Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 75: Mediterranean Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Michela Podesta and Barbara E Curry

Mediterranean Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation, the latest edition of the Advances in Marine Biology series providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963, presents the latest ...

Atlas dos Pelos dos Mamiferos Terrestres Ibericos [Atlas of Hairs of Iberian Terrestrial Mammals]

Ana Margarida Valente, Rita Gomes Rocha, Elena Lozano, Joaquim Pedro Ferreira and Carlos Fonseca

This is an identification guide to the hairs of all 67 species of mammals that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula using photographs taken under a microscope. Hair microstructure is specific to each species and can identify what species the ...

Bears Behaving Badly

John McDonald and Paul Cyr

Bears (particularly black bears) by nature are elusive and difficult to see in the wild; yet they are immensely popular, perhaps because they are surprisingly human-looking, though their dense fur and seemingly clumsy gait often lead ...

Carnivorous Nights

On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger

Margaret Mittelbach, Michael Crewdson and Alexis Rockman

A colourful, comical yet true account of the search for the near mythical Tasmanian Tiger. The last known Tasmanian Tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. This sleek, carnivorous marsupial hasn't been seen (alive) since and is considered ...

Elephants and Rhinos

A Folding Pocket Guide to the Status of Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

This guide helps identify and demystify the world of elephants and rhinos. Readers will learn about these animals' position and role in the ecosystem – as well as about the various threats and dangers these incredible animals ...

Field Guide to Australian Mammals

Les Hall and Steve Parish

This user friendly guide provides essential information on over 260 mammal species commonly found in Australia. Field Guide to Australian Mammals teams full colour photographs and biological information with the natural history ...

Ice Bear

The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon

Michael Engelhard

Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and ...

Llama

Helen Cowie

Known for their woolly charm, sure-footed strength, and a propensity to spit at you if you bother them too much, llamas have had a rich and diverse history. Since their domestication high in the Andes, they have been farmed, smuggled ...

Mammals in the British Isles

L Harrison Matthews

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Mammals in the British Isles was first published in 1982.

Mammals of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Donald W Linzey

Visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park are likely to see a variety of wildlife, from the small and difficult to observe to the large and spectacular. A wide assortment of animals- salamanders, turtles, lizards, snakes, birds ...

Spell of the Tiger

Man-Eaters of the Sundarbans

Sy Montgomery

Originally published in 1996, this earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time. Spell of the Tiger brings readers to Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that ...

The Great Soul of Siberia

In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger

Sooyong Park and John Vaillant

There are five races of tiger on our planet and all but one live in tropical regions: the Siberian Tiger Panthera tigris altaica is the exception. Mysterious and elusive, and with only 350 remaining in the wild, the Siberian tiger ...

The International Encyclopedia of Primatology (3-Volume Set)

Agustin Fuentes

The International Encyclopedia of Primatology represents the first comprehensive encyclopedic reference focusing on the behaviour, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, and taxonomy of human and non-human primates.

The Safari

Sundeep Bhutoria and Victor Banerjee

In the winter of 2012, Bhutoria took a trip to Ranthambore, India, and with incredible luck, managed to spot as many as 13 tigers over six days! This is his account of that fascinating trip, replete with the history of the national park ...

Welche Fledermaus ist Das?: 34 Fledermausarten Einfach Bestimmen [Which Bat is That?: Easily Identifying 34 Bat Species]

Klaus Richarz

Welche Fledermaus ist Das? is a practical and handy pocket nature guide. Use the Kosmos colour code to correctly identify 34 bat species native to Germany.

Wild Boar

Dorothy Yamamoto

Ancestors of domestic pigs, wild boars are tough, resourceful omnivores that have presented humans since prehistoric times with a tricky situation: they make for a delicious food source, but they are formidable animals with long tusks ...

American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of the Carolinas

Brian E Small and Nate Swick

North and South Carolina together offer an impressive range of natural habitats for birds. From the spruce-fir woodlands of the Appalachians in the west to the rolling Piedmont hills and extensive pinelands, all the way east to the saltwater ...

Behind the Binoculars

Interviews with Acclaimed Birdwatchers

Mark Avery and Keith Betton

How and why did our most acclaimed birdwatchers take up birding? What were their early experiences of nature? How have their professional birding careers developed? What motivates them and drives their passion for wildlife? How many birds ...

Birding Northwest Ecuador

Steven L Herrmann

Ecuador is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world. With over 1,600 bird species in an area the size of the state of Nevada, it is on the "Bucket List" of many avian enthusiasts. More than half of the species on the ...

Birding in Ancient Pompeii: Anno Domini 79 / Aquellas Aves de Pompeya: Un Paseo Ornitologico en el Ano 79 d.C.

Karin Faber

A comparative study of the birds depicted on Pompeian wallpaintings and the actual ones, photographed in their natural habitats. The research is introduced by both a description of the Roman 'domus' and the mythological, nourishing ...

Birds of Northern California

David E Quady, Jon L Dunn, Kimball L Garrett and Brian E Small

Designed for beginning and experienced birders. David Quady and his nationally acclaimed fellow authors have written text for the over 390 species of birds that are found from Monterey County to the northern border of California in the ...

Birds of Oregon

Roger Burrows and Jeff Gilligan

A total of 328 of the most abundant or notable bird species found in Oregon are featured in this book, complete with full-colour illustrations. Each account covers habitat, nesting, feeding, voice, best sites for viewing, similar species ...

Birds of the Cape Verde Islands

Eduardo Garcia-del-Rey

The Birds of the Cape Verde Islands is a Macaronesian archipelago avifauna that fills and important gap in the ornithological literature. Full-colour throughout, it begins with authoritative introductory chapter covering subjects ...

Birds of the Puget Sound Region

Coast to Cascades

Dennis Paulson, Bob Morse, Tom Aversa and Hal Opperman

Designed for beginning and experienced birders, this new edition expands the best-selling regional guide, Birds of the Puget Sound Region (out of print), to include all of western Washington, from the Coast to the Cascades.

Birds of the West Virginia Northern Panhandle II

Philip M Carter

This is a comprehensive update to the Birds of the West Virginia Northern Panhandle by Dr. Albert Buckelew, Jr. Combining data collected by the author, other birding enthusiasts and current as well historical data from the Cornell ...

Birds of the West Wind

How Australia Has Shaped New Zealand's Avian Life

Garry Sheeran

The origin of New Zealand birds is a story whose continuing evolution in the last 30 years especially has upset many apple carts – from the idea that the moa has evolved from a small South American bird which flew to ancient New Zealand ...

British Birds of Prey

Leslie H Brown

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. British Birds of Prey was first published in 1976. The diurnal raptors are among the most ...

Die Welt der Kraniche: Leben, Umfeld, Schutz, Verbreitung der 15 Arten [The World of Cranes: Life, Environment

Hartwig Prange

In 30 chapters, all aspects of the crane are discussed in this book, beginning with the European Middle Ages, construction and function of the body, voice, behaviour, reproductive biology, flight and migration, rest and overwintering ...

Finding Birds in the South of France

Dave Gosney

The book describes the best birding sites in exceptional detail, made even clearer by Dave Gosney's trademark maps. It has 44 pages packed with information including 25 pages of maps. It is based mostly on Gosney's trip to France ...

Guida degli Uccelli d'Europa, Nord Africa e Vicino Oriente: Formato Grande [Collins Bird Guide: Large Format]

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

Following on from its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide – the ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts – now enters its second edition. This enlarged reprint of the second edition has expanded text and ...

Inside an Osprey's Nest

A Photographic Journey Through Nesting Season

Teena Ruark Gorrow and Craig A Koppie

Take a photographic journey through nesting season with a newly mated osprey pair. In this true raptor adventure, the ospreys prepare a nest and mate, but their eggs do not hatch. Through an unlikely twist of events, the unviable eggs are ...

RSPB Pocket Birds of Britain and Europe

Jonathan Elphick and John Woodward

From the Sandwich Tern to the Short-toed Eagle, discover over 300 species of bird found in the UK and Europe with RSPB Pocket Birds of Britain and Europe. Crystal clear photographs bring the birds on the page to life, and notes ...

The Birds of Samoa

Ulf Beichle and Sabine Baumann

The Birds of Samoa is meant primarily to serve as a tool for the science and conservation of Samoan birds. Scientists, teachers, students, government workers, tourists, and visitors interested in Samoan wildlife should be able ...

The Cuckoo

The Uninvited Guest

Oldrich Mikulica, Tomas Grim, Karl Schulze-Hagen, Bard G Stokke and Nick Davies

We all know Cuckoos as the harbingers of spring – whose haunting calls proclaim the birds own name across fields and reedbeds. A bird much more often heard than actually seen, and often mistaken for a hawk or falcon when briefly ...

The Sibley Birder's Life List and Field Diary

David Allen Sibley

From leading ornithologist and bestselling author David Sibley comes this essential write-in field companion for all levels of birders. This indispensable birder's companion includes both ample space for on-site notes and a life list ...

Tous les Oiseaux Rares d'Europe [All the Rare Birds of Europe]

Frederic Jiguet and Aurelien Audevard

Among the approximately 850 species of birds found in Europe, some are common and other much rarer. Bird straying from their usual migration routes, buffeted by storms or depressions, victims of a policy mistake or the vanguard of a new ...

Tutti gli Uccelli d'Europa [All the Birds of Europe]

Frederic Jiguet and Aurelien Audevard

Everyone knows the cuckoo, but few know details of this species and even fewer know that the plumage of the male, the female and the young are different. It is so fascinating to know how to know and recognize the birds of Europe.

Utah Birds

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The Beehive State is home to three richly distinct regions – The Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Plateau and the Great Salt Lake and desert – are home to the permanent or temporary home of 448 species of birds, including the ...

Vogelnistkasten in Garten & Wald [Bird Boxes in the Garden and the Forest]

Otto Henze and Johannes Gepp

A unique book about bird boxes: 180 colour pictures show the contents of nest boxes in original size. Not only the birds that breed there are treated but also the various mammals such as mice, dormice, bats and insects such as bumblebee ...

Where to Watch Birds in Morocco

Patrick Bergier and Fedora Bergier

Morocco's proximity and the variety of its habitats and bird species make it a favoured destination for birders. It is home to rare and endangered species such as Bald Ibis, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Tawny Eagle, Eleonora's Falcon ...

Anfibios e Repteis: Introducao ao Estudo da Herpetofauna Brasileira [Amphibians and Reptiles: Introduction to the

Paulo Sergio Bernarde

Brazil has a rich herpetofauna, with 941 species of amphibians and 732 species of reptiles recorded. In view of this wealth, it is fundamental to study and better know this diversity, and this book seeks to fulfill that aim. Filled with ...

Anolis: Im Biotop and Terrarium [Anolis: In their Biotope and the Terrarium]

Axel Flaschendrager and Leo Wijffels

Fourteen years have passed since the publication of the first edition. This is a long time, during which many new insights have been gained, taxonomic changes have been made, and above all an enormous number of new descriptions of Anolis ...

Die Gattung Salamandra: Geschichte, Biologie, Systematik, Zucht [The Genus Salamandra: History, Ecology, Systematics

Uwe Seidel, Philip Gerhardt and S Steinfartz

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

Die Smaragdeidechsen: Zwei (Un)gleiche Schwestern [The Green Lizard: Two (Un)equal Sisters]

Kerstin Elbing

The often brilliant green of the animals and the intense blue of the males during the mating season make the green lizard one of the most beautiful lizards in Europe. It is only since the 1990s that we know that there are two species in ...

Ferrantia, Volume 75: Verbreitungsatlas der Amphibien des Gro herzogtums Luxemburg [Distribution Atlas of the Amphibian

Roland Proess

The first Atlas of the Amphibian Fauna of Luxembourg was published in 2003. Since then, and especially since 2010, intensive research and the use of new survey methods (newt traps) have allowed for the collection of a large amount of new ...

Rare and Threatened Limbless Lizard, Barkudia insularis, Annandale

Madireddi V Subba Rao and BN Rao

The rare and threatened limbless lizard, Barkudia insularis, Annandale is an elongate, worm-like which leads a secretive subterranean life in the gardens and densely vegetated areas in the Andhra University campus, Visakhapatnam ...

Reptiles and Amphibians in Britain

Deryk Frazer

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Reptiles and Amphibians in Britain was first published in 1983. Britain has six native amphibian ...

Turtles: A Folding Pocket Guide to the Status of Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Turtles are ancient and captivating creatures! With over 250 species of turtles worldwide, you can find turtles everywhere – in the water and in the desert and many places in between. This introductory guide to turtles covers all ...

Verbreitung, Biologie und Schutz der Erdkrote Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) mit Besonderer Berucksichtigung des Amphibien

Distribution, Biology and Protection of the Common Toad Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) with Special Consideration of the

Andreas Maletzky, Arno Geiger, Martin Kyek and Andreas Nollert

This volume contains the following contributions, focusing on the distribution, biology, and protection of the common toad, mostly in Germany, but also treating a few other countries ...

ZooKeys 624: The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mindanao Island, Southern Philippines, II

The Herpetofauna of Northeast Mindanao and Adjacent Islands

Marites B Sanguila, Kerry A Cobb, Cameron D Siler, Arvin C Diesmos, Angel C Alcala and Rafe Brown

Long celebrated for its remarkable terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity, the Philippines is home to a wide array of amphibian and reptile species diversity, many spectacular endemic taxa, and clades of species which evolved entirely within ...

A Photographic Guide to the Fishes in Tokyo Bay [Japanese]

Kono Hiroshi, Kano Mitsuki and Yokoo Toshihiro

This book introduces the fish seen in Tokyo Bay, Japan, and includes abundant colour photography and information gained over 20 years by the Tokyo Ocean University Fisheries Laboratory. A total of 313 species are covered, and a list of ...

Freshwater Fishes of Britain

Jack Perks and Hugh Miles

This is the ultimate photographic guide to the freshwater fish of the UK. The author has fast been gaining a reputation for his innovative photographic techniques, which include specialist underwater methods involving long lenses and ...

Gobies of Japanese Waters [Japanese]

Hayashi Masayoshi and Shiratori Taketomo

This book reflects the latest academic achievements. In addition to about 400 ecological photographs, the book includes detailed descriptions of the characteristics of the species, how to distinguish them, and their distribution.

Kurabete Wakaru Tansuigyo Tankobon [Pictorial Field Guide to Japanese Freshwater Fishes]

Kenji Saitoh and Ryu Uchiyama

This richly illustrated field guide identifies traits useful for distinguishing 120 species of Japanese freshwater fish, looking at such morphological traits as difference in fin shapes or body shapes. It introduces similar fishes side ...

The Biology of Hypogean Fishes

Aldemaro Romero

Reprinted from Environmental Biology of Fishes, 62: 1-3 Hypogean (cave, artesian) fishes have fascinated researchers even before they were described in the scientific literature in 1842. Since then, a number of ...

The Fishes of Assam

NN Sarma

The Fishes of Assam contains a systematic treatment of 224 species of Assam. It will be helpful as a guide book for identification in the field and the laboratory by students, teacher and researchers.

What a Fish Knows

The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Jonathan Balcombe

Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses ...

Accrescimenti, Volume 8 [English / Italian]

Stages of Growth of the Marine Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea / Stadi di Accrescimento dei Molluschi Marini del Medit

Maria Scaperrotta, Stefano Bartolini and Cesare Bogi

This volume treats 124 species of Mediterranean marine mollusks. With this volume the series has exeeded 1000 species. In this volume there have been treated numerous species of some genera disregarded till now such as: Fusinus ...

Australian Native Bees

David Brouwer, Anne Dollin and Katja Hogendoorn

Combining the substantial expertise of many of Australia's leading native bee researchers, this book is a guide to observing and keeping Australia's broad range of native bee species.

Bee Journal

Sean Borodale

The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Bee Journal is a poem-journal of beekeeping ...

Biology and Culture of Portunid Crabs of World Seas

Ramasamy Santhanam

Biology and Culture of Portunid Crabs of World Seas provides an abundance of valuable first-hand information about the diversity, biology, ecology culture of the portunid crabs of the word seas. Marine crabs play an ...

Catalogue des Coleopteres Aquatiques de Region Parisienne [Catalogue of Aquatic Coleoptera from the Paris Region]

Pierre Queney

This is a flora to the aquatic beetles found in the region of Paris, France.

Chitons: The Polyplacophora from the Mexican Pacific

Adriana Reyes-Gomez

This study gives a summary of the current knowledge of Polyplacophora in the Mexican Pacific, totaling 102 species in 6 marine biogeographic provinces and belonging to 8 families and 20 genera. There is an important overlap of species ...

Coleopteres Gibbinae et Ptininae de France [Coleoptera Gibbinae and Ptininae from France]

Benjamin Calmont

A synthsis of knowledge on the 53 species of the beetle subfamilies Gibbinae and Ptininae which occur in France. Illustrated identification keys. Habitus and aedeagus photographs for each species. Distribution maps for France.

Dakara Konchu wa Omoshiroi [That's Why Insects are Interesting]

Maruyama Munetoshi

This book introduces 200 species of bizarre insects, including butterflies, ants and others.

Die Heuschrecken Tirols [The Grasshoppers of Tyrol]

Armin Landmann and Thomas Zuna-Kratky

Hardly any other insect group is as popular as the grasshoppers. Who does not know the stories of horrific biblical plagues, does not love the homely sound of chirping crickets after rain, or does not have childhood memories of the ...

Fauna Iberica, Volume 43: Bryozoa I: Ctenostomata

Oscar Reverter-Gil, Javier Souto and Eugenio Fernandez-Pulpeiro

This Monograph is devoted to the general characters of Bryozoa, coelomate, bentic, and mostly sessile and marine animals, and to the species of order Ctenostomata collected from the Ibero-Balearic waters. Forty-four species, included in ...

Fauna Sinica Invertebrata, Volume 56: Mollusca, Gastropoda, Strombacea & Naticacea [Chinese]

Zhang Suping

This volume deals with the Chinese fauna of Strombacea and Naticiacea (Mollusca, Gastropoda). The materials for studing were based on the collections from intertidal zones and continental shelf of China seas by the Institute of Oceanology ...

Honeybee Nests

Composition, Structure, Function

HR Hepburn, CWW Pirk and O Duangphakdee

Honeybee Nests, a sequel to Honeybees and Wax published nearly 30 years ago, starts with a brief introduction and discussion of nesting sites, their spaces and densities, self-organization of nest contents, and ...

Insects of Mount Wilhelm

Papua New Guinea

Tony Robillard, Frederic Legendre, Claire Villemant and Maurice Leponce

Papua New Guinea possesses among the most remarkable ecosystems in the world in terms of plant species richness and marine biodiversity. During the biotic survey "Our Planet Reviewed – Papua New Guinea 2012-2013" more than ...

Jellyfish / Meduses

Charles-Alexandre Lesueur

As naturalists on explorer Nicolas Baudin’s voyages, François Péron and illustrator Charles-Alexandre Lesueur collected thousands of species, but both men became fascinated with jellyfish. Their work brought the known ...

Longhorn Beetles of Serbia

Handbook

Dragan Pavicevic, Nastas Ilic and Milan Duric

This fauna contains colour images of the habitus and colour map of the distribution for each species of longhorn beetle inhabiting Serbia.

Los Buprestidos de Chile [The Buprestidae of Chile]

Tomas Moore Rodriguez and Pedro Vidal Garcia-Huidobro

Contains the original scientific descriptions and a complete update of the Buprestidae family in Chile in 2015; each species is illustrated in high quality, with distribution maps. Allows easy identification of each species.

Manual of Central European Muscidae (Diptera)

Morphology, Taxonomy, Identification and Distribution

Frantisek Gregor, Rudolf Rozkosny, Miroslav Bartak and Jaromir Vanhara

Volume 162 of Zoologica summarizes and updates all current information on morphology, taxonomy and distribution of the Central European Muscidae since Hennig´s famous monograph on the Palaearctic species of this family ...

Microlepidoptera of Europe, Volume 8

Psychidae

Wilfried R Arnscheid and Michael Weidlich

In Microlepidoptera of Europe, Volume 8: Psychidae Arnscheid and Weidlich provide for the first time a complete tool for identifying the European bag worm moths. The book will provide a sufficient overview of the systematics and ...

Pieridae Part 3 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region)

Subfamily Coliadinae, Tribes Rhodocerini, Euremini, Coliadini, Genus Catopsilia & Subfamily Dismorphiinae

Gian Cristoforo Bozano, John G Coutsis, P Herman, G Allegrucci, D Cesaroni and Valerio Sbordoni

This volume, the nineteenth of the series Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region and the third about the Pieridae family, deals with two very different and interesting butterfly groups: the subfamily Dismorphiinae ...

Solitary Bees

Ted Benton

In Britain and Ireland there are about ten times more species of solitary bee than bumblebee and honeybee combined, yet the solitary bees tend to be ignored and we know much less about them. They are a fascinating, attractive and diverse ...

Strizibube Srbije: Prirucnik [Longhorn Beetles of Serbia: Handbook]

Dragan Pavicevic, Nastas Ilic and Milan Duric

This fauna contains colour images of the habitus and colour map of the distribution for each species of longhorn beetle inhabiting Serbia.

Swiss Butterflies

Jason Sargerson

This is an original, habitat based guide to Swiss Butterflies. Butterflies are classified as Common, Lowland, Wetland, Rocky Steppe, Mountain, High Mountain or Ringlets. Each page has a unique selection of photographs. All photographs are ...

Texas Butterflies & Moths

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Texas' state insect – the monarch butterfly – is one of over 1700 species of butterflies and moths found in this region. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 70 familiar and unique species and includes information ...

The Book of Bees!

Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski

- How do bees communicate? - How long have they been around? - What does a beekeeper actually do? - Who survived being stung by 2,443 bees? This encyclopaedic book answers all these questions and many more ...

The Book of Shells

A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Shells

Fabio Moretzsohn and Jerry Harawewych

The lifesize guide to identifying and classifying shells. Over 100,000 kinds of mollusk have been recorded and some estimates of yet to be discovered species exceed a million. They have colonized nearly every habitat on the planet, ranging ...

The Butterflies of Sussex

A Twenty-First Century Atlas

Michael Blencowe, Neil Hulme and Matthew Oates

Sussex, sitting on the South Coast and boasting a diverse range of habitats set within beautiful, iconic landscapes, has always been recognised as one of the best areas of the country in which to watch and appreciate our butterflies.

The Hard Ticks of the World

(Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae)

Alberto A Guglielmone, Richard G Robbins, Dmitry A Apanaskevich and Trevor N Petney

Hard ticks (family Ixodidae) are obligately blood-feeding ectoparasites of all classes of vertebrates except fishes. They occur worldwide and are preeminent among hematophagous arthropods for the variety of infectious agents that they ...

The Living Terebras of South Africa

Umberto Aubry, Rosa Gargiulo and Salvatore Russo

This book on the living terebras of South Africa altogether treats 60 species of which 8 represent endemic species.

The Shell [Japanese]

Manazuru Shell Museum

The Manazuru peninsula lies in the western part of the Kanagawa prefecture in Japan. The tip of this peninsula separates Sagami Bay from a stretch of open-water known as Sagami-nada. The town of Manazuru hosts a shell museum with some ...

Welche Spinne ist Das?: 132 Spinnen Einfach Bestimmen [Which Spider is That?: Easily Identifying 132 Spiders]

Martin Baehr

Welche Spinne ist das? is a practical and authoratitive nature guide which helps identify over 132 indigenous spider species.

World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 15: Conopidae (Diptera)

Jens-Hermann Stuke

The World Catalogue of the Conopidae offers the first complete list of this Diptera family worldwide since 1919. 808 recent and fossil species, together with their synonyms, belonging to 57 genera are listed. All original descriptions have ...

Fishes of the Mio-Pliocene Western Snake River Plain and Vicinity

Salmonid Fishes from Mio-pliocene Lake Sediments in the Western Snake River Plain and the Great Basin

Ralph F Stearley and Gerald R Smith

Salmon are iconic fishes of the North Pacific Rim. The evolution of Pacific salmon, formerly thought to be an ice age phenomenon, is now known to date back at least to the middle Miocene. In this volume nine lineages of salmons, trouts ...

Fossilium Catalogus Plantae, Volume 111

Index of Angiosperm Leaf Species Names M-O, 1823-2008

J van der Burgh

From the introduction: "During work on leaf impressions/compressions the need of an index of names and descriptions of angiosperm leaf species became evident. It also was of value to know where, when and by whom they were ...

Fossilium Catalogus Plantae, Volume 112

Index of Angiosperm Leaf Species Names P, 1823-2011

J van der Burgh

From the introduction: "During work on leaf impressions/compressions the need of an index of names and descriptions of angiosperm leaf species became evident. It also was of value to know where, when and by whom they were ...

Fossilium Catalogus Plantae, Volume 113

Index of Angiosperm Leaf Species Names Q-R, 1823-2012

J van der Burgh

From the introduction: "During work on leaf impressions/compressions the need of an index of names and descriptions of angiosperm leaf species became evident. It also was of value to know where, when and by whom they were ...

Fossilium Catalogus Plantae, Volume 114

Index of Angiosperm Leaf Species Names S-Z, 1823-2014

J van der Burgh

From the introduction: "During work on leaf impressions/compressions the need of an index of names and descriptions of angiosperm leaf species became evident. It also was of value to know where, when and by whom they were ...

Geoarchaeology and Radiocarbon Chronology of Stone Age Northeast Asia

Vladimir V Pitul'ko, Elena Yu Pavlova and Richard L Bland

This English translation of a work previously published in Russian (Geoarkheologiya i Radiouglerodnaya Khronologiya Kamennogo veka Severo Vostochnoi Azii, St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010) presents an overview of the Paleolithic ...

Palaeontographica Canadiana, Volume 34: Solitary Disphyllid Corals from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Western Canada

Ross A McLean

Solitary rugose corals of the family Disphyllidae (considered to include the family Charactophyllidae) are abundant in Frasnian (lower Upper Devonian) strata of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Taxa described from this succession ...

Solnhofen: Ein Fenster in die Jurazeit [Solnhofen: A Window into the Jurassic] (2-Volume Set)

Gloria F Arratia, Hans-Peter Schultze, Helmut Tischlinger and Gunter Viohl

Fossils from the 150 million-year-old calcareous rocks of Southern Franconia are closely linked to the name "Solnhofen". They are famous all over the world and highly sought after by museums and collectors. Everyone knows the ...

Stegosaurus: An Extraordinary Specimen and the Secrets It Reveals

Paul M Barrett

The incredible dinosaur that dominates the Earth Hall of the Natural History Museum is the most intact Stegosaurus fossil skeleton ever found. Measuring nearly 20 feet long from head to tail, around 90% of the skeleton is preserved, making ...

The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic

T Max Friesen and Owen K Mason

The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy ...

Villarroya, Yacimiento Clave de la Paleontologia Riojana [Villarroya, Key Site of La Rioja Palaeontology]

Maria Teresa Alberdi, Beatriz Azanza and Emilio Cervantes

This book presents an overview of the paleontological site of Villarroya, located in the Rioja Baja, 10 km south of Arnedo, Spain. The Villarroya site entered history by the hand of road engineer Eduardo Carvajal, director of the lignite ...

Zetsumetsu Dobutsu Saikyo-o Zukan [Guide to the Strongest Extinct Animals]

Minoru Yoshi Tatsuro and Hirai Toshiaki

Mammoths, the saber-toothed tiger Smilodon, Paraceratherium (the largest land mammal ever), Titanoboa... this book gathers extinct animals from across space and time. This visual and entertaining book pits these animals against each other ...

Cladocera: Family Eurycercidae (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda)

Alexey A Kotov and Eugeniya I Bekker

The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) are a group of microscopic crustaceans that are dominant in continental water bodies of almost every type (Dumont & Negrea, 2002; Forró et al., 2008). They have become model ...

Coral Reef Marine Plants of Hainan Island

Antoninovich Titlyanov, Viktorovna Titlyanova, Xiubao Li and Hui Huang

Coral Reef Marine Plants of Hainan Island summarizes the literature on the role and use of marine plants in coral reef ecosystems, especially in China and countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. The first chapter of ...

How to Keep Soft Corals [Japanese]

Kyoshi Endoh

This handbook provides information on successfully keeping soft corals, sea fans, sponges, sea squirts, gorgonians, and zoanthids.

Sekai ni Hitotsudake no Shinkai Suizokukan [The Only Deep Sea Aquarium in the World]

Numadzuko Shinkai Suizokukan

The world of the deep sea is one of darkness where the light of the sun does not reach. It is an unknown area with many mysteries still. But Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium in Japan allows you to have a glimpse at the deep sea. Numazu borders ...

Shinkai no Seibutsu [Deep Sea Creatures]

Fujikura Katsunori

This guide introduces 184 species of creatures living in the deep sea. On each spread, one species is introduced and details of its biology are given.

Kim Williams Justesen and Judy Newhouse

How old are deer before they turn into elk? And just how big are those mountains? Based on the real questions kids ask rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park, here are the facts from the rangers who live and work in this spectacular ...

A Native Breed

Starting a Lake District Hill Farm

Andrea Meanwell

Andrea Meanwell helped out on her aunt and uncle’s hill farm in the North Pennines in Westmorland as a child and dreamt about having her own flock of sheep. This is the story of how she started her own hill farm in the Lake District ...

Alexander von Humboldt und die Erfindung der Natur [The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt

Andrea Wulf

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin ...

Animal Vegetable Mineral

Organising Nature, A Picture Album

Tim Dee

Animal Vegetable Mineral celebrates the beauty and strangeness of the very early 'infographics', charts, and ordering systems devised in an age that transformed how we see and understand nature. These are the ...

At Home in the Woods

Living the Life of Thoreau Today

Bradford Angier and Vena Angier

One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of the American heritage, as sound today as the day ...

Beasts in My Belfry

Gerald Durrell

Written with Gerald Durrell's usual sharp eye for observing humour in any situation, Beasts in My Belfry will delight fans both old and new. "At the age of two I made up my mind quite firmly and unequivocally ...

Bradt Travel Guide: Alpe-Adria Trail

From the Alps to the Adriatic: Hiking Through Austria, Slovenia & Italy

Rudolf Abraham

This is the first English-language guide to the epic new 750-km hiking route through the mountains of Austria, Slovenia and Italy, from the foot of the Grossglockner (at 3,798 m, the highest peak in Austria and the Eastern Alps) to ...

Can You Find Me?

Nature's Hidden Secrets

Paul Zborowski

Some creatures are easy to see because they are either very good at escaping from danger, or their bright colours warn that they are poisonous. Harmless tasty creatures need to look as invisible as possible. These are camouflaged.

Captain Scott

Icy Deceits and Untold Realities

Krzysztof Sienicki

By digitizing Captain Scott's journey to the South Pole the author showed that all previously assumed causes of the disaster were insignificant as compared to the psychological collapse of the expedition due to losing the race to Cape ...

Caves and Cave Life

Philip Chapman

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Caves and Cave Life was first published in 1993. Cave exploration has uncovered archaeological ...

Cicerone Guides: Trekking in the Vosges and Jura

The GR5 and GR53 - Wissembourg to Lac Leman

Les Smith and Elizabeth R Smith

Guidebook to walking the GR5/GR53 route through eastern France, traversing the Vosges and the Haut-Jura plateau. The 688 km (426 mile) trail from Wissembourg to Nyon on Lake Geneva features wooded and grassy hills, river gorges and fascinating ...

Collecting Evolution

The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin

Matthew J James

The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over 78,000 species were collected.

Curious and Unusual Creatures [Japanese]

This book introduces recently discovered creatues with beautiful photos and informative write-ups.

Early Geological Maps of Europe

Central Europe 1750 to 1840

Jan T Kozak, Alena Cejchanova, Zdenek Kukal and Karel Posmourny

Early Geological Maps of Europe focuses on the presentation and evaluation of geological maps of the Central Europe from 1750 up to 1840. Milestones in presentation of stratigraphy and tectonics and new geological models on such ...

Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity

Christopher Schliephake, Brooke Holmes and Serenella Iovino

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or ...

Empire of Extinction

Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867

Ryan Tucker Jones

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trading ...

Exceptionally Beautiful Eyes [Japanese]

Suguro Tatsumi

This photographic books contains a collection of close-up photographs of spider's eyes.

Genese d'une Decouverte: La Division des Infusoires (1765-1766) [Genesis of a Discovery: The Division of Infusories

Marc J Ratcliff and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

What kind of tools might a researcher create to identify a new scientific fact? What is there in common between the construction of the fact and its reception? How do the contents of a laboratory notebook interact with scientific correspondence ...

Gowanus Waters

Steven Hirsch

The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long waterway connecting Upper New York Bay (the bay in between Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey, and Staten Island) with the formerly industrial interior of Brooklyn. Originally it was fed by the marshland ...

Greenpeace Captain

Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior

Peter Willcox

In over 40 years as a senior captain for Greenpeace International, Peter Willcox has been in the vanguard of the international environmentalist movement. He has led crews into battle for the good of the planet against whale killers, nuclear ...

Hampstead Heath

London's Countryside

Matthew Maran and Frances de la Tour

Hampstead Heath is an ancient London park situated five kilometres north of the city centre. Seven million people set foot on the Heath every year, making it one of London's best-loved and most-visited green spaces.

History of the Alps, 1500-1900

Environment, Development, and Society

Jon Mathieu and Matthew Vester

In the 1700s, Jean-Jacques Rousseau celebrated the Alps as the quintessence of the triumph of nature over the "horrors" of civilization. Now available in English, History of the Alps, 1500-1900 ...

Holding On

Iain Scott

Following a promotional print run in 2012, The Wildlife For All Trust has just published Holding On. This book features a stunning collection from lain Scott, one of the world's best wildlife photographers. Tigers, lions, elephants ...

House of Lost Worlds

Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth

Richard Conniff

This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way ...

Ice Ages

When the World Chills Out

Russell Ferrett

Imagine the earth – temperatures below freezing and covered completely in ice. Our last ice age may have ended around 12 000 years ago but it wasn't the only one. The earth has had many ice ages, constantly changing from hot to ...

Ill Nature

Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Joy Williams

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution – related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in the USA. Joy Williams ...

Im Eisigen Weiss [Arctic]

Vincent Munier

Vincent Munier showcases his best pictures from the Arctic. He brought them from different polar expeditions lead in winter during the past 6 years, generally alone and with full autonomy. In the cold, pulling heavy sleds, he walked and ...

Into Woods

Bill Roorbach

Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, family, and place, it begins with his honeymoon on a wine farm in France's ...

John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

John Rae and Ken McGoogan

Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813-1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost Franklin ...

Lab Girl

A Story of Trees, Science and Love

Hope Jahren

Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much ...

Lessons in Landscape

80 Techniques for Taking Better Photographs

Peter Watson

If you have ever wondered how the top photographers manage to produce such stunning landscapes, Lessons in Landscape has all the answers. It presents a collection of 80 practical lessons that have been tried and tested in the ...

Muck Diving

Nigel Marsh

Twenty years ago divers venturing away from a coral reef or shipwreck to explore sand would have been considered slightly strange or lost. But in recent years, diving on 'muck' has opened up a whole new world – the realm of ...

Noche En Los Everglades [One Night in the Everglades]

Laurel Larsen, Joyce Mihran Turley, Alida Ribbi and Rudolf Jaffe

Follow two scientists as they spend a night in the Everglades collecting water samples, photographing wildlife, and sloshing through marshes in an attempt to understand this mysterious ecosystem. Part of a long-term effort to return the ...

Northern California Nature Weekends

Fifty-Two Adventures in Nature

Jeanne L Clark and Robert W Garrison

Every season offers new reasons to get outside and explore – if you know when and where to go. Northern California Nature Weekends provides all the information you need to plan fifty-two great weekend getaways-from excursions ...

On the Marshes

Carol Donaldson and Ffiona Lewis

For three years, Carol Donaldson lived in a caravan on the North Kent Marshes while working for the RSPB, Britain's largest wildlife conservation charity. Despite the hardship of frozen pipes, electricity which blew out in every ...

One Night in the Everglades

Laurel Larsen and Joyce Mihran Turley

Follow two scientists as they spend a night in the Everglades collecting water samples, photographing wildlife, and sloshing through marshes in an attempt to understand this mysterious ecosystem. Part of a long-term effort to return the ...

Parque Nacional de Garajonay: World Heritage Site / Patrimonio Mundial / Erbe der Menscheit

Jose Manuel Moreno

This pocket-sized gift book presents a photographic journey through Garajonay, the youngest of the Canary Islands' National Parks. This park on La Gomera has been declared a World Heritage site; it features the Canarian Laurel forest ...

Photographing Landscape Whatever the Weather

Tony Worobiec

Once you realise that the defining quality of any landscape is the weather then you are truly able to grasp landscape photography. The weather governs the two most important features of landscape images, notably lighting and mood.

Planet Earth II: A New World Revealed (Region 2 & 4 / B)

Sir David Attenborough

Captured in stunning Ultra-high definition detail, Planet Earth II is an immersive exploration of the jungles, mountains, deserts, islands, grasslands and cities of the world. Journey to the four corners of the globe to discover ...

Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish's Watercolors (2-Volume Set)

Kate Furbish's Watercolors

Kate Furbish, Richard HF Lindemann and Melissa Dow Cullina

Celebrating the life and work of botanist Kate Furbish, Rowman and Littlefield is pleased to partner with the Bowdoin College Library to publish the first ever catalog of Furbish's artwork. In the late nineteenth and early ...

Power Lines

Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

Andrew Needham

In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the ...

Rhythm of the Wild

A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park

Kim Heacox

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book ...

Shadow of the Thylacine

One Man's Epic Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

Col Bailey

The supposedly extinct thylacine – aka the Tasmanian tiger – continues to attract the imagination of writers and scientists alike. Recent examples include Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks' ...

Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens

A Dictionary

Nicki Faircloth and Viven Thomas

Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions ...

Short Nature Walks Long Island

Rodney Albright, Priscilla Albright and Robert L Wendt

This guide features 52 walks on Long Island. Each walk includes an easy-to-follow map and directions for locating and following the trails.

Springlines: Exploring Hidden and Mysterious Bodies of Water

Clare Best and Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis

The idea for Springlines came from a walk on the South Downs in the drought of spring 2012. Starting that day, Clare and Mary Anne went in search of bodies of water that are concealed, forgotten or overlooked. They found places ...

The Birdman's Wife

Melissa Ashley

Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before. But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman's Wife at last gives voice to a ...

The Bush

Travels in the Heart of Australia

Donald Watson

Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is – or should be – is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and ...

The Curlew, Issue 1: Quercus

Lynn Parr

The Curlew is a new quarterly magazine dedicated to fine writing about the natural world. Issue 1 contains a stunning selection of drawings of the wildlife of the Maasai Mara, Kenya, by the 'Big Cat People' ...

The Illustrated Walden

Thoreau Bicentennial Edition

Henry David Thoreau

To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897. In 1897, thirty-five years after Thoreau ...

The Language of Elephants and Other Large Mammals

Megan Kopp

Large mammals communicate in many ways. Giraffes neck. Elephants wag their ears. Hippopotamuses bellow. All of these signals share specific information with other members of an animal group. Readers will also learn about how humans have ...

The Mountains of Ireland

Gareth McCormack

This landmark collection of imagery showcases the Irish mountains at their very best. Gareth McCormack has spent over 20 years exploring Ireland's hills, going to extraordinary lengths to capture summits in the wildest, most dramatic ...

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

Andrew C Isenberg

The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences.

The Physiology of Reproduction in Fungi

Lilian E Hawker

Originally published in 1957, as part six of the Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology series, The Physiology of Reproduction in Fungi provides a concise discussion regarding the reproductive processes of fungi.

The Saga of the "Discovery"

Louis Charles Bernacchi

This is the story of the ship especially built for Antarctic exploration, in particular for Captain Robert Falcon Scott's first expedition, by one who went with him. Bernacchi, a physicist, was the only member of that first expedition ...

Trees

Irene Kung and Giovanna Calvenzi

Irene Kung has always been fascinated by trees – both their shape and their symbolic meaning. In Trees she deploys her great skill as a photographer to portray trees old and young, using the play of light to create stunning ...

Two Winters in a Tipi

My Search for the Soul of the Forest

Mark Warren

One stormy August night, a lightning bolt struck Mark Warren's tin-roofed farmhouse and burned everything to the ground. Even his metal tools melted. Friends loaned him a tent, but after just a month it began to break down ...

Underwater Photography

A Pictorial Guide to Shooting Great Pictures

Larry Gates

Beginning with a look at the equipment used – from point & shoot cameras, to sophisticated DSLRs, to smartphone camera – Larry Gates explains how to keep your camera watertight, choose lenses and accessories, and assemble ...

When the Earth Moves

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Russell Ferrett

You may think you're standing on solid ground, but the earth beneath us is constantly on the move; always slowly, and sometimes dramatically. From earth-shattering earthquakes to terrifying tsunamis and violent volcanoes ...

Wild Beautiful Places

Picture-Perfect Journeys Around the Globe

National Geographic

National Geographic takes you on a world tour like no other in its spellbinding new book, Wild Beautiful Places. Highlighting 50 of Earth's most pristine, scenic world-class photographers. Coupled with accessible, engaging ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016: Les Plus Belles Photos de Nature [French]

Rosamund Kidman-Cox and Lewis Blackwell

For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence. This powerful ...

A Field Guide to Long Island Sound

Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife

Patrick J Lynch

Long Island Sound consists of a diverse collection of unique marine, estuarine, and terrestrial ecosystems located in one of the most densely populated regions in the United States. The Sound and its coastlines are home not only to myriad ...

A Last Wild Place

Mike Tomkies

Mike Tomkies gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature around him, in a harsh and testing environment of unrivalled beauty. Vivid colours and sounds fill these pages – exotic wild orchids, the roar of rutting stags ...

Biodiversity of Raj Bhavan, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Usha Ganguli-Lachungpa, Sudhi Zong Lucksom and Dechen Lachungpa

The book on Gangtok's Raj Bhavan, a brainchild of His Excellency the Governor of Sikkim Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh, with suggestions from Shri S. T. Lachungpa IFS PCCF cum Secretary, Forests, grew from a pictorial booklet to a magazine ...

Bioprospecting of Indigenous Bioresources of North East India

Jubilee Purkayastha

Bioprospecting of Indigenous Bioresources of North East India is a comprehensive information on the indigenous bioresources of North Eastern India with the scope of bioprospecting for discovery and commercialization of new source ...

Brohmer - Fauna von Deutschland: Ein Bestimmungsbuch unserer Heimischen Tierwelt [Brohmer - Fauna of Germany

Matthias Schaefer

Since its release in 1914, "Brohm" is the go-to guide for all those interested in Germany's diverse wildlife. The book is designed to allow for clear and precise determination of all the indigenous fauna – including ...

Congo's Environmental Paradox

Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty

Theodore Trefon

The Democratic Republic of Congo has the natural resources the world needs – it is crucial to satisfying our craving for the latest high-tech gadgets; the Inga Dam could light up all of Africa; while Congo's farmers could feed ...

Crossbill Guide: Veluwe

Dirk Hilbers

The Veluwe is a large area of woodlands and heathlands in the middle of the Netherlands. A dry 'island' surrounded by rivers and  lowland meadows, it is the largest area of unbroken forest and heath in northwestern Europe.

Edge of the Jungle

William Beebe and Robert Finch

Naturalist and world explorer William Beebe served as the director of the New York Zoological Society's Tropical Research Station in British Guiana (present day Guyana) in the years following World War I, during which time he kept ...

Hidden Waters of New York City

A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs

Sergey Kadinsky

Beneath the asphalt streets of Manhattan, creeks and streams once flowed freely. The remnants of these once-pristine waterways are all over the Big Apple, hidden in plain sight. Hidden Waters of New York City offers a glimpse ...

John Muir Trail Adventure Set

Map & Naturalist Guide

James R Kavanagh, Raymond Leung and National Geographic

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

National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States

Featuring 400+ Parks, Monuments, Battlefields, Historic Sites, Scenic Trails, Recreation Areas, and Seashores

Mel White

From creation areas and trails to historic sites, from nature hikes to seashores, this comprehensive travel guide and reference to the United States National Parks has been completely revised and updated, with a brand-new cover, more than ...

Natuur in Nederland [Nature in the Netherlands]

Frank Berendse, Ruben Smit and Ed Hazebroek

The go-to book for lovers of Dutch nature has now been reprinted by popular demand. This beautiful work contains everything one might want to know about nature in the Netherlands: wild plants and animals, characteristic landscapes, their ...

Texas Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state small mammal – the armadillo – is one of the thousands of species of animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout Texas. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species ...

The Basque Country and Navarre

France & Spain

Murray Stewart

In this, the most complete guidebook to the Spanish and French Basque Country and Navarre, Murray Stewart covers the principal cities – rejuvenated Bilbao, beautiful San Sebastian, verdant Vitoria-Gasteiz, atmospheric Bayonne and ...

The Great Divide

Stephen Grace and Jim Havey

Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, is a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region's first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and ...

The Grid and the River

Philadelphia's Green Places, 1682-1876

Elizabeth Milroy

Philadelphians are fond of quoting a letter in which William Penn described his vision of a "greene country towne, which will never be burnt & always wholesome". Today, Philadelphia's public parks cover more than ten ...

The Peak District

KC Edwards

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The Peak District was first published in 1962. A survey of great interest to naturalists and ...

The Spirit of Yellowstone

Judith L Meyer and Vance Howard

Yellowstone National Park's famous geysers, exotic landscape, and beautiful wildlife partially explain its enormous popularity, but there is something more to the Yellowstone experience – a powerful spirit to the place that is ...

The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park

Darwin Lambert and Jr.,Harry F Byrd

A history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary.

Thoreau's Animals

Henry David Thoreau, Geoff Wisner and Debby Cotter Kaspari

Many of the most vivid writings in the renowned Journal of Henry David Thoreau concern creatures he came upon when rambling the fields, forests, and wetlands of Concord and nearby communities. A keen and thoughtful observer, he wrote ...

Trees, Knots, and Outriggers

Environmental Research in the Northeast Kula Ring

Frederick H Damon

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia. Damon details the intricacies of indigenous ...

Upland: Long Mynd and the Stiperstones

Andrew Fusek Peters

The Long Mynd and the Stiperstones ridge make up the largest area of heathland in the Shropshire Hills. Upland is an exploration of the wildlife and landscape of these two hills in stunning photography by Andrew Fusek Peters.

Utah Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state insect – the honey bee – is one of more than 600 species of vertebrate animals inhabiting the diverse ecosystems found throughout the Beehive State. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar ...

Vermont Wildlife

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

From ladybugs to moose, Vermont's diverse ecosystems are home to thousands of species of animals. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and ...

West Virginia

Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells

Jacob Richards Dodge and Kenneth R Bailey

West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells celebrates the state of West Virginia. Originally published in 1865 as a series of studies on mineral resources, observations on agriculture, and interviews with business ...

Wild Beauty

A Photographic Field Guide to Australia's Biggest, Oldest and Rarest Natural Treasures

Graham Lloyd and Vanessa Hunter

Over the course of four years, journalist Graham Lloyd and photographer Vanessa Hunter sought out Australia's wildest, most significant and least known natural phenomena. Wild Beauty is an intimate showcase of 26 of these ...

Wildlife Sanctuaries of India

Bhola

This book gives an overview of the many wildlife sanctuaries and reserves dotted around the country.

Yellowstone Country

The Photographs of Jack Richard

Bob Richard, Mark Bagne and Jack Richard

A regional pioneer of photojournalism, Jack Richard photographed in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly posed images captured the Western way of life. Yellowstone Country: The Photographs of ...

100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids

Mohan Pradhan

This is the second, revised edition of the first comprehensive guide book on the orchids of Sikkim in over a century. Sikkim is a mountainous State of incredible beauty and altitude variations that range from 250 m to over 8000 m in a ...

A Field Guide to Economically Important Plants of Sri Lanka

Prabha Amarasinghe, Priyanganie Senanayake and Gunapala Amarasinghe

This field guide includes 144 selected plants with economic value in Sri Lanka. It includes over 300 colour photos of flowers, vegetative parts and wood. The guide adheres to the latest nomenclature and follows the Angiosperm Phylogeny ...

A Handbook of the World's Conifers (2-Volume Set)

Aljos Farjon

This revised and updated handbook includes detailed information on all 615 conifers, temperate as well as tropical. A Handbook of the World's Conifers (2-Volume Set) is an encyclopedic work offering users as diverse as ...

A John Clare Flora

MM Mahood and Richard Mabey

The Northamptonshire poet John Clare (1793-1864) knew and named more than 400 plant species in his poetry and prose, an 'astonishing tally', as Molly Mahood points out in her study of 'The Poet as Botanist'. Nor are these ...

An Annotated Checklist of Southeast Asian Begonia

Mark Hughes and Stephen Blackmore

This book brings together information on nomenclature, typification, distribution and conservation status for 521 Begonia species found in Southeast Asia. It's purpose is to provide a solid baseline for further research on this highly ...

An Atlas of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Anglesey

RH Roberts

An Atlas of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Anglesey by R.H. Roberts was published privately in a limited edition of 12 in 2002. The Atlas is currently a very rare book with only three copies known to remain worldwide. In order to ...

Atlas of Clinically Important Fungi

Jr.,Carmen V Sciortino

Although there are many texts that provide quality information for the identification of fungi, researchers and technologists rarely have time to read the text. Most are rushed for time and seek morphological information that helps guide ...

Atlas of the Plant Seeds of North Asia [Russian]

AN Berkutenko

This book contains 800 colour photographs of seeds of the vascular plants of North Asia, captured with a digital microscope, which are published here for the first time. The basis for the photographic tables were the seeds of 773 species ...

Benmore Botanic Garden Guidebook

Anna Levin, Fay Young and Stephen Blackmore

The definitive full-colour guide to Argyll's magnificent mountainside garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. An essential companion to your visit and the perfect keepsake.

Bizarre Botany

Christina Harrison and Lauren Gardiner

Take a journey through a forest of fascinating facts and explore the wonders of the plant kingdom – from the tallest and smallest, to the smelliest and deadliest. This A-to-Z gift book reveals some of the most quirky and awe-inspiring ...

Bread, Wine, Chocolate

The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

Simran Sethi

Part love letter to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, part wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening to wipe out the diversity of our food supply, Bread, Wine, Chocolate explores the history and cultural ...

Daffodil: Biography of a Flower

Helen O'Neill

A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to science ...

Die Giftigsten Pflanzen Deutschlands: Kennzeichen - Standorte - Wirkung [The Most Poisonous Plants of Germany

Gisela Tubes

Whether in gardens and parks, or during hikes and walks, poisonous plants are to be found everywhere. They are beautiful, often smell beguilingly and are tempting to touch, pick or even taste. Recognising dangerous poisonous plants is ...

Eucalypts of the Mount Alexander Region

Bernard Slattery, Ern Perkins and Bronwyn Silver

Presents the most commonly found species of Eucalypt in the Mount Alexander Region of central Victoria. Generously illustrated, this guide provides clear descriptions in plain language, perfect for any enthusiast. Though firmly based on ...

Flora Argentina, Volume 2 [Spanish]

Licofitas, Helechos, Gymnospermae

Fernando Omar Zuloaga and Manuel Joaquin Belgrano

Flora Vascular de la Républica Argentina, Volume 2: Licofitas, Helechos, Gymnospermae is part of a new Spanish flora that follows up on the Flora Fanerogamica Argentina that was published in 106 fascicles between ...

Flora Fanerogamica da Ilha do Cardoso, Volume 16

Volume 16, the last volume in this series, deals with the families Acanthaceae, Araceae, Bignoniaceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Lamiaceae (Labiatae), Myrtaceae, Sapindaceae, Sapotaceae, and Symplocaceae.

Flora Lichenum Sinicorum, Volume 11: Peltigerales (I)

Wu Ji'nong and Liu Huajie

This book records 109 species of lichen in China of the order Peltigerales, belonging to 4 families (Lobariaceae, Nephromataceae, Peltigeraceae, and Collemataceae) and 8 genera (Lobaria (Schreb.) Hoffm.; Pseudocyphellaria ...

Flora Lichenum Sinicorum, Volume 13: Ostropales (I), Graphidaceae (1)

Jia Zefeng

Volume 13 covers a total of 103 species of lichens belonging to 6 genera, including those of the genus Corydalis. This volume provides a description of the morphological and anatomical characteristics of the families, genera ...

Flora Lichenum Sinicorum, Volume 4: Parmeliaceae (1)

Chen Jianbing

Flora Lichenum Sinicorum, Volume 4: Parmeliaceae (1) describes 171 species in 22 genera.

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 194

Familia Compositae Tribu Inuleae

Rosario Redonda-Martinez

Fascicle 194 deals with the family Compositae, tribe Inuleae, a tribe of herbaceous plants.

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 195

Familia Talinaceae

Patricia Hernandez-Ledesma and Gilberto Ocampo-Acosta

Fascicle 195 deals with the family Talinaceae, perennial herbacious plants or trees.

Flora of Telangana State, India

KN Reddy and C Sudhakar Reddy

The present book provides comprehensive information for the identification of flowering plants of Telangana State, which is a prerequisite for sustainable management of these natural resources and for documentation of the plant diversity ...

Flora of the Seychelles

A Field Guide to Selected Plants

Steen G Hansen and Victorin F Laboudallon

Flora of the Seychelles focuses on the higher, flowering plants (omitting grasses, sedges, seagrasses, ferns, mosses and clubmosses), and gives amongst others updated information about the flowering season, the preferred habitat ...

Flora of the Southern Western Ghats and Palnis

A Field Guide

Pippa Mukherjee

An extremely useful field guide for general readers and nature lovers Flora of the Southern Western Ghats and Palnis provides a list of more than 200 species of trees, herbs, and shrubs that can be found in the region, accompanies ...

Flore du Gabon, Volume 49: Leguminosae - Papilionoideae

Marc SM Sosef, Jacques Florence, Ludovic Ngok Banak and Henri Paul Bourobou Bourobou

Volume 49 treats the families Leguminosae to Papilionoideae.

Flowers in Horton Plains

KB Ranawana and VA Sanjeewa Jayarathne

The main attraction of coming to Horton Plains is to see the World's End, a look down from a precipice 1,200 m (4,000 feet) below, sometimes enveloped in mist, but when the weather is good, with a spectacular view of tea estates and ...

Foraging Oregon

Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in Oregon

Christopher Nyerges

From wild carrot to serviceberries, pineapple weed to watercress, lamb's quarter to sea rocket, Foraging Oregon uncovers the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Beaver State. Helpfully organized by plant families ...

Grown in Sri Lanka

Cultivated Flowering Plants

Sriyanie Miththapala, Janaki Galappatti and Siril Wijesundara

This book describes flowering plants that are commonly cultivated or planted in Sri Lanka for food, wood, medicine, fuelwood, shade or ornamental purposes. These plants usually have to be planted deliberately by humans and do not generally ...

Handbook of Major Palm Pests

Biology and Management

Victoria Soroker and Stefano Colazza

Handbook of Major Palm Pests: Biology and Management contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the red palm weevil and the palm borer moth, two newly emergent invasive palm pests which are adversely affecting ...

How the Garden Grew

A Photographic History of Horticulture at RBGE

Leonie Paterson and David Knott

This beautiful book contains a collection of images from the RBGE Archive showing the Garden and the people who have worked in it through the ages. With more than 100 black and white images covering the period from our earliest ...

Lichens of the Falkland Islands

An Introductory Guide

Alan Orange

The Falkland Islands are rich in lichens, favoured by the clean air and unspoilt landscapes. Lichens have a subtle but powerful influence on the appearance of the land, from the soft greys of the stone runs to the vivid orange of rocks ...

Medicinal Flora of China, Volume 11 [Chinese]

Zhang Shuren

Volume 11 deal with, amongst others, Potamogetonaceae, Liliaceae, Alismataceae, Rhizophora, Corydalis, Aquaticus, Ophiopogon, Pitchellia, Phyllophraga, Iris, Scolophora, Euphorbia, Veratrum, Anemarrhena, and Chlorophytum.

Mountain Flowers

John Earle Raven and KC Edwards

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Mountain Flowers was first published in 1956. British mountain flowers have a rarity and individuality ...

Orchid: A Cultural History

Jim Endersby

Orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognisable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchids have carried symbolic weight in countless cultures over time. The ancient Greeks associated them with fertility ...

Pareys Buch der Baume [Parey's Book of Trees]

Alan Mitchell and John Wilkinson

Altogether 2,400 detailed colour drawings showing trees in their habitat make this tried and tested tree guide unique. Besides the leaf, flower and fruit, the bark and growth form are also often pictured. As an extra there is a special ...

Phytophthora: An Indian Perspective

P Chowdappa

Phytophthora, 'Plant destroyer', is known worldwide for the devastating plant disease epidemics caused and continuing even after 170 years of Irish potato famine. The destruction of horticultural crops began in India in 1914 when ...

Primulas of Sikkim Himalaya

With Supplement from Kingdom of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh (India)

Keshab C Pradhan

Around 40 species of Primula have their natural habitat in the high alpine climes of Sikkim and this book offers an insight into all of them with photographic illustrations taken in their natural habitats and contributed largely by ...

Reviews on Indian Medicinal Plants, Volume 14: La-Ly

Madhu Sharma

Reviews 101 genera of medicinal plants used in India. See table of contents for a listing.

Suomen Kaavat [Finnish Polypores]

Tuomo Niemela

Polypores and other wood-decaying fungi play an important role in wild forests. They return a dead tree to nutrients and energy in the natural cycle, and increase forest diversity. Some species cause damage to parks and commercial forests ...

The Benmore Fernery

Celebrating the World of Ferns

Mary Gibby and Stephen Blackmore

Discover the world of ferns with this illustrated guidebook from RBGE. The Fernery at Benmore is a unique building, constructed for James Duncan at his Benmore estate in the early 1870's at the height of the Victorian fern ...

The Herb Companion

The Essential Guide to Using Herbs for Your Health and Well-Being

Marcus A Webb and Alison Candlin

The Herb Companion is an essential home reference guide to over 50 herbs. Each entry gives the essential properties of each herb, as well as its medicinal and culinary uses, and cultural significance. In addition, there are sections ...

The Living Collection

David Rae and Stephen Blackmore

A comprehensive account of the history, accession, care and maintainance of RBGE's living plant collection across our four Gardens. In The Living Collection David Rae offers a new way of seeing the extraordinary diversity of ...

The Long, Long Life of Trees

Fiona Stafford

Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have ...

The Most Beautiful Gardens Ever Written

A Guide

Jane Gillette

Are gardens anything more than collections of plants? Spaces for leisure activities? Extensions that protect the private house from the public road? Art objects appreciated by a relatively small group of connoisseurs? To consider such ...

The Queen Mother's Memorial Garden

A Souvenir Guide

Simon Crutchley, HRH Prince Charles and David Bowes-Lyon

Enjoy this guide at home or during a tour of this spectacular garden at the Edinburgh site. The Souvenir Guide explores The Queen Mother's long association with Scotland and  explains the function of the garden, its features and ...

The Rhododendrons of Sikkim

Handbook

Keshab C Pradhan

This is a handbook for the casual visitor to Sikkim, India, to help them appreciate and understand the various species of rhododendrons that they might encounter here.

Tochukaso Handobukku Tankobon [The Handbook of Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms in Japan]

Moriguchi Mitsuru and Yasuda Mamoru

This is a field guide to vegetable wasps and plant worms, a class of entomogenous fungi, that is fungi parasitic upon insects, including Cordyceps sinensis. The guide introduces 68 species.

Toxic and Harmful Microalgae of the World Ocean

Nicolas Chomerat, Philipp Hess, Elisabeth Nezan and Patrick Lassus

This is the first ever global compendium on harmful algal blooms (HAB): microorganisms that deplete fish stocks, destroy fish farms and bring disease and death both to humans and to large sea animals. In a case-by-case review ...

Utah Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

The state tree – the blue spruce – is one of thousands of species of plants growing in the diverse ecosystems found throughout Utah. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees ...

Vermont Trees & Wildflowers

A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Vermont's state tree, the Sugar Maple, is one of several species of deciduous trees responsible for the spectacular fall foliage displays the state is famous for. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and ...

Wild and Garden Plants

Stuart Max Walters

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Wild and Garden Plants was first published in 1993. The aim of Wild & Garden Plants ...

A Genetic Perspective about the Origins of the Canarian Livestock / Una Perspectiva Genetica sobre los Origenes del

Felix Goyache, Oscar Ramirez, Juan Capote and Marcel Amills

This edited collection looks at the origin of Canarian livestock from a genetic perspective and features the following contributions ...

Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee?

A Mind-Bending Menagerie of Animal Psychology

Ben Ambridge

What makes humans different from animals? Psy-Q author Ben Ambridge's illuminating new book has a surprising answer: really, we're all just animals. But all animals – us included – are pretty special.

Beyond Tooth and Claw

The Nature of Carnivore Minds

Gay A Bradshaw

Animals we consider predators are dangerous and unpredictable, devoid of emotion, and capable only of acting on instinct. Or are they? In this pioneering book the founder of trans-species psychology refutes many misperceptions about the ...

Eat Me

A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism

Bill Schutt

Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the ..

Handbook of the Protists

John M Archibald, Alastair GB Simpson and Claudio H Slamovits

Published in a modern, user-friendly format this fully revised and updated edition of The Handbook of Protoctista (1990) is the resource for those interested in the biology, diversity and evolution of eukaryotic microorganisms ...

How Animals Think and Feel

An Introduction to Non-Human Psychology

Ken Cheng

Why do dogs get separation anxiety? Can a chimpanzee recognize itself in a mirror? Do animals in a zoo get neurotic? Do animals actually have emotions, or are humans simply anthropomorphizing them?

PCR Technology

Current Innovations

Tania Nolan and Stephen A Bustin

A technique used to amplify the number of copies of a specific region of DNA, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is at the forefront of the dramatic development of biochemistry. PCR Technology: Current Innovations provides the ...

Stress Biology of Cyanobacteria

Molecular Mechanisms to Cellular Responses

Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Amar Nath Rai and Brett A Neilan

Stress Biology of Cyanobacteria: Molecular Mechanisms to Cellular Responses is a compilation of holistic responses of cyanobacteria ranging from ecology and physiology to modem aspects of molecular biology and biochemistry.

The Smart Guide to Biology

Anne E Maczulak

From single cells to large, complex ecosystems, the major topics in biology are covered by expert Anne Maczulak in this enjoyable guide. As they work their way through The Smart Guide to Biology, readers are introduced to the ...

The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates

Barry KB Berkovitz and R Peter Shellis

The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the teeth and dentitions of living fishes, amphibians and reptiles. The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates presents a comprehensive ...

Zoology for Future Education and Research

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)

Contains the following 31 chapters: 1. Impact of botanical supplements on silkworm Bombyx mori L/Arockiamary J.S. Mary Agnes A. and Vimala G. 2. Efficacy of combined plant extract on diethylnitrosamine induced ...

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution

Understanding Misconceptions about Our Origins

John H Relethford

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers and students. - Examines intriguing ...

Evolution and Human Culture

Texts and Contexts

Gregory F Tague

Evolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the ...

Genomes, Evolution, and Culture

Past, Present, and Future of Humankind

Rene J Herrera, Ralph Garcia-Bertrand and Francisco M Salzano

Genomes, Evolution, and Culture combines recent information and discoveries in the field of human molecular biology and human molecular evolution. It provides an interdisciplinary approach drawing together data from various ...

Hunters, Predators and Prey

Inuit Perceptions of Animals

Frederic Laugrand and Jarich Oosten

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and ...

Regional Patterns and the Cultural Implications of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Burial Practices in Britain

Nicole M Roth

This study investigates potential regional patterns of Iron Age burial practices and the cultural implications thereof. It is a literary-based assessment of 100 sites that date between the Late Bronze Age and the Late Iron Age, all ...

The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems

Matt Simon

On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles ...

WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design [Japanese]

Mara Grunbaum and Hayakawa Iku O

We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy – like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of ...

Biodiversity and Earth History

Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok and Edvard Glucksman

This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth's geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major ...

Die Neuen Wilden: Wie es mit Fremden Tieren und Pflanzen Gelingt, die Natur zu Retten [The New Wild: Why Invasive Specie

Fred Pearce

Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true ...

Invasive Species

Risk Assessment and Management

Andrew Robinson, Terry Walshe, Mark A Burgman and Mike Nunn

With climate change and increasing globalisation of trade and travel, the risks presented by invasive pests and pathogens to natural environments, agriculture and economies have never been greater, and are only increasing with time.

Classification Analysis of Shandong Forest Plant Resources [Chinese]

Fang Yong

Shandong is one of the cradles of China and has a long history of human activities. The long-term activities of reclamation, grazing and logging have seriously damaged the natural vegetation in Shandong. With the development of modern ...

Digital Soil Morphometrics

Alfred E Hartemink and Budiman Minasny

This book is about digital soil morphometrics which is defined as the application of tools and techniques for measuring, mapping and quantifying soil profile properties, and deriving depth functions of soil properties.

Ecological Treasures, Harmonious Home: Jilin Forestry Nature Reserve [Chinese]

Qiao Heng

This book systematically introduces the general situation of natural resources and the environment of the various types of nature reserves in the forestry system of Jilin Province, Northeast China, and the biodiversity conservation and ...

Forest Culture in Southeast Guizhou [Chinese]

Chen Yingfa

Handbook on Forest Certification

Manmohan Yadav

Handbook on Forest Certification, a thorough research work, discusses in detail the concepts and approaches required to meet the desired international standards of forest certification. It covers those aspects of forest certification ...

Mountains and Moorlands

WH Pearsall

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Mountains and Moorlands was first published in 1950. An invaluable introduction to the upland ...

River Science

Research and Management for the 21st Century

David J Gilvear, Malcolm T Greenwood, Martin C Thoms and Paul J Wood

River science is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field at the interface of the natural sciences, engineering and socio-political sciences. It recognises that the sustainable management of contemporary rivers will increasingly require ...

Soil Biodiversity

Inventory Functions and Management

KG Saxena and KS Rao

Soil biodiversity emerged as a global agenda of research and management only since the last decade when the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD) set out a programme of work on agricultural biodiversity. Agricultural ...

Soil Erosion in Meghalaya

D Dutta

This technical publication contains an overview of soil erosion in Meghalaya, India. It includes a folded colour map (45 × 64 cm, folded into 23 × 17 cm).

The Silviculture of Trees Used in British Forestry

Peter S Savill and Rosemary Wise

Fully updated throughout, this new edition describes the silvicultural characteristics of trees commonly grown in the UK, including all important native species and a selection of some of the most significant exotics. With details of ...

The Soil

BNK Davis, N Walker, DF Ball and Alastair H Fitter

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. The Soil was first published in 1992. The soil is one of the great unsung disappearing resources ...

Woodlands

Oliver Rackham

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Woodlands was first published in 2006. The 100th volume of the New Naturalist series presents ...

Artenschutz Durch Habitatmanagement: Der Mythos von der Unberuhrten Natur [Species Conservation in Managed Habitats:

Werner Kunz and Josef H Reichholf

Written by an author with longstanding experience in the ecology of insects and birds and with a stellar academic record in molecular life sciences, this is a welcome challenge to the widely held beliefs in conventional environmental ...

Biodiversity in India, Volume 8

T Pullaiah and S Sandhya Rani

In continuation of the series the present volume includes nine chapters from different parts of India. Floristic diversity in Uttara Kannada district, Karnakata is dealt with in the first chapter. It is followed by diversity of ...

Central American Biodiversity

Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future

Falk Huettmann

Central American Biodiversity highlights key results and lessons learnt from two field sites, La Suerte in Costa Rica and Ometepe in Nicaragua. It provides long term data on species abundance and distribution. Primates receive ...

Conservacion Colombiana 24: Special Edition, Dedicated to Peace and Biodiversity Conservation in Colombia

Monica Parada

In this special issue, a new butterfly species for science is described and its name is dedicated to the peace process in Colombia. Also included is an article re-establishing Colombia's position as the worid's most biodiverse ...

Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene

The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story

Joris PGM Cromsigt, Sally Archibald and Norman Owen-Smith

Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest ...

Rajaji Tiger Reserve

A Conservation Odyssey in the Shiwaliks

Anjali Bharthari Ravi

Rajaji Tiger Reserve: A Conservation Odyssey in the Shiwaliks is the story of Rajaji Tiger Reserve since its inception as a sanctuary. Replete with over 100 photographs, the book traces its conservation history spanning over ...

Threatened Animals Worldwide

A Folding Pocket Guide to the Status of Familiar Species

James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

This guide helps identify and demystify the species around the world that are most in danger of extinction. Readers will learn about these animals' position and role in the ecosystem – as well as about the threats and dangers ...

Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation

Geoffrey K Vallis

The atmosphere and ocean are two of the most important components of the climate system, and fluid dynamics is central to our understanding of both. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics provides a unified and comprehensive ...

Biodiversity Climate Change and Socio-Economic Development in the Indian Himalaya

An Overview

KS Rao, KG Saxena and BK Tiwari

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid down a global strategy of saving mankind from the threats posed by ...

Clouds: Nature and Culture

Richard Hamblyn

Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variety having inspired scientists and daydreamers alike. Described by Aristophanes as "the patron goddesses of ...

Future North

The Changing Arctic Landscapes

Janike Kampevold Larsen and Peter Hemmersam

What is the future for northern landscapes? How will they look? What will it be like to live there? Who will live there and how will they sustain themselves? More importantly still: How do our expectations, projections and actions now ...

Impacts of Climate Change on Allergens and Allergic Diseases

Paul J Beggs

Climate change has been identified as the biggest global health threat of the twenty-first century. Hundreds of millions of people around the world currently suffer from allergic diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis (hay fever) ...

Instant Wind Forecasting

Alan Watts

Instant Wind Forecasting is a quick reference guide for all who work or play outdoors whether dinghy, coastal or offshore sailors, fishermen, motorboaters, farmers, golfers, walkers or pilots. It will help them make meaningful ...

The Mediterranean Region under Climate Change

A Scientific Update

IRD Editions

The Mediterranean Region under Climate Change has been published by Allenvi (French National Alliance for Environmental Research) to coincide with the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

The Paris Climate Agreement

Analysis and Commentary

Daniel Klein, Maria Pia Carazo, Meinhard Doelle, Jane Bulmer, Andrew Higham and Christ Figueres

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change. Signed in December 2015, it will come into force on the 4th ...

The Pocket Book of Weather

Entertaining and Remarkable Facts About Our Weather

Michael Bright

Featuring 3,000 essential facts and figures, this entertaining and informative guide to the world's weather explains how the weather shapes our planet and affects all our lives. From sandstorms to monsoons, avalanches to solar storms ...

The Shock of the Anthropocene

The Earth, History, and Us

Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for ...

The Weather Handbook

An Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops

Alan Watts

The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts ...

50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know

JV Chamary

50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know is your guide to the most significant and stimulating questions in the study of life. Why do species evolve? Can characteristics be inherited without DNA? Are all organisms made ...

50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know

Hayley Birch

Chemistry is at the cutting edge of our lives. How does a silicon chip work? How can we harness natural products to combat human disease? And is it possible to create artificial muscles? Providing answers to these questions and ...

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

Joanne Baker

We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity. Where would we be without ...

Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, Volume 4

Canis Minor, Capricornus, Carina, Cassiopeia

Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb

Annals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...

Atmospheric Radar

Application and Science of MST Radars in the Earth's Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere, and Weakly Ionized Regions

Wayne K Hocking, Jurgen Rottger, Robert D Palmer, Toru Sato and Phillip B Chilson

Richly illustrated, and including both an extensive bibliography and index, this indispensable guide brings together the theory, design, and applications of atmospheric radar. It explains the basic thermodynamics and dynamics of the ...

Copahue Volcano

Franco Tassi, Orlando Vaselli and Alberto Tomas Caselli

Copahue Volcano provides a comprehensive description of the volcanological, petrological and geochemical features of the Copahue volcano, located at the border between Argentina and Chile. Scientific studies are limited for this ...

Faults and Subsurface Fluid Flow in the Shallow Crust

William C Haneberg, Peter S Mozley, J Casey Moore and Laurel B Goodwin

Faults and Subsurface Fluid Flow in the Shallow Crust offers a sample of the diversity of research on faults and fluid flow in the late 1990s. It describes detailed surface and subsurface characterization of fault-zone structures ...

Genetics in Minutes

Tom Jackson

Genetics in Minutes is your compact and accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of genetics, revealing how our genes shape our bodies and our lives, and how in turn we are beginning to shape them. Covering the ...

Geomorphology in the Anthropocene

Andrew S Goudie and Heather A Viles

The Anthropocene is a major new concept in the Earth sciences and Geomorphology in the Anthropocene examines the effects on geomorphology within this period. Drawing examples from many different global environments, this comprehensive ...

Goldilocks and the Water Bears

The Search for Life in the Universe

Louisa Preston

All life as we know it is carbon-based, and reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival; it is also, of course, known from just one planet, the Earth – a world perfectly suited to host life. But across a Universe ...

Inverse Methods in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Prasad Kasibhatla, Martin Heimann, Peter Rayner, Natalie Mahowald, Ronald G Prinn and Dana Hartley

Our understanding of biogeochemical cycles is directly related to the research and analyses we bring to them, and to our critical sense of the methods we use. Of primary importance here are the theories behind, and our use of, inverse ...

Large Igneous Provinces

Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism

John J Mahoney and Millard F Coffin

Continental flood basalts, volcanic passive margins, and oceanic plateaus represent the largest known volcanic episodes on our planet, yet they are not easily explained by plate tectonics. Indeed, some are likely to record periods when ...

Marine Geochemistry

Ocean Circulation, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

Matthieu Roy-Barman and Catherine Jeandel

Marine geochemistry uses chemical elements and their isotopes to study how the ocean works in terms of ocean circulation, chemical composition, biological activity and atmospheric CO₂ regulation. This rapidly growing field is ...

Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet

Leonard David and Ron Howard

The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the red planet – and human habitation of Mars isn't much farther off. Now the National Geographic Channel goes years fast-forward with Mars, a six-part series documenting ...

New York Rocks & Minerals

A Field Guide to the Empire State

Daniel R Lynch and Bob Lynch

Get the perfect guide to rocks and minerals in the Empire State! New York Rocks & Minerals features comprehensive entries for 105 different types of common rocks and rare finds. The easy-to-use format means you'll quickly ...

Periodic Table in Minutes

Dan Green

An icon of science, the Periodic Table defines the fundamental chemistry of everything in the universe. In this compact yet comprehensive guide, Dan Green outlines the history, development and workings of the table, shows how its design ...

Physics in Minutes

200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant

Giles Sparrow

Physics in Minutes covers everything you need to know about physics, condensed into 200 key topics. Each idea is explained in clear, accessible language, building from the basics, such as mechanics, waves and particles, to more ...

Recent Developments in Metallogeny and Mineral Exploration in Rajasthan

PR Golani

This bulletin summarizes recent developments in metallogeny and mineral exploration in Rajasthan, India.

Rivers Over Rock

Fluvial Processes in Bedrock Channels

Keith J Tinkler and Ellen Wohl

Bedrock river channels are sites of primary erosion in the landscape, fixing the baselevel for all points upstream. Rivers Over Rock provides for the first time an integrated view of the characteristics and operation of this ...

Roadside Geology of Mississippi

Stan Galicki and Darrel W Schmitz

It's a little-known fact, but Mississippi has a volcano. True, it's buried under 2,600 feet of sediment, but it was red hot and active roughly 79 to 69 million years ago, and evidence of its bulging remains are visible in the ...

Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California

David D Alt, Donald W Hyndman and Katherine J Baylor

California's geology makes headlines when faults shift, volcanoes puff steam, and coastal bluffs fall into the sea. The latest edition of this popular book explores the state s recent rumblings and tremulous past with the aid of full ...

Science in Seconds

200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant

Hazel Muir

Simple and accessible, Science in Seconds is a visually led introduction to 200 key scientific ideas. Each concept is readily absorbed through an easy-to-understand picture and a concise explanation. Concepts span all of the key ...

Silver: Nature and Culture

Lindsay Shen

From spoons to bullets to sterling coins, silver permeates our everyday culture and language. For millennia we've used it to buy what we need, adorn our bodies, or trumpet our social status, and likewise it's been useful to ...

Statotype Givetien [French]

Denise Brice

The Pointe de Givet, a kind of intrusion of the French border into Belgium in the north-east of France, offers magnificent landscapes along the valley of the river Meuse. They contrast singularly with those of the French Ardennes to the ...

The Chemistry of Human Nature

Tom Husband

Why does chocolate taste so good? Why do we seek 'the one'? How do traits such as intelligence, creativity and violence arise and what purpose do they serve? The Chemistry of Human Nature links these characteristics to ...

The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)

David Bercovici

With wonder, wit, and flair – and in record time and space – geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and ...

Arming Mother Nature

The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism

Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Famines. Diseases. Natural catastrophes. In 1945, scientists imagined these as the future faces of war. The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend "total war" ...

Burn Out

The Endgame for Fossil Fuels

Dieter Helm

Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming energy revolution and how the fossil fuel age will come to an ...

Dam Nation

How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine its Future

Stephen Grace

A compelling book about the water crisis facing the Western USA, grounded in history and important for residents as well as readers nationwide. This narrative weaves together the stories of human folly and grandiose endeavor that shaped ...

Genetically Engineered Crops

Experiences and Prospects

Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) and Division on Earth and Life Studies

Genetically engineered (GE) crops were first introduced commercially in the 1990s. After two decades of production, some groups and individuals remain critical of the technology based on their concerns about possible adverse effects on ...

Soil Not Oil

Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

Vandana Shiva

In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva explains that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva ...

Somebody Else's Problem

Consumerism, Sustainability and Design

Robert Crocker and Stuart Walker

Consumerism promises a shortcut to a 'better' life through the accumulation of certain fashionable goods and experiences. Over recent decades, this has resulted in a rising tide of cheap, short-lived goods produced, used and ...

The Common Fisheries Policy

The Quest for Sustainability

Ernesto Penas Lado

Written by Ernesto Penas of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, this thorough and comprehensive book provides a full understanding of the European Commission's common fisheries policy ...

The Elements of Power

Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

David S Abraham

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate ...

A Guide to MATLAB

For Beginners and Experienced Users

Brian R Hunt, Ronald L Lipsman and Jonathan M Rosenberg

Now in its third edition, this outstanding textbook explains everything you need to get started using MATLAB(R). It contains concise explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood instructions for using MATLAB ...

Applied Survival Analysis Using R

Dirk F Moore

Applied Survival Analysis Using R covers the main principles of survival analysis, gives examples of how it is applied, and teaches how to put those principles to use to analyze data using R as a vehicle. Survival data, where the ...

Computational Botany

Methods for Automated Species Identification

Paolo Remagnino, Simon J Mayo, Paul Wilkin, James Cope and Don Kirkup

Computational Botany discusses innovative methods for mining information from images of plants, especially leaves, and highlights the diagnostic features that can be implemented in fully automatic systems for identifying plant ...

European Landscape Dynamics

CORINE Land Cover Data

Jan Feranec, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu and Gabriel Jaffrain

Four unique pan-European CORINE Land Cover datasets – CLC1990, CLC2000, CLC2006, and CLC2012 – and three datasets concerning changes between 1990 and 2012 have presented the first-ever opportunity to observe the European ...

Light Trap

An Eco-Friendly IPM Tool

SM Vaishampayan and Sanjay Vaishampayan

Light Trap: An Eco-Friendly IPM Tool covers information on some theoretical aspects related to working with light traps, such as organs of insect vision and orientation towards light source, electromagnetic radiation, spectrum ...

Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology

Concepts and Practice

Laszlo Zsolt Garamszegi

Phylogenetic comparative approaches are powerful analytical tools for making evolutionary inferences from interspecific data and phylogenies. The phylogenetic toolkit available to evolutionary biologists is currently growing at an incredible ...

Overdispersion

David Fletcher and Matthew Parry

In the frequentist framework, a quasi-likelihood approach has long been used as a means of allowing for overdispersion, a common occurrence in many areas of scientific research. An alternative approach is to improve models by including ...

Phylogeny: Discrete and Random Processes in Evolution

Mike Steel

Phylogenetics is a growing area of research. Phylogenies (phylogenetic trees and networks) allow biologists to study and graph evolutionary relationships between different species. These are also used to investigate other evolutionary ...

Statistical Methods for Imbalanced Data in Ecology and Biology

Osamu Komori and Shinto Eguchi

Statistical Methods for Imbalanced Data in Ecology and Biology presents a fresh, new approach in that it provides a comprehensive recent review of challenging problems caused by imbalanced data in prediction and classification ...

Dictionnaire Illustre de Botanique [Illustrated Dictionary of Botany]

Alain Jouy and Bruno De Foucault

If botanical science gives each species a unique scientific name, it is not the same everyday French: one species can have many common names. The second part of the dictionary collects about 3500 and shows to what species it relates.

Die Vogel - Aves: Verzeichnis des Bestands 2016, Zoologische Sammlung der Universitat Rostock [The Birds - Aves:

Ragnar K Kinzelbach, Norma Schmitz and Antje Hlawa

It began in 1775, when the Orientalist and literary scholar Professor Dr. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen founded a naturalist cabinet. The first large acquisition took place in 1804 with a collection of 380 taxidermic specimens of birds of ...

Taxonomic Tools & Flora Writing

Proceedings of Training Workshop on Flora Writing

Mohan Siwakoti and Sangeeta Rajbhandary

From the preface: "Since the inception of the Flora of Nepal Project in 1993, the Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation and the Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University are ...