there are 3000 varieties of apple in England, we import 70% of those sold in ....

Crop Wild Relatives

A Manual of in Situ Conservation

Edited by Danny Hunter

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops. They are a vital resource by providing a pool of genetic variation that can be ....

Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries

An Evolving Perspective

Edited by Andrea Belgrano and Charles W Fowler

This book explores not only the current practice of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management but also its critical importance to even larger perspectives. It includes an ....

Energy 2050

Making the Transition to a Secure Low Carbon Energy System

Edited by Paul Ekins, Mark Winskel and Jim Skea

The United Kingdom is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by 2050, a target that will only be achieved by transforming the way that ....

Environmental Social Sciences

Methods and Research Design

Edited by Ismael Vaccaro, Eric Alden Smith and Shankar Aswani

The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research ....

Food Versus Fuel

An Informed Introduction to Biofuels

Edited by Frank Rosillo-Calle and Francis X Johnson

This book presents a high-level introduction to the science and economics behind a well-worn debate, that will debunk myths and provide quality facts and figures for ....

Force for Nature

Patricia Adams

The story of the National Resources Defense Council, movingly told by founder and former president John H. Adams, who conveys the struggles and victories of building a large ....

Global Justice

A Cosmopolitan Account

Gillian Brock

This book develops a viable cosmopolitan model of global justice that takes seriously the equal moral worth of persons, yet leaves scope for defensible forms of nationalism ....

Health and Poverty

Global Health Problems and Solutions

Gijs Walraven

There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will ....

Hydroelectric Energy

Renewable Energy and the Environment

Bikash Pandey and Ajoy Karki

Providing essential theory and useful practical techniques for implementing hydroelectric projects, this book outlines the resources, power generation technologies, ....

Integrating Science and Policy

Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change

Edited by Roger E Kasperson

As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability sciencecontinues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by ....

An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use

Callum Hill and Richard Murphy

This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable - ....

Making the Most of the Water We Have

The Soft Path Approach to Water Management

Edited by David B Brooks, Oliver M Brandes and Stephen Gurman

In the last century water policies relied on the construction of massive infrastructure in the form of dams, pipelines, and complex centralized treatment plants to meet human ....

Natural Resource Management and Local Development

Edited by Emmanuel Torquebiau and Russel D Taylor

Natural resource management by rural citizens in tropical regions is crucial both to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but also to ....

The Pacific Salmon Fisheries

A Study of Irrational Conservation

James A Crutchfield and Giulio Pontecorvo

This study attributes the chronic economic distress of the valuable Pacific salmon industry not only to decline in catch but also to the economic problems of open access ....

Partnering with Nature

The Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth

Catriona MacGregor

In this book, Catriona MacGregor weaves together historical, spiritual, and scientific examples to emphasize the importance of creating a vital relationship with our natural ....

Renewable Energy - The Facts

Dieter Seifried and Walter Witzel

Interest in renewable energy has never been greater, but much uncertainty remains as to the role the various technologies will play in the transition to a low-carbon future. ....

Reporting Live from the End of the World

David Shukman

This book tells the extraordinary adventures of the BBC's world-roving environment correspondent. When he switched beat from world affairs to environment in 2003, he ....

Second Report on the State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

This report, prepared with the active participation of member countries as well as the public and private sectors, demonstrates the central role plant genetic diversity ....

Smartcities and Eco-warriors

CJ Lim and Ed Liu

Modern methods of agriculture have led to cities growing out of control and reducing the available agricultural land, threatening the sustainability of our food system. The ....

State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010

Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises

Following more than a decade of seemingly inexorable increases in the number of undernourished people, estimates for 2010 presented in this edition of the State of Food ....

Sustainable Resource Management

Global Trends, Visions and Policies

Edited by Stefan Bringezu and Raymond Bleischwitz

Examining material flows, industrial and societal metabolism and their implications for the economy, this book provides radical perspectives on how the global economy should ....

Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations

Sonya Graci and Rachel Dodds

Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The ....

Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?

A Psychologist's Perspective

Geoffrey Beattie

Global warming - many of us believe that it is somebody else's problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the solution. This is not ....

Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R

Christian P Robert and George Casella

Computational techniques based on simulation have now become an essential part of the statistician's toolbox. It is thus crucial to provide statisticians with a practical ....

Multivariate Generalized Linear Mixed Models Using R

Damon M Berridge and Robert Crouchley

To provide researchers with the ability to analyze large and complex data sets using robust models, this book presents a unified framework for a broad class of models that ....

To the Ends of the Earth

100 Maps That Changed the World

Jeremy Harwood and Sarah Bendall

This fascinating book focuses on 100 maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making, or directly influenced the path of history. ....

ZooKeys 54

Revision of the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Vietnam

Cornelis van Achterberg and Khuat Dang Long

Includes 42 new species and three new genera. ....

ZooKeys 55

Calosota Curtis (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae) - Review of the New World and European Fauna Including Revision of Species from the West Indies and Central and North America

Gary AP Gibson

ZooKeys 56

Sixty years of Discovering Scolytine and Platypodine Diversity - A Tribute to Stephen L Wood

Anthony I Cognato and Milos Knizek

Africa South of the Sahara 2011

This is a definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic and directory data. ....

Central and South-Eastern Europe 2011

A comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of Central and South-Eastern Europe, incorporating coverage of the latest economic and political developments. ....

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2011

A comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, providing expert analysis and commentary and including up-to-date ....

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Arthropoda: Insecta I

Apterygota and Pterygota

Edited by Zia Uddin Ahmed

Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Birds

Kamal Uddin Siddiqui

This volume covers the birds of Bangladesh and includes photographs, descriptions, distribution data and other basic information on 650 species that occur or were once ....

The Europa Regional Surveys of the World 2011, 9 Volume Set

This nine-volume set covers each of the major world regions. As well as offering expert commentary on topics critical to the region as a whole, each volume provides a vast ....

The Far East and Australasia 2011

Now in its forty second edition, this systematic survey of the countries of East and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, along with 23 Pacific Islands provides up to ....

The Middle East and North Africa 2011

Now in its fifty-seventh edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geo-political and economic information for this important world area. ....

South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2011

The nineteenth edition of this series is scrupulously revised and updated, offering impartial and comprehensive coverage of this vast area. ....

South Asia 2011

This volume provides an in-depth library of information on the countries and territories of the region. ....

The USA and Canada 2011

Completely revised and updated, this twelfth edition brings together statistical, factual and directory information on these two vast nations and their constituent ....

Western Europe 2011

This is a comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of Western Europe, which comprises expert analysis and commentary and includes up-to-date statistical and ....