Elephant Reflections

Karl Ammann and Dale Peterson

"Elephant Reflections" brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of ....

Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex

Edited by Dean Falk and Kathleen Gibson

Studies of brain evolution have moved rapidly in recent years, building on the pioneering research of Harry J. Jerison. This book provides reviews of primate ....

Exmoor Ponies

Survival of the Fittest ; A Natural History

Sue Baker

Copiously illustrated with photographs and exquisite line drawings, this fascinating book tells the story of a truly remarkable survivor. ....

A Field Guide to Indian Mammals

Vivek Menon

India has a rich mammal fauna including elephants, rhinos and the much sought-after tiger, but there are many other species to be found there,many of them more conspicuous ....

The Lesser Horseshoe Bat

Conservation Handbook

HW Schofield

This handbook draws together ideas for modifying, enhancing and creating roosts for lesser horseshoe bats based upon the experience of The Vincent Wildlife Trust over more ....

Ontogeny, Functional Ecology and Evolution of Bats

Edited by Rick A Adams and Scott C Pederson

The study of animal development has deep historical roots in codifying the field of evolutionary biology. In the 1940s evolutionary theory became engulfed by analyses of ....

The Sheep-guarding Dog of Abruzzo

P Breber

The Author describes the dog kept and bred by the shepherds of mountainous Abruzzo in Italy to repel wolves and bears from their flocks. The way it behaves and works, its ....

About Indian Birds

Including Birds of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Pakistan & Bangladesh

Salim Ali and Laeeq Futehally

With beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations and lithographs, this is an ideal companion for not just amateur bird-watchers and wildlife enthusiasts but also seasoned ....

As Aves de Timor-Leste

Burung-Burung di Timor-Leste / The Birds of Timor- Leste

Colin R Trainor, Brian J Coates and K David Bishop

Comprehensive field fuide to the 261 bird species recorded in Timor-Leste. Text in Portuguese, Indonesian and English, covering identification, relative abundance, ....

Aves do Cerrado

Birds - Cerrado

Edson Endrigo

Third volume in the series of photographic art books on the birds of the different regions of Brazil. Contains 100 species with photo and short description in English and ....

Bibliographie d'Ornithologie Française, Tome 3: 1981 - 1990

Yves Muller

The third volume of the bibliography contains 5670 references, and 53 additions to the previous two volumes. ....

Biologia de la Conservacion del Aguila Imperial Iberica / Conservation Biology of the Spanish Imperial Eagle

Luis Mariano Gonzalez and Antoni Margalida

Outlines the conservation efforts between 1989 and 2004. See more detailed information under the "Contents" section. ....

Bird Ringing

A Concise Guide

Dawn Balmer, Liz Coiffait, Jacquie Clark and Rob Robinson

2009 sees the celebration of 100 years of bird ringing in Britain & Ireland, and this guide highlights some of the major achievements of the Scheme over that time. ....

Birds of Central Asia, Volume 1

Edited by AK Rustamov and AF Kovshar

First of five volumes to be published. The first volume of the monograph contains data on the distribution and biology of 119 birds species from 14 orders: Gaviiformes, ....

Birds of Northwest Ecuador, Volume 1: The Upper Foothills and the Subtropics - CD Set

Olaf Jahn, John V Moore et al

Revised edition of the CD published in 1999 by Moore et al. Contains almost all of the original recordings, about 700 new recordings, and 23 additional species. It includes ....

Birds of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Niels Krabbe

460 recordings of 135 species (including 16 of the 17 endemic species) found in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, a mountain massif separated from the Andes and ....

Birdscapes

Birds in our Imagination and Experience

Jeremy Mynott

What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant ....

The Breeding Birds of Cleveland

A Tetrad Atlas 1999 - 2006

Edited by Graeme Joynt, James Victor Fairbrother and Parker Ted

An account of the history, status and distribution of the birds breeding in the former County of Cleveland, England. ....

Conservacion Colombiana 1: Threatened Parrots Part 1 / Loros

Amenazados de Colombia: Parte 1

Fundacion ProAves

This publication contains a series of interesting articles about threatened parrot species occurring in Colombia and conservation initiatives to protect them. Topics ....

Conservacion Colombiana 2: Threatened Parrots Part 2 / Loros

Amenazados de Colombia: Parte 2

Fundacion ProAves

This special edition of Conservacion Colombiana contains details of Fundacion ProAves' pioneering work to save the critically endangered Yellow-eared Parrot from extinction. ....

Conservacion Colombiana 3: Studies and Conservation in the Churumbelos Mountains / Estudios y Conservacion en la Serrania de los Churumbelos

Fundacion ProAves

This special edition of Conservacion Colombiana includes the results from a series of UK/Colombian biological expeditions from 1998-2001 to the Churumbelos mountains of ....

The Endemic Birds of Madagascar - DVD Set

Guy Eldridge

This 4-DVD set features 130 endemic species, filmed over a period of 6 months. Running time: 5 hours. ....

Garden Birds of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur

Samar Singh

The 'golden triangle' of India - Delhi, Agra and Jaipur is as rich and diverse in its bird life as it is in its culture and tradition. The gardens and adjacent water bodies ....

Harriers

Journeys Around the World

Don Scott

Until recently harriers were one of the least known group of birds but after an in-depth study of the Hen Harrier in Northern Ireland, Don Scott succeeded in his passion to ....

Identification Guide to North American Birds: Part 2

Anatidae to Alcidae

Peter Pyle

Eagerly awaited second part of the identification guide to aid ornithologists in ageing and sexing of birds. ....

Important Bird Areas in the Caribbean

Key Sites for Conservation

Edited by David C Wege and Veronica Anadon-Irizarry

The aim of this publication is simple - in a rational, scientifically robust way, it puts the spotlight on a Caribbean ....

Invisible Connections

Why Migratory Birds Need the Yellow Sea

J van de Kam, PF Battley, BJ McCaffery, DI Rogers, JS Hong et al

"Invisible Connections" is a wonderful photographic journey that follows the migration of shorebirds flying from their breeding grounds in the Arctic through East Asia to ....

Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus Evening Rafting Behaviour Around Colonies on Skomer, Rum and Bardsey

Its Spatial Extent and Implications for Recommending Seaward Boundary Extensions to Existing Colony Special Protection Areas in the UK

CA McSorley, LJ Wilson, TE Dunn, C Gray, BJ Dean, A Webb and JB Reid

The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) provides a legislative framework for the protection, management and control of naturally occurring wild birds of EU Member States. As part of ....

The Numbers of Inshore Waterbirds using the Firth of Forth During the Non-Breeding Season, and an Assessment of the Area's Potential for Qualification as a Marine SPA

N Dawson, I Sohle, LJ Wilson, BJ Dean, A Webb and JB Reid

The Firth of Forth is known to support large numbers of inshore waterbirds, particularly over the winter period. Some intertidal areas and islands within the Firth of Forth are ....

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

Roger Tory Peterson

In celebration of the centennial of Roger Tory Peterson's birth comes a historic collaboration among renowned birding experts and artists to preserve and enhance the ....

RSPB Handbook of British Birds

Interactive Edition

Peter Holden and Tim Cleeves

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the best selling RSPB Handbook of British Birds. This unique guide provides a `biography' of each of the 300 commonest ....

RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds

Peter Holden and Stuart Housden

In this new book, the text, maps and plates of the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds have been adapted to create a brand new book specific to Scotland and its rich ....

Rare Birds Yearbook 2009

The World's 190 Most Threatened Birds

Erik Hirschfeld

Rare Birds Yearbook covers all 190 Critically Endangered species of the world and is based on scientific facts and produced annually in close ....

Atlas der Amphibien und Reptilien Oberösterreichs

Werner Weissmair and Johannes Moser

Atlas of 27 Amphibians and Reptiles found in Upper Austria. Includes introductory chapters and bibliography. ....

Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards

Daniel D Beck

First comprehensive biological reference on the surviving species of Monstersauria for nearly 50 years. A must buy for all those fascinating by these extraordinary lizards. ....

Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 20, Morphology H: The Skull of Lepidosauria

Edited by Carl Gans, Abbot S Gaunt and Kraig Adler

This extensively illustrated volume summarizes the skulls of lizards, snakes, and tuatara. As such, it will be of interest to zoologists and herpetologists but also to ....

Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 21, Morphology I: The Skull and Appendicular Locomotor Apparatus of Lepidosauria

Edited by Carl Gans, Abbot S Gaunt and Kraig Adler

This extensively illustrated volume summarizes the skulls and appendicular skeletons of lizards, snakes, tuatara, and amphisbaenians. As such, it will be of interest to ....

Fauna Sinica: Amphibia, Volume 2: Anura

Fei Liang

This is the second volume of Fauna Sinica Amphibia. In this volume 180 species including 4 new species and 16 sub-species in 6 families of Anura are described. ....

Field Guide to Reptiles of Victoria

John Coventry and Peter Robertson

This guide is intended primarily as a means of identifying any reptile occurring naturally within Victoria, Australia. It expands on a previous book, The Snakes of ....

Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree

Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles

Jonathan B Losos

Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single ....

Behavior of Marine Fishes

Edited by P He

Understanding fish behavior in relation to potential commercial capture methods is of fundamental importance to reducing commercial bycatch and marine fisheries conservation ....

The Diversity of Fishes

Gene S Helfman, Bruce B Collette and Douglas E Facey

The second edition of The Diversity of Fishes represents a major revision of the world's most widely adopted ichthyology textbook. Expanded and updated, the second edition is ....

Do Fish Feel Pain?

V Braithwaite

Biologist Victoria Braithwaite examines the question of fish pain and fish welfare, explaining how new research shows fish to be more intelligent and responsive than we ....

Early Life History of Marine Fishes

Bruce S Miller and Arthur W Kendall Jr

The life cycles of fishes are complex and varied, and knowledge of the early life stages is important for understanding the biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes. ....

Little Book of Sharks

Louise Malo

This interesting and informative Little book is packed full of facts and figures about one of the world's most feared creatures. From Great Whites to Basking sharks, this ....

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes (Agnathans and Bony Fishes)

Phylogeny Reproductive System Viviparity Spermatozoa

Edited by Barrie GM Jamieson

It is perhaps because fishes live in a buoyant medium, whether it be fresh or sea water, that they show a diversity in body shapes that is unparalleled by other vertebrates. ....

Sharks and Rays of Australia

Peter Last and John D Stevens

The waters around Australia, the world's smallest continent, are home to the greatest diversity of sharks and rays on Earth. Fully 100 of these sea creatures (along with ....

Amazing Facts about Australian Insects and Spiders

Patrick Honan

This book is packed full of information and you'll be amazed at how much you learn about Australia's insects and spiders by scuttling through the remarkable facts presented. ....

Arthropods of Tropical Forests

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Resource Use in the Canopy

Edited by Yves Basset, Roger Kitching, Scott Miller and Vojtech Novotny

Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. ....

Atlas of Butterflies in Highland and Moray

David Barbour, Stephen Moran, Tony Mainwood and Bill Slater

This atlas documents the distribution of 30 species of butterflies in the period 1980 - 2007 in the area covered by Highland Branch of Butterfly Conservation. It presents a ....

Beetles of Thailand

Pisuth Ek-Amnuay

This second edition contains 509 species as compared to the first edition which included only 362 species and subspecies. ....

Biological Control of Tropical Weeds using Arthropods

Rangaswamy Muniappan, Gadi Reddy and Anantanarayanan Raman

Weeds are a major constraint to agricultural production, particularly in the developing world. Cost-efficient biological control is a self-sustaining way to reduce this ....

Butterflies of the Cayman Islands

RR Askew and PA Stafford

This book will enable the identification of each of the 57 species of butterfly that has been recorded from the Cayman Islands. There is a description of every butterfly, ....

Les Cahiers Magellanes Hors-serie, Volume 28

Trois Nouvelles Espèces de Cetoniinae des Célèbes

Jean-Philippe Legrand

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 77

Un Nouveau Pseudodeltaspis Originaire du Nicaragua

Alain Audureau

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 80

Neues zur Taxonomie von Cerambycen der Athiopischen Region

Karl Adlbauer

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 81

Novas Especies de Disteniinae Americanas

Antonio Santos Silva and Frank T Hovore

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 82

Novo Genrero de Desmiphorini com Cinco Especies Novas

Maria Helena M Galileo and Ubirajara R Martins

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 83

Description d'une Nouvelle Espèce de Prinobius Mulsant, P. samai n. sp., originaire d'Iran

Alain Drumont and Martin Rejzek

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 84

The Caledonian genus Acideres Guerin-Meneville, 1858 : systematic notes, sexual dimorphism and geographical distribution

E Vives, A Drumont, Z Komiya and D Heffern

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 85

Synonymies, Diagnoses et Bionomie de Quelques Lamiaires Africains (12e note)

Pierre Teocchi, Jerome Sudre and Eric Jiroux

Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies

J Settele et al

The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies provides recent and modelled (2050, 2080) distribution maps, a photo and data on biology and ecology for each species, and a ....

Diseases of Commercially Exploited Crustaceans

Edited by G Stentiford and J Shields

Diseases in crustaceans can be attributed to a range of causes and can impact substantially on populations of wild caught species and those ....

Distribution Geographique des Sous-Genres Actualisés du Genre Carabus

Pierre Meyer

Systematic revision of 283 species. ....

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West

Dennis Paulson

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America. Dragonflies and ....

Fauna Helvetica 16: Aphidina 2

Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha - Aphidina

Gerolf Lampel and Walter Meier

Fauna Helvetica 23: Vespoidea 1

F Amiet

Treats the families Mutillidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae and Tiphiidae. Includes identification keys. ....

The Larger Water Beetles of the British Isles

Peter Sutton

This book covers 11 species including the 6 native 'Great Diving Beetles' and the 'Silver Water Beetles'. It is copiously illustrated and has much additional information ....

Moths of Western North America

Jerry A Powell and Paul A Opler

Insects boast incredible diversity, and this book treats an important component of the western insect biota that has not been summarized before - moths and their plant ....

The Odonata Red Data List for Great Britain

Edited by C Daguet, G French and P Taylor

This report has been produced as part of the JNCC Species Status Assessment project, assigning conservation status to British flora and fauna using internationally-approved ....

Philippine Marine Shells, Volume 2

G Poppe

In this second volume the following families are superbly described: Cancellariidae, Columbellidae, Conidae, Muricidae, Olividae, Terebridae, Turridae, Volutidae. ....

Revision du Genre Anubis Thomson, 1864

Joan Bentanachs, Eduard Vives and Pierre Juhel

Six-legged Soldiers

Using Insects as Weapons of War

Jeffrey A Lockwood

The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across ....

The Social Amoebae

The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds

John Tyler Bonner

Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar ....

A Spring Without Bees

How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Michael Schacker and Bill McKibben

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the ....

Treasure of Russian Shells, Supplement 5: Illustrated Catalogue of the Recent Terrestrial Molluscs of Russia and Adjacent Countries

Roman Egorov

The Wilhelm Foissner Festschrift

Contributions on protozoology, mainly in English, some in German. ....

A Year in the Lives of British Ladybirds

Michael Majerus, Remy Ware and Christina Majerus

This book, which originated as a series of articles in the Amateur Entomologists' Society's Bug Club Magazine, recounts how we can discover British ladybirds in their ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 145

Catalogus Trilobitorum cum Figuris (Trilobites carbonici et permici, VI. Cummingellinae)

Gerhard Hahn and Renate Hahn

Holocene Extinctions

Edited by Samuel T Turvey

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic ....

Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants

Thomas N Taylor, Edith L Taylor and Michael Krings

This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae. It begins with a discussion of geologic ....

Annotated Checklist of the CITES-listed Corals of Fiji with Reference to Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa

ER Lovell and C McLardy

The objective of this report is to provide information on the occurrence, status and distribution of hard coral species of the orders of Scleractinia, Stolonifera, ....

Plankton Culture Manual

FH Hoff and T Snell

This expanded edition includes identification of microalgae used in aquaculture manual. The manual now includes use of microscope, slide preparation, measuring cells, stains, ....

Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Diatom Symposium

Held at Listvyanka, Irkutsk, Russia from 28 August - 3 September 2006 ....

Rockpool Safari

An Exploration of the Rocky Shores around Britain

Judith Oakley

Explores and explains the diversity of British rockpools. ....

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 25

Edited by Virginie Heros, Robert H Cowie and Philippe Bouchet

Anatomy of a Beast

Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot

Michael McLeod

Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American ....

Animal Migration

Remarkable Journeys by Air, Land and Sea

Ben Hoare

This spectacular guide explores the mysteries of animal migration over land, through oceans and by air. ....

Arch of Heaven

The Science and Mystery of the Rainbow

D Whitehouse

Arch of Heaven tells the remarkable story of the rainbow, a natural phenomenon that bridges our culture, mythology, art, and science. From the myths of the Incas, to the ....

The Art Instinct

Denis Dutton

The Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some ....

The Art of Peter Scott

Images from a Lifetime

Peter Scott, Philippa Scott and Keith Shackleton

It was Sir Peter Scott's wish, before his death in 1989, to see a volume of his paintings published. This wish has been carried through by Lady Scott, who has selected ....

Aspects of Nature

Animals in their Environments

Andy Rouse

Aspects of Nature builds upon the success of Andy Rouse's Concepts of Nature, using stunning artistic images combined with thought-provoking essays to ....

Attenborough: The Life Trilogy - DVD Set

David Attenborough

This fantastic Trilogy includes: Life on Earth, The Living Planet & Trials of Life, on 13 discs. ....

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science. When Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet ....

Bugs and the Victorians

JFM Clark

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects presented a particularly inviting challenge. This lively ....

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

A Field Guide to Nature Poems

John Felstiner

Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this ....

Charles Darwin in Australia

N Nicholas

Early in 1836 Charles Darwin spent two months in Australia as part of his round-the-world voyage on the Beagle. During this time, he visited Sydney, travelled on ....

A Close Up Look

Approaching Nature Through Digiscoping

Miguel Rouco et al

The aim of this book is to draw together everything that is known today about digiscoping. Step by step, with the help of diagrams, the basics of digital photography ....

The Complexity

A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the ....

Defining Moments in Science

Over a Century of the Greatest Scientists, Discoveries, Inventions and Events That Rocked the Scientific World

Andrew Impey, Mark Steer and Hayley Birch

We've come a long way from guesses at the Earth's shape (flat) and it's place in the Universe (dead centre). Thanks to ideas of pure genius and accidental realisations, we ....

The Environment and World History

Edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz

Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world ....

Islands and Lifelines

John Plummer

This book celebrates a series of journeys to some dramatic and fascinating coastal areas of Britain and Ireland with friends from across four decades. Its range of themes - ....

Little Book of the Natural World

Louise Malo

This interesting and informative Little Book is packed full of facts and figures about the world we live in. From Africa to South America it looks at habitats and environments ....

The Living Coast

An Aerial View of Britain's Shoreline

Adrian Warren, Dae Sasitorn and Christopher Somerville

Britain possesses one of the most remarkable and varied coastlines in the world, with its richness in geology and human history on display. Since the dawn of time the sea has ....

A Mathematical Nature Walk

John A Adam

How tall is that tree? How far away is that cloud, and how heavy is it? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions ....

The Medea Hypothesis

Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?

Peter Ward

In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere, one that has ....

Micrographia, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies

Robert Hooke

Hooke describes his observations of various household and biological specimens, such as the eye of a fly and the structure of plants, and became the first person to use the ....

Nature's Great Events - DVD

Witness the planet's most breathtaking natural events, and follow the dramatic wildlife stories behind them. Combining the epic cinematography of Planet Earth, with all the ....

On the Surface of Things

Images of the Extraordinary in Science

Felice Frankel and GM Whitesides

Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each ....

Science

A Four Thousand Year History

Patricia Fara

Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always ....

Stephen Jay Gould

Reflections on His View of Life

Warren D Allmon, Patricia Kelley and Robert Ross

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of ....

Wetware

A Computer in Every Living Cell

Dennis Bray

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex ....

Why I am Not a Scientist

Anthropology and Modern Knowledge

Jonathan Marks

This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, ....

The Young Charles Darwin

Influences and Ideas

Keith Thomson

What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a ....

African Safari

Into the Great Game Reserves

Peter Pickford and Beverly Pickford

An African safari is arguably one of the most alluring and universally understood dreams of contemporary time. Just the thought of an African safari is capable of evocations of ....

Beaches and Parks in Southern California

California Coastal Commission

Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California's coast is justifiably famous, yet, as this essential guide reveals, it offers more to see and do than even its ....

Falklandscapes

Tony Chater

This is an exhibition of Tony Chater's work spanning three decades. The images, covering all of the islands, have been arranged in the form of a natural history. Many feature ....

Features of the Shropshire Hills: The Stiperstones and Long Mead

Boardman

Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Shropshire Hills extend from the Wrekin to the Clun Forest, and from Stapeley Common to the Clee Hills. This dramatic and ....

Green Tops in Goa

Akhilesh K Sahay

A pocket guide to the birds and wildlife sanctuaries in Goa. Presented in narrative form, with colour photos, this book contains a wealth of useful information for the ....

Islands

RJ Berry

Islands have incited passion throughout the ages. These 'watery lands' symbolise the eternal contrast between land and water, suggesting mystery and adventure, romanticism ....

Kamchatka: A Journal and Guide to Russia's Land of Ice and Fire

Diana Gleadhill

Why go to Kamchatka? There are no luxury hotels or international spas; no jolly pubs or swanky wine bars and even if there were glamourous beach resorts there are almost no ....

Kinabalu - The Haunted Mountain of Borneo

An Account of its Ascent, its People, Flora and Fauna

CM Enriquz

First published in 1927, Kinabalu: The Haunted Mountain of Borneo still enthralls readers with the exploits of early-day explorers of Kinabalu. This account follows ....

Managing Scotland's Environment

Charles Warren

Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - ....

Natural Protest

Essays on the History of American Environmentalism

Michael Egan and Jeff Crane

From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. ....

Natural and Cultural History of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica

Contributions deal with subjects as diverse as flora, fauna, geology, conservation and biodiversity, and ecotourism. ....

Notebooks from New Guinea

Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist

V Novotny

This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a ....

Rewilding the West

Restoration in a Prairie Landscape

Richard Manning

'The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command,' begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven ....

Tabin

Sabah's Greatest Wildlife Sanctuary

Wendy Hutton

The largest protected wildlife area in Sabah, Tabin Wildlife Reserve is home to an exceptional array of Borneo's rare and endangered species. The Sumatran or Pygmy ....

Wild Animals of Singapore

A Photographic Guide to Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes

Nick Baker and Kevin Lim

The Vertebrate Study Group of Nature Society (Singapore) has launched a photographic guide to mammals, reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fishes of Singapore called `Wild ....

Zoologica Neocaledonica, Volume 6: Biodiversity Studies in New Caledonia

Edited by Philippe Grandcolas

This volume comprises 11 contributions on insects, with the descriptions of more than 80 species and 10 genera previously undescribed for New Caledonia. ....

Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Container Gardening

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. This title offers expert advice on hanging baskets, window ....

Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Garden Design

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. This title covers everything from the initial planning of ....

Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Vegetables and Herbs

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these practical guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Learn all the tricks to grow vegetables from seed, maintain ....

American Chestnut

The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

Susan Freinkel

The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees - a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth ....

Botânica Sistemática

Guia ilustrado para identificaçao das familias de Fanerogamas nativas e exoticas no Brasil, baseado em APG II

Vinicius C Souza and Harri Lorenzi

Expanded edition of the identification guide, now covers 224 families of seed plants found in Brazil, with colour photographs of the principal genera. ....

California Plant Families

West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts

Glenn Keator and Margaret J Steunenberg

Interest in California's beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state's vast and varied ....

Chocolate

History, Culture, and Heritage

Louis E Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro

Chocolate. We all love it, but how much do we really know about it? In addition to pleasing palates since ancient times, chocolate has played an integral role in culture, ....

Comparative Plant Virology

Roger Hull

Comparative Plant Virology provides a complete overview of our current knowledge of plant viruses including background information on plant viruses and up-to-date aspects ....

Directions for the Gardiner and Other Horticultural Advice

John Evelyn

John Evelyn is best known today for his Diary, second only in reputation to that of his friend and fellow-diarist, Samuel Pepys. In his own day he was famous for Sylva , his ....

Eden

Tim Smit

With passion and commitment thousands of "small" people built the Eden Project in Cornwall as a symbol of hope in action...We may all have feet of clay, but that ....

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 13, Part 1: Asparagaceae, Behniaceae, Agavaceae, Anthericaceae, Alliaceae, Agapanthaceae, Amaryllidaceae

Edited by Jonathan Timberlake

Flora und Vegetation des Sauwaldes und der Umgrenzenden Täler von Pram, Inn und Donau - 40 Jahre später

Franz Grims

The Forager Handbook

A Guide to the Edible Plants of Britain

Miles Irving

At any time, in any place, food is there for the taking - if only we knew how and where to look. Miles Irving makes his living out of foraging - in this ....

Gardeners

Encounters with Exceptional People

Diana Ross

Gardening writer Diana Ross visits twenty gardens and interviews their owners, including Roy Lancaster, Thomas Pakenham, Lady Salisbury, Beth Chatto and James Lovelock. She ....

The Green Garden Expert

DG Hessayon

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an ....

A History of the Gardens of Versailles

Michel Baridon and Adrienne Mason

The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. The scale of the gardens is monumental, with a sense of openness to the horizon. They express the spirit ....

Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa, Band 6, Teil 2A: Cucurbitaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Adoxaceae, Valerianaceae und Campanulaceae

Edited by Gustav Hegi and Gerhard Wagenitz

Introduction to Bryophytes

Alain Vanderpoorten and Bernard Goffinet

Bryophytes were a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly ....

The Lentil

Botany, Production and Uses

W Erskine, F Muehlbauer, A Sarker and B Sharma

Though of ancient origin, the lentil is today very much a crop of the modern world confronted with issues of food security, poverty, water scarcity and the need to find ....

The New Oxford Book of Food Plants

John G Vaughan and Catherine A Geissler

The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical ....

Palms of Southern Asia

Andrew Henderson

Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm ....

Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology

Park S Nobel

The functioning of all living systems obeys the laws of physics in fundamental ways. This is true for all physiological processes that occur inside cells, tissues, organs, ....

Plant Growth

Interactions with Nutrition and Environment

Edited by JR Porter and DW Lawlor

Nutrition is a major environmental factor in regulating plant growth, and is therefore of significant practical concern to agriculturalists and ecologists. In order to achieve ....

Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

Genomics and Molecular Biology

Edited by RW Jackson

Bacteria pathogenic for plants are responsible for devastating losses in agriculture. The use of antibiotics to control such infections is restricted in many countries due to ....

Plastid Biology

Kevin Pyke

Plastids reside in all plant cells, and take on different forms in relation to their cellular function, biochemistry and storage capacity. The modern era of molecular ....

RHS Plant Finder 2009-2010

Royal Horticultural Society

Find the right plants for your garden with the 2009-10 edition of RHS Plantfinder from the experts at the RHS. Whatever plant you are looking for, your'll find it: with over ....

Recueil des Plantes Utilisees en Medecine Traditionelle Congolaise Province de l'Equateur, Volume 1

Paul Latham

Resource Strategies of Wild Plants

Joseph M Craine

Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses. These ....

Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South California and the Eastern United States

Patrick McMillan

The Wild Flowers of the Isle of Purbeck, Brownsea and Sandbanks

Edward A Pratt

The Isle of Purbeck is the richest area in Britain for its size for wild flowers. So what better place to get to see them? This book directs you to precise localities where ....

Animal Encounters

Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini

The fast-growing field of Animal Studies is a varied and much contested domain. Engagement with animals has encouraged both collaboration and conflict between ....

Annelids as Model Systems in in the Biological Sciences

Daniel H Shain

Annelids offer a diversity of experimentally accessible features making them a rich experimental subject across the biological sciences, including evolutionary development, ....

Cellular Signal Processing

An Introduction to the Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction

Friedrich Marks, Karin Muller-Decker and Ursula Klingmuller

"Cellular Signal Processing" is intended for use in signal transduction courses for undergraduate and graduate students. It offers a unifying view of cell signaling that is ....

The Chemistry of Life

Eight Lectures on the History of Biochemistry

Edited by Joseph Needham

This assembly of lectures, each on a major aspect of the development of biochemistry, should appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the nature of ....

The Death of the Animal

A Dialogue with Commentaries

Paola Cavalieri

Cavalieri begins with a Socratic dialogue on the status of animals between two imagined philosophers, representing the analytical and continental traditions. They discuss the ....

Debating Human Genetics

Alexandra Plows

This book examines contemporary public debate on emerging developments in medical genetics, including cloning, gene therapy, gene patenting, biobanks, genetic testing and ....

Essential Cell Biology

Bruce Alberts et al

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to cell biology. It is intended for a first course in cell biology that emphasizes fundamental concepts. The new edition of ....

Genetics

Analysis and Principles

Robert J Brooker

Genetics: Analysis and Principles is a one-semester, introductory genetics textbook that takes an experimental approach to understanding genetics. By weaving one or two ....

Life as it is

Biology for the Public Sphere

William F Loomis

This concise, accessible book considers from a biological perspective the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered evolution, cooperativity, and the ....

The Little Book of Dangerous Animals

Louise Malo

The Little Book of Dangerous Animals invites the reader into the various 'worlds' of these predators and discovers which are the most deadly of them all. ....

Macromolecules

Walter Gratzer

Macromolecules are, in a sense, life itself. DNA is one of these giant molecules, as are the proteins that govern the workings of the human body. Yet macromolecules also ....

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Edited by Gary Mullen and Lance Durden

For medical, veterinary, entomology and public health students, this acclaimed textbook has been fully updated and revised to reflect the most recent advancements. Each chapter ....

Microbial Production of Biopolymers and Polymer Precursors

Applications and Perspectives

Edited by BH Rehm

A huge variety of biopolymers, such as polysaccharides, polyesters, and polyamides, are naturally produced by microorganisms. These range from viscous solutions to plastics and ....

Praise of Chromosome Folly

Confessions of an Untamed Molecular Structure

Antonio Lima-de-Faria

When examined carefully at the molecular level, the chromosome turns out to have created its own private world full of tricks, back door exits and novel solutions. This folly ....

Principles of Genetics

D Peter Snustad and Michael J Simmons

Snustad provides scientists with the confidence to apply problem solving to the major principals of genetics. It eases them into the art of problem solving by integrating ....

Sequence Alignment

Methods, Models, Concepts, and Strategies

Edited by Michael S Rosenberg

The sequencing of the human genome involved thousands of scientists but used relatively few tools. Today, obtaining sequences is simpler, but aligning the sequences - making ....

The Smartest Animals on the Planet

Extraordinary Tales of the Natural World's Cleverest Creatures

Sarah Boysen

We have all heard talk of the intelligence of dolphins, elephants or great apes, or even, in different ways, ants and bees. But what is this intelligence all about? How do ....

Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Systems and Processes

Edited by Muhammad H Zaman

Cells are complex objects, representing a multitude of structures and processes. In order to understand the organization, interaction and hierarchy of these structures and ....

Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology

Pengcheng Fu, Martin Latterich and Sven Panke

The genomic revolution has opened up systematic investigations and engineering designs for various life forms. Systems biology and synthetic biology are emerging as two ....

Vibrio Cholerae

Genomics and Molecular Biology

Edited by Shah M Faruque and G Balakrish Nair

The last decade has witnessed the unravelling of remarkable new insights into the biology of Vibrio cholerae. These include the discovery of the filamentous phage that ....

Archeology of a Central Saharan Granitic Ring Complex in Niger

Adrar Bous

This monograph presents climatic, geochronological, radiometric, and archaeological evidence for hominin activities around the Adrar Bous massif on the western edge of ....

Clonality

The Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution of Sexual Abstinence in Vertebrate Animals

John Avise

Approximately 99.9% of vertebrate species reproduce sexually. The exceptional 0.1% reproduce via asexual or clonal means, which vary wildly and are fascinating in their ....

Darwin's Universe

Evolution from A to Z

Richard Milner, Stephen Jay Gould and Ian Tattersall

This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly ....

Endless Forms

Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Diana Donald and Jane Munro

Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow ....

Evolution & Ethics

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the most prominent proponents of evolutionary theory of the late nineteenth century. A close companion of Charles Darwin, Huxley ....

Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Joan Roughgarden

Fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates explaining how this diversity ....

First Peoples in a New World

Colonizing Ice Age America

David J Meltzer

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how ....

Forms of Becoming

The Evolutionary Biology of Development

Alessandro Minelli

What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or "evo-devo") answers this fundamental question by ....

The Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

Joan Roughgarden

Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? ....

The History of Life

A Very Short Introduction

Michael J Benton

There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from ....

The Making of the Fittest

DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

Sean B Carroll

DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of ....

Not a Chimp

The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human

J Taylor

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct ....

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the "Beagle"

Charles Darwin and Ruth Padel

This title is presented with an introduction by Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, Ruth Padel. When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board ....

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Steven Shennan

This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ....

Primates and Philosophers

How Morality Evolved

Frans De Waal

In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our ....

Remarkable Creatures

Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

Sean B Carroll

In 1809, when Darwin was born, much of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our knowledge of the past was nonexistent, and our picture of our species' history little ....

Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems

Alan F Dixson

Comparative analyses of the anatomy, reproductive physiology, and behaviour of extant primates and other mammals can offer important insights into the origins of human sexual ....

The Balance of Nature

Ecology's Enduring Myth

John Kricher

The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ....

Critical Transitions in Nature and Society

Marten Scheffer

How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive ....

Evolutionary Physiological Ecology

P Calow

Physiological ecology is concerned with the way that physiological traits fit organisms for the ecological circumstances in which they live, so there is always an implicit ....

Invasive Species Management for Infrastructure Managers and the Construction Industry (C679)

O Booy, M Wade and V White

Business and industry need to respond to the challenge of invasive plants and animals, the cost of which, both economical and environmental, has increased dramatically in ....

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators

Matt W Hayward and Michael Somers

Large predators are among the most threatened species on the planet and ways of conserving them in the face of increasing human populations and associated resource ....

Conflict Resolution in Coastal Zone Management

Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Nils Brandt, Dorte Krahn and Ronald Wennersten

In view of the importance of coastal areas to Baltic countries, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a matter of prime concern. ICZM is also an important feature of the ....

Defining Concepts of Ecosystem Structure and Function for UK Marine Monitoring

MRAG & UNEP-WCMC

This report documents the current debate on the use of the concepts of ecosystem structure and function to assist development of marine ecosystem monitoring in UK waters ....

Ecology of Cities and Towns

A Comparative Approach

Mark McDonnell, Jurgen Breuste and Amy Hahs

The unprecedented growth of cities and towns around the world, coupled with the unknown effects of global change, has created an urgent need to increase ecological ....

Encyclopedia of Islands

Rosemary G Gillespie and David A Clague

Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ....

Global Environmental Forest Policies

An International Comparison

C McDermott et al

This book provides a uniquely detailed and systematic comparison of environmental forest policies and enforcement in 20 countries worldwide, covering developed, transition and ....

Global Glacier Changes: Facts and Figures

UNEP

Glaciers are a critical component of the earth' system and the current accelerated melting and retreat of glaciers have severe impacts on the environment. "Global Glacier ....

Glossary of Arboricultural Terms 2009

ISA

This pocketsized glossary contains approximately 1,000 arboricultural terms in a convenient, spiralbound format. ....

Human Impacts on Salt Marshes

A Global Perspective

Brian R Silliman, Mark D Bertness and Edwin D Grosholz

Salt marshes are vitally important coastal ecosystems that filter water, buffer against storm erosion, and provide essential nursery habitat for important fishery species. Long ....

Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape

Committe on Hyrdrologic Impacts of Forest Management

Of all the outputs of forests, water may be the most important streamflow from forests provides two-thirds of the United States' clean water supply. Removing forest cover ....

Mid Irish Sea Reefs Habitat Mapping Report

M Dalkin

The aim of this research contract was to improve understanding of the habitats and communities present in an area of the Irish Sea. To investigate and characterise the ....

Rainforest of Tropical Australia

Ecosystem Guides

Damon Ramsey

This guide helps you explore the beautiful rainforests that grow in Queensland, as well as across northern Australia, and onto many of the surrounding islands. ....

Stadtnatur

Eine Neue Heimat fur Tiere un Pflanzen

Josef H Reichholf

Examines the ecology of urban environments. ....

Tectonically Active Landscapes

William Bull

Landscapes are mainly hillslopes with streams occupying less than 10% of drainage-basin areas. This book emphasizes tectonic geomorphology of hills, and treats the network of ....

Valuable Broadleaved Forests in Europe

H Spiecker, S Hein, K Makkonen-Spiecker and M Thies

Valuable broadleaved tree species offer options for increasing ecological, economic and social values and contribute to sustainability of forestry in Europe and other parts of ....

Wetland Ecosystems

William J Mitsch, James G Gosselink and Li Zhang

Responding to the growing importance of, and interest in, wetland ecosystems, here is a complete introduction to wetland ecosystem types and modeling. Drawn from Bill Mitsch's ....

World Atlas of Mangroves

Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma and Lorna Collins

This atlas provides the first truly global assessment of the state of the world's mangroves. Written by the leading expert on mangroves with support from the top ....

Conservation and Politics

Power, Organization Building and Effectiveness

David Johns

Despite many successes in the field of conservation, species extinction rates continue to climb and wild areas and habitats continue to be lost. Many look to more (or better) ....

Conservation in the Soviet Union

Philip R Pryde

First published in 1972 this was a systematic and comprehensive survey in English of resource management in the former Soviet Union, analysing attitudes and accomplishments ....

Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges

KN Ninan, Jeffrey A McNeely, Charles Perrings, Clem Tisdell and T Swanson

This is the most comprehensive book to address the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity. It covers a wide range of issues such as ....

Key Biodiversity Areas of the Seychelles Islands

Justin Gerlach

The 115 Seychelles islands cover an area of over a million square kilometres in the western Indian Ocean, lying within the Madagascar region biodiversity hotspot. 6,500 ....

Population Genetics for Animal Conservation

Giorgio Bertorelle, Michael W Bruford, C Chemini, HC Hauffe and C Vernesi

It is widely accepted among conservation biologists that genetics is, more than ever, an essential and efficient tool for wild and captive population management and reserve ....

Spatial Conservation Prioritization

Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools

Edited by Atte Moilanen, Kerrie A Wilson and Hugh Possingham

Habitat loss and deterioration, climate change, and economic pressures for resource extraction have all led to a global loss of biodiversity. The limited resources ....

The Big Thaw

Travels in the Melting North

Ed Struzik

For over a year, veteran journalist Ed Struzik traveled north, through Alaska, Canada's Arctic territories, and Greenland, observing the receding glaciers, dwindling herds, and ....

Biochar for Environmental Management

Science and Technology

Johannes Lehmann and Stephen Joseph

The unique properties of black carbon-rich soils have only recently been recognized and international efforts have significantly increased to utilize this knowledge to improve ....

Biofouling

Edited by Simone Durr and J Thomason

Biofouling (the unwanted colonisation of a substrate in aquatic environments by a diverse array of organisms) is almost always a problem ....

The Carbon Footprint Wars

What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?

Stuart Sim

Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem currently facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific ....

Climate Action

Getting Greener: Getting Slimmer and Going Digital

UNEP & SDI

This second edition of Climate Change is separated into four sections, the first three mirrors the thematic building blocks laid out by the Bali Action Plan in 2007, which ....

Climate Change

The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

EA Mathez

Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the volume introduces the ....

Climate Change and Adaptation

Edited by N Leary, J Adejuwon, V Barros, I Burton, J Kulkarni and R Lasco

While climate change mitigation is vital, it is clear that the world must also begin to adapt but how best can this be achieved? ....

Climate Change and Aviation

Issues, Challenges and Solutions

Stefan Gossling and Paul Upham

Trends such as the massive growth in availability of air travel and air freight are among those which have led to aviation becoming one of the fastest growing emitters of ....

Climate Change and Vulnerability

Edited by Neil Leary, Cecilia Conde, Jyoti Kulkarni, Anthony Nyong and Juan Pulhun

Many parts of the developing world are subject to variable and extreme climate, the impacts of which impede development and point to the need to improve the understanding ....

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests

The Eliasch Review

Johan Eliasch

An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year. Forestry is responsible for a fifth of global carbon emissions - more than the entire world ....

Corporate Responses to Climate Change

Achieving Emissions Reductions Through Regulation, Self-regulation and Economic Incentives

Rory Sullivan

Corporate Responses to Climate Change has been written at a crucial point in the climate change debate, with the issue now central to economic and energy policy in many ....

Earth Under Fire

How Global Warming Is Changing the World

Gary Braasch

More than a warning, Earth under Fire is the most complete illustrated guide to the effects of climate change now available. It offers an upbeat and intelligent account of ....

Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Past

A Guide to Techniques in Historical Seismology

Emanuela Guidoboni and John Ebel

This handbook defines the discipline of historical seismology by detailing the latest research methodologies for studying historical earthquakes and tsunamis. It describes ....

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change

NRC Committee on Ecological Impacts of Climate Change

The world's climate is changing, and it will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond. Rising temperatures, new precipitation patterns, and other changes ....

Environmental Challenges in the Pacific Basin

David O Carpenter

This volume addresses issues related to the threats to human health from exposure to environmental pollutants in the Pacific Region, including how to reduce the production ....

Environmental Surface Chemistry

Interfaces from the Nano-scale to the Global Scale

Patricia A Maurice

Based on the author's 15 years of teaching water-rock interactions and tried and tested in the classroom, "Environmental Surface Chemistry" covers everything from the theory of ....

Estuaries

Dynamics, Mixing, Sedimentation and Morphology

David Prandle

This volume provides researchers, students, practising engineers and managers access to state-of-the-art knowledge, practical formulae and new hypotheses for the dynamics, ....

The Fate of Turfgrass Nutrients and Plant Protection Chemicals in the Urban Environment

Mary T Nett, Mark J Carroll, Brian P Horgan and A Martin Petrovic

Recent policy decisions aimed at improving and safeguarding regional surface and subsurface water quality often result in activities at state and local levels to ....

The Garnaut Climate Change Review

Final Report

Ross Garnaut

Professor Ross Garnaut was commissioned by all of the Governments of Australia's Federation to examine the impacts of climate change on Australia and to recommend policy ....

Global Warming

The Complete Briefing

John T Houghton

John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full colour and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change. Written for students ....

Global Warming for Dummies

Elizabeth May and Zoe Caron

"Global Warming For Dummies" sorts out fact from fiction, explaining the science behind climate change and examining the possible long-term effects of a warmer planet. This ....

Hydroclimatology

Perspectives and Applications

Marlyn L Shelton

Hydroclimatology provides a systematic structure for analysing how the climate system causes time and space variations (both global and local) in the hydrologic cycle. ....

Laser Scanning for the Environmental Sciences

George Heritage, Martin Charlton and Andy Large

This book collates a series of invited peer reviewed papers presented at the conference on geoinformatics and LIDAR held at the National Centre for Geocomputation based in the ....

Oceans - DVD

BBC

What lies below the frozen Arctic ice-sheets? Or in the black holes under the Caribbean Sea? ....

Voluntary Carbon Markets

An International Business Guide to What They are and How They Work

Edited by Ricardo Bayon, Amanda Hawn and Katherine Hamilton

This updated edition draws together all of the key information on international voluntary carbon markets with commentary from leading practitioners and business people. ....

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Michael Brooks

Will we ever find the ninety-six percent of the universe that is missing? Will tomorrow bring an answer to the scientific mysteries of today? While taking readers on an ....

The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century (IAU S252)

Edited by L Deng and KL Chan

Stellar models are the very basic building blocks with which we build up our knowledge of the Universe. New numerical experiments are heralding a new level of sophistication ....

Astronomical Spectrographs and Their History

JB Hearnshaw

Astronomical spectrographs analyse light emitted by the Sun, stars, galaxies and other objects in the Universe, and have been used in astronomy since the early nineteenth ....

Broad-Scale Biotope Mapping of Potential Reefs in the Irish Sea (North-West of Anglesey)

V Blyth-Skyrme, C Lindenbaum, E Verling, K Van Landeghem and K Robinson

The aim of this study was to investigate an area identified as potentially containing bedrock, stony or biogenic reef, protected habitats listed under Annex I of the EU ....

Building Scientific Apparatus

John H Moore, Christopher C Davis, Michael A Coplan and Sandra C Greer

Unrivalled in its coverage and unique in its hands-on approach, this guide to the design and construction of scientific apparatus is essential reading for every scientist and ....

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas

James Mullaney

This magnificent atlas contains the most attractive and interesting double and multiple stars for viewing with binoculars and telescopes. It is a must-have for stargazers who ....

Chemical Biology

Learning Through Case Studies

H Waldmann and Petra Janning

This first book to adopt a problem-based approach teaches the true basics of the subject through illustrated everyday case studies. The editor's extensive experience in writing ....

Cometography: Volume 4, 1933-1959

A Catalog of Comets

Gary W Kronk

Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history. It uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the distances from the Earth and Sun at ....

The Cosmic Connection

How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth

Jeff Kanipe

In this sweeping tour of the cosmos and our place within it, acclaimed science writer Jeff Kanipe shows the many ways we are connected to the vast universe we inhabit. Long ....

Cows in the Maze

And Other Mathematical Explorations

Ian Stewart

From the mathematics of mazes, to cones with a twist, and the amazing sphericon - and how to make one - Ian Stewart is back with more mathematical stories and puzzles that ....

Death from the Skies!

These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .

Philip Plait

A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universeas most fascinating events. According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse ....

The Earth

Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution

Harold Jeffreys

This is a digital reprint of the revised 1976 edition of this classic work. ....

Finding Moonshine

A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry

Marcus du Sautoy

This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures ....

Finding the Big Bang

Edited by PJames E Peebles, Bruce Partridge and Lyman A Page

Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background ....

For the Rock Record

Geologists on Intelligent Design

Jill S Schneiderman and Warren D Allmon

According to the idea of intelligent design, nature's complexity is the result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date, most scientific arguments ....

Geological Fluid Dynamics

Sub-surface Flow and Reactions

Owen M Phillips

This book is the long-awaited successor to Owen Phillips's classic textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991. In the intervening 18 years between ....

Geological History of Greenland

Four Billion Years of Earth Evolution

Niels Henriksen

The mountains and fjords of Greenland preserve a record of nearly four billion years of Earth history - a story of mountain building, volcanic eruptions, primitive life and ice ....

Hubble

Imaging Space and Time

David H DeVorkin and Robert Smith

World authorities on the history of astronomy - David Devorkin and Robert Smith - reveal Hubble as an unparalleled engineering accomplishment that documents the solar system's ....

The Mysterious Universe

James Jeans

Originating from the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in November 1930, this book is based upon the conviction that the teachings and findings of ....

Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen

An Exploration of Mathematical Connections

Peter M Higgins

What do road and railway systems, electrical circuits, mingling at parties, mazes, family trees, and the internet all have in common? All are networks - either people or ....

The Num8er My5teries

A Mathematical Odyssey Through Everyday Life

Marcus du Sautoy

From the author of The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved - and on how ....

Organic Matter in Space (IAU S251)

Edited by Sun Kwok

Our knowledge of the origin, evolution, nature, and distribution of organic matter in space has undergone a revolution in recent years. Insights into various aspects of this ....

Oxford Dictionary of Physics

Edited by John Daintith

This essential A-Z is the most popular paperback dictionary of physics available. With 200 new entries, this dictionary is more comprehensive than ever. It is generoulsy ....

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

GF Nichols

This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and ....

Stars in Their Courses

Sir James Jeans

Stars in Their Courses is an introduction, originally published in 1934, to astronomy and the wonders of the universe brought to us by the technology of the telescope. The ....

The Sun Kings

The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

Stuart Clark

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around ....

A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud

Brian Harold May

The Zodiacal Light, that misty diffuse cone of light seen in the West after Sunset and the East before Sunrise, is a beautiful and intriguing phenomenon. Even though everyone ....

Through Space and Time

Sir James Jeans

Through Space and Time is based upon the 1933 Christmas Lectures that James Jeans gave at the Royal Institution, London. Intended to appeal to a wide readership and presenting ....

Totality

Eclipses of the Sun

Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak and Ken Willcox

This book takes you to eclipses of the past, present, and future, and lets you see - and feel - why people travel to the ends of the Earth to observe them. ....

The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power

Jack Hardisty

"The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power" reviews the tidal resources around the world as well as discussing the devices developed. The book presents, for the first time, ....

Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change

Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy

Edited by Anthony G Patt, Dagmar Schroter, Richard JT Klein and Ann Vega-Leinert

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international ....

Bioeconomics of Fisheries Management

L Anderson and JC Seijo

Fisheries Economics has always been an interdisciplinary field of study with economic analysis based on stock population dynamics, but many published works have focused ....

Biotechnology

John E Smith

Biotechnology is the major technology of the 21st century, yet few people realise how much it impacts on many aspects of human society. The defining aim of this new fifth ....

Character and Environment

A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics

Ronald L Sandler

Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to ....

Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Sector

Edited by Fulco Ludwig, Pavel Kabat, Henk van Schaik and Michael van der Valk

Today's climate variability already has a large impact on water supply and protection. Millions of people are affected every year by droughts and floods. Future climate change ....

A Colour Handbook of Biological Control in Plant Protection

N Helyer, K Brown and ND Cattlin

This Colour Handbook reviews the natural predators, parasites and pathogens used to control pest populations and analyses their characteristics and practical applications. ....

Conservation Psychology

Susan Clayton and Gene Myers

This textbook introduces the reader to the new and emerging field of Conservation Psychology, which explores connections between the study of human behavior and the ....

Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law

Malgosia Fitzmaurice

The central aim of this insightful book is to illuminate how many concepts in international environmental law such as the precautionary principle and sustainable ....

Conversations with Green Gurus

The Collective Wisdom of Environmental Movers and Shakers

Laura Mazur and Louella Miles

The authors bring together in one place the collected wisdom of the most influential environmental movers and shakers of our time. The collection of 'gurus' chosen consist ....

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power

Science and Industrial Agriculture in California

Christopher R Henke

Just south of San Francisco lies California's Salinas Valley, the heart of a multi-billion dollar agricultural industry that dominates U.S. vegetable ....

Disease Control in Crops

Biological and Environmentally-Friendly Approaches

Dale R Walters

The control of diseases in crops is still largely dominated by the use of fungicides, but with the increase in the incidence of resistance by plant diseases to fungicides, ....

The Eco Worrier's Handbook

Finding the Wood While Saving the Tree

Dominic Muren

Worried about saving the planet? You should be! It's not as simple as it looks, and the constant barrage of planet-saving information seems to be increasingly contradictory. ....

The Ecological Modernisation Reader

Arthur PJ Mol, David A Sonnenfeld and Gert Spaargaren

Environmental reform by governmental, intergovernmental agencies, private firms and industries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a worldwide phenomenon. This ....

Economics of Environmental Law - 2 volume set

Edited by Richard Brooks, Nathaniel O Keohane and Douglas A Kysar

The economic approach to environmental law and policy has become the dominant framework for analysing pollution, resource management and many other environmental challenges ....

Ecotourism

Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities

Stephen Wearing and John Neil

Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities analyses the impacts of mainstream tourism in first, second and third world countries, and argues the benefits of adopting ....

Environment and Food

Colin Sage

During recent years we have seen growing concern about the origin, quality and safety of our food. This text provides an accessible yet comprehensive exploration of the ways in ....

Environment, Media and Communication

Anders Hansen

Communication about `the environment' in and through a broad array of news, advertising, art and entertainment media is one of the major sources of public and political ....

Every Drop Counts

Environmentally Sound Technologies for Urban and Domestic Water Efficiency

UNEP

Water use efficiency within the context of sustainable water balance in the urban and domestic sector means optimizing safe and sufficient supply and water demand while also ....

Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2006 / Statistiques des peches et de l'aquaculture / Estadisticas de pesca y aculcultura

FAO

As the only repository for global fishing data, FAO regularly collects and analyses fisheries statistics. All the information that was traditionally distributed in three ....

Global Environmental Governance

Gabriela Kutting and Ronnie Lipschutz

This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics. It argues that the international-level, institutionalist ....

Green Economics

An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

Molly Scott Cato

The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization - all the major problems facing the world have their root ....

Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage

K Deffayes

In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. ....

The Human Right to a Green Future

Richard P Hiskes

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice. It argues that the rights to clean air, water, ....

Hydrology in Practice

Keith Beven, Nick Chappell and Rob Lamb

This fourth edition of Hyrodology in Practice, while retaining all that is excellent about the previous edition, replaces the material on the Flood Studies Report with an ....

Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice

Better Water Management for Development

Roberto Lenton and Mike Muller

Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century. The approach known as Integrated Water Resources ....

The Little Book of Green Tips

David Curnock

A useful guide to ways that consumers can improve their own carbon footprint by recycling and other useful tips to improve and adopt a more green lifestyle. With ....

Multifunctional Rural Land Management

Economics and Policies

Floor Brouwer and CMartijn van der Heide

The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts. Many interested parties, including farmers, ....

Palaeopathology

Tony Waldron

Palaeopathology is designed to help bone specialists with diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages. It suggests an innovative method of arriving at a diagnosis in the ....

Philosophy of Biology

An Anthology

Alexander Rosenberg and Robert Arp

Rapid biological advances and new standards of philosophical rigor are casting age-old questions about the nature and methodology of the biological sciences in a dramatic new ....

Policy and Strategic Behaviour in Water Resource Management

Edited by Ariel Dinar and Jose Albiac

Water resource management throughout the world is a very complicated issue, involving various aspects and dimensions and a well-coordinated set of policies. A well designed ....

State of the World 2009

Confronting Climate Change

Worldwatch Institute

This 26th edition of "State of the World" - long established as the most authoritative and accessible annual guide to our progress towards a sustainable future - looks at ....

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

Lessons from Cuba

Julia Wright

When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: ....

Sustainable Tourism Futures

Stefan Gossling, C Michael Hall and David Weaver

A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including ....

Two Billion Cars

Driving Toward Sustainability

Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon

At present, there are roughly a billion cars in the world. Yet within twenty years, the number will double to 2 billion, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive ....

Understanding Sustainability Economics

Towards Pluralism in Economics

Peter Soderbaum

This is a highly readable yet challenging book ideal for academics, students and professionals in economics, sustainability and environmental studies and policy. The ....

Water and Cereals in Drylands

P Koohafkan and BA Stewart

Cereals are by far the most important source of food throughout the world, either directly for human consumption or indirectly in the form of animal feed for livestock ....

Wind Energy - The Facts

A Guide to the Technology, Economics and Future of Wind Power

European Wind Energy Association

Wind power is often held up as the most accessible and cost-effective route to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and improving our energy independence, yet knowledge of ....

Basic Concepts in Bayesian Statistics

J Bernardo

This is an elementary introduction to the basic concepts of Bayesian statistics and mathematics as well as professional statisticians needing an overview of Bayesian ....

Biostatistical Analysis

Jerrold H Zar

An introductory textbook as well as a useful reference work, this book presents a broad collection of data analysis techniques which will address the statistical needs of the ....

Essential Mathematics and Statistics for Science

Graham Currell and Antony Dowman

"Essential Mathematics and Statistics for Science" is a low-level introduction to the essential techniques students need to understand. Little in the way of prior knowledge ....

Handbook of Sample Preparation for Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis

Patrick Echlin

This Handbook is a complete guide to preparing a wide variety of specimens for the scanning electron microscope and x-ray microanalyzer. Specimens range from inorganic, ....

An Introduction to Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution

Time and Space

Michael Gillman

Students often find it difficult to grasp fundamental ecological and evolutionary concepts because of their inherently mathematical nature. Likewise, the application of ....

How to Write a Masters Thesis

Yvonne Bui

How to Write a Masters Thesis is a comprehensive manual on how to conceptualize and write a five-chapter masters thesis, including the introduction, literature review, ....

The KML Handbook

Geographic Visualization for the Web

Josie Wernecke

KML began as the file format for Google Earth, but it has evolved into a full-fledged international standard for describing any geographic content. ....

Leading and Managing Archives and Records Programs

Strategies for Success

Edited by Bruce W Dearstyne

One of the profession's most influential thinkers has gathered thirteen prominent leaders from the USA and UK with proven track records in archives and records management ....

The Oxford Dictionary of Geography

S Mayhew and A Penny

Containing over 6,400 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography, this best-selling dictionary is the most comprehensive single-volume reference work of its ....

Writing Scientific Research Articles in English

Strategy and Steps

Margaret Cargill and Patrick DT O'Connor

This book is intended to guide authors in how to write, as well as what to write, to improve their chances of having their articles accepted for publication in ....