Anatomy of Dolphins

Insights into Body Structure and Function

Bruno Cozzi, Stefan Huggenberger, Helmut A Oelschlager, Massimo Demma and Uko Gorter

Anatomy of Dolphin: Insights into Body Structure and Function is a precise, detailed, fully illustrated, descriptive, and functionally oriented text on the anatomy and morphology of dolphins. It focuses on a number of delphinid ...

British Sheep Breeds

Susannah Robin Parkin

Sheep have been farmed in Britain for hundreds of years and more than thirty million sheep now inhabit these islands. The many breeds developed over this time have been carefully matched to their surroundings – from the hardy ...

Friend for Life

The Extraordinary Partnership Between Humans and Dogs

Kate Humble

"There is one animal that is familiar to all of us, whoever we are, wherever we live. Even if we've never had direct contact with one, we will have seen one, or at the very least, heard one. For those of us who live in the western ...

Guide des Mammiferes Marins du Monde [Whales, Dolphins and Seals]

Hadoram Shirihai, Brett Jarrett and Maxime Zucca

This field guide is a complete and convenient reference to every species of cetacean, pinniped and sirenian in the world, along with the Marine and Sea Otters and the Polar Bear. Every species is illustrated with colour paintings and photographs ...

International Journal of Primatology Volume 37(1): New Research Directions in the Genus Eulemur

Giuseppe Donati and Steig E Johnson

Although initially neglected in favor of more charismatic lemurs, the genus Eulemur has been the focus of a growing body of research in Madagascar over the last two decades. These studies have revealed striking variability in the ...

Know Your Cattle

Jack Byard

Jack has researched 41 of the breeds of cattle which you would be most likely to see grazing Britain's farms. They are presented here in a handy reference guide. For each animal, he gives a description of their appearance, a brief history ...

Know Your Sheep

Jack Byard

For each breed he dedicates two pages, the left being a full page high-quality picture and the right giving a brief but comprehensive description of the appearance, history and uses of each sheep. Only the size of a postcard, the book ...

North American Bison

Their Classification and Evolution

Jerry N McDonald

Reissue of this 1981 book, in celebration of the federal designation, on May 9, 2016, of the North American bison as the first national mammal of the United States. North American Bison is the most extensive and robust interpretation ...

The Lion in the Living Room

How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

Abigail Tucker

House cats rule back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, and our bedrooms. Clearly, they own the Internet, where a viral cat video can easily be viewed upwards of ten million times. But how did cats accomplish global domination?

The Pygmy Hippo Story

West Africa's Enigma of the Forest

Phillip T Robinson, Knut M Hentschel and Gabriella L Flacke

A species account and a natural history of the pygmy hippopotamus, a flagship species of West Africa's Upper Guinea Forest Region.

Tropical Pinnipeds

Bio-Ecology, Threats and Conservation

Juan J Alava

Pinnipeds are a fascinating group of marine mammals that play a crucial role as apex predators and sentinels of the functioning and health of marine ecosystems. They are found in the most extreme environments from the Polar regions to the ...

All About Backyard Birds - Eastern & Central North America

Laura Erickson, Brian Scott Sockin and Pedro Fernandes

All About Backyard Birds – Eastern & Central North America builds on the huge success of the Cornell Lab's renowned website to translate and deliver best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats ...

All About Backyard Birds - Western North America

Laura Erickson, Brian Scott Sockin and Pedro Fernandes

All About Backyard Birds – Western North America builds on the huge success of the Cornell Lab's renowned website to translate and deliver best-in-class content and proven user-friendly formats into print.

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Illinois

Brian E Small

The diverse habitats of Illinois savannas, rivers, marshes, forests, and beaches offer a home for hundreds of types of birds throughout the year. And as one of the important "flyover states," Illinois welcomes hundreds of species ...

Atlas Ptaku Sumavy a Novohradskych Hor [Bird Atlas of the Bohemian Forest and the Novohradske Mountains]

Petr Burger, Bohuslav Kloubec and Jiri Pykal

In this atlas, the authors, all renowned ornithologists, focus on interesting, typical and rare species of birds inhabiting the Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as Šumava, a low mountain range in Central Europe. Many of these species ...

Best Places to Bird in British Columbia

Richard Cannings and Russell Cannings

In this unique guidebook that will appeal to novice and experienced birders alike, the authors of acclaimed Birdfinding in British Columbia explore their 30 favourite birding sites in the diverse landscape of Canada's westernmost province.

Birdland

Leila Jeffreys

In Birdland, Australian fine-art photographer Leila Jeffreys presents us with a bird-watching experience like no other, drawing birds out from their leafy shadows and airy territories and presenting them to us with the skill and ...

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago

Greater Sundas and Wallacea

James A Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W Brickle and Frank E Rheindt

The first ornithological field guide covering the vast chain of the Indonesian archipelago, with over 2,500 illustrations, describes all 1,417 bird species known to occur in the region, including 601 endemics, 98 vagrants, eight introduced ...

Birds of the Manaus Region / Aves da Regiao de Manaus

Anselmo d'Affonseca, Ingrid Torres de Macedo and Mario Cohn-Haft

The work gathers 137 bird species most likely to be found in gardens, squares, parks, sites and tourist destinations near the city of Manaus, in the North Region of Brazil. All species are illustrated with large format colour photos and ...

Cranes, Herons and Storks of Australia

David Hollands

David Holland's has spent 16 years traversing Australia to find, study and photograph the 17 species which make up this book. His passion and enthusiasm for his subjects shine through in the text; lively, accurate, informative and ...

Die Vogel des Chiemseegebietes [The Birds of the Chiemsee Area]

Michael Lohmann and Bernd-Ulrich Rudolph

The Chiemgau, a geographic area in Upper Bavaria, Germany, has, in addition to a thousand years old culture with famous sights such as Kloster Seeon, the frescoes in the church of Urschalling or Schloss Herrenchiemsee, a particularly ...

Galapagos Islands Bird Guide [Multilingual]

Robert Dean

This laminated field guide shows the birds found on the Galapagos Islands. For each species it gives names in four languages and indicates IUCN threat status where applicable. For some species breeding male displays or separate sexes are ...

Gefiederte Lebenswelten: Das Endlose Band der Ornithologie [Feathered World: The Endless Volume of Ornithology]

Walter A Sontag and Antal Festetics

Each bird has a personal destiny. It is not only a representative of a species or subspecies, but an individual with personal characteristics. Not every blackbird or sparrow is the same. On the basis of thorough studies, but also on the ...

Guida degli Uccelli d'Europa, Nord Africa e Vicino Oriente [Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Birds of

Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom, Peter J Grant, Andrea Corso and Marco Gustin

Written by one of Europe's leading ornithologists and illustrated by two of the world's finest bird illustrators – Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström (with a translation by David Christie). Covering Britain and Europe ...

HBW and Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World (2-Volume Set)

Josep Del Hoyo, Nigel J Collar, David A Christie, Andrew Elliott and Lincoln DC Fishpool

The first ever Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World is really two works in one. It is a complete checklist whose taxonomy incorporates the most up-to-date information and an exhaustive methodology (Tobias et al. 2010) in an ...

HBW and Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 2

Passerines

Josep Del Hoyo, Nigel J Collar, David A Christie, Andrew Elliott and Lincoln DC Fishpool

Having finished the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), Lynx are publishing a checklist in association with BirdLife: HBW and Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. This will complement the HBW collection ...

Pocket Photo Guide to the Birds of the Himalayas

Bikram Grewal and Otto Pfister

The Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, are a birdwatcher's paradise. Many of its species are high altitude specialists, including Tibetan and Himalayan Snowcocks, Snow Partridge, Ibisbill, Tibetan Sandgrouse, Hume's Groundpecker ...

South Dakota Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

South Dakota is the permanent or temporary home of 435 species of birds, including the state bird – the ring-necked pheasant. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map ...

Tennessee Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Volunteer State is the permanent or temporary home of 407 species of birds, including the state bird – the mockingbird. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes an ecoregion ...

Texas Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The first state in the nation to create birding trails, Texas is the permanent or temporary home of 638 species of birds, including the state bird – the mockingbird. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar ...

Traditional British Poultry Breeds

Benjamin Crosby

A growing interest in keeping livestock and living sustainably has encouraged many people to keep poultry as part of a self-sufficiency dream. Traditional British Poultry Breeds is a practical guide for both novice and experienced ...

Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

Katie Fallon

In Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird, Katie Fallon follows a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Comprising research, interviews, with world-renowned experts on raptors and vultures, and ...

A Pictorial Handbook on Some Lizards and Snakes of Western Ghats

TSN Murthy

This photographic guide documents a range of lizard and snakes found in Western Ghats, India.

Croaks Of The Bornean Frog

The Hylarana Of Sarawak

Ramlah Zainudin, Hasnizam Abdul Wahid and Mustafa Abdul Rahman

Croaks Of The Bornean Frog introduces students and specialist readers to the various aspects and calls of Hylarana frogs in Sarawak. Of the 10 available Hylarana species in Sarawak, this book and CD contains the ...

Crocodile Newts

The Genera Echinotriton and Tylototriton

Axel Hernandez and Liang Fei

This monograph presens the crocodile newts, a group of primitive salamanders, of Asia, covering the genera Echinotriton and Tylototriton. It features information about biology and systematics, but also about husbandry ...

Dans la Peau des Serpents de France [Under the Skin of Snakes of France]

Francoise Serre Collet and Allain Bougrain-Dubourg

The snakes of France are just as beautifull and fascinating as their exotic cousins. This book introduces the biological characteristics and morphological diversity of four vipers and nine snakes living in mainland France. The book offers ...

Skinks of Eastern and North-Eastern India

Kaushik Deuti, Sujoy Raha, Probhat Bag, Sudipta Debnath, Varadaraju and Kailash Chandra

In this volume the authors have described all 18 species of skink found in Eastern and North-eastern India in a single format, and also catalogued all the skink specimens from this vast area, present in the collections of the Zoological ...

Snake Venoms and Envenomation

Modern Trends and Future Prospects

Yuri N Utkin and Arcadius V Krivoshein

Snake bites are a major health concern, especially in tropical countries. Understanding the pathology of envenomation and chemical composition of snake venoms is important in the development of medical countermeasures (including, but not ...

Snakes of the World

A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species

Van Wallach, Kenneth L Williams and Jeff Boundy

Snakes of the World covers all living snakes and fossil snakes. It should have a broad appeal not only to conservationists and herpetologists but to naturalists, hobbyists, educators and libraries as it will be the standard reference ...

The Genus Salamandra

History, Ecology, Systematics, Captive Breeding

Uwe Seidel and Philip Gerhardt

With chapters on the history of Fire Salamander research from ancient times until the early 20 th century by Schmidtler, recently discovered infectional diseases by Pasmans/Martel and 20 years of research on Salamandra algira by ...

Especes de Poissons Osseux Marins et d'Eaux Saumatres du Senegal et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest [Bony Fish Species

Alphonse Sagna

This document remains a valuable tool for capacity building by non-state actors, the public and technical and financial partners. Its publication occurs in a global context marked by a collapse in stocks of marine and brackish water fish ...

Flatfishes of Japan (Citharidae, Paralichthyidae, Bothidae, Pleuronectidae, Poecilopsettidae, Samaridae) [Japanese]

Kunio Amaoka

There are about 678 species of flatfish worldwide. This book profiles the 94 species found in Japanese waters.

Fundamentals of Fish Taxonomy

KC Jayaram

This book is primarily meant for beginners in fish taxonomy, students, teachers and amateur naturalists who are interested to know the different aspects of fish, their diversity, diagnostic characters, methods of collection, preservation ...

Reef Fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

PT Rajan, N Vikas, SS Mishra, Rajkumar Rajan and Chandrakasan Sivaperuman

This field guide gives a photographic overview of the rich diversity of reef fishes found around the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

A Catalogue of the Irish Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea)

James P O'Connor, R Nash and Cornelius van Achterberg

This publication presents a catalogue of the Irish Braconidae, a large family of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea).

A Catalogue of the Irish Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

James P O'Connor, R Nash and Zdenek RJ Boucek

Provides a catalogue of the members of the Irish was superfamily Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).

A Checklist of Irish Aquatic Insects

Patrick Ashe, James P O'Connor and DA Murray

This volume provides a checklist of Irish aquatic insects.

Biography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks

Edward J Petuch, Dennis Sargent and MG Harasewych

Detailing three marine molluscan faunal provinces (Carolinian, Caribbean, and Brazilian), Biography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks examines the distribution and evolutionary patterns of the marine mollusks of the ...

Butterflies of Malaysian Borneo

A Pocket Guide

Fatimah Abang

A pocket guide to the most common butterflies of Malaysian Borneo. Each description includes an illustration, the butterfly's life cycle and its relevant classification.

Butterfly Walks in Somerset and Bristol

Butterfly Conservation Somerset & Bristol Branch

This 56 page booklet features about forty walks on thirty-seven sites throughout Bristol and Somerset. It is illustrated with photos of all the butterflies which occur in our area, has a map for each walk and details of how to find each ...

Catalogue of Marine Molluscs: Polyplacophora and Gastropoda

Anirudha Dey

Of the 586 families of Mollusca currently described worldwide, 279 are represented in the Indian region, including  3628 species, of which 2300 are marine, 1129 terrestrial, and 199 freshwater species. As there has so far ...

Checklisten der Fauna Oesterreichs, No. 8: Tardigrada, Odonata (Insecta) [Checklist of the Fauna of Austria, Volume 8]

Hieronymus Dastych, Werner E Holzinger, Andreas Chovanec and Johann A Waringer

Seventy-nine species of Tardigrada, including 14 new reports, have been recorded within Austria. Of the 133 taxa previously reported by various authors, 41 species represent nomina dubia, nine are synonyms that have been previously recognised ...

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Butterfly Walks

Kevin Freeborn and Ashley Whitlock

Written by Kevin Freeborn and illustrated by Ashley Whitlock’s super butterfly photography, the book offers the exciting prospect of seeing all 46 Hampshire and Isle of Wight butterfly species in 25 walks. This is the perfect introduction ...

Insects of Cultivated Plants and Natural Pastures in Southern Africa

Gerhard L Prinsloo, Vivienne M Uys and V Cliff Moran

Insects of Cultivated Plants and Natural Pastures in Southern Africa is a compilation of authoritative accounts prepared by an impressive team of experts, mostly from South Africa, of the insect pests found on 75 types, or related ...

L'Insecte Medicinal [Medicinal Insects]

Roland Lupoli

L'Insecte Médicinal is an unusual and unique book that for the first time discusses this global topic from an entomological point of view. It is accessible to non-specialists curious about the medicinal use of insects ...

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 23 [English / French / German]

Karl Adlbauer, Tania R Dos Santos Silva and Alain Drumont

Contains several contributions on beetles, written in various languages. See table of contents for details.

Les Punaises Pentatomoidea de France [The Pentatomoidea of France]

Roland Lupoli and Francois Dusoulier

This unique 429 page book on the Pentatomoidea of France includes: - A comprehensive presentation of all 152 species of Pentatomoidea (Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae, Cydnidae, Acanthosomatidae, Thyreocoridae, Plataspidae) present in ...

Pests of Fruit Crops

A Colour Handbook

David V Alford

The second edition of Pests of Fruit Crops focuses on insect and mite pests affecting fruit as well as hop and nut crops in both temperate and subtropical climates. Some of the fruits covered include pome fruits, stone fruits ...

Pests of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers

A Colour Handbook

David V Alford

Ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers have always been extremely popular and there is large demand – whether in gardens or parks – for alpines, bedding plants, cacti, cut flowers, house plants and pot plants, as well as herbacious ...

Provisional Atlas of the Aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland, Part 8

Graham A Collins and Helen E Roy

This eighth part in the Provisional Atlas of Aculeate Hymenoptera series takes the total number of species mapped to 461. The new volume has distribution maps and species information for 59 species of the British and Irish aculeate ...

Provisional Atlas of the Aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland, Part 9

Graham A Collins and Helen E Roy

This ninth part of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Provisional Atlas is the result of much hard work by many people. With the addition of this part to the series just over 80% of the British species of aculeate have now been covered.

Revision du Genre Pedaria Laporte, 1832 [Revision of the Genus Pedaria]

JF Josso and P Prevost

This monograph offers a taxonomic revision of the dung beetle genus Pedaria.

Saturnafrica, Volume 24

Philippe Darge

Covers the moth families Limacodidae, Bombycidae and Lasiocampidae of Africa.

Sexual Biology and Reproduction in Crustaceans

Thanumalaya Subramoniam

Sexual Biology and Reproduction in Crustaceans covers crustacean reproduction as it deals with the structural morphology of the gamete-producing primary sex organs, such as the testis and ovary, the formation and maturation of ...

Shropshire Craneflies

Peter Boardman

Shropshire Craneflies is both an up-to-date distribution atlas for Shropshire and a set of identification keys to the 245 taxa recorded in the county. Based on over 10,000 records of craneflies and their allies ...

Speed Flyers: Le Vol des Insectes Revele [The Flight of Insects Revealed]

Ghislain Simard

Butterflies, flies, dragonflies – flying insects are part of our daily lives, to the point that we do not pay attention to them unless they bother us. This book reveals them in a new light: through high-speed photography, the ...

Stinkbugs: Biorational Control Based on Communication Processes

Andrej Cokl and Miguel Borges

Stinkbug Classification, Phylogeny, Biology and Reproductive Behavior presents an overview of the Pentatomidae species, covering their biology, phylogeny and reproductive behavior, main plants used in their diet and their nutrition ...

Study on Several Theoretical Issues of Honeybee Biology

Zhi Jiang Zeng

This book contains the following chapters:

Preface

I Honeybee Caste Differentiation and Differential Expression of Gene l 1. Diet and cell size both affect queen-worker differentiation through DNA methylation in honey bee ...

The Butterflies of Kazakhstan

Vadim V Tshikolovets, Oleg Kosterin, Pavel Gorbunov and Roman Yakovlev

Kazakhstan is one of the largest countries of Eurasia. The western part is in Europe, and the eastern is bordering with China. A variety of natural and climatic conditions led to a large number of species of Rhopalocera. Not less than ...

The Chionaspidini (Diaspididae, Coccoidea, Homoptera) From China [Chinese]

Fang G Chen

This book deals with 74 species belonging to 11 genera. Among of them, 22 new species or subspecies and 2 new genera of Chionaspidini identified, in which an old generic name Phenacaspis is temporally retained as valid in virtue ...

The Distribution of the Ephemeroptera in Ireland

Mary Kelly-Quinn and JJ Bracken

This book details the distribution of the mayflies (Ephemeroptera) in Ireland.

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 29

Virginie Heros, Ellen Strong and Philippe Bouchet

The deep benthos of tropical seas is one of the last frontiers of biodiversity exploration, and a major reservoir of species still unknown to science. The French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and Institute for Research for ...

Zootaxa, Volume 2186: Phylogeny and Systematics of the Leathopper Subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Joshua R Jones and Lewis L Deitz

Ledrinae represent a relatively small subfamily within the very large and diverse leafhopper family Cicadellidae. Prior to this study, the subfamily contained approximately 450 species in 5 tribes and 73 genera distributed worldwide, but ...

Analisis Paleobiologico de los Ungulados del Pleistoceno Superior de Castilla y Leon (Espana) [Palaeobiological Analysis

Diego Arceredillo Alonso

This book is a systematic review of the main deposits containing fossils of ungulates from the Upper Pleistocene found in the region of Castilla y León (northern Spain). The remains were analysed both morphologically and metrically ...

Articulating Dinosaurs

A Political Anthropology

Brian Noble

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together. Following the complex exchanges of palaeontological ...

Bones and Identity

Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia

Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Weissbrod, Nimrod Marom and Guy Bar-Oz

Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions ...

Catalogus Fossilium Austriae, Band 4: Rodentia neogenica

Gudrun Daxner-Hock and Eva Hock

The present volume Rodentia neogenica of the Catalogus Fossilium Austriae provides an overview of Neogene rodents from Austria, reflecting a fascinating chapter of mammal evolution. The investigated fossils were collected ...

Devonian Climate, Sea Level and Evolutionary Events

RT Becker, Peter Konigshof and Carlton E Brett

The geological and palaeontological records of climate change and evolutionary events reflect Earth's widely fluctuating climate systems. Past climates hold the clues to understanding future developments. In this context, research on ...

Down by the River

Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Suffolk River Valleys

Andy J Howard, Henry P Chapman and Benjamin R Gearey

East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource. Down by the River details the results of 8 years ...

Early-Middle Triassic (Anisian) Fossil Flora from Mallorca (Spain)

Jose Juarez Ruiz and Michael Wachtler

An interesting new fossil flora from the Balearic Islands in Spain is described. Although the Estellencs site has only been known since the 19th century, new research has added a rich conifer association. Estellencsia saezii ...

Fossil Permian Plants from Europe and their Evolution, Volume 2

Rotliegend and Zechstein-Floras from Germany and the Dolomites

Michael Wachtler and Thomas Perner

Volume 2 of this series contains the following contributions: - Thomas Perner and Michael Wachtler: New plants from the Carboniferous-Permian (Kasimovian /Gzhelian) Niederhausen-Flora (Germany) - Thomas Perner and Michael Wachtler ...

Fossilien an Deutschen Kusten: Finden und Bestimmen [Fossils of Germany's Coasts: Finding and Identifying]

Frank Rudolph, Wolfgang Bilz and Dirk Pittermann

Thrust forth from Scandinavian glaciers, fossils of all the earth's ages come to the German coasts – but also to gravel pits and other similar places. For the first time, an identification guide has been published by three ...

Lebensspuren im Stein: Ausfluge in die Erdgeschichte Mitteleuropas [Traces of Life in the Rock: Excursions in the Geolog

Peter Rothe, Volker Storch and Claudia von See

Lebensspuren im Stein offers exciting insights into the long-gone worlds of Central Europe. Each main chapter deals with a period of geological history and gives an overview of the geology as well as an insight into the respective ...

Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, Volume 12: Bivalvia: Heteroconchia [Italian]

Carlo Chirli and Enrico Ulivi

Volume 12 is the final volume in the series. The introduction present the internal characteristic and the hinge detail of some species of the Order Veneroida with the Family: Veneridae with Chamelea gallina, Gouldia minima ...

Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography

Biodiversity in Space and Time

Paul Upchurch, Alistair J McGowan and Claire SC Slater

Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences. Researchers with backgrounds in geology and paleontology are frequently responsible ...

Permian Fossil Plants from Europe and their Evolution, Volume 1

The Niederhausen and the Tregiovo-Flora

Thomas Perner and Michael Wachtler

The highly interesting Late Carboniferous-Early Permian paleo-ecosystem from Niederhausen (Saar-Nahe area, Rheinland-Pfalz, SW-Germany) is described and shown. However, on the Kasimovian/Gzhelian boundary (303.7 my years ± 1 my) ...

Permian: Birth of a New World

Thomas Perner and Michael Wachtler

300 million years ago, the world fell apart at the seams like it had never done before. Powerful volcanic eruptions shook almost the entire northern hemisphere. The landscape changed completely. There were profound changes in the flora.

Recreating an Age of Reptiles

Mark P Witton

The 'Age of Reptiles', formally known as the Mesozoic Era, gave rise to some of the most spectacular animals in Earth's history: dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs and marine reptiles, as well as many spectacular but less familiar ...

The Archaeology of Underwater Caves

Peter B Campbell

This is an edited volume drawing on the last sixty years of underwater cave research, the vast majority of which has never been published previously. Underwater caves are foreboding places, but they hold great potential for archaeology ...

The Genesis of Plants

Preliminary Researches about the Early-Middle Triassic Fossil Floras from the Dolomites - A Compendium

Michael Wachtler

This edited collection contains the following contributions Wachtler, M., (05/2010): About the origin of Cycads and some enigmatic Angiosperm-like fructifications from the Early-Middle Triassic (Anisian) Braies Dolomites ...

Guide to Coral Marine Creatures [Japanese]

Gekkan "Marin Daibingu"

This book introduces 500 species of fish and other marine creatures found on coral reefs while diving.

Pacific Reef & Shore

A Photo Guide to Northwest Marine Life

Rick M Harbo

Still compact and the perfect size for travelling, Pacific Reef & Shore has been updated with new species, up-to-date scientific information and many brilliant photographs of the more than 300 common plants and animals found ...

Plankton: Der Erstaunliche Mikrokosmos der Ozeane [Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World]

Christian Sardet, Mark Ohrman, Rafael D Rosengarten and Theodore Rosengarten

Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a vague squiggle or a greyish fleck.

Ponds and Small Lakes

Microorganisms and Freshwater Ecology

Brian Moss

Ponds and small lakes support an extremely rich biodiversity of fascinating organisms. Many people have tried pond-dipping and encountered a few unfamiliar creatures, such as dragonfly nymphs and caddisfly larvae. However, there is a far ...

A Geography of Hope: Saving the Last Primary Forests / Geografia de la Esperanza: Salvando los Ultimos Bosques Primarios

Cyril F Kormos, Russell A Mittermeier, Tilman Jaeger, Brendan Mackey, Peter A Seligmann and H Ford

There are a broad range of primary forests found across tropical, boreal and temperate climates worldwide. Despite their numerous benefits, they are under increased threat from industrial agriculture, mining, oil and gas extraction ...

A Woman's Guide to the Wild

Your Complete Outdoor Handbook

Ruby McConnell

For any woman who wants to get outside and play, here is the definitive guide to being a woman in the great outdoors. A Woman's Guide to the Wild covers the matters of most concern to women, from "feminine functions" ...

Acadia National Park

A Centennial Celebration

Jr.,Tom Blagden, Christopher Camuto, Dayton Duncan, Jr.,David Rockefeller, Kent Olson and Macdon

Created in 1916, and encompassing 45,000 acres on two islands and a mainland peninsula on the rugged coast of Maine, Acadia National Park is a jewel of granite mountains, filigreed coastlines, unique cultural resources, dazzling night sky ...

Across the Ussuri Kray

Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains

Vladimir K Arsenyev, Jonathan C Slaght and Ivan Yegorchev

In Russia's Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing ...

Animals in the First World War

Peter Street

Most people are familiar with the use of horses and their often-heroic actions in the First World War, but what about camels, monkeys and the mighty elephant? In this wonderfully illustrated title, learn about how animals were trained ...

Beguiled by the Wild

The Art of Charley Harper

Charley Harper, Roger Caras and Brett Harper

Presenting more than 110 serigraphs accompanied by intriguing, pun-filled captions, this new, revised edition of Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper pays homage to one of America's most beloved artists.

Birds of Sialkot

Mustansar Hussain Tarar and Kamran Saleem

Kamran Saleem was born and raised in Sialkot, Pakistan, and has trekked all over the Northern Areas of Pakistan. His photography of birds around Sialkot has taken him several years and this is his first book to bring together his work.

Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician

Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century

Marie-Christine Skuncke and Bjorn Wittrock

The Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg, a pupil of Linnaeus, was the only European who visited and published his observations of Tokugawa Japan in the eighteenth century. On his way to and from Japan, he visited territories ...

Charles Alexandre Lesueur: Painter and Naturalist

Gabriel Baglione and Cedric Cremiere

On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated his talents as a natural history artist. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, during a golden ...

Darwin and Women

A Selection of Letters

Charles Darwin and Samantha Evans

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their ...

Early American Nature Writers

A Biographical Encyclopedia

Daniel Patterson, Roger Thompson and Scott Bryson

At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. Early American Nature Writers profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such ...

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

Corey Ross

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological ...

Frans Post: Animals in Brazil

Alexander de Bruin

In 1636 the artist Frans Post travelled to the Dutch colony of Brazil in the retinue of its governor, Johan Maurits of Nassau. For seven years the Brazilian flora and fauna inspired many of his works of art. This is the catalogue to ...

How to Be a Wildflower

A Field Guide

Katie Daisy

This beautifully illustrated gift book is a field guide to living life wild and free. Encouraging self-discovery through encounters with the nature, How to Be a Wildflower invites readers to wander, gather, savour, and ponder the ...

Hunting Plants

The Story of Those Who Discovered the Flowering Plants & Ferns of North Lancashire

Eric Greenwood

We owe our current knowledge of the flowering plants and ferns of North Lancashire to a dedicated band of amateur botanists going back to the 17th century. Some of these were well known, some were not, but Eric Greenwood's lifetime ...

If Bees are Few

A Hive of Bee Poems

James P Lenfestey, Bill McKibben and Marla Spivak

It is said there are 20,000 species of bees, a genus 50 million years old, but in the fertile imagination of the world's poets, there is no beginning or end to the bee buzz. Virgil wrote of bees, as did Rumi, Shakespeare, Burns, Coleridge ...

John Merle Coulter

Missionary in Science

Andrew Denny Rodgers III

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library, originally published in 1944. John Merle Coulter contributed tremendously to the rapid advance of botany in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...

Love and Science

A Memoir

Jan T Vilcek

Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother's ...

Margaret Flockton

A Fragrant Memory

Louise Wilson and Margaret Flockton

In 1894, a shy young Englishwoman dazzled the art world with her first exhibited work in New South Wales. Her name was Margaret Flockton, and she would go on to become Australia's first and most celebrated professional botanical artist ...

My House of Sky

The Life of J.A. Baker

Hetty Saunders and Robert MacFarlane

Since rising to fame in 1967, when his work The Peregrine was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, J. A. Baker has captured popular imagination with his vivid depictions of British landscapes and native wildlife. Compelling, strange ...

Popularizing Science

The Life and Work of JBS Haldane

Krishna R Dronamraju

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British scientists of the 20th century, making significant contributions to genetics, physiology, biochemistry, biometry, cosmology, and other ...

Small Blue World

Little People. Big Adventures

Jason Isley

A stunning and quirky collection of underwater photography, with miniature figures posing in an inventive aquatic world. Created by world-renowned underwater photographers, this gorgeous book takes an alternative look at mankind's ...

Tales from a Wild Vet

Paws, Claws and Furry Encounters

Jo Hardy

From African goats to blue wildebeest, and potty pigs to dippy donkeys, Jo Hardy, now a qualified vet, is about to take on the world, one animal at a time. Jo is determined to go where vets are desperately needed. Heading out first to the ...

The Big Book of Bugs

Yuval Zommer and Barbara Taylor

Here is a fact-filled book for young children about all kinds of creepy crawlies. Yuval Zommer's wonderful illustrations show the wrigglers, stingers, bombers, fliers and chirpers of the bug world – and children will love the ...

The Blue and the Green

A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community

Jack Stauder

In The Blue and the Green, anthropologist Jack Stauder analyzes how large-scale political, social, and environmental processes have transformed ranching and rural life in the West. Focusing on the community of Blue, Arizona ...

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 24: 1876

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt and James A Secord

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making ...

Transatlantic Literary Ecologies

Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World

Kevin Hutchings, John Miller and James C McKusick

Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate Transatlantic Literary Ecologies in its critical context ...

Tyne After Tyne

An Environmental History of a River's Battle for Protection, 1529-2015

Leona J Skelton

Over the last five centuries, North-East England's River Tyne went largely with the flow as it rode with us on a rollercoaster from technologically limited early modern oligarchy, to large-scale Victorian 'improvement', to ...

Up Here: Fotografische Abenteuer im Hohen Norden [Photographic Adventures in the High North]

Norbert Rosing

Norbert Rosing is considered Germany's Arctic and polar bear expert. During two decades he crossed the Canadian Arctic and Spitsbergen on countless journeys to reflect on the fascination of this magnificent habitat. He spent many years ...

A Field Guide to Insects & Spiders of Kanha Tiger Reserve

Aniruddha Dhamorikar and JS Chauhan

This first-of-its-kind field guide is an outcome of arduous fieldwork spanning close to three years in India’s famous Kanha Tiger Reserve situated in Maikal Hills of the central Indian highlands. The book includes sketches of around ...

Alaska Inside Passage Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Alaska Inside Passage Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Australia Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Australia Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte, Volume 64: International Speleological Project to Cambodia 2016 (Provinces of Stoeng

Michael Laumanns

The first systematic speleological investigations in the Cambodian provinces of Stoeng Treng, Banteay Meanchey and Kampong Speu. Also describes 2 caves from a briefly visited new caving area in NE Battambang near the Thai border. Seventy ...

Big Sur Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Big Sur Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Caribbean Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Carribean Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Cuba Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Cuba Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map, ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Faunal Diversity of Khajjiar Lake, District Chamba, Himachal Pradesh

Vikram Singh and HS Banyal

This book presents the details of the fauna of the scenic Khajjiar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India, which is a good representative of the unique Himalayan diversity. Khajjiar Lake is also known as Mini Switzerland and is one of the oldest ...

Faunal Diversity of Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary, District Raisen, Madhya Pradesh

Kolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, Kailash Chandra and S Sambath

This book is a continuation of Conservation Area Series, published by the Zoological Survey, and documents the faunal diversity of Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. The document is the outcome of the exploratory surveys of ...

Faunal Diversity of Veerangana Durgawati Wildlife Sanctuary, District Damoh, Madhya Pradesh

Kolkata The Director of the Zoological Survey of India

A good number of documents on the faunal diversity of various protected areas of Madhya Pradesh have already been published. The programme of study on the faunal diversity of Veerangana Durgawati Wildlife Sanctuary by the Zoological Survey ...

Hunters, Fishers & Foragers in Wales

Towards a Social Narrative of Mesolithic Lifeways

Malcolm Lillie

Malcolm Lillie presents a major new holistic appraisal of the evidence for the Mesolithic occupation of Wales. The story begins with a discourse on the Palaeolithic background. In order to set the entire Mesolithic period into its context ...

Ireland Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Ireland Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Les Plus Beaux Paysages de France [The Most Beautiful Landscapes of France]

Georges Feterman

At first glance, everyone knows the most beautiful landscapes of France. Mont Saint Michel, Raz, the Castle of Chambord or the Dune du Pilat are among the sites that the whole world envies and comes to discover. The intention of this book ...

Natural Hazards in Australasia

James Goff and Chris R de Freitas

Many ideas and concepts about natural hazards have been developed in Australasia, but these are often overlooked in books written from a Northern Hemisphere perspective. Natural Hazards in Australasia is the first textbook that ...

New York City Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The New York City Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through the Big Apple. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Paddling the Pascagoula

Ernest Herndon and Scott B Williams

Science magazine describes the Pascagoula River of southeast Mississippi as the last unaltered large river system in the lower 48 states and southern Canada. Along its banks and watershed 600,000 acres of public lands ...

Panama Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

The Panama Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

South Dakota Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

From the Black Hills and Badlands to the Northern Plains, South Dakota is rich in native wildlife. The state mammal – the coyote – is one of thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout ...

Tennessee Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

From the Great Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi Bottoms, Tennessee's diverse habitats supports thousands of species of animals including the state mammal – the raccoon. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 ...

The Breathing Burren

Gordon D'Arcy

First captivated by the Burren in the early 1970s, Gordon D'Arcy has spent over thirty years living on its edge and exploring its remarkable natural heritage and rich human history. Now he celebrates the flora, fauna and people of the ...

The Game Warden's Son

Steven T Callan

Retired game warden Steven T. Callan's love of nature and passion for protecting wildlife took root long before he experienced the adventures described in his memoir, Badges, Bears, and Eagles. In The Game Warden's Son ...

The Natural Heritage of Illinois

Essays on its Lands, Waters, Flora, and Fauna

John E Schwegman

The Natural Heritage of Illinois is an engaging collection of ninety-three essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. Written in lively, accessible prose, the book discusses how wind, water, glaciers ...

The Story of the Hauraki Gulf

Discovery, Transformation, Restoration

Raewyn Peart

An environmental, social and cultural history of man's association with the Hauraki Gulf, a coastal feature of the North Island of New Zealand, tells the story of the gulf through three layers: the underlying narrative that is ...

The Velika Pasica Cave: The History, Environment and Life in It / Jama Velika Pasica: Zgodovina, Okolje in Zivljenje v

Anton Brancelj

This is an illustrated scientific monograph on the Velika Pasica cave in Slovenia. Along with some morphological and historically interesting details, it presents ecological, taxonomic and biodiversity studies. This is a relatively ...

The Wild Side: Chronicles of Nature

Part One: Biology Without Borders

Mike Bamford and Mandy Bamford

The Wild Side began life in May 1997 as a weekly column in a new environment section of The West Australian newspaper. It ran until late 2003 and comprised 294 essays. This part is a collection of 35 essays on the theme ...

United Kingdom Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The United Kingdom Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic map; ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford's folding, pocket-sized ...

Untamed Atlantic Canada

Exploring the Region's Biodiversity Havens

Scott Leslie

Spanning 1,200 kilometers from New Brunswick's Passamaquoddy Bay to Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, Atlantic Canada stands as a nexus between North America and the North Atlantic Ocean. Its diverse geography, variable climate ...

Wild America

A Personal Celebration of the National Parks

David Muench and Roly Smith

Wild America brings together David Muench, the eminent wilderness photographer, with Roly Smith, the respected outdoor writer. Wild America celebrates their personal selection of Americas best ideaits National Parks.

Wild Times

Extraordinary Experiences Connecting with Nature in Britain

Jini Reddy

A unique title from a highly experienced author showcasing extraordinary experiences connecting with nature around Britain. From barefoot walking to forest skills, foraging to horse whispering, wild pottery to a full moon meander, rewilding ...

A Bay Area Guide to Orchids and Their Culture

A Publication of the San Francisco Orchid Society

Mary E Gerritsen

This fully illustrated guide to the cultivation of orchids in the Mediterranean climate of San Francisco's Bay Area features over 250 images and lists hundreds of orchid species and hybrids that can be grown in the various and rather ...

A Brief History of Trees

Gertrude Briggs

A biography of the tree in history, legend and literature, told with charm and wit and illustrated throughout with noteworthy and intriguing images of 100 tree varieties. Contains a wealth of little-known, intriguing facts about trees ...

Abstracts of the XXth AETFAT Congress

Biodiversity of African Plants: Challenges in a Changing World

Benny Bytebier, A Muthama Musya and Dirk U Bellstedt

This volume contains the abstracts of posters and talks presented at the XXth meeting of the Association for the Taxonomical Study of the Flora of tropical Africa.

Aged and Celebrated Trees in Luanchuan, Henan [Chinese]

Xie Hongwei

Aged and Celebrated Trees in Luanchuan, Henan popularizes ancient and famous trees from Luanchuan County, China. It compiles trees with a high ornamental, cultural, historical, ecological, or economic value. The book is divided ...

Air Pollution Impacts on Plants in East Asia

Takeshi Izuta

This is the only book to offer an up-to-date overview of air pollution in East Asia and the effects of air pollutants such as ozone, acid deposition and aerosols on Asian crops and trees. It is unique in that it discusses the fundamental ...

Aquatic Plants of North America

Systematics, Ecology and Natural History

Donald H Les

This book brings together a wealth of information on the natural history, ecology, and systematics of North American aquatic flowering plants. Unlike most books on aquatic plants that have a taxonomic focus and are intended primarily for ...

Bee's Herbal Garden

A Garden in the Forest @ JNTBGRI

PJ Mathew

The Plant Genetic Resource Division of Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI), in Kerala, India, undertook the work of the project "Establishment of a Model Medicinal Plant Garden at ...

Baume und Straucher in Herbst und Winter Erkennen: Bebilderte Steckbriefe, Wissenswertes zu Namen, Mythologie und

Peter Leins and Claudia Erbar

The goal of this book is to offer an enjoyable acquaintance with woody plants based on features that are available to us in the autumn and winter, such as withered leaves, bark and sometimes the fruits, but especially overwintering buds ...

Cactus

Dan Torre

Cacti are full of contradictions. Although many are found in the driest and most barren environments on earth, some grow exclusively in the branches of the rainforest canopy. Many species bristle with ferocious-looking spines, while others ...

Country Park

Luis Paulo Faria Ribeiro

The country park idea originated in the United Kingdom, and its purpose is widely considered to be quite a separate and unique function to parks in general. The purpose of the country park is to protect the natural environment, while at ...

De Vegetatie van Nederland, Volume 6: Mossen- en Korstmossengemeenschappen [The Vegetation of the Netherlands, Volume 6:

Klaas van Dort, Bas van Gennip and Marcel Schrijvers-Gonlag

In marshes, forest, and heath, on church walls, sea dikes and roof tiles, almost everywhere mosses and lichens give colour to our environment. Just like vascular plants species with similar habitat requirements grow together and form ...

Dictionnaire Visuel des Plantes de la Garrigue et du Midi [Visual Dictionary of Plants of the Garrigue and the South]

Maurice Reille and Frederic Medail

In 312 pages and 2150 photos, Maurice Reille profiles the plants of the garrigue (a type of low, soft-leaved scrubland ecoregion and plant community in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome), and more generally in the South ...

Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy

Taylor A Steeves and Vipen K Sawhney

The main aim of Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy is to provide a developmental perspective to plant anatomy. Authors Steeves and Sawhney provide fundamental information on plant structure and development to students at ...

Ethno-Medicine for Traditional Health Care

Swapan Kumar Kolay

Reports the results of a study conducted in Bastar District of Chhattīsgarh, India.

Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.)

A Potential Leguminous Crop of India

Anil Kumar Singh and BP Bhatt

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is among the oldest crops in the world. Flobally, it is the third most important food grain legume after soybean (Glycine max L.) and pea (Pisum sativum L.). According to the FAO, it ...

Ferns, Horsetails & Clubmosses of the North Woods

Joe Walewski

Ferns, horsetails and clubmosses are a surprisingly diverse group with a fascinating natural history. Some ferns are as tiny as golf tees, and others may tower to head height. Horsetail stems contain so much abrasive silica that they can ...

Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Benelux

Ruud van der Meijden, Maarten Strack van Schijndel and Fabienne van Rossum

Field Guide to the Wild Plants of the Benelux is the outcome of a collaboration between dedicated botanists and skills photographers. It contains exceptional photographs of more than 1,300 species of wild plants that can be observed ...

Flora Unveiled

The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants

Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz

Flora Unveiled focuses on how the the scientific discovery of "plant sex" unfolded due to cultural biases, beliefs, and perceptions about plant reproduction. Flora Unveiled is a deep history of perceptions about ...

Flora of Ecuador, Volume 93, Parts 82-84: Leguminosae, Phaseolae, Part 1

Bertil Stahl

The following legume genera in Ecuador are revised: Cajanus (1 sp.), Calopogonium (3 spp.), Centrosema (9 spp.), Cologania (1 sp.), Galactia (2 spp.), Mucuna (8 spp.), Pueraria ...

Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 12: Magnoliophyta: Vitaceae to Garryaceae

Flora of North America Editorial Committee

Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 12: Magnoliophyta: Vitaceae to Garryaceae includes treatments prepared by 53 authors covering 765 species in 122 genera classified in 29 families. Among the families treated in this ...

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 17(2)

A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat

From the preface: "This issue features some very interesting taxonomic accounts by young botanists in Malaysia; firstly Kalu Meekiong our energetic, prolific and versatile researcher from UNIMAS has led a few fresh graduates ...

Fortress Plant

How to Survive When Everything Wants to Eat You

Dale R Walters

The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are virtually stationary packages of food, providing sustenance for a vast array of organisms, ranging from bacteria and fungi, through to insects, and even other ...

Fungi: Experimental Methods In Biology

Ramesh Maheshwari

Fungi are now at the forefront of research on mechanisms in gene silencing, biological rhythm, mating processes, biogenesis of intracellular organelles, adaptations to hostile habitats, structure of natural populations, and speciation.

GrasArt [German]

Ingo Arndt and Jurgen Tautz

Next to the seas and forests, grasslands are the world's last major ecosystems: major and yet almost forgotten habitats where many rare animals are at home. In this wonderful picture book photographer Ingo Arndt has portrayed the ...

Guide de la Flore des Alpes Francaises [Guide to the Flora of the French Alps]

Bernard Overal

The vegetation of the French Alps has been studied for several decades and is often presented in technical publications or floras that feature only a small number of images. Walkers and botanist are often helpless in the correct identification ...

Harmal: The Genus Peganum

Ephraim Philip Lansky and Helena Maaria Paavilainen

Harmal (Syrian rue, Peganum harmala and its relatives) is an important medicinal plant of the Mediterranean and Indo-Iranian areas with a rich historical tradition of its use and a number of experimental modern applications.

Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants [English / Spanish]

Enrique Leal C

This laminated field guide shows 100 herbs and spices found in Central America, ranging from the familiar to the exotic. While many herbs and spices have medicinal uses, this guide is not intended to be used as self-treatment for illness ...

Hill Bamboos

An Important Resource for Improving Rural Livelihoods

VP Tewari, RK Verma and GS Goraya

Hill bamboos have many economic uses for people in India, and suffer from overexploitation. They are not generally included in forest management plans, due to a bias in favour of timber species growing in the region. In view of this ...

Home Gardener's Orchids

Selecting, Growing, Displaying, Improving and Maintaining Orchids

David Squire

Orchids have a reputation for being hard to grow, but this comprehensive manual will lead gardeners straight to the best variety to cultivate in their climate, while providing all the necessary information to make their flowers flourish.

Honey in Traditional and Modern Medicine

Laid Boukraa

The use of honey can be traced back to the Stone Age. Evidence can be found for its nutritional and medicinal use beginning with prehistoric and ancient civilizations. Currently, there is a resurgence of scientific interest in natural ...

Identification Manual of Ornamental Trees (South China) [Chinese]

Zhuo Lihuan and Wang Ling

This book describes a total of 368 species of ornamental trees (including varieties) from 166 families.

Lavar: En Faltguide [Lichens: A Field Guide]

Roland Moberg and Svante Hultengren

Lavar: En Fältguide follows the old and well-known Lavar: En Fälthandbok, published in 1981, and has undergone an extensive update at the hands of Roland Moberg and Svante Hultengren. The book is richly illustrated ...

Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543

Complete Coloured Edition

Leonhart Fuchs, Klaus Dobat and Werner Dressendorfer

Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge with groundbreaking medical research ...

Lichens of Mexico

The Parmeliaceae - Keys, Distribution and Specimen Descriptions

Maria Herrera-Campos, Rosa Emilia Perez-Perez and Thomas H Nash III

With well over 2000 species the Parmeliaceae is the largest family of lichenized fungi. Mexico with its huge topographic relief and wide range of habitats is one of the major biodiversity hot spots in the world. Accordingly, it is not ...

Morfologia de Angiospermas [Morphology of Angiosperms]

Rejane Gomes-Pimentel, Denise Monte Braz, Pedro Germano Filho, Kathlyn V Gevu and Ivo A Da Silva

Morfologia de Angiospermas is a botany book that deals with plant organs, featuring their main morphological types, as well as the conquest of Earth's environment by plants and their main interactions with pollinators and ...

Mossor: En Faltguide [Mosses: A Field Guide]

Tomas Hallingback

This new book by Tomas Hallingbäck updates the old and well-known Mossor: En Fälthandbok, published in 1981, which has undergone an extensive update by Tomas himself. The new book is a complete moss flora with determined ..

Mushrooms of Hawai'i

An Identification Guide

Don E Hemmes and Dennis E DesJardin

Hawai'i is known for its verdant mountains and colorful ocean ecosystems, but few realize the depth and range of the islands' mushroom diversity. In fact, Hawai'i is home to over 230 species of mushrooms that are prized by ...

Old and Valuable Trees in Jiangsu [Chinese]

Green Committee of Jiangsu

This book present trees from the Chinese province of Jiangsu that have important scientific, historical or cultural value. It groups trees into those older than 500 years, between 300-499 years, and between 100 and 299 years.

Ornamental Geophytes

From Basic Science to Sustainable Production

Rina Kamenetsky and Hiroshi Okubo

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been comprehensively presented to researchers and horticulturalists. Covering the latest advances ...

Ornamental Trees Identification Manual (North China) [Chinese]

Zhuo Lihuan and Wang Ling

This book collects 280 ornamental trees (including varieties), belonging to 58 families. The gymnosperms are arranged systematically according to Zheng Wanjun. The angiosperms are arranged according to Cronquist's 1981 system, which ...

Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge for Food Security

Romesh Kumar Salgotra and Bharat Bhushan Gupta

With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community. To catch up with the fierce pace of growth in all the sectors of development ...

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast

Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska

Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon

This classic, bestselling field guide features 794 species of plants commonly found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens. Areas covered ...

Production Technology of Spices and Plantation Crops

Swati Barche, Kamal S Kirad, Reena Nair, PK Jain and SK Sengupta

This accessibly written book contains not only theoretical, but also practical information on growing spices and plantation cropes. It will be a boon for students, researchers, extension workers and commercial growers.

Rosacee del Piemonte, Liguria e delle Alpi Occidentali [Rosaceae of Piedmont, Liguria and the Western Alps]

Marinella Zepigi Pessina, Renzo Salvo and Riccardo Luciano

Following the same style as other books in this series, this book is a popular essay without going into difficult questions of botany. The authors hope to achieve that interested laymen can get close to plants, flowers, and herbs, without ...

Snow Mold

The Battle Under Snow Between Fungal Pathogens and Their Plant Hosts

Naoyuki Matsumoto and Tom Hsiang

Snow Mold provides biological and agricultural insights into snow mold, a fungal disease affecting land plants observed after the melting of snow. Snow mold fungi can cause significant damage to plant growth both in agriculture ...

South Dakota Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state flower, the pasqueflower, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout South Dakota. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees ...

Tennessee Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Tennessee wildflowers are so spectacular, there is an official pilgrimage each year! The state tree the tulip polar, is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout the state. This beautifully ...

The Ancient Trees in Meijiang [Chinese]

Li Kunxin and Liao Fulin

This book consists of two parts: The first part mainly introduces the scope of the survey and the natural condition of ancient trees found in Meijiang, a district of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. The second part mainly ...

The Ancient and Famous Trees at Gulangyu [Chinese]

Liu Haisang

This book is divided into 5 chapters. After an introduction, the second chapter is gives the results of a survey of ancient and famous trees in Gulangyu, an island off the coast of Xiamen, a city in Fujian Province in southern China ...

The Book of Orchids

A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

Maarten JM Christenhusz, Mark W Chase and Tom Mirenda

One of every seven flowering plants on Earth is an orchid. Orchidaceae is the second most widely distributed plant family, yet remains one of the least understood. Here are profiles of 600 key species, complete with full taxonomic and ...

The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts

Finding, Identifying, and Cooking

Katie Letcher Lyle

Edible wild plants, mushrooms, fruits, and nuts grow along roadsides, amid country fields, and in urban parks. All manner of leafy greens, mushrooms, and herbs that command hefty prices at the market are bountiful outdoors and free for ...

The English Landscape Garden in Europe

Michael Symes

The English Landscape Garden in Europe provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of garden acted widely as an inspiration, it was not ...

The Field Photographs of Alain H. Liogier

Plants of Hispaniola, Dominican Republic 1968-1969

Brandy Watts

This volume represents an important selection of 116 photographs from a specific window of time and place as viewed through the camera lens of one of the greatest tropical field botanists of the 20th century. Ms. Watts has curated an ...

The Fungal Community

Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem

John Dighton and Jr.,James F White

In all subjects in science, new findings and the use of new technologies allow us to develop an ever-greater understanding of our world. Expanded and updated coverage in the fourth edition includes: - new sections on Integrating ...

The Genus Paphiopedilum

Guido J Braem, Guy R Chiron and Sandra L Ohlund

The Genus Paphiopedilum by Braem, Chiron, & Öhlund is the most complete monograph hitherto written about this fascinating genus of slipper orchids. The extensive text is scientifically correct but written to be accessible ...

The Rose in India

BP Pal

Reprint of the revised 1991 edition. General introduction to selection, cultivation of roses on the Indian subcontinent. The standard work on the subject, combining practical garden knowledge, historic interest, aesthetic appreciation ...

The Songs of Trees

Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

David George Haskell

David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans.

Timber Trees of Suriname

Identification Guide

Chequita Bhikhi, Paul JM Maas, Jifke Koek-Noorman and Tinde van Andel

Timber Trees of Suriname focuses on the identification of Surinamese trees, based on field, vegetative, floristic and wood characteristics. It includes botanical descriptions, wood descriptions, illustrations and photos of 100 ...

Tomato Diseases

Identification, Biology and Control

Dominique Blanchard

To identify a disease in the field, the diagnostician must have academic training and extensive knowledge of various disciplines together with experience. One must remember that in Greek, diagnosis means 'knowledge'. The extent of ...

Tropical Plant Collecting

From the Field to the Internet

Scott A Mori, Amy Berkov, Carol A Gracie and Edmund F Hecklau

Tropical Plant Collecting, which has now been reprinted by NYBG Press, provides field biologists with information about carrying out fieldwork in tropical America, gathering botanical collection, managing specimens in herbaria ...

Tulip

Celia Fisher

A long time ago, you could only find them on the slopes of remote mountain ranges in Asia, but today they are the very symbol of modern genetics, a species unrivalled for the variety of colors and forms that breeders can create: tulips.

Asimmetriya Ispol'zovaniya Konechnostey u Mlekopitayushchikh [Asymmetry of Use of Limbs in Mammals]

AN Gilov, KA Karenina and Ye B Malashichev

This book provides an overview of recent data on the distribution and features of lateralization of limb function in vertebrates, particularly mammals. The focus of the monograph is to give a detailed description of the lateralized function ...

Biology For Dummies

Rene Fester Kratz

The ultimate guide to understanding biology Have you ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your body needs to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans and chimps descended from a common ancestor ...

Cells and Societies

John Tyler Bonner

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library, originally published in 1955. The howling monkeys of Barro Colorado Island in Panama have a rudimentary language which serves the needs of their social activities.

Cellular Mechanics in Differentiation and Growth

Dorothea Rudnick

A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library, originally published in 1956. Here are the recent investigations of several distinguished biologists originally presented at the Fourteenth Symposium of the Society ...

Comparative Physiology of the Vertebrate Kidney

William H Dantzler

This second edition offers a comprehensive overview of the physiological functions of vertebrate kidneys from a comparative viewpoint, with particular emphasis on nonmammalian vertebrates. The topics covered include renal structure ...

Comparative Social Evolution

Dustin R Rubenstein and Patrick Abbot

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality – defined broadly as cooperative group living – remains one of the most intriguing ...

Intelligence in the Flesh

Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks

Guy Claxton

If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the suppression of emotion, you'd better think again – or rather not "think" at all. In his provocative new book, Guy Claxton draws ...

Life: The Science of Biology

David E Sadava, David M Hillis, H Craig Heller and Sally D Hacker

The Eleventh Edition of Life: The Science of Biology is engaging, active, and focused on teaching the skills that students need in the majors biology course. New pedagogical features grab students' attention and give them ...

Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-Metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton

Robert W Mann, David R Hunt and Scott Lozanoff

Photographic Regional Atlas of Non-Metric Traits and Anatomical Variants in the Human Skeleton provides a unique collection of photographs derived from a broad array of novel skeletal specimens from across the globe. This atlas ...

Psychological Mechanisms in Animal Communication

Mark A Bee and Cory T Miller

Animal Signals and Communication analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from signal neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory ...

Signal Transduction

IJsbrand Kramer

A reference on cellular signaling processes, the third edition of Signal Transduction continues in the tradition of previous editions, in providing a historical overview of how the concept of stimulus-response coupling arose in ...

Skin: A Biography

Sharad P Paul

An accessible look at skin – our most fundamental organ – by one of the foremost experts in the field The story goes back to a flat and primeval earth, where the sun was dominant and the seas shallow. Fossils buried ...

The Germ Files

The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How To Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)

Jason Tetro

Some germs are out to get us. . . . But we shouldn't let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent. The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one.

Almost Human

The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story

Lee R Berger, John Hawks, Harrison Ford and Douglas H Chadwick

This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi ...

Archaeological Landscape Evolution

The Mariana Islands in the Asia-Pacific Region

Mike T Carson

Landscapes have been fundamental to the human experience world-wide and throughout time, yet how did we as human beings evolve or co-evolve with our landscapes? By answering this question, we can understand our place in the complex, ever ...

Early Humans

Nicholas Ashton

Setting the scene on the Norfolk coast almost a million years ago, Ashton follows the remarkable survival of bones, stone tools and footprints which allow us to paint a picture of the first human visitors to this remote peninsula of northern ...

Evolution, the Logic of Biology

John S Torday and Virender K Rehan

By focusing on the cellular mechanisms that underlie ontogeny, phylogeny and regeneration of complex physiologic traits, Evolution, the Logic of Biology demonstrates the use of homeostasis, the fundamental principle of physiology ...

La Evolucion del Genero

Antonio Rosas

What does it mean to be human? Until recently, it meant to belong to our species Homo sapiens. Other older and archaic forms, such as Homo erectus or the Neanderthals, although included in the genus Homo, were ...

People with Animals

Perspectives & Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology

Lee G Broderick

People with Animals emphasises the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take. The types of relationship studied include the important ...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 55

Large-Scale Ecology: Model Systems to Global Perspectives

Alex J Dumbrell, Rebecca Kordas and Guy Woodward

Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. This thematic volume focuses on large scale ecology, publishing important reviews that contribute to our understanding ...

Impact of Biological Invasions on Ecosystem Services

Montserrat Vila and Philip E Hulme

Impact of Biological Invasions on Ecosystem Services presents an analysis of the ecological, economic and social threats posed by the introduction and spread of non-native species. It provides a comprehensive description of impacts ...

Managing Australia's Pest Animals

A Guide to Strategic Planning and Effective Management

Mike Braysher

Pest animals are but one of many factors that influence the desired outcome from managing natural resource based systems, whether for production or conservation purposes. Others include diseases, weeds, financial resources, weather and ...

Proceedings of The Postglacial Colonization Conference

D Paddy Sleeman, RJ Devoy and PC Woodman

Contents include: Introduction, Environmental Setting and Palaeogeography, Colonization by Mammals, The Record From Fish Amphibians and Reptiles, Colonization by Invertebrates, and Conclusions.

America's Public Lands

From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond

Randall K Wilson

How is it that the United States – the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world – has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its territory as public lands? Considering this intriguing ...

Biodiversity of Tropical Peat Swamp Forest of Sarawak

Jayasilan Mohd Azlan and Indraneil Das

A variety of articles on various aspects of life in Malaysian peat swamp forests, most of which are in Sarawak. Subjects discussed in the papers include general conservation of forests, the potential use of the sago palm as starch in ...

Ecology of Meromictic Lakes

Ramesh D Gulati, Egor S Zadereev and Andrei G Degermendzhi

Ecology of Meromictic Lakes presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area. After an introduction to the terminology and geographic distribution of meromictic lakes ...

Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem

Thomas Foken

Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem focuses on fluxes of energy, carbon dioxide and matter in and above a Central European spruce forest. The transition from a forest affected by acid rain into a heterogeneous ...

Island Landscapes

An Expression of European Culture

Gloria Pungetti

Island Landscapes takes a critical look at the evolution of European islandscapes and seascapes to examine the conditions facing them in the twenty first century. Considering island landscapes as an expression of European culture ...

National Forest Inventories

Assessment of Wood Availability and Use

Claude Vidal, Iciar Alberdi, Laura Hernandez and John J Redmond

National Forest Inventories presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general ...

Oil and Water

An Oilman's Quest to Save the Source of America's Most Endangered River

Stephen Grace

For fifteen years Bud Isaacs has been blowing the whistle on an abused stretch of the West's most iconic river. In telling the tale of this oilman's battle to repair the ecological damage caused by more than a century of water ...

Soils and Human Health

Eric C Brevik and Lynn C Burgess

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific and medical study. Soils and Human Health brings together ...

Swamp: Kuching Wetlands National Park

William Beavitt and Andrew Alek Tuen

A photographic guide to the plants and animals of Malaysia's coastal and mangrove habitats.

Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia

Challenges in a Changing Environment

Serge Morand, Claire Lajaunie and Rojchai Satrawaha

Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia provides theoretical overviews and ...

From Mallards to Martens

Forty Years of The Vincent Wildlife Trust

Hilary Macmillan, Tom Tew and Natalie Buttriss

This book is a celebration of the mammal conservation work carried out by The Vincent Wildlife Trust over the last 40 years. This charitable trust was founded, funded and led by Vincent Weir from its inception in 1975 until the early ...

International Organization and the Conservation of Nature

Robert Boardman

This book provides a provisional assessment of the work of international organisations dealing with the conservation of nature.

The New Game Rancher

Pamela Oberem and Peter Oberem

The New Game Rancher is a succinct guide to the complete spectrum of game ranching in South Africa and is illustrated with more than 400 full colour photos, line drawings and illustrations. It is a collection of contributions ...

The Role of Science for Conservation

Matthias Wolff and Mark Gardener

The Role of Science for Conservation integrates the knowledge and reflections of thirty scientists, of which many have dedicated a substantial part of their professional life to the Galapagos archipelago, to the conservation of ...

New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research

Hisashi Nakamura, Atsuhiko Isobe, Shoshiro Minobe, Humio Mitsudera, Masami Nonaka and Toshio Suga

This book consists of the articles from the special issue of "'Hot Spots' in the Climate System" in the Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 71 No. 5, 2015, comprising 9 chapters that cover a wide spectrum of topics.

Environmental Effects of Marine Finfish Aquaculture

Barry Hargrave

Environmental risks associated with large-scale marine finfish cage aquaculture have led to claims that the long-term sustainability of the industry is in doubt. Methods and models currently used to measure near and far-field environmental ...

Essentials of Oceanography

Alan P Trujillo and Harold V Thurman

Essentials of Oceanography guides readers through the complexities of what lies beneath the ocean. With an interdisciplinary approach and accessible writing style, the text is engaging for all readers. The Twelfth Edition discusses ...

I'm with the Bears

Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

Mark Martin, Bill McKibben, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, TC Boyle, Toby Litt and Lydia Millet

The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief ...

Program Earth

Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet

Jennifer Gabrys

Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has ...

The Great Climate Robbery

Grain

The Great Climate Robbery provides valuable information about how the industrial food system causes climate change, how food and agribusiness corporations are getting away with it, and what can be done to turn things around.

Atlas of Ore Minerals

Focus on Epithermal Deposits of Argentina

Werner H Paar, Milka K de Brodtkorb, Hubert Putz and Robert F Martin

In the Atlas of Ore Minerals, the authors focus on the mineral species encountered in ore deposits of the Republic of Argentina, many of them of epithermal type. They describe 210 ore minerals, illustrate their associations ...

Atmospheric Science Across the Stratopause

David E Siskind, Stephen D Eckermann and Michael E Summers

In recent years, two separate geophysical research cultures have developed in the United States to study the atmosphere: one of space scientists, who focus on the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, and the other of atmospheric science ...

Chemistry3: Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price

Chemistry is widely considered to be the central science: it encompasses concepts on which all other branches of science are developed. Yet, for many students entering university, gaining a firm grounding in chemistry is a real challenge ...

Coastal Geography in Northeast Brazil

Analyzing Maritimity in the Tropics

Eustogio Wanderley Correia Dantas

Coastal Geography in Northeast Brazil studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities ...

Cross-Bedding, Bedforms and Paleocurrents

David M Rubin

The computer modeling that forms the basis for Cross-Bedding, Bedforms and Paleocurrents was undertaken to relate the geometry of cross-bedding to the morphology and behavior of bedforms. Using computers for this purpose is ...

Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rock

Boris Faybishenko, Paul A Witherspoon and Sally M Benson

Among the current problems that hydrogeologists face, perhaps there is none as challenging as the characterization of fractured rock. Within hydrogeological systems, general issues concerning groundwater flow and environmental remediation ...

Earth's Deep Interior

Mineral Physics and Tomography from the Atom to the Global Scale

Shun-Ichiro Karato, Alessandro Forte, Robert Liebermann, Guy Masters and Lars Stixrude

Earth is a dynamically evolving planet with large-scale flow and chemical differentiation occurring throughout history. These processes include not only mantle convection and related phenomena but also core processes that have an important ...

From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective

Impact Crater Research in Germany, 1930s-1970s

Martina Kolbl-Ebert

The Nördlinger Ries and Steinheim Basin, two conspicuous geological structures in southern Germany, were traditionally viewed as somewhat enigmatic but nevertheless definitely volcanic edifices until they were finally recognized as ...

Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes

John B Rundle, Donald L Turcotte and William Klein

Earthquakes in urban centers are capable of causing enormous damage. The January 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake was only a magnitude 6.9 event and yet produced an estimated $200 billion loss. Despite an active earthquake prediction programme ...

Iron Oxides

From Nature to Applications

Damien Faivre and Richard B Frankel

Compiling all the information available on the topic, this ready reference covers all important aspects of iron oxides. Following a preliminary overview chapter discussing iron oxide minerals along with their unique structures and properties ...

Landscapes and Landforms of Italy

Mauro Soldati and Mauro Marchetti

Landscapes and Landforms of Italy deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Italy. Attention is given to landform diversity and landscape evolution through time which has been controlled by very diverse geological ...

Magnetospheric Current Systems

Shin-ichi Ohtani, Ryoichi Fujii, Michael Hesse and Robert L Lysak

The magnetosphere is an open system that interacts with the solar wind. In this system, solar wind energy continuously permeates different regions of the magnetosphere through electromagnetic processes, which we can well describe in terms ...

Models and Stratigraphy of Mid-Cretaceous Reef Communities, Gulf of Mexico

Robert W Scott

The Cretaceous carbonate platform that encircles the modern Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest and long-lived reef tracts in the history of the Earth. During the past 25 years, numerous boreholes have penetrated these Cretaceous reefs ...

Origin of the Dutch Coastal Landscape

Long-Term Landscape Evolution of the Netherlands During the Holocene, Described and Visualized in National, Regional and

Peter Vos

The topic of this book is the Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape during the Holocene. The landscape evolution is vizualized in series of palaeogeographical maps and the driving mechanisms behind the environmental changes are discussed ...

Past Vulnerability

Volcanic Eruptions & Human Vulnerability in Traditional Societies Past & Present

Felix Riede

Volcanic eruptions can affect everything – nature, wildlife, people. From the earliest times, human resilience has been tested by this most severe environmental hazard resulting in a variety of collective responses – from ...

Sources and Transport of Inorganic Carbon in the Unsaturated Zone of Karst

Simone Milanolo

Sources and Transport of Inorganic Carbon in the Unsaturated Zone of Karst combines field, laboratory and modelling methods to identify, characterize and quantify sources and fluxes within and between the different compartments ...

Steine an Deutschen Kusten: Finden und Bestimmen [Rocks on Germany's Coasts: Finding and Identifying]

Roland Vinx

Nowhere else in Germany can you find such a variety of beautiful and interesting stones of different origins as on walks along the cliffs of the sea coast. In particular, the east coast is rich in rocks that have been thrust from Scandinavia ...

Storm in a Teacup

The Physics of Everyday Life

Helen Czerski

Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating. What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and ...

The Glaciers of Iceland

A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview

Helgi Bj rnsson and Julian Meldon D'Arcy

This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajokull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first ...

The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions

Mark A Richards, Richard G Gordon and Robert D van der Hilst

The new global tectonics that emerged three decades ago profoundly changed our view of the Earth and its evolution. Although the theory of plate tectonics gives a kinematic description of much of Earth's surface motions, our dynamical ...

The Three-Dimensional Facies Architecture of Terrigenous Clastic Sediments and Its Implications for Hydrocarbon Discover

Andrew D Miall and Noel Tyler

While there has been much interest in recent years in concepts of sequence stratigraphy, this book focuses on stratigraphic units that are, in general, an order of magnitude smaller than sequences. A knowledge of such architectural details ...

Understanding the Gem Minerals

A Practical Guide

William Revell Phillips and James Shigley

Gemstones have fascinated people for thousands of years because of their beauty, rarity, and monetary value. However, a true understanding of gemstones and their properties has only come about in the past two centuries resulting from the ...

Vulkane in Deutschland [Volcanoes in Germany]

Gottfried Hofbauer

Volcanoes characterize numerous landscapes in Germany. Kaiserstuhl, Vogelsberg, Röhn or Hegau are only a few examples of volcanic activity. In Germany one can find imposing lava domes, steep slag cymbals or deep maars ...

A Plea for the Animals

The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion

Matthieu Ricard

Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard ...

Agricultural Production Economics

Analytical Methods And Applications

CR Ranganathan, K Palanisami and P Paramasivam

This book is unique in that it seeks to blend the theory of production economics with empirical analysis of exclusively Indian situations. The applications presented here are from research works relating to local issues of the irrigation ...

Aping Mankind

Raymond Tallis

First published in 2011. Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we draw the line ...

Coldwater Fisheries Management

PC Mahanta and Debajit Sarma

This volume contains papers based on the abstracts and presentations given at the symposium "Coldwater Fisheries Management: New Strategies and Approaches", which was held during 2-4 October 2009 at Nameri National Park ...

Domestic Animals and Leisure

Neil Carr

Domestic Animals and Leisure offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the future of research in this field. All of the contributions to ...

Environment Protection and Sustainable Development

SalIgram Bhatt and MGK Menon

This book relates to an important and emerging field of research in sustainable development and environment protection. It offers new ideas in law and science for sustainable development that mankind is exploring for life on this planet.

Environmental Heresies

The Quest for Reasonable

Juha Hiedanpaa and Daniel W Bromley

Environmental Heresies systematically deconstructs the pervasive and counter-productive discourse surrounding environmental policy. The authors argue that environmental policy problems are always framed such that conflict is ...

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

The Evolution of Minds

Daniel C Dennett

What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant ...

Global Land Grabs

History, Theory and Method

Marc Edelman, Carlos Oya and Jr.,Saturnino M Borras

Since the 2008 world food crisis a surge of land grabbing swept Africa, Asia and Latin America and even some regions of Europe and North America. Investors have uprooted rural communities for massive agricultural, biofuels, mining, industry ...

Insect Bioecology and Nutrition for Integrated Pest Management

Antonio Ricardo Panizzi and Jose Roberto P Parra

The field of insect nutritional ecology has been defined by how insects deal with nutritional and non-nutritional compounds, and how these compounds influence their biology in evolutionary time. In contrast ...

Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

This primer is an edited and slightly revised version of a previously published integrated agriculture aquaculture (IAA) technology information kit. It contains 38 contributions in seven sections, covering sociocultural, economic and environmental ...

Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise

The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1970-2011

Susan Owens

Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise presents a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation, based on an in-depth study of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. The Commission provided expert advice to governments ...

Scale, Governance and Change in Zambezi Teak Forests

Sustainable Development for Commodity and Community

Michael Musgrave

The Zambezi Teak forests of western Zambia have been exploited for their timber for over 80 years. The record of this exploitation and the subsequent collapse of the timber industry provide a unique insight into problems around land use ...

The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain

A History

Simon Taylor

The go-ahead for Britain's first new nuclear power station in 20 years, Hinkley Point C, marks a major change of policy. The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain traces the UK's nuclear energy history, from the ...

Animal Movement

Statistical Models for Telemetry Data

Mevin B Hooten, Devin S Johnson, Brett T McClintock and Juan M Morales

The study of animal movement has always been a key element in ecological science, because it is inherently linked to critical processes that scale from individuals to populations and communities to ecosystems. Rapid improvements in biotechnology ...

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Donald R Forsdyke

Now in its third edition and supplemented with more online material, Evolutionary Bioinformatics aims to make the "new" information-based (rather than gene-based) bioinformatics intelligible both to the ...

Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology

Guy C Cox

Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology, Second Edition covers the field of biological microscopy, from the optics of the microscope to the latest advances in imaging below the traditional resolution limit. It includes the ...

Regression Models for Categorical, Count, and Related Variables

An Applied Approach

John P Hoffmann

Social science and behavioral science students and researchers are often confronted with data that are categorical, count a phenomenon, or have been collected over time. Sociologists examining the likelihood of interracial marriage ...

What are Species?

Brent D Mishler

What are Species? is an extended argument for abandoning the various single concepts and the "species" rank. The author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a pluralistic view. In such taxonomy ...

Color Science and the Visual Arts

A Guide for Conservations, Curators, and the Curious

Roy S Berns and Timothy P Whalen

"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar." What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex ...

Graduate Research

A Guide for Students in the Sciences

Robert V Smith, Llewellyn D Densmore and Edward F Lener

Graduate Research is an all-in-one resource for prospective and matriculated graduate students in the sciences. The newly revised edition includes updates to every chapter. Graduate Research covers a range of topics including ...

Oxford Dictionary of Science

Jonathan Law

This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, computer science, and astronomy. This fully revised edition includes hundreds of new ...