nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2006/03 March 2006 [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the March Monthly Catalogue! Spring is in the air, and we will be Zoology: publishing our Spring/Summer catalogue very soon. This is our semi-annual selection Mammals of thousands of the best books for sale on science, wildlife and conservation, and it Birds includes many exciting titles that are due to be published later this year. More Reptiles & Amphibians information coming soon... Fishes Backlist Bargains ends today, Friday, 31st March! There are only a few hours left Invertebrates to choose from more than 1000 titles at up to 40% off! Palaeontology Marine & Freshwater Biology Visit our catalogue of Backlist Bargains. General Natural History Regional & Travel Check out NHBS' Biblio-Blog for the latest information on new titles, special offers, Botany & Plant Science and any interesting morsels of information that cross our desks. Updated daily! Animal & General Biology Discounts for libraries, organisations and large orders Evolutionary Biology Are you a librarian or responsible for book purchasing within your organisation, or are Ecology thinking of placing a large order? NHBS provides a specialised supply service for Habitats & Ecosystems libraries, organisations and bulk purchasers - handling everything from researching Conservation & Biodiversity hard to obtain titles to arranging documentation and shipment. We are usually able to offer competitive packages - please contact [email protected] to Environmental Science discuss what we can offer. Physical Sciences Sustainable Development The NHBS Team Data Analysis Reference View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document.

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America's Neighborhood Bats 106 pages | 52 illus | Texas UP Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them Pbk | 2005 | 0292712804 | #158420A | Merlin D Tuttle £9.99 BUY Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second ....

Bat Migrations in Europe 180 pages | - | Bundesamt fur A Review of Banding Data and Literature Naturschutz R Hutterer, T Ivanova, C Meyer-Cords and L Rodrigues Hbk | 2005 | 378433928X | #158597A | Many of the 47 European species of bats perform seasonal long distance migrations and use £19.95 BUY geographically widely separate habitats during their life cycle. A successful ....

Behavioural Patterns of the One Horned Indian Rhinoceros Plates, tabs | Spectrum Publications Observations in Kaziranga Hbk | 2005 | 8183440002 | #156259A | Kamal Chandra Patar £26.95 BUY The food preferences of the one horned Indian rhinoceros were determined in the Kaziranga National Park, (KNP) during the dry season of 1975-1976. ....

Building Homes for Bats 33 mins running time (approx) | Bat Merlin Tuttle Conservation International Bat houses now provide vital roosting habitat for bats throughout North America. In this 33- DVD | 2006 | 0974237930 | #158426A minute DVD, Merlin Tuttle introduces viewers to America's most successful bat house .... | £14.95 BUY Video | 2001 | #126085A | £35.00 BUY

Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees 600 pages | 106 illus., 26 in colour | Edited by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Masaki Tomonaga and Masayuki Tanaka Springer Foreword by Jane Goodall. .... Hbk | 2006 | 4431302468 | #158370A | £54.00 BUY

Collins Animals 320 pages | Harper Collins Stephen Harris Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0007228171 | A visually engaging, large format family reference guide to the animals of Britain and Europe, #158139A | £30.00 BUY from one of the UK's foremost wildlife experts. ....

Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story 192 pages | Falcon Press M Lapinski Pbk | 2005 | 0762736771 | #158273A | On the afternoon of October 5, 2003, in Alaska's Katmai National Park, one or more brown £11.95 BUY bears killed and ate Timothy Treadwell, a well-known wildlife celebrity, and his ....

Digit and the Gorillas of Rwanda 224 pages | Col illus | Jonathan Cape Ian Redmond Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0224028766 | From the pen of a leading writer and conservationist, this is a compelling account of the #048267A | £16.99 BUY mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Redmond tells the history of Digit (the gorilla so ....

Fauna Sinica: Mammalia, Volume 9: Cetacea: Carnivora: Phocoidea 326 pages | Science Press Sirenia Hbk | 2004 | #158151A | £28.95 BUY Zhou Kaiya The Chinese marine mammals include representatives in three mammalian orders: Cetacea, Carnivora and Sirenia. The cetacean fauna contains 9 of the world's 14 cetacean families ....

The Grandest of Lives 224 pages | 6 b/w illus | Sierra Club Eye to Eye with Whales Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1578051266 | Douglas H Chadwick #158622A | £15.95 BUY The largest creatures to inhabit the Earth, whales have long inspired awe in human beings. Because they spend almost 95 percent of their time beneath the ocean surface, ....

A Guide to Rabbit Management CIRIA S Wray NYP 04/2006 | 0860176452 | #158442A This publication is a summary of the existing body of knowledge with regard to the European | £80.00 BUY Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, and gives relatively straightforward guidance on ....

A Guide to the Large Mammals of Thailand 206 pages | colour illus, distr maps | John WK Parr Sarakadee Press This concise guide will assist the amateur naturalists and professionals in the field identification Pbk | 2003 | 9744840404 | #158088A | of all 138 large mammal species found within Thailand. Every species has .... £19.99 BUY

Horse Breeds of the World 192 pages | 180 photos | Hamlyn Nicola Jane Swinney and Bob Langrish Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0600613194 | Presents histories of 150 world horse and pony breeds. Horses and ponies from 50 countries #158431A | £16.99 BUY are profiled, including descriptions of their physique, personality, and ....

Rats 256 pages | Granta A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Pbk | 2006 | 1862078181 | #158744A | Robert Sullivan £8.99 BUY Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Sullivan spends the year with a ....

Rhino Rescue 64 pages | 50 col photos | Firefly Books Garry Hamilton Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1552979105 | Profiles people and organisations around the world helping to preserve rhinos in their natural #158436A | £6.95 BUY environments. ....

The Secret World of Bats Running time: 48 mins | Bat Merlin Tuttle Conservation International This 48-minute film, originally shown on CBS television, captures all aspects of bat behavior as DVD | 2006 | 0974237922 | #158427A world-renowned cinematographer Dieter Plage follows Bat Conservation .... | £14.95 BUY

Seeing the Elephant 368 pages | Bloomsbury The Ties That Bind Elephants and Humans Pbk | 2006 | 0747574715 | #158730A | Eric Scigliano £8.99 BUY For millennia, people all over the world have revered, adored and exploited elephants. In Thailand, a pregnant woman might duck under an elephant's belly to encourage an easy ....

White-tailed Deer Habitat 256 pages | - | Texas A&M UP Ecology and Management on Rangelands Hbk | 2006 | 1585444685 | #158745A | Timothy Edward Fulbright and J Alfonso Ortega-S £36.95 BUY For most of the last century, range management meant managing land for livestock. The best Pbk | 2006 | 1585444995 | #158746A | measure of success was how well a landowner grew the grass that cattle ate. In this .... £20.50 BUY

The World of the Polar Bear 204 pages | Col illus | Christopher Helm Norbert Rosing Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0713679190 | The culmination of more than 20 years' study by one of the world's leading natural history #158399A | £30.00 BUY photographers. Rosing takes us through the year of the polar bear, showing the ....

Birds Go to subject web page

An Atlas of Movements of Southwest Siberian Waterbirds 60 pages | b/w illus, maps | Wetlands J Veen et al International This Atlas of Movements of Southwest Siberian Waterbirds is a contribution to the knowledge of Pbk | 2005 | 9058829529 | #158035A | the migratory movements of Siberian waterbirds, with special reference to .... £10.00 BUY

Avian Flight 258 pages | Halftones, 68 line illus | OUP J Videler Hbk | 2005 | 0198566034 | #144658A | Covers all the main aspects of aerial locomotion by birds including sections on the history of £55.00 BUY bird flight study, aerodynamics, functional morphology, evolution, .... Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0199299927 | #158238A | £29.95 BUY

BWPi 2006 BirdGuides OUP/BirdGuides Ltd DVD | 2006 | #158433A | £34.00 BUY A supplementary disk to BWPi (Bird of the Western Palearctic on DVD-ROM). BWPi 2006 contains additional species accounts from the journal BWP Update. ....

Bird Mimicry 26 tracks | NSA A Remarkable Collection of Imitations by Birds CD | 2006 | 0712305297 | #158546A | Richard Ranft £8.47 BUY Marvel at the sounds of a Shropshire Jay that neighs like a horse and a Blackbird in London that imitates a computer modem. From the world's largest collection of nature ....

Birding Babylon 79 pages | - | Sierra Club A Soldier's Journal from Iraq Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1578051312 | Jonathan Trouern-Trend #158403A | £6.50 BUY Early in 2004, a National Guardsman from Connecticut arrived in Iraq for a year's posting. From nearly day one until he left Iraq, Trouern-Trend wrote about his bird ....

Birding Costa Rica

Birds of Brazil / Aves do Brasil 672 pages | 1800 maps, col plates | An Artistic View / Uma Visao Artística Tomas Sigrist Tomas Sigrist Hbk | 2006 | 8590507416 | #158563A | Birds of Brazil - An Artistic View, will dazzle ornithologists, nature lovers, conservationists and £99.95 BUY artists everywhere. This generous 672 page hardback is teeming with ....

Birds of Prey Rescue 64 pages | 50 col photos | Firefly Books Pamela Hickman Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1554071445 | Illustrated with spectacular photographs, this book profiles the dedicated people, organisations #158435A | £6.95 BUY and projects around the world helping endangered raptors survive in their ....

Birds of Southwestern British Columbia 432 pages | 400 colour photos | Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa and Hal Opperman Heritage House This beautiful little volume will delight and inspire bird lovers who live in or are visiting Pbk | 2005 | 1894898962 | #158114A | southwestern BC. An amazing amount of useful information is packed into this .... £14.99 BUY

Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti 364 pages | 57 col plates | Christopher S Latta, J Wiley, C Rimmer, H Raffaele, A Keith, K McFarland and E Fernandez Helm The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the island of Hispaniola, the second largest in the Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0713679050 | Caribbean after Cuba, and the home of several endemic species, including the Palm .... #158400A | £24.99 BUY

Birds of the World 272 pages | Christopher Helm Recommended English Names Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0713679042 | Edited by Frank B Gill and Minturn T Wright #158396A | £19.99 BUY The product of more than 15 years of discussion, debate and review by a team of international experts sanctioned by the International Ornithological Congress, this book ....

Collins Bird eGuide PDA Solutions The most complete field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe PDA card | 2005 | 1898665400 | Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterstrom and Peter J Grant #158254A | £76.55 BUY Superb new electronic field guide based on the best-selling Collins Bird Guide. ....

DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds, Version 8 BirdGuides BirdGuides DVD | 2006 | #158321A | £42.51 BUY The DVD-ROM Guide to British Birds Version 8 uses new software based on BWPi - now it's even easier to compare any images or sounds and to view the superb artwork and video ....

Donde Ver Aves en España 362 pages | Col illus | Lynx Los 100 Mejores Lugares Pbk | 2005 | 8487334148 | #140102A | José Antonio Montero, Eduardo de Juana and Fernando Barrio £17.95 BUY The ideal guide for discovering a hundred of the most interesting and accessible natural sites for birding. Includes informative, up-to-date texts on the natural features and ....

The Goshawk 320 pages | colour photos | Christopher Robert Kenward Helm A large and spectacular bird of prey, the Goshawk lives in boreal forests throughout the Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0713665653 | Northern hemisphere. A powerful hunter of large birds and woodland mammals, it was .... #158220A | £35.00 BUY

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: 7 Volume Set 9000 pages | Col plates, b/w illus, maps Edited by Peter Higgins | OUP The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antartic Birds (HANZAB) is one of the world's Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0195550366 | major ornithological projects. This seven volume set, realises the vision to .... #158295A | Normally £1100.00 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £950.00

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: Volume 7 2056 pages | 2 volumes, 54 col plates, Boatbill to Starlings b/w illus, maps | OUP Peter Higgins, John Peter and Sid Cowling Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0195539967 | The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antartic Birds is one of the world's major #141129A | ornithological projects. This final volume, published in 2 parts, is the culmination of .... Normally £245.00 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £215.00

Handbook on Indian Wetland Birds and their Conservation 472 pages | Plates | Zoological Survey A Kumar, JP Sati, PC Tak and JRB Alfred 2005 | 8181710584 | #158583A | The first comprehensive handbook on Indian Wetland birds, which provides information on 310 £82.00 BUY wetland bird species from India. Each species description comprises brief ....

Hummingbirds of Texas 112 pages | Col photos | Texas A&M UP With their New Mexico and Arizona Ranges Hbk | 2005 | 1585444332 | #158466A | CE Shackelford et al £17.95 BUY Written for a general audience, with spectacular images for birders and nature enthusiasts at every level, "Hummingbirds of Texas" reveals the enormous appeal of this ....

Life on the Wing 208 pages | 200 colour plates | Harper A stunning photographic biology of birds Collins Brutus Ostling and Magnus Ullman Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | #158134A | Illustrated with photographs taken around the world, this book is the first to show the huge £25.00 BUY range of lifestyles that birds have used to become one of the most successful ....

The New Birds of the West Midlands 496 pages | colour photos, line covering Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and the former West Midlands drawings, maps | WMBC County Hbk | 2005 | 0950788120 | #157831A | Graham Harrison and Janet Harrison £39.00 BUY The original Birds of the West Midlands, produced for the West Midland Bird Club's 50th anniversary, was highly acclaimed at the time. Now, 25 years on, the long-awaited New ....

Ospreys WildSounds Flying home to Rutland Water DVD | 2006 | #158566A | £11.06 BUY David Attenborough Ospreys are back and breeding in England after an absence of 150 years. David Attenborough narrates their story and that of the organisations and volunteers that made ....

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands / Guide 128 pages | 142 colour plates | Struik Photographique des Oiseaux des Iles de l'Océan Indien Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 177007175X | #158647A | £14.99 BUY Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion and the Comoros Ian Sinclair, Olivier Langrand and Fanja Andriamialisoa This photographic guide depicts a selection of the most commonly encountered and striking bird species of Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes - a ....

The Pocket Guide to the Birds of Prey of Britain and Europe 176 pages | Col illus | Mitchell Beazley Peter Hayman and Rob Hume Hbk | 2006 | 1845331842 | #158753A | A definitive field reference, "The Pocket Guide to the Birds of Prey of Britain and Europe" £7.99 BUY explores the nine raptor families, giving detailed habitat, feeding, and ....

RSPB Handbook of British Birds 303 pages | 1200 illustrations | RSPB Peter Holden and Tim Cleeves Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0713675608 | This is a completely revised and updated edition of the best selling RSPB Handbook of British #158261A | £9.99 BUY Birds. This unique guide provides a `biography' of each of the 300 commonest ....

The Really Useful Garden Bird Handbook 80 pages | colour photos | First Stone Mike Ward Pbk | 2005 | 1904439489 | #158575A | This little book tells you everything you need to know to attract, feed and shelter wild birds in £5.99 BUY your garden. How to turn even the smallest garden into a haven for birds all ....

Secret Lives of British Birds 160 pages | Col illus, col photos | Dominic Couzens Christopher Helm Following the bestselling Secret Lives of Garden Birds, this trip around Britain's principal Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0713675136 | habitats exposes the extraordinary hidden world of some of our most familiar .... #158394A | £14.99 BUY

Toucans of the Americas / Tucanos das Américas 120 pages | watercolour illustrations | Herculano Alvarenga and Eduardo Brettas Editora M Pontual Toucans, Toucanets and Aracaris .... Hbk | 2004 | 8598886017 | #157766A | £34.50 BUY

UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane 130 pages | 16 colour plates | James Hanlon Brambleby Books Birding in the Fast Lane is an insight into the world of twitching, an anecdotal, humourous and Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0954334787 | highly personal account of some of the author's most memorable - and .... #157718A | £9.99 BUY

Veränderungen der ostdeutschen Agrarlandschaft und ihrer Vogelwelt 138 pages | 2 col photos, figs | Druck- K George Zuck GmbH Dissertation on the subject of changes in the East German agricultural landscape and its bird Pbk | 2004 | 300013154X | #156552A | distribution since reunification. .... £13.95 BUY

What's That Bird? 256 pages | colour photos, dist maps | A Quick Reference Guide to the Most Common European Garden Birds Hamlyn Paul Sterry Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0600613607 | An easy-to-use guide to 200 of the most common European garden birds that includes pictures #158225A | £12.99 BUY of males and females, flight patterns and calls so you can quickly identify ....

Reptiles & Amphibians Go to subject web page

Amphibians and Reptiles of the San Diego Region 312 pages | 160 col illus, 50 line illus, Jeffrey M Lemm 72 maps | California UP With its varied topography of coast, mountains, and desert, the San Diego region, considered Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520245733 | one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, boasts a rich variety of amphibians .... #158616A | £38.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520245741 | #158615A | £15.95 BUY

Atlas of the Amphibians of Cheshire and Wirral 48 pages | 58 illus | Jonathan Guest Jonathan Guest and Andy Harmer Pbk | 2006 | 0954599810 | #158432A | This atlas includes sections on conservation, estimating populations, distribution, amphibians in £10.95 BUY place-names, amphibian habitats in Cheshire etc. ....

The Calls of the Frogs of Madagascar 3 CDs | ALOSA Edited by Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw and Rafael Marquez CD | 2005 | #158206A | £15.50 BUY This bundle of 3 CD contains two types of recordings: (1) Calls of a particular species, for which we usually selected recordings of single specimens, with highest recording ....

Common Rat Snake of India: Their Functional Morphology and 334 pages | Figs, tabs | Asiatic Bionomics Publishing House Hbk | 2005 | 8187067489 | #156223A | Shiv Dutta £85.00 BUY The Common Indian Rat Snake, Pyas Mucosus (Linn.) is one of the commonest snake both in the hills and the plains and is widely distributed throughout the whole of India, ....

The Eyelash Geckos 238 pages | 273 col illus, 27 drawings, Care, Breeding and Natural History charts | Chimaira Edited by Hermann Seufer et al Hbk | 2005 | 3980420787 | #157945A | As to date, there is no comprehensive monograph about this family of geckos, it suggested £29.50 BUY itself to gather as much of the available knowledge as possible, and to ....

A Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt 320 pages | 100 colour illus | American Sherif Baha El Din UP (Cairo) Reptiles and amphibians are among Egypt's most successful wildlife, found in almost every Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 9774249798 | habitat in the country, from homes to fields and the desert itself. For the first .... #158338A | £23.95 BUY

Lizards 333 pages | 220 col and 31 b/w illus, 9 Windows to the Evolution of Diversity tabs | California UP Eric R Pianka and Laurie J Vitt Hbk | 2003 | 0520234014 | #140719A | Pianka and Vitt, authors of Lizard Ecology (Princeton UP, 1994), provide the definitive reference £29.95 BUY on lizards, covering species evolution, diversity, ecology, and .... Pbk | 2006 | 0520248473 | #158628A | £18.95 BUY

Die Nilweichschildkröte - Trionyx triunguis 166 pages | 60 col illus, maps | Chimaira Dieter Gramentz Hbk | 2005 | 3930612410 | #157943A | After more than 15 yeras of field research in Western and Central Africa and Turkey, Gramentz £37.00 BUY hereby presents the first monograph featuring this soft-shelled tortoise. The ....

Reptilien und Amphibien Europas 252 pages | colour photos | Kosmos Axel Kwet Hbk | 2005 | 3440102378 | #157849A | Identification guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Europe. Covers more than 190 species, £18.50 BUY with up to four photos per species. Contains distribution maps and keys. ....

The Snakes of Sulawesi: A Field Guide to the Land Snakes of Sulawesi 312 pages | Col and b/w photos, maps, with Identification Keys tabs | Chimaira Hbk | 2005 | 3930612852 | #157941A | Ruud de Lang and Gernot Vogel £60.00 BUY Covers 54 Species and sub-species of snakes found in Sulawesi, located in the south Pacific. Each species account provides scientific and common names, identification ....

Fishes Go to subject web page

The Biology of the Threespined Stickleback 384 pages | CRC Press Sara Ostlund-Nilsson, Ian Mayer and Felicity Anne Huntingford Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0849332192 | Since sticklebacks have undergone evolutionary radiation in different environments, research #155036A | £79.99 BUY provides an important new model system for understanding the underlying ....

Commercial Fishes of the Eritrean Red Sea Apex Publishing Ltd Amanuel Ghebremichael Pbk | 2004 | 1904444083 | #149948A | This book provides a guide to some of the many commercial fishes of the Eritrean Red Sea and £14.95 BUY the marine environment they inhabit. This guide is designed as a working tool for ....

A Field Guide to the Fishes of Kuching Rivers 200 pages | Natural History Publications Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo Hbk | 2006 | 9838121134 | #158117A | Katherine Atack £23.95 BUY A Field Guide to the Fishes of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo introduces the non- taxonomic reader to the variety of fish species in the mostly estuarine rivers ....

Fish Endocrinology 886 pages | 2 volumes, 12 colour Edited by Manfred Reinecke, Giacomo Zaccone and BG Kapoor figures | Science Publishers/Enfield During the past two decades, fish endocrinology has witnessed exciting developments due to Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1578083184 | our increased knowledge at all levels of biological organizations, including .... #158170A | £75.60 BUY

Fishes of the World 624 pages | 200 charts and tabs, line Joseph S Nelson drawings | Wiley Celebrating it's 30th year in print, Dr. Nelson's book is a classic in its field, unique in its Hbk | 1994 | 0471547131 | #032169A | presentation of a modern introductory systematic treatment of all major fish .... £125.00 BUY Hbk | 2006 | 0471250317 | #158226A | £80.00 BUY

The Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba 276 pages | colour illus, dist maps | Kenneth Stewart and Douglas A Watkinson Manitoba UP Manitoba's ninety-three species of fish give the province the third most diverse fish population Hbk | 2004 | 0887551769 | #156590A | in Canada. The province's variety of geological features, with its major .... £47.00 BUY Pbk | 2004 | 0887556787 | #156591A | £20.50 BUY

Metazoan Parasites of Salmonid Fishes of Europe 510 pages | Academia Salmonids represent a large group of freshwater and migratory fishes of tremendous value in Hbk | 2004 | 8020011897 | #156998A | both sport and commercial fisheries; many species have become the subject of .... £71.00 BUY

Sharks, Skates and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico 165 pages | 92 col photos, 92 line A Field Guide drawings, map | Mississippi UP Glenn R Parsons Pbk | 2006 | 1578068274 | #158039A | Designed as a field guide, this easy-to-use reference provides details on biology, distribution £21.99 BUY and status, similar species and nomenclature, as well as personal ....

World Atlas of Marine Fishes 720 pages | 6,000 photos | IKAN Rudie H Kuiter and Helmut Debelius Hbk | 2006 | 3925919775 | #158159A | This World Atlas shows more than 6000 photos of 4200 species of fish found in the oceans £49.99 BUY worldwide. Presented here are the fishes one is likely to see when diving or ....

Invertebrates Go to subject web page

100 Caterpillars 272 pages | 207 col illus | Harvard UP Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0674021908 | Jeffrey C Miller, Daniel H Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs #158653A | £25.95 BUY Every bright monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life--crafted by ....

Acta Zoologica Fennica, Vol. 215: Morphological Characters of Adult 72 pages | - | Finnish Zoological BPB Syrphidae Pbk | 2005 | 9519481621 | #158189A | £17.95 BUY Descriptions and phylogenetic utility H Hippa and G Stahls

Aphids on the World's Herbaceous Plants and Shrubs 1088 pages | 357 original line drawings, An Identification and Information Guide 252 photos | Wiley Roger Blackman and Victor Eastop Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0471489735 | Aphids are well-known as pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, but they are also one #158227A | £160.00 BUY of the most biologically interesting groups of plant-feeding insects, and thus ....

Asian Honey Bees 360 pages | B/w illus, tabs | Harvard UP Biology, Conservation and Human Interactions Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0674021940 | Benjamin P Oldroyd and Siriwat Wongsiri #158675A | £38.95 BUY The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift ....

Beetles of California 432 pages | 300 col illus, 75 line illus, 2 Arthur V Evans and James N Hogue maps | California UP With perhaps 8,000 different species, beetles are easily the largest group of animals in Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520246551 | California and can be found virtually everywhere in the state. They grapple over flower .... #158614A | £41.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520246578 | #158613A | £15.95 BUY

The Biology and Fisheries of the Slipper Lobster 448 pages | - | CRC Press Kari L Lavalli and Ehud Spanier Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0849333989 | The Biology and Fisheries of the Slipper Lobster serves as the first major volume dedicated to #155000A | £97.00 BUY the biology of slipper lobsters, including Scyllarides, Scyllarus, Thenus, ....

Bivalves and Bivalve Habitats in the Northern Red Sea 304 pages | Vienna NHM An Actuopalaeontological Approach 2003 | 3902421002 | #158560A | M Zuschin and PG Oliver £39.00 BUY

Butterflies of Cape Peninsula 72 pages | Col photos | Jonathan Ball A Comprehensive Guide Pbk | 2004 | 0624038955 | #158414A | AJM Claassens £14.99 BUY In this area of less than 420 square kilometres are found 67 species and sub-species. Uppersides and undersides of all species are depicted in colour, and relevant ....

The Butterflies of Ladakh: Volume 5 176 pages | 32 col plates | Vadim V Tshikolovets Tshikolovets The first comprehensive reference on 370 butterfly and skipper species known to occur in Hbk | 2005 | 9660236417 | #120510A | Ladakh (NW India). All species are figured in colour (about 1470 images, including many .... £105.00 BUY

Butterflies of the Bristol Region 205 pages | colour photos, dist maps | R Barnett, R Higgins, T Moulin and C Wiltshire BRERC With a foreword by Bill Oddie. .... Hbk | 2003 | 0954523504 | #158223A | £24.95 BUY

Butterflies of the Western Cape 72 pages | Col photos | Jonathan Ball A Guide to Common Garden, Park and Wayside Butterflies Pbk | 2005 | 1919938230 | #158415A | AJM Claassens £14.99 BUY A user-friendly guide to the identification of the 53 species common in urban areas of the region. Both sexes of each species are illustrated. The photographs are accompanied ....

Cercopid Spittle Bugs of the New World 271 pages | colour plates, line drawings (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae) | Pensoft Cervasio Carvalho and Michael D Webb Hbk | 2005 | 9546422460 | #158100A | South America possesses a staggering number of insect species. Whilst most people are familiar £61.00 BUY with its butterflies few realise that there is a group of equally colourful and ....

Cleroidea : Beetles of the Superfamily Cleroidea in the Czech and 186 pages | 24 plates, 6 in colour | Slovak Republics and Neighbouring Areas / Brouci nadceledi Cleroidea Kabourek Pbk | 2005 | #158689A | £29.50 BUY Ceska, Slovenska a sousednich oblasti J Kolibac, K Majer and V Svihla The book includes a key to the species of the families Phloiophilidae, Trogossitidae, Thanerocleridae, Cleridae, Acanthocnemidae, Dasytidae, Melyridae aand Malachiidae. The ....

Coleopterist's Handbook 496 pages | 32 colour plates | AES Edited by Jonathan Cooter and MVL Barclay Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 900054700 | A completely rewritten edition of the classic handbook. .... #158342A | £54.00 BUY

Coléoptères d'Europe: Carabidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, Volume 1: 31 colour plates | NAP Editions Adephaga Hbk | 2005 | #158161A | £59.50 BUY Gaetan du Chatenet Illustrated descriptions of nearly 900 beetle species, including clear descriptions of each species, giving its Latin name, its biology, a description including its minimum ....

Drepcici (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) Ceska a Slovenska 75 pages | line drawings | Kabourek P Cizek Pbk | 2006 | #158692A | £8.50 BUY Flea-beetles of the Czech and Slovak Republics. ....

Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Anisoptera 705 pages | 793 illus | Springer Illustrated Keys to Known Families, Genera, and Species in South America Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1402048017 | Charles W Heckman #158301A | £156.00 BUY Anisoptera is the first of two volumes on the Odonata in the series Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects. The second will treat the Zygoptera. ....

Fascinating Insects: Some Aspects of Insect Life 310 pages | photos, graphs, drawings | Pierre Jolivet and Krishna K Verma Pensoft This book highlights the very successful and much diversified group of organisms, the insects, Hbk | 2005 | 9546422428 | #158116A | and deals with some interesting aspects of insect life, which are often ignored .... £29.95 BUY

Fauna Helvetica 15: Decapoda 56 pages | 15 colour plates, 23 figures, P Stucki and B Zaugg 39 tables, 8 maps | CSCF Hbk | 2005 | 2884140271 | #156390A | £9.50 BUY

Field Guide of Cuban-West Indies Butterflies 289 pages | 31 col plates, line drawings, Luis Roberto Hernandez ckecklist, maps | Apollo 2004 | 9801207930 | #158564A | £43.00 BUY

The Fire Ants 744 pages | 53 col illus, 200 b/w illus, Walter R Tschinkel tabs | Harvard UP Walter Tschinkel's passion for fire ants has been stoked by over thirty years of exploring the Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0674022076 | rhythm and drama of Solenopsis invicta's biology. Since South American .... #158685A | £61.95 BUY

Fruit Beetles of Costa Rica 240 pages | Col illus, distrib maps | Angel Solis INBio This field guide includes an introduction with information about the morphological 2004 | 9968702986 | #158750A | characteristics of the Cetoniinae, their distribution in the world and in Costa Rica, .... £16.95 BUY

Function and Detailed Morphology of the Tylenchida (Nematoda) 200 pages | line drawings | EJ Brill E Geraert Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 9004148957 | This is the first and so far the one and only treatise on the morphology of the Tylenchs. #155579A | £73.00 BUY Tylenchs are economically important Nematodes that live in huge numbers in the ....

Galling Arthropods and their Associates 304 pages | - | Springer Ecology and Evolution Hbk | 2006 | 4431321845 | #158571A | Edited by Kenichi Ozaki et al £92.50 BUY This book addresses recent developments in the ecology, evolution, systematics, physiology, and biodiversity of gall-inducing arthropods, with individual contributions ....

Highland Bumblebees 53 pages | colour photos, dist maps | Distribution, Ecology and Conservation HBRG Murdo Macdonald and Gill Nisbet Pbk | 2006 | 0955221102 | #158165A | This book describes the current state of the 16 species of bumblebee found in the Highland £3.50 BUY region of Scotland. Covers all aspects of the biology and ecology of these ....

Insect Symbiosis, Volume II 256 pages | CRC Press Kostas Bourtzis and Thomas A Miller Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0849341949 | Insect Symbiosis, Volume 2 summarizes current knowledge of symbiotic organisms in the #155032A | £74.99 BUY biology of insects. Written by authorities on symbionts, the microbes associated with ....

Insects and Human Life 317 pages | 30 illus | Berg Brian Morris Hbk | 2004 | 1859738478 | #144029A | Based on his years spent in Malawi, Morris demonstrates an intimate knowledge of virtually £65.00 BUY every aspect of human-insect relations. Not only is the book useful in terms .... Pbk | 2006 | 1845200756 | #158371A | £19.99 BUY

Katydids of Costa Rica, Volume 1 Col illlus | Orthopterists' Society Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids Hbk | 2005 | 1929014015 | #158545A | P Naskrecki £25.95 BUY This volume, first in a 3-part series, presents a monographic treatment of the Costa Rican fauna of the cone-head katydids (Conocephalinae + Copiphorinae + Agraeciinae). ....

Kaufmann Field Guide to Insects of North America 384 pages | Col photos | Houghton K Kaufmann and E Easton Mifflin Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify. In the new Kaufman Field Guide to Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0618153101 | Insects of North America, a .... #158280A | £15.50 BUY

Libellen sterreichs 420 pages | colour illus | Springer Rainer Raab, Andreas Chovanec and Josef Pennerstorfer Hbk | 2006 | 3211289267 | #158318A | Describes all 77 species of dragonflies in Austria in detail and provides general information £82.50 BUY about the biology, distribution and status of dragonflies. ....

Les Libellules de France, Belgique et Luxembourg 480 pages | 350 photos | BIOTOPE Parth Daniel Grand and Jean-Pierre Boudot ‚nope The first book published on the dragonflies of France, Belgium and Luxemburg in the French Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 2914817053 | language. This book serves as a textbook on the biology, taxonomy and ecology of .... #157050A | £46.50 BUY

Les Longicornes des Petits Antilles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) 241 pages | 200 colour photos, 5 maps Taxonomie, Ethologie, Biogeographie | Pensoft F Chalumeau and J Touroult Hbk | 2005 | 9546422452 | #158115A | This monograph on the longhorn beetles of the Lesser West Indies (Anguilla to Grenada) and £81.00 BUY Virgin Islands is the first regional synthesis covering all known species, including ....

Monograph of the Gomphodesmidae, a Family of African Polydesmoid 537 pages | Vienna NHM Millipeds 2005 | 3902421029 | #158562A | £260.00 BUY RL Hoffman

The Moths of Borneo, Parts 15 & 16 (Noctuidae: Catocaline) 529 pages | 28 col plates, b/w photos | Subfamilies Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae Southdene JD Holloway Pbk | 2005 | #158470A | £84.00 BUY

Opisthobranchs of Japan Islands 304 pages | colour photos | Rutles Co Nakano Rie Ltd Photo identification guide. .... Pbk | 2004 | 4899770766 | #157561A | £38.50 BUY

The Other Insect Societies 602 pages | 24 col illus, 45 line illus | James T Costa Harvard UP Foreword by Bert Holldobler and a commentary by E O Wilson .... Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0674021630 | #158672A | £38.95 BUY

Les Papillons de la Réunion et leurs chenilles 440 pages | colour illus | BIOTOPE Parth Dominique Martiré and Jacques Rochat ‚nope Richly illustrated guide to 32 species of butterflies and more than 200 species of moths found Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 291481707X | on Reunion. .... #157064A | £46.50 BUY

A Pocket Guide: Phasmids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore 120 pages | Natural History Publications Francis Seow-Choen Pbk | 2005 | 9838121096 | #158120A | Although phasmids are found in almost all tropical forests, not much was known about them £13.95 BUY until recently. Over the last 25 years, the Phasmid Study Group (popularly known as ....

RES Handbook Volume 1, Part 7 102 pages | B/w illus | RES Psocoptera Pbk | 1974 | 0901546356 | #010845A | TR New £6.95 BUY Since the first edition of this handbook was published in 1974, seven new species of Psocoptera 2006 | #158640A | £16.50 BUY have been recorded in Britain. ....

Spiders of the North Woods 172 pages | Col photos, illus | Kollath- L Webber Stensaas Publishing Spiders of the North Woods introduces over 60 fascinating northern spiders. Spider guides are Pbk | 2002 | 0967379342 | #158277A | few and far between. Larry's easy-to-follow format makes field identification .... £15.50 BUY

The State of Britain's Moths 36 pages | colour photos | Butterfly This report reveals that the moth population of Britain is in serious decline, causing concern for Conservation the future of many species of birds, bats and several small mammals that .... Pbk | 2006 | #158149A | £9.95 BUY

The State of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland 120 pages | Col photos | NatureBureau Richard Fox, Jim Asher, Tom Brereton, David Roy and Martin Warren Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1874357315 | This major new landmark publication provides the first assessment of the changing status of #158486A | £12.00 BUY butterflies in the 21st Century, updating the Millennium Atlas of Butterflies of ....

Sterile Insect Technique 787 pages | - | Springer Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management Hbk | 2005 | 1402040504 | #158313A | Edited by VA Dyck, J Hendrichs and AS Robinson £219.00 BUY The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. A ....

Texas Bug Book 214 pages | 23 figs, 413 colour photos | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Texas UP Howard Garret and C Malcolm Beck Pbk | 2005 | 0292709374 | #158425A | Takes an organic approach to pest control highlighting the many useful roles that bugs play in £22.95 BUY nature and offering proven organic remedies for infestations of pest insects. ....

The World's First Shell Collecting Guide from 1821 96 pages | Col illus | CSIRO John Mawe's 'The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot' Pbk | 2003 | 1920843043 | #155943A | JD Stilwell £21.50 BUY Shells have a mystique that transcends time. Shelled molluscs have existed since the beginning of the Palaeozoic era, an amazing half billion years ago. For thousands of ....

A Walk around the Pond 304 pages | 12 halftones | Harvard UP Insects in and over the Water Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0674022114 | Gilbert Waldbauer #158666A | £14.95 BUY A water strider darts across a pond, its feet dimpling the surface tension; a giant water bug dives below, carrying his mate's eggs on his back; hidden among plant roots on ....

Palaeontology Go to subject web page

The Liverworts in Baltic and Bitterfeld Amber 23 col plates | Weissdorn-Verlag Riclef Grolle and Kay Meister Pbk | 2004 | 3936055041 | #153505A | £20.50 BUY

Muschelkalkmuseum Ingelfingen 88 pages | 260 figs | Lattner Hans Hagdorn Photographic Art GmbH Descriptions of the fossils in the museum in Ingelfingern, Germany. .... Pbk | 2004 | 3980772926 | #157950A | £20.50 BUY

Stable Isotopes in Paleoclimatology 224 pages | 65 illus | Blackwell Mark Maslin and Jonathan Holmes Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1405118016 | This book examines the application of stable isotopes in the reconstruction of past climatic #155187A | £24.99 BUY conditions. With particular emphasis on the Quaternary, Stable Isotopes in ....

Marine & Freshwater Biology Go to subject web page

Atlante di Flora e Fauna del Mediterraneo 256 pages | Col photos | Edizioni il Guida all'ambiente sommerso Castello Egidio Trainito Pbk | 2005 | 8880393952 | #157933A | Photographic identification guide to the flora and fauna of the Mediterranean, covering more £31.50 BUY than 800 species. ....

Cladocera: Family Ilyocryptidae (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: 172 pages | 79 plates | Backhuys Anomopoda) Pbk | 2006 | 9057821672 | #157012A | £46.00 BUY AA Kotov and P Stifter

Field Guide to the Sea Slugs of the Tropical Eastern Pacific 129 pages | 145 col photos | Sea Yolanda Camacho-Garcia, Terence M Gosliner and Angel Valdes Challengers First opisthobranch guide to the area from Guatemala to Ecuador and the Galapagos, covering Pbk | 2005 | #158503A | £32.00 BUY 145 species, with a taxonomic key. Contains an introduction to external ....

Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest 398 pages | Col photos | Harbour A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes Publishing Andy Lamb and Bernard Hanby Hbk | 2005 | 1550173618 | #158418A | With 1,700 superb colour photographs of over 1,400 species, Marine Life of the Pacific £51.99 BUY Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes is ....

Nudibranch Behavior 176 pages | Sea Challengers DW Behrens Pbk | 2005 | #158502A | £31.00 BUY This book is notable for its collection of photographs of opisthobranch biology and behaviour. Chapters include a discussion of the different orders of sea slugs, senses ....

Seashore Life of the Caribbean 200 pages | colour photos | Macmillan Alick Jones and Sarah Jones Caribbean Pbk | 2005 | 1405007605 | #158388A | £8.00 BUY

Survey reports of the R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN 1975-89 - | FAO FAO CD | 2004 | 9251052190 | #158355A | The research vessel DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN operated for 18 years (1975 to 1993), surveying £23.95 BUY shelves and slopes of tropical and subtropical regions. The main objective was to ....

Window to the Sea 192 pages | 150 col illus | Windsor Behind the Scenes at America's Great Public Aquariums Books / Springfield John Grant and Ray Jones Pbk | 2005 | 0762739703 | #158402A | Captures the beauty and adventure of the undersea world and reveals the dramatic work done £14.99 BUY by marine scientists and other staff at public aquariums in the US. ....

General Natural History Go to subject web page

The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography 144 pages | 400 colour photos | Ilex David Tipling Publishers "The Birdwatcher's Guide to Digital Photography" is a comprehensive guide that covers a wide Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1904705847 | number of topics, such as .... #158383A | £14.99 BUY

Civilized Life in the Universe 3 halftones, 28 line illus | OUP Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials Hbk | 2006 | 0195171810 | #158349A | George Basalla £17.99 BUY This book is a selective and fascinating history of scientific speculation about intelligent extraterrestrial life. From Plutarch to Stephen Hawking, some of the most ....

Ending in Ice 224 pages | 25 halftones, 9 line illus | Alfred Wegener's Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition OUP Roger M McCoy Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0195188578 | An old truism holds that a scientific discovery has three stages: first, people deny it is true; #158241A | £17.99 BUY then they deny it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person. ....

Experiencing Nature 208 pages | 10 halftones | Texas UP The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0292709811 | Antonio Barrera-Osorio #158423A | £28.95 BUY As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the ....

Lake Monster Mysteries 184 pages | Kentucky UP Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0813123941 | Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell #158758A | £17.95 BUY For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world - from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland - have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that ....

Life 304 pages | 200 colour photos | Lennart Nilsson Jonathan Cape Presents a visual account of human development, from DNA to stem cells, by one of the leading Hbk | 2006 | 0224076914 | #158111A | scientific photographers. This book includes studies of hormones, conception and .... £35.00 BUY

Lonesome George 256 pages | - | Palgrave The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1403945764 | Henry Nicholls #158093A | £16.99 BUY Lonesome George is a 5ft long, 200lb tortoise aged between 60 and 200. In 1971, he was discovered on the remote Galapagos island of Pinta, from which tortoises had supposedly ....

The Longest Winter 240 pages | 27 b/w photos | The Incredible Survival of Captain Scott's Lost Party Smithsonian Institution Press Katherine Lambert Hbk | 2004 | 158834195X | #148192A | One of the greatest unknown survival stories to come out of the heroic age of polar exploration. £19.95 BUY This book documents the unknown story of Scott's Northern party and their ....

Naturalist 380 pages | Photos, illus | Shearwater Edward O Wilson Hbk | 1994 | 1559632887 | #038267A | Now available in a revised and updated edition with a new foreword by the author. .... Normally £23.90 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £6.99 Pbk | 2006 | 1597260886 | #158610A | £12.50 BUY

Nature Revealed 680 pages | 74 halftones, 171 line Selected Writings, 1949-2006 drawings | Johns Hopkins UP Edward O Wilson Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0801883296 | Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson is one of the leading biologists and #158174A | £23.50 BUY philosophical thinkers of our time. In this compelling collection, Wilson's observations ....

Nature's Restoration 336 pages | - | Island Press People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 155963085X | Peter Friederici #158581A | £18.95 BUY Across America and around the world, people are working to help nature heal itself. In Bermuda, a man single-handedly grows thousands of trees on a small island to restore ....

The Open Air 192 pages | Nonsuch Publishing Richard Jefferies Pbk | 2005 | 1845880544 | #158130A | A collection of essays that attempt to distill the essence of nature, and of life in the country into £10.00 BUY prose, and to impart the wonder the author feels when immersed in nature. ....

Planet Earth 312 pages | 300 col photos | BBC Books Alistair Fothergill Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0563522127 | Foreword by Sir David Attenborough .... #158373A | £25.00 BUY

The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind 336 pages | 2 illus | Yale UP Gregory J Feist Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 030011074X | In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered literatures on the psychology #158408A | £25.00 BUY of science, then calls for the establishment of the field as a unique ....

RSPB Guide to Digital Wildlife Photography 160 pages | 200 photos | RSPB David Tipling Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0713671858 | This is a helpful and practical RSPB guide to all aspects of digital wildlife photography, #158219A | £19.99 BUY accessibly written by and beautifully illustrated with the work of one of ....

Reconceiving the Gene 320 pages | 45 illus | Yale UP Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0300110782 | Frederic L Holmes #158407A | £30.00 BUY Relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. ....

Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007 200 pages | tables, figures | Island Press Edited by Donald Kennedy Hbk | 2006 | 1597260622 | #158592A | How often in today's environmental debates have you read that "the science is in dispute" - £23.50 BUY even when there is overwhelming consensus among scientists? Too often, the .... Pbk | 2006 | 1597260630 | #158593A | £12.50 BUY

Seeking the Sacred Raven 288 pages | - | Island Press Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1559630906 | Mark Jerome Walters #158609A | £18.50 BUY Will the 'Alala ever return to the wild? A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a member of the raven family, the 'Alala today survives only in captivity. How the species once ....

Stubbs and the Horse 248 pages | Yale UP Malcolm Warner and Robin Blake Hbk | 2004 | 0300104723 | #154826A | A versatile genius whose oeuvre includes paintings, engravings and detailed anatomical studies, £30.00 BUY George Stubbs (1724-1806) was fascinated by horses. This handsome book presents ....

TWAS at 20 165 pages | - | World Scientific A History of the Third World Academy of Sciences Pbk | 2005 | 9812561382 | #158204A | Daniel Schaffer £17.00 BUY For the past 20 years, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has been at the forefront of efforts to promote science and science-based developments in the developing ....

Thus Spoke Galileo 514 pages | 62 line diagrams and 15 The great scientist's ideas and their relevance to the present day halftones | OUP Andrea Frova and Mariapiera Marenzana Hbk | 2006 | 0198566255 | #158348A | You might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself £19.99 BUY actually said! His elusive and often misquoted discourse has resulted, over the years, ....

Vanishing Wildlife NSA A Sound Guide to Britain's Endangered Species CD | NYP 04/2006 | 0712305289 | Richard Ranft #158547A | £8.47 BUY Recordings from the British Library Sound Archive of some of the most elusive birds, mammals, insects and frogs in Britain. ....

Regional & Travel Go to subject web page

Archipelago 280 pages | 200 col photos | National Portraits of Life on the World's Most Remote Islands Geographic David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton Hbk | 2005 | 0792241886 | #158419A | This new masterwork, by the creators of the acclaimed 2001 book, Remains of a Rainbow, £35.00 BUY showcases the unique flora and fauna of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, both ....

Beat About the Bush 329 pages | Jacana Trevor Carnaby Pbk | 2005 | 1770090967 | #158434A | More comprehensive than a field guide yet more accessible than an academic text, this £20.00 BUY authoritative reference answers fundamental questions about mammals and birds in the ....

Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife DVDs Bill Oddie Two DVDs containing episodes 1-8 and 6-19 of the BBC series. ....

Creatures of Empire 336 pages | 7 halftones, 2 maps | OUP How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America Pbk | 2006 | 0195304462 | #158468A | Virginia DeJohn Anderson £10.99 BUY When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn ....

An Ecotraveller's Guide to Costa Rica 288 pages | colour photos | Arris Books Hannah Robinson Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1905214227 | Costa Rica: More diversity is crammed into its borders per square mile than any other country #158374A | £12.99 BUY in the world, and this book takes you to the best places to see it all. ....

Good Parks Guide 320 pages | Col photos | Think The ultimate compendium of over 500 of the best public, countryside, urban and historic parks Publishing in the UK. Compiled in conjunction with GreenSpace and the RHS, this practical .... Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1845250176 | #158381A | £12.99 BUY

Hiking the Grand Canyon 326 pages | 13 b/w photos, 1 b/w illus, John Annerino 12 tabs, 1 map | Sierra Club Fully revised, updated, and expanded, this ever-popular Sierra Club Totebook is an information- Pbk | 2006 | 1578051509 | #158621A | packed guide to America's best-known national park, the destination of more .... £10.95 BUY

Introduction to California Chaparral 300 pages | 79 col illus, 56 line illus, 2 Ronald D Quinn and Sterling C Keeley maps | California UP The characteristic look of California Chaparral--a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520219732 | covering the hills--is known to millions who have seen it as the .... #158620A | £32.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520245660 | #158619A | £12.95 BUY

Ireland's Coastline 200 pages | Col illus, maps | Collins Exploring its Nature and Heritage Press Richard Nairn Hbk | 2005 | 1903464501 | #158500A | No part of Ireland is more than 100km from the coast and over half the population live within £24.95 BUY 10km of it. This book is a comprehensive account of the natural and human history ....

Irish Trees 240 pages | Col illus | Collins Press The Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees of Ireland Pbk | 2003 | 1903464331 | #158501A | Niall Mac Coitir £14.99 BUY In ancient Ireland mythology and folklore were part of the general knowledge about each tree. This book gathers the myths, legends and folklore associated with the native Irish ....

Land of Mountain and Flood 304 pages | Col illus | Birlinn The Geology and Landforms of Scotland Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 184158357X | Alan McKirdy, John Gordon and Roger Crofts #158728A | £30.00 BUY The sheer diversity of Scotland's rocks and landforms are the physical reminders of a fascinating physical and chronological journey which shows that the land that makes up ....

Life in the Chesapeake Bay 294 pages | 19 photos, 285 illus | Johns An Illustrated Guide to the Fishes, Invertebrates, Plants, Birds and other Animals of Hopkins UP Bays and Inlets from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0801883377 | Alice J Lippson and Robert L Lippson #158175A | £33.50 BUY Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0801883385 | estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of .... #158176A | £16.50 BUY

The Meadowlands 224 pages | Granta Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of New York City Pbk | 2006 | 1862077622 | #158741A | Robert Sullivan £8.99 BUY Just five miles west of New York City, the Meadowlands is an untamed, vilified, half-developed and smelly tract of swampland. It is home to rare birds and missing ....

Mike Butterfield's Guide to the Mountains of New Mexico 200 pages | 170 col photos | New Peter Greene Mexico UP This handy, beautifully illustrated guide to the mountains of New Mexico includes all prominent Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0937206881 | mountain ranges and other high points, with their locations, access, major .... #158416A | £60.50 BUY

Le Monde Vegetal de Zermatt 248 pages | 300 Col photos | Editions C Käsermann, F Meyer and A Steiner Monographic SA Pbk | 2003 | 2883411263 | #156402A | £71.00 BUY

Mountains of New Mexico 392 pages | 83 halftones, 10 maps | Robert Julyan New Mexico UP Many non-New Mexicans envision New Mexico as one large desert, yet New Mexico is very Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0826335160 | much a mountain state, with more than one hundred named mountain groups. New Mexico's .... #158417A | £18.50 BUY

Northwest California 280 pages | 26 col illus, line illus, tabs, A Natural History maps | California UP John O Sawyer Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520232860 | Northwestern California is mainly known for its majestic redwood forests and incomparable #158624A | £48.95 BUY coastline, but there is much more in its rich biota and scenery. The ....

A Portrait of England 180 pages | Col photos | Think Campaign to Protect Rural England Publishing A visual celebration of the English countryside and its natural and human history. Published in Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 1845250133 | association with the CPRE and introduced by its President, Sir Max .... #158379A | £20.00 BUY

Return to Wild America 394 pages | b/w plates | North Point A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul Press Scott Weidensaul Hbk | 2005 | 0865476888 | #157859A | In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on £18.50 BUY what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around ....

Sipadan Mabul Kapalai: Sabah's Underwater Treasure 198 pages | colour photos | Natural Jason Isley et al History Publications On the northeast coast of Sabah, Malaysia, lie three seemingly insignificant islands. Ignored by Hbk | 2005 | 9838120944 | #158121A | the rest of the world until the 1980s, it has only recently been discovered .... £59.00 BUY

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Australia - the East 520 pages | full colour throughout | Les Beletsky Arris Books This book provides you with all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Pbk | 2006 | 1905214219 | #158376A | Australia's magnificent animal and plant life. Identification and location .... £18.99 BUY

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Hawaii 520 pages | full colour throughout | Les Beletsky Arris Books This book contains all the information a traveller needs to find, identify, and learn about the Pbk | 2006 | 1905214197 | #158378A | region's magnificent animal life. .... £18.99 BUY

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Southern Africa 520 pages | 230 pages of colour photos W Branch, C Stuart, T Stuart and W Tarboton and illustrations | Arris Books From the world-famous Kruger National Park in South Africa, to Botswana's Okavango Delta, Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 1905214294 | Namibia's Etosha National Park, and Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, the .... #158380A | £18.99 BUY

Travellers' Wildlife Guide: Southern Mexico 520 pages | 230 pages of colour photos Les Beletsky and illustrations | Arris Books Useful for nature travellers to Southern Mexico, this guide covers the Cancun Region, Yucatan Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 1905214286 | Peninsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco. It provides the information you need to .... #158382A | £18.99 BUY

Vietnam: A Natural History 448 pages | 76 illus | Yale UP Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley and Le Duc Minh Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0300106084 | A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of #158406A | £25.00 BUY Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world's biological diversity, ....

Botany & Plant Science Go to subject web page

Acta Botanica Fennica, Vol. 177: Bryophyte Flora of Hunan Province, 47 pages | - | Finnish Zoological BPB China, 3: Bryophytes from Taoyuandong and Yankou Nature Reserves Pbk | 2004 | 9519469710 | #158199A | £11.95 BUY and Badagongshan and Hupingshan National Nature Reserves, with additions to floras of Mangshan Nature Reserve and Wulingyuan Global Cultural Heritage Area T Koponen et al

Acta Botanica Fennica, Vol. 178: Bryophyte Flora of Hunan Province, 78 pages | - | Finnish Zoological BPB China, 5 and 6 Pbk | 2005 | 9519469729 | #158200A | £19.95 BUY MS Ignatov et al Contains Brachytheciaceae (Musci), with an overview of Eurhynchiadelphus and Rhynchostegiella in SE Asia; and Jungermanniaceae and Gymnomitriaceae (Hepaticae). ....

Alaska Trees and Shrubs 265 pages | 269 illus, maps | Alaska UP LA Viereck and EL Little Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 1889963860 | New, completely revised and updated edition of the classic Alaska Trees and Shrubs, which has #158173A | £24.95 BUY long been the definitive work on the woody plants of the fourty-ninth state. ....

Algae of Ukraine, Volume 1 712 pages | maps, plates | Gantner Cyanoprocaryota, Euglenophyta, Chrysophyta, Xanthophyta, Raphidophyta, Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 3906166449 | Phaeophyta, Dinophyta, Cryptophyta, Glaucostophyta, and Rhodophyta #158346A | £59.50 BUY OV Borisova et al The first of a scheduled 2 volume set on the algae of the Ukraine. The present volume covers 967 genera and 4942 species (5905 infra- specific taxa). For each taxon ....

Alleebäume 304 pages | 200 b/w illus | Boehlau Wenn Bäume ins Holz, Laub und in die Frucht wachsen sollen Verlag Peter Kurz and Michael Machatschek Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 3205774671 | #157454A | £30.50 BUY

Antidesma in Malesia and Thailand 292 pages | 23 line illus, 43 distribution Petra Hoffmann maps | Kew RBG Antidesma is a genus in the family Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). It Pbk | 2005 | 1842460455 | #153837A | comprises trees and shrubs which are conspicuous by their racemes of often .... £46.00 BUY

Arbres et Arbustes aux Quatre Saisons 216 pages | 1600 colour photos | JD Godet Delachaux et Niestle Guide to 270 trees and shrubs of Western Europe. .... Hbk | 2004 | 2603014927 | #158549A | £39.50 BUY

Les Bryophytes du Centre-Ouest 124 pages | - | SBCO Classification, Determination, Repartition Pbk | 2005 | #157433A | £33.50 BUY RB Pierrot

Cactus Basics 128 pages | 150 colour photos | Hamlyn Tony Mace Pbk | 2006 | 0600614689 | #158430A | The strange and beautiful world of cacti and succulents is explored in this guide to their care £5.99 BUY and cultivation. It includes tips and techniques on treating pests, diseases, ....

Check-list of Gabonese Vascular Plants National BG MSM Sosef Pbk | 2005 | #158534A | £53.00 BUY

A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi National BG AM Strugnell Pbk | 2005 | #158533A | £27.50 BUY

Cinco Anos de Adiciones a la Flora del Ecuador 1999-2004 - | Missouri BG Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and David A Neill Pbk | 2005 | 9978095780 | #158347A | Of the 1246 new additions to the Ecuadorian flora, 820 are new taxa described from Ecuadorian £12.95 BUY material, 337 names are new records for Ecuador, and 89 are taxonomic ....

DNA and Tissue Banking for Biodiversity and Conservation 151 pages | tables, 10 colour photos, b/ Theory, Practice and Uses w graphs | Kew RBG Edited by Vincent Savolainen, Martyn P Powell, Kate Davis et al Pbk | 2006 | 1842461192 | #153840A | The world is facing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Unless there are radical £25.00 BUY changes in human behaviour, we can expect significant and alarming species loss ....

Distributiones Fungorum Belgii et Luxemburgi Fasc. 3 National BG A Fraiture and R Walleyn Pbk | 2005 | #158536A | £7.95 BUY

Ecology of Harmful Algae 385 pages | - | Springer Edna Graneli and Jefferson T Turner Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 3540322094 | Table of contents: 1 An Introduction to Harmful Algae .... #158257A | £107.50 BUY

The Ecology of Plants 523 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, tabs, Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M Scheiner and Gordon A Fox maps | Sinauer This thoroughly revised and updated book is now in full colour and augmented by many new Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0878932941 | illustrations and references. Brighter than ever, "The Ecology of Plants" covers a range .... #157912A | £43.99 BUY

Endangered Plants of Japan: A Florilegium 383 pages | colour illus | Wako Yosho- Edited by Ohba Hideaki Hanbai K.K Beautiful illustrations of 182 of Japan's rarest and most notable plants. The full page Hbk | 2004 | 4900358576 | #157557A | illustrations are accompanied by descriptions and distribution information in Japanese .... £94.00 BUY

The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases 576 pages | - | Springer Edited by BM Cooke, D Gareth Jones and B Kaye Hbk | 2006 | 1402045794 | #158317A | Plant disease epidemiology is a dynamic science that forms an essential part of the study of £127.00 BUY plant pathology. This book brings together a team of 35 international experts. ....

European Community Plant Variety Protection 368 pages | - | OUP Gert Würtenberger et al Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0199286167 | This book is intended as a practical guide to the European Community plant variety protection #158242A | £95.00 BUY system under Council Regulation (EC) 2100/94. This system was introduced to ....

Farbatlas der Basidiomyceten (Colour Atlas of Basidiomycetes): Lfg 23 140 pages | 61 colour illus | Elsevier Meinhard Moser and Ursula Peintner Germany Unbound | 2005 | 3827416744 | #158166A | £44.50 BUY

Feast of Dates 320 pages | 300 col photos | Trident D Potts Press Tells the story of the date palm from archaeological finds, oral and historical records, practical Hbk | 2003 | 1900724596 | #158540A | farming knowledge and scientific research. Not only does it place the tree .... £40.00 BUY

Flora Genérica de los Páramos 520 pages | NYBG Press Guía Ilustrada de las Plantas Vasculares Hbk | 2005 | 0893274682 | #158390A | Petr Sklenao, Lames L Luteyn et al £77.00 BUY The Paramo is one of the richest high-elevation mountain ecosystems in the World with high biological diversity and endemism, but it is ecologically fragile. This book ....

Flora Hellenica Bibliography 650 pages | - | Polish Botany Institute Arne Strid Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | #158133A | Second, revised edition listing 13.276 bibliographic references; includes a searchable CD- £48.00 BUY ROM. ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 95: Siparunaceae 256 pages | NYBG Press Susanne S Renner and Gerlinde Hausner Hbk | 2005 | 0893274623 | #158397A | This monograph treats both genera and discusses the family`s vegetative and reproductive £56.00 BUY morphology and anatomy, embyology, palynology, chemistry, ethnobotany, and ecology as ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 96: Drosera (Droseraceae) 72 pages | - | NYBG Press Mireya D Correa A and Tânia R dos Santos Silva Pbk | 2005 | 0893274631 | #158391A | A taxonomic revision of Drosera, the only genus of Droseraceae found in the Neotropics, is £22.50 BUY presented. This treatment includes full synonymy, typification, descriptions, and ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 97: Marchantiidae 272 pages | NYBG Press Helene Bischler-Causse, S Robbert Gradstein et al Hbk | 2005 | 0893274658 | #158392A | This monograph of the neotropical Marchantiidae treats 103 species in two orders: £58.50 BUY Marchantiales and Monocleales. Marchantiales are represented in the Neotroppics by 102 ....

Flora Neotropica, Volume 98: Tococa (Melastomataceae) 120 pages | NYBG Press Fabian Michelangeli Hbk | 2005 | 0893274666 | #158398A | In Tococa (Melastomataceae), the author puts the spotlight on this Neotropical genus. While £26.95 BUY mostly woody shrubs and small trees and occasionally climbing or creeping vines, ....

Flora de la República de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fasicúlo 11 236 pages | line drawings | Koeltz Pteridophyta Pbk | 2006 | 3906166457 | #158645A | £41.00 BUY PA Gonzalez Gutierrez and J Sierra Calzado Covers the following families: Azollaceae/ Dicksoniaceae/ Equisetaceae/ Isoetaceae/ Lophosoriaceae/ Marsileaceae/ Oleandraceae/ Ophioglossaceae/ Osmundaceae/ ....

Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4: Campanulaceae - 624 pages | keys, line illustrations, Asteraceae diagrams | CUP Hbk | 2006 | 0521553385 | #050855A | Peter Sell and Gina Murrell £120.00 BUY Planned in five volumes, this critical Flora provides a definitive account of the native species, naturalised species, frequent garden escapes and casuals found in the British ....

Flora of Siberia, Volume 11: Pyrolaceae - Lamiaceae (Labiatae) Science Publishers/Enfield NYP 08/2006 | 1578081106 | #103049A | £58.80 BUY

Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda, Burundi): 102 pages | colour photos, drawings | Spermatophytes - Iridaceae National BG Pbk | 2005 | #158542A | £23.95 BUY Daniel Geerinck

Forêts de la Réserve du Dja (Cameroun) 144 pages | figures, tables | National BG Etudes floristiques et structurales Pbk | 2004 | 9072619625 | #158531A | Bonaventure Sonké £10.50 BUY

Fruit Trees of the Caribbean 152 pages | colour photos | Macmillan Sandra Hewitt Caribbean Fruit growing in the tropical regions of the world is quite different from the more temperate Pbk | 2005 | 1405018453 | #158387A | areas where the majority of fruits are strictly seasonal and mostly ripen from .... £7.95 BUY

Fungi Europaei, Volume 5a: Entoloma (Supplement) 920 pages | 389 photos | Edizioni Machiel E Noordeloos Candusso 2004 | 8890105747 | #158635A | £78.00 BUY

Fungi Europaei, Volume 9: Amaniteae 1120 pages | 113 colour plates, 202 P Neville and S Poumarat photos, 128 drawings | Edizioni Candusso Hbk | 2004 | 8890105739 | #156571A | £79.00 BUY

Gene Transfer to Plants BIOS R Twyman Pbk | 2004 | 1859962092 | #146918A | Gene transfer to plants was first achieved more than twenty years ago. Since then, plant £35.00 BUY transformation technology has developed rapidly and in the last few years the benefits ....

The Genus Arisaema 480 pages | 430 colour photos, 200 line A Monograph for Botanists and Nature Lovers drawings, 20 tables | Koeltz Liliane Gusman and Guy Gusman Hbk | 2006 | 3906166376 | #152582A | This second edition, fully revised and updated, takes into account latest results in phylogeny of £64.00 BUY Arisaema, and incorporates all new species described since 2002, the year ....

Golden Harvest 144 pages | 150 photos | Alison Hodge The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Pbk | 2006 | 090672046X | #158276A | A Tompsett £18.50 BUY Presents the history of daffodil growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. ....

Guide Delachaux des Arbres d'Europe 464 pages | colour plates | Delachaux et Owen Johnson and David More Niestle French translation of the Collins Tree Guide. .... Hbk | 2005 | 2603014412 | #158548A | £43.00 BUY

Guide des Fleurs de Montagne 384 pages | Col plates, b/w illus, maps | Alpes, Pyrenees, Vosges, Jura, Massif Central Delachaux et Niestle Christopher Grey-Wilson and Majorie Blamey Pbk | 2006 | 2603013696 | #158558A | Popular guide to 1600 flowers found in the mountainous regions of Europe. .... £33.00 BUY

Guide des Orchidées d'Europe d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient 592 pages | 812 col photos | Delachaux P Delforge et Niestle Identification guide to 485 species and their different varieties found in Britain and Europe, and Hbk | 2005 | 2603013238 | #158555A | including North Africa, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Asian Turkey. Basic keys .... £43.50 BUY

Guide des Plantes à Fleurs 472 pages | colour illus | Delachaux et Des arbres et des arbustes d'Europe occidentale Niestle D Mac Clintock, R Fitter, S Favarger and C Favarger Hbk | 2005 | 2603014501 | #158557A | Covers more than 1700 flowering plants, trees and shrubs in Western Europe. .... £34.50 BUY

Guide to Common Urban Lichens 1 (on Trees and Wood) 49 colour photos | FSC Dobson Unbound | 2006 | #158643A | £2.50 This is a good time to look at urban lichens, as levels of sulphur dioxide, air pollution and acid BUY rain have been falling rapidly. Many leafy lichens are growing in ....

Guide to the Seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal National BG O De Clerck et al Pbk | 2005 | #158532A | £37.00 BUY

Herbs 368 pages | 5 halftones, 156 line illus | Challenges in Chemistry and Biology of Herbs OUP Edited by Mingfu Wang et al Hbk | 2006 | 0841239304 | #158350A | Herbs have been widely used for centuries to promote good health and treat disease in Asian £112.50 BUY countries. Indeed, the general population of both Eastern and Western countries ....

Histoire de la Botanique 240 pages | Col and b/w photos, illus | Joelle Magnin-Gonze Delachaux et Niestle A history of botany from Antiquity to the end of the 19th century. .... Pbk | 2004 | 2603014951 | #153680A | £26.50 BUY

Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia, Volume 5: Flowering 684 pages | UNSWP Plants - Monocotyledons Hbk | 2005 | 0868408328 | #140068A | £85.95 BUY Edited by Roger Spencer This is the fifth and final volume of The Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. The series gives gardeners, horticulturists, landscape designers, park ....

Intermountain Flora, Volume 2B: Subclass Dilleniidae NYBG Press Noel H Holmgren, Patricia K Holmgren and Arthur Cronquist Hbk | 2005 | 0893274690 | #136880A | Part B of volume 2, covering subclass Dilleniidae, contains many economically and ecologically £79.99 BUY important plant groups, including Brassicaceae (mustard family), Salicaceae ....

Lichen - Forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of Israel 384 pages | 25 Col plates, 150 col Edited by S Wasser and N Eviatar photos, distrib maps | Gantner Algae and Fungi of Israel is a critical inventory of recent species diversity of lichen - forming, Hbk | 2005 | 3906166414 | #158487A | lichenicolous, and allied fungi found in Israel up to 2005 and includes 112 .... £56.50 BUY

A Little History of British Gardening 342 pages | Chatto & Windus J Uglow Hbk | 2004 | 0701169281 | #148987A | This "potted" history of gardening in Britain takes the reader on a garden tour from the thorn £15.99 BUY hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental .... Pbk | 2005 | 0712664947 | #158211A | £10.00 BUY

Maine Mosses: Sphagnaceae-Timmiaceae 419 pages | NYBG Press B Allen Hbk | 2005 | 0893274712 | #158126A | The mosses of Maine, families Sphagnaceae through Timmiaceae, are keyed, illustrated, and £67.00 BUY described in detail. Within this volume, 23 families, 72 genera, and 231 species are ....

Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific 480 pages | CRC Press Christophe Wiart Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0849372453 | Covers all aspects of botany, ethnology, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacy and medicine, #158411A | £109.00 BUY and presents all important classes of natural products, classified by their ....

Morels 228 pages | 200 col photos | Michigan Michael Kuo UP A comprehensive, accessible book for both amateur morel hunters and mushroom scientists Pbk | 2006 | 0472030361 | #158464A | about one of North America's most popular outdoor activities Michael Kuo brings years of .... £20.50 BUY

Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Plants to Viruses 532 pages | - | Springer Edited by Gad Loebenstein and John Peter Carr Hbk | 2006 | 1402037791 | #158315A | This book is a first attempt to link well known plant resistance phenomena with emerging £107.00 BUY concepts in molecular biology. Resistance phenomena such as the local lesion response, ....

The Orchids of Cuba / Las Orquídeas de Cuba 298 pages | colour photos | Greta Juan O Llamacho and Julio A Larramendi Editores The compilation of photographs of more than 150 species of Cuba's orchids will allow those who 2005 | 8493361526 | #158344A | are not regular visitors to regions where these wonders live, or those who do .... £47.50 BUY

The Oxford Companion to the Garden 584 pages | 96 col plates, 45 historical Patrick Taylor engravings | OUP This sumptuous new Oxford Companion is devoted to gardens of every kind and the people and Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0198662556 | ideas involved in their making, in every part of the world where the designed .... #158469A | £40.00 BUY

A Passion for Trees 288 pages | Eden Project Books The Legacy of John Evelyn Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1903919479 | Maggie Campbell-Culver #158736A | £25.00 BUY Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John ....

Philip's Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe 272 pages | 400 col illus | Philip's Geoffrey Kibby Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0540089362 | A rapid identification guide to the larger fungi of Britain and Northern Europe, containing #158358A | £9.99 BUY accurate illustrations with distinguishing characteristics labelled. A ....

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Oaks in Japan 156 pages | colour illus, photos | Wako Yosho-Hanbai K.K Hbk | 2004 | 4039711408 | #157556A | £56.00 BUY

Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution 500 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Volume 2, Part B: Lower Groups Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 157808413X | Edited by AK Sharma and Sharma A #158169A | £66.90 BUY The present series on Plant Genomics: Biodiversity and Evolution aims to cover, in successive volumes, comprehensive reviews, concepts and discussions on the results of ....

Plant Micronutrients 270 pages | 6 colour plates | Science Roles, Responses and Amelioration of Deficiencies Publishers/Enfield CP Sharma Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1578084164 | This book addresses biochemical and physiological roles of micronutrients in plants and the #158171A | £50.10 BUY diverse ways in which they react to limitations in micronutrients supply, ....

Plant Physiology 690 pages | Col photos, b/w photos, col Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger illus, b\w illus, figs, tabs | Sinauer The fourth edition of this established US textbook text returns better than ever to provide plant Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0878938567 | science students with a fresh, colourful textbook, suitable for a variety .... #157911A | £43.99 BUY

Plant Pigments and Their Manipulation 320 pages | Illus | Blackwell Kevin Davies Hbk | 2004 | 1405117370 | #149655A | Plant pigments represent a large and active field of research that impacts on fundamental £110.00 BUY studies of plant function and gene expression, agriculture, the processing ....

Plant Resistance to Arthropods 423 pages | - | Springer Molecular and Conventional Approaches Hbk | 2005 | 1402037015 | #158314A | C Michael Smith £68.50 BUY Plant Resistance to Arthropods - Molecular and Conventional Approaches synthesizes new information about the environmental advantages of plant resistance, transgenic ....

Plant-Environment Interactions 500 pages | CRC Press Bingru Huang Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0849337275 | Fully revised and expanded, Plant-Environment Interactions, Third Edition leverages recent #158413A | £74.99 BUY research to provide unparalleled insight concerning the most important and common ....

Les Plantes Protégées de Lorraine 250 pages | colour illus | BIOTOPE Parth Distribution, Ecologie et Conservation ‚nope Serge Muller NYP 12/2006 | 2914817088 | #157062A 214 protected plant species of the Lorraine are described. This book provides historical and | £46.00 BUY current distribution, habitat, ecology and conservation status for each species. ....

Plants of the Simen 258 pages | illus | National BG A flora of the Simen Mountains and surroundings, northern Ethiopia Pbk | 2005 | #158535A | £31.50 BUY Christian Puff and Sileshi Nemomissa The book covers 101 families (gymnosperms: 1; dicots: 79; monocots: 21), close to 300 genera and 545 species recorded from the Simen and surroundings. Brief descriptions are ....

Plastids 320 pages | Illus | Blackwell Simon Geir Moller Hbk | 2004 | 1405118822 | #149656A | Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. They are important not just as £99.50 BUY photosynthetic organelles (chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many ....

Propagation Basics 128 pages | 70 colour illus, 130 colour How to Make More from Your Plants photos | Hamlyn Steve Bradley Pbk | 2006 | 0600614654 | #158428A | An award-winning guide to increasing your plant supply with practical, step-by-step £5.99 BUY illustrations. Starting with the easiest of techniques like planting seeds and taking ....

La Préparation des Echantillons d'Herbier 92 pages | colour plates, drawings | L Fish National BG Pbk | 2004 | 9072619633 | #158530A | £12.95 BUY

Rose Basics 128 pages | 150 colour photos | Hamlyn Amanda Beales Pbk | 2006 | 0600614670 | #158429A | A guide to growing and cultivating roses. From the history, species and traditions that have £5.99 BUY made roses so popular, to an understanding of the basic anatomy and development of ....

Seeds of Central America and Southern Mexico: The Economic Species 304 pages | NYBG Press David L Lentz and Ruth Dickau Hbk | 2005 | 0893274674 | #158395A | This work features photographs of seeds and background data, including family names, £58.50 BUY common names, distribution information, habitat and growth habit and descriptions, ....

Shetland Lichens 120 pages | photos, line drawings | Kery Dalby and Claire Dalby SBRC This book is the first county lichen flora for any part of Britain. The first half of the book looks at Hbk | 2005 | 0954324633 | #158292A | lichens, what they are, their reproduction, lifestyle, habitats etc. .... £15.00 BUY

Terricolous Bryophyte Vegetation of Chilean Temperate Rain Forests 154 pages | 82 figures, 9 tables | Communities, adaptive strategies and divergence patterns Gebr•der Borntraeger Friederike Schaumann Pbk | 2005 | 3443620345 | #157987A | £68.00 BUY

Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide 320 pages | 381 col photos | Texas UP C Loughmiller and L Loughmiller Pbk | 2006 | 0292712863 | #158424A | For two decades and counting, Texans have relied on Texas Wildflowers to identify the common £12.99 BUY and rare flowers we see along the roadsides and in the pastures, fields, and ....

Wiens Pflanzenwelt 368 pages | 670 col illus | Vienna NHM B Haslehner 2004 | 3902421045 | #158561A | Photo identification guide with 638 common and rare plant species found in Vienna. Includes a £25.95 BUY distribution map for each species. ....

Wildflowers in the Field and Forest 480 pages | colour photos | OUP A Field Guide to the Northeastern United States Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0195150058 | Steve Clemants #158237A | £19.99 BUY Many of us have stopped to pick wildflowers or have admired them as they flourished in fields and along hiking trails and roads. Always appreciated, but not always recognized, ....

A World Monograph of the Genus Plectocarpon (Roccellaceae, 155 pages | 123 figs | Arthoniales) Schweizerbart'sche Pbk | 2005 | 344358070X | #158484A | Edited by Damien Ertz and Claude Christnach £65.00 BUY

Animal & General Biology Go to subject web page

Animal and Human Health and Welfare 208 pages | CABI A Comparative Philosophical Analysis Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1845930592 | L Nordenfelt #158362A | £27.50 BUY For many years scientists within human and animal science have extensively discussed the philosophy of medicine, but never have both sides communicated on their concepts of ....

BSAVA Manual of Psittacine Birds 323 pages | 150 col & b/w illus, 20 tabs Edited by Nigel Harcourt-Brown and John Chitty | BSAVA Aimed at veterinarians and aviculturalists, but with usefulness to zoo workers. The second Pbk | 2005 | 0905214765 | #157836A | edition has been updated and rewritten under the direction of a new editorial .... £78.00 BUY

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, Volume 10 432 pages | 115 illus | Springer Verlag Edited by RT Mason, MP LeMaster and D Muller-Schwarze Hbk | 2005 | 0387251596 | #158296A | This volume is comprised of the proceedings of Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 10, held July £119.00 BUY 29th through August 1st, 2003 at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. ....

Doctor Dolittle's Delusion 368 pages | 68 illus | Yale UP Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0300115253 | Stephen R Anderson #158409A | £12.99 BUY Dr Dolittle had it wrong, says the author of this fascinating book: animals cannot use language. Stephen Anderson explains the difference between communication and language, ....

Evolutionary Genetics 544 pages | illus | OUP Concepts and Case Studies Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0195168186 | Edited by Charles W Fox and Jason B Wolf #157302A | £26.99 BUY The diverse field of evolutionary genetics is unified by two goals: to understand the impact that evolutionary processes have on genetic variation, and to understand the ....

Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides 1624 pages | - | Academic Press Abba Kastin Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0123694426 | Peptides play a crucial role in many physiological processes, whether as neurotransmitters, #158245A | £125.00 BUY hormones and antibiotics. Research has shown their importance in ....

Human Physiology: The Basis of Medicine 654 pages | Col illus, figs, tabs | OUP G Pocock and CD Richards Pbk | 2006 | 0198568789 | #158235A | This established textbook provides medical students and others in health-related disciplines £36.99 BUY with the essential information and learning tools necessary to understand ....

Introduction to Glycobiology 280 pages | 140 col illus | OUP Maureen E Taylor and Kurt Drickamer Pbk | 2006 | 0199282781 | #158232A | Introduction to Glycobiology reveals the true impact of the sugars on biological systems, £24.99 BUY explaining their functions at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level. ....

Invertebrate Medicine 496 pages | 200 illus | Blackwell Gregory Lewbart Hbk | 2006 | 0813818443 | #153450A | Diseases of Invertebrates is the single most comprehensive resource available today on £75.00 BUY invertebrate animal medicine. Public and private aquarists, aquaculturists, and ....

Life Sciences for the Non-Scientist 256 pages | - | World Scientific Viqar Zaman Hbk | 2005 | 9812562826 | #158341A | As diverse as they are interesting, the issues within the life sciences never fail to impress and £17.00 BUY stir controversy among the lay public. In a field that too often presents ....

Mammalian Diversification 391 pages | 4 col illus, b/w photos, line From Chromosomes to Phylogeography illus, tabs | California UP Eileen A Lacey and Philip Myers Pbk | 2006 | 0520098536 | #158629A | This volume combines a series of rigorous, original research papers with more informal £41.95 BUY recollections of James L. Patton, who served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of ....

Microbial Degradation of Aromatic Compounds 600 pages | CRC Press Jerome J Kukor and Gerben J Zylstra Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 082472528X | Emphasizing metabolism, Microbial Degradation of Aromatic Compounds integrates information #155005A | £79.99 BUY on metabolic pathways, enzymology, genetics, and molecular biology. This ....

Natural Products Isolation 473 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | Humana Edited by Richard JP Cannell Press Natural Products Isolation: Second Edition presents a practical overview of just how natural Hbk | 2005 | 1588294471 | #153802A | products can be extracted, prepared, and isolated from the source material. .... £74.00 BUY

Prokaryotic Diversity 37 line diagrams, 4 half-tones, 17 tables Mechanisms and Significance | CUP Edited by Niall Logan, Hilary Lappin-Scott and Petra Oyston Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0521869358 | The true extent of prokaryote diversity, encompassing the spectrum of variability among #158711A | £75.00 BUY bacteria, remains unknown. Current research efforts focus on understanding why ....

Rätseltiere 208 pages | Figures | Hirzel Krypto-Zoologie: Mythen, Spuren und Beweise Pbk | 2005 | 3777613584 | #157720A | Manfred Reitz £22.50 BUY This book gives a general overview of cryptozoology, the science of finding "hidden" or mythical animals. ....

Systems Biology 320 pages | - | CUP Properties of Reconstructed Networks Hbk | 2006 | 0521859034 | #158709A | Bernhard O Palsson £35.00 BUY Genome sequences are now available that enable us to determine the biological components that make up a cell or an organism. The new discipline of systems biology examines how ....

Techniques of Molecular Biology 230 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Edited by D Tagu and C Moussard Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1578083613 | Contents: Definition; Structure and Expression of a Eukaryote Gene Coding for an mRNA and #157474A | £25.20 BUY a ....

Evolutionary Biology Go to subject web page

The 21st Century Brain 368 pages | - | Jonathan Cape Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind Hbk | 2005 | 0224062549 | #158109A | Steven Rose £20.00 BUY This is a compelling and authoritative study of the brain - its past, present and future. The Pbk | 2006 | 0099429772 | #158108A | human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. How it .... £8.99 BUY

The Emergence of Life 292 pages | 131 line diagrams, 12 half- From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology tones, 11 tables | CUP Pier Luigi Luisi Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0521821177 | The origin of life from inanimate matter has been the focus of much research for decades, both #158726A | £40.00 BUY experimentally and philosophically. Luisi takes the reader through the ....

Evolutionary Pathways in Nature 304 pages | 100 line diagrams | CUP A Phylogenetic Approach Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521857538 | John C Avise #158720A | £70.00 BUY Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521674174 | branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. .... #158721A | £35.00 BUY

The Evolving World 352 pages | 3 halftones, 30 line illus | Evolution in Everyday Life Harvard UP David P Mindell Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0674021916 | In the 150 years since Darwin, evolutionary biology has proven as essential as it is #158649A | £16.95 BUY controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the ....

Geoarchaeology 368 pages | 103 b/w illus | Yale UP The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0300109660 | George (Rip) Rapp and Christopher L Hill #158412A | £16.50 BUY Considering the history and theory of geoarchaeology, this book discusses soils and environmental interpretations; initial context and site formation; methods of discovery ....

The Primordial Emotions 224 pages | 17 figures, 3 black & white The dawning of consciousness photos, 13 colour photos | OUP Derek Denton Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0199203148 | To understand what is happening in the brain in the moment you decide, at will, to summon to #158337A | £29.95 BUY consciousness a passage of Mozart's music, or decide to take a deep breath, is ....

Structural and Evolutionary Genomics 458 pages | - | Elsevier Natural Selection in Genome Evolution Pbk | 2005 | 0444521364 | #158251A | Giorgio Bernardi £51.99 BUY Structural genomics is the study of the DNA of living organisms. Evolutionary genomics is the study of the history of the genome. These subjects are closely interlinked. They ....

Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language 448 pages | 60 line illus | Harvard UP Philip Liebeman Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0674021843 | In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence #158680A | £32.95 BUY from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and ....

Ecology Go to subject web page

Aliens in the Backyard 256 pages | 21 illus | South Carolina UP Plant and Animal Imports into America Hbk | 2005 | 1570035822 | #158759A | John Leland £21.95 BUY Some 10,000 alien plants and animals live in North America. The iconic American cowboy spread such alien life forms as cows, horses, anthrax, and ....

Community Ecology 424 pages | 176 figs | Blackwell Science Peter J Morin Pbk | 1999 | 0865423504 | #090567A | Standard textbook for community ecology and population, and community ecology courses. £27.50 BUY Revised edition in preparation, due to be published at the end of 2006. .... Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1405124113 | #157428A | £27.50 BUY

An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control 322 pages | - | Springer Edited by HMT Hokkanen and J Eilenberg Hbk | 2006 | 1402043201 | #158312A | Biological control is among the most promising methods for control of pests (including vectors), £80.50 BUY diseases and weeds. In this book ecological and societal aspects are for the ....

Foundations of Restoration Ecology 518 pages | photos | Island Press Donald A Falk, Margaret A Palmer and Joy B Zedler Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1597260169 | Foundations of Restoration Ecology advances the science behind the practice of restoring #158589A | £65.95 BUY ecosystems while exploring ways in which restoration ecology can inform basic ecological .... Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1597260177 | #158588A | £32.50 BUY

Fundamental Processes in Ecology 184 pages | 12 line drawings, 19 half An earth systems approach tones | OUP David M Wilkinson Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0198568460 | Fundamental Processes in Ecology presents a way to study ecosystems that is not yet available #158322A | £45.00 BUY in ecology textbooks but is resonant with current thinking in the emerging ....

Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience 237 pages | Avvar Books DI Theodoropoulos Pbk | 2003 | 0970850417 | #149592A | This book presents an unorthodox point of view on invasive species: .... £23.50 BUY

Invasive Species in the Pacific Northwest 276 pages | 108 col illus, 108 maps | Edited by PD Boersma, SE Reichard and AN Van Buren Washington UP The U.S. government defines invasive species as "an alien species whose introduction does or is Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0295985968 | likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health." What .... #158599A | £19.95 BUY

Stable Isotope Ecology 390 pages | 143 illus | Springer Brian Fry Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0387305130 | Stable isotopes are used as tracers in biological systems, and their ability to track changes and #156320A | £42.50 BUY processes over time has made them increasingly important to ecological and ....

Habitats & Ecosystems Go to subject web page

Biomes of the Earth Michael Allaby, Trevor Day and Peter D Moore Biomes of the Earth is a 10-volume set, in full color, that outlines the main features of each of Earth's major biomes. The biomes covered include the tundra habitats, the ....

Boreal Peatland Ecosystems 410 pages | 73 illus, 5 in colour | Edited by R Kelman Wieder and Dale H Vitt Springer Table of Contents: .... Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 3540319123 | #158256A | £115.50 BUY

Borne of The Wind 72 pages | 125 colour photos, 7 line Michigan Sand Dunes drawings | Michigan UP Dennis Albert Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0472031724 | Sand dunes are among the most rugged and beautiful natural features of the Lake Michigan and #158694A | £9.50 BUY Lake Superior shorelines. These dunes comprise the most extensive freshwater dunes ....

Building for Life 239 pages | figs, photos | Island Press Designing and Understanding the Human-nature Connection Hbk | 2005 | 1559636734 | #158590A | Stephen R Kellert £43.95 BUY This is a definitive examination of how the inter-relationship between nature, architecture, and Pbk | 2005 | 1559637218 | #158591A | design is essential to human well-being. "Sustainable design" has made .... £25.95 BUY

Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management Springer Including Perspectives on Collaboration and Integration Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1402043058 | Edited by Guofan Shao and Keith M Reynolds #158213A | £69.00 BUY Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of specialty areas of forestry, including inventory, ....

Corridor Ecology 328 pages | - | Island Press The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1559630477 | Jodi A Hilty, William Z Lidicker and Adina M Merenlender #158586A | £42.95 BUY "Corridor Ecology" presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1559630965 | experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas .... #158587A | £21.50 BUY

Designing Greenways 280 pages | - | Island Press Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1559633298 | Paul Cawood Hellmund and Daniel Smith #158585A | £42.95 BUY How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1559633255 | illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing .... #158584A | £21.50 BUY

Dry 192 pages | 85 col illus | Harvard UP Life without Water Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0674022246 | Ehsan Masood and Daniel Schaffer #158652A | £19.95 BUY Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion ....

Forests in Time 496 pages | 202 illus | Yale UP The Environmental Consequences of 1000 years of Change in New England Hbk | 2004 | 0300092350 | #144978A | Edited by David R Foster and John D Aber £35.00 BUY Based on research at Harvard Forest, this book describes the natural and human-induced Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0300115377 | changes in the land and environment of New England over the past one thousand years. .... #158410A | £18.00 BUY

In Search of Swampland: A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide 336 pages | 117 illus | Rutgers UP R Tiner Pbk | 2005 | 0813536812 | #158755A | Traditionally, most Americans have viewed natural wetlands as wastelands, places to be drained £21.50 BUY and converted for farming or filled for housing and industrial development. To ....

Logjam 272 pages | Maps | Earthscan The Crisis of Global Forest Governance Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 1844073017 | David Humphreys #158453A | £29.95 BUY In this timely book, David Humphreys, author of Forest Politics, extends his analysis of the main political developments in forest governance over the last decade including ....

Managed Ecosystems and CO2 430 pages | 76 illus, 5 in colour | Case Studies, Processes, and Perspectives Springer Edited by J Nösberger et al Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 3540312366 | Contents: .... #158255A | £115.50 BUY

The Maya Tropical Forest 352 pages | 32 b/w photos, 6 maps | People, Parks and Ancient Cities Texas UP James D Nations Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0292712820 | The Maya Tropical Forest, which occupies the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and #158422A | £45.00 BUY Belize, is the closest rainforest to the United States and one of the most popular .... Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0292713185 | #158421A | £14.99 BUY

Methods in Stream Ecology 674 pages | B/w illus, figs, tabs | Edited by F Richard Hauer and Gary A Lamberti Academic Press This bestselling title has been significantly revised and updated. Now including important Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0123329078 | information on remote sensing, the relation between stream flow and .... #158247A | £29.99 BUY

The Mountain Encyclopaedia 400 pages | 64 pp of col & b/w photos | A A-Z Compendium of over 2,250 Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People Rowman & Littlefield Frederic Hartemann and Robert Hauptman Pbk | 2005 | 1589791614 | #158476A | A comprehensive reference containing a stunning collection of mountain art and photography, £19.99 BUY The Mountain Encyclopedia is an alphabetically arranged overview of all the ....

Perspectives on Tsunami Hazard Reduction: Observations, Theory and 224 pages | Kluwer Planning Hbk | 1997 | 0792348117 | #155659A | £69.00 BUY Gerald Hebenstreit

Philip's Guide to Deserts 224 pages | Philip's Tony Allan and Andrew Warren Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0540089486 | Well illustrated introduction to the world's desert regions - their formation, highly adapted #158360A | £9.99 BUY animal and plant life, precarious ecologies and natural resources, significant ....

Philip's Guide to Mountains 256 pages | - | Philip's Tim Stott and Stephen J Cribb Pbk | 2005 | 0540085790 | #158359A | Brings together the many and various aspects of the study of mountains and mountain activity £9.99 BUY into a single volume. The book begins by looking at how mountains form, and ....

Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes 325 pages | 89 illus | Springer Science and Management Applications Hbk | 2006 | 1402039670 | #158330A | Edited by Laurie L Richardson and Ellsworth F LeDrew £77.00 BUY The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments ....

Restoring The Pacific Northwest 500 pages | - | Island Press The Art and Science of Ecological Restoration in Cascadia Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1559630779 | Dean Apostol and Marcia Sinclair #158577A | £71.50 BUY The Pacific Northwest is a global ecological "hotspot" because of its relatively healthy native Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1559630787 | ecosystems, a high degree of biodiversity, and the number and scope of .... #158578A | £35.95 BUY

Savannas and Dry Forests 296 pages | 58 b/w illus | Ashgate Linking People with Nature Hbk | 2006 | 075464507X | #158437A | Edited by Jay Mistry and Andrea Berardi £60.00 BUY Parched landscapes, biodiversity loss, encroaching deserts and deforestation are some of the environmental crises taking place in tropical savanna and dry forests throughout the ....

State of the World's Forests. Collection 1995-2005 - | FAO FAO CD | 2005 | 925005288X | #158357A | FAO has released a CD-ROM containing the entire collection of the "State of the World's £19.95 BUY Forests" since its first edition. It contains all six issues of the publication. ....

Urban Forest Acoustics 190 pages | 109 illus | Springer Voichita Bucur Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 3540307834 | Trees can reduce noise by sound reflection and absorption. Investigating noise control in urban #158368A | £77.00 BUY environments, Voichita Bucur's new book Urban Forest Acoustics covers the ....

Waterlogged Wealth 200 pages | B/w photos | Earthscan Why Waste the World's Wild Places? Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 185383615X | E Maltby #158452A | £19.99 BUY First published in 1986, this book did much to raise awareness of the importance of wetlands to people, wildlife and environmental quality. The last 20 years have witnessed ....

Wildfire 340 pages | 150 photos | Island Press A Century of Failed Forest Policy Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 159726069X | George Wuerthner #158611A | £54.95 BUY Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that have shaped North America's Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1597260703 | landscapes since the dawn of time. They are a force that we cannot really control, and .... #158612A | £32.95 BUY

A Winter Survey of Syrian Wetlands 135 pages | - | OSME Final Report of the Syrian Wetland Exhibition January - February 2004 Pbk | 2005 | #157780A | £15.50 BUY DA Murdoch et al

Conservation & Biodiversity Go to subject web page

Animal Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes 264 pages | Tabs, figs, maps | Scientific TN Ananthakrishnan and KG Sivaramakrishnan (India) Indian perspective on biodiversity. This book attempts to provide an overall emphasis of diverse Hbk | 2006 | 8172334303 | #158003A | aspects of animal .... £64.00 BUY

Conservation Across Borders 272 pages | - | Island Press Biodiversity in an Interdependent World Hbk | 2006 | 1559636106 | #158579A | Charles C Chester £42.95 BUY Conservationists have long been aware that political boundaries rarely coincide with natural Pbk | 2006 | 1559636114 | #158580A | boundaries. From the establishment of early "peace parks" to the designation of .... £21.50 BUY

The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, Volume 2 450 pages | - | Island Press Conserving Biodiversity in Human-dominated Landscapes Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1597260541 | Edited by J Michael Scott, Dale D Goble and Frank W Davis #158602A | £58.50 BUY A companion volume to "The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 159726055X | Promise", published by Island Press in fall 2005, this new book examines the key policy .... #158604A | £28.95 BUY

Striper Wars 288 pages | Island Press An American Fish Story Hbk | 2005 | 1559636327 | #152220A | Dick Russell £19.95 BUY When populations of striped bass began plummeting in the early 1980s, author and fisherman Pbk | 2006 | 1597260908 | #158600A | Dick Russell was there to lead an Atlantic coast conservation campaign that .... £11.50 BUY

Environmental Science Go to subject web page

Activated Carbon Surfaces in Environmental Remediation 588 pages | - | Academic Press Teresa J Bandosz Hbk | 2006 | 0123705363 | #158250A | Activated Carbon Surfaces in Environmental Remediation provides a comprehensive summary £130.00 BUY of the environmental applications of activated carbons. In order to understand the ....

Applied Atmospheric Dynamics 320 pages | Wiley Amanda Lynch and John Cassano Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 047086172X | The weather can be a cause of disruption, despair and even danger everywhere around the #158574A | £75.00 BUY world at one time or another. Even when benign it is a source of constant fascination. .... Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0470861738 | #158576A | £24.95 BUY

The Barrier Zones in the Ocean 632 pages | 245 illus | Springer Emelyan M Emelyanov Hbk | 2005 | 3540253912 | #158329A | Geochemical barrier zones play an important role in determining various physical systems and £130.50 BUY characteristics of the oceans, e.g. hydrodynamics, salinity, temperature and light. ....

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage 431 pages | tables, diagrams | CUP Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Pbk | 2005 | 0521685516 | #158444A | IPCC £40.00 BUY This IPCC Special Report describes sources, capture, transport, and storage of CO2. It discusses the costs, economic potential, and societal issues of the technology, ....

The Effects of UV Radiation in the Marine Environment 324 pages | 4 col plates, 2 b/w illus, 71 Edited by Stephen de Mora, Serge Demers and Maria Vernet figs, 7 tabs | CUP Provides a comprehensive review of UV radiation effects in the marine environment. A Hbk | 2000 | 0521632188 | #100809A | multidisciplinary approach is adopted to discuss all aspects from a physical, chemical .... £65.00 BUY Pbk | 2005 | 0521020956 | #158499A | £27.00 BUY

The Environmental Endgame 224 pages | - | Rutgers UP Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0813538122 | Robert L Nadeau #158751A | £18.50 BUY Environmental economics from a U.S. perspective. ....

Environmental and Pollution Science 552 pages | - | Academic Press Ian L Pepper, Charles P Gerba and Mark L Brusseau Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0125515030 | This updated edition of Pollution Science includes the latest on environmental influences and #158246A | £56.99 BUY impact. It integrates a large number of environmental subjects and ....

The Equations of Oceanic Motions 380 pages | 24 line diagrams | CUP Peter Müller Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0521855136 | Modeling and prediction of oceanographic phenomena and climate is based on the integration of #158727A | £45.00 BUY dynamic equations. ....

Fragile Earth 272 pages | colour illus | Harper Collins Views of a changing world Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0007233140 | Mark Lynas, Guy Dauncey, Michael Allaby and Joel Garreau #158136A | £30.00 BUY Natural disasters, climate change, the exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our planet at a relentless pace. Now, using one hundred and ....

Frontiers of Climate Modeling 352 pages | 16 col plates, diags, tabs | JT Kiehl and V Ramanathan CUP The physics and dynamics of the atmosphere and atmosphere-ocean interactions provide the Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521791324 | foundation of modern climate models, upon which our understanding of the chemistry and .... #158460A | £70.00 BUY

The Global Climate System 416 pages | illus | CUP Patterns, Processes, and Teleconnections Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 052182642X | Howard Bridgman and John E Oliver #158732A | £35.00 BUY A readable account of recent advances that help explain regional and global climates. ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part L 373 pages | 139 illus. | Springer The Rhine Hbk | 2006 | 3540293930 | #158367A | Edited by Thomas P Knepper £142.50 BUY The Rhine, in many ways the most important river in Europe has undergone not only tremendous contamination but also recreation. This book clearly demonstrates that the ....

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part N 441 pages | - | Springer Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Great Lakes Hbk | 2006 | 3540291687 | #158366A | Edited by Ronald Hites £184.00 BUY The environment around the Laurentian Great Lakes region has been adversely affected by agricultural runoff, urban waste, industrial discharge, landfill leachate, and ....

Heavy Metals in the Environment 282 pages | - | Academic Press Edited by Heike Bradl Hbk | 2005 | 0120883813 | #158249A | Excessive levels of heavy metals can be introduced into the environment, for example, by £75.00 BUY industrial waste or fertilizers. Soil represents a major sink for heavy metals ions, ....

High Tech Trash 336 pages | - | Island Press Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins and Human Health Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 1559635541 | Elizabeth Grossman #158582A | £18.95 BUY The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But, as environmental journalist Elizabeth ....

Introduction to Air in California 240 pages | 86 col illus, 23 line illus, 18 David Carle maps, 5 tabs | California UP What is air? Why is the sky blue? Why do people react favorably to mountain or sea air? How Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520245318 | does desert air differ from the air of California's Central Valley? How is air .... #158618A | £29.95 BUY Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0520247485 | #158617A | £10.95 BUY

Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters 239 pages | - | Springer International Perspectives Hbk | 2005 | 1402031122 | #158328A | Edited by C Emdad Haque £61.00 BUY This book examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international perspective. In light of the ....

Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies 256 pages | World Bank Margaret Arnold et al Pbk | 2006 | 0821363328 | #158461A | These case studies complement the earlier ground breaking work of "Natural Disaster Hotspots: £13.95 BUY A Global Risk Analysis" published in April 2005. Three case studies address ....

Natural Disaster Reduction 300 pages | Anthem Press Dilip Kumar Sinha Hbk | 2006 | 1843317044 | #158520A | Explores the characteristics of coastal disasters in Southeast Asia. .... £50.00 BUY

Pollution Control 368 pages | - | Shaw & Sons The Powers and Duties of Local Authorities Pbk | 2006 | 0721915906 | #097738A | Neil Hawke et al £57.50 BUY The regulation of polluting activities is an important responsibility, which must be carried out effectively to prevent the environment sustaining any more harm than is ....

The Predictability of Weather and Climate 712 pages | 230 line diagrams, 100 half- Edited by Tim Palmer and Renate Hagedorn tones, 14 colour plates | CUP The topic of predictability in weather and climate has advanced significantly in recent years, Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0521848822 | both in understanding the phenomena that affect weather and climate and in .... #158735A | £85.00 BUY

Predicting the Weather 376 pages | 41 b/w illus | Chicago UP Victorians and the Science of Meteorology Hbk | 2005 | 0226019683 | #148890A | K Anderson £28.50 BUY Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 ....

Understanding the Oceans from Space 400 pages | 50 illus, 20 in colour | The unique applications of satellite oceanography Springer Ian S Robinson Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 3540244301 | Remote sensing of oceans from space has developed rapidly since 1978 when the first #158324A | £100.00 BUY dedicated ocean-viewing sensors were launched. The increasing abundance of satellite ....

Physical Sciences Go to subject web page

The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards 413 pages | Springer Edited by N Pinter, G Grenerczy, J Weber, S Stein and D Medak Hbk | 2005 | 1402042337 | #156686A | Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, £119.00 BUY Active Tectonics and Hazards, held in Veszprem, Hungary 4-7 April 2004. .... Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1402042345 | #156685A | £50.00 BUY

The Amateur Astronomer 298 pages | 140 illus | Springer Patrick Moore Hbk | 2005 | 1852338784 | #158142A | This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore's classic book has been completely revised in the light of £24.50 BUY changes in technology. Not only do these changes include commercially available ....

Astrobiology 288 pages | 38 line drawings, 20 A Brief Introduction halftones | Johns Hopkins UP Kevin W Plaxco and Michael Gross Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0801883660 | Astrobiology - which studies the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos - is a fast- #158177A | £43.50 BUY growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, astrophysics, and chemistry. .... Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0801883679 | #158178A | £16.50 BUY

Bioestratigrafia y Eventos del Cretacico Inferior en las Zonas Externas 658 pages | Figs, Tabs | Portico Librarias de la Cordillera Betica Pbk | 2004 | 8484392481 | #157041A | £105.00 BUY GA de Gea Guillen

Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events 376 pages | 102 illus | Springer Edited by Charles Cockell, Christian Koeberl and Iain Gilmour Hbk | 2006 | 3540257357 | #158323A | The diversity of papers presented in this volume attest to the fact that impact cratering is very £69.00 BUY much a biological process. This volume is the tenth in a series of ....

Chemistry for the Biosciences 496 pages | 300 illus | OUP Tony Bradshaw, Jonathan Crowe and Paul Monk Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0199280975 | Chemistry for the Biosciences leads students through the essential concepts that are central to #158231A | £22.99 BUY understanding biological systems, using everyday examples and analogies to ....

Collins Skywatching 288 pages | Col photos & illus | Harper The Ultimate Guide to the Universe Collins David Levy Hbk | 2005 | 000719921X | #158148A | Highly illustrated introductory guide to astronomy, written by the co-discoverer of Comet £20.00 BUY Shoemaker-Levy-9. ....

Deep Earthquakes 404 pages | 207 line diagrams, 9 half- Cliff Frohlich tones, 17 tables | CUP Deep earthquakes (earthquakes with origins deeper than 60 km) are of scientific importance Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521828694 | and account for approximately one-quarter of all earthquakes. They are .... #158717A | £80.00 BUY

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 4 volume set Elsevier SA Elias Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 044451919X | The Quaternary Sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that .... #153127A | £962.50 BUY

The Equation That Couldn't be Solved 368 pages | - | Souvenir How a Mathmatical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry Hbk | 2006 | 0285637436 | #158107A | Mario Livio £20.00 BUY Mathematical symmetry is thought to be much too difficult for most laypeople to understand, but this engaging book approaches it in an elegantly entertaining way. The ....

Geological Hazards 608 pages | Spon Press (Routledge) Their Assessment, Avoidance and Mitigation Hbk | 1999 | 0419169709 | #093255A | Fred Bell £65.00 BUY Contents include: volcanic activity; earthquake activity; mass movements; problem soils; Pbk | 2003 | 0415318513 | #158506A | marine and river action and control; wind action and arid regions; waste and its .... £35.00 BUY

The Geomorphology of Upland Peat 288 pages | - | Blackwell Erosion, Form and Landscape Hbk | 2005 | 1405115076 | #155183A | Jeff Warburton £65.00 BUY Erosion of upland blanket peat is recognized as a major environmental problem, degrading habitats, leading to loss of amenity, and water-colouration problems and increased ....

The Grand Tour 304 pages | Workman A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System Pbk | 2005 | 0761135472 | #158147A | William K Hartmann and Ron Miller £13.99 BUY Completely updated and revised and drawing on discoveries made by Voyager I and II, Magellan, Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Global Surveyor Mission and ....

The Infinite Cosmos 256 pages | line drawings | OUP Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology Hbk | 2006 | 0198505108 | #158091A | Joseph Silk £18.99 BUY From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too, as they seek to understand its ....

Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey 464 pages | Chicago UP PJ Bowler and IR Morus Hbk | 2005 | 0226068609 | #156495A | In Making Modern Science, a text designed for introductory college courses in the history of £41.00 BUY science and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Bowler ....

Night Sky Tracker 224 pages | over 40 star maps and A Handbook and Logbook for Amateur Astronomers diagrams | A & C Black Leslie Alan Horvitz Spiralbound | NYP 07/2006 | Glow-in-the-dark cover. .... 0713678070 | #158259A | £12.99 BUY

Nightwatch 184 pages | colour illus | A & C Black Terence Dickinson Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0713679395 | This is the fifth edition of this established introduction to astronomy, but the first edition with #158260A | £29.99 BUY UK specific content. With more than 275,000 copies in print since its ....

Philip's Astronomy Dictionary: An Illustrated A-Z Guide to the Universe 256 pages | Philip's Edited by John Woodruff, Neil Bone and Storm Dunlop Pbk | 2005 | 0540086894 | #158146A | Presents a comprehensive A - Z dictionary, covering various aspects of astronomy. This work £9.99 BUY contains more than 1,000 entries, ranging from aberration and ablation to Zond and ....

The Planets 288 pages | Illus | Fourth Estate Dava Sobel Hbk | 2005 | 1857028503 | #144139A | After the sucess of Longitude and Galileos's Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the £15.00 BUY nine planets of our solar system. She ranges from each planet's .... Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 1841156213 | #158385A | £7.99 BUY

Precambrian Geology of Finland 700 pages | - | Elsevier Key to the Evolution of the Fennoscandian Shield Hbk | 2006 | 044451421X | #153118A | Edited by Marti Lehtinen, Pekka Nurmi and O Tapani Ramo £120.00 BUY

Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry 344 pages | diagrams | Prentice-Hall Zachary Sharp Hbk | 2007 | 0130091391 | #157817A | Discussion of stable isotope geochemistry is generally limited to a specific scholarly paper or to £45.99 BUY cursory coverage in a larger geochemistry text. This is the first dedicated ....

Quantum Physics - A First Encounter 144 pages | 19 figures | OUP Interference, Entanglement, and Reality Hbk | 2006 | 0198570473 | #158096A | Valerio Scarani £15.99 BUY Quantum physics is often perceived as a weird and abstract theory, which physicists must use in order to make correct predictions. But many recent experiments have shown that ....

Return to the Moon 336 pages | 20 illus | Springer Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space Hbk | 2006 | 0387242856 | #158141A | Harrison Schmitt £17.50 BUY The Moon is not just a "local" destination, argues former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt. As a destination, the Moon presents us with a goal that tests our ....

Science and Technology in World History 464 pages | 66 illus, 61 halftones | An Introduction Johns Hopkins UP James E McClellan and Harold Dorn Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0801883598 | Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of #158180A | £43.50 BUY the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. .... Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0801883601 | #158179A | £15.50 BUY

The Sky at Night: 2001-2005 183 pages | colour photos | Philip's Patrick Moore Pbk | 2005 | 0540088080 | #157172A | Sir Patrick Moore's new collection of Sky at Night articles covers the period from 2001 until £9.99 BUY early 2005. It is the 12th Sky at Night book (the second to be published by ....

Smithsonian Intimate Guide to the Cosmos 176 pages | 150 col illus | Smithsonian Dana Berry Institution Press Takes the reader on a visual tour of the "new" cosmos, outward bound from earth, through the Hbk | 2004 | 1588341828 | #148195A | solar system, to the farthest imaginable reaches of space. Berry presents incredible .... £22.95 BUY

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications 550 pages | Springer Robert H Shumway and David S Stoffer Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0387293175 | "Time Series Analysis and Its Applications, Second Edition", presents a balanced and #157838A | £61.50 BUY comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with accompanying ....

Traveller's Guide to the Solar System 224 pages | illus | Harper Collins Giles Sparrow Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0007234104 | This spoof travel guide will take you to the outer extremes of the solar system to see it as #158137A | £12.99 BUY never before. ....

Tsunamis: Case Studies and Recent Developments 351 pages | Kluwer Edited by Kenji Satake Hbk | 2005 | 1402033265 | #158514A | Twenty papers comprise a timely review of state-of-the-art tsunami research. Various £90.00 BUY approaches are taken to study tsunamis: field-surveys of recent tsunamis; analysis of ....

Universe 512 pages | Dorling Kindersley Edited by Martin Rees Hbk | 2005 | 1405310715 | #158143A | With its innovative visual style, dynamic design and some previously unpublished, stunning £30.00 BUY images, this groundbreaking and comprehensive encyclopedia will appeal to ....

Water and the Search for Life on Mars 239 pages | 162 illus | Springer David Harland Pbk | 2005 | 038726020X | #158331A | Mars has long been believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, but there is now £16.50 BUY striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in ....

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Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases 210 pages | - | Springer Edited by Inderjit and KG Mukerji Hbk | 2006 | 1402044453 | #158319A | Biological control of plant diseases and plant pathogens is of great significance in forestry and £65.50 BUY agriculture. There is great incentive to discover biologically active ....

Basic Biotechnology 568 pages | Illus, figs, tabs | CUP Edited by C Ratledge and B Kristiansen Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521840317 | In this new edition of the textbook Basic Biotechnology, biology and bioprocessing topics are #158723A | £70.00 BUY uniquely combined to provide a complete overview of biotechnology. The .... Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521549582 | #158722A | £35.00 BUY

Biodiesel 224 pages | Chelsea Green Growing a New Energy Economy Pbk | 2005 | 1931498652 | #158459A | Greg Pahl £14.50 BUY Today, 95 percent of global oil is consumed for transportation, and other alternatives are distant possibilities at best. We need a solution now, one that will pave the way to ....

Bioeconomic Modelling and Valuation of Exploited Marine Ecosystems 305 pages | - | Springer JCJM at al van den Bergh Hbk | 2006 | 1402040415 | #158369A | This book offers an environmental-economic analysis of exploited ecosystems with a clear policy £69.00 BUY orientation. The study tries to move beyond traditional economic fishery analysis ....

The Biology and Management of the World Tarpon and Bonefish 448 pages | CRC Press Fisheries Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 084932792X | #155037A | £68.99 BUY Jerald S Ault This book is a comprehensive reference guide to the economically and ecologically important tarpon and bonefish species. It combines an overview of the world tarpon and ....

The Biomass Assessment Handbook 244 pages | Figs, tabs | Earthscan Bioenergy for a Sustainable Environment Hbk | NYP 07/2006 | 1844072851 | Edited by Frank Rosillo-Calle #158451A | £40.00 BUY Responding to the need for reliable and detailed information on biomass consumption and supply and overcoming the lack of standardized measurement and accounting procedures, ....

Challenged Earth 548 pages | - | Imperial College Press An Overview of Humanity's Stewardship of Earth Hbk | 2006 | 1860945260 | #158339A | Stephen F Lincoln £36.00 BUY This timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the challenges facing humanity and Earth in the 21st century. It opens with a discussion of the domination of all the ....

Communicating Sustainability 66 pages | - | UNEP How to produce effective public campaigns Pbk | 2005 | 9280725807 | #158335A | UNEP £24.95 BUY This guide shows how the power of communication can be harnessed for achieving the goal of promoting more sustainable lifestyles. It is designed to be read by local and ....

Computational Methods in the Management of Hydro-Environmental 288 pages | - | IWA Systems Hbk | 2006 | 1843390450 | #158340A | £110.00 BUY V Nassehi and DB Das This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on an increasingly important area of hydro-environmental analysis and management. It covers important ....

The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture: Principles, Processes, and 352 pages | CRC Press Practices Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 084931917X | #155020A | £49.99 BUY Stephen R Gliessman, Sean L Swezey and Martha Rosemeyer Serving as both a core textbook for students as well as a comprehensive reference for agricultural practitioners, The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture: Principles, ....

Defending the Environment 300 pages | - | Island Press Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law Pbk | 2006 | 1597260665 | #158598A | Linda A Malone and Scott Pasternack £21.50 BUY Defending the Environment provides the means for nongovernmental organizations, communitykgroups, and individuals to bring environmental and public health problems to ....

Dictionary of Agriculture 320 pages | - | Peter Collin Edited by Alan Stephens Pbk | 1996 | 0948549785 | #072152A | Containing over 7,000 entries, this fully revised edition provides clear, up-to-date and £9.95 BUY comprehensive coverage of agricultural terms. Subjects covered include cultivation, .... Pbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0713677783 | #158258A | £9.99 BUY

Eco-Warriors 320 pages | - | Left Coast Press Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement Pbk | 2006 | 1598740288 | #158372A | Rik Scarce £16.99 BUY First published in 1990, "Eco-warriors" was the first in-depth look at the people, the actions, the history and the philosophies behind the "radical" environmental movement. ....

Economic Valuation of Water Resources in Agriculture 202 pages | - | FAO From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management Pbk | 2004 | 9251051909 | #158354A | Kerry Turner et al £28.50 BUY This publication arose from a perceived gap in the literature on the specific problems of raw water allocation for agriculture as distinct from other users. The concern is ....

Environmental Awareness Series ME Snodgrass Addresses the ever growing environmental problems of today. Each title stresses the importance of clean water, pure air, and proper methods of waste disposal, that are ....

Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics 306 pages | B/w photos, illus, tabs | An Introductory Text Earthscan S Cairncross and R Feachem Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1844071901 | Describes the major infectious diseases of tropical and developing countries, and the measures #158450A | £85.00 BUY that may be used effectively against them. This edition includes a new chapter .... Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 184407191X | #158449A | £29.95 BUY

The Ethical Travel Guide 320 pages | Photos | Earthscan Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1844073211 | Polly Pattullo #158448A | £12.99 BUY "All too often the problems are well hidden," says Tricia Barnett, Director of Tourism Concern. "How would you know that this beautiful hotel is on land snatched from ....

Frontiers in Water Resource Economics 275 pages | - | Springer Edited by Renan-Ulrich Goetz and Dolors Berga Hbk | 2006 | 0387300554 | #156278A | This edited volume focuses on recent methodological advanced within the field of water £80.50 BUY resource economics and shows how these advances can be applied to the economics of water ....

Genetic Improvement of Solanaceous Crops, Volume 2: Tomato 512 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield MK Razdan and AK Mattoo Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1578081793 | Contents: *History, Origin and Early Cultivation of Tomato (Solanaceae): Iris E. Peralta and .... #155202A | £60.50 BUY

Germany's Nature 256 pages | - | Rutgers UP Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History Hbk | 2005 | 0813536677 | #158747A | Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller £39.50 BUY Germany boasts one of the strongest environmental records in the world. The Rhine River is cleaner than it has been in decades, recycling is considered a civic duty, and German ....

Global Environmental Governance 180 pages | - | Island Press James Gustave Speth and Peter M Haas Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1597260800 | Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political #158606A | £28.95 BUY will of any one nation. How can we solve them? "Global Environmental .... Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 1597260819 | #158608A | £14.50 BUY

Global Environmental Politics 286 pages | B/w photos, figs | Westview Gareth Porter, Janet Welsh Brown and Pamela S Chasek Press In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, Pbk | 2006 | 0813343321 | #158458A | the authors have worked to contextualise key topics such as the 1992 Earth .... £16.50 BUY

Making Tourism More Sustainable 210 pages | - | UNEP A Guide for Policy Makers Pbk | 2005 | 9280725076 | #158336A | UNEP £28.50 BUY Tourism is a major economic force whose development can have a fundamental impact on societies and the environment, both positive and negative. This guide shows governments ....

Modern Extraction Techniques for Food and Agricultural Samples 208 pages | 1 halftone, 60 line illus | Edited by Charlotta Turner OUP During the last ten years, several new extraction techniques have been developed that are Hbk | 2006 | 0841239401 | #158351A | faster, more automated and use less organic solvents compared to classical solvent .... £88.00 BUY

The Natural Advantage of Nations 576 pages | Earthscan Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 1844073408 | Karlson Hargroves and Michael Harrison Smith #158454A | £19.99 BUY This book is about innovation, solutions, competitiveness and profitability. It is also about building environmental integrity and sustainability now and for future ....

Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences 876 pages | 150 b&w line drawings, 30 Edited by Robert Wilkins, Simon Cross, Ian Megson and David Meredith b&w photos, 11 colour images | OUP The Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences has been written by biomedical scientists and Pbk | 2006 | 0198528299 | #158236A | clinicians to explain the fundamental scientific principles that underpin clinical .... £22.95 BUY

Plant-Associated Bacteria 695 pages | - | Springer Edited by Samuel S Gnanamanickam Hbk | 2006 | 1402045360 | #158316A | This volume is developed on the broad theme of plant-associated bacteria. It is envisioned as a £135.00 BUY resource volume for researchers working with beneficial and harmful ....

Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia 494 pages | 55 illus | Springer Suresh Chandra Babu and Sandjar Djalalov Hbk | 2006 | 0387297774 | #156277A | The Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Krygyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and £77.00 BUY Uzbekistan - are transitioning from centrally planned economies to market -oriented ....

The Politics and Economics of Indonesia's Natural Resources 281 pages | - | RFF Budy P Resosudarmo Hbk | 2006 | 1933115254 | #158183A | A team of scholars and policy experts from both Indonesia and the larger international £30.00 BUY community review political and economic developments in post-Soeharto era Indonesia. ....

Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy 304 pages | 13 illus | Yale UP Robert Repetto Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0300110766 | Although many environmental policy issues remain deadlocked for decades with little #158405A | £20.00 BUY movement, sometimes breakthroughs occur abruptly. Why do deadlocks persist? Why do major ....

Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries 250 pages | 10 tables, figures | RFF Collective Impacts, Collective Action Hbk | 2006 | 1933115289 | #158181A | Allen Blackman £50.00 BUY Small firms - including "microenterprises" and "small and medium enterprises" (SMEs) - play a Pbk | 2006 | 1933115297 | #158182A | vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all .... £22.00 BUY

Stem Cell Repair and Regeneration 248 pages | illus | Imperial College Press Edited by NA Habib et al Hbk | 2005 | 1860945589 | #158205A | Stem cell research is one of the leading "cutting edge" areas of life science research in the £54.00 BUY world today and is a topic of significant interest to a broad range of the ....

Sustainable Communties and The Challenge of Environmental Justice 240 pages | - | New York UP Julian Agyeman Hbk | 2005 | 0814707106 | #158757A | Focusing on the US, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable £46.50 BUY communities movement are compatible in practical ways. Yet sustainability, which focuses .... Pbk | 2005 | 0814707114 | #158756A | £14.95 BUY

Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Context of Trade 54 pages | - | UNEP Liberalization and Export Growth in Indonesia Pbk | 2005 | 9280725327 | #158334A | £21.50 BUY UNEP The aim of this publication is to promote the use of economic instruments for environmental protection, by providing in-depth analysis, a comprehensive assessment, ....

Tools for Environmental Management 452 pages | Fig, tabs | Calgary UP A Practical Introduction and Guide Hbk | 2006 | 0889532893 | #158704A | Edited by Dixon Thompson £30.50 BUY With a growing commitment to environmental awareness and protection on the part of corporations and governments, there has never been a greater need for an integrated ....

Water - A Shared Responsibility 600 pages | 300 illus | Berghahn Books The United Nations World Water Development Report 2 Pbk | 2006 | 1845451775 | #158090A | United Nations £45.00 BUY A joint undertaking of the 24 UN agencies comprising UN-Water, and in partnership with governments and other entities concerned with freshwater issues, this volume, covering ....

Water Encyclopedia Series Editors: Jay H Lehr and Jack Keeley A thorough and comprehensive resource, the Water Encyclopedia is a valuable addition to any reference library. ....

Water Institutions 210 pages | 6 illus | Springer Policies, Performance and Prospects Hbk | 2005 | 3540238115 | #158326A | Edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K Biswas £77.00 BUY This study is a major first attempt to address the many issues associated with the institutional innovation in water resource management comprehensively and in depth. It ....

Water Quality Management in the Americas 296 pages | 29 illus | Springer Edited by AK Biswas et al Hbk | 2006 | 3540242902 | #158327A | The book contains several in-depth case studies which comprehensively analyze the present £77.00 BUY status of water quality management practices at country and state levels, ....

Why Conservation is Failing and How it Can Regain Ground 304 pages | - | Yale UP Eric T Freyfogle Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0300110405 | North American perspective on the struggles of the conservation movement. .... #158404A | £20.00 BUY

World Development Report 2006 336 pages | Col maps, b/w illus | OUP Equity and Development Pbk | 2006 | 0821362496 | #158467A | World Bank £15.99 BUY Presents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. It examines equality of opportunities--a potentially ....

The Worldwide Crisis in Fisheries 45 line diagrams, 16 tables | CUP The Use and Misuse of Models Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0521840058 | Colin W. Clark #158731A | £65.00 BUY The world's marine fisheries are in trouble, as a direct result of overfishing and the overcapacity Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0521549396 | of fishing fleets. Despite intensive management efforts, the problems still .... #158729A | £29.99 BUY

Yearbook of European Environmental Law, Volume 6 560 pages | - | OUP Edited by Thijs FM Etty Hbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0199289271 | The Yearbook of European Environmental Law brings together topical analyses of contemporary #158244A | £125.00 BUY European Environmental Law. Leading European and American academics provide ....

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Computational Text Analysis for Functional Genomics and 312 pages | 12 olour plates, line Bioinformatics drawings, tables | OUP Hbk | 2006 | 0198567405 | #158230A | Soumya Raychaudhuri £65.00 BUY This book brings together the two disparate worlds of computational text analysis and biology Pbk | 2006 | 0198567413 | #158229A | and presents some of the latest methods and applications to proteomics, sequence .... £35.00 BUY

Cybercartography 594 pages | - | Elsevier Theory and Practice Hbk | 2006 | 0444516298 | #158252A | DRF Taylor £113.00 BUY The map has been central to how societies function all over the world for generations. This book argues for a new paradigm for maps and mapping the information era - ....

Data Analysis for Chemistry 191 pages | tables, figures, D Brynn Hibbert and J Justin Gooding spreadsheets | OUP Chemical data analysis, with aspects of metrology in chemistry and chemometrics, is an Pbk | 2005 | 0195162110 | #158228A | evolving discipline where new and better ways of doing things are constantly being .... £11.99 BUY

Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens: A Manual of Best Practice 309 pages | colour photos | State Edited by C Hauser, A Steiner, J Holstein and Malcolm J Scoble Museum of Nat. Hist. Pbk | 2005 | 3000172408 | #156932A | £19.50 BUY

Essential Bioinformatics 400 pages | - | CUP Jin Xiong Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521840988 | Essential Bioinformatics is a concise yet comprehensive textbook of bioinformatics, which #158712A | £65.00 BUY provides a broad introduction to the entire field. Written specifically for a life .... Pbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0521600820 | #158716A | £29.99 BUY

Extending the Linear Model with R 312 pages | CRC Press Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and Nonparametric Regression Models Hbk | 2005 | 158488424X | #158603A | JJ Faraway £39.99 BUY This modern statistics text discusses the extension of the linear model through the regression model. It extensively addresses the generalized linear model, GLM ....

Geophysical Exploration for Engineering and Environmental 220 pages | Pacific UP Investigations Pbk | 2005 | 1410222438 | #157140A | £48.00 BUY This manual provides an introduction to geophysical exploration for engineering, geological, and environmental (to include Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (HTRW)) ....

Handbook of Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy 336 pages | 82 line drawings and Christopher Gell, David Brockwell and Alastair Smith halftones | OUP This book is aimed at providing a practical introduction to single molecule fluorescence Hbk | NYP 08/2006 | 0198529422 | experiments, the analysis of the data, and applications of the techniques to the study .... #158150A | £49.95 BUY

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R 275 pages | CRC Press BS Everitt Hbk | 2006 | 1584885394 | #158605A | Doing for R what Everitt's other Handbooks have done for S-PLUS, STATA, SPSS, and SAS, A £29.99 BUY Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R presents straightforward, self-contained ....

Introduction to Computer-Intensive Methods of Data Analysis in 376 pages | 48 line diagrams, 30 tables Biology | CUP Hbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0521846285 | Derek Roff #158724A | £70.00 BUY This guide to the contemporary toolbox of methods for data analysis will serve graduate Pbk | NYP 06/2006 | 0521608651 | students and researchers across the biological sciences. Modern computational tools, .... #158725A | £35.00 BUY

Modern Magnetic Resonance 1850 pages | 3 volumes | Springer Edited by Graham A Webb Hbk | 2006 | 1402038941 | #158559A | Modern Magnetic Resonance provides a unique and comprehensive resource on up-to-date uses Normally £614.50 and applications of magnetic resonance techniques in the sciences, including .... NHBS OFFER PRICE: £537.50

R Graphics 320 pages | CRC Press P Murrell Hbk | 2005 | 158488486X | #158607A | In today's world of statistical computing, R is the program of choice for tens of thousands of £39.99 BUY statisticians, which is why R Graphics is sure to become an instant ....

Sampling Algorithms 245 pages | - | Springer Yves Tillé Hbk | NYP 05/2006 | 0387308148 | Over the last few decades, important progresses in the methods of sampling have been #158361A | £50.00 BUY achieved. This book draws up an inventory of new methods that can be useful for ....

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Collins World Atlas: New Edition 240 pages | 160 colour plates | Harper A fully revised general reference atlas in the Collins world atlas range. Highly detailed maps Collins giving balanced worldwide coverage, beautifully illustrated thematic pages .... Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0007229070 | #158135A | £17.99 BUY

Developing a Records Management Programme in the Electronic 120 pages | Figs | ASLIB Environment Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0851424635 | #143698A | £18.95 BUY C Hare and J McCleod A practical approach to developing and operating an effective programme to manage hybrid records within an organization. This title positions records management as an integral ....

Environmental Online Communication 298 pages | 68 illus | Springer Arno Scharl Hbk | 2004 | 1852337834 | #158286A | The Internet and wireless communication networks are transforming the way society handles £54.00 BUY the explosive growth & the dwindling half-life of environmentally relevant ....

GeoRef Thesaurus 870 pages | AGI BA Goodman Pbk | 2005 | 0922152721 | #157953A | The Thesaurus is the guide to the 29,000 controlled vocabulary terms used in GeoRef, of which £155.00 BUY approximately 1,250 are new. The Thesaurus is an indispensable tool for efficient ....

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper 275 pages | - | CUP Robert A Day and Barbara Gastel Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0521671671 | New edition of one of the world's bestselling scientific writing guides. .... #158710A | £17.99 BUY

The Little Green Data Book 2006 240 pages | - | World Bank The World Bank Pbk | NYP 04/2006 | 0821364766 | Pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Includes key #158654A | £9.95 BUY indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and ....

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations 712 pages | - | OUP Edited by WF Bynum and R Porter Hbk | 2005 | 0198584091 | #152815A | The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning £30.00 BUY of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating collection, a major .... Pbk | NYP 07/2006 | 0198614438 | #158240A | £10.99 BUY

The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development 278 pages | Gower of the National Gallery Hbk | 2005 | 0754632369 | #156473A | £62.00 BUY C Whitehead The author here offers an account of the development of the public museum in 19th century Britain, with particular reference to the National Gallery in London. The ....

The Rosetta Stone of Science 120 pages | - | Elsevier Writing and Presenting in English Pbk | 2006 | 0444521186 | #158253A | P Young £23.99 BUY "The Rosetta Stone of Science" is a useful and practical guide to presenting scientific research in the English language. It is written specifically for scientists who would ....

Specialist Control: The Publications Commitee of the Academie Royale 134 pages | - | APS des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1793 Pbk | 2003 | 0871699338 | #155586A | £29.50 BUY James E McClellan The Comite du Librairie of the Academie Royale des Science in Paris and its influence on modern scientific refereeing are examined in this monograph. James McClellan ....

Terms of Geology 440 pages | - | Geological Society of Glossary of Geological Terms Japan Pbk | 2004 | 4320046439 | #157559A | £48.50 BUY

The Times Atlas of the World: Concise Edition 416 pages | Col maps | Times Books Times Books Hbk | 2004 | 0007157290 | #149235A | Fully revised new edition. .... £75.00 BUY Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0007229062 | #158138A | £75.00 BUY