A Handbook of New Guinea's Marsupials and Monotremes

James Menzies

A Handbook of New Guinea's Marsupials and Monotremes may help you to identify local fauna that you may see when you travel around New Guinea and the islands of eastern Indonesia. Here are descriptions or all the native marsupials ...

An A-Z of Exceptional Dogs

Mikita Brottman

Previously published as The Great Grisby: Two Thousand Years of Exceptional Dogs In this charming bestiary of exceptional dogs, Mikita Brottman reflects on the role dogs play in our world, all explored through her ...

Cats of Egypt

Dominique Navarro and Richard Hoath

Cats were just as favored in ancient Egypt as they are today. Egyptian paintings of domesticated cats date back 3,600 years, and animal cults included worship to the cat goddess Bastet. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores ...

Distributions and Phylogeography of Neotropical Primates

A Pictorial Guide to All Known New-World Monkeys

Marc GM van Roosmalen, Stephen D Nash and Piero Gozzaglio

This is the first complete pictorial field guide to all the known Neotropical Primates/Monkeys of the New World. All taxa are depicted in full color by illustrators Stephen Nash and Piero Gozzaglio according to their phylogeography.

Le Sanglier: Rencontres Privilegiees avec la Bete Noire [The Boar: Privileged Meetings with the Black Beast]

Caroline Etienne

To know a species takes time to observe it in every detail. It is learning to look at the animal and, in the absence of direct observation, discover the presence of clues... it is also knowing the areas it frequents, its habits and behaviour ...

Mamiferos do Rio Grande do Sul [Mammals of Rio Grande do Sul]

Gislene Lopes Goncalves, Fernando Marques Quintela and Renato Ochotorena de Freitas

Scientific knowledge about the mammal fauna of the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil began to form in the second half of the nineteenth century from collections and observations of the German naturalist Herman von Ihering. Since then this body of ...

Of Bonobos and Men

A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

Deni Ellis Bechard

Bonobos have captured the public imagination in recent years, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don't kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA.

Polecats

Johnny Birks and Anthony JF Griffiths

Johnny Birks gives a unique insight into these secretive, nocturnal mammals for the latest volume in the British Natural History Collection.

Primatas no Brasil: Cada Macaco no Seu Galho [Primates in Brazil]

Cristina Rappa, Heloisa Bruhns, Livia Botar, Luciane Salete Panisson and Adriana Cruz

Resulting from a research paper, observation and experience, Primatas no Brasil describes all of Brazil's primates. The work, which is sponsored by Tetra Pak, through the Federal Law on Cultural Incentives ...

Sleeping amongst Wolves / En Busca del Lobo Iberico

Andoni Canela and Juan Carlos Blanco

Sleeping amongst Wolves contains photographs of wild Iberian wolves that Andoni Canela has taken over the past twenty years including many previously unpublished images like a pack of thirteen wolves, a wolf mother feeding her ...

The Golden Langur

Rekha Chetry and Dilip Chetry

The objective of this book is to establish the golden langur as a unique monkey species in the eyes of the public. Therefore, the authors have tried to provide all information related to golden langurs in simple language which can quench ...

The Great Soul of Siberia

In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger

Sooyong Park

The gripping account of one man's determination to discover, film, and understand one of the rarest and most formidable big cats in the world. In The Great Soul of Siberia, renowned tiger researcher Sooyong Park ...

The Secret Lives of Bats

My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

Merlin D Tuttle

From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect bats on every continent they inhabit. Enamored of bats ever since discovering a colony in ...

125 Ocells de Catalunya que Cal Coneixer: Miniguia de Camp [125 Birds of Catalonia You Should Know: Mini Field Guide]

Toni Llobet

This accessible guide is printed on laminated paper. It includes 125 bird species that you should know for their abundance, beauty and uniqueness. On each sheet a dozen birds are illustrated on the same scale, accompanied by a small text ...

A Field Guide to the Birds of Kazakhstan [Russian]

VK Ryabitsev, AF Kovshar, VA Kovshar and NN Berezovikov

This guide to the birds of Kazakhstan contains data on more than 500 bird species recorded in the vast territory of Kazakhstan during all seasons. The book is illustrated with drawings of the famous Russian ornithologist V.K. Ryabitsev ...

Atlas des Oiseaux Nicheurs de Marseille [Breeding Bird Atlas of Marseille]

Eric Barthelemy

Established in 2010 at the initiative of the association La Chevêche, the Atlas project of the Breeding Birds of Marseille is the culmination of three years of observation. A tremendous mobilization of ornithologists was necessary ...

Atlas des Oiseaux de France Metropolitaine: Nidification et Presence Hivernale [Atlas of Birds in France]

Nidal Issa and Yves Muller

This monumental work is the culmination of four years of surveys, conducted between 2009 and 2012 throughout France. Facing each text page giving the status of each species during the breeding season and in winter, are pages with in total ...

Avifauna Steiermark: Die Voegel der Steiermark [The Avifauna of Styria, Austria]

Ernst Albegger, Otto Samwald and Josef Pfeifer

Avifauna Steiermark is the most extensive work to the avifauna of the Austrian state or bundesland of Styria. Twelve renowned Styrian ornithologists have worked worked tirelessly for two-and-a-half years to gather and evaluate ...

Bird Families of the World

A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds

David W Winkler, Shawn M Billerman and Irby J Lovette

Bird Families of the World distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group ...

Bird Strike

An Experimental, Theoretical and Numerical Investigation

Reza Hedayati and Mojtaba Sadigh

Bird strikes are one of the most dangerous threats to civil and military flight safety: between 1960 and 2014, they were responsible for the destruction of approximately 150 civil aircraft and the deaths of 271 people.

Birds from Bricks

Amazing LEGO Designs That Take Flight

Thomas Poulsom

Let your creativity soar with 15 projects using interlocking bricks and to make birds from around the world. Interlocking bricks, such as LEGO, have fueled the imaginations of aspiring designers and builders for generations.

Birds of Australia

Ken Stepnell

One of the first three titles in an exciting new series of concise field guides. This is the ultimate keep-in-your-pocket guide to Australian birds. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness ...

Canards, Cygnes et Oies d'Europe, d'Asie et d'Amerique du Nord [Wildfowl of Europe, Asia and North America]

Sebastien Reeber

Canards, Cygnes et Oies d'Europe, d'Asie et d'Amérique du Nord is a comprehensive reference summarising current knowledge on the identification of the different species and subspecies of ducks, geese and swans ...

Catalan Winter Bird Atlas 2006-2009 / Atles dels Ocells de Catalunya a l'Hivern 2006-2009

Sergi Herrando, Lluis Brotons, Joan Estrada, Santiago Guallar, Marc Anton and Marti Franch

Ornithological atlases are often one of the best ways of improving knowledge and management of a country's avifauna. To date two breeding-bird atlases have been published in Catalonia (1984 and 2004), but a winter atlas was lacking ...

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies and James McCallum

The cuckoo is Nature's most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving other species into raising their young. Nick Davies exposes these generally plain-looking birds to be some of the most cunning and inventive creatures ...

Cuando y Donde Ver Aves en Cataluna [Where and When to Watch Birds in Catalonia]

Ricard Gutierrez

This practical guide, written by a recognized expert, brings together many ideas for activities and destinations for birding in Catalonia, Spain, depending on the time of year, month by month and aimed at groups such as: ...

Der Habicht: Vom Waldjaeger zum Stadtbewohner [The Northern Goshawk: From Forest Hunters to Urban Residents]

Lutz Artmann, Norbert Kenntner, Christian Neumann and Stefan Schlegl

"One recognizes it because that one can not see it" – this famous 20th century description of the Northern Goshawk by zoologist Oskar Heinroth is still valid. It indicates the behavior of this shy bird which has its ...

Devon Bird Atlas 2007-13

Stella D Beavan, Mike Lock, HRH Prince Charles and Humphrey Sitters

This second published Atlas of breeding – and for the first time, wintering – birds in Devon will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the county's birds. It covers six years of fieldwork from winter ...

Die Saatkraehe Corvus frugilegus als Brutvogel in Niedersachsen: Vorkommen, Schutz, Konflikte und Loesungsmoeglichkeiten

Thorsten Krueger and Markus Nipkow

Though it is only one of currently 198 species of breeding birds in Lower Saxony, no other bird arouses as much conflict over its breeding colonies as the rook. No matter whether its colonies are in rural or residential areas, they are ...

Die Stimmen der Voegel Europas auf DVD [The Voices of European Birds on DVD]

Hans-Heiner Bergmann, Hans-Wolfgang Helb, Sabine Baumann and Wiltraud Englaender

Reissued as DVD-ROM, Die Stimmen der Vögel Europas auf DVD reveals the enchanting world of birdsong in a unique way. It brings together the portraits of 487 bird species occurring in Europe with 1,632 documented birdsongs ...

Don't Die in Autumn

A Memoir

Eric Dempsey

'Paul, my brother, still questions whether I was born or if, in fact, I was hatched.' Eric Dempsey is mad about birds. In fact, they have changed his whole life. Having once been gainfully employed by a semi-state ...

Endemic Birds of Cuba

A Comprehensive Field Guide - Including West Indian Endemics Residing in Cuba

Nils Navarro, Loyda Sanchez and James W Wiley

Practical information about 48 species of birds: 26 endemic to Cuba and another 22 endemic to the West Indies and which include the Cuban Archipelago in their distribution. A book designed according to the practical needs of those who ...

Feather Calendar 2016

World Feather Atlas Foundation (WFAF)

The Feather Calendar 2016 features beautiful pterylographies, bird names in the 6 official languages of the United Nations, and concise scientific information on the depicted species. This wall calendar measures 15 × 21 cm ...

Field Guide to the Birds of the Serra dos Orgaos and Surrounding Area / Aves da Serra dos Orgaos e Adjacencias

Daniel Mello, Gabriel Mello and Francisco Mallet-Rodrigues

The Serra dos Órgãos is one of the most important natural areas in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, being visited by naturalists and researchers since the early nineteenth century. There is the Serra dos Órgãos ...

Finch Trapping in the Kimberley

A History of Commercial Finch Trapping in the Kimberley Division of Western Australia

Kevin Coate and Lance Merritt

Finch Trapping in the Kimberley provides a rare insight into the far north of Western Australia, the capture of over one million wild finches, their marketing and their distribution around the world. It is the first complete ...

Finding Birds in Hungary

Dave Gosney

If you know where to go, Hungary is a brilliant destination for a birder. The aim of this book is to give you the best possible chance of catching up with these fabulous birds by providing descriptions and maps, more detailed than any other ...

Green Guide to Garden Birds of Australia

Peter Slater and Sally Elmer

This new title in New Holland's award-winning Green Guides series investigates the ever-popular subject of the birds in Australia's back yards. Identification spreads cover all the key species and families likely to occur ...

Kent Breeding Bird Atlas 2008-13

Rob Clements, Murray Orchard, Norman McCanch and Stephen Wood

Kent is England's most south-easterly county, and the closest to the continent of Europe. Despite relentless pressure from development and urbanisation, much of the natural environment survives, and there are more National Nature Reserves ...

Les Plus Beaux Oiseaux de France [The Most Beautiful Birds of France]

Marc Duquet

Discover the most beautiful birds of France, those who wear very colourful and beautiful plumage such as the European bee-eater or flamingo, or those whose silhouette or behavior is spectacular, such as the gannet or the crane, or those ...

Nightingales in November

A Year in the Lives of Twelve British Birds

Mike Dilger and Christina Holvey

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

No Way But Gentlenesse

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

Richard Hines

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

Northumbria Bird Atlas

The Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club and Anne Cleeves

The Northumbria Bird Atlas is a 512 page, profusely illustrated document which gives the current status of the birds of the area. Between the rivers Tyne and Tweed there are 200 species of birds which commonly breed or spend the ...

Oiseaux de Paradis: Les Oiseaux les Plus Extraordinaires du Monde [Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraor

Tim Laman, Edwin Scholes and Denis-Armand Canal

Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace once observed, "The bird of paradise really deserves its name and must be ranked as one of the most beautiful and most wonderful of living things." In this dazzling photo essay, Tim Laman ...

One Wild Bird at a Time

Portraits of Individual Lives

Bernd Heinrich

n One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. There are countless books on bird behavior, but, writes Heinrich, "some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar ...

Project Puffin

The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Stephen W Kress and Derrick Z Jackson

Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned to ...

Ptitsy Peterburga: Illiustrirovannyi Spravochnik [The Birds of St. Petersburg: An Illustrated Guide]

VM Khrabryi

This book is a complete guide to the birds in the current administrative boundaries of St. Petersburg. The book contains data about the birds nesting in the city, as well as those that are found in the St. Petersburg area during seasonal ...

Quan i on Veure Ocells a Catalunya [Where and When to Watch Birds in Catalonia]

Ricard Gutierrez

This practical guide, written by a recognized expert, brings together many ideas for activities and destinations for birding in Catalonia, Spain, depending on the time of year, month by month and aimed at groups such as: ...

Sibley Calendar: The Birder's Year 2016 Daily Calendar

David Allen Sibley

Hailed as a modern-day John James Audubon, David Allen Sibley has become one of North America's most famous bird illustrators. The Birders Year 2016 boxed daily calendar features more than 300 pages of Sibleys detailed bird portraits ...

Sibley Calendar: The Birder's Year 2016 Wall Calendar

David Allen Sibley

David Allen Sibley is hailed as a modern-day James Audubon and has quickly become one of North America's most famous bird illustrators. Reproductions of his finely detailed species portraits are featured each month along with a range ...

The Life of the Robin

David Lack, Peter Lack, David Harper and Robert Gillmor

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist ...

The Living Bird

100 Years of Listening to Nature

Gerrit Vyn, Barbara Kingsolver, Jared Diamond, John W Fitzpatrick, Lyanda Lynn Haupt and Weidensau

An intimate yet stunning exploration of North American species, The Living Bird shares our joyful and complex relationship with birds. Through imagery and thoughtful essays, award-winning photographer Gerrit Vyn, along with leading ...

The Narrow Edge

A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab & an Epic Journey

Deborah Cramer

Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding ...

The World of Birds and Laughter

Richard Pople

A travelogue of a keen birder reminiscing about the fun times and adventures he had with friends and family whilst birdwatching round the world.

Vse o Ptitsakh Rossii [All about the Birds of Russia]

S Radelov

This beautifully illustrated encyclopedia tells readers about all groups of birds occurring in the territory of Russia. The publication contains descriptions of more than seven hundred species of birds. Each species entry contains excellent ...

Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal [English / Nepali]

W Kaestle, K Rai and H Hermann Schleich

A richly illustrated bilingual field guide to Nepali reptiles and amphibians, containing a wealth of background information  with chapters on their biology, snakebites and how to avoid them, Nepal's geography, collecting and ...

Os Anfibios e Repteis da Reserva Madeira, Estado de Alagoas, Nordeste do Brasil [Amphibians and Reptiles of the Reserve

Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Eliane Maria de Souza Nogueira and Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto

This books brings together work by researchers from several Northeast Brazilian Universities. The book is intended for herpetologists and the public interested in knowing more about the amphibian and reptile fauna of the remnants of the ...

The Sand Lizard

Between Light and Shadow

Ina Blanke and Helen Fearnley

The lives of sand lizards are characterised by light and shadow. Sand lizards are particular and selective creatures; living close to one another and favouring structurally diverse areas of vegetation scattered with patches of open ground ...

Biology and Ecology of Herring

Douglas E Hay and Audrey J Geffen

Herring, part of the family Clupeidae, are an abundant and commercially important fish, found mainly in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans as well as off the west coast of South America. Atlantic ...

Biology and Evolution of the Mexican Cavefish

Alex Keene, Masato Yoshizawa and Suzanne McGaugh

Biology and Evolution of the Mexican Cavefish features contributions by leading researchers in a comprehensive, unique work that examines a number of distinct areas of biology – evolution, development, ecology, and behaviour ...

Field Guide to the Tropical Fish of Australia

Rick Stuart-Smith, Graham J Edgar, Andrew Green and Ian Shaw

This indispensible field guide the most comprehensive of its kind covers nearly 1,100 fish species from the tropical seas around Australia. Each has a photo and concise written account. The book summarises information on marine fishes ...

Guia Practica de los Peces de Canarias [Field Guide to the Fish of the Canary Islands]

Jose Manuel Moreno and Sacha Lobenstein

Richly illustrated field guide to fish of the Canary islands, available in standard or pocket format. Describes 202 species.

Making Salmon

An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

Joseph E Taylor III and William Cronon

"Taylor's purpose is to help us understand just how hard it is to grapple with ecological problems that are also intensely cultural and political and economic [...] By showing us how complicated the human history of salmon has ...

NHK Supesharu Nazo No Kaitei Same Okoku Ogata Hon [Large Book of the Shark Kingdom]

A popular science account of deep-sea sharks.

A Checklist of Subfamily Arctiinae (Erebidae: Noctuoidea: Lepidoptera) from India

Jagbir Singh, Navneet Singh and Rahul Joshi

This checklist includes a total number of 525 species under 140 genera of three tribes, Arctiini (151 species and 42 genera), Lithosiini (308 species and 90 genera) and Syntomini (66 species and 8 genera) of Arctiinae from India.

A Guide to the Deep-Water Sponges of the Aleutian Island Archipelago

Robert P Stone, Helmut Lehnert and Henry Reiswig

The first dedicated collections of deep-water (> 80 m) sponges from the central Aleutian Islands revealed a rich fauna including 28 novel species and geographical range extensions for 53 others. Based on these collections and the ...

A Manual of Beekeeping

EB Wedmore

For over 70 years Wedmore’s Manual has been the reference book of choice for answers to all practical beekeeping questions. This updated reprint, with contributions from an eminent panel of contributors is one that all serious beekeepers ...

A Preliminary Guide to the Pyralid Moths of Borneo, Part 1: Thyridoidea and Pyraloidea: Pyralidae

Stephen Sutton, Henry Barlow and Terry Whitaker

This is Part 1 of 3 and covers the Thyridoidea and the Pyraloidea: Pyralidae sensu Regier, J. O. et al. 2012. (Parts 2 & 3 will deal with the Crambidae and should be available in 2016). The core of Part 1 is a set of 35 high ...

Biology and Ecology of Venomous Marine Snails

Ramasamy Santhanam

The first comprehensive volume exclusively on marine cone snails, Biology and Ecology of Venomous Marine Snails provides descriptions of over 100 species of hazardous marine snails along with their biological and ecological ...

Butterflies of the West Midlands

Ian JH Duncan, Peter Seal, John Tilt, Roger Wasley and Mike Williams

In this first ever book on the butterflies of the West Midlands detailed accounts of all 41 species regularly recorded in Birmingham & the Black Country, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire are included, with ...

Donaciinae of Japan [Japanese]

Masakazu Hayashi

Describes 23 species of the Japanese leaf beetle subfamily Donaciinae.

Fauna Helvetica 28: Lepidoptera - Noctuidae: Die Eulenfalter der Schweiz / Les Noctuelles de Suisse [The Owlet Moths of

Hans-Peter Wymann, Ladislaus Rezbanyai-Reser and Max Haechler

On more than 960 pages this work introduces all the more than 600 currently known species of Noctuidae, Pantheidae and Nolidae from Switzerland. This richly illustrated publication, containing one or more specimens per species ...

Following the Wild Bees

The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting

Thomas D Seeley

Following the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today. Thomas Seeley, a world authority on honey bees ...

Freshwater Leeches of Britain and Ireland

Keys to the Hirudinea and a Review of their Ecology

JM Elliott, Michael Dobson and Alan Crowden

Leeches are instantly recognisable freshwater animals. The clear segmentation and presence of suckers at each end ensure that there are few other organisms with which they may be confused, although leeches attract a mixed response from ...

Get Started in Urban Beekeeping

Claire Waring and Adrian Waring

Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in the beekeeping community, Get Started in Urban Beekeeping is the definitive, and most authoritative, guide to keeping bees in a city environment.

Guida all'Apicoltura Naturale con Arnie Top Bar [The Thinking Beekeeper]

Christy Hemenway and Sara Marcolini

What's the buzz about the growing popularity of backyard beekeeping? Providing habitat for bees, pollinating your garden and producing honey for your family are some of the compelling reasons for taking up this exciting hobby.

Guide des Chenilles d'Europe: Les Chenilles de Plus de 500 Especes de Papillons sur 165 Plantes Hotes [Guide to the Ca

David J Carter and Brian Hargreaves

The only comprehensive field guide on caterpillars. Over 500 species are described and illustrated, with 300 miniatures of the corresponding butterflies and moths. 165 characteristic food plants are also illustrated.

Handbook of Common New Guinea Beetles

J Linsley Gressitt and Richard W Hornabrook

Handbook of Common New Guinea Beetles provides the means for identification of the larger and more important families of beetles occurring in New Guinea. At least one representative of each major family is illustrated.

History of Acarology

Vikram Prasad

During the last two decades, the study of Acarina has undergone extensive growth, both in the number of workers in the field and in the output of publications. For this reason, it is virtually impossible for acarologists to become acquainted ...

Lepidoptera of Continental Portugal

A Fully Revised List

Martin FV Corley

Up to the present, all lists of Portuguese Lepidoptera have been a chaotic mixture of genuine records and misidentifications together with errors of omission and inclusion, with no means of distinguishing good from bad.

Lepidoptera: Borboletas e Mariposas do Brasil [Lepidoptera: Butterflies and Moths of Brazil]

Almir Candido de Almeida and Andre Victor Lucci Freitas

A sumptuously illustrated photo book showing the moths and butterflies of Brazil, which, bar one, have been taken in the wild.

Longicorn Beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and Adjacent Countries, Part 1 [Russian]

ML Danilevsky

This monograph includes all Longicorn taxa known from 16 states: Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia ...

Motyli a Housenky Stredni Evropy IV: Denni Motyli [Butterflies and Caterpillars of Central Europe IV: Butterflies]

Jan Macek, Zdenek Lastuvka and Jiri Benes

The last part of the atlas closes this four-part series of atlases of butterflies and caterpillars in Central Europe. In addition to families of butterflies that are very well known to readers, such as the swallowtail butterflies ...

Neolucanus of Japan [Japanese]

Ryosuke Sadaki, Tatsuhiko Hayashi and Toshiyuki Tsuchiya

This iconograhpy describes the stag beetle genus Neolucanus from Japan.

Notes from a Clifftop Apiary

Rowland Molony

Producing honey is an ancient tradition thousands of years old that is probably more popular now than ever with consumers eager to support local provenance and enjoy the magical alchemy which sees bees transform pollen into a delicious ...

Nudibranch & Sea Slug Identification: Indo-Pacific

Terrence M Gosliner, Angel Valdes and David Behrens

Three leading scientific experts on nudibranchs and sea slugs collaborate to produce a comprehensive guide for divers to the Indo-Pacific region. Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens previously worked together ...

Nudibranchs Encyclopedia

Catalogue of Asia/Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs

Neville Coleman, Gary Cobb and David Mullins

The most comprehensive photographic guide to the Sea slugs of the Asia/Indo-Pacific region. This guide, co-published by Underwater Australia and Masalai Press, includes family names, common names, scientific names, authors/dates, location ...

Phelotrupes auratus of Japan [Japanese]

Keiichi Tsukamoto, Masashi Inagaki, Masakazu Kawahara and Masato Mori

Described the Japanese geotrupid beetle species Phelotrupes auratus.

SBF Volume 3: Intertidal Marine Isopods

Keys and Notes for the Identification of the Species

Ernest Naylor, Angelika Brandt, John H Crothers and Peter Joseph Hayward

The Second Edition of this iconic Synopsis, replacing Naylor (1972). This new edition of the Synopsis has been brought completely up to date, with many new references, an updated species list, and extensive additional information included ...

Tarantulas: Breeding Experience & Wildlife

Frederic Cleton, Yannick Sigwalt and Jean-Michel Verdez

In this new tarantula book the three French authors summarize their travelling experience (journeys to Africa, South America and Asia) where they have carefully observed tarantulas in their natural habitats. The knowledge gained from the ...

The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping

Ivor Davis and Roger Cullum-Kenyon

The number of people interested and active in keeping bees at an amateur level has continued to increase over the past few years in both rural and urban situations. The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping, aimed at beginning beekeepers ...

The Biology of Hover Wasps

Stefano Turillazzi

The Biology of Hover Wasps represents the culmination of the author's lifetime work on a single fascinating group of insects, the hover wasps, Stenogastrinae. The author explores the biology of these little-known wasps at the ...

The Dynastine Scarab Beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

Brett C Ratcliffe and Ronald D Cave

The 85 species and subspecies of dynastine scarab beetles that occur in the West Indies are comprehensively reviewed. Detailed discussions of the paleobiogeography, historical collecting, climate, vegetation and habitats (with images) ...

The Living and Fossil Busycon Whelks

Iconic Mollusks of Eastern North America

Edward J Petuch, Robert F Myers and David P Berschauer

The Living and Fossil Busycon Whelks: Iconic Mollusks of Eastern North America is the seminal book on Busycon whelks, including all 17 living species and over 100 fossil species. The book contains over 120 color plates and maps ...

ZooKeys 515: Trends in Terrestrial Isopod Biology

Stefano Taiti, Elisabeth Hornung, Jasna Strus and Didier Bouchon

Terrestrial isopods or woodlice (Crustacea, Oniscidea) represent the largest suborder of Isopoda and are the only group of crustaceans fully adapted to live on land. Up to date, over 3,700 species are known but many more are expected to ...

Allosaurus: A Biography

Jack Wilkin

All we have today of the mighty dinosaurs are their fossils. It is sometimes easy to forget that these were once living animals, surviving in a word of unimaginable violence. But if you know what you're looking for, the signs of life ...

The Argentina Continental Margin

A Potential Paleoclimatic-Paleoceanographic Archive for the Southern Ocean

Roberto Antonio Violante

The evolution of the Argentina Continental Margin during the Quaternary and the stratigraphic and morphosedimentary configuration responded to climatic variability, oceanographic changes, glacioeustatic fluctuations and tectono-isostatic ...

The Cupulate Cone Bethella lowenii, gen. et sp. nov., (Bennettitales) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretace

A Dissenting Interpretation

Kevin R Aulenback

Are there cupules present in the Bennettitales? The production of cupules in the Bemiettitales has been an ongoing debate for the last century with no clear winner. New fossil finds and reinterpretation of older discoveries show the existence ...

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles

The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

David Hone

Tyrannosaurus is by some margin the most famous dinosaur in the world, adored by children and adults alike, and it is often the only one that many people can name. An impressive beast, it topped 10 tons, was more than 15 m long ...

Diversity of Reef Associated Macrofauna of Rutland Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands

C Raghunathan

The present study was undertaken to assess the diversity of scleractinian corals and associated faunal communities around the continental shelf regions of Rutland Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

Freshwater Life

A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of Southern Africa

Charles L Griffiths, Jenny Day and Mike Picker

Freshwater Life – the first illustrated field guide of its kind for the wider southern African region – describes a vast range of plant and animal groups in a single volume. A ground-breaking concept that encompasses ...

Littoral Faunal Diversity of Great Nicobar Island

C Raghunathan

This paper reports the results of a study conducted from 2008 to 2012 in the intertidal and subtidal region of nine reef areas of the Great Nicobar Island.

A Fierce Green Fire

The Life and Legacy of Aldo Leopold

Marybeth Lorbiecki

Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire (OUP; 1999) remains the only biography for the general public on Leopold. It was praised for being concise and readable, and written in the context of the history of American conservation.

A Land Made from Water

Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions

Robert R Crifasi

A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the ...

A Manifestation of Monsters

Examining the (Un)Usual Suspects

Karl PN Shuker and Ken Gerhard

The spectacular front-cover painting by American artist Michael J. Smith, depicting 17 astonishing mystery beasts and other controversial entities, was the inspiration for this latest book by leading cryptozoologist Dr. Karl Shuker.

A Time from the World

Rowena Farre and Jay Griffiths

Rowena Farre led a double life while studying art in London as a young woman. For months on end she would disappear to Scotland or the English-Welsh borderlands, where she lived as part of a Gypsy community. Here she met different kinds ...

Across the Arctic Ocean

Original Photographs from the Last Great Polar Journey

Sir Wally Herbert and Huw Lewis-Jones

On 21 February 1968, Wally Herbert and his team of three companions and forty huskies set out from Point Barrow, Alaska, embarking on a journey that no one had ever attempted. Sixteen hard months later they finally set foot once more on ...

Alfred Wegener

Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift

Mott T Greene

Alfred Wegener aimed to create a revolution in science which would rank with those of Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin. After completing his doctoral studies in astronomy at the University of Berlin, Wegener found himself drawn not ...

An Outline of British Crop Husbandry

HG Sanders

First published in 1958, as the third edition of a 1939 original, An Outline of British Crop Husbandry provides an account regarding the essential aspects of crop maintenance in Britain. Key technical details are discussed, including ...

Apple Acre

Adrian Bell, Anthea Bell and Richard Kennedy

Food rationing, blackouts and the threat of invasion became part of everyday life in Britain during the Second World War. Yet despite the wartime austerity and growing mood of unease, Adrian Bell and his wife went about their business in ...

Arthur-Louis Letacq (1855-1923) l'Abbe Naturaliste de l'Orne [Arthur-Louis Letacq (1855-1923) the Naturalist Abbot

Association Faune et Flore de l'Orne (AFFO) and Societe Historique et Archeologique de l'Orne

Father Arthur Louis Letacq was the main figure of naturalism in Orne, a department in the northwest of France, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and his bibliography is a source of reference for many naturalistic ...

Auge in Auge mit der Natur: Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt [Eye to Eye with Nature: The Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt

The museum guide Auge in Auge mit der Natur accompanies visitors on their journey through the Earth's history. Richly illustrated, compiled according to subjects and always accompanied by a chronological arrangement ...

Botany: A Senior Text-Book for Schools

David Thoday

Originally published in 1915, Botany: A Senior Text-Book for Schools provides a comprehensive and readily understandable treatment of botany. Principally aimed at secondary school plant science students and botanists in preparation ...

Brother to the Ox

Fred Kitchen and Ian McMillan

In 1933, influenced by the books of Charles Dickens and George Eliot borrowed from the public library, Fred Kitchen started writing about his experiences as a farm labourer. He was studying at the Workers Educational Association where ....

Caminando por la Gomera: Guia de Senderos [Walking on La Gomera: Hiking Guide]

Moises Miguel, Gonzalez Perez, Martha Liliana, Ospina Raigosa and Jose Manuel Moreno

A richly illustrated hiking guide to La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands.

Collections Naturalistes: Entre Science et Empires (1763-1804) [Naturalist Collections: Between Science and Empire (1763

Bertrand Daugeron

At the start of this investigation, there is one question of detail and that has remained unanswered since the creation of the Paris National Museum of Natural History in 1793: why did ethnographic objects leave the naturalistic collections ...

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

Sunil S Amrith

The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal – India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia – are home to one in four people on Earth.

Dawn Chorus

The Legendary Voyage to New Zealand of Aesop, the Fabled Teller of Fables

Raymond Ching

New Zealand's birds as you have never seen them before. World renowned artist Ray Ching has created a truly unique celebration of New Zealand's birds and landscapes. Magical, humorous and beautiful, this is the imagined story of ...

Down the River

HE Bates, Charles Rangeley-Wilson and Agnes Miller Parker

Rivers are great workings of nature, time and geology. They have long been at the very centre of human culture, sustaining us with water, food, power and stories. Our thoughts flow like a river. A river's journey, from source to sea ...

Earth Memories

Llewelyn Powys and John Gray

In 1931, after two decades of wandering the world, Llewelyn Powys moved into an isolated cliff-top cottage in Dorset, where he embarked on a series of essays embracing what he called 'the poetry of life'. In their evocations of ...

Exposer l'Humanite: Race, Ethnologie et Empire en France (1850-1950) [Exhibiting Humanity: Race, Ethnology and Empire

Alice L Conklin and Tzvetan Todorov

Exposer l'Humanité provides the first full account of French anthropology as an academic discipline, with a special emphasis on the late Third Republic and Vichy. It demonstrates how entangled the scientific notions of ...

Extreme Earth

Michael Martin

Michael Martin's Extreme Earth represents an extraordinary achievement in exploration and photography. One of the world's leading documentary photographers, Martin has devoted many years to this vast project, which surveys ...

First Encyclopedia of Our World

Felicity Brooks and David Hancock

Why is night dark? What is snow? How do earthquakes happen? What is under the sea? These and hundreds of other questions about the world around us are answered in this charming book. Simple, easy-to-read tex and lively, detailed ...

Flying the Nest

The Early Days of Britain's Best-Loved Animals

Hannah Dale

This beautiful little giftbook features over 50 baby birds and animals painted by Hannah Dale in her uniquely quirky, characterful style. From the fox cub to the fluffy duckling, the nation's favourite baby creatures are delightfully ...

Fossil Capital

The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming

Andreas Malm

The more we debate about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we continue to burn. How did we get caught up in this mess? In this masterful new history Fossil Capital, Malm claims that it all ...

George Perkins Marsh

Prophet of Conservation

David Lowenthal and William Cronon

George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh's career and shows ...

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Water and air. These primordial substances, which make possible all life on earth, are the subject of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Seascapes series. For over thirty years, Sugimoto has traveled the world photographing its seas, producing a ...

Home Country

Richard Mabey, Andrew Motion and Paul Nash

The Chilterns: that great chalk enscarpment of southern England, studded with beechwood, intercut with motorways and the sprawling suburbs of London. This is where Richard Mabey grew up and spent most of his adult life. It was his laboratory ...

House Guests, House Pests

A Natural History of Animals in the Home

Richard Jones

Today we live in snug, well-furnished houses surrounded by the trappings of a civilised life. But we are not alone – we suffer a constant stream of unwanted visitors. Our houses, our food, our belongings, our very existence are ...

La Llamada del Puma: Looking for the Wild [Spanish]

Andoni Canela and Meritxell Margarit

The cougar was the inspiration for this extraordinary journey through mountains, glaciers, forests, oceans, jungles and deserts. Fifteen months of route across continents in search of seven animals in danger of extinction.

Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium

Veronica della Dora

Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores ...

Les Faiseurs de Montagne: Imaginaires Politiques et Territorialit s: XVIIIe - XXIe Si cle [The Mountain: A Political H

Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz

What is a mountain? Seems like a simple question, right? But if we take the question seriously, the answers turn out to be complicated, wide ranging, and fascinating. In Les Faiseurs de Montagne, geographers Bernard Debarbieux ...

Life in Ancient Ice

John D Castello and Scott O Rogers

Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. Particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses are carried by wind around ...

Lonely Planet Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya

Bradley Mayhew , Lindsay Brown and Stuart Butler

Lonely Planet Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tour through the hidden backstreet courtyards and temples of ...

Love Canal

A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present

Richard S Newman

In the spring of 1978, citizens of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump – a sixteen acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste – upon which ...

Men and the Fields

Adrian Bell, Ronald Blythe and Martin Bell

Adrian Bell's autobiographical account of his travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain was first published in June 1939. Men and the Fields captures the character of rural life before modern agriculture altered ...

Natural Histories

Postcards of 60 Rare Book Illustrations

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Tom Baione

The American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection contains some of the most extraordinary, vivid images from the natural world – and this beautiful gift box is perfect for any nature enthusiast. It features 60 stunning ...

Northwest Lands, Northwest People

Readings in Environmental History

Dale D Goble and Paul W Hirt

It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment-in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addresses ...

Painting Flowers

Create Beautiful Watercolour Artworks with this Step-by-Step Guide

Jill Winch

Jill Winch is an award-winning botanical artist and has been teaching people to paint and draw flowers for many years. In this delightful book, she teaches the key skills for making successful paintings of flowers. She breaks the process ...

Planet Wueste [Extreme Earth]

Michael Martin

Earth is a desert planet. Almost half of the land surface is occupied by hot and cold deserts. Unique landscapes and stunning adaptations of plants, animals and people are a source of great fascination for these extreme zones. For five years ...

Plant Biology

An Outline of the Principles Underlying Plant Activity and Structure

Sir Harry Godwin

Originally published in 1930, Plant Biology was principally designed for first-year medical students, but was also intended to have a wide utilisation by students in cognate biological fields. Plant Biology covers a wide ...

Polar Mariner

Beyond the Limits in Antarctica

Tom Woodfield

Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Officer he worked for The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey which in 1964 became the British Antarctic ...

Portraits of Brazilian Nature / Retratos da Natureza Brasileira

Almir Candido de Almeida and Gustavo Requena Santos

This lavishly illustrated photo book shows the splendour of Brazilian flora and fauna, with all photos taken in the wild by the author.

Quilled Animals

Diane Boden

Paper quilling has been around for hundreds of years, and is a traditional papercraft that is continually reinventing itself. It is currently ina time of resurgence in the UK, Europe and the US, and a quick search on Google reveals literally ...

Reining in the Rio Grande

People, Land, and Water

Fred M Phillips, G Emlen Hall and Mary E Black

The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation ...

Ring of Bright Water

Gavin Maxwell, Sir John Lister-Kaye and Alex Salmond

Ring of Bright Water represents Gavin Maxwell's account of his life at Camusfearna, a remote cottage in the western Highlands, and in particular the two otters, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant and much-loved companion ...

Salar the Salmon

Henry William Williamson, Charles F Tunnicliffe and Michael Morpurgo

Salar the Salmon's migration through the rivers of Devon – surviving porpoises, seals, nets, fishermen, otters, poachers and weirs – is one of nature's great journeys. Intense, brilliantly imagined, the salmon's ...

Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture

Robert L Zimdahl

Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture is a scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest management, antibiotics ...

So Far & Yet So Close

Frontier Cattle Ranching in Prairie Western Canada & the Northern Territory of Australia

Warren M Elofson

There are many points on which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously, they came to life at about the same time: the late 1870s-early 1880s. In both cases corporations were heavy ...

Some Problems of Geodynamics

Augustus Edward Hough Love

Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940) was a British mathematician most well known for his work on elasticity and wave propagation. Originally published in 1911, Some Problems of Geodynamics is significant for containing his ...

Strange Creatures Seldom Seen

Giant Beavers, Sasquatch, Manipogos, and Other Mystery Animals in Manitoba and Beyond

John Warms, Jarmo Sinisalo and Robert E Wrigley

People see strange things up North, and John Warms has collected stories of some very strange creatures in his travels throughout Manitoba and beyond. From well-known mystery animals like Sasquatch and lake monsters to lesser-known ...

The Bigfoot Book

The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti and Cryptid Primates

Nick Redfern

Does a hulking, hairy, 800-pound, nine-foot-tall, elusive primate roam the woods and forests throughout North America – and the world? What should we make of the grainy videos and photos and the thousands of eyewitness reports?

The Early Career of Neville Henry Cayley in Victoria

Mark R Cabouret

Drawing on over 30 years of research, this short monograph presents artworks produced by Neville Henry Cayley whilst living in Victoria, Australia. Limited to 200 copies.

The Entokil Man

The Life of Harold Maxwell-Lefroy

Laurence Fleming

Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, the agricultural pioneer who founded Rentokil, was a maverick and a driven man. He was the first to apply the scientific method to dealing with insect pests, which saved innumerable crops in India and the Caribbean ...

The Fish Ladder

A Journey Upstream

Katharine Norbury

Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for ...

The Invention of Science

A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton

We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to ...

The Life & Love of the Sea

Lewis Blackwell

Combining images from world's leading marine and nature photographers and the latest in underwater photography techniques, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the ocean's many facets.

The Making of the English Landscape

WG Hoskins and William E Boyd

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest record we have of the past, and with his masterpiece ...

The Maya Forest Garden

Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands

Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh

The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internal ...

The Mirror of the Sea

Joseph Conrad, Philip Marsden and John Everett

When Joseph Conrad was discharged from the clipper Torrens in London during the summer of 1893, his seafaring career was over. He had travelled the world by then, risen in rank from apprentice to captain, survived shipwreck and turbulent ...

The Pattern Under the Plough

George Ewart Evans, Patrick Barkham and David Gentleman

In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms ...

The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science Since 1960

Peter Collins

The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of civil science in the 1960s, the Society ...

The Shining Levels

John Wyatt, Melvyn Bragg and Norman Ackroyd

John Wyatt first encountered the Lake District during a boyhood trip to Windermere. He was overwhelmed by the freedom of the landscape and the closeness to nature he felt. It was as if he belonged here, amongst the fells, the crags and ...

The Slain Wood

Papermaking and its Environmental Consequences in the American South

William E Boyd

When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion ...

The South Country

Edward Thomas, Robert MacFarlane and Eric Daglish

Acutely sensitive to rhythms of the countryside, Edward Thomas's lyrical, passionate, and sometimes political writing merges natural history with folk culture, and gives us a free-form record of the feelings and observations of one ...

The Unofficial Countryside

Richard Mabey, Iain Sinclair and Mary Newcomb

During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life.

The West Highlands and the Hebrides

A Geologist's Guide for Amateurs

Alfred Harker, JE Richey, JS Boys Smith and Albert Seward

Originally published in 1941, this book presents a guide to the geology of the West Highlands and the Hebrides. Aimed at the general reader, it begins with a brief discussion of types of rock before moving through different regions discussing ...

Through the Woods

HE Bates, Laura Beatty and Agnes Miller Parker

H.E. Bates carried a woodland in his imagination. He fell under its spell as a boy growing up in the Midlands, becoming increasingly enchanted each time he stepped below the wooded canopy. Memory magnified its mystery over the years ...

Toxic Histories

Poison and Pollution in Modern India

David Arnold

Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority and public anxiety in India between the ...

Transforming Biology

A History of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne

Juliet Flesch

Transforming Biology opens a window on the lives and work of the scientists, teachers and students who have contributed to the achievements of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne ...

Useless Beauty

Flowers and Australian Art

Ann Elias

The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. Useless Beauty: Flowers and Australian Art puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes.

What is Environmental History?

J Donald Hughes

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition ...

Wildlife Fotografien des Jahres, Portfolio 25 [Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 25]

Rosamund Kidman Cox, Thomas D Mangelsen and Ulrike Kretschmer

For 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 Desk Calendar

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 25. As usual, a wall calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 Wall Calendar

The Natural History Museum (London - UK)

This calendar features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 25. As usual, desk calendar, pocket diary, and desk diary are also available.

Wildlife in Pictures

Craig Hayman

Author Craig Hayman had the rare opportunity of living and working in some of Africa's most spectacular wilderness areas for several years. During his time as a wildlife photographic safari guide he was able to capture many dramatic ...

Writing Arctic Disaster

Authorship and Exploration

Adriana Craciun

How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century ...

You Could Look it Up

The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Jack Lynch

"Knowledge is of two kinds", said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it". Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference ...

101 Kruger Tales

Extraordinary Stories from Ordinary Visitors to the Kruger National Park

Jeff Gordon and Mark Boucher

This is a collection of 101 jaw-dropping stories, as told by the very people who experienced them – first-hand accounts of sightings, scrapes and encounters in one of Africa's greatest National Parks. It details hair-raising ...

Argentina Fauna: Pocket Guide / Guia de Bolsillo

Marcelo Beccaceci, G Teo, Diego Florio, Cecilia Gasparrou, Maria Fernanda R Amaya, J Palermo and S

This bilingual laminated fold-out guide illlustrates Argentine fauna, showing mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and butterflies. Species are identified by their English, Spanish and scientific names with sizes or wing spans given in ...

Bradt Travel Guide: Alentejo

Alex Robinson

Bradt Travel Guide: Alentejo is the first full guide to the raw, beguiling heartland of southern Portugal. Dividing the Alentejo into three distinct sections, with detailed maps and itineraries suitable for all seasons ...

Bradt Travel Guide: Equatorial Guinea

Oscar Scafidi

Unexplored Equatorial Guinea finally gets a guidebook! This one-time Spanish colony is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa, both in terms of size and population, and is ranked by the United Nations among the ten least visited ...

Bradt Travel Guide: Northern Lights

A Practical Travel Guide

Polly Evans

An updated second edition of Bradt's practical guide to the best places to view the Northern Lights. The Northern Lights are one of the world's most spectacular natural phenomena, arguably the greatest light show you'll ever ...

Bradt Wildlife Guide: The Arctic

A Guide to Coastal Wildlife

Tony Soper and Dan Powell

An engaging and beautifully illustrated guide to some of the most exciting wildlife in the world. This enchanting guide to the birds, animals and marine life of the Arctic Ocean and its polar fringes, is a fascinating and informative read ...

Der Expertenfuehrer Etoscha: Den Tieren auf der Spur [An Expert's Guide to Finding the Animals Etosha]

Neil MacLeod and Nikos G Petrou

Der Expertenführer Etoscha: Den Tieren auf der Spur is full of information gathered over countless game drives throughout Etosha by one of Namibia's leading safari guides. This book will maximise your chances of finding ...

Gran Canaria: Road Map - Hiking Paths - Tourist Information [Multilingual]

A fold-out map to the island of Gran Canaria, the second most populous island of the Canary Islands. The map contains a large road map of the whole island. Also included is a small overview map of natural protected areas and of all the ...

Heart Waters

Sources of the Bow River

Kevin Van Tighem and Brian Van Tighem

"We could belong here too. We could be like the bull trout, the willows, the wary horses; like the river that continuously arises from these fine green places where the waters are born. We could find our best selves in the stories of ...

Landskipping

Anna Pavord

Landskipping is a meditation on the iridescent British landscape that will reshape the way we think about our country In the late eighteenth century, landscape began to emerge as a cultural phenomenon in Britain.

Life on the Rocks

The Art of Survival

Stephen D Hopper and Philippa Nikulinsky

Providing ecological and historical perspectives on the diverse, resilient flora and fauna that inhabit granite outcrops, this beautifully illustrated documentation explores Australia's diverse wildlife – including the closest ...

Lonely Planet Europe

Alexis Averbuck, Mark Baker, Kerry Christiani , Emilie Filou, Duncan Garwood and Anthon Ham

Lonely Planet Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tour French chateaux, take boat trips to Greek beaches, hike past Bulgarian monasteries ...

Okskii Zapovednik: Istoriia, Liudi, Priroda [Oksky State Nature Biosphere Reserve: History, People, Nature]

VP Ivanchev

A collection of essays about the Oksky State Nature Biosphere Reserve in Russia, covering its organization, 70-year history, territory, and flora and fauna.

Sixty Degrees North

Around the World in Search of Home

Malachy Tallack

The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the ...

Stones Standing

Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos

Anna Kaellen

Stones Standing: Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It investigates the ...

Sweet Thames Run Softly

Robert Gibbings and Luke Jennings

In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the River Thames and began a slow journey downstream, armed with a sketchpad and a microscope. From the river's source at the edge of the ...

The English Love Affair with Nature

Ian Alexander

The English Love Affair with Nature is a social history of natural history in England. It looks mainly at the last 200 years since Gilbert White and Thomas Bewick published their bestselling books, triggering a lasting 'love ...

The Forest of Bowland

Andrew Stachulski and Helen Shaw

One of the Queen's favourite places on earth, the Forest of Bowland is one of the most undiscovered wild places in Britain. Stretching from Lancashire to Yorkshire, it has changed its face from its days as a hunting ground for the ...

The Natural History of the Hedgerow

John Wright

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

The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh

A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood

Kathryn Aalto

Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play. The Hundred Acre Wood ...

The Wet Tropics

Endemic Terrestrial Vertebrates of Australia's Wet Tropics

Craig Ward, Tim Hawkes and Jonathan Munro

This visually stunning book is a celebration of the unique wildlife found only within Australia's World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics. Endemic species are featured in full colour double page spreads, with subspecies and other notable ...

Uccelli e Mammiferi in Italia [Birds and Mammals of Italy]

Luciano Vinco

This guide describes 215 species of birds and 20 species of land mammals with over 350 photographic images which illustrate, depending on the animal depicted, the diversity of plumage between the sexes or in different seasons.

A Field Guide to the Palms of India

C Renuka, VB Sreekumar and KV Sankaran

From the foreword: "Palms are one of the multi-use monocots confined to tropical regions of the world. They form a vital component of forests and agricultural ecosystems, providing a range of economic products necessary ...

A Guide to Dendrobium of Australia

Peter B Adams

Dendrobium species are attractive, conspicuous and numerous along the entire eastern coast of Australia, and are popular plants for culture and breeding of colourful hybrids. In contrast to the other books in the series so far ...

A List of Cultivated and Edible Wild Plants in Nepal

Teruo Shimada and Bhola Man Singh Basnet

This book, consisting of 210 cultivated and 150 edible wild plants in Nepal, has been prepared with the help of agriculturists and farmers. The objectives of A List of Cultivated and Edible Wild Plants in Nepal is not only useful ...

A Pocket Guide to the Orchids of Britain and Ireland

Simon Harrap and Anne Harrap

The orchid family is one of the largest plant families in the world, reaching its highest diversity in the tropics where their exotic and colourful flowers are often truly breathtaking. Britain and Ireland have just 56 species of wild orchid ...

Advanced Microscopy in Mycology

Tanya Dahms and Kirk J Czymmek

The aim of Advanced Microscopy in Mycology is to describe the latest advances in microscopic methods, including integrated techniques, as applied to mycology. Each chapter will provide a brief overview of a particular microscopic ...

Alberi e Arbusti delle Prealpi [Trees and Shrubs of the Alpine Foothills]

Luciano Vinco and Gianfranco Caoduro

This guide deals with 96 species of the most common trees, shrubs, vines and brambles in Italy. The plants are listed in alphabetical order: the entry for each species contains a picture of the flower, whole plant and particulars of leaves ...

Anatomy of European Woods: An Atlas for the Identification of European Trees, Shrubs and Dwarf Shrubs / Anatomie Europ ñ

Fritz Hans Schweingruber and Pieter Baas

This authoritative reference provides a systematic presentation of the anatomical features of woody species throughout Europe. Microphotographs with distribution maps and text are presented for approximately 700 species. It includes all ...

Ancient Trees of the National Trust

Edward Parker

The National Trust is one of the largest private custodians of ancient trees in Europe. Amidst its properties are oak trees that support entire ecosystems, yew trees that were fully grown before the Romans arrived in Britain, and woodlands ...

Another Green World - Linn Botanic Gardens

Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia

Alison Turnbull, Philip Hoare, Ruth Clark, Jamie Taggart and Ian Edwards

Linn Botanic Gardens in western Scotland, an idiosyncratic utopia created by the shared passion of a reclusive father and son, is home to thousands of exotic plants from all over the world. Carefully constructed over 40 years by Jim and ...

Canarian Endemic Flowers / Flores Endemicas de Canarias / Kanarische Endemische Blumen

Jose Manuel Moreno

A laminated waterproof field guide showing the endemic flowers of the Canary Islands.

Climatic Signal in Tree-Ring Width of Pine Trees in the North and in the Centre of European Russia [Russian]

Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskovskii

The book deals with the spatial and temporal patterns of climate change signal in the width of tree rings found in the main conifer species in the north and in the center of the European part of Russia. It presents and summarizes the results ...

Colored Atlas of Wild Medicinal Plants [Chinese]

Liu Yong

Colored Atlas of Wild Medicinal Plants contains material accumulated by the author during long-term field studies and surveys of traditional Chinese medicinal resources and wild medicinal plants. The book is rich in illustration ...

Cultures Perennes Tropicales: Enjeux Economiques et Ecologiques de la Diversification [Economics and Ecology of

Francois Ruf and Goetz Schroth

The monoculture systems that have been encouraged by governments since the 1960s have led to major socio-economic and environmental crises. Now the diversification of tree crop systems is advancing throughout the tropics. Why and when do ...

Dans les Jardins de la Bible [In the Garden of the Bible]

Florence Thinard, Marie-Jose Thinard and Laure Fissore

The story begins with an apple, but maybe it was a fig, or a citron, eaten by Adam and Eve that caused them to be driven out of Eden. Thus began an incredible biblical epic in which the plants will not cease to be important. Today, these ...

Economics and Ecology of Diversification

The Case of Tropical Tree Crops

Francois Ruf and Goetz Schroth

The monoculture systems that have been encouraged by governments since the 1960s have led to major socio-economic and environmental crises. Now the diversification of tree crop systems is advancing throughout the tropics. Why and when do ...

Edible Ectomycorrhizal Mushrooms

Current Knowledge and Future Prospects

Alessandra Zambonelli and Gregory M Bonito

This Soil Biology volume describes the biology and ecology of edible ectomycorrhizal fungi. A focus is on the improved techniques for truffle cultivation, e.g. the exciting results in Oceania and America where these exotic fungi ...

Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants, Volume 10: Modified Stems, Roots, Bulbs

Tong Kwee Lim

Volume 10 is part of a multi compendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists ...

Flora Fungorum Sinicorum, Volume 50 [Chinese]

Exobasidiales, Septobasidiales

Guo Lin

This book briefly introduce the economic importance, research history and situation, biological characters, and life history of these two groups of fungi. A total of 35 species in three families and four genera (exobasidiales), and 57 species ...

Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Volume 4 [Flora of the Island of Sardinia, Volume 4]

Pier Virgilio Arrigoni

The flora of Sardinia is characterized by its diversity compared to other regions of Italy and the Mediterranean. It is an ancient flora, which evolved on the spot, in part distinct and the rest common to that of the neighboring island of ...

Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Volume 5 [Flora of the Island of Sardinia, Volume 5]

Pier Virgilio Arrigoni

The flora of Sardinia is characterized by its diversity compared to other regions of Italy and the Mediterranean. It is an ancient flora, which evolved on the spot, in part distinct and the rest common to that of the neighboring island of ...

Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Volume 6 [Flora of the Island of Sardinia, Volume 6]

Pier Virgilio Arrigoni

The flora of Sardinia is characterized by its diversity compared to other regions of Italy and the Mediterranean. It is an ancient flora, which evolved on the spot, in part distinct and the rest common to that of the neighboring island of ...

Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 6: Magnoliophyta

Cucurbitaceae to Droserceae

Flora of North America Editorial Committee

Flora of North America North of Mexico Volume 6: Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droseraceae includes treatments prepared by 36 authors covering 545 species in 104 genera classified in 19 families. Among the families treated in ...

Guia Ilustrado para Identificacao das Plantas da Mata Atlantica [Illustrated Identification Guide to the Plants

Thiago Bevilacqua Flores, Gabriel Dalla Colletta, Vinicius Castro Souza and Na Macedo Ivanauskas

This book is a guide for the identification of plant species that occur in the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portugese) and is especially focused on the dense rain forest. It features images and field tips for recognizing ...

Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

Bill Vaughn

One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural ...

Heil-, Gift- und Essbare Pflanzen in Namibia [Medicinal, Poisonous, and Edible Plants in Namibia]

Eberhard von Koenen and M Gloeckler

Those who live with nature, will have an incomparable wealth of knowledge in their hands with this book – a body of knowledge that otherwise is threatened being lost. The book describes 600 plants in their characteristics and ...

Herbal Medicine in Depression

Traditional Medicine to Innovative Drug Delivery

Clara Grosso

Herbal Medicine in Depression is written for researchers, undergraduate students and postgraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitioners who develop research in the field of neurosciences, phytochemistry and ...

Las Plantas Suculentas (Crassulaceae) Endemicas de las Islas Canarias [The Endemic Succulent Plants (Crassulaceae) of

Angel Banares Baudet

An identification guide to the succulent plants of the Canary Islands.

Le Grand Business des Plantes: Richesse et D mesure [The Big Business of Plants: Richness and Excess]

Florence Thinard

Globalisation is not a new concept, it was already applicable when Marco Polo took the route to India to ensure a supply in spices to Europe. But in recent years there has been an intensification and acceleration of world trade and now ...

Les Arbres Utiles du Gabon [The Useful Trees of Gabon]

Quentin Meunier, Carl Moumbogou, Jean-Louis Doucet and Ali Bongo Ondimba

The Gabonese forest includes several hundred species of trees. A handful is well known, many are much less, and some are still anonymous. This guide takes allows you to discover the 37 botanical families and 225 species, of which over ...

Legendes d'Arbres: 90 Histoires Illustrees [The Splendour of the Tree: An Illustrated History]

Noel Kingsbury, Andrea Jones, Emmanuelle Champion and Jean Terrisse

Written by Dr. Noel Kingsbury – a world-class expert on plants and the environment – Légendes d'Arbres celebrates the wonder, mystery, beauty, and utility of the tree. It pays homage to 100 key species of ...

Native Orchids of Shaanxi [English / Chinese]

Yang Pinghou and Sun Chengqian

The book introduces 82 species of native orchids in Shaanxi province of China.

Ornamental Plants and Garden Design in Tropics and Subtropics (2-Volume Set)

TK Bose, LJ Singh, MK Sadhu and TK Maity

During the last six decades, with the increase in awareness of the serious adverse effects of environmental pollution and climate change on living beings on the earth, deforestation, roadside plantation, landscaping, development of botany ...

Planting in a Post-Wild World

Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

Thomas Rainer and Claudia West

This groundbreaking guide Planting in a Post-Wild World presents a powerful alternative to traditional horticulture – designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. Thomas Rainer and ...

Rainforest Plants and Flowers of Brunei Darussalam

Khoon Meng Wong, Joffre Ali Ahmad, YW Low and Muhammad Ariffin A Kalat

Rainforest Plants and Flowers of Brunei Darussalam gives an introduction to the luxuriant and diverse plant life of Brunei, one of the richest pockets of biodiversity to be found on the iconic rainforest island of Borneo.

Rattans of India

Taxonomy, Biology and Utilization

C Renuka, KV Bhat, RC Pandalai and KV Sankaran

From the preface: "Our forests abound with many useful plant species that provide for human comfort and livelihood. Rattans, the climbing palms of tropical forests, can be regarded as one such group of plants which have ...

Rust Fungi of Kerala

C Mohanan

From the preface: "Information on rust fungi affecting the vegetation in various forest ecosystems in Kerala is meager. Most of the available information on rust fungi in this region was generated during the 1940s and 1950s ...

Spot-Characters for the Identification of Malesian Seed Plants

A Guide

MMJ van Balgooy, YM Low and Kathleen M Wong

Malesia is the botanical region comprising Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, and Timor Leste. The seed plants of this biologically super-rich region probably include over 41,000 species ...

Stelar Evolution and Morphology in Selected Taxa Based on the Study of Vascullotaxy (studio nov.)

Kevin R Aulenback

How do plants grow the way they do? In the last century many have attempted to develop theories of plant growth to answer this very question. Many books have been written on the subject both from the mathematical and morphological points ...

Taxonomy of the Cactaceae (2-Volume Set)

Joel Lode

The classification of the Cacti has always been controversial, and this latest attempt will no doubt cause a lot of discussion! The author has taken what DNA studies have been made to date and tried to present them in an understandable ...

The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees

Allen J Coombes and Zsolt Debreczy

Visually absorbing leaf-by-leaf guide to 600 of the world's trees, with each leaf reproduced at its actual size in full-colour photographs taken on a lightbox and accompanied by full details of its range, distribution and habitat.

The Flowering Plants of Papuasia

Dicotyledons (Part 1, Magnoliidae; Part 2, Hamamelidae; Part 3, Caryophyllidae)

RJ Johns

A flora to the fowering plants of Papuasia, which is a botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions and encompasses  Aru Islands and West Papua in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea ...

The Genus Actinidia

A World Monograph

Huang Hongwen

The Genus Actinidia: A World Monograph demonstrates just how much we have learnt over the past 40 years. From knowing almost nothing of the wild kiwifruit we now have detailed and comprehensive information on the different Actinidia ...

The Genus Cypripedium in China [English / Chinese]

Chen Singchi, Liu Zhongjian, Chen Lijun and Li Liqiang

China is rich in Cypripedium resources, represented by 37 native species and some infraspecific taxa, accounting for 70 percent of the total 51 species recognized in the genus.The present book is mainly a taxonomic treatment of ...

The Military Orchid

Jocelyn Brooke, Horatio Clare, Gavin Bone and Stephen Bone

Jocelyn Brooke's love affair with wild flowers and home-made fireworks began when he was growing up in Kent. But there was one particular flower, especially rare and beautiful, which became an obsession. Over three decades and through ...

The Miniature Angels in the Plant Kingdom: An Introduction to Bryophytes [English / Chinese]

Zhang Li

The Miniature Angels in the Plant Kingdom succinctly describes what moss is, including types, shapes, and structures of bryophytes, life history, reproduction, how to identify bryophytes and other basic knowledge about diversity ...

The New Tree & Shrub Expert

The World's Best-Selling Book on Trees and Shrubs

David G Hessayon

Whatever the size of your garden, there is a tree, shrub or climber just right for it. The Tree & Shrub Expert contains an A-Z guide to over 800 varieties and offers advice on: - Choosing, buying and planting ...

The Reason for Flowers

Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives

Stephen L Buchmann

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. They have done so since before recorded history. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global ...

We Are the Champions

The Champion Trees of South Africa

Erna Liebenberg and Enrico Liebenberg

A stunningly illustrated record of the 75 officially designated 'Champion Trees' of South Africa, as well as the 7 nominees as of the beginning of 2015. We Are the Champions includes an extensive and complete collection ...

Wildflowers of Australia

Ken Stepnell

One of the first three titles in an exciting new series of concise field guides. This is the ultimate keep-in-your-pocket field guide to Australian wild flowers. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms ...

Arvores da Ilha da Marambaia [Trees of Ilha da Marambaia]

Illa Proenca, Marilena Conde, Nathan Goncalves, Pablo Figueiredo and Pedro Rajao

Árvores da Ilha da Marambaia is a field guide to one of the most diverse forests on the planet: the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese), and is aimed at students of forest sciences, nurseries, seed collectors ...

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Frans de Waal

What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future – all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent ...

The Cell

A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life

Jack Challoner and Philip Dash

The microscopic cell is Earth's greatest success story, and the common ancestor we share with all other organisms. Formed over three and a half billion years ago, life exploded from this minuscule powerhouse, first in the sea and the ...

The Hunt (Region 2)

Sir David Attenborough

Across seven 60-minute episode, this major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series will look ...

The Neurobiology and Behavior of Predators and Prey

26th Annual Karger Workshop in Evolutionary Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., November 2014

Special Topic Issue of Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2015, Vol. 86, No. 1. Interactions between predator and prey can drive the evolution and diversification of nervous systems in astonishing ways. At the 2014 Karger ...

The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape

Keith T Sillar, Laurence D Picton and William J Heitler

Written by a team of leading experts in the field, The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape provides an engaging, broad ranging, and cutting-edge exploration of the neural basis of predator prey interaction, from biophysics to ...

Basics in Human Evolution

Michael P Muehlenbein

Basics in Human Evolution offers a broad view of evolutionary biology and medicine. The book is written for a non-expert audience, providing accessible and convenient content that will appeal to numerous readers across the ...

Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World

Evolution in a Man-Made World

Richard C Francis

Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of ...

Earth's Early Atmosphere and Oceans, and the Origin of Life

George H Shaw

Earth's Early Atmosphere and Oceans, and the Origin of Life provides a comprehensive treatment of the chemical nature of the Earth's early surface environment and how that led to the origin of life. This includes a detailed ...

Evolution

Carl T Bergstrom and Lee Alan Dugatkin

Evolution presents foundational concepts through a contemporary framework of population genetics and phylogenetics that is enriched by current research and stunning art. In every chapter, new critical thinking questions and ...

Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People

The Misuse and Abuse of Science in Political Discourse

Richard J Perry

We like to think that science always illuminates. But the disturbing persistence of the concept of biological determinism – the false idea that human behavior is genetically fixed or inherently programmed and therefore is not susceptible ...

The Blind Watchmaker

Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Richard Dawkins

The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchmaker.

The Emergence of Life

From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

Pier Luigi Luisi

Addressing the emergence of life from a systems biology perspective, this new edition has undergone extensive revision, reflecting changes in scientific understanding and evolution of thought on the question 'what is life?'.

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 46

Global Change in Multispecies Systems, Part 1

Ute Jacob and Guy Woodward

Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 47

Global Change in Multispecies Systems, Part 2

Guy Woodward, Ute Jacob and Eoin J O'Gorman

Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 48

Global Change in Multispecies Systems, Part 3

Guy Woodward and Eoin O'Gorman

Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 49

Ecological Networks in an Agricultural World

Guy Woodward and David Bohan

The theme of this volume is to discuss the Ecological Networks in an Agricultural World. The volume covers important topics such Networking Agroecology, Construction and Validation of Food-webs using Logic-based Machine Learning and ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 50

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics

Jordi Moya-Larano, Jennifer Rowntree and Guy Woodward

The theme of this volume is to discuss Eco-evolutionary Dynamics.

Atlas Europeen de la Biodiversite des Sols [European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity]

Simon Jeffery, Ciro Gardi, Arwyn Jones, Luca Montanarella, Luca Marmo, Ladislav Miko, Karl Ritz and

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 book provides an overview of the below ground environment, soil biota in general ...

Atlas de Solos da America Latina e do Caribe [Soil Atlas of Latin America and the Caribbean]

Ciro Gardi et al

What is soil? Where does it come from? What is special about soil in Latin America and the Caribbean ? What does soil provide to society? What is the impact of climate change on soils? The first ever Atlas de Solos da América ...

Creating and Restoring Wetlands

From Theory to Practice

Christopher B Craft

Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice describes the challenges and opportunities relating to the restoration of freshwater and estuarine wetlands in natural, agricultural, and urban environments in the coming ...

Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone

John Rick Giardino, Chris Houser and Gail Ashley

Principles and Dynamics of the Critical Zone is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and an essential tool for researchers developing cutting-edge proposals. It provides a process-based description of the ...

Soil Atlas of Latin America and the Caribbean

Ciro Gardi et al

What is soil? Where does it come from? What is special about soil in Latin America and the Caribbean ? What does soil provide to society? What is the impact of climate change on soils? The first ever Soil Atlas of Latin America and ...

The Danube River Basin

Igor Liska

The Danube River Basin offers a comprehensive review of the chemical, biological and hydromorphological quality of the Danube. The first part examines the chemical pollution of surface waters, focusing on organic compounds ...

Tropical Forestry Handbook (2-Volume Set)

Laslo Pancel and Michael Koehl

Tropical Forestry Handbook provides a cross-section of all outstanding experience in all fields of tropical forestry under a drastically changing environment induced by climate change. It sheds light on the existing know-how and ...

Between Preservation and Exploitation

Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries

Kemi Fuentes-George

In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities – bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing ...

Is er Nog Hoop voor de Natuur?: Een Economisch-Historische Kijk op de Lange Termijn Ontwikkeling van Biodiversiteit [Is

Jan Luiten van Zanden, Joop HJ Schaminee, C Martijn van der Heide and Vera van Berlo

The 17th Westhoff Lecture 2015. Including a report of Dr. Ir. Martijn van der Heide and a contribution by Vera van Berlo.

The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (ISIS) and the Institute for Water and Wetland Research ...

Tibetan Environmentalists in China

The King of Dzi

Liu Jianqiang, Emily T Yeh, Ian Rowen and Cyrus K Hui

In weaving together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection, Tibetan Environmentalists in China shows Tibetans as both products of an admirable culture and as complex ...

Wilderness Protection in Europe

The Role of International, European and National Law

Kees Bastmeijer

Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past such areas were considered ...

Extreme Ocean Waves

Efim N Pelinovsky and Christian Kharif

This revised and updated second edition details the vast progress that has been achieved in the understanding of the physical mechanisms of rogue wave phenomenon in recent years. The selected articles address such issues as the formation ...

Food Waste Recovery

Processing Technologies and Industrial Techniques

Charis M Galanakis

Food Waste Recovery: Processing Technologies and Industrial Techniques acts as a guide to recover valuable components of food by-products and recycle them inside the food chain, in an economic and sustainable way.

Storm Warning

Water and Climate Security in a Changing World

Robert William Sandford

Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet's atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which ...

The Anti-Landscape

David E Nye and Sarah S Elkind

There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted ...

The Monsoons and Climate Change

Observations and Modeling

Leila Maria Vespoli de Carvalho and Charles Jones

The Monsoons and Climate Change presents a global overview examining monsoon variability in South Asia, Australian, South America and North American, as well as a focus on glaciers and monsoon systems. Monsoon systems are important ...

The Organization of Global Negotiations

Constructing the Climate Change Regime

Joanna Depledge

The basic assumption of this book is that the organization of a negotiation process matters. The global negotiations on climate change involve over 180 countries and innumerable observers and other participants, addressing enormously ...

The Pesticide Manual

A World Compendium

JA Turner

Published by BCPC for over forty years, the content of the seventeenth edition of The Pesticide Manual has been extensively revised and updated. It provides the most comprehensive information on active ingredients for the control ...

Transient Landscapes

Insights on a Changing Planet

Ellen Wohl

Landscape – the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place – is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly ...

Bau und Werden der Allgaeuer Alpen und des Schwaebischen Alpenvorlandes [Structure and Evolution of the Allgaeu Alps and

Herbert Scholz

How did bones, leaves, imprints of seashells and ammonites end up in solid rocks of the Alps – hundreds of kilometers from the coast? What forces have laid these brittle rocks bare such as a wrinkled tablecloth?

Berliner Hoehlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 60: Indonesia 1985-2001: Expeditions of the Association Pyreneenne de

Herbert Daniel Gebauer

This volume contains an enormous collection of cave descriptions, cave surveys, location maps and references on this major caving area in Meghalya. It descibes 222 underground sites, including Krem Kosati (18,871 m), Synrang Pamiang ...

Bestiaire Disparu: Histoire de la Derniere Grande Extinction [The Lost Bestiary: The History of the Last Great Extincti

Luc Semal and Yannick Fourie

What is the sixth mass extinction? In the long history of the Earth, there have already been five mass extinctions. Caused by natural phenomena, they have seen, every time, the disappearance of many species. The sixth extinction is happening ...

Carbonate Systems During the Olicocene-Miocene Climatic Transition

Maria Mutti, Werner E Piller and Christian Betzler

The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phases in the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth. Recent major advances in the understanding and time-resolution of climate events taking ...

Cave Exploration in Slovenia

Discovering Over 350 New Caves During Motorway Construction on Classical Karst

Martin Knez and Tadej Slabe

Cave Exploration in Slovenia focuses on the opening and exploration of more than 350 previously undiscovered caves of the Slovenian Karst, discovered during motorway construction work. The summarizes the planning of traffic road ...

Cenozoic Volcanism in Germany and Poland

More than 130 participants from 21 countries came together at a conference under the title “Basalt 2013 – Cenozoic Magmatism in Central Europe” from April 24th to April 28th 2013 in Görlitz/Germany (Goth 2013).

Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology

Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference

Bernadette Tessier and Jean-Yves Reynaud

The International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications are a set of thematic volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same high ...

Flood and Megaflood Processes and Deposits

Recent and Ancient Examples

I Peter Martini, Victor R Baker and Guillermina Garzon

The aim of Flood and Megaflood Processes and Deposits is the understanding of large floods and their impact on the Earth's surface. The major objectives are: 1) to take a second look at what constitutes a megaflood that the ...

From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin

Allard W Martinius, Rodmar Ravn s, John A Howell, Ron J Steel and Jonathan P Wonham

The Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), focus of this special publication, is a prolific hydrocarbon region and both exploration and production activity remains high to this day with a positive production outlook. A key element today and ...

Geologia de Canarias, Volumen I: Origen, Evolucion, Edad y Volcanismo [Geology of the Canaries, Volume 1: Origin

Juan-Carlos Carracedo

A textbook on the geology of the Canary Islands, covering topics of origin, evolution, age and volcanism.

Le Bestiaire Marin: Histoires et Legendes des Animaux des mers [The Marine Bestiary: Stories and Legends of Sea Animals

Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu

Narwhal tooth – unicorn, sea urchin – magic stone, seahorse – happy pill, jellyfish – Gorgons ... For thousands of years, marine animals have resulted in many myths and legends. They also largely ...

Les Vraies Fees de la Nature [The Real Fairies of Nature]

Francois Lassere and Stephane Hette

It is obvious that fairies were inspired by creatures that are found in nature, including the winged insects. The sumptuous images presented in this book prove this and texts add to the legends. Slowly, our nature and its biodiversity are ...

Linking Diagenesis to Sequence Stratigraphy

Sadoon Morad, J Marcelo Ketzer and Luiz F de Ros

Sequence stratigraphy is a powerful tool for the prediction of depositional porosity and permeability, but does not account for the impact of diagenesis on these reservoir parameters. Therefore, integrating diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy ...

Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2016

Sir Patrick Moore and John Mason

Until his death in 2012, world-renowned astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore edited this indispensable guide to the wonders of the night sky for fifty-two consecutive years. With the 2016 Yearbook of Astronomy, his ...

Philip's Moon Observer's Guide

Peter Grego

Philip's Moon Observer's Guide is a practical guide for Moonwatchers, suitable for both beginners and more experienced observers. Peter Grego, a well-known Moon expert, shares his enthusiasm and expertise in this informative ...

Physical Geology Today

Damian Nance and Brendan Murphy

Physical Geology Today combines a deep integration of plate tectonics with an emphasis on conceptual understanding in order to paint an integrated picture of how Earth works. Damian Nance and Brendan Murphy blend clear engaging ...

Pierres Precieuses: Fines et Ornementales [Beautiul and Ornamental Precious Stones]

Walter Schumann, Frances Georges-Catroux and Jean-Paul Poirot

Garnet, emerald, kunzite, amber, agate, opal, pearls, rubies ... and hundreds of other precious stones, fine and ornamental, are described and illustrated. The richly documented introduction presents a comprehensive account of gemology ...

Precambrian Geology of China

Mingguo Zhai

This book is the first contribution to the overview of Precambrian geology of China. It covers Precambrian geology of the North China Craton, the South China Craton and the Tarim Craton, as well as other smaller blocks in the Chinese ...

Regionale Hydrogeologie von Deutschland [Regional Hydrogeology of Germany]

Ad-hoc-Arbeitsgruppe Hydrogeologie

This book is the first comprehensive, complete description of the regional hydrogeology of the Federal Republic of Germany. More than 50 specialist authors from the National Geological Surveys and the Institute for Geosciences and Natural ...

Roadside Geology of Alaska

Cathy Connor

Since the first edition was published in 1988, volcanoes have erupted, faults have ruptured, glaciers have retreated, permafrost has thawed, and geologic interpretations have changed. Author Cathy Connor discusses the latest findings as ...

Roadside Geology of Oregon

Marli B Miller

When the first edition of Roadside Geology of Oregon was published in 1978, it was revolutionary the first book in a series designed to educate, inspire, and wow nongeologists. Back then, the implications of plate tectonic theory ...

Roadside Geology of Utah

Felicie Williams, Lucy Chronic and Halka Chronic

Roadside Geology of Utah's 65 road guides traverse the state's major thoroughfares as well as its dusty, sleepy, winding two-lane highways. With fresh prose and more than 300 color photos, maps, and figures to boot ...

The Intimate Universe

How the Stars are Closer Than You Think

Marek Kukula

The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales to long that it's easy to dismiss them as being completely divorced from our everyday life. But in this new book Dr. Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the ...

The Life of Poo

Or Why You Should Think Twice About Shaking Hands (Especially with Men)

Adam Hart

Poo! Most of us don't really like to talk about it. In fact, many of us would probably rather it didn't exist at all, or at least if it must exist could it not be more pleasantly fragranced? In The Life of Poo, Adam Hart ...

Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis

A Complete Introduction

David A Rothery

Written by Dr David Rothery, a volcanologist, geologist, planetary scientist and Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you ...

A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism

Andrew F Smith

Over the past ten years, increasing philosophical attention has been paid to the food industry and the varieties of eating in twenty-first century society. With that increased attention, vegetarianism and veganism have experienced rapid ...

A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design & Engineering

An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance

Dejan Mumovic and Mat Santamouris

The combined challenges of health, comfort, climate change and energy security cross the boundaries of traditional building disciplines. This authoritative collection focusing mostly on energy and ventilation provides the current and next ...

Building for a Changing Climate

The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy

Peter F Smith

There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming ...

Eco-Efficient Construction and Building Materials

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Eco-Labelling and Case Studies

Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Luisa F Cabeza, Jo úo A Labrincha and Giuntini de Magalhaes

Eco-Efficient Construction and Building Materials reviews ways of assessing the environmental impact of construction and building materials. Part one discusses the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology to building ...

Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea

Michael Gilek, Mikael M Karlsson, Sebastian Linke and Katarzyna Smolarz

This edited volume presents a comprehensive and coherent interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and possibilities for sustainable governance of the Baltic Sea ecosystem by combining knowledge and approaches from natural and social sciences ...

Feeding Everyone No Matter What

Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe

David Denkenberger and Joshua M Pearce

Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production. The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is ...

Global Issues

An Introduction

Kristen A Hite and John L Seitz

Now reorganized and updated throughout, the fifth edition of this well-regarded introductory global issues text continues to reflect the most important aspects of an increasingly globalized world. - Reorganized into more accessible ...

Irrigated Eden

The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West

Mark Fiege and William Cronon

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege's fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho's Snake River valley describes a complex ...

Six Capitals

The Revolution Capitalism Has to Have - or Can Accountants Save the Planet?

Jane Gleeson-White

It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy – and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis. The changes it will wreak ...

The Cost of Globalization

Dangers to the Earth and its People

Julian E Kunnie

Over the past 25 years, numerous books have been written on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization. But the issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works.

The Elements of Power

Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

David S Abraham

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate ...

The Politics of Decentralization

Forests, Power and People

Carol J Pierce Colfer and Doris Capistrano

Decentralization is sweeping the world and having dramatic and far-reaching impacts on resource management and livelihoods, particularly in forestry. The Politics of Decentralization is the most up-to-date examination of the ...

The Sustainability Handbook

The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility

William R Blackburn

The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social ...

The Urban Climatic Map

A Methodology for Sustainable Urban Planning

Edward Ng and Chao Ren

Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping of this phenomenon is crucial for urban planners. The Urban Climatic Map brings ...

Where They Stand

Fred Pearce

Written by author and journalist Fred Pearce, Where They Stand reveals the reality of life for the Wapichan people. With detailed observations, Pearce documents their determined efforts to secure effective recognition of their ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 51

Big Data in Ecology

Guy Woodward, Alex J Dumbrell, Donald J Baird and Mehrdad Hajibabaei

The theme of this volume is big data in ecology.

Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems

From Understanding to Prediction

Poppe de Boer, George Postma, Kees van der Zwan, Peter Burgess and Peter Kukla

Understanding basin-fill evolution and the origin of stratal architectures has traditionally been based on studies of outcrops, well and seismic data, studies of and inferences on qualitative geological processes, and to a lesser extent ...

Bioinformatics Data Skills

Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools

Vince Buffalo

Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from ...

Biostatistics: Basic and Advanced

Manju Pandey

Biostatistics: Basic and Advanced covers all the topics taught at the postgraduate level in the life sciences discipline. Part I covers the basics of biostatistics. Part II covers advanced topics that are needed to be applied by ...

Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions

Dawn J Wright and David Gallo

What affects the oceans affects terra firma. Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions gathers the insights of more than 50 ocean and coastal science researchers exploring ocean components and their relationships, patterns, and trends over ...

Open-Source Lab

How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs

Joshua M Pearce

Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Scientific Research Costs details the development of the free and open-source hardware revolution. The combination of open-source 3D printing and microcontrollers running ...

Principles of Applied Remote Sensing

Siamak Khorram, Cynthia F van der Wiele, Frank H Koch, Stacy AC Nelson and Matthew D Potts

Principles of Applied Remote Sensing is one of the first to explain the fundamentals and applications of remote sensing at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Topics include definitions and a brief history of payloads and ...

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Modeling and Kriging

Jose-Maria Montero, Gema Fernandez-Aviles and Jorge Mateu

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Modeling and Kriging provides a complete range of spatio-temporal covariance functions and discusses ways of constructing them. This book is a unified approach to modeling spatial and ...

A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Karen Attar

This directory is a handy one-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997, this comprehensive guide encompasses ...

Henderson's Dictionary of Biology

Eleanor Lawrence

With over 22,000 entries, Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology is the most comprehensive on the market. It continues to be an essential reference for students, teachers and researchers within any of the biological ...

Plants of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

Dictionary of the Genera and Families of Flowering Plants and Ferns

Robert Hoeft

Plants of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands has been prepared primarily for professional botanists and for students of biology and forestry in Papua New Guinea. It is based on the "Dictionary of the Generic and Family Names ...

Polish Names of Mammals of the World / Polskie Nazewnictwo Ssakow Swiata

Wlodzimierz Cichocki, Agnieszka Wazna, Jan Cichocki, Ewa Rajska-Jurgiel and Artur Jasinski

Polish Names of Mammals of the World contains Polish and English introduction and Latin-Polish-English names for the more than 5500 species of mammals. The authors have also devised guidelines for the common names of mammalian ...

Sundarbans Atlas

Bangladesh Forest Compartment Maps and Gazetteer

Helmut Denzau, Gertrud Neumann-Denzau and Peter Gerngross

The Sundarbans forest is the largest continuous mangrove forest in the world, located in the delta of the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna in the Northeast of the Indian Subcontinent at the northern edge of the Bay of Bengal.

The Effective Ecologist

Succeed in the Office Environment

Neil Middleton

The Effective Ecologist covers the stuff that no-one told you about at university – how to develop your office-related and business skills to succeed in your career as a professional ecologist.