March 2019 Monthly Catalogue
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March 2019 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the March 2019 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. We have an exciting line-up for bird books this month. First off, Bloomsbury has now announced the long-awaited and oft-delayed Birds of Mongolia Helm Field Guide for August. Although we keep our fingers crossed it will not be delayed further, quite a few details have been released, which typically indicate that a book has entered the final phases of the production process. Other titles of interest to birdwatchers are Urban Aviary: A Modern Guide to City Birds, authored by Stephen Moss, which is due August from Aurum Press, and Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior, due March from Rocky Nook. If the latter is as good as their earlier bird photography book we are in for a treat. If you need inspiration for your bucket list, then the reissue of David Chandler & Dominic Couzen's 100 Birds to See in Your Lifetime: The Ultimate Wish-List for Birders Everywhere, due April from Carlton Books, is the book to get. More scholarly ornithology titles this month include Birds of Nottinghamshire, due July from Liverpool University Press, the second edition of Effects of Climate Change on Birds, due June from Oxford University Press, and the recently released Whooping Cranes: Biology and Conservation, published by Academic Press. For other animal groups, we have a few books each this month. On the subject of mammals, we just received stock of Sloths: Life in the Slow Lane, published by the Sloth Conservation Foundation, and can announce The Elephant Reader: From Aristotle and Ivory to Science and Conservation, due August from Trinity University Press. For herpetologists we have Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide is due August from Cornell University Press, and Crocodiles of the World: The Alligators, Caimans, Crocodiles and Gharials of the World, due May from New Holland. Finally, we have stock of two titles from the Malagasy publisher Association Vahatra: the French field guide Les Amphibiens du Nord de Madagascar, and, for entomologists, the bilingual English-French field guide Ants of Madagascar: A Guide to the 62 Genera. Conservation biologists can look forward to two titles from Oxford University Press: Satellite Remote Sensing and the Management of Natural Resources, due April, and Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems, due July. Cambridge University Press will publish Biological Extinctions: New Perspectives in July and Earthscan focuses on lions with Humans and Lions: Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence, due June. Lastly, Dave Goulson is writing The Garden Jungle: Or Gardening to Save the Planet, due July from Jonathan Cape. On the topics of climate change and other environmental issues a number of relevant titles were published recently, including The Climate Report: The National Climate Assessment – Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States from Melville House Publishing, The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air from FriesensPress, The Climate Question: Natural Cycles, Human Impact, Future Outlook from Oxford University Press, and the 25th anniversary edition of Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. Springer will publish Oceans in Decline in April, while W.W. Norton will publish Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait in August. For evolutionary biologists and palaeontologists we can announce The Evolutionary Biology of Species, due June from Oxford University Press in their Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution, Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals, due August from Yale University Press, and Donald Prothero's The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them, due August from Columbia University Press. Harper Collins is reissuing The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life and The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man's Best Friend in paperback in August. Lastly, for those looking for a more leisurely read, there is Mark Cocker's A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet, due July from Jonathan Cape, and The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds, due May from Elliott & Thompson. As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor Insects & other Invertebrates In Silico Bees 480 pages | 11 colour & 88 b/w illustrations, 17 tables | CRC Press James Devillers(Author) Paperback #246352 2018 9781138374706 £50.99 Bees are critically important for ecosystem function and biodiversity maintenance through their Hardback #206383 2014 9781466517875 £105.00 pollinating activity. Unfortunately, bee populations are faced with many threats, and evidence of a massive global pollination crisis is steadily growing.... Fauna Sinica Invertebrata, Volume 52: Platyhelminthes, Trematoda: Digenea (III) 746 pages | b/w line drawings | Science Press [Chinese] Hardback #246363 2019 9787030593597 £140.00 Qiu Zhaozhi(Author) This is third volume of Fauna Sinica dealing with digenetic trematodes. In the present volume, the authors supply a systematic account to the Chinese digenetic trematodes, describing 394 species belonging 31 families and 128 genera. The book... A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings 304 pages | Scribner A Year of Keeping Bees Paperback #246167 Jun-2019 9781471167744 £8.99 Helen Jukes(Author) Hardback #241901 2018 9781471167713 £14.99 A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun.Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics... The Little Book of Bees 224 pages | 50 colour illustrations | William Collins (Harper Collins Hilary Kearney(Author), Amy Holliday(Illustrator) imprint) Bees continue to fascinate and charm us all – from novice gardeners and nature-lovers to Hardback #245363 Aug-2019 9780008324278 £9.99 dedicated environmentalists – and today, bees need our help more than ever. Discover the story of these incredible creatures, with The Little Book of... The Noctuids (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) of Central Europe 144 pages | 24 plates with colour photos, 41 plates with b/w line drawings Identification, Distribution, Habitat, Biology | Frantisek Slamka Janusz Nowacki(Author) Hardback #245969 1998 9788096754045 £140.00 This is a 2009 reprint of this book, first published in 1998. This is a taxonomic monograph to the noctuid moths of Central Europe, and includes information on distribution. 01-03-2019 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Ferrantia, Volume 79: Atlas of the Insects of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: 208 pages | 243 colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations and colour Coleoptera, Cerambycidae & b/w distribution maps | Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Francesco Vitali(Author) Luxembourg This book is the result of a multidisciplinary doctoral project focused on the Longhorn Beetles Paperback #245970 2018 £22.99 (Cerambycidae) of Luxembourg. The larvae of this family act as primary decomposers of dead, senescent or living trees and building woods. They are... Butterflies of Arunachal Pradesh 152 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, 1 colour map | Scientific Hirendra Nath Sarma(Author), Sanjay Talukdar(Author) Book Centre Butterflies are important insects and are considered as bio-indicator and agship species of an Hardback #245978 2018 9788128700293 £36.99 ecoregion as well as an important pollinator. Arunachal Pradesh, the northeastern-most state of India, is a biodiversity hot spot that is endowed with... Stouts, Millers, and Forky-Tails 200 pages | colour photos | Boulder Publications Insects of Newfoundland and Labrador Paperback #245988 Apr-2019 9781927099957 £23.99 Tom Chapman(Author), Peggy Dixon(Author), Carolyn Parsons(Author), Hugh Whitney(Author) Stouts, millers, and forky-tails (a.k.a. deerfly, moths, and earwigs) are just three of more than 200 fascinating insects, spiders, and other arthropods profiled in this book. You'll also meet weevils, flesh flies, aphids, dragonflies, ticks,... An Introduction to Robber Flies and Their Allies of the Southwestern United States 136 pages | 44 plates with colour illustrations; 50+ colour photos | Rick An Illustrated Guide to the Diptera Families Asilidae Mydidae & Apioceridae Rogers (privately published) Rick Rogers(Author) Hardback #246012 2018 9781643162744 £56.99 The Southwestern United States, with its hot, dry, desert, and semi-arid habitats is one of the most species rich areas in the world for Robber Flies, and related families Apioceridae and Mydidae. This beautifully illustrated guide is dedicated to... Trematode Fauna of Freshwater Fishes of India 393 pages | 358 b/w line drawings | Zoological Survey of India KC Pandey(Author), Nirupama Agrawal(Author) Paperback #246059 2018 9788181715098 £49.99 The Indian literature on trematode parasites of freshwater fish is scattered and helminthologits working on this group face great difficulties in procuring literature of Indian works. This prompted the authors to compile the available information. In... Studies on Odonata and Lepidoptera Fauna of Desert Ecosystem of Rajasthan 90 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map | Zoological Survey of India Gaurav Sharma(Author) Paperback #246096