Behavior of North American Mammals

Mark Elbroch and Kurt Rinehart

This new addition to the Peterson Reference Guide series is highly readable and full of curious facts. For example, did you know that when an opossum plays dead it isn't ....

An Elephant's Life

An Intimate Portrait from Africa

Caitlin O'Connell

"An Elephant's Life" provides a unique and fascinating immersion into the world of the African elephant, told by a leading field biologist who has been researching and ....

Neighs and Whispers

A Study of Contact and Communication with Horses

Anahi Zlotnik

The horse is an animal that has accompanied man since the earliest times. For him, the horse has always symbolized different qualities either in his daily life, at work, ....

Societies of Wolves and Free-ranging Dogs

Stephen Spotte

Wolves are charismatic emblems of wilderness. Dogs, which descended from wolves, are models of urbanity. Do free-ranging dogs revert to pack living or are their societies ....

Underdogs: The Fight to Save South Africa's Wild Dogs

Neil Aldridge

"Underdogs: The Fight To Save South Africa's Wild Dogs" celebrates what is special about the African wild dog and looks at what makes it Africa's most efficient carnivore. With ....

Wolf

Gary Marvin

Feared, reviled and revered, the wolf has always evoked powerful emotions in humans. It has been admired as a powerful hunter; feared for the threat it is imagined to pose to ....

Australian High Country Owls

Jerry Olsen

"Australian High Country Owls" provides the latest scientific information on Australian owl species, especially Ninox owls. It details studies of Southern Boobooks and Powerful ....

Aves De Macaronesia

Azores, Madeira, Islas Canarias, Cabo Verde

Eduardo Garcia-Del-Rey

Language: Spanish ....

Bird Sense: What it's Like to be a Bird

Tim Birkhead

What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand ....

Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico

Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey

From pine forest to desert scrub, from alpine meadow to riparian wetland, Albuquerque and its surrounding area in New Mexico offer an appealing variety of wildlife habitat. ....

Birds in Ecuador

A Photographic Journey

Glenn Bartley

This book pictures 131 bird species found across four areas of Ecuador, categorized as east, west, south, and Sierra. Each photo is accompanied by the bird's common name along ....

Birds: Their Hidden World

Peter Holden

Even if you are an enthusiastic bird watcher, the details of how birds fly, why they behave as they do, how they breed and their extraordinary travels can seem very ....

Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed

An Introduction to Birdsong

Simon Barnes

Learning birdsong is not just a way to become a better bird-spotter. It is tuning in: a way of hearing the soundtrack of the planet earth... Why do birds sing? What are they ....

Chicken

Annie Potts

No creature has been subject to such extremes of reverence and exploitation as the chicken. Hens have been venerated as cosmic creators and roosters as solar divinities. ....

Earthflight: Breathtaking Photographs from a Bird's Eye View of the World

John Downer

"Earthflight" uses ground-breaking technology to take you on a journey like no other--into the skies to fly with birds. Filmed using pioneering techniques to capture ....

Guide Peterson des Oiseaux de France et d'Europe

R Peterson, G Mountfort, P Hollom and P Geroudet

Language: French ....

Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding

Scott Weidensaul

Arriving in the New World, Europeans were awestruck by a continent awash with birds. Today tens of millions of Americans birders have made a once eccentric hobby into ....

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Malta

Andre F Raine

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to BirdLife Malta to help in its on-going conservation activities across the islands. ....

RSPB Pocket Birds of Britain and Europe

Jonathan Elphick and John Woodward

This is the third edition of this pocket-sized guide to birds from the experts at the RSPB. From the Sandwich Tern to the Short-toed Eagle discover over 320 species of bird ....

The Reed Warblers

Diversity in a Uniform Bird Family

Bernd Leisler and Karl Schulze-Hagen

To the untrained eye, all reed warblers may look alike. A closer look, however, reveals an astonishing diversity in ecology and adaptive strategies across the world's 50 ....

Sparrow

Kim Todd

Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere, in many guises. They are cherished pets, subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton, listed as 'pretty ....

Sparrows of the United States and Canada

The Photographic Guide

David Beadle and James D Rising

This companion volume to the previous, widely acclaimed "Guide to the Identification and ....

The Amphibians of Tennessee

Edited by Matthew Niemiller and R Graham Reynolds

Brimming with color photographs and reflecting the latest scientific research, this book is the definitive guide to the rich diversity of frogs and salamanders found throughout ....

Anfibios y Reptiles de la Peninsula Iberica, Baleares y Canarias

Albert Maso and Manuel Pijoan

Language: Spanish ....

Guia de las Serpientes de Venezuela

Biologia, Venenos, Conservacion y Listado de Especies

Luis Fernando Navarrete, Juan C Lopez-Johnson and Albero Bianco Devilla

Language: Spanish ....

Invasive Pythons in the United States

Ecology of an Introduced Predator

Michael E Dorcas, John D Willson and Whit Gibbons

Most people think of pythons as giant snakes in distant tropical jungles, but Burmese pythons, which can reach lengths of over twenty feet and weigh over two hundred pounds, ....

Salamanders of the United States and Canada

James W Petranka

This comprehensive volume describes the ecology, evolution, biodiversity, behavior, and natural history of 127 recognized species of salamanders, from newts and sirens to ....

Fish Pathology

Edited by Ronald J Roberts

"Fish Pathology" is the definitive, classic and essential book on the subject, providing in-depth coverage across all major aspects of fish pathology. ....

Groupers of the World

A Field and Market Guide

Matthew T Craig, Yvonne J Sadovy De Mitcheson and Phillip C Heemstra

"Groupers of the World" is a detailed but easy-to-use guide to the more than 160 recognized species, of these mostly large, colorful tropical reef fishes, also known as ....

Herring: A History of the Silver Darlings

Mike Smylie

The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring have been commercially caught and its importance to the coastal ....

Inheritance and Expression in Diploid and Triploid Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha)

Segregation Distortion at the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) and Microsatellite Loci

Sara Jamieson

In order to investigate the influence of triploidy on genetic inheritance and expression, DNA and mRNA were extracted from diploid and triploid offspring of a single ....

Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes

Lawrence M Page and Brooks M Burr

There are nearly 1000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years ....

Sharks in British Seas

Richard Peirce

"Sharks in British Seas" is the first book in 17 years to deal with sharks off the coasts of the British Isles. Shark sightings have been on the increase in recent years, ....

Trout

James Owen

Leaping effortlessly from the bright stream into the human imagination, the trout has an ancient fascination that can be traced back to Stone Age cave dwellers and it is present ....

White Sharks

Magnificent, Mysterious and Misunderstood

Dirk Schmidt

There are few species that strike such fear into humans as the great white shark. And yet this fearsome predator is also greatly threatened by human activity. Moreover, its ....

Aleocharine Beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

J Klimaszewski, D Langor, G Pelletier, C Bourdon and L Perdereau

In this first comprehensive survey of the Aleocharinae fauna of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), 172 species in 47 genera and 12 tribes are reported for the province. One ....

British Plume Moths

Colin Hart

The plume moths are a relatively neglected group of moths, with the last identification guide to British species by Bryan Beirne, "British Pyralid and Plume Moths", being ....

Butterflies of Europe and the Mediterranean Area

Vadim V Tshikolovets

This book covers the whole of Europe (from the Atlantic Isles to the Ural mountains), North Africa (from Morocco to Egypt), Asia Minor and the Near East, and covers 703 ....

Contributions to the Systema Dipterorum (Insecta: Diptera)

Edited by I Brake and FC Thompson

Where does this species occur? Where can I find information on the biology? And what is the correct name to use? ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 67: Peloridiidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha)

M-C Larivière, D Burckhardt and A Larochelle

The family Peloridiidae or moss bugs are primitive members of the insect order Hemiptera. Often called 'living fossils', peloridiids belong to the suborder ....

Faune de Madagascar, Fasc. 94 - Insecta Hemiptera Heteroptera Coreidae

Harry Brailovsky Alperowitz

Language: Identification keys in English and French ....

Grasshoppers and Crickets

Ted Benton

A detailed and up-to-date account of the behaviour and ecology of grasshoppers and crickets. ....

Ground Beetles (Carabidae) of Greece

Erik Arndt, Peer Schnitter, S Sfenthourakis and David W Wrase

Ground beetles (Carabidae, including tiger beetles, paussid beetles and bombardier beetles) are one of the most diverse insect families in Europe. They occur in apparently ....

A Guide to the Breeding of Tropical Silk Moths (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

Frank Meister

Language: Bilingual in English and German ....

Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America

David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie

While other nature lovers might go bird watching, David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie go mothing, with a sheet and a lamp to attract the bugs. Here, they share their vast ....

Schmetterlinge und Ihre Lebensräume, Band 3

Arten, Gefährung, Schutz - Schweiz und Angrenzende Gebiete

Lepidopterologen-Arbeitsgruppe

Language: German ....

Sea Urchins III

Heinke Schultz

In volume III approximately 250 additional and often rare regular species from the deep sea are introduced, including about 100 cidaroids. The author shows the differences ....

Sex on Six Legs

Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World

Marlene Zuk

Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behaviour, even with brains often the size of a poppy ....

Treasure of Russian Shells, Volume 9: Vitrinidae

Roman V Egorov

Language: English ....

A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera), their Classification, Distributions, and Ways of Life, Volume 3

Carabidae - Loxomeriformes, Melaeniformes

Terry L Erwin

A synthesis of the taxonomy, distributions, and ways of life of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) dwelling in the Western Hemisphere. Under each taxon account, ....

ZooKeys 121

A Catalogue of Lithuanian Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera)

Vytautas Tamutis, Brigita Tamute and Romas Ferenca

This paper presents the first complete and updated list of all 3597 species of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) belonging to 92 families found and published in Lithuania until ....

ZooKeys 123

Australian Assassins, Part I: A Review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia

Michael G Rix and Mark S Harvey

The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae are an ancient and iconic lineage of basal araneomorph spiders, characterised by a specialised araneophagic ecology and unique, ....

ZooKeys 131

Revision of the Southeast Asian Millipede Genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the Proposal of a New Genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Sergei I Golovatch and Somsak Panha

The large genus Orthomorpha is rediagnosed and is shown to currently comprise 51 identifiable species ranging from northern Myanmar and Thailand in the Northwest to ....

Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems

Edited by Pascal Godefroit

In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of ....

Flying Monsters with David Attenborough

Matthew Dyas

Two hundred million years ago there was an extraordinary development in the history of life: a group of reptiles made a giant leap into the skies--the pterosaurs. in this ....

Vegetation of Antarctica Through Geological Time

David Cantrill and Imogen Poole

The fossil history of plant life in Antarctica is central to our understanding of the evolution of vegetation through geological time and also plays a key role in ....

ZooKeys 130

Advances in the Systematics of Fossil and Modern Insects: Honouring Alexandr Rasnitsyn

Dmitry Scherbakov, MS Engel and M Sharkey

This issue of "ZooKeys" celebrates the 75th birthday of Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, a pioneer in the alaeontology and phylogeny of Hymenoptera, as well as a leader generally in ....

The Art of the First Fleet

Images of Nature

Lisa Di Tommaso

In 1788, nearly fifteen-hundred people on eleven sailing ships came ashore at Port Jackson in Australia after a gruelling eight month journey from England. This collection ....

Canon EOS 60D For Dummies

Julie Adair King and Robert Correll

If you own a Canon 60D, you ve got a camera for advanced amateurs and one that is very close to professional-level equipment. Now it is time to make sure you get the very most ....

Canon EOS 7D For Dummies

Doug Sahlin

The new Canon EOS 7D comes equipped with a huge 18.0 megapixel sensor, many beginner-friendly features to aid in getting great pictures, and a video mode that ....

Canon EOS Rebel T3/1100D For Dummies

Julie Adair King and Robert Correll

The Canon EOS Rebel T3/1100D is a popular dSLR camera for those moving up from point-and-shoot for the first time. This full-color guide explains all the buttons, ....

Canon EOS Rebel T3i/600D For Dummies

Julie Adair King

Whether it's your first dSLR, your first Canon camera, or simply a new tool for your photography, your Canon Rebel T3i/600D has countless capabilities and you'll want to ....

The Chemical History of a Candle

With an Introduction by Frank A.J.L. James

Michael Faraday and Frank AJL James

Michael Faraday's celebrated series of lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", turned into one of the most successful science books ever published and was a classic ....

Cicerone Guide: Great Mountain Days in Scotland

Big Mountain Days and a Few Nights

Dan Bailey

This guide has 50 testing walking routes spread across Scotland, a country with one of the wildest areas in Europe. Few global walking destinations are better suited to long ....

Cicerone Guide: Scrambles in the Dark Peak

Tom Corker and Terry Sleaford

Year-round graded scrambling routes for all abilities, across the whole of the Peak District, with suggestions for linking routes together. Bridges the gap between easy ....

Cicerone Guide: Shorter Walks in the Dolomites

Gillian Price

This is the second edition of this guide to the Dolomites, a mountain range in northeast Italy blessed with vast forests, high-altitude rocky landscapes and seas of beautiful ....

Cicerone Guide: Suffolk Coast and Heaths Walks

Three Long-distance Routes in the AONB

Laurence Mitchell

The three long-distance routes in this guide--the Suffolk Coast Path, the Stour and Orwell Walk and the Sandlings Walk--explore some of the most appealing landscapes in ....

Cicerone Guide: The Adlerweg

Mike Wells

The Adlerweg (German for Eagle's Way) is a well-waymarked 300km path that is relatively new and becoming ever more popular. It follows established mountain and valley tracks to ....

Cicerone Guide: The Lune Valley and Howgills - a Walking Guide

Dennis Kelsall and Jan Kelsall

Set between the national parks of the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District, and the AONBs of Bowland, and Arnside and Silverdale, the 50 miles of the River Lune and its many ....

Cicerone Guide: The Swiss Alps

Kev Reynolds

The Swiss Alps are home to the highest and most spectacular mountains in Western Europe, beloved not only of mountaineers, from the earliest days of alpinism to the present day, ....

The Complete Guide to Nature Photography

Professional Techniques for Capturing Digital Images of Nature and Wildlife

Sean Arbabi

Infused with both a passion for nature and an abundance of technical expertise, "The Complete Guide to Nature Photography" guides amateur photographers through every stage ....

Create Your Own Photo Book

Design a Stunning Portfolio, Make a Bookstore-Quality Book

Petra Vogt

These days, photographs live on hard drives and DVDs in the company of several thousand other images, coming to light on a computer screen only for a short moment, if ever. ....

David Busch's Canon EOS 5D Mark II Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

"David Busch's Canon EOS 5D Mark II Guide to Digital SLR Photography" is perfect for those new to digital photography or those who just want to make sure they get the most ....

David Busch's Canon EOS 60D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

The 60D is Canon's new, sophisticated yet affordable advanced dSLR, featuring 18 megapixel resolution, an articulated color LCD, super fast continuous shooting frame ....

David Busch's Canon EOS 7D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

Welcome to the Canon EOS 7D, Canon's new digital SLR that is loaded with professional features at an affordable price. "David Busch's Canon EOS 7D Guide To Digital SLR ....

David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T3i/600D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

The Rebel T3i/600D is one of the most advanced entry-level cameras Canon has ever introduced. It boasts an astounding 18 megapixels of resolution, blazing-fast automatic ....

David Busch's Canon Eos Rebel T3/1100D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

The Rebel T3/1100D is one of the most affordable entry-level cameras Canon has ever introduced. It boasts 12.2 megapixels of resolution, fast automatic focus, and cool ....

David Busch's Nikon D3000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

Welcome to the Nikon D3000, the most advanced basic entry-level camera that Nikon has ever introduced. "David Busch's Nikon D3000 Guide To Digital SLR Photography" shows you ....

David Busch's Nikon D300s Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

Welcome to the most comprehensive guidebook available for the Nikon D300s, the most advanced mid-level digital SLR camera that Nikon has ever introduced. "David Busch's ....

David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

Welcome to the D5000, the most advanced upper-entry-level digital SLR camera that Nikon has ever introduced. "David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography" shows ....

David Busch's Nikon D5100 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

The Nikon D5100 is the most advanced entry-level camera that Nikon has ever introduced. It boasts 16.2 megapixels of resolution, sophisticated full HD movie-making ....

David Busch's Nikon D700 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

"David Busch's Nikon D700 Guide to Digital SLR Photography" shows readers how, when, and why to use all the cool features, controls, and functions of their camera to take great ....

David Busch's Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

The D7000 is the most advanced mid-level camera Nikon has ever introduced, boasting 16.2 megapixels of resolution, full HDTV video, stunning image quality, the real-time preview ....

David Busch's Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

Welcome to the D90, Nikon's newest full-featured-yet compact and affordable-digital SLR camera. "David Busch's Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photography" shows you how to ....

David Busch's Olympus E-5 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

David Busch

The Olympus E-5 is one of the most exciting compact interchangeable lens digital cameras on the market. It boasts 12 megapixels of resolution, an array of powerful, versatile ....

Ecorces: Galerie d'Art à Ciel Ouvert

Cedric Pollet

Language: French ....

A First Rate Tragedy

A Brief History of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions

Diana Preston

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought--the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert ....

The Fishermen's Frontier

People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska

David F Arnold and William Cronon

In "The Fishermen's Frontier:, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past ....

Francis Crick

Hunter of Life's Secrets

Robert Olby

This engrossing biography by one of molecular biology's foremost scholars reveals the remarkable evolution of Francis Crick's scientific career and the shaping of his ....

A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Olivier Darrigol

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually ....

How to Walk a Puma

And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America

Peter Allison

On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he ....

I'll Be Dead by the Time You Read This

The Existential Life of Animals

Romeo Alaeff

If you've ever eavesdropped on people's conversations, had heart-to-hearts with friends or family, or even just paid attention to the thoughts bouncing around in your own head, ....

Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer

Pat Griggs and J Endersby

"Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer" is a compelling account of Joseph Hooker as a plant collector extraordinaire. Joseph Hooker was one of the creators of the modern ....

Looking For Adventure

Steve Backshall

How do you become an explorer? It's a question every child has asked. And, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts ....

The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

Edited by Jon E Lewis

The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of ....

The Mara Crossing

Ruth Padel

Collection of poems offering a unique perspective on migration and immigration. ....

Mathematics in Victorian Britain

Edited by Raymond Flood, Adrian Rice, Robin Wilson and Adam Hart-Davis

During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the ....

New Forest Painters

Georgina Babey and Keith Kirby

New Forest National Park mainly lies in south-west Hampshire, UK. Its unique landscape has been shaped over the centuries by grazing ponies, cattle and pigs which roam free. ....

Nikon D3000 Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

What do you need to take amazing photographs with your new Nikon D3000? This "Nikon D3000 Digital Field Guide" has all the answers. This full-color guide, perfectly sized ....

Nikon D3000 For Dummies

Julie Adair King

The Nikon D3000 is Nikon's new entry-level camera. With the D3000, you get all the features of Nikon's older cameras along with an updated battery, larger monitor, and ....

Nikon D300s Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

This portable, full-color guide explains all essential controls, features, and functions of the Nikon D300s camera, including the exciting new D-Movie with auto-focus feature, ....

Nikon D300s For Dummies

Julie Adair King

The Nikon D300s is packed with pro features, making it a camera both pro and beginning photographers will be looking to scoop up. Newcomers to the D300s can rely on this ....

Nikon D5000 Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

As a 12.9 megapixel camera with new movie capture and numerous advanced features, the Nikon D5000 is a remarkable blend of simplicity and advanced D-SLR capabilities. "The ....

Nikon D5000 For Dummies

Julie Adair King

The Nikon D5000 packs a lot of punch into a camera that beginners will love, and now you can pack an equal amount of punch into the digital photographs you take with your new ....

Nikon D5100 Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

As a high-end entry-level DSLR camera, the Nikon D5100 offers full HDR capability as well as new and creative options. This handy, portable guide walks you through how to ....

Nikon D5100 For Dummies

Julie Adair King

Eager to take a shot at using the exciting new Nikon D5100? Then this is the introductory book for you. Aimed at first-time DSLR shooters who need a friendly guide ....

Nikon D700 Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

With the D700, you've stepped up to a high-performance camera. The possibilities offered by its 12.1-megapixel, FX-format CMOS sensor are exhilarating. This guide helps you take ....

Nikon D7000 Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

The Nikon D7000 is the first new mid-level Nikon DSLR camera that features full 1080p HD video with full-time autofocus. This full-color guide is packed with expert advice and ....

Nikon D7000 For Dummies

Julie Adair King

Whether you re a digital camera beginner or an experienced photographer, this is the book you need to get the most out of the Nikon D7000, the update to Nikon s popular D90 ....

Nikon D90 Digital Field Guide

J Dennis Thomas

Your Nikon D90 is simply revolutionary--the first dSLR that also lets you shoot live HD video straight from the image sensor by using Live View. With so much to know about this ....

Nikon D90 For Dummies

Julie Adair King

Your Nikon D90 digital camera offers professional-quality features like 11-point autofocus, Live View, and the ability to shoot HD video. Take full advantage of every ....

The River Book

101 Ways to Relax, Play, Watch Wildlife and Have Adventures at the River's Edge

Tessa Wardley

"The River Book" is targeted at people who enjoy being outdoors and want to get the most out of their time spent by the water. It shows them all the things they can do to make ....

Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being Wild

Rob Cowen and Leo Critchely

"Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being Wild" is a book of simple skills that can help us to interact with nature, achieve a deeper connection with it and even step inside ....

Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology

Allan Gotthelf

This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf--one of the leading experts in the study of ....

Unjustifiable Risk?

The Story of British Climbing

Simon Thompson

To an impartial observer, Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Mozambique

Philip Briggs and Ross Velton

"The south coast of Mozambique is exceptionally beautiful--truly the archetype of palm-lined tropical beach nirvana--as well as boasting snorkelling, diving and game ....

Coast and Countryside

Libby Purves, Richard Mabey, Joe Cornish, David Noton and Paul Wakefield

Over a hundred years ago, the National Trust was founded to preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Today it protects ....

Gough Island: A Natural History

C Hänel, S Chown and K Gaston

This book provides a well-illustrated, absorbing account of Gough Island's remarkable plants and animals, and a compelling history of its discovery and exploration. ....

A Land

Jacquetta Hawkes

This is Jacquetta Hawkes' seminal work, originally written in 1951, and a classic piece of British Nature writing. It is the history of the shaping of Britain and its people ....

Beautiful No-Mow Yards

50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives

Evelyn J Hadden

Evelyn Hadden offers the ultimate guide to rethinking your lawn-dominated garden. Through inspiring colour photos, encouraging prose, and cutting-edge advice about how to ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 1

Grimmiaceae, Sphagnaceae

Michael Lüth

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 1b

Sphagnaceae

Michael Lüth

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 2

Polytrichaceae, Dicranaceae, Mniaceae

Michael Lüth

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 3

Pottiaceae

Michael Lüth

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 4

Bryaceae, Funariales

Michael Lüth and Matthias Ahrens

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 5

Andreaeaceae - Timmiaceae

Michael Lüth

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 6

Amblystegiaceae - Thuidiaceae

Michael Lüth

Language: German ....

Bildatlas der Moose Deutschlands, Fascicle 7

Brachytheciaceae - Sematophyllaceae

Michael Lüth

Fascicle 7 contains 121 picture plates from the german species of the follow families (with the geni mentioned in brackets): ....

Biodiversity in the North West

The Slime Moulds of Cheshire

Bruce Ing

The county of Cheshire, in its broadest, historical sense, has a rich diversity of wildlife, linked to a varied geology and land use. This is an account of a group of ....

Biologie Végétale

Peter H Raven, Ray F Evert and Susan E Eichhorn

Language: French ....

City Trees: ID Guide to Urban and Suburban Species

Kenneth J Schoon

- Covers all the common trees, even nonnative ones that might not be found in other guides ....

Costa Rica: Tropical Flowers

Enrique Leal C and Ruth Rodriguez

This fold-out field guide illustrates common tropical flowers found in Costa Rica. Species names are given in Latin, English, and Spanish. ....

Dutch Rust Fungi / Roesten van Nederland

Aad J Termorshuizen and Charlotte A Swertz

Language: Bilingual in Dutch and English ....

The Ecology of Plant Secondary Metabolites

From Genes to Global Processes

Edited by Glenn R Iason, Marcel Dicke and Susan E Hartley

Plant secondary metabolites (PSM) such as terpenes and phenolic compounds are known to have numerous ecological roles, notably in defence against herbivores, pathogens and ....

Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania

Sarah Whittingham

Pteridomania or Fern Fever took a frantic hold in Britain from the 1840s. It was a craze fostered by an array of books and magazines and special equipment designed for fern ....

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines

Stewart McPherson and Victor B Amoroso

"Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines" is a beautiful and colourful overview of the twenty seven species of Philippine pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Several ....

Flora Ibérica, Algas Continentales, Carófitos (Characeae)

Edited by Santos Cirujano Bracamonte

Language: Spanish ....

Flora de Chile Volume 2, Fascicle 3: Plumbaginaceae - Malvaceae

Edited by C Marticorena and R Rodriguez

Language: Spanish ....

Flora de Chile, Volume 3, Fascicle 1: Misodendraceae - Zygophyllaceae

Edited by C Marticorena and R Rodriguez

Language: Spanish ....

Free-Range Chicken Gardens

How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard

Jessi Bloom and Kate Baldwin

Important tips include attractive and effective fencing options to keep the chickens contained and guidance for choosing the best plants for gardeners and their birds. For ....

The Fruit Gardener's Bible

A Complete Guide to Growing Fruits and Berries in the Home Garden

Lewis Hill and Leonard P Perry

Fruits, berries, and nuts are an exciting way for food gardeners to expand their home-grown harvest with new produce. "The Fruit Gardener's Bible" is the complete ....

Gardening with Wild Plants

Julian Slatcher

There are many examples of British wildflowers that we routinely use in our gardens and still more that could be used if we knew just a little more about them. Divided ....

Gardens, their Hidden Life

Unnoticed Plants and Unseen Animals

Colin Spedding

Gardens are most people's main opportunity to see an ecosystem at work. Even the smallest space contains a collection of both wild animals and plants. Yet we are often ....

Growing Carnivores

An Italian Perspective

Marcello Catalano

This is an English version of the 2005 book "Coltivare le Piante Carnivore". This is a richly illustrated guide to the cultivation of carnivorous plants, covering the genera ....

How Carrots Won the Trojan War

Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

Rebecca Rupp

Vegetables are more than just food for humans: they've been characters, companions, and even protagonists throughout history. "How Carrots Won the Trojan War" is a delightful ....

An In-Depth Look At Enrichment Planting

HT Chan, I Shamsudin and P Ismail

Enrichment planting has been undertaken in Peninsular Malaysia since the 1900s and has been actively implemented since the mid-1960s. Over the years, large extents of ....

Lichens of the North Woods

A Field Guide to 100 Northern Lichens

Joe Walewski

Lichens are the unsung super heros of the Northern wilds; they are tiny organisms that have the capability to dissolve solid granite. Lichens are surprisingly colorful; ....

Norrbottens Flora Del 1

Lennart Stenberg

Language: Swedish Part 1 of this multivolume flora describes the landscape and plants of Norbotten, ....

Outstanding Mosses and Liverworts of Pennsylvania and Nearby States

Susan Munch

The first color field guide for mosses in the Mid-Atlantic region--its detailed color photographs allow easy identification of many of the commonest and most striking mosses ....

Peonies of the World, Volume 2: Polymorphism and Diversity

Hong De-Yuan

This is the second part of the three volume set monograph "Peonies of the World", a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus Paeonia. Part of Hong De-Yuan's extensive ....

Peterson Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs

Steven Foster and Christopher Hobbs

The most complete work on the medicinal plants of western North America, this guide offers the best information in the world on the nearly 500 species covered, much of it ....

Pictures of Bryophytes: Bretagne

Michael Lüth

A collection of 220 pictures (format: jpg, resolution: 800 x 600 pixels) of bryophytes (mainly Atlantic species) and 100 pictures from landscapes and peoples, taken on an ....

Pictures of Bryophytes: Europe

Michael Lüth

This DVD-rom features a collection of 7100 pictures (format: jpg, resolution: 1024 x 768 pixels) of 1150 bryophyte species from Europe that the author collected on various ....

Pictures of Bryophytes: Neotropics 1

Michael Lüth

A collection of 1000 pictures (format: jpg, resolution: 800 x 600 pixels) from bryophytes of the Neotropics, taken by the author while travelling trough Venezuela and ....

Pictures of Bryophytes: Norway 2004

Michael Lüth

A collection of 860 pictures (format: jpg, resolution: 800 x 600 pixels) of bryophytes (mainly Nordic species) and landscapes from Norway, region Troendelag, from down at the ....

The Plant Encyclopaedia of Arabia

Julian Lee

"The Plant Encyclopaedia" has been some twenty years in the making--the personal passion of its author as he built his landscaping business headquartered in Dubai. ....

The Plant Hormone Ethylene

Edited by Michael T McManus

The plant hormone ethylene is one of the most important, being one of the first chemicals to be determined as a naturally-occurring growth regulator and influencer of ....

Plants

A Very Short Introduction

Timothy Walker

Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. ....

Revision of Malaysian Species of Boletales s.l. (Basidiomycota) Described by E.J.H. Corner (1972, 1974)

E Horak

After EJH Corner passed away in 1996, all extant collections of Malaysian boletoid fungi were re-examined by the author. This volume presents the results of the morphotaxonomic ....

Sappi Tree Spotting: Highlands

Highveld, Drakensberg and Eastern Cape Mountains

Val Thomas and Rina Grant

"Sappi Tree Spotting: Highlands" follows the simple Sappi Tree Spotting system of looking for the Right Trees in the Right Places, and most indigenous trees in the ....

Sappi Tree Spotting: Lifer List

Kevin Balkwill et al

A new addition to the popular Sappi Tree Spotting series that is designed to enhance this fast-growing eco-hobby in southern Africa. The tree spotter can record memorable ....

Tapping the Wealth from Karas (Aquilaria malaccensis) Tree

AM Abdul Rashid and Y Ahmad Zuhaidi

When Aquilaria trees become infected with mold they produce a dark, aromatic resin in response to the attack, resulting in dark, resin-embedded hardwood commonly called ....

Taxonomic Studies on the Genus Aspergillus

Edited by Robert A Samson, Janos Varga and Jens C Frisvad

Collects six papers dealing with the taxonomy of the genus Aspergillus. ....

Terrestrial Photosynthesis in a Changing Environment

A Molecular, Physiological, and Ecological Approach

Edited by Jaume Flexas, Francesco Loreto and Hipolito Medrano

Understanding how photosynthesis responds to the environment is crucial for improving plant production and maintaining biodiversity in the context of global change. Covering ....

Weeds

How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature

Richard Mabey

This is a lively and lyrical cultural history of plants in the wrong place by one of Britain's best and most admired nature writers. Ever since the first human settlements ....

Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception

Robert Snowden, Peter Thompson and Tom Troscianko

Why do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do with colour vision? ....

Calcium Signaling

A Subject Collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Edited by MD Bootman, MJ Berridge, JW Putney and HL Roderick

Calcium ions play a critical role in signaling in a wide variety of cells and tissues, including muscle, immune cells, neurons, the liver, and oocytes. They can enter the ....

Cognitive Biology

Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Edited by Luca Tommasi, Mary A Peterson and Lynn Nadel

In the past few decades, sources of inspiration in the multidisciplinary field of cognitive science have widened. In addition to ongoing vital work in cognitive and ....

Discord: The Story of Noise

Mike Goldsmith

Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world. Given the importance of managing noise levels and developing suitable 'soundscapes' in contexts ....

Eco-Immunology

Edited by Gregory E Demas and Randy J Nelson

The role of parasites and pathogens in the evolution of life history traits is of increasing interest to both ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Immunology, which ....

Essentials of Glycobiology

Edited by Ajit Varki et al

The sugar chains of cells--known collectively as glycans--play a variety of impressive, critical, and often surprising roles in biological systems. Glycobiology is the study of ....

Extracellular Matrix Biology

Edited by Richard O Hynes and Kenneth M Yamada

In most tissues, cells are surrounded by an extracellular matrix (ECM) containing proteins such as collagen, laminin, and fibronectin. The ECM plays an important role in ....

Genome Organization and Function in the Cell Nucleus

Edited by Karsten Rippe

By way of its clear and logical structure, as well as abundant high-resolution illustrations, this is a systematic survey of the players and pathways that control ....

Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems

Edited by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman

Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive ....

Northwest Field Guide

Pudget Sound - Georgia Straits Inside Passage to Glacier Bay

Renee Marquette, Robert Dean, Uko Gorter and Bart Rulon

The Northwest fold out pocket guide includes illustrations of whales, dolphins, porpoise, seals, otter, salmon, halibut, song birds, forest birds, birds of prey, ....

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 1: Basic Mechanisms

Ian P Howard

Volume 1 contains a historical background and address basic coding process, an account of basic psychophysical procedures and principles of sensory coding, and an account of ....

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 2: Stereoscopic Vision

Ian P Howard and Brian J Rogers

Volume 2 addresses stereoscopic vision in cats and primates, including humans. It starts with an account of the physiology of stereoscopic mechanisms. It then deals with ....

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

Ian P Howard

Volume 3 addresses all depth-perception mechanisms other than stereopsis. The chapter starts with reviews of monocular cues to depth. These cues include accommodation, ....

Popular Media and Animals

Claire Molloy

How do mainstream films, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with key animal issues such as vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, meat eating ....

Secret Chambers

The Story of Cells and Complex Life

Martin Brasier

In the follow-up to "Darwin's Lost World", Martin Brasier's book introduces the quest for the missing history of ....

Untangling the Double Helix

DNA Entanglement and the Action of the DNA Topoisomerases

James C Wang

The problem of unraveling two intertwined strands during the duplication of DNA was recognized shortly after the proposal of the DNA double helix structure in 1953. A group ....

Almost Chimpanzee: Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them

Jon Cohen

In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between humans and our closest ....

Convergent Evolution

Limited Forms Most Beautiful

George McGhee Jr

Charles Darwin famously concluded "On the Origin of Species" with a vision of "endless forms most beautiful" continually evolving. More than 150 years later many evolutionary ....

Epigenetic Principles of Evolution

Nelson Cabej

This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this ....

Evolution (International Edition)

Carl T Bergstrom and Lee Alan Dugatkin

Written by active researchers to present a contemporary view of the field, "Evolution" makes the big themes in evolutionary biology accessible by introducing them early and ....

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

Edited by Michael Ruse, Joseph Travis and Edward O Wilson

Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, ....

How to Think Like a Neandertal

Thomas Wynn and Frederick L Coolidge

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? ....

Innovation in Cultural Systems

Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Edited by Michael J O'Brien and Stephen J Shennan

In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered ....

Human Sexuality

Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin

In this textbook, Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin aim to help students understand the diversity of human sexual expression as well as the diversity of perspectives from which ....

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Edited by Pedro Barbosa, Deborah Letourneau and Anurag Agrawal

The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such ....

Invasive Alien Arthropod Predators and Parasitoids

An Ecological Approach

Edited by H Roy, P De Clercq, L-J Lawson Handley, JJ Sloggett, RL Poland et al

Understanding invasion biology, and the dynamics of biological control practices, requires a multidisciplinary approach, embracing and integrating all the research tools ....

SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

Martin A Nowak and Roger Highfield

Evolution is often presented as a strictly competitive endeavor. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. ....

Survival of the Beautiful

Art, Science, and Evolution

David Rothenberg

"The peacock's tail," said Charles Darwin, "makes me sick." That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of ....

Tool Use and Causal Cognition

Edited by Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl and Stephen Butterfill

What cognitive abilities underpin the use of tools, and how are tools and their properties represented or understood by tool-users? Does the study of tool use provide ....

Drought and Aquatic Systems

P Sam Lake

Droughts are a major hazard to both natural and human-dominated environments and those, especially of long duration and high intensity, can be highly damaging and leave ....

Mangroves of the South China Sea

Ecology and Human Impacts on Indonesia's Forests

Sukristijono Sukardjo and Daniel M Alongi

Mangrove forests along the vast expanses of Indonesia's 95,180 kilometres of shoreline have long attracted man's curiosity. These unique tidal forests have developed ....

Oceans: Heart of Our Blue Planet

Gregory S Stone et al

Water makes life on Earth possible, and every drop of it comes from and returns to the ocean. For centuries we have taken the ocean for granted, viewed it as inexhaustible, ....

Oceans: Heart of Our Blue Planet (Spanish Edition)

Gregory S Stone et al

Water makes life on Earth possible, and every drop of it comes from and returns to the ocean. For centuries we have taken the ocean for granted, viewed it as inexhaustible, ....

Rivers

A Very Short Introduction

Nick Middleton

Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing ....

Biodiversity in Dead Wood

Jogeir N Stokland, Juha Siitonen and Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

Fossils document the existence of trees and wood-associated organisms from almost 400 million years ago, and today there are between 400,000 and 1 million wood-inhabiting ....

New Developments in Biodiversity Conservation

Edited by Thomas W Pace

This book presents current research in the study of biodiversity conservation. Topics discussed include agricultural land-use in forest frontier areas; utilization of bovids ....

Silent Spring Revisited

Conor Mark Jameson

Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of "Silent Spring" in 1962. She made vivid the gloomy prospect of life ....

Vehicle Hill Tracks in Northern Scotland

An Independent Factual Report on Numbers, Distribution, Impacts, Ground Reinstatement

Adam Watson

This book is the most comprehensive account on the spread of vehicle tracks on hill land in northern Scotland that has occurred since the mid 1950s. It reviews timing, numbers, ....

Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

"Zoopolis" offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral ....

Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects

Ronald F Dodson and Samuel P Hammar

The first edition of "Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects" received critical acclaim due to the interdisciplinary nature of its content. Editors ....

Biological Oceanography

Charles B Miller and Patricia A Wheeler

This new edition of "Biological Oceanography" has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ....

Carbofuran and Wildlife Poisoning

Global Perspectives and Forensic Approaches

Edited by Ngaio Richards

This cutting-edge title is one of the first devoted entirely to the issue of carbofuran and wildlife mortality. It features a compilation of international contributions from ....

Climate Change and Social Ecology

Planning a Green Future

Stephen M Wheeler

"Climate Change and Social Ecology" takes a new and different approach to the world's most pressing challenge, recasting climate change as a challenge of rapid social ....

Down to the Wire

Confronting Climate Collapse

David W Orr

Singled out as "one of the country's leading environmental thinkers" by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books, David W. Orr offers an exacting analysis of where we are ....

Environment: An Illustrated Journey

R Rajagopalan

Divided into three parts dealing with environmental crisis and its cause, understanding the crisis, and possible remedial measures, the book provides a balanced understanding ....

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere

Edited by J Robert Cox

"Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere" is the first comprehensive undergraduate textbook in the growing field of environmental communication. It takes as ....

Environmental Hazards and Disasters

Contexts, Perspectives and Management

Bimal Kanti Paul

"Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management" focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The ....

Environmental Security and Ecoterrorism

Edited by Hami Alpas, Simon M Berkowicz and Irina Ermakova

In recent years, the concept of environmental security has been adapted to include preparedness for acts of ecoterrorism. This latter term has now become synonymous with ....

Ex Post Environmental Impact Assessment

A Regional Perspective

Atta-ur Rahman

The world's population is multiplying day-by-day and development projects need to be built to accomplish the desires of new generations. Almost all development projects have ....

Forecast Verification

A Practitioners Guide in Atmospheric Science

Edited by Ian T Jolliffe and David B Stephenson

"Forecast Verification: A Practioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science", 2nd Edition provides an indispensible guide to this area of active research by combining depth of ....

Frozen Britain: On Our Very Worst Winters

Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson

This title is a follow up to the best-selling "Frozen in Time" (2006). It offers a new look at the latest climatology theories and the effect on our weather patterns. It ....

Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction from Municipal Solid Waste

Clean Development Mechanism Perspectives

Eng Maharjan Mishra

The greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions arise in all sectors of an economy such as power station, industrial processes, transportation fuel, agricultural by products, fossil ....

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Eco-technological Wastewater Treatment Systems

Rohini Prasad Devkota

Climate change is a global phenomenon, which is due to emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly from fossil fuels combustion and deforestation. It may have far-reaching harmful ....

More Good News

Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis

David T Suzuki and Holly Dressel

In this edition of their bestseller, the sequel to the best-selling "Good News for a Change", authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel provide the latest inspiring stories ....

National Air Quality

Status and Trends

Edited by Joseph DiSano

With the prospect of new layers of complexity being added to air pollution controls, and with electricity restructuring putting a premium on economic efficiency, interest is ....

Radiation: What You Need to Know

Edited by Amanda E Lehtinen

Radiation is all around us and naturally present in our environment and has been since before the birth of the planet. Radiation occurs in nature, but it can also be produced ....

Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes

Observations and Dynamics

Howard Bluestein

This book is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It contains many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from ....

The Weather Watcher's 3-Year Log Book

Edited by Royal Meterological Society

The Weather Watcher's 3-Year Log Book offers the opportunity to record your own daily observations--in as much or as little detail as you wish. You can calculate weekly and ....

The Canadian North

Issues and Challenges

Robert M Bone

"The Canadian North: Issues and Challenges", Fourth Edition, is a comprehensive survey of the unique forces, both human and physical, that have shaped and continue to ....

From Dying Stars to the Birth of Life

The New Science of Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe

J L Cranford

The rise of computers and rocket science in the last half of the 20th century allowed scientists to make two amazing discoveries that indicated life may be widespread ....

Fundamentals of Geobiology

Edited by Andy H Knoll, Don Canfield and Kurt Konhauser

For more than fifty years, small numbers of scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology has ....

The Geological Interpretation of Well Logs

Malcolm Rider and Martin Kennedy

As in the previous editions, the new, 3rd edition describes each of the common well logging tools in terms of physical principles, basic tool design, log characteristics, ....

A Guide to the Elements

Albert Stwertka

Newly updated throughout, and now covering 118 elements, this crystal-clear guide to the periodic table illuminates the basic concepts of chemistry as it traces the history and ....

Introduction to Black Hole Physics

Valeri P Frolov and Andrei Zelnikov

This book is about black holes, one of the most intriguing objects of modern Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. For many years, black holes have been considered as ....

An Introduction to the Solar System

Edited by David A Rothery, Neil McBride and Iain Gilmour

Major leaps in space technology now allow us to view the splendour and diversity of the Solar System in remarkable detail. This textbook presents a fascinating description of ....

Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

Kees van Deemter

Not everything is black and white. Our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness. Language is the most obvious example--for instance, when we describe someone as tall, it ....

Organic Chemistry

Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and Stuart Warren

Inspiring and motivating students from the moment it published, "Organic Chemistry" has established itself in just one edition as the students' choice of organic chemistry ....

Renewable and Sustainable Polymers

Edited by Gregory Payne and Patrick Smith

These are exciting times for biofuels and renewable chemicals. A sense of urgency is driving a frenzy of activity on both research and commercialization fronts. Presciently, ....

The Sun's Heartbeat

and Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

Bob Berman

The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear ....

Turing

Pioneer of the Information Age

B Jack Copeland

June 23, 2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing's birth, and preparations are being made worldwide for the celebration of his life and work. Turing can be regarded as one ....

Air Quality in the 21st Century

Edited by Gaia C Romano and Alice G Conti

This book presents the latest research on the crucial issues and the standards necessary to assess, monitor and increase air quality. Particular emphasis is paid to problems ....

Beekeeping: A Practical Guide

Roger Patterson

A practical book for new beekeepers and those interested in keeping their own bees, explaining everything they need to know to get started. It also covers how to make your ....

Better Air: Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act

Edited by Jessica Lincoln-Oswalt

The authorities and responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) derive primarily from a dozen major environmental statutes. This book provides a concise ....

Carbon Credits from Peatland Rewetting

Science, Policy, Implementation and Recommendations of a Pilot Project in Belarus

Edited by Franziska Tanneberger and Wendelin Wichtmann

Language: English. A russian language edition of this book is also available. ....

Cities Going Green

A Handbook of Best Practices

Edited by Roger L Kemp and Carl J Stephani

Over the past several decades, numerous planning movements have taken root within the United States. With names like "Urban Renewal," "Garden Cities," "Healthy Cities," ....

Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

Jane McAdam

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental ....

Climate Policy After Copenhagen

The Role of Carbon Pricing

Karsten Neuhoff

At the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, 117 heads of state concluded that low-carbon development is necessary in order to combat climate change. However, they ....

A Complete Guide to the Global Carbon Market

Profiting in a Low-Carbon World

MA Hashmi

This is a complete guide to the global carbon market. This book is suitable for readers with or without prior knowledge and background of the global carbon market. The author ....

Complying with Environmental Health and Safety Regulations

Christine Herndon

This book educates water utility operators and managers on the core technical and management issues surrounding the new environmental laws and how they affect utilities ....

Conflicts in Environmental Regulation and the Internationalisation of the State

Contested Terrains

Ulrich Brand, Christoph Görg, Joachim Hirsch and Markus Wissen

This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties. ....

Diversity in Environmental Education Research

Edited by David B Zandvliet

Research in environmental education (EE) is a growing field of inquiry and should be seen as respondent to a variety of program developments around the world. These diverse ....

Eco-Friendly Architecture

Jacobo Krauel

This new, well researched collection is an exemplary survey that brings together some of today's most prestigious architects, whose work in sustainable architecture has helped ....

Eco-urban Design

John A Flannery and Karen M Smith

"Eco-Urban Design" focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an ....

EcoJustice Education

Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities

Rebecca A Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson and John Lupinacci

Designed for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and pedagogy of ....

Education for Sustainability

Becoming Naturally Smart

Paul Clarke

For the first time in human history more people live in the urban rather than the rural environment. We now have to learn to live and flourish in our urban landscape and manage ....

Environmental Health: Ecological Perspectives

Kathryn Hilgenkamp

This text provides balanced coverage of how humans are affected by the quality of air, water, and food a well as how humans affect these survival necessities. The evolution ....

Environmental Impact Assessment

Procedures and Practices

Nick Harvey and Beverley Clarke

"Environmental Impact Assessment: Procedures and Practice" is concerned with the process of environmental impact assessment (EIA). In other words, it is a comprehensive analysis ....

Environmental Policy and Public Health

Air Pollution, Global Climate Change, and Wilderness

William N Rom

This important resource provides an overview of the major environmental policy issues, both historic and topical, and explains how science plays a role in various forms of ....

Fossil Fuels and Pollution

The Future of Air Quality

Julie Kerr Casper

Clean air is essential to life and good health. Several important pollutants are produced by fossil fuel combustion and emitted directly into the atmosphere, including ....

Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds

Comparative Philosophical Perspectives

Edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes

The notion of function is an integral part of thinking in both biology and technology; biological organisms and technical artifacts are both ascribed functionality. Yet the ....

Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Dealing With Uncertainty

Edited by Matthias Jonas, Zbigniew Nahorski, Sten Nilsson and Thomas White

The assessment of greenhouse gases emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on the international political and scientific agendas. Growing international concern and ....

Hindu Theology and Biology

The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory

Jonathan B Edelmann

Western intellectual history has benefited from a rich and sophisticated conversation between theology and science, leaving us with centuries of scientific and theological ....

Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Dogan Altinbilek and Asit K Biswas

One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to ....

The Inclusion of Environmental Education in Science Teacher Education

Edited by Alec M Bodzin, Beth Shiner Klein and Starlin Weaver

In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and understand how ....

Integration of Quality, Environment and Health and Safety Management

Combination of ISO 9001:2000, ISOA 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:1999

Lina Lau

The book deals with Integrated Management Systems (IMS) according to international management standards. The book addresses the requirements of various management ....

Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment from Rio to Rio + 20

United Nations

This innovative publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major global environmental, economic and social changes since 1992. The numbers tell the story ....

Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education

Bringing Life to Schools and Schools to Life

Dilafruz Williams and Jonathan Brown

Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems ....

Making Environmental Law

The Politics of Protecting the Earth

Nancy E Marion

The U.S. federal government first began to consider legislation to protect the environment and natural resources in 1940s. Since that time, Congress and the president ....

NAFTA and Climate Change

Meera Fickling and Jeffrey J Schott

NAFTA's revision remains a centerpiece of US trade-policy debate. But, mounting concern over the relationship between trade and the environment has superseded the practice of ....

A New Approach to Ecological Education

Engaging Students' Imaginations in Their World

Gillian Judson

Ecological education is becoming a major area of interest worldwide, and schools are increasingly being called upon to address global and local ecological concerns. ....

Nuclear Energy and the Environment

Edited by Chien M Wai and Bruce Mincher

A renewed global interest in nuclear power is underway due to concerns about the contribution of combustion of fossil fuels to climate change and the unreliability of ....

Organic Production and Food Quality

A Down to Earth Analysis

Robert Blair

The internet is rife with biased and unsubstantiated claims from the organic industry, and the treatment of issues such as food safety and quality by the media ("if it bleeds, ....

The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics

Edited by Tom L Beauchamp and R G Frey

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the ....

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

Edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J Hoffman

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly ....

Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

Edited by Forrest Clingerman and Mark H Dixon

The natural world has been 'humanized': even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact. But this human impact is not simply physical. At the emergence of ....

Principles of Sustainable Aquaculture

Promoting Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience

Stuart Bunting

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, principally fish, molluscs, crustaceans and marine algae. It has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past fifty years and ....

Recommended Research Priorities for the Qatar Foundation's Environment and Energy Research Institute

Nidhi Kalra et al

The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct energy, environment, and water research. This book recommends research priorities for the ....

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Available & Emerging Technologies

Edited by Diane B McCreevey and Ellen L Durkin

This book examines control techniques and measures to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from specific industrial sectors such as coal-fired electric generating units, ....

Regulators Gone Wild

How the EPA is Ruining American Industry

Richard Trzupek

Rich Trzupek has spent over 25 years engaged in combat with the environmental movement on the front lines, helping America's industrial sector defend itself against the ....

Resolving Environmental Conflict

Chris Maser and Carol A Pollio

The second edition of this popular reference covers the basic transformative concepts that are vital for resolving environmental conflicts. This updated edition includes ....

Social Marketing to Protect the Environment

What Works

Doug MzKenzie-Mohr, Nancy R Lee, P Wesley Schultz and Philip Kotler

Social marketing takes key marketing principles and applies them to campaigns and efforts to influence social action. In "Social Marketing to Protect the Environment", ....

Strategic Environmental Assessment in Policy and Sector Reform

Conceptual Model and Operational Guidance

World Bank

This book refines a conceptual model and develops guidance for applying strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in policy and sector reform. It shows that SEA can ....

Sustainable Production of Fuels, Chemicals, and Fibers from Forests

Edited by Junyong Zhu, Xiao Zhang and Xuejun Pan

Wood has always been--and continues to be--an important natural resource. Millions of tons of wood and forest biomass are harvested each year and converted to construction ....

Teaching Environmental Health to Children

An Interdisciplinary Approach

David W Hursh, Camille A Martina, Hilarie B Davis and Michael A Trush

Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can ....

Teaching Environmental Literacy

Across Campus and Across the Curriculum

Edited by Heather L Reynolds, Eduardo Brondizio and Jennifer Robinson

To prepare today's students to meet growing global environmental challenges, colleges and universities must make environmental literacy a core learning goal for all students, ....

Teaching Sustainability / Teaching Sustainably

Edited by Kirsten Bartels and Kelly Parker

Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged ....

Uncertain Futures: Adapting Development to a Changing Climate

Jonathan Ensor

Community-based adaptation is a new concept whose meaning is still to be fully understood. Most agree that communities should be supported to respond to the challenges ....

Water: Asia's New Battleground

Brahma Chellaney

The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in ....

Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not

Robert N McCauley

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at ....

Young Children and the Environment

Early Education for Sustainability

Julie M Davis

"Young Children and the Environment" tackles one of the biggest contemporary issues of our times--the changing environment--and demonstrates how early education can contribute ....

Zero Carbon Housing

Design of Zero Energy and Zero Carbon Homes

Derek Taylor

This is the first book that focuses on the zero energy/zero carbon design of houses. The book starts with design approaches that aim to avoid the need for space heating of ....

Zero-Carbon Homes

A Road Map

Joanna Williams

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue. Providing homes ....

Advanced Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of Coastal Water and Urban Air Environment

Edited by H Furumai, S Sato, M Kamata and K Yamamoto

Undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, architecture, environmental engineering, and environmental science will enjoy reading the book without knowledge or ....

Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling

A Practical Introduction

Steven F Railsback and Volker Grimm

Agent-based modeling is a new technique for understanding how the dynamics of biological, social, and other complex systems arise from the characteristics and ....

Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XX

Proceedings of the 30th NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 18-22 May 2009

Edited by Douw G Steyn and S Trivikrama Rao

Recent developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This book on air pollution modelling ....

Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XXI

Edited by Douw G Steyn and Silvia Trini Castelli

Recent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field. This book is focused on ....

Bayesian Modeling Using WinBUGS

Ioannis Ntzoufras

"Bayesian Modeling Using WinBUGS" provides an easily accessible introduction to the use of WinBUGS programming techniques in a variety of Bayesian modeling settings. The author ....

Practical Environmental Statistics and Data Analysis

Edited by Yue Rong

Most environmental problems involve a large degree of uncertainty, and one way to improve understanding of the issues affecting the global environment is the use of ....

Probability

A Very Short Introduction

John Haigh

Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most ....

The Afterlives of Animals

A Museum Menagerie

Edited by Samuel JMM Alberti

In the quiet halls of the natural history museum, there are some creatures still alive with stories, whose personalities refuse to be relegated to the dusty corners of an ....

Ecowriting: Advice to ESL on Effective Scientific Writing in

Environmental Science and Engineering

Martin Mkandawire

A critical aspect of the scientific process is the ability to communicate ideas and research results effectively to a large community of scientists. Thus, effective writing ....

Essential Skills for Science and Technology

Peter Zeegers, Kate Deller-Evans, Sandra Egege and Christopher Klinger

The essential guide for any student embarking on their studies in the sciences or technology, this book introduces the core academic skills students need to learn ....

A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job

Prosanta Chakrabarty

"A Guide to Academia" is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the ....

The Handbook of Technical Writing

Gerald J Alred, Charles T Brusaw and Walter E Oliu

Now in its tenth edition, this classic book remains the complete technical-writing reference for students and professionals alike. Alphabetically organized and ....

Innovation Generation

How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas

Roberta B Ness

Whether you are a student or an established scientist, researcher, or engineer, you can learn to be more innovative. In "Innovation Generation", internationally renowned ....

Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words

David R Lindsay

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many researchers, who, in all other respects, are competent scientists, are afraid of writing. They are ....

Scientific Writing: The Reader's and Writer's Guide 2.0

The Expanded Edition with Writing Diagnosis Tool on DVD for Mac and PC

Jean-Luc Lebrun

This book helps scientists write papers for scientific journals. Using the key parts of typical scientific papers (Title, Abstract, Introduction, Visuals, Structure, and ....