Darwin's Fox and My Coyote

Holly Menino

A rare fox in the South American cordillera. A disappearing fox on an island off California. A common coyote in the Albany suburbs. How do these wild carnivores live? ....

Ecology and Management of the North American Moose

Edited by Albert W Franzmann, Charles C Schwartz and Richar E McCabe

Now back in print as a University Press of Colorado edition, this abundantly illustrated volume fully explains moose biology and ecology and assesses the increasingly complex ....

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska

Kate Wynne

Each species of whale, porpoise, dolphin, seal, sea lion, walrus, sea otter and polar bear is described and illustrated. Mammal characteristics and descriptions are presented ....

The Illustrated Tigers of India

Valmik Thapar

Once respected, feared, and revered across the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent where it roamed in majestic arrogance, the tiger in India is today an ....

Listening to Cougar

Marc Bekoff, Cara Blessley Lowe and Jane Goodall

This spellbinding tribute to Puma concolor honours the big cat's presence on the land and in our psyches. In some essays, the puma appears front and center: a lion leaps ....

Os Marsupiais do Brasil

Biologia, Ecologia e Evolucao

Edited by Nilton C Caceres and Emygdio AL Monteiro Filho

Contributed volume with 23 chapters on the biology, ecology and evolution of marsupials. ....

Scottish Mammals

Robin Hull

Scotland is a treasure-chest of natural history, but it also offers a wealth of wonderful literature about its wild creatures. Delving into Robin Hull's own experience ....

South American Camelids

Duccio Bonavia

One of the most significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture was that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. ....

Bird Sounds of Madagascar

An audio guide to the island's unique birds

Frank Hawkins and Richard Ranft

Madagascar is famed for its unique wildlife, with many species found nowhere else. This CD - the essential audio guide for birdwatching in Madagascar - includes many rare ....

Birds of Britain and Europe

Volker Dierschke

Over 440 species of bird are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. The images not only show you what the bird looks like ....

Birds of India

and the Indian Subcontinent

Jan Willem den Besten

India is one of the world's Biodiversity hotspots, hosting more than 12 per cent of all bird species of the planet. Birds of India describes the 575 most common bird species ....

Birds of India

An Anthology

Abdul Jamil Urfi

Showcasing some of the best writings on Indian birds, Birds of India: An Anthology takes a fresh look at natural history writings in India. The anthology is unique in that ....

A Birdwatcher's Guide: Bird Identification and Fieldcraft

Mark Ward

This books aims to improve the skill of birders of all levels. Offers invaluble information, such as hints and tips usually only gleaned from years of experience and ....

Bowerbirds

Nature, Art & History

Clifford Frith and Dawn Frith

Bowerbirds are the most remarkable and fascinating of living birds because of their amazingly human-like, complex, and artistic behaviour. ....

A Climatic Atlas of European Breeding Birds

Brian Huntley et al

A comprehensive exploration of the relationships between the distributions of birds breeding in Europe and the present climate, and how future climatic change may alter ....

Collins Complete Guide to British Birds

A photographic guide to every common species

Paul Sterry

Collins Complete Guide to British Birds makes bird identification easier than ever before. It is the most complete photographic guide to British birds ever published and ....

Conservation of Grassland Birds in North America: Understanding Ecological Processes in Different Regions

Robert A Askins et al

Report of the AOU Committee on Conservation. ....

The DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds, Version 9

BirdGuides

This Windows- and Macintosh-compatible software offers comprehensive multimedia coverage of 347 species. That's all birds recorded more than 100 times since 1958: in other words ....

Devon Birds: Devon Bird Report 2006

Devon BWPS

Systematic list of all birds that have been sighted throughout Devon in 2006. ....

Enzyklopädie der Brutvögel Europas

Alfred Limbrunner, Einhard Bezzel et al

Encyclopedia of nesting birds in Europe. Includes large format colour photo for each species and detailed descriptions of biology, behaviour, migration, distribution and ....

Geographic Variation and Evolution in Birds

Festschrift for Ned K. Johnson

Carla Cicero and JV Remsen

Gewöll- und Rupfungskunde

Robert März

Reprint of the thrid edition (1987) of the classic identification guide for raptor and owl pellets and feathers. ....

Newman's Birds By Colour

Southern Africa's Common Birds Arranged by Colour

Kenneth Newman

This new edition of Newman's Birds by Colour has been updated to reflect latest name changes and now includes distribution maps for each species. It offers a quick and easy ....

Oiseaux Nicheurs de Bruxelles, 2000 - 2004

Repartition, Effectifs, Evolution

A Weiserbs and JP Jacob

Bird distribution atlas of Brussels. ....

The Red Kite

Ian Carter

Describes the history of the Red Kite and its long association with man, explaining why populations in many areas are now recovering, and providing details of the serious ....

Sand Martins

A small booklet about these little birds who fly thousands of miles to breed in Scotland each year. Covers information about ecology, migratory routes, biology and more. ....

Storm-petrels of the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Species Assembly and Diversity along Marine Habitat Gradients

Larry B Spear and David G Ainley

Vögel Koreas

Yoo Bum-joo

204 bird species of Korea are described with numerous colour photos. The descriptions include status, distribution and ecology; other chapters deal with migration and ....

The White-Cheeked Geese

Taxonomy, Ecophysiographic Relationships Biogeography, and Evolutionary Considerations, Volume 2

Harold C Hanson

The second volume includes descriptions of populations in the Mid-Continental, Intermountain and Chukchi-Bering-North Pacific Coastal Regions as well as 10 chapters on ....

Amphibians and Reptiles of Greece

ED Valakos et al

Includes identification keys, distribution maps. ....

Amphibiens et Reptiles de Wallonie

Eds. Aves-Ra nne & C.R.N.F.B.

Illustrated distribution atlas of the reptiles and amphibians of the Wallonia region of Belgium. ....

Anfibios y Reptiles del Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico / Amphibians and Reptiles of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico

Julio A Lemos-Espinal and Hobart M Smith

Anfibios y Reptiles del Estado de Coahuila, Mexico / Amphibians and Reptiles of the State of Coahuila, Mexico

Julio A Lemos-Espinal and Hobart M Smith

Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles: Numbers 841-860

SSAR

The Lives of Captive Reptiles

Hans-Gunter Petzold

This book, originally published in German, is a recognized classic on the biology of captive reptiles (and selected amphibians). In it, the author carefully summarizes an ....

Threatened Amphibians of the World

Edited by SN Stuart et al

Amphibians are facing an extinction crisis, but getting to the facts has been difficult. Threatened Amphibians of the World is a visual journey through the first-ever ....

Aquarium Atlas Photo Index 1-5

English Edition

Hans Baensch and Gero Fischer

Presents the approximately 4000 species covered by the separate Aquarium Atlas volumesin 4600 photos, with concise information on distribution, behaviour, diet and ....

Malawi Cichlids in Their Natural Habitat

Ad Konings

Major new edition, based on recent scientific research by various institutional ichthyologists and many additional SCUBA-hours by the author. Also includes a new ....

Peces del Medio Amazonas

Region de Leticia

German Galvis et al

An identification guide and handbook to the fishes of the Amazon in southern Colombia. Each of the approximately 350 species is described in detail, with a colour photo. An ....

600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color

WF Kirby

Reproduced directly from a rare original edition, this book reveals the exquisite hues and shapes of butterflies and moths on 61 colour plates. ....

Advances in Heteroptera Research

Festschrift in Honor of 80th aniversary of Michail Josifov

Edited by S Grozeva and N Simov

Collection of 33 papers. ....

Control of Pests and Weeds by Natural Enemies

An Introduction to Biological Control

Mark Hoddle, Ted Center and Roy Van Driesche

Biological control - utilizing a population of natural enemies to seasonally or permanently suppress pests - is not a new concept. The cottony cushion scale, which ....

The Crustacea, Revised and Updated from the Traité de Zoologie, Volume 3

Edited by J Forest, JC von Vaupel Klein and M Charmantier

The third volume contains chapters on Neuroanatomy, Neurohormones, Embryology, and Relative Growth and Allometry. ....

Les Crustacés Isopodes de la Manche

Alain Livory

Field guide to the 73 species of marine, brackishwater and terrestrial isopods of the French department Manche in Normandy. ....

Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Zygoptera

Illustrated Keys to Known Families, Genera, and Species in South America

Charles W Heckman

Zygoptera completes the two volume work on the order Odonata in the Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects. ....

Entomologia Generalis Special Issue: Pollinator Behaviour and Plant-Insect Interactions II

Edited by Lars Chittka

The second Special Issue devoted to Pollinator Behaviour and Plant-Insect Interactions contains 12 peer-reviewed papers. ....

Entomologia Generalis Special Issue: Pollinator Behaviour and Plant-Insect Interactions I

Edited by Lars Chittka

This special volume of Entomologia Generalis, guest-edited by Professor Lars Chittka, London, is dedicated to Pollinator Behaviour and Plant-Insect Interactions. It contains ....

Faszinierende Kannibalen

Die Gottesanbeterin und ihr natürlicher Lebensraum

Monika Fellinger and Richard Fellinger

Preying Mantids in colour photos. ....

Insect Resistance Management

Biology, Economics and Prediction

Edited by David W Onstad

Insects, mites, and ticks have a long history of evolving resistance to pesticides, host-plant resistance, crop rotation, pathogens, and parasitoids. Insect resistance ....

Der Kosmos Libellenführer

Die Arten Mitteleuropas sicher bestimmen

Heiko Bellmann

Photo identification guide to 85 species of dragonfly in Europe. ....

The Metalwing Demoiselles (Neurobasis and Matronoides) of the Eastern Tropics

Bert Orr and Matti Hämäläinen

The metalwing demoiselles of the eastern tropics include 14 species in two genera of calopterygid damselflies, distributed from Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the west, to ....

The Moths of Hertfordshire

The History, Status, Distribution and Phenology of the Micro and Macro-Lepidoptera of a South-Eastern English County

Colin W Plant

Includes all 1523 species of macro and micro-moths recorded in Hertfordshire. ....

Orthoptera of the Japanese Archipelago in Colour

Edited by A Ichikawa, Y Kano, M Kawai, O Tominago and T Murai

Treasure of Russian Shells: Volume 8

Roman V Egorov

The Zephyrus Hairstreaks of the World

Hiroshi Fujita

Dinosaurs

A Field Guide

Steve Brusatte

Take a journey through the prehistoric world and trace the evolution of the most astonishing creatures ever to have walked the earth. Over 200 giant-sized and superbly ....

Facies from Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations

Edited by Emmanuelle Vennin, Markus Aretz, Frederic Boulvain and Axel Munnecke

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs

Soft Tissues and Hard Science

Phillip Manning

Drawing upon the cutting edge techniques developed by the dinosaur mummy team, Manning takes the reader on a chronological tour of the handful of dinosaur mummies that have ....

Paleopalynology

Alfred Traverse

This book provides complete coverage of all aspects of the study of all fossil palynomorphs yet studied. It is a profusely illustrated treatment. The book serves both ....

Nudibranch Encyclopedia

Catalogue of Asia/Indo - Pacific Sea Slugs

Neville Coleman

The most comprehensive photo-guide to Sea Slugs of the Asia/Indo-Pacific region. Species are alphabetically arranged by family, genus and species in line with the Zoological ....

Beyond the Hoax

Science, Philosophy and Culture

Alan Sokal

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled: 'Transgressing the Boundaries: ....

The Canon

The Beautiful Basics of Science

Natalie Angier

Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off childish things - science museums, an interest in palaeontology - in favour of art galleries, ....

Collins Need to Know? Digital SLR Photography

John Freeman

Digital SLR cameras constitute the fastest growing area in the digital camera market, and this practical and accessible guide will give amateur photographers all the ....

Dry Store Room No. 1

The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Richard Fortey

Dry Store Room No. 1 is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of ....

Earth: The Power of the Planet - DVD

This landmark BBC series uses specialist imaging and compelling narrative to tell the life story of our planet, how it works, and what makes it so special. Examining the ....

Global Environmental History

10,000 BC to AD 2000

IG Simmons

Courses which deal with environmental history have long lacked an overview: a book which looks at the long-term history of environment and humanity, have considered the whole ....

Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs

The Question of Alien Minds

David McFarland

When we interact with animals, we intuitively read thoughts and feelings into their expressions and actions - it is easy to suppose that they have minds like ours. And as ....

James Van Allen

The First Eight Billion Miles

Abigail Foerstner

Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for ....

Picturing Animals in Britain

c. 1750-1850

Diana Donald

From fine art paintings by such artists as Stubbs and Landseer to zoological illustrations and popular prints, a vast array of animal images was created in Britain ....

The Plundered Forests

John Blower

John Blower's fourth book describes his time spent in the 1970s in South-East Asia working on a UN funded project to save the endangered forests and wildlife. The ....

Practical Mystic

Religion, Science and A.S. Eddington

Matthew Stanley

Science and religion have long been thought incompatible. But nowhere has this apparent contradiction been more fully resolved than in the figure of A. S. Eddington ....

Seeing Through Illusions

Making Sense of the Senses

Richard Gregory

Visual illusions have the capacity to both puzzle and delight: whether the swirling colours and vibrations that appear from simple concentric patterns, or surreal tricks of ....

The Sixth Extinction

Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind

Terry Glavin

Terry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented, catastrophic vanishing of animals, plants, and human cultures. He argues that the language of ....

A Woman in the Great Outdoors

Adventures in the National Park Service

Melody Webb

Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year-long career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy. As a woman, she was working in ....

Your Inner Fish

A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body. Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able ....

African Adventurer's Guide: Mozambique

Travelling All Major Routes and Gravel Tracks

Olivier Willie

Mozambique offers travellers a irresistible array of scenic attractions, from palm-fringed beaches lining sweeping bays, to pristine coral reefs and high inland ....

Africans

The History of a Continent

John Iliffe

In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally ....

Botswana: Light on a Delta

Olivier Michaud

Photos of the Okavango delta, the Savuti plains, from Chobe to the sulpherous expanses of Makgadikgadi. ....

Byrd's Line: A Natural History

Stephen Conrad Ausband

In 1728, William Byrd, master of Westover plantation, undertook a journey with a troop of surveyors to determine the exact boundary between North Carolina and Virginia. He ....

Collins Complete Guide to British Wildlife

A photographic guide to every common species

Paul Sterry

A comprehensive and heavily illustrated guide to every species of British wildlife, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for nature enthusiasts. ....

Exploring Woodland: East Anglia & North Thames

Edited by Woodland Trust

Exploring Woodland is a series of guides from The Woodland Trust that describe and illustrate beautiful woodland sites - both publicly owned and private - in different ....

Exploring Woodland: The Northeast & Yorkshire

Edited by Woodland Trust

Exploring Woodland is a series of guides from The Woodland Trust that describe and illustrate beautiful woodland sites - both publicly owned and private - in different ....

Exploring Woodland: The Northwest & The Lake District

Edited by Woodland Trust

Exploring Woodland is a series of guides from The Woodland Trust that describe and illustrate beautiful woodland sites - both publicly owned and private - in different ....

Golden Wings and Hairy Toes

Encounters with New England's Most Imperiled Wildlife

Todd McLeish

This book profiles fourteen of New England's most rare and endangered flora and fauna - mammals, birds, insects, plants, and fish - by following the biologists who are ....

Natural Histories: Stories From the Tennessee Valley

Stephen Lyn Bales

In sixteen essays, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales ventures far and wide among the richly diverse flora and fauna of his native Tennessee Valley. ....

Nature's Top 40

Mike Dilger

The Nature Top 40 as voted for on BBC TV. ....

Sahyadris

India's Western Ghats - A Vanishing Heritage

Sandesh Kadur and Kamal Bawa

On the Malabar Coast of Southern India, along the Arabian Sea, lies a range of mountains known as the Western Ghats, or Sahyadris. Far more ancient than the larger and ....

Studies on Some Ethnomedicinal Crustaceans, Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals in Relation to their Usage as Drugs Among the Tribals of Sundarban, West Bengal, India.

SC Majumder and A Dey

The present paper deals with medicinal importance of Crustacea, Fishes, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals and their uses as drugs by the tribal people of Sundarban. This work also ....

West Maui

A Natural History Guide

Angela Kay Kepler

West Maui: A Natural History Guide provides nature lovers with essential ....

Algae and Human Affairs

Edited by Carole A Lembi and J Robert Waaland

Algae and Human Affairs provides a comprehensive survey of the major roles of algae in present and future human life. This detailed synthesis is divided into four sections. ....

Alternaria

An Identification Manual

Emory G Simmons

Standard reference for those needing to have critical access to Alternaria literature and taxonomic information. ....

The Benthic Marine Algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with Emphasis on the Apia District

Posa A Skelton and G Robin South

A Brief History of the Gymnosperms

Classification, Biodiversity, Phytogeography and Ecology

JM Anderson, CJ Cleal and HM Anderson

A global synthesis of gymnosperm families, fossil and extant, providing a new and distinctive perspective on the macroevolutionary biodiversity trends within this group ....

Collins Complete Guide to British Trees

A photographic guide to every common species

Paul Sterry

This easy-to-use guide covers the 360 species of tree that are found in Britain & Ireland. Each species is covered in detail with information on how to identify, whether ....

Collins Complete Guide to British Wild Flowers

A photographic guide to every common species

Paul Sterry

A complete photoguide to all the wild flowers of Britain. There are 1039 main entries, which include wildflowers, shrubs, aquatic plants, grasses, sedges and rushes. A ....

Conserving Plant Genetic Diversity in Protected Areas

Edited by J Iriondo

Conservation in protected areas has focused on preserving biodiversity of ecosystems and species, whereas conserving the genetic diversity contained within species has ....

Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible

James A Duke

Readers have come to depend on Jim Duke's comprehensive handbooks for their ease of use and artful presentation of scientific information. Following the successful format of ....

Epimediums and Other Herbaceous Berberidaceae

David G Barker

A new and revised edition of this popular booklet. David Barker introduces the Berberidaceae family and describes the species and cultivars of Epimedium and other ....

Festschrift to Wolfgang Frey - a Scientist's Life Between Deserts and Rain Forests

Edited by Harald Kürschner, Tanja Pfeiffer and Michael Stech

Flora Iberica, Volume 15: Rubiaceae to Caprifoliaceae

Edited by JA Devesa, R Gonzalo and A Herrero

The Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra: Volume 5, Part 1

Edited by TA Cope

This is the second published volume in this series. It is devoted to the grasses and includes accounts of approximately 470 species arranged in 20 tribes, accompanied by ....

Flores de Alta Montaña de los Andes Patagonicos / High Mountain Flowers of the Patagonian Andes

Marcela Ferreyra, Cecilia Ezcurra and Sonia Clayton

Field guide to the high mountain plants of the Patagonian Andes of southern Chile and Argentina. It includes descriptions and colour photographs of 170 species, with ....

Genetics and Genomics of Cotton

Andrew H Paterson

A few members of the Gossypium (cotton) genus are cultivated for the production of elongated single-celled fibers valued worldwide at about $20 billion annually at the ....

The Great Cacti

Ethnobotany and Biogeography

David Yetman

Towering over deserts, arid scrublands, and dry tropical forests, giant cacti grow throughout the Americas, from the United States to Argentina - often in ....

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 34

Edited by Jules Janick

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

An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees

350 Plants Observed at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland

Melanie Choukas-Bradley

This volume is an exquisitely illustrated guide to 350 eastern woodland wildflowers and trees found on site at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. The text describes each plant's ....

Mineral Nutrition and Plant Disease

Edited by Lawrence E Datnoff, Wade H Elmer and Don M Huber

This comprehensive book examines how mineral nutrition affects plant disease. Minerals improve the overall quality and health of plants. Knowing how each individual mineral ....

Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

SE Smith and DJ Read

The roots of most plants are colonized by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza, which play a critical role in the capture of nutrients from the soil and therefore in plant ....

Onions and Other Vegetable Alliums

JL Brewster

This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of the successful text, Onions and Other Vegetable Alliums, relates the production and utilization of these familiar and ....

Penstemons

David Way

This booklet covers the history of Penstemons in cultivation, describes the many species and hybrid cultivars in detail and includes several colour photographs. Cultivation, ....

Peony Rockii and Gansu Mudan

Will McLewin and Dezhong Chen

Introduction to these beautiful garden shrubs. ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 30

Edited by Jules Janick

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of ....

Plant Virus Evolution

Marilyn J. Roossinck

This book provides a comprehensive look at the field of plant virus evolution. Individual chapters, written by experts in the field, cover plant virus ecology, ....

Les Racines

Face cachée des arbres

Edited by Christophe Drénou

Covers the biology and care of tree roots. ....

Seaweed Invasions

A Synthesis of Ecological, Economic and Legal Imperatives

Edited by Craig R Johnson

In recognising an urgent need to move beyond case studies and develop a conceptual synthesis, the scope of this volume is broad, covering the principal elements of both ....

The Study of Plant Disease Epidemics

Laurence V Madden, Gareth Hughes and Frank van den Bosch

Plant disease epidemics, caused by established and invasive pathogen species, continue to impact a world increasingly concerned with the quantity and quality of its primary ....

Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms

Edited by R Hell, C Dahl, D Knaff and Th Leustek

Sulfur is one of the most versatile elements in life due to its reactivity in different oxidation and reduction states. In phototrophic organisms, the redox properties of ....

Systematik der Blütenpflanzen (Systematics of Angiosperms)

Theodor CH Cole and Harmut H Hilger

This poster presents the evolutionary relationships among flowering plants in a clear, concise, and didactically useful manner - modern angiosperm systematics based on ....

Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (The Former USSR)

SK Czerepanov

Contains a list of all the vascular plants to be found in the vast territory of the former USSR, comprising over 22,000 species and subspecies of wild, naturalised and ....

Veldgids Nederlandse Flora

Henk Eggelte

A new, easier-to-use identification method has been applied in this guide covering all Dutch wild-life plants. Conveniently arranged, compact keys use clearly visible ....

Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction

Edited by 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 ....

Biology

Neil A Campbell and Jane B Reece

New edition of Campbell and Reece's classic biological text. ....

Cell and Molecular Biology of Plastids

Ralph Bock

The past two decades have witnessed an enormous progress in our understanding of plastid (chloroplast) biology. Basic principles of plastid biogenesis, genome structure and ....

Complex Systems

Edited by TRJ Bossomaier and DG Green

This book explores the exciting field of complexity. It features in-depth coverage of important theoretical areas, including fractals, chaos, non-linear dynamics, artificial ....

Control of Infectious Animal Diseases by Vaccination

Edited by Alejandro Schudel and Michel Lombard

This monograph contains the proceedings from the International Conference on the Control of Infectious Animal Diseases by Vaccination held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in April ....

Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis

Edited by Ronald Fayer

From the microscopic observation of infection to the wide-spread application of molecular techniques in taxonomy and epidemiology, to the genome sequencing of two major ....

Fundamentals of Biochemistry

Life at the Molecular Level

Donald Voet, Judith Voet and Charlotte Pratt

"Fundamentals of Biochemistry" challenges readers to learn the chemical concepts that underlie both classical biochemical theory as well as the latest developments in the ....

Genetics

A Conceptual Approach

Benjamin Pierce

Based on the author's 27 years of teaching experience, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Third Edition, builds upon features that have made past editions so successful: an ....

Guide to Antimicrobial Use in Animals

Luca Guardabassi, Lars Jensen and Hilde Kruse

This is the first book to offer practical guidelines on the prudent and rational use of antimicrobials in animals. It draws on multidisciplinary expertise to offer independent ....

Integrated Principles of Zoology

Cleveland Hickman, Larry S Roberts, Allan Larson and Helen L'Anson

Emphasizing the principles of evolution and zoological science, this best-selling text describes the diversity of animal life and the fascinating adaptations that enable ....

Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals

Edited by M Appleby, V Cussen, L Garces, L Lambert and J Turner

Long-distance transport can cause both physical and mental problems in animals and promoting animal welfare will be beneficial to both the animals and the agricultural and ....

Microbiology: Principles and Explorations

J Black

Completely revised and updated, this book will help readers experience the exciting world of microbiology while highlighting key concepts and details. Black's enthusiasm, ....

Pseudomonas

Model Organism, Pathogen, Cell Factory

Edited by Bernd H.A Rehm

Concise and up-to-date, this handy guide fills a gap in the literature by providing the essential knowledge for everyone with an interest in the topic. The result is a ....

Psychrophiles

From Biodiversity to Biotechnolgy

Rosa Margesin, Franz Schinner, Jean-Claude Marx and Charles Gerday

The majority of the Earth's biosphere is cold and exposed to temperatures below 5C throughout the year. Having evolved special mechanisms to overcome the life-endangering ....

Ribozymes and RNA Catalysis

David MJ Lilley and Fritz Eckstein

The discovery that RNA could act as a macromolecular catalyst in the cell, signified a paradigm shift in molecular biology. Ribozymes and RNA Catalysis takes the reader ....

Big Brain

The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence The Future of Human Intelligence

Gary Lynch and Richard Granger

This title offers a radical and groundbreaking look at the future of brain engineering. The authors are forerunning scholars in the future of brain engineering, memory ....

Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton

Edited by M Anne Katzenberg and Shelly R Saunders

This is the market-leading reference and textbook dealing with the scientific analysis of human skeletal remains recovered from archaeological sites. This book is titled `The ....

Creationism's Trojan Horse

The Wedge of Intelligent Design

Barbara Forrest and Paul R Gross

This carefully documented expose of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement contributed to the stunning victory in Federal court of eleven Dover, PA, parents who recognized ID's ....

Diseases and Human Evolution

Ethne Barnes

Recent interest in new diseases, such as HIV / AIDS and Ebola, and the resurgence of older diseases like tuberculosis have fostered questions about the history of human ....

Evolutionary Phonology

The Emergence of Sound Patterns

Juliette Blevins

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette ....

Mismatch

Why our world no longer fits our bodies

Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson

Our bodies and body processes evolved to allow our ancestors the best chance of survival as hunter-gatherers in the Savannah. Our brains, on the other hand, have evolved ....

Survival

The Survival of the Human Race

Edited by Emily Shuckburgh

This fascinating and accessible book examines the survival of the human race from a broad range of viewpoints. Through in-depth examinations of a number of very distinct ....

Antarctic Ecology, Part 1 and Part 2

From Genes to Ecosystems

Edited by AD Rogers, E Murphy, A Clarke and N Johnston

The latest discoveries in Antarctica's evolutionary biology ranging from single genes to entire ecosystems are described eloquently in this volume. A continent uniquely ....

Branching Processes

Variation, Growth, and Extinction of Populations

Patsy Haccou, Peter Jagers and Vladimir A Vatutin

Biology takes a special place among the other natural sciences because biological units, be they pieces of DNA, cells, or organisms, reproduce more or less faithfully. As for ....

Resource Ecology

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Foraging

Edited by Herbert H.T Prins and Frank Langevelde

This multi-author book deals with `resource ecology', which is the ecology of trophic interactions between consumers and their resources. Resource ecology is perhaps the most ....

Unnatural Landscapes

Tracking Invasive Species

Ceiridwen Terrill and Gary Paul Nabhan

Louisiana crawfish, cheatgrass, Russian thistle, Hottentot figs, rats, and sweet fennel. These and dozens of other seemingly benign flora and fauna have become some of the worst ....

Arid Dune Ecosystems

The Nizzana Sands in the Negev Desert

Edited by SW Breckle, Aaron Yair and Veste Maik

Sand dune dynamics plays a key role in many arid deserts. This volume provides a synthesis of a specific sand dune ecosystem, the Nizzana site in the Negev Desert. ....

The Biology of Coastal Sand Dunes

Anwar Maun

Coastal zones are becoming increasingly topical (and politically sensitive) as they face relentless pressures from urban expansion, recreational development and sea level rise ....

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems

Principles and Practices

Peter Newman and Isabella Jennings

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they ....

Community-Based Coastal Observing in Alaska

Aleutian Life Forum 2006

Reid Brewer

In this proceedings book, coastal monitoring experts describe their programs to readers who are concerned about coastal ecosystems on the verge of change. Find out about ....

Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape

Long-term Research in the Bornhoved Lake District, Germany

Otto Franzle, L Kappen, Hans-Peter Blume and K Dierssen

This volume provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhoved Lake District as a representative landscape of northem Germany. The emphasis is on the ....

The Everglades Experiments

Lessons for Ecosystem Restoration

Curtis Richardson

Covering more than 4,300 square miles in Southern Florida, the Everglades are the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. It has been designated an ....

Forest Products and Bioenergy

Future Opportunities in Nordic Countries and North America

Edited by Lauri Hetemäki, Roger Sedjo and Risto Seppälä

Today, four countries - Canada, Finland, Sweden and the USA - account for up to 35-55% of the world output of forest products. Yet, faced with globalisation, ....

High Value Grassland

Providing Biodiversity, a Clean Environment and Premium Products

Edited by JJ Hopkins, AJ Duncan, DI McCraken, S Peel and JRB Tallowin

Proceedings, BGS/BES/BSAS Conference, Keele University, Staffordshire, 17th - 19th April 2007. ....

Landscapes Under Pressure

Theory and Practice of Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation

Edited by Ludomir Lozny

There is a growing realization that human intent and activity are not easily separated from natural forces in the shaping of landscapes. The pervasive Western dichotomy of ....

Large Rivers, Vol. 161 No. 3-4

Eva Acs, Keve T Kiss and Judit Padisak

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers, Hungary Balatonf~red Sept. 12-16, 2006. ....

A Natural History of Quiet Waters

Swamps and Wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic Coast

Curtis J Badger

Swamps today are recognized as one of the richest and most prolific natural systems on Earth. ....

Plant Litter

Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration

B Berg and C McClaugherty

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition of Plant Litter focuses on decomposition processes in natural terrestrial systems such as boreal and temperate ....

The Ribbon of Green

Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern United States

Robert H Webb, Stanley A Leake and Raymond M Turner

Woody wetlands constitute a relatively small but extremely important part of the landscape in the southwestern United States. These riparian habitats support more than ....

Soil Essentials

Managing Your Farm's Primary Asset

Roger Hall

"Soil Essentials" is a practical reference for farmers and land managers in Australia and covers the problems that are commonly encountered at the farm level. It explains the ....

Sustainable Urban Development, Volume 3

The Toolkit for Assessment

Edited by Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin and Stephen Curwell

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for ....

Taking the Air

Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks

Paul Kopas

Although natural resource management is a major concern in recent Canadian policy literature, analysts have devoted little attention to parks and protected areas. "Taking ....

CITES Handbook CD-ROM

CITES

The CITES Handbook has been compiled to provide to the Parties to CITES and the wider CITES community the most essential texts for the implementation of the Convention in one ....

Conservation - 4 volume set

William M Adams

This 4-volume set, edited by a leading expert on nature conservation, brings together in one collection a series of papers fundamental to understanding the social, political, ....

Conservation Biology

Foundations, Concepts, Applications

Fred Van Dyke

Drawing on his experience as a conservation biologist, college teacher, and successful textbook author, Van Dyke's organizational clarity and readable style make this book an ....

Hearing a Different Drummer

A New Paradigm for the "Keepers of the Forest"

IIED

It is becoming increasingly apparent that virtually all aspects of diversity are in steep decline. Indigenous knowledge systems, biodiversity and cultural diversity (three ....

Participatory Learning and Action 54

Mapping for Change: Practice, Technologies and Communication (Multilingual Version)

IIED

Co-published by IIED and CTA, the CD-ROM contains PDF versions of the theme articles from Participatory Learning and Action 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies ....

Air Pollution in Europe 1990-2004

The report 'Air pollution in Europe 1990-2004' analyses changes in air pollutant emissions and their possible health or ecosystem impacts in Europe. The report covers ....

Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

The BACC Author Team

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent ....

Bioclimatologie

Concepts et Applications

Sane De Parcevaux and Laurent Huber

The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Sea

Meltem Deniz Güner-Ozbek

The carriage of goods by sea mainly focuses on loss of or damage to goods. There are voluminous discussions and texts on this issue. By contrast, the issue of loss or damage ....

Climate Action

UNEP

Climate Action is an international communication platform established by Sustainable Development International in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme ....

Designing Green Landscapes

Edited by Klaus von Gadow and Timo Pukkala

Von Gadow and Pukkala's unique, Designing Green Landscapes, presents the latest thinking in adaptive management for forest ecosystems. Based on the `multiple path' principle, ....

Ecological Economics of the Oceans and Coasts

Edited by Murray Patterson and Bruce Glavovic

'This book covers a wide spectrum of issues of practical significance to those concerned about the state of the world's oceans. Its principle contribution is to bring ....

The Economic Impact of Climate Change in Namibia

How climate change will Affect the Contribution of Namibia's Natural Resources to its Economy

IIED

The IPCC recognises Africa as a whole to be "one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change because of multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity". ....

Environmental Forensics

RE Hester and RM Harrison

Offers an overview of environmental forensics and related topics. The authors explore topics including source identification issues, microbial techniques, metal contamination ....

Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

Christopher J Barrow

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. ....

Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-carbon Economy

How to Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets

As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming - first at the state level and eventually through a national program - credits for ....

An Introduction to the Dynamics of El Nino & the Southern Oscillation

Edited by Allan Clarke et al

Many scientists either working on the El Ni~o /Southern Oscillation (ENSO) problem or its many applications have not been trained in the equatorial ocean and atmospheric ....

Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health

Health and Climate

Ricardo Garcia-Herrera and Martin Beniston

Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new research and experience and fears of climate change ....

The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment

Towards a More Systematic Approach

Thomas B Fischer

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a fast-growing and rapidly evolving professional field driven by advances in theory and method, as well as by regulatory ....

The Voluntary Carbon Offsets Market

An Analysis of Market Charateristics and Opportunities for Sustainable Development

Elizabeth Harris

Originating in negotiations for the United Nations Kyoto Protocol, a global carbon market has recently evolved. A number of distinct markets are encompassed within its ....

Advances in Geophysics, Volume 48

Advances in Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Earth

Edited by Ru-Shan Wu and Valerie Maupin

Advances in Geophysics, Volume 49

Edited by Renata Dmowska

Earth

Portrait of a Planet

Stephen Marshak

Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Third Edition, emphasizes active student learning with a new chapter format, interactive media, and the power and insight of Google ....

Earthships

Building a Zero Carbon Future for Homes

Mischa Hewitt and Kevin Telfer

Architecture is undergoing rapid change as the issues of climate change and cutting carbon emissions in buildings become more and more widely understood. The earthship is a ....

Enduring Geohazards in the Caribbean

Moving from the Reactive to the Proactive

Serwan MJ Baban, Angella Cropper, Keith Tovey, Serwan MJ Baban et al

Landslides and flooding in the Caribbean are destructive, endemic forces that destroy homes, businesses and schools, cost millions of dollars annually and kill hundreds of ....

Geography

A Very Short Introduction

John A Matthews and David T Herbert

Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical ....

Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities

Pankaj S Joshi

Physical phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology involve gravitational collapse in a fundamental way. The final fate of a massive star when it collapses under its own ....

Hipparcos, the New Reduction of the Raw Data

Floor van Leeuwen

The new reduction of the Hipparcos data presents a very significant improvement in the overall reliability of the astrometric catalogue derived from this mission. Improvements ....

In the Mountains of Saint Francis

The Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth

Walter Alvarez

The major new work by the best-selling author of "T. Rex and the Crater of Doom" - a fascinating exploration of the earth's history. ....

It's Only Rocket Science

An Introduction to Space Enthusiasts

Lucy Rogers

'Space tourism' is becoming a reality. Ordinary people around the world are starting to wonder if they could really go to space and what it would be like - among them, many ....

Molecules and Models

The Molecular Structures of Main Group Element Compounds

Arne Haaland

This book provides a systematic description of the molecular structures and bonding in simple compounds of the main group elements with particular emphasis on bond distances, ....

Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry

Edited by John Daintith

Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition of this popular dictionary is the ideal reference resource for students of chemistry, either at school or at university. With ....

Physics and Chemistry of Ice

Edited by Werner Kuhs

"Physics and Chemistry of Ice" is an authoritative summary of state-of the-art research contributions from the world's leading scientists. A key selection of submissions from ....

Adaptive Co-management

Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-level Governance

Derek Armitage, Fikret Berkes and Nancy Doubleday

In Canada and around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive processes, feedback ....

Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond

Proceedings of the 11th IAPTC and B Congress, August 13-18, 2006 Beijing, China

Zhihong Xu, Jiayang Li, Yongbiao Xue and Weicai Yang

Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond is a collection of papers presented at the XIth international congress of the International Association of Plant ....

Classical Biological Control of Bemisia tabaci in the United States

Edited by Juli Gould, Kim Hoelmer and John Goolsby

This book reviews the interagency research and development effort on classical biological control in the USA from 1992-2002. The successful exploration, importation, ....

Conservation and Biodiversity Banking

A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading Systems

Ricardo Bayon, Jessica Fox and Nathaniel Carroll

The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, ....

Effective Judicial Protection and the Environmental Impact Assessment

Directive in Ireland

Aine Ryall

This work is concerned with enforcement of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) directive in Ireland, and by extension, in the EU more widely. As a case study it delves ....

Energy for Sustainability

Technology, Planning, Policy

John Randolph and Gilbert M Masters

"Energy for Sustainability" is the first undergraduate textbook on renewable energy and energy efficiency with a unique focus on the community scale. Written by two of the ....

The Environmental Movement

Liz Sonneborn and Tim McNeese

"The Environmental Movement" introduces readers to this significant movement, which arose in the United States in the late 1800s in response to the nation's dwindling ....

Ethics, Hunger and Globalization

In Search of Appropriate Policies

Edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Peter Sandoe

Ethics, Hunger and Globalization adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and ....

Fair Deals for Watershed Services in the Caribbean

IIED

The reliability of water supply in the Caribbean varies between islands, but it is consistently the poor who receive the worst service. The problem is compounded by ....

Farming in a Changing Climate

Agricultural Adaptation in Canada

Ellen Wall, Barry Smit and Johanna Wandel

Canadian farming has evolved under the influence of climate and weather - a process that continues with climate change. In farming systems across the country, effective risk ....

Global Challenges in Recreational Fisheries

Edited by Oystein Aas

Recreational or sports fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide and in many countries represents an important social and cultural activity. In some regions, it also ....

A Handbook of Environmental Management

Jon Lovett and David Ockwell

Presents a range of case studies that demonstrate the complementary application of different social science techniques in combination with ecology-based management ....

Human Development Report 2007/2008

Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World

United Nations Development Programme

'The Human Development Report 2007/2008 comes at a time when climate change-long on the international agenda-is starting to receive the very highest attention that it merits. ....

Integrated Pest Management for Crops and Pastures

Paul A Horne and Jessica Page

This book describes in straightforward language what is required for farmers to successfully implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in cropping and grazing ....

International Ecopolitical Theory

Critical Approaches

Eric Lafierre and Peter J Stoett

Few serious scholars or policymakers believe that the connection between environmental problems and International Relations (IR) can be ignored. The need to explore the links ....

Journeys of Discovery in Volunteer Tourism

International Case Study Perspectives

Edited by KD Lyons and S Wearing

The fast-growing phenomenon of volunteer tourism encompasses a diverse range of activities, from conserving environments to working with host communities to alleviate ....

Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability

Geir B Asheim

In 1987 the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) introduced the concept of sustainable development into the political agenda. The notion ....

A Legacy for Living Systems

Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics

Jesper Hoffmeyer

Gregory Bateson's contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and ....

Measuring Innovation in OECD and NON-OECD Countries

Selected Seminar Papers

Edited by M Scerri et al

It is widely accepted that innovation is key to economic growth. Countries where research and innovation are high on the national agenda are best suited to prosper in ....

Micronutrient Deficiencies in Global Crop Production

Edited by Brian J Alloway

A deficiency of one or more of the eight plant micronutrients (boron, chlorine, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel and zinc) will adversely affect both the yield and ....

Organic Aquaculture: The Emergence of a New Sustainable Industry

Deborah Brister

Although aquaculture is one of the world's fastest growing food sectors, the industry has lagged behind general agriculture in the production of certified organic products. ....

Pests of Field Crops and Pastures

Identification and Control

Peter Bailey

"Pests of Field Crops and Pastures" is the first comprehensive handbook on economic entomology for Australian field crops and pastures. It encompasses pest and beneficial ....

Plan B 3.0

Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Lester R Brown

Recommendations for a more sustainable future by a leading American thinkers and environmental lobbyist. ....

Recirculating Aquaculture

MB Timmons and JM Ebeling

Handbook covering the practical application of aquacultural engineering and how to design, construct and manage an aquatic ....

Regionalization of Watersheds

An Approach Based on Cluster Analysis

AR Rao and VV Srinivas

Design of water control structures, reservoir management, economic evaluation of flood protection projects, land use planning and management, flood insurance assessment, and ....

Transport and Environment: On the Way to a New Common Transport Policy

TERM 2006

The TERM 2006 report examines the environmental performance of the transport sector and finds that it is still unsatisfactory. There is a need to intensify efforts to improve ....

Understanding Nature

Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology

H Zwart

Comparative epistemology is the discipline that tries to assess, in a critical manner, the relative validity and value of various forms of knowledge. We tend to identify ....

Understanding the Costs of Environmental Regulation in Europe

Michael MacLeod

Government regulation is necessary to the economic life of all developed countries. However, although regulation is designed to benefit society at large, the costs of ....

Valuing the Environment in Small Islands

An Environmental Economics Toolkit

Pieter van Beukering, Luke Brander, Emma Tompkins and Emily McKenzie

Money speaks louder than words. Putting a monetary value on environmental and social impacts usually increases the chance of these impacts being taken into account in ....

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

A fascinating glimpse of what would happen to the earth if humans vanished today, forever. What would be the legacy of our time on the planet? How quickly would all ....

Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods

P Sprent

While preserving the clear, accessible style of previous editions, this fourth edition reflects the latest developments in computer-intensive methods that deal with ....

Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications

Edited by Martin Dodge and Mary McDerby

Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is a `state of the art' review of the latest developments in the subject, that examines how new concepts, ....

Modeling and Simulation of Biological Networks

Reinhard C Laubenbacher

It is the task of computational biology to help elucidate the unique characteristics of biological systems. This process has barely begun, and many researchers are testing ....

Theory and Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics

Shiyi Shen and Jack A Tuszynski

This monograph addresses, in a systematic and pedagogical manner, the mathematical methods and the algorithms required to deal with the molecularly based problems of ....

Career Opportunities in Conservation and the Environment

Paul Greenland and AnnaMarie L Sheldon

Conservation and environmental jobs account for between 1 and 3 percent of total U.S. employment, and educational options for this field have grown significantly in recent ....

Zoolexicon (Zo-Oh-Lek'-Si-Kon) N.

A Comprehensive Reference of Animal Terms and Words Across the English Speaking World

Warren Garst

A one-volume source for terms referring to mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. It has two major divisions: ....