Big Cat Week: Series 3 - DVD

This third series of Big Cat Week revisits some of our favourite feline friends and introduces new ones. ....

In Defense of Dolphins

The New Moral Frontier

Thomas White

Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, ....

Whaling Diplomacy

Defining Issues in International Law

Alexander Gillespie

Whaling Diplomacy is the only book that addresses all of the substantive issues relating to the conservation of whales through the International Whaling Commission (IWC). ....

BWPi: Birds of the Western Palearctic Interactive - DVD ROM

OUP/BirdGuides Ltd

BirdGuides and OUP have combined their resources to produce the entire text of BWP (all 9 volumes) onto this interactive DVD ROM ....

Birds of Manas National Park

Anwaruddin Choudhury

Checklist and status report on the avifauna of the Project Tiger reserve and UNESCO Natural World Heritage park in western Assam. ....

Birds, Birds, Birds!

An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip

John Feith

This DVD is designed to help everyone improve their bird ID skills. It is a tool for people who are just beginning to learn about birds and a useful reference guide for ....

The DVD Guide to Bird Identification

Dave Gosney

New edition of the popular Video Guide to Bird Identification now released with updated footage on DVD. As well as providing superb picture quality, the DVD format offers the ....

Ecology and Conservation of Lowland Farmland Birds 2: The Road to Recovery

Edited by JA Vickery, AD Evans, PV Grice, NJ Aebischer and R Brand-Hardy

Proceedings of the British Ornithologist's Union 2004 conference. ....

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

John M Marzluff and Tony Angell

From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens ....

A Photographic Guide to Birds of Peru

Clive Byers

Concise and easy-to-use guide featuring 250 of Peru's most interesting and spectacular birds. Includes a full colour illustration, plus information on identification, habitat ....

A Pocket Guide to the Birds of Arunachal Pradesh

Anwaruddin Choudhury

Checklist of all 738 species and status report on some notable species of the state. ....

Where to Watch Birds in Southern and Western Spain

Andalucia, Extremadura and Gibraltar

Ernest Garcia and Andrew Paterson

Fully revised and updated edition of Garcia and Paterson's Where to Watch Birds in Southern Spain, published in 1994. This edition has detailed coverage of where to ....

Where to Watch Birds in West Midlands

Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the Former West Midlands

F Gribble, G Harrison, H Griffiths, J Winsper and S Coney

Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the former West Midlands County are collectively known as the West Midlands. This is a region of ....

The Reptiles and Amphibians of Anguilla, British West Indies

Karim VD Hodge, Ellen J Censky and Robert Powell

An overview of the Anguillian Archipelago, reptiles and amphibians generally, and relevant conservation issues precedes accounts of all species known to occur on any of ....

Snake Venoms and Envenomations

Jean-Philippe Chippaux

Snakes responsible for severe envenomations are considered a real public health problem, especially in tropical countries. Yet, snake venom, which is made up of hundreds of ....

Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh

AK Ataur Rahman

Descriptions, diagrams and photos of 264 freshwater fishes. ....

100 Butterflies and Moths

Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica

Jeffrey Miller, Daniel Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs

Walking a forest trail in Costa Rica, a visitor might be struck by the sight of an iridescent blue morpho butterfly fluttering ahead in the filtered daylight, or an ....

Les Cahiers Magellanes Hors-serie, Volume 22

A new species of Cyclocephala from Central America & descriptive notes on two species

Vladislav Maly

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 61

Contribution à l'Etude des Trictenotomidae avec la description d'une nouvelle espèce d'Autocrates du sud de la Chine : Autocrates maqueti

Alain Drumont

Des Coléoptères, des Collections et des Hommes

Yves Cambefort

Describes the history of the Beetle collection of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. ....

Handbook on Mangrove Associate Molluscs of Sundarbans/Anirudha Dey

How to Collect and Preserve Insects and Arachnids

VM Uys and RP Urban

Easily accessible general handbook for collecting and preserving insects and arachnids, with a Southern African slant. ....

Living Jewels 2

The Magical Design of Beetles

Paul Beckmann and Ruth Kaspin

Second collection of gorgeous beetles that are ready for their close-up. Magnified multiple times their normal size and photographed in rich colour, their true ....

Moths of Trigon

Observations on a Dorset Country Estate

Chris Manley

Illustrated with over 500 species of live moths shown, with notes on habitats, food plants, flight times and rarity status. ....

Parnassius Apollo

Seine Unterarten

Helmut Gla l

All known subspecies of Parnassius apollo are described. ....

Pest Thrips of the World

Visual and Molecular Identification of Pest Thrips

Gerald Moritz, Laurence Mound, D Morris and A Goldarazena

Includes 99 important pest species of the family Thripidae that are encountered worldwide. ....

Predator Upon a Flower

Life History and Fitness of a Crab Spider

Douglass H Morse

In the crab spider, Misumena vatia, Douglass H. Morse and his colleagues found an ideal species on which to test basic questions associated with lifetime fitness. From the ....

The Sand Wasps

Natural History and Behaviour

Howard E Evans and Kevin M O'Neill

Howard Evans was a brilliant ethologist and systematist for whom the joy of science included lying on his belly in some remote location, digging out and diagramming a ....

Sarcophaginae et Paramacronychiinae du Proche Orient

(Insecta, Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Andy Z Lehrer

Taxonomic synthesis of the subfamilies Sarcophaginae and Paramacronychiinae in the Near East. ....

Sea Urchins

A Guide to Worldwide Shallow Water Species

Heinke Schultz

A book for the identification of echinoids worldwide, mainly for shallow water species. The language is English, but the echinological terms are explained in a glossary in ....

World Directory of Crustacea Copepoda of Inland Waters, Volume 2

Cyclopiformes

Bernard Dussart and Danielle Defaye

Acta Zoologica Fennica, Vol. 216: Eurasian Neogene Large Herbivorous Mammals and Climate

J Eronen

The development and changes in the distribution of herbivorous mammal communities during the Neogene is complex. The Eurasian scale environmental patterns reflect the ....

Diet and Health in Past Animal Populations

Current Research and Future Directions

J Davies

Until recently, osteological studies into ancient diet and health have primarily focused upon human remains. As a result, these areas of research are still in their infancy in ....

Early Silurian (Llandovery) Orthide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: The O/S Extinction Recovery Fauna

Rongyu Li and Paul Copper

This paper investigates the shell-rich Llandovery strata of the Anticosti ramp and presents the orthide brachiopods which reached their evolutionary diversity acme and ....

Extraordinary Fossil Ecosystems of North America

John Nudds and Paul Selden

Fossil-Lagerstatten provide us with windows on the history of life on earth and this book focuses on 14 outstanding Fossil-Lagerst~tten located in North America. ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 142

Elasmobranchii Post-Triadici (Index specierum et generum)

Henri Capetta

Fossilium Catalogus Plantae, Volume 108

Index of Angiosperm leaf species names C, 1823-2005

J van der Burgh

On the Vegetation History of Calcareous Grasslands in the Franconian Jura (Germany) since the Bronze Age

Andr Baumann

Atlas des Poissons et des Crustacés d'Eau Douce des Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles

Edited by Philippe Keith, G Marquet, P Valade, P Bosc and E Vigneux

The freshwaters of the Comoros, Mascarenes and Seychelles (three archipelagos of the Western Indian Ocean) harbour a high biodiversity: 61 fish and 22 decapod crustacean ....

An Introduction to Hydrozoa

Edited by Jean Bouillon, C Gravili, F Pagès, JM Gili and F Boero

Hydrozoa occur in all aquatic habitats. They form part of the plankton, the hardand soft-bottom macrobenthos, and the meiofauna. They can also be symbiotic with a wide ....

Marine Sponges of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

JG Pattanayak

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 45

Edited by RN Gibson, RJA Atkinson and JDM Gordon

Sea Stars

Echinoderms of the Asia / Indo-Pacific - Identification, Biodiversity, Zoology

Neville Coleman

Comprehensive photo identification guide to the living Echinoderms of the Asia/Indo -Pacific Region. Includes taxonomic identifications by world authorities and information ....

Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Band 7/2-1: Chelicerata

Araneae, Acari I

Chelicerata are a basically terrestrial group of invertebrates, including many clades whose representatives have never found an evolutionary way to aquatic life. An exception ....

The Accidental Mind

How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God

David J Linden

You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice ....

All Things Reconsidered

My Birding Adventures

Roger Tory Peterson and Bill Thompson III

A decade after the death of Roger Tory Peterson, his unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a ....

Artists' Kew

An Exhibition of Contemporary Works

Edited by J Cloake and R Strong

Reveals the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in charming detail as well as in its full natural beauty by the Thames. The art is about people too: their interaction with those ....

Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

The Remaking of American Environmentalism

Michael Egan

For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time ....

Below the Convergence

Voyages Towards Antarctica 1699-1839

Alan Gurney

This "hugely entertaining book" ("The Daily Telegraph") tells of the first expeditions to Antarctica - all in search of land, glory, science and profit. Life was harsh: crews ....

A Bio-Bibliography for Biruni

Abu Raihan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad (973-1053 C.E.)

M Kamiar

Abu Raihan Biruni (973 - 1053 CE) was an Iranian scholar whose extraordinary achievements include predicting the existence of landmasses (North and South America) on ....

Chrysalis

Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

Kim Todd

Before Darwin, before Audubon, before Gilbert White, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist, known for her botanical illustrations, Maria Sybilla Merian was born in ....

Duchess of Curiosities

The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Portland

R Stott

Margaret Cavendish had a serious and philosophical desire to understand and record the natural world. To this end she assembled The Portland Museum. This exhibition catalogue ....

Ecology without Nature

Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

Timothy Morton

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: ....

The Fatal Voyage

Captain Cook's Last Great Journey

Peter Aughton

Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east ....

Hardy Californians

A Woman's Life With Native Plants

Lester Rowntree

Lester G. E. Rowntree (1879-1979), free-spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty-two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in ....

Honorary Tiger

The Life of Billy Arjan Singh

Duff Hart-Davis

Janet Somerville's Botanical History of Tasmania 1642-1820

Janet Somerville

In 1958, after writing several articles on Tasmanian history, Janet Somerville began her major work, but died before it could be published. Fifty years later, her manuscript is ....

Larks and Leverets

Wildlife on Norfolk Farmland

James McCallum

Deals with the wildlife found on Norfolk's farmland. There are chapters on hares, long-tailed tits, skylarks, displaying pheasants, winter flocks of pink-footed geese and ....

Mind in Life

Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

Evan Thompson

How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and ....

New Theories of Everything

John D Barrow

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for ....

Pulse

How Nature is Inspiring the Technology of the 21st Century

Robert Frenay

Bridges made with spider silk; ships that swim like fish; rubber as supple as a dragonfly's wing - innovations like these are at the forefront of the concept of 'the ....

Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography 2.0

Taking, Making, Editing, Storing, Printing and Sharing Better Digital Images

Rick Sammon

This revision of Rick Sammon's best-selling guide covers all the steps in the digital photographic process. It teaches basic technical picture taking and the art of ....

Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology

LD Stephens and DR Calder

Infused with a sense of adventure and zeal for discovery, "Seafaring Scientist" recounts the achievements of a giant in the field of marine biology. Alfred Goldsborough Mayor ....

Sky in a Bottle

Peter Pesic

Children ask, "Why is the sky blue?" but the question also puzzled Plato, Leonardo, and even Newton, who unlocked so many other secrets. The search for an answer continued for ....

Was Australia Charted Before 1606?

The Jave la Grande inscriptions

William AR Richardson

Dutchman Willem Janszoon's arrival on the shores of Cape York in the Duyfken in 1606 is universally regarded as the first reliably documented non-Aboriginal arrival on ....

Writing, Travel and Empire

Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall

The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich interweaving with the crucial issues of the period. In some cases, they ....

Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria

Edited by Victor Fet and Alexi Popov

The book includes 22 chapters by 28 authors united by the single theme: biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria. From the single-celled organisms in the Black Sea sand to the ....

Coast Complete Series 1 & 2 - DVD

Collected first and second series of popular BBC documentary series exploring the nature and history of all 9,000 miles of the British coastline. Coast examinines the ways in ....

Johnny Kingdom: A Wild Life on Exmoor

Johnny Kingdom

In Johnny Kingdom - A Wild Life on Exmoor, we see how integral the both the landscape and the creatures of Exmoor have been to Johnny's often hair-raising life story. The ....

Parque Nacional de Garajonay

La Selva de Canarias

Angel Fernandez and Jose Manuel Moreno

A photographic journey through Garajonay, the youngest of the Canary Islands' National Parks. This park on La Gomera has been declared a World Heritage site; it features the ....

Plants of the Nyika Plateau

Edited by J Burrows and C Willis

The Nyika Plateau is a unique ecosystem and one of the world's hotspots. Twenty four participants from six countries took part in an expedition to the plateau in March 2000, ....

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Alaska

Dennis Paulson and Les Beletsky

Alaska has both vast wilderness tracts and a modern transport system, making eco-travelling in the state easy as well as exciting. From the broad expanses of tundra ....

Viaje a la Luz de Doñana / A Journey towards the Light of Doñana

Hector Garrido

Captures the wildlife and nature of Southwestern Spain. ....

Wild Australia

G Edgar, R Edgar and A Edgar

Identification guide to the flora and fauna of Australia. ....

Acta Botanica Fennica, Vol. 179: Hymenochaetaceae in China

Hydnoid, stereoid and annual poroid genera, plus additions to Phellinus

YC Dai and T Niemela

Inonotus and its related genera, Asterodon, Aurificaria, Coltricia, Coltriciella, Hydnochaete and Hymenochaete (Hymenochaetaceae) from China were studied. All the species ....

Atlas of the Medicinal Plants of Russia

VA Bykov

Deals with approx. 200 medicinal plants, colour photo of each plant, description of properties, pharmacological or chemotherapeutic activities, pharmaceutical forms, ....

Bolets de Catalunya: Volume 25

Includes an organizer portfolio and a CD with the index of the taxa published to date. ....

Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes

Edited by Michael Conan and W John Kress

From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, ....

CITES Orchid Checklist 4

MJ Smith et al

This is the fourth in the CITES orchid checklist series, and covers the genera Aerides, Coelogyne, Comparettia and Masdevallia. It contains a full list of accepted names, ....

CITES and Slipper Orchids / CITES et les Orchidées Sabot de Vénus / CITES y las Zapatillas de Venus

HN McGough et al

This CITES User's Guide covers the genera Cypripedium, Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium. Highly sought-after in trade, these orchids are strictly regulated by CITES. This is the ....

The Cell Cycle Control and Plant Development

Edited by Dirk Inze

Covers all major aspects of the cell cycle including cyclins, CDK inhibitors and phosphorylation, cell cycle control and activation, developments of trichomes, fruits, ....

Dream Gardens

100 Inspirational Gardens

Andrew Lawson and Tania Compton

"Dream Gardens" is a beautifully designed sourcebook of 100 modern and contemporary gardens of all styles in all parts of the world. It presents an exciting array of ....

Enhancing the Efficiency of Nitrogen Utilization in Plants

Edited by Sham S Goyal, Rudolf Tischner and Amarjit S Basra

Examines research to present an overview of inorganic nitrogen uptake and metabolism in plant life and crop production. This title focuses on physiology and adaptive ....

Field Guide to the Palms of Madagascar

John Dransfield, Henk Beentje et al

Madagascar's native palms are of enormous economic and biological importance. Most are endemic and are part of Madagascar's great natural heritage and many are becoming ....

Field Guide to the Palms of New Guinea

William J Baker and John Dransfield

New Guinea is one of the world's greatest palm diversity hotspots. With around 270 species, the island is home to some of the most beautiful and varied palms, many of ....

Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea, Volume 4: Genera Kuhlhasseltia to Ophioglossella (excluding Dendrobiinae s.l.)

A Schuiteman and EF De Vogel

This CD-ROM treats 19 genera comprising almost 400 species. Among the major genera are Liparis, Malaxis, Mediocalcar, Octarrhena and Oberonia. Not included are the genera ....

Flora Vegetativa

Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Pflanzen der Schweiz im blütenlosen Zustand

Stefan/Möhl, Adrian Eggenberg

Identification guide to 2130 plant species in Switzerland. This unique guide allows the identification of plants throughout the year, even when they are not in flower. ....

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 3, Part 2: Caesalpinioideae

Edited by G Pope

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 9, Part 3: Polygonaceae and Myriaceae

Edited by GV Pope

Flora de Veracruz Fasc. 136: Bromeliaceae

A Espejo-Serna, Ana Rosa Lopez-Ferrari and Ivon Ramirez-Morillo

Flora de Veracruz Fasc. 137: Hippocrateaceae

Gonzalo Castillo-Campos and Maria Elena Medina Abreo

Flora de Veracruz Fasc. 138: Lecythidaceae

G Castillo-Campos

Flora de Veracruz Fasc. 139: Scrophulariaceae

C Durán-Espinosa

Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 14: Apiaceae-Ericaceae

Edited by Zhu Guanhua and Zhang Libing

Companion of the text volume published in 2005, contains plants from the Apiaceae, Cornaceae, Aucubaceae, Helwingiaceae, Mastixiaceae, Toricelliaceae, Diapensiaceae, ....

Flora of the Guianas, Series A: 24: Hernandiaceae, Chloranthaceae, Piperaceae

Edited by MJ Jansen-Jacobs

Flowering Plant Families of the World

VH Heywood, RK Brummitt, A Culham and O Seberg

This updated and revised successor to the classic book, Flowering Plants of the World, is an authoritative introduction to the Earth's colourful and distinctive ....

The Freshwater Algae of China

Systematics, Taxonomy and Ecology

Edited by Hu Hongjun and Wei Yinxin

This monograph describes 1572 species of freshwater algae of China. For each species, the ecology and biological features, biological environment are described. Also for each ....

Genus Erica - Version 2

Interactive Identification Key on CD-ROM

F Volk, N Forshaw, D Schumann, T Oliver, I Oliver et al

The Genus Stachytarpheta (Verbenaceae) in Brazil

Sandy Atkins

A thorough revision of the genus as it occurs in Brazil, with illustrations and keys to the 79 recognised species. ....

Great Gardens of the World

In Search of Paradise

Penelope Hobhouse

A survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through magnificent photographic images and the descriptions of legendary garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. ....

Grow Fynbos Plants

Neville Brown and Graham Duncan

Fynbos is a unique type of vegetation which is dominant in the Cape Floristic Region in the southwestern Cape, and growing these plants can be challenging and rewarding. There ....

A Guide to Common Plants of Anguilla

MM Walker, O Hodge, F Homer and W Johnson

A comprehensive guide to Anguilla's common plants. Native and introduced plant species are described, along with their uses and historical/cultural significance. ....

Horticulture

Principles and Practices

George Acquaah

Third edition of the introductory text the subject. Chapters are organized into six main subjects: ....

Lichen Identifier: A Multi-Access Key to the Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland

Frank S Dobson

This is a simple to use multi-access computer key that enables the user to find the species name of any British or Irish lichen. It is divided into field and microscopical ....

Malezas de Salvatierra

Micropropagation of Orchids

Joseph Arditti

The second edition of this highly regarded book offers a compendium of methods for multiplying orchids through micropropagation. A detailed collection of procedures and ....

The Most Beautiful Wild Flowers of Turkey

Erdogan Tekin

Photo identification guide to 1010 flowers. Latin, Turkish and English species names are given. ....

Plantas de la Amazonia Peruana: Clave para Identificar las Familias de Gymnospermae y Angiospermae

Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Rocio Rojas Gonzales

This book advances our botanical understanding of the unique assemblage of plants found in the Peruvian Amazonia. Taxonomic keys first identify similar families as groups. ....

Pollen

The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers

Rob Kesseler and Madeline Harley

This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope - pollen grains, ....

Preliminary List of the Leguminosae in Northeastern Brazil / Lista Preliminar da Familia Leguminoseae na Regiao Nordeste do Brasil

Edgley A Cesar, FS Juchum and GP Lewis

Many legume specimens from Bahia are deposited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a large proportion having been added to the collections as a direct result of the ....

Seed Plants of Southern Tropical Africa

Families and Genera

Edited by OA Leistner

This book documents the flora of Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe comprising 228 families, 2 032 genera, and 11 637 species. The book is intended as a ....

Wild Edible Plants of Crete

Kleonikos Stavridakis

A complete inventory of all wild edible plants of Crete. ....

Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia

Jeffrey Jeanes and Gary Backhouse

Victoria has a wonderful, varied orchid flora of over 360 species, making it one of the richest areas in the world for terrestrial orchids. In Victoria. orchids can be found ....

Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction

David A Liberles

Ancestral sequence reconstruction is a technique of growing importance in molecular biology and comparative genomics. As a powerful technique for both testing evolutionary ....

Built by Animals

Mike Hansell

From termite mounds that in relative terms are three times as tall as a skyscraper, to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions ....

Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences

Case Studies of Policy Challenges from New Technologies

Karen Greif and Jon Merz

In recent years, advances in biological science and technology have outpaced policymakers' attempts to deal with them. Current Controversies in the Biological ....

Exotic Animal Formulary

Edited by James W Carpenter

Designed to be a concise, quick reference for veterinarians and anyone working with exotic animals, this formulary addresses common questions and medical situations ....

Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

The Creation of Biological Form

Jamie A Davies

Morphogenesis is the set of processes that generate shape and form in the embryo - an important area within developmental biology. ....

Molecular Models of Life

Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology

Sahotra Sarkar

Despite the transformation in biological practice and theory brought about by discoveries in molecular biology, until recently philosophy of biology continued to ....

Biological Emergences

Evolution by Natural Experiment

Robert GB Reid

Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of ....

Environmental Anthropology

A Historical Reader

Edited by Michael R Dove and Carol Carpenter

Environmental Anthropology: A Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the ....

From Embyology to Evo-Devo

A History of Developmental Evolution

Edited by Manfred Laubichler and Jane Maienshein

Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel's famous ....

A New History of Anthropology

Edited by Henrika Kuklick

A New History of Anthropology collects original writings from pre-eminent scholars to create a sophisticated but accessible guide to the development of the field. ....

Punctuated Equilibrium

Stephen Jay Gould

In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of ....

Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism

Andrew J Petto

From leading scientists, lawyers and educators, here is a new and decisive rebuttal to the assault on evolution from proponents of "intelligent design". With the pseudoscience ....

Ecological Applications

Towards a Sustainable World

Colin Townsend

Ecological Applications presents a broad range of methods and techniques for managing environmental sustainability. This book examines ecological theory at the individual, ....

From Energetics to Ecosystems

The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems

Edited by Neil Rooney, Kevin S McCann and David LG Noakes

Ecosystems are complex and enigmatic entities that are ultimately our life support systems. Understanding these systems to the point of being able to predict their ....

The Impact of Environmental Variability on Ecological Systems

Edited by David A Vasseur and Kevin S McCann

Fluctuations in the environmental conditions impacting life are ubiquitous. These fluctuations induce changes in the vital processes occurring within individual organisms ....

America's Changing Coasts

Private Rights and Public Trust

Edited by Diana Whitelaw and Gerald Visgilio

Following a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume's expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated ....

Coastal Management and Restoration: Saltmarshes

J Pat Doody

Coastal habitats provide the link between the land and the sea. They are dynamic, combine to form ecosystems of great complexity and provide significant areas for ....

Global Forest Resources Assesment 2005

Progress Towards Sustainable Forest Management

FAO has been coordinating global forest resources assessments every five to ten years since 1946. The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005) was carried out ....

Life in The Estuary

Illustrated Guide and Ecology

I Marsden and M Jones

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, and they have a unique environment as a result of the mixing of fresh water with seawater. They provide diverse opportunities ....

Marshes

The Disappearing Edens

William Burt

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the ....

Protecting the Gulf's Marine Ecosystems from Pollution

Edited by Hans-Jorg Barth

This volume reviews present sources and levels of pollution in The Gulf, assesses their causes and effects on biota and ecosystems, and identifies preventive and remedial ....

State of the World's Cities 2006/7

The Millennium Goals and Urban Sustainability

UN-Habitat

Guided in focus by the UN Millennium Development Goals, this new State of the World's Cities volume considers the wide range of issues that affect the lives of (mainly poor) ....

Tropical Deforestation

Edited by Sharon Spray and Matt Moran

Tropical Deforestation introduces readers to the important concepts for understanding the environmental challenges and consequences of the deforestation. ....

Ecological Landscape Design Principles

Edited by David Lindenmayer and Richard Hobbs

The distinctive relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation are highlighted in this original and useful guide to the ....

How the Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature

HH Shugart

Although people have been altering earth's landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such ....

Saving Nature's Legacy

Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity

Timothy J Farnham

Biological diversity is considered one of today's most urgent environmental concerns, yet the term was first coined only twenty-five years ago. Why did the concept of ....

Zoo Animal Nutrition III

Edited by A Fidgett, M Clauss et al

Covers the most recent research, such as primate and bird nutrition, iron storage disease, the provision of browse, and the nutrition of browsers. ....

Africa - Up in Smoke?

Andrew Simms and Hannah Reid

Global warming is already hitting Africa. This is increasing the vulnerability of poor communities, especially farmers, who are having to cope with not only more droughts but ....

Aviation and Climate Change

Lessons from European Policy

Kevin Anderson, Alice Bows and Paul Upham

The emissions reduction targets agreed in the Kyoto Protocol are only the beginning of what needs to be achieved in international climate negotiations. While studies suggest ....

Climate and Trade Policy

Bottom-Up Approaches Towards Global Agreement

Edited by Carlo Carraro and Christian Egenhofer

Analyses the viability of controlling climate change through a set of regional or sub-global climate agreements rather than via a global treaty. The main purpose is not ....

Degrees that Matter

Climate Change and the University

Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton

Universities and colleges are in a unique position to take a leadership role on global warming. As communities, they can strategize and organize effective action. As ....

Environmental Science and Technology

Concepts and Applications

Frank Spellman and Nancy Whiting

This newly updated reference uses scientific laws, principles, models, and concepts to provide a basic foundation for understanding and evaluating the impact that chemicals ....

The Recurring Dark Ages

Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation

Sing C Chew

In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In ....

Up in Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean

Andrew Simms and Hannah Reid

Climate Change is already hitting Latin America and the Caribbean and this is increasing the vulnerability of poor communities. "Up in Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean" is ....

Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica

Robert van Gent

This collection of celestial maps by Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 - 1665) brings back to life a masterpiece from the Golden Age of ....

Bibliographie der Alchemistischen Literatur / Bibliography of Alchemistic Literature - 3 volume set

Volker Fritz Brüning

3-volume set, only available as a complete edition. ....

European Space Directory 2006

Eurospace

Compiled and published under the patronage of EUROSPACE and with the technical assistance of ESA, this annual directory contains more than 120 in-depth profiles of of ....

Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics

Edited by Peter von Ballmoos

This volume is the first of its kind on focusing gamma-ray telescopes. Forty-eight refereed papers provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific potential and ....

Genesis Machines

The New Science of Biocomputation

Martyn Amos

The next generation of computers are coming - and they're like nothing we've seen before. Scientists are turning away from silicon chips and instead are using real, wet, ....

The Geology of Oxfordshire

Philip Powell

Well-illustrated account of Oxfordshire's geological past. ....

Tectonic Faults

Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth

Edited by Mark R Handy, Greg Hirth and Niels Hovius

Tectonic faults are sites of localized motion, both at the Earth's surface and within its dynamic interior. Faulting is directly linked to a wide range of global phenomena, ....

Agroecology in Action

Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks

Keith Douglass Warner

American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of ....

Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry

Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalization

David Hess

In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, technology, and ....

Better Forestry, Less Poverty

A Practicioner's Guide

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

This guide suggests ways to design and implement forest-based interventions that have the greatest potential to reduce poverty. Areas for action include timber production in ....

Business and Environmental Policy

Corporate Interests in the American Political System

Edited by Michael Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki

It is well known that American businesses make an effort to influence environmental policy by attempting to set the political agenda and to influence regulations and ....

Conservation is Our Government Now

The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

Paige West

Presents an ethnographic examination of the social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. This book focuses on the area that was the site ....

Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage

Edited by Sanjay Sharma and JA Aragon-Correa

A major dilemma for businesses has been the struggle to understand how to adopt and implement proactive environmental practices while meeting the core business objectives ....

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Water Resources Management

Roy Brouwer and David Pearce

How are the economic values of water and water quality accounted for in policy and project appraisal? This important new book aims to give an overview of the ....

Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment

Recent Developments

D Pearce, G Atkinson and S Mourato

Environmental protection is now an integral part of public policies. The costs and benefits of policies and projects must be carefully weighed. Many different categories ....

The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater

Duncan Thomas and Roger Ford

This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water sector, which institutions and industries are ....

Demand for Products of Irrigated Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

If irrigated production is to make a significant contribution to food security and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa, it will have to be re-structured across the ....

Design on the Edge

The Making of a High-Performance Building

David Orr

This work tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College, Ohio, in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the ....

The Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy and Law

An Introduction

Michael Faure and Goran Skogh

Although many books focus on law and economics, and environmental economics, this is one of the first to combine the two topics in a fully integrated and comprehensive manner. ....

Economic Growth, Material Flows and the Environment

New Applications of Structural Decomposition Analysis and Physical Input-Output Tables

Rutger Hoekstra

Rutger Hoekstra examines the complex relationship between the monetary economy and the materials flows that are extracted and emitted by economic activities. These physical ....

Economic Modelling of Climate Change and Energy Policies

Edited by Carlos de Miguel, Xavier Labandeira and Baltasar Manzano

Climate change and energy consumption are at the forefront of current environmental debate. Whilst energy is essential to the functioning and survival of our societies, the ....

Economics of Environmental Conservation

Clement A Tisdell

This fully updated and revised edition concentrates on the economics of conserving the living environment. Updated techniques of economic analyses are introduced, explained ....

The Economics of Pollution Havens

Edited by Don Fullerton

A pollution haven may arise if environmental stringency differs between countries, when capital is mobile, and when trade rules allow firms to relocate and still sell their ....

The Economics of Technology Diffusion and Energy Efficiency

Peter Mulder

Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental ....

Ecoscapes

Geographical Patternings of Relations

Edited by G Backhaus and J Murungi

This volume's concept, "ecoscape," has been formed for the purpose of comprehending the spatial configuration (geography) of an ecosystem. Using this method, the contributors ....

Environment and Industry in Developing Countries

Assessing the Adoption of Environmentally Sound Technology

Ralph Luken and Frank Van Rompaey

Industries located in developing countries have made major improvements in environmental performance since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, essentially doing better than developed ....

Environmental History of Water

Global views on community water supply and sanitation

Edited by P Juuti, T Katko and H Vuorinen

The World Water Development Report 2003 pointed out the extensive problem that: 'Sadly, the tragedy of the water crisis is not simply a result of lack of water but is, ....

Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour

Edited by Nick Johnstone

For the last 30 years, analysis of the inner workings of the firm has been largely absent from economic assessments of environmental policy. Recent work has highlighted ....

Environmental Politics in the European Union

Policy-Making, Implementation and Patterns of Multi-Level Governance

Christoph Knill and Duncan Liefferink

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the development, making and implementation of European Union environmental politics, and identifies the central areas and instruments ....

Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics

Philip Lawn

Ecological economics formally emerged in the late 1980s in response to the failure of mainstream economic paradigms to deal adequately with the interdependence of social, ....

Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application

Edited by J Erickson and John Gowdy

Research at the borderlands of economy, ecology, and ethics is presented in this timely study. The contributors build from a theoretical critique of the tradition of ....

Handbook of Potato Production, Improvement and Postharvest Management

Edited by Jai Gopal and SM Paul Khurana

Discusses the biology, genetics, breeding, diseases and effective approaches for improvement of crop and handling after harvest. ....

Implementing the Precautionary Principle

Perspectives and Prospects

Edited by E Fisher, J Jones and R von Schomberg

This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number of fields. In ....

Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation

Edited by K Green and S Randles

This book explores the disciplinary interfaces and practical implications of working across the two disciplines of industrial ecology (IE) and innovation studies (IS). Both ....

Institutions and the Environment

Arild Vatn

This important text develops an institutional response to the core issues raised in public policy making and develops a distinct understanding of the role of institutions, ....

Integrated Evaluation for Sustainable River Basin Governance

Paula Antunes

This Report synthesizes the main results obtained throughout the ADVISOR research project ("Integrated Evaluation for Sustainable River Basin Governance") funded by the ....

Making Aid Work

Abhijit Banerjee

With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that ....

Managing Conflict in Facility Siting

An International Comparison

Edited by S Hayden Lesbirel and Daigee Shaw

The siting or development of risky facilities, such as nuclear power plants or waste repositories, remains an intractable policy problem for all democratic nations. In this ....

Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Edited by Roy Ellen

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to ....

Networks and Institutions in Natural Resource Management

Edited by Yvonne Rydin and Eva Falleth

Managing natural resources sustainably is a complex task that demands the involvement of many different stakeholders. Network arrangements are increasingly used to try and ....

The New Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

On the occasion of the International Year of Mountains - 2002, FAO and its partners undertook a large-scale assessment and global review of the current status and future ....

On the Reappraisal of Microeconomics

Economic Growth and Change in a Material World

R Ayres and K Martinas

The conventional utility-based approach to microeconomics is now nearly a century old and although frequently criticised, it has yet to be replaced. On the Reappraisal of ....

Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic

Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions

Edited by S Sharma, M Starik and B Husted

The contributors to this book present research on crafting long-term ecological and societal solutions in order to achieve sustainability. The in-depth analyses explore the ....

Politics of Water

A Survey

Edited by Julie Trottier and Vincent Mioc

Presents a wealth of information covering the global politics of water. With the modern threat of climate change, and the increasing demand on water resources, this title will ....

Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth

Assessing the Impact of the Public and Private Sectors

O Atzema, P Rietveld and D Shefer

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the role of the private and public sectors in land markets and regional economics, and explores the reasons behind ....

Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology

Economics and Policy

Edited by Richard E Just, Julian M Alston and David Zilberman

Economic analysis of current agricultural biotechnology regulation. The contributors, most of whom are agricultural economists working either in universities or NGOs, address ....

The Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology

Human Genetics, Food and Patents

Edited by H Somsen

Biotechnology has prompted a revolution in science and society in the truest sense of the word. For what superficially appears to be a revolution in biotechnology, in effect ....

Report of the Expert Consultation on the Development of International Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Inland Capture Fisheries

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The Expert Consultation took as its main working document the Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fisher Products from Marine Capture Fisheries adopted by the ....

Report of the FAO Expert Consultation on the Economic, Social and Institutional Considerations of Applying the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO

FAO convened the Expert Consultation to elaborate a framework for technical guidelines on the economic, social and institutional considerations (e.g. information processes and ....

Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries

Sharing Water Peacefully

P Anand

The author argues that if water supply and sanitation were mainly problems of technology or financial resources, they would have been resolved long ago. He explores other ....

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006

Eradicating World Hunger - Taking Stock Ten Years After the World Food Summit

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Ten years have elapsed since the World Food Summit (WFS) in Rome pledged to halve the number of undernourished people in the world by no later than 2015, and in October 2006 ....

The State of World Highly Migratory, Straddling and Other High Seas Fishery Resources and Associated Species

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

This document describes highly migratory fish stocks, straddling fish stocks, and stocks of other high-seas fishery resources and the fisheries for them, including information ....

Sustainability or Collapse?

An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth

Edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich and Will Steffen

Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human ....

Sustainable Resource Management

Reality or Illusion?

Edited by Peter Nemetz

This provocative book examines the broad and complex conceptual issues that must be addressed in order to achieve sustainable development. It begins with several case ....

Terra Madre: 1600 World Food Communities

This book describes 1,600 Food Communities in 150 countries: from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura in Japan to the raisin producers of Herat in Afghanistan; from Ethiopian ....

Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali

Michael Hitchcock and Nyoman Darma Putra

The book investigates tourism as a form of globalization within the context of the island of Bali, which has been voted the world's top island destination for the third ....

The Trouble with Africa

Why Foreign Aid isn't Working

Robert Calderisi

Frustrated by years of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, this book cuts through the conventions. Long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi ....

Urban Water Resources Toolbox

Integrating Groundwater into Urban Water Management

Brian Morris, Leif Wolf and S Burn

The aim of the AISUWRS project was to develop assessment tools that would improve the sustainability of urban water resources and systems and to illustrate the practicability ....

The WTO and Labor and Employment

Edited by Drusilla Brown and Robert Stern

19 articles from 1996 to 2006 examine the progress of global economic integration and trade-policy liberalization facilitated by GATT and WTO over the past half-century ....

Where the Land is Greener

Case studies and analysis of soil and water conservation initiatives worldwide

Looks at soil and water conservation from a global perspective. In total, 42 soil and water conservation technologies and 28 approaches are described - each on four pages ....

Bayesian Methods for Ecology

Michael A McCarthy

The interest in using Bayesian methods in ecology is increasing, however many ecologists have difficulty with conducting the required analyses. McCarthy bridges that gap, using ....

Fractals and Multifractals in Ecology and Aquatic Science

Laurent Seuront and Francois Schmitt

Fractals and Multifractals in Ecology and Aquatic Science provides scientists with a basic understanding of fractals and multifractals and the techniques that utilize them ....

Planning Research

A Concise Guide for the Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences

John C Gordon

This concise yet comprehensive guide describes in detail a successful method for planning and writing about proposed research and management projects. Intended for use ....

Radar Interferometry

Persistent Scatter Technique

Bert M Kampes

This volume is devoted to the Persistent Scatterer Technique, the latest development in radar interferometric data processing. Using this technique, millimetric displacements ....

Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

Edited by Tarek Rashed and Carsten Juergens

Includes 19 chapters written by leading international experts in respected fields to provide a balanced coverage of fundamental issues in both remote sensing and urban ....

FAO Statistical Yearbook 2005-2006, Volume 1 and 2

Edited by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The new FAO Statistical Yearbook, the first volume of which was issued in 2004, has consolidated and replaced four previous FAO publications: the FAO Bulletin of Statistics ....

The Guide's Guide to Guiding

Garth Thompson

Written by a wildlife safari guide, this title is aimed primarily at informing and educating those that have a love and appreciation for the great outdoors and a desire to ....

Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Hugh H Genoways

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a ....

Survival Skills for Scientists

Federico Rosei and Tudor Johnston

This book provides young scientists, from physicists through to sociologists, the counsel and tools that are needed to be their own agents and planners, to survive and ....