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Welcome to the March 2011 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly Zoology: update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in Mammals the last month. Birds
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● The Rise of Fishes Regional & Travel ● Urban Ecology Botany & Plant Science ● Fossil Spiders Animal & General Biology ● The Birds of Panama Evolutionary Biology ● A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Singapore ● The Dance of Air and Sea Ecology ● A Dipterist's Handbook Habitats & Ecosystems ● The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds Conservation & Biodiversity ● British and Irish Moths: An Illustrated Guide to Selected Difficult Species Environmental Science ● Lives of Conifers Physical Sciences ● The Anatomy of Palms Sustainable Development ● Conservation Biogeography ● RSPB Guide to Digital Wildlife Photography Data Analysis Reference
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Bats 112 pages | Col photos, illus | Natural Phil Richardson History Museum Phil Richardson uses his experiences of bat watching around the world to describe their complex Pbk | 2011 | 9565092756 | #190227A | life cycles. He reveals where to watch and study bats, how to help conserve .... £12.99 Add to basket
Bear Family and Me - DVD 2 discs | BBC Video Gordon Buchanan DVD | 2011 | #190062A | £19.99 Add Walking in the wild with a family of American Black Bears, fear turns to fascination as Gordon to basket Buchanan, wildlife cameraman and presenter of Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Lost ....
Coyote at the Kitchen Door 176 pages | 13 halftones | Harvard UP Living with Wildlife in Suburbia Hbk | 2010 | 0674035569 | #181329A | Stephen DeStefano £18.95 Add to basket A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0674060180 | through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such .... #190217A | £14.95 Add to basket
Donkey 224 pages | 100 col & b/w illus | Jill Bough Reaktion Books This book follows the story of this incredibly hard-working animal. Jill Bough reveals the Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1861898037 | animal's historic significance in Ancient Egypt where they were once highly regarded .... #190147A | £9.99 Add to basket
Das Eichhörnchen (the Squirrel) 200 pages | Col & b/w illus | Westarp Stefan Bosch and Peter WW Lurz Wissenschaften Monograph on the squirrel. .... Pbk | 2011 | 3894321644 | #190205A | £41.50 Add to basket
Identification of Marine Mammals of India 134 pages | col figs, tabs | Narendra P Jayasankar and B Anoop Hbk | 2010 | 8190795287 | #190023A | Accurate taxonomy is fundamental to the conservation efforts on marine mammals, which are £49.00 Add to basket listed in Schedule I of the Indian Wild Life Act 1972. It is still unclear as to how ....
The Illustrated Guide to Pigs 176 pages | 150+ full colour paintings | How to Choose Them - How to Keep Them A & C Black Celia Lewis Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1408140403 | The Illustrated Guide to pigs covers the 35 most familiar breeds of pigs in Europe and North #189983A | £16.99 Add to basket America. The breed profiles are written in engaging text that covers the history ....
Manipulative Monkeys 358 pages | 16 col illus, 15 halftones | The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal Harvard UP Susan Perry and Joseph H Manson Hbk | 2007 | 0674026640 | #168535A | With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely Normally £36.95 resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. How they act is something else .... NHBS OFFER PRICE: £21.99 Pbk | 2011 | 0674060385 | #190222A | £16.95 Add to basket
Pig 224 pages | 100 col & b/w illus | Brett Mizelle Reaktion Books This insightful book traces the natural and cultural history of the pig, focusing on the Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1861898053 | contradictions between our imaginative representation of pigs and the ways in which pigs .... #190146A | £9.99 Add to basket
Rabbits 272 pages | 35 col & 74 b/w photos, 6 The Animal Answer Guide illus | Johns Hopkins UP Susan Lumpkin and John Seidensticker Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0801897882 | This book offers answers - from the mundane to the unbelievable - to many important #190265A | £23.50 Add to basket questions about the world of lagomorphs. To some, rabbits are simply a docile pet for .... Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0801897890 | #190266A | £12.99 Add to basket
The Wolf Within 288 pages | Harper Collins How I Learned to Talk Dog Pbk | 2011 | 000732717X | #190254A | Shaun Ellis £8.99 Add to basket To wolf expert Shaun Ellis, wolves aren't just his work, they're also his family. Shaun has been fascinated by wolves all his life, even living as part ....
Birds Go to subject web page
An Analysis of the Numbers and Distribution of Seabirds within the JNCC British Fishery Limit Aimed at Identifying Areas that Qualify as Possible Pbk | 2010 | #190027A | £14.99 Add to basket Marine SPAs K Kober, A Webb, I Win, M Lewis, S O'Brien, LJ Wilson and JB Reid The aim of this report is to document the analysis conducted by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) in 2007-2009 for the identification of the most suitable ....
Der Baumfalke (Hobby) 400 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | Dietrich Fiuczynski and Paul Sömmer Westarp Wissenschaften New edition of a definitive work. .... Hbk | 2011 | 3894322292 | #190203A | £69.95 Add to basket
The Bird Species / Die Vogelarten 128 pages | Christ Media Natur Systematics of the Bird Species and Subspecies of the World, Volume 1: Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 3923757115 | Charadriiformes / Systematik der Vogelarten und -unterarten der Erde, 1: #190013A | Charadriiformes Normally £31.99 Norbert Bahr NHBS OFFER PRICE: £24.50 This multivolume series by Norbert Bahr provides an overview of the systematics and taxonomy of all bird species and subspecies of the world based on current knowledge. ....
Birds of Trinidad and Tobago 256 pages | 107 col plates, maps | Floyd E Hayes, Martyn Kenefick and Robin L Restall Christopher Helm A comprehensive and portable field guide to all the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. .... Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1408152096 | #189984A | £24.99 Add to basket
Birds of the World 744 pages | 365 col photos | Abrams 365 Days Hbk | 2011 | 0810996138 | #190210A | Philippe J Dubois £19.99 Add to basket Birds 365 gives this perennially popular subject the 365 treatment: ornithologist and conservationist Philippe J. Dubois presents a "day in the life" of a different species ....
Conservation of Grassland Birds in North America 54 pages | illustrations | Princeton UP Understanding Ecological Processes in Different Regions, Report of the AOU Pbk | 2011 | 0943610788 | #190336A | Committee on Conservation £13.95 Add to basket Robert A Askins et al
Cyprus Bird Report 2009 160 pages | Col photos, figs | BirdLife Edited by Colin Richardson Cyprus Includes a systematic list, the island checklist, reports of rare birds and an article on the Cyprus Pbk | 2010 | #190246A | £26.50 Add Scops Owl. .... to basket
Extreme Birder 288 pages | 140 col photos | Texas A&M One Woman's Big Year UP Lynn E Barber Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1603442618 | In 2008, Lynn Barber's passion for birding led her to drive, fly, sail, walk, stalk, and sit in #190066A | £26.50 Add to basket search of birds in twenty-five states and three provinces. Traveling more than ....
Der Haubentaucher (Great Crested Grebe) 126 pages | 64 b/w photos, tabs, figs & Manfred Melde maps | Westarp Wissenschaften 1995 reprint. .... Pbk | 2011 | 3894328177 | #190208A | £28.50 Add to basket
How Fast Can a Falcon Dive? 248 pages | photos, illus | Rutgers UP Fascinating Answers to Questions About Birds of Prey Pbk | 2010 | 0813547903 | #190273A | Peter Capainolo and Carol A Butler £19.50 Add to basket This book explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. Ornithologist Peter Capainolo and science writer Carol A. ....
Hunting Tactics of Peregrines and Other Falcons 200 pages | 15 photos, 13 illus | Dick Dekker Hancock House This dissertation describes the foraging habits and capture rates of four species of bird-hunting Pbk | 2009 | 088839683X | #190004A | falcons; Peregrine (Falco peregrinus), Merlin (Falco colum-barius), .... £44.00 Add to basket
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of Britain, Europe and Africa 264 pages | over 535 colour illustrations David Alderton & photographs | Southwater The habitats of Great Britain, Europe and Africa boast some of the most interesting and Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1780190042 | adaptable members of the avian world. This accessible and fully illustrated guide .... #190226A | £9.99 Add to basket
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding 448 pages | Houghton Mifflin Kenn Kaufman Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0547248326 | Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don't #190144A | £17.99 Add to basket really understand what's in front of them. Today birders have access to almost too ....
Kukila, Volume 14 102 pages | Col photos | Indonesian Orn Edited by Richard Noske and Bas van Balen Union Main articles in this edition: .... Pbk | 2009 | #178748A | £12.95 Add to basket
Monographie des Fringilles, Volume 2: Carduélinés 286 pages | Col illus | Editions Prin Histoire Naturelle et Photographies Pbk | 2011 | #190286A | £54.50 Add Michel Ottaviani to basket This second volume deals with greenfinches, goldfinches, Venturoni, redpolls, siskins and Linnets of the Old and New Worlds, all belonging to the genus Carduelis (33 species) ....
Monographie des Fringilles, Volume 3: Carduélinés 320 pages | Col photos | Editions Prin Histoire Naturelle et Photographies Pbk | 2011 | #190288A | £54.50 Add Michel Ottaviani to basket This third volume contains the linurge oriole (an ancient canary), the neospize Sao Tome (a giant canary) and all the Eurasian and African canaries of the genus Serinus (46 ....
Oiseaux de Mauritanie / Birds of Mauritania SEO Paul Isenmann et al | #190243A | £68.00 Add to basket This book is an annotated checklist of the 506 species (of which 155 are breeding, 103 presumed breeding and 86 species previously not considered) recorded in Mauritania. ....
The Painted Stork 400 pages | Springer Ecology and Conservation Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1441984674 | AJ Urfi #190089A | £132.50 Add to basket The Painted Stork is a large, eye-catching, colonially nesting wading bird found across large parts of South and South East Asia, particularly India and Sri Lanka. Listed as ....
Vulture 224 pages | 100 col & b/w illus | Thom van Dooren Reaktion Books The vulture is commonly thought to dwell outside the community of living beings. These birds Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1861898061 | are seen to have no real relationship with humans; instead, they are simply .... #190145A | £9.99 Add to basket
Watching Waterbirds with Kate Humble and Martin McGill 256 pages | Col photos, col illus | A & C 100 Birds ... in Just One Day! Black Kate Humble and Martin McGill Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 140813022X | This book introduces some 75 species of wetland birds to readers through the eyes of Kate #189981A | £12.99 Add to basket Humble. As she freely admits herself, Kate is still learning her birds, so to find ....
Reptiles & Amphibians Go to subject web page
Amphibians and Reptiles of Tibet 251 pages | photos | CSBS Pipeng Li and Ermi Zhao Hbk | 2010 | 7030268407 | #190067A | £92.00 Add to basket
Atlas de Répartition des Amphibiens et Reptiles d'Alsace 273 pages | Col photos, maps | BUFO Edited by Jacques Thiriet and Jean-Pierre Vacher Hbk | 2010 | 2746625016 | #190057A | Alsace houses not less than 18 species of amphibians and 7 species of indigenous reptiles. This £38.50 Add to basket distribution atlas, resulting from the collective work of the ....
The Crested Newt 152 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs | A Dwindling Pond Dweller Laurenti Robert Jehle, Burkhard Thiesmeier and Jim Foster Pbk | 2011 | 3933066441 | #190248A | For a small, inconspicuous and largely nocturnal animal, the crested newt attracts considerable £34.00 Add to basket attention. Scientists from many countries have spent decades in the field ....
Frogs 208 pages | 27 col & 70 b/w photos | The Animal Answer Guide Johns Hopkins UP Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0801899354 | Frogs are amazingly diverse, ranging from the massive Goliath frog, which weighs several #190267A | £23.50 Add to basket pounds, to the recently discovered gold frog, which measures a mere three-eighths of an .... Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0801899362 | #190268A | £12.99 Add to basket
Hunters in the Trees 192 pages | Krieger A Natural History of Arboreal Snakes Hbk | 2011 | 1575243032 | #190335A | Richard A Sajdak £59.95 Add to basket Readable up-to-the-minute compendium of what we know about tree snakes written in a clear, nontechnical style for an adult audience of nature lovers and reptile ....
The Private Life of Adders 112 pages | Col photos | Merlin Unwin Rodger McPhail Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1906122296 | The common European adder (Vipera berus) is found throughout Europe and northern Asia. #190092A | £14.99 Add to basket Despite its widespread distribution, and its notoriety as one of Europe's few truly ....
Saving Sea Turtles 224 pages | 12 col plates | Johns Extraordinary Stories from the Battle Against Extinction Hopkins UP James R Spotila Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0801899079 | In April 2007, eleven leatherback turtles captured the imagination of the public worldwide as #190271A | £12.99 Add to basket they 'raced' from Costa Rica toward the Galapagos Islands. Known as the ....
Der Teichmolch (Smooth Newt) 71 pages | B/w plates, illus | Westarp G E Freytag Wissenschaften Pbk | 2011 | 3894324767 | #190206A | £41.50 Add to basket
Fishes Go to subject web page
Do Fish Sleep? 240 pages | 30 col & 29 b/w photos | Fascinating Answers to Questions About Fishes Rutgers UP Judith S Weis Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0813549418 | This book is organized in an easy-to-read and accessible question-and-answer format, filled #190274A | £19.50 Add to basket with more than 55 photographs and over 100 interesting facts from fish biology ....
Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology 2500 pages | Academic Press From Genome to Environment Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0123745454 | Edited by Anthony P Farrell #189525A | £730.00 Add to basket Fish form an extremely diverse group of vertebrates. At a conservative estimate at least 40 percent of the world's vertebrates are fish. On the one hand they are united by their ....
Invertebrates Go to subject web page
Atlas of Japanese Scarabaeoidea, Volume 3 178 pages | Col illus | Roppon-Ashi Phytophagous Group II Entomological Book Edited by Hirokazu Kobayashi and Takeshi Matsumoto Hbk | 2011 | #166052A | £339.00 Add This series is a comprehensive colour photographic catalogue of Japanese Scarabaeoidea. This to basket volume contains all known 131 species and 13 subspecies of Japanese Melolonthinae. ....
Blackflies of Northern Europe (Diptera: Simuliidae) ETI JE Raastad, ZV Ussova and K Kuusela CD | 2010 | 9490137022 | #190290A | Blackflies are a family of homogenous small dipteran flies, usually quite darkly colored, hence £93.60 Add to basket the vernacular family name. Females of many species are vicious ....
British and Irish Moths: An Illustrated Guide to Selected Difficult 91 pages | Col illus | Butterfly Species Conservation Spiralbound | 2011 | 0956221661 | Martin Townsend, John Clifton and Brian Goodey #190160A | £19.99 Add to basket This guide brings together information on the identification of difficult macro-moths, beyond what is currently available in moth field guides. It features 72 larger moth ....
Cephalopod Biology and Fisheries in Europe 181 pages | col photos, figs | ICES Edited by GJ Pierce et al 2010 | 8774820788 | #189942A | £36.50 Add to basket
Common Dragonflies of California 96 pages | Col photos, illus | Azalea A Beginners Pocket Guide Creek Publishing Kathy Biggs Pbk | 2009 | 0967793467 | #189949A | This revised, updated and expanded version of the 2000 first edition covers 100 California £15.99 Add to basket species of dragonflies and damselflies. 200 all NEW LARGE full-color ....
A Concise Field Guide to Indian Insects and Arachnids 591 pages | 350 col photos, illus | Meenakshi Venkataraman Vedams This guide assists in the identification of insects and arachnids found mainly in the southern 2010 | 8178780100 | #190112A | states of India. .... £69.00 Add to basket
Cricket Radio 272 pages | 53 col illus, 24 halftones, Tuning in the Nightsinging Insects 18 illus | Belknap Press John Himmelman Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0674046900 | At a time when night-singing insects have slipped beyond our notice, John Himmelman seeks to #190212A | £16.95 Add to basket reconnect us to creatures whose songs form a part of our own natural history. ....
A Dipterist's Handbook 525 pages | 32 col plates, 45 figs | AES Edited by Peter Chandler Hbk | 2010 | 0900054778 | #190151A | This Handbook provides a work of reference for everyone interested in the study of flies, both Normally £52.00 beginners and experienced dipterists. The first edition appeared in 1978, .... NHBS OFFER PRICE: £49.99
Ecology of Marine Bivalves 254 pages | 70 tabs, figs | CRC Press An Ecosystem Approach Hbk | 1996 | 0849380456 | #059414A | Edited by Richard F Dame £127.00 Add to basket Considering the ecology of bivalves from an ecosystem view, this book explores the potential Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439839093 | use of bivalves as indicators and monitors of ecosystem health and describes .... #189298A | £63.99 Add to basket
Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Hemiptera - 680 pages | 820 illus | Springer Heteroptera Hbk | 2011 | 9400707045 | #190055A | £153.00 Add to basket Illustrated Keys to Known Families, Genera, and Species in South America Charles W Heckman Hemiptera - Heteroptera encompasses the three well-defined suborders of the true bugs which are adapted to an aquatic or littoral habitat. ....
Fauna Iberica, Volume 32: Phthiraptera Ischnocera 368 pages | Line illus | MNCN MP Martín Mateo Hbk | 2009 | 8400089227 | #186944A | Includes 179 species of which 164 were collected from birds and 15 from mammals. All these £88.00 Add to basket species belong to 52 genera and 12 families. ....
Fauna Iberica, Volume 33: Crustacea, Copépodos marinos II. Non 492 pages | 209 illus | MNCN Calanoida Hbk | 2010 | 8400092546 | #190277A | £63.00 Add to basket The second part of the study of marine Copepoda found throughout the Iberian and Balearic area. ....
Fauna of the European North-East of Russia: Volume 10 214 pages | 60 figs, 50 maps, 6 tabs | Odonata Nauka AG Tatarinov and OI Kulakova 2009 | 5030363521 | #190167A | A guide to all 50 species of dragonflies and damselflies occurring in the European North-East of £73.00 Add to basket Russia, with data on their distribution, ecology and phenology. ....
Honeybees of Asia 669 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Edited by H Randall Hepburn and Sarah E Radloff Springer A multi-authored work on the basic biology of Asian honeybees, written by expert specialists in Hbk | 2011 | 3642164218 | #189961A | the field, this book highlights phylogeny, classification, mitochondrial .... £153.00 Add to basket
I Macrolepidotteri del Piemonte 1057 pages | map | Torino MRSN Ferruccio Hellmann and Paolo Parenzan Hbk | 2010 | 8897189008 | #190162A | £95.00 Add to basket
Insects in Chongqing Municipality 331 pages | CCPH Chen at al Bin Hbk | 2010 | 7030291824 | #189951A | This book covers 4576 species from 2483 genera found in Chongqing, the biggest city in £68.00 Add to basket southwest China. ....
Lobster 224 pages | 100 col & b/w illus | Richard J King Reaktion Books This book takes us on a journey through the history, biology, cuisine and culture of lobsters, Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1861897952 | and their economic and environmental status worldwide. Richard J. King .... #187631A | £9.99 Add to basket
Manual of Lepidoptera 800 pages | CRC Press Classification of the Butterflies and Moths of the World Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0849321611 | John Heppner #166845A | £95.00 Add to basket Moths and butterflies make up one of the most pertinent order of insects. Manual of Lepidoptera: Classification of the Butterflies and Moths of the World offers the most ....
Mariposas del Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay 96 pages | Col illus | Guyunusa Maria Gabriela Betancur Viglione Pbk | 2011 | #190283A | £34.99 Add The first pocket guide to butterflies of Uruguay, clearly and concisely presented for easy to basket identification. It is compact and easy to use, with over 100 high-quality photos of ....
Monitoring Climate Change with Dragonflies 286 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Edited by Jürgen Ott Pensoft This book combines papers from two symposia of the World Wide Dragonfly Association (WDA) Pbk | 2010 | 9546423238 | #173826A | in Pontevedra (2005) and Swakopmund (2007) - which were compiled by the editor, as .... £98.00 Add to basket
Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 2 116 pages | 32 col pages | Magellanes P Téocchi et al | 2353870813 | #190064A | £49.00 Add to basket
Philippine Marine Mollusks, Volume 4 676 pages | Col figs | ConchBooks Bivalva Part 2, Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Cephalopoda Hbk | 2011 | 3939767298 | #190245A | Guido T Poppe £126.00 Add to basket Bivalves include Mytilidae, Propeamussidae, Veneridae and Cardiidae. In total covers 80 families. ....
Recent Advances in Entomological Research 500 pages | 86 b/w illus | Springer From Molecular Biology to Pest Management Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 3642178146 | Edited by Tong-Xian Liu and Le Kang #190084A | £153.00 Add to basket In recent years the field of entomology, due in part to the penetration of other disciplines, has made rapid progress. This volume includes 25 chapters contributed by ....
Revision of the Palearctic Chaetocnema Species 360 pages | 3 col figs, b/w figs, maps | (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) Pensoft AS Konstantinov, A Baselga, VV Grebennikov, J Prena and SW Lingafelter Hbk | 2011 | 9546425672 | #190157A | 75 species are revised and seven new species are described. .... £97.00 Add to basket
The Stag Beetles of Southern South America (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) 148 pages | 130 illus, 29 maps | MJ Paulsen Nebraska USM This monograph is a compilation of original and recent research on southern South American Pbk | 2010 | #189977A | £49.00 Add stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae). In the study area, the .... to basket
Water Beetles of New Caledonia 161 col photos, maps | Vienna NHM Part 1 (Entomology) Edited by MA Jäch and M Balke 2010 | #190109A | £91.00 Add to This volume is entirely dedicated to the Water Beetles of New Caledonia. It is based mainly on basket two field surveys carried out by the editors in 2001 and 2009. It includes 23 ....
ZooKeys 72 68 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft Advances in the Systematics of Diplopoda III Pbk | 2010 | #190159A | £26.50 Add Edited by Sergei I Golovatch and Robert Mesibov to basket
Palaeontology Go to subject web page
Biomolecular Archaeology 336 pages | Wiley-Blackwell An Introduction Pbk | 2011 | 1405179600 | #190306A | Terry Brown and Keri A Brown £29.99 Add to basket Illustrated thoroughly, Biomolecular Archaeology is the first book to clearly guide students through the study of ancient DNA: how to analyze biomolecular evidence (DNA, ....
Extinction and Radiation 128 pages | illus, figs, maps, photos | How the Fall of Dinosaurs Led to the Rise of Mammals Johns Hopkins UP J David Archibald Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0801898056 | In the geological blink of an eye, mammals moved from an obscure group of vertebrates into a #190272A | £38.99 Add to basket class of planetary dominance. This provocative study identifies the fall of ....
Fossil Flora of China, Volume 1 141 pages | 81 plates | CSBS Fossil Plants from Coal Balls in China Hbk | 2009 | 7040263262 | #190073A | Jinzhong Cui and Wang Shijun £50.00 Add to basket
Fossil Flora of China, Volume 2 438 pages | 216 plates | CSBS Fossil Pteridophytes in China Hbk | 2010 | 7040299720 | #190074A | Sun Keqin £121.00 Add to basket
Fossil Ostracoda of China, Volume 3 251 pages | 66 plates | CSBS Palaeozoic Entomozoacea and Leperditicopida (Ostracoda) of China Hbk | 2009 | 7312026427 | #190077A | Wang Shangqi £59.00 Add to basket
Jurassic Ammonites of Tibet 247 pages | CSBS Yin Jiarun Hbk | 2010 | 7116067671 | #190072A | £36.50 Add to basket
Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland 450 pages | Springer 15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate History in the Northern North Atlantic Hbk | 2011 | 9400703716 | #190051A | T Denk, R Zetter, LA Simonarson and F Grimsson £135.00 Add to basket Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and ....
The Other Saber-tooths 320 pages | 65 col illus, 65 halftones, 2 Scimitar-tooth Cats of the Western Hemisphere line drawings | Johns Hopkins UP Edited by Virginia L Naples, Larry D Martin and John P Babiarz Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0801896649 | Like the better-known Smilodon, or saber-tooth cat, the scimitar-tooth cats of the New World #190269A | £57.00 Add to basket were fierce predators that killed and consumed the largest of North America's ....
Proceedings of the Twelth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of 307 pages | CSBS Vertebrate Paleontology Hbk | 2010 | 7502777989 | #190070A | £45.50 Add to basket Edited by Dong Wei
Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life 360 pages | 59 b/w & 41 col illus | Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems Springer Edited by Marc Laflamme, James D Schiffbauer and Stephen Q Dornbos Hbk | 2011 | 9400706790 | #190052A | This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling £135.00 Add to basket techniques and novel instrumentation separated into individual chapters written ....
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L: Mollusca 4 (Revised), 287 pages | 139 figs, 1 tab | GSA Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea | Volume 2 2009 | 1891276611 | #190177A | Edited by Paul A Seldon £105.00 Add to basket
Marine & Freshwater Biology Go to subject web page
Great British Marine Animals 320 pages | 600 col photos, 7 line illus | Paul Naylor Sound Diving Publications The wonderful diversity of animals that live in British seas are colourful, beautiful and have an Pbk | 2005 | 0952283158 | #151672A | amazing range of intriguing lifestyles. Even those we think of as familiar .... £15.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0952283166 | #190230A | £15.99 Add to basket
Integrated Ecosystem Assessments of Seven Baltic Sea Areas Covering 90 pages | col figs | ICES the Last Three Decades Pbk | 2010 | 8774820761 | #189941A | £40.50 Add to basket Edited by Rabea Diekmann and Christian Möllmann
Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, 757 pages | 273 illus | Springer Hypotricha) Hbk | 2011 | 9400704542 | #190019A | £180.00 Add to basket Helmut Berger The book covers the Gonostomatidae, the Kahliellidae, and some taxa of unknown position in the hypotrichs. In total 68 species distributed in 21 genera and subgenera are ....
Resolving Climate Impacts on Fish Stocks 372 pages | Col & b/w figs | ICES Edited by AD Rijnsdorp, MA Peck, GH Engelhard, C Möllmann and JK Pinnegar Pbk | 2010 | 8774820710 | #189940A | £65.00 Add to basket
ZooKeys 68 88 pages | Col & b/w figs | Pensoft Skeletons in Confusion: A Review of Astrophorid Sponges with (Dicho-)Calthrops as Pbk | 2010 | #190158A | £39.50 Add Structural Megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida) to basket RWM Van Soest et al
General Natural History Go to subject web page
100 Places to Go Before they Disappear 256 pages | 100 colour photographs | Patrick Drew and Archbishop Desmond Tutu Abrams What would our world look like if the planet's average temperature were to rise by only a few Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1419700030 | degrees? Cities including Venice, Bangkok, London, Chicago, and New York would .... #190211A | £15.99 Add to basket
100 Ways to Take Better Nature and Wildlife Photographs 144 pages | 110 photographs | David & Guy Edwardes Charles This is a practical, accessible guide to photographing nature and wildlife from one of the UK's Hbk | 2009 | 0715331485 | #182635A | top nature photographers. Suitable for all levels of photographer, "100 Ways to .... £24.99 Add to basket Pbk | 2011 | 0715331493 | #190293A | £14.99 Add to basket
Arctic 272 pages | 200 photos & illus | Conway Bruce Parry and Huw Lewis-Jones Maritime Press Explorer Bruce Parry takes an epic seven-month journey around the Arctic Circle - a passage of Hbk | 2010 | 1844861309 | #190063A | some 11,000 miles - taking in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia and Northern .... £19.99 Add to basket
Arctic Labyrinth 464 pages | 16 pp colour illustrations | The Quest for the Northwest Passage Penguin Glyn Williams Pbk | 2011 | 0141037156 | #190305A | For centuries British navigators dreamt of finding the Northwest Passage - the route over the £10.99 Add to basket top of North America that would open up the fabulous wealth of Asia to British ....
Arctic with Bruce Parry - DVD 295 minutes | BBC Video A Journey across the World's Last Great Wilderness DVD | 2011 | #190061A | £16.33 Add Bruce Parry to basket Presenter Bruce Parry turns his attention to the Arctic Circle. Indigenous ways of life that have remained virtually unchanged for millennia will cease within our lifetimes. ....
Born Wild 332 pages | Col photos | Viking The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa Hbk | 2010 | 0670918911 | #187580A | Tony Fitzjohn £16.99 Add to basket This book is a story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African Pbk | 2011 | 0141048565 | #190295A | conservation. Following the author's journey from London bad boy to African wildlife .... £7.99 Add to basket
Charles Darwin: After the Origin 156 pages | PRI Sheila Ann Dean 2009 | 0877104816 | #190318A | This book focuses on the 22 years that followed the publication of the Origin of Species, often £24.50 Add to basket regarded as the most productive years of Darwin's life. ....
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur 400 pages | 620 col illus | Editions de Peintre voyageur, un trésor oublié Conti Gabrielle Baglione and Cédric Crémière Pbk | 2009 | 2351030117 | #190024A | Magnificent study of a great French explorer-artist. .... £62.00 Add to basket
Crevasse Roulette 192 pages | 70 col & 30 b/w photos, The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing, 1957-58 illus, maps | Rosenberg Publishing Pty Jon Stephenson Ltd The British Commonwealth-sponsored Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) of 1957-58, under the Pbk | 2009 | 1877058661 | #190022A | leadership of Dr Vivian Fuchs, completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, .... £22.50 Add to basket
Field Notes on Science and Nature 280 pages | 87 col illus, 43 halftones, 1 Edited by Michael R Canfield tab | Harvard UP Once in a great while, as the New York Times once noted, a naturalist writes a book that Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0674057570 | changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon's Birds of America, .... #190204A | £20.95 Add to basket
Invented Knowledge 304 pages | Reaktion Books False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions Hbk | 2009 | 1861894309 | #190149A | Ronald H Fritze £19.95 Add to basket This book is an exploration of the murky world of fake science and pseudo-history: fields that Pbk | 2011 | 1861898177 | #190150A | generally rely on lost continents, ancient super-civilizations, .... £14.95 Add to basket
Living at Micro Scale 394 pages | 125 line illustrations | The Unexpected Physics of Being Small Harvard UP David B Dusenbery Hbk | 2009 | 0674031164 | #175939A | Kermit the Frog famously said that it isn't easy being green, and in Living at Micro Scale David £38.95 Add to basket Dusenbery shows that it isn't easy being small-existing at the size of, say, .... Pbk | 2011 | 0674060210 | #190221A | £16.95 Add to basket
Madagascar 2 discs | BBC Video For 65 million years Madagascar was lost to the world - sat in splendid isolation, undiscovered Blu-ray disc | NYP 03/2011 | #189504A and untouched by man. Left to its own devices it became a hot bed of .... | £25.00 Add to basket DVD | NYP 03/2011 | #189501A | £19.99 Add to basket
A Masterclass in Drawing and Painting Animals 256 pages | Col illus | Lorenz Books Jonathan Truss and Sarah Hoggett Hbk | 2010 | 0754820599 | #189877A | Jonathan Truss is an inspiring artist who specializes in oil and acrylic paintings of wild animals. £17.99 Add to basket He expertly guides readers through artistic basics in the tutorial ....
Natural Experiments of History 288 pages | 14 figs, 5 maps, 7 tabs | Edited by Jared Diamond and James A Robinson Harvard UP Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled Hbk | 2010 | 0674035577 | #181330A | laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific .... £22.95 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0674060199 | #190218A | £14.95 Add to basket
RSPB Nature Watch 224 pages | 250+ illus | A & C Black How to Discover, Explore and Enjoy Wildlife Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 140813974X | Marianne Taylor #189982A | £12.99 Add to basket Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned wildlife watcher, this book will help you to broaden your enjoyment of your hobby and explore wildlife in a range of different ....
Science-Mart 464 pages | 15 figs, 15 tabs | Harvard Privatizing American Science UP Philip Mirowski Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0674046463 | This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in #190214A | £29.95 Add to basket America since World War II. ....
Wetware 267 pages | b&w illus | Yale UP A Computer in Every Living Cell Hbk | 2009 | 0300141734 | #178145A | Dennis Bray £19.99 Add to basket How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it Pbk | 2011 | 0300167849 | #190331A | hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex .... £12.99 Add to basket
Wild in Europe 156 pages | Col illus throughout | The Wildlife Art of Renso Tamse Langford Press Contains some 70 superb paintings and more than 90 sketches, drawings and studies by the Hbk | 2011 | 1904078362 | #190229A | young Dutch wildlife artist. .... £37.99 Add to basket
Regional & Travel Go to subject web page
Atlas of Terrestrial Vertebrate Animals at Saihanwula National Nature 229 pages | photos | CSBS Reserve of Inner Mongolia Pbk | 2010 | 7503858729 | #190071A | £26.99 Add to basket Bao Weidong and Li Guilin
The British Empire and the Natural World 344 pages | OUP Environmental Encounters in South Asia Hbk | 2011 | 0198069707 | #190339A | Edited by Kumar Deepak, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza £39.99 Add to basket This volume provides multi-layered analysis of the environmental impacts under the colonial rule. Presenting detailed case studies from across the Indian subcontinent, it ....
Chinese Precious Animals 152 pages | photos | CSBS Cao Yuru Pbk | 2010 | 7502776303 | #190078A | £24.99 Add to basket
The Fauna of Hebei, China 409 pages | 12 plates | CSBS Amphibia, Reptilia and Mammalia Hbk | 2009 | 7537538794 | #190068A | Wu Yuefeng £92.00 Add to basket This volume details 121 amphibian, reptile and mammal species found in the Hebei province. ....
Notebooks from New Guinea 256 pages | B/w illus | OUP Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist Hbk | 2009 | 0199561656 | #176636A | Vojtech Novotny Normally £16.99 This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing NHBS OFFER PRICE: £9.99 science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a .... Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199609640 | #189001A | £9.99 Add to basket
Botany & Plant Science Go to subject web page
African Natural Plant Products 448 pages | 150 black & white From Forests and Fields to the Marketplace illustrations | CRC Press Edited by James Simon, Rodolfo Juliani and Lyle E Craker Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439821763 | This book is a review of the latest discoveries made through the collection, cultivation, #189299A | £89.00 Add to basket production, processing, marketing, and commercialization of African ....
Aloes 800 pages | 600 col photos, 10 illus | The Definitive Guide Kew RBG S Carter, JJ Lavranos, LE Newton and CC Walker Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1842464396 | In addition to being an important component of the floras of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar, #189947A | £100.00 Add to basket aloes are widely cultivated by hobbyists in Europe, the Americas, ....
Boissiera Volume 63: The Genus Grimmia Hedw. (Grimmiaceae, 377 pages | CB de Geneve Bryophyta) 2010 | 2827700794 | #190168A | £79.00 Add to basket A morphological-anatomical study Eva Maier
Catalogus Hasslerianus, Parte 3 255 pages | CB de Geneve Edited by L Ramella and P Perret 2010 | 2827707047 | #190169A | £35.00 Add to basket
Catálogo del Herbario de la Real Expedición Botánica de Nueva España 688 pages | MNCN (1787-1803) Conservado en el Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid 2010 | 8400092627 | #190278A | £112.00 Add to basket Paloma Blanco Fernández de Caleya et al The catalogue of the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain was compiled during the 18th and 19th centuries. The originals are preserved at the Royal Botanical Garden in ....
Champion Trees of Britain and Ireland 300 pages | 200 Col photos | Kew RBG The Tree Register Handbook Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1842464523 | Edited by Owen Johnson #189948A | £24.99 Add to basket What kind of trees grow where, how long do they live, and how big do they become? This book answers these questions and more, introducing the finest examples of every kind of ....
A Checklist of the Flowering Plants in Southeast Yunnan 532 pages | CSBS Shui Yumin Hbk | 2011 | #190108A | £118.00 Add to basket
Climate - Vegetation 348 pages | Springer Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands Hbk | 2010 | 9048185947 | #190017A | MA Zahran and Francis Gilbert £135.00 Add to basket Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can ....
Conifer Treasury of the World 546 pages | - | Zsolt Mesterhazy A living Conifer Taxonomy with 200,000 images CD | 2010 | #190035A | £84.00 Add Mesterházy Zsolt to basket Digital third edition of this important database. It contains 74 genuses with 3,5 million photos, 807 species, 15100 cultivars, 6229 of them with photos from the ....
Designing a New Plant Surveillance Scheme for the UK JNCC K Walker, T Dines, N Hutchinson and S Freeman Pbk | 2010 | #190028A | £9.99 Add to Seven methods of sampling vegetation were examined in detail, all based on surveying 1km basket squares. From these, three design options are recommended for subsequent field-testing. ....
The Diatom World 600 pages | 40 col & b/w illus | Springer Edited by Joseph Seckbach and Patrick Kociolek Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 9400713266 | Diatoms are fascinating algae, whose relevance today is greater than perhaps ever before. They #190088A | £153.00 Add to basket are important players in a wide range of ecosystems, freshwater, brackish ....
Ecology of Leaf Longevity 100 pages | 62 illus | Springer Kihachiro Kikuzawa and Martin J Lechowicz Hbk | 2011 | 4431539174 | #190033A | Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and £90.00 Add to basket determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species. ....
Eunotia Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) of the Great Smoky Mountains 132 pages | Figs, tabs | Gebr•der National Park, USA Borntraeger Pbk | 2011 | 344357047X | #190247A | Paula C Furey et al £70.00 Add to basket This book provides an image rich documentation of the Eunotia flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Over 50 sub-generic taxa of Eunotia are presented, ....
The Far North 400 pages | Illus, maps | Springer Plant Biodiversity and Ecology of Yakutia Hbk | 2009 | 904813773X | #190018A | Edited by EI Troeva, AP Isaev, MM Cherosov and NS Karpov £135.00 Add to basket Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of ....
A Field Guide to the Orchids of China 368 pages | col photos | CSBS Chen Singchi Liu Zhongjian et al Pbk | 2009 | 7503857005 | #190122A | This book describes more than 600 species of orchids, accompanied by a photograph for each £68.00 Add to basket species. ....
Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana, Volume 5 and 6 413 pages | 200 col plates, 200 col Johannes Sibthorp, Arne Strid and Barbro Strid maps | Gantner This annotated re-issue includes volumes 5 and 6 from the original series, complete with colour NYP 03/2011 | 3906166910 | #190095A plates (100 per volume) and maps, prepared and edited by Arne and Barbro Strid. .... | £210.00 Add to basket
Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes Fasciculo Complementario, Instituto de Ecologia Estudio florístico del Pedregal de Arócutin, en la cuenca | (Volume 25) del Lago de | #190155A | £18.50 Add to basket Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 166: Iridaceae Instituto de Ecologia | #190153A | £18.50 Add to basket
Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 167: Instituto de Ecologia Anacapsterotaceae | #190154A | £18.50 Add to basket
Flora of Baramati 450 pages | 423 col photos, maps, figs | RB Bhagat, VB Shimpale and RB Deshmukh Vedams This book presents an up-to-date floristic account of the flowering plants of Baramati. The flora 2008 | 8184650094 | #190106A | constitutes a total of 994 taxa belonging to 938 species with 42 varieties and .... £69.00 Add to basket
Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 10: Fabaceae 696 pages | Missouri BG This volume encompasses one large plant family, namely, the Fabaceae or Leguminosae, with Hbk | 2011 | 1930723989 | #186326A | 1,673 species in China, of which 690 are endemic. The fruits come in the form of .... £153.00 Add to basket
Flora of Shenzhen, Volume 2 752 pages | 702 col photos, 690 illus | Li Pei-Qiong and Li Yong CSBS Hbk | 2010 | 7503858842 | #190107A | £205.00 Add to basket
Flora of Thailand: Phylogenetic Revision of the Clusiaceae and ETI Hypericaceae CD | 2009 | 9490137014 | #190291A | £25.80 Add to basket C Byrne and J Parnell This phylogenetic revision presents detailed descriptions, images and drawings of the Clusiaceae and Hypericaceae of Thailand. In total 32 species are included. A list of ....
Floristics of Seed Plants from China 485 pages | CCPH Wu Zhengyi et al Hbk | 2011 | 703022390X | #189952A | £113.00 Add to basket
Fungi of Tropical China 548 pages | 550 col photos | CCPH Wu Xingliang et al Hbk | 2011 | 703029470X | #189954A | This book features over 600 species of Chinese tropical fungi, mostly illustrated with colour £228.00 Add to basket photos. ....
Genomics and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Nematode Interactions 350 pages | 50 b/w illus | Springer Edited by John Jones, Godelieve Gheysen and C Fenoll Hbk | 2011 | 940070433X | #190039A | This book reviews developments in the molecular biology of plant-nematode interactions that £135.00 Add to basket have been driven by the application of genomics tools. A series of introductory ....
Guide to the Flowers of Western China 504 pages | 2400 col photos, 10 maps | Christopher Grey-Wilson and Phillip Cribb Kew RBG The extent and diversity of China's rich flora is unrivalled in temperate latitudes of the world, Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1842461699 | with some 30,000 species of plants. Nowhere is this floral richness better .... #181513A | £70.00 Add to basket
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXXI: Lepanthes of Bolivia; Systematics of 154 pages | illus | Missouri BG Octomeria Species North and West of Brazil; Addenda and Corrigenda Pbk | 2010 | 193564100X | #190140A | £62.00 Add to basket Carlyle A Luer
Joseph Franz Rock 356 pages | 88 illus | Verlag der Phytogeography of Northwest and Southwest China Osterreich Edited by Hartmut Walravens Pbk | 2010 | 3700167261 | #189945A | J. F. Rock wrote his phytogeography as an abstract of his botanical explorations in China in £92.00 Add to basket 1952 for the Royal Horticultural Society but because of circumstances beyond ....
Junipers of the World 426 pages | B/w photos, maps | The genus Juniperus Trafford Publishing Robert P Adams Pbk | 2011 | 1426953828 | #190003A | This book contains a synthesis of data on evolution by examining: Geographic Variation: Pan- £23.99 Add to basket Arctic variation in Juniperus communis, etc. Speciation in sections of the genus: ....
Lives of Conifers 276 pages | 685 col photos | Johns A Comparative Account of the Coniferous Trees Hopkins UP Graham R Powell Hbk | 2009 | 0801892430 | #189944A | Dominant throughout the temperate northern hemisphere, conifers form the backbone of boreal £63.00 Add to basket ecosystems. This comprehensive reference work explains the complex life cycles of ....
Manual of Chinese Cymbidiums 315 pages | CCPH Chen Xinqi Hbk | 2011 | 7503860316 | #189957A | £120.00 Add to basket
Mistletoes of Southern Australia 200 pages | 130 col photos, 51 David M Watson watercolours | CSIRO Mistletoes are an enigmatic group of plants. Lacking roots and depending on other plants for Pbk | 2011 | 0643095934 | #189350A | their livelihood, they have inspired a range of beliefs throughout the world. Some .... £37.95 Add to basket
Monograph of Berlinia (Leguminosae) 117 pages | illus, map | ASPT Barbara A Mackinder and R Toby Pennington 2011 | 0912861916 | #190094A | Berlinia, a genus of tropical African trees in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae), £40.50 Add to basket comprises 21 species, five of which were discovered during this study and ....
Monograph of Dendropemon (Loranthaceae) 110 pages | illus | ASPT Job Kuijt 2011 | 0912861924 | #190093A | The mistletoe genus Dendropemon (Loranthaceae), consisting of 31 species, is endemic to the £39.00 Add to basket Caribbean islands and the Bahamas. It is characterized by indeterminate ....
New Atlas of the Kent Flora 348 pages | col maps | Kent FC Eric G Philp Hbk | 2010 | 0956192629 | #189204A | This book provides a summary of the resuts from a vast botanical survey of Kent conducted £49.50 Add to basket between 1991 and 2005. It identifies changes in plant distribution since the ....
Pollen Flora of China Woody Plants by SEM 1233 pages | 4230 SEM photos | CCPH Li Tianqing et al Hbk | 2011 | 7030294750 | #189958A | This monograph describes 1097 species from 434 genera and features over 4000 SEM £223.00 Add to basket images. ....
Single-Pollen Genotyping 139 pages | 41 illus | Springer Edited by Yuji Isagi and Yoshihisa Suyama Hbk | 2010 | 443153900X | #190037A | Pollination is one of the most important processes in plant reproduction. It directly influences £90.00 Add to basket reproductive success and fitness and the genetic structure of the plant ....
Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources 272 pages | Springer Temperate Fruits Hbk | 2011 | 3642160565 | #189962A | Edited by Chittaranjan Kole £126.00 Add to basket Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. This work includes ....
Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources 420 pages | Springer Oilseeds Hbk | 2011 | 3642148700 | #189963A | Edited by Chittaranjan Kole £135.00 Add to basket This work includes comprehensive examinations of the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources of ....
Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources 342 pages | Springer Millets and Grasses Hbk | 2010 | 3642142540 | #189965A | Edited by Chittaranjan Kole £135.00 Add to basket This volume details the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources of numerous wild crop relatives, ....
Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources 531 pages | Springer Cereals Hbk | 2011 | 3642142273 | #189964A | Edited by Chittaranjan Kole £153.00 Add to basket This volume details the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources of numerous wild crop relatives, ....
The Wild Orchids in Yunnan 500 pages | col photos | CSBS Xu Zhihui Jiang Hong and Ye Deping Hbk | 2010 | #190121A | £217.00 Add to basket
The Yellow Book 2011 600 pages | National Gardens Scheme NGS Gardens Open for Charity Pbk | 2011 | 1905942141 | #190141A | Joe Swift, Martyn Cox et al £9.99 Add to basket The so-called `bible' of garden visiting and the key to secret gardens of England and Wales, The Yellow Book 2011 is your essential guide to the thousands of gardens that ....
Animal & General Biology Go to subject web page
Animal Tool Behavior 312 pages | 94 b/w photos, 15 illus | The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals Johns Hopkins UP Robert W Shumaker, Kristina R Walkup and Benjamin B Beck Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0801898536 | When first published in 1980, this book was the first volume to catalog and analyze the #190270A | £33.99 Add to basket complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that ....
Chitin 188 pages | Springer Formation and Diagenesis Hbk | 2010 | 9048196833 | #190053A | Edited by Neal S Gupta £135.00 Add to basket There are several books on properties of chitin and associated biomolecules and their biochemical significance. However, this volume deals with a wide variety of ....
Engineering Animals 400 pages | 100 line illus, 18 halftones | How Life Works Harvard UP Mark Denny and Alan McFadzean Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0674048547 | The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves #190209A | £25.95 Add to basket and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an ....
Evolutionary Bioinformatics 450 pages | 86 illus | Springer Donald R. Forsdyke Hbk | 2006 | 0387334181 | #160973A | Books on bioinformatics which began appearing in the mid 80s primarily served gene-hunters, £49.99 Add to basket and biologists who wished to construct family trees showing tidy lines of .... Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 1441977708 | #189960A | £139.50 Add to basket
Extremophiles Handbook 1277 pages | 240 b/w & col illus | 2 volume set Springer Edited by K Horikoshi, G Antranikian, AT Bull, F Robb and KO Stetter Hbk | 2010 | 4431538976 | #190038A | This two-volume set brings together the rapidly growing and often scattered information on £359.00 Add to basket microbial life in the whole range of extreme environments. ....
Gasping Fish and Panting Squids Ecology Institute Oxygen, Temperature and the Growth of Water Breathing Animals Hbk | 2010 | #174459A | £74.00 Add Daniel Pauly to basket This volume provides elements for the incorporation of oxygen into a level- or domain-specific theory that predicts risk-minimizing behavior in fishes, both under food ....
Genetic Analysis 346 pages | CUP A History of Genetic Thinking Pbk | 2011 | 0521182816 | #190326A | Raphael Falk £24.99 Add to basket There is a paradox lying at the heart of the study of heredity. To understand the ways in which features are passed down from one generation to the next, we have to dig deeper ....
Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I 816 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0470644796 | Frans J De Bruijn #190102A | £210.00 Add to basket This comprehensive reference covers the various metagenomics in a large variety of habitats, which could not previously have been analysed without metagenomic methodology. ....
Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II 632 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Metagenomics in Different Habitats Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0470647191 | Frans J De Bruijn #190104A | £210.00 Add to basket Metagenomics has revolutionized microbiology and many associated health and environmental fields. This treatise covers the various omics in a large variety of ....
Introducing Proteomics 296 pages | Wiley-Blackwell From Concepts to Sample Separation, Mass Spectrometry and Data Analysis Hbk | 2011 | 0470035234 | #190329A | Josip Lovric £80.00 Add to basket Introduction to Proteomics gives a concise and coherent overview of every aspect of current Pbk | 2011 | 0470035242 | #190330A | proteomics technology. The book provides students with sufficient theoretical .... £27.50 Add to basket
A Roadmap to the Successful Development and Commercialization of 383 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Microbial Pest Control Products for Control of Arthropods Springer Hbk | 2011 | 9400704364 | #190041A | Willem J Ravensberg £117.00 Add to basket Biocontrol is among the most promising methods for a safe, environmentally benign and sustainable pest control. Microbial pesticides offer a great potential, and it is ....
The Species Problem 248 pages | CUP A Philosophical Analysis Hbk | 2010 | 0521196833 | #190316A | Richard A Richards £50.00 Add to basket There is long-standing disagreement among systematists about how to divide biodiversity into species. Over twenty different species concepts are used to group organisms, ....
Stromatolites: Interaction of Microbes with Sediments 771 pages | 40 col & b/w illus | Springer Edited by Vinod Tewari and Joseph Seckbach Hbk | 2011 | 9400703961 | #190087A | This book provides an overview and latest information about the formation of Stromatolites as a £135.00 Add to basket result of interaction of microbes with sediments. Eighty-three expert ....
Understanding the Dynamics of Biological Systems 252 pages | Springer Lessons Learned from Integrative Systems Biology Hbk | 2011 | 1441979638 | #189959A | Edited by Werner Dubitzky, Jennifer Southgate and Hendrik Fuss £126.00 Add to basket The book encompasses the key disciplines of biology, mathematics, and information technology that contribute to systems biology. It introduces some of the main methods ....
Evolutionary Biology Go to subject web page
The Annotated Origin 537 pages | 1 line illustration | Belknap A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species Press Charles Darwin and James T Costa Hbk | 2009 | 0674032810 | #178969A | Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is the most important and yet least read scientific work in £25.95 Add to basket the history of science. Now James T. Costa - experienced field biologist, .... Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0674060172 | #190216A | £16.95 Add to basket
Human Planet - The Complete Series 480 mins, 3 discs | BBC Video Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a Blu-ray disc | 2011 | #190060A | breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound and sometimes challenging .... £32.68 Add to basket DVD | 2011 | #190059A | £28.58 Add to basket
Life from an RNA World 224 pages | 13 illus | Harvard UP The Ancestor Within Hbk | 2010 | 0674050754 | #184532A | Michael Yarus £18.95 Add to basket A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that it is possible to envision our biological Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0674060717 | predecessors - not the first, but nearly the first, living beings on Earth. .... #190220A | £13.95 Add to basket
The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations 272 pages | 100 b/w illus | OUP A Theory of Transformative Change in Living Systems Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0199692599 | Andreas Wagner #190284A | £65.00 Add to basket The history of life is a nearly four billion year old story of transformative change. This change Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0199692602 | ranges from dramatic macroscopic innovations such as the evolution of wings .... #190282A | £29.95 Add to basket
Phenotypic Variation 224 pages | OUP Exploration and Functional Genomics Hbk | 2011 | 0195379632 | #190328A | Moyra Smith £39.99 Add to basket During the past two decades international collaborative studies have yielded extensive information on genome sequences, genome architecture and their variations. The challenge ....
Ecology Go to subject web page
The Challenges of Biodiversity Science Ecology Institute Michel Loreau | #144854A | £55.50 Add to basket This book addresses the protection of biodiversity for present and future human generations and for a thriving biosphere. As leader in a variety of organisations and ....
Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations 640 pages | McGraw Hill Peter D Stiling Pbk | 2011 | 0071316671 | #190320A | Peter Stiling, co-author of "Biology by Brooker" et al., has written a new first edition ecology £46.99 Add to basket text. The main goal in creating a new ecology text is to show how ecology is ....
Handbook of Spatial Point Pattern Analysis in Ecology 450 pages | 40 black & white Thorsten Wiegand, Kirk Adams Moloney and Richard L Smith illustrations | Chapman & Hall (CRC A guidebook to spatial point-pattern analysis for ecologists, this book provides a comprehensive Press) presentation of the theory behind point-pattern analysis targeted at the .... Hbk | 2011 | 142008254X | #190341A | £49.99 Add to basket
Multivariate Analysis for Community Ecologists 162 pages | MjM Software Design Step-by-Step using PC-ORD Spiralbound | 2010 | #190231A | JeriLynn E Peck £59.95 Add to basket What are multivariate data? How should I prepare my data? ....
The Wolf's Tooth 254 pages | - | Island Press Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity Hbk | 2010 | 1597263974 | #184926A | Cristina Eisenberg £21.99 Add to basket In this book the author investigates the dramatic ecological consequences of predator removal Pbk | 2011 | 1597263982 | #190009A | (and return) as she explores the concept of 'trophic cascades' and the role of .... £16.99 Add to basket
Habitats & Ecosystems Go to subject web page
Biodiversità e Aree Protette / Biodiversity And Protected Areas 176 pages | Gangemi Editore Un interesse comune dell'umanità / A common concern of humankind 2010 | 8849208383 | #190011A | Edited by Stefano L Tresca £42.00 Add to basket
The Black Earth 200 pages | 45 b/w 7 col illus | Springer Ecological Principles for Sustainable Agriculture on Chernozem Soils Hbk | 2011 | 9400701586 | #189969A | David Dent, Boris P Boincean and Igori Arcadie Krupenikov £90.00 Add to basket Soil is the Earth's living skin. It provides anchorage for roots, holds water long enough for plants to make use of it and the nutrients that sustain life. This book is ....
Eco-city Planning 280 pages | 60 illus | Springer Policies, Practice and Design Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 9400703821 | Edited by Tai-Chee Wong and Belinda Yuen #190049A | £90.00 Add to basket Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and ....
Environmental Health 560 pages | illus, tabs | Harvard UP Dade W Moeller Hbk | 2004 | 0674014944 | #150418A | Dramatic changes in the field of environmental health since the Third Edition was published in Normally £58.95 2004 demand a new, radically updated version of this essential textbook. .... NHBS OFFER PRICE: £34.99 Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0674047400 | #190215A | £59.95 Add to basket
Global Change 380 pages | Figs, tabs | Catena Challenges for Soil Management Pbk | 2010 | 3923381573 | #190202A | Edited by Miodrag Zlatic £200.00 Add to basket Soil, like air and water, is essential to life on earth. Over 90% of all human food and livestock feed are produced from the land and from soils that vary in quality and ....
Global Change and Baltic Coastal Zones 300 pages | 100 b/w & 60 col illus | Edited by Gerald Schernewski, Jacobus Hofstede and Thomas Neumann Springer Climate change and ongoing transformation processes in economy and agriculture will have Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 9400703996 | strong and multiple impacts in the Baltic region. In particular coastal zones face .... #190047A | £90.00 Add to basket
Global Change and River Ecosystems - Implications for Structure, 284 pages | Springer Function and Ecosystem Services Hbk | 2010 | 9400706073 | #190085A | £126.00 Add to basket Edited by RJan Stevenson and Sergi Sabater Rivers around the world are threatened by changes in land use, climate, hydrologic cycles, and biodiversity. Global changes in rivers include, but are not restricted to ....
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 3 512 pages | 23 col photos, 104 figs, 22 Geology tabs, 89 maps | Texas A&M UP Edited by Noreen A Buster and Charles W Holmes Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1603442901 | This volume provides the most up-to-date systematic, cohesive, and comprehensive description #190065A | £65.95 Add to basket of the geology of the Gulf of Mexico basin. The book's six sections address ....
Land Degradation and Rehabilitation 440 pages | Figs, tabs | Catena Dryland Ecosystems Pbk | 2009 | 3923381549 | #190201A | A Faz Cano et al £187.00 Add to basket This special issue contains a range of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Land Degradation, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, September 12nd-17th , 2004. ....
Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures 352 pages | 100 illus | Springer Edited by Sun-Kee Hong, Jianguo Wu, Jae-Eun Kim and Nobukazu Nakagoshi Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 4431877983 | Cultural landscapes are a product of the interactions between humans and natural settings. #190036A | £126.00 Add to basket They are landscapes and seascapes that are shaped by human history and land ....
The Landscape Ecology of Fire 350 pages | 82 b/w & col illus | Springer Edited by Donald McKenzie, Carol S Miller and Donald A Falk Hbk | 2011 | 9400703007 | #189966A | Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely increasing the severity and extent of £117.00 Add to basket wildfires in many ecosystems around the world. What will be the ....
Landscape Indicators 235 pages | 25 b/w & 20 col illus | Assessing and Monitoring Landscape Quality Springer Edited by Claudia Cassatella and Attilia Peano Hbk | 2011 | 9400703651 | #190044A | This volume deals with the definition and use of specific indicators for landscape assessment £90.00 Add to basket and monitoring. To tackle the diverse dimensions of the landscape, the ....
Marine Ecological Geography 454 pages | Springer Theory and Experience Hbk | 2011 | 3642174434 | #190090A | Dmitry Ya Fashchuk £117.00 Add to basket This book considers the methodological principles of systemization and visualization of multidimensional ecological information for its operational dissemination among ....
The Ocean at Home 160 pages | 100 b/w & col illus | An Illustrated History of the Aquarium Reaktion Books Bernd Brunner Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 1861898169 | The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated man for centuries-the #190148A | £17.95 Add to basket Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes ....
Protected Area Management and Ecotourism 264 pages | VDM Verlag Concepts, planning, evaluation and management Pbk | 2010 | 3639311949 | #190010A | M B Shrivastava and Menka Bihari £101.00 Add to basket The book deals with a gamut of activities associated with protected area management, including the concepts, principles, history and movement of environmental conservation, ....
The Rising Sea 203 pages | B/w illus | Island Press Orrin H Pilkey and Rob Young Hbk | 2009 | 1597261912 | #178535A | On Shismaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small £16.99 Add to basket island nations face annihilation .... Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1610910044 | #190008A | £15.99 Add to basket
Selecting Douglas Fir Seed Sources for Use in Britain 68 pages | Col illus | Forestry Alan M Fletcher and Sam Samuel Commission Douglas fir plays a particular role in the production of quality timber and is also important for Pbk | 2010 | 0855388099 | #190161A | other multipurpose forestry uses. Due to the extent of its natural range .... £17.50 Add to basket
The Soils of Tomorrow 744 pages | Figs, tabs | Catena Soils Changing in a Changing World Pbk | 2008 | 3923381565 | #190199A | Edited by Carmelo Dazzi and Edoardo Costantini £200.00 Add to basket Wide-ranging collection. ....
State of the World's Forests 2011 170 pages | FAO FAO Pbk | 2011 | 9251067503 | #190238A | The ninth biennial issue of State of the World's Forests, published at the outset of 2011, the £35.00 Add to basket International Year of Forests, considers the theme 'Changing pathways, ....
Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change 440 pages | - | Springer Mark Bush and John Flenley Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 3642053823 | The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on #189973A | £153.00 Add to basket tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ....
Understanding and Managing Threats to the Environment in South 404 pages | Springer Eastern Europe Hbk | 2011 | 9400706103 | #190343A | £153.00 Add to basket Edited by Gorazd Mesko, Dejana Dimitrijevic and Charles B Fields Pbk | 2011 | 9400706138 | #190344A | This volume presents reflections on a variety of environmental issues in South-Eastern Europe £81.00 Add to basket from diverse contemporary scientific disciplines. The contributions address many ....
Wetlands 350 pages | Springer Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts Pbk | 2011 | 9400705506 | #190083A | Edited by Ben A LePage £58.99 Add to basket The science of wetlands and our understanding of these complex ecosystems have improved considerably. The emergence of multidisciplinary strategies is providing new ....
Conservation & Biodiversity Go to subject web page
Biodiversity: Structure and Function, Volume 1 336 pages | EOLSS Edited by Wilhelm Barthlott, K Eduard Linsenmair and Stefan Porembski Pbk | 2009 | 184826934X | #190163A | £304.00 Add to basket
Biodiversity: Structure and Function, Volume 2 338 pages | EOLSS Edited by Wilhelm Barthlott, K Eduard Linsenmair and Stefan Porembski Pbk | 2009 | 1848269358 | #190165A | £304.00 Add to basket
Biological Diversity 440 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Exploiters and Exploited Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0470778067 | Paul Hatcher and Nick Battey #190236A | £90.00 Add to basket Biological Diversity takes a fresh, innovative approach to the teaching of biodiversity. Rather Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0470778075 | than detailing and cataloguing the major taxa and their evolutionary .... #190366A | £32.50 Add to basket
Conservation at the Crossroads 288 pages | Permanent Black Science, Society, and the Future of India's Wildlife Hbk | 2010 | 8178242648 | #190032A | Ghazala Shahabuddin £32.50 Add to basket Using the Sariska Tiger Reserve as one of its major anchors, this book analyses the historical, socio-political, and biological contexts of nature conservation in India in ....
Green Roofs and Biodiversity 312 pages | LAP Can Green Roofs provide habitat for invertebrates in an urban environment? Pbk | 2011 | 3843374163 | #190001A | In urban climes, where green space is already limited, green roofs may provide the ideal and in £99.50 Add to basket many cases the only habitat for species conservation. Could green roofs provide ....
Human Population 259 pages | Springer Its Influences on Biological Diversity Hbk | 2011 | 3642167063 | #190020A | Edited by Richard P Cincotta and Larry J Gorenflo £90.00 Add to basket In this volume the dynamic patterns of human density and distribution are examined in relation to the viability of native species and the integrity of their habitats. Social, ....
Listed 368 pages | Harvard UP Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0674047516 | Joe Roman #190207A | £20.95 Add to basket The first listed species to make headlines after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 was the snail darter, a three-inch fish that stood in the way of a massive dam ....
Protected Area Staff Training 220 pages | Island Press Guidelines for Planning and Management Pbk | 2011 | 283171317X | #190007A | Svetlana L Kopylova and Natalia R Danilina £24.99 Add to basket Qualified, competent, and committed staff are central to the success of protected areas. Training of protected area staff is more and more recognized as a vital component of ....
Environmental Science Go to subject web page
Adaptation and Resilience 256 pages | Line drawings, index | RFF The Economics of Climate, Water, and Energy Challenges in the American Southwest Hbk | 2011 | 1933115939 | #190346A | Edited by George B Frisvold and Bonnie G Colby £60.00 Add to basket In America's arid southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based ....
Adapting to Climate Change 530 pages | 38 figs, 28 tables | CUP Thresholds, Values, Governance Hbk | 2009 | 0521764858 | #181273A | Edited by Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O'Brien £85.00 Add to basket Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering Pbk | 2010 | 0521182514 | #189953A | our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and .... £29.99 Add to basket
Aeronomy of the Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere 380 pages | 150 col & b/w illus | Edited by Archana Bhattacharyya, Mangalathayil Ali Abdu and Dora Pancheva Springer This book is a multi-author treatise on the most outstanding research problems in the field of Hbk | 2011 | 9400703252 | #189967A | the aeronomy of the Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere, encompassing the science .... £117.00 Add to basket
Chemistry of the Environment 550 pages | Figs, tabs | University Thomas G Spiro, William M Stigliani and K Purvis-Roberts Science Books This new edition has been extensively revised to reflect the rapid evolution of all areas of Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 189138970X | environmental science. Additionally, much of the text and organisation have .... #190235A | £46.99 Add to basket
Extreme Environmental Events 1242 pages | 2 volumes, 661 b/w & col Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning illus | Springer Edited by Robert A Meyers Hbk | 2010 | 1441976949 | #189974A | This set is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of £449.50 Add to basket complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing ....
Globalizing Polar Science 400 pages | Palgrave Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years Hbk | 2011 | 0230105327 | #190239A | Edited by Roger D Launius, James Rodger Fleming and David H DeVorkin £60.00 Add to basket The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable Pbk | 2011 | 0230105335 | #190240A | international collaborative scientific effort that was focused on, but not .... £19.99 Add to basket
IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans 324 pages | Springer Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans, Hbk | 2010 | 9400703597 | #189970A | Cambridge, UK, December 8 12, 2008 £94.50 Add to basket Edited by David G Dritschel This book stems from the IUTAM symposium 'Rotating Stratified Turbulence and Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans' which took place at the Isaac Newton Institute for ....
The Inquisition of Climate Science 240 pages | 7 line drawings | Columbia James L Powell UP Science is under the greatest and most successful attack in modern history. An industry of Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0231157185 | denial, abetted by media more interested in selling controversy than presenting .... #189917A | £19.50 Add to basket
Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System 330 pages | 40 col illus | Springer William Lau and Duane Waliser Hbk | 2006 | 3540222766 | #163099A | As the first comprehensive and authoritative review of intra-seasonal variability (ISV), this £175.50 Add to basket multi-author work balances coverage of observation, theory and modeling and .... Hbk | 2011 | 3642139132 | #190133A | £117.00 Add to basket
Light Scattering by Non-spherical Inhomogeneous Particles 350 pages | Springer Fast Computations Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 3540251146 | VG Farafonov and VB Il'in #190131A | £90.00 Add to basket The optical methods of disperse media investigations are widely used today in many branches of physics from biophysics to environmental science and astronomy. Scatterers ....
Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century 460 pages | 130 col & b/w illus | Edited by Andreas Schiller and Gary B Brassington Springer Over the past decade the significant advances in real-time ocean observing systems, ocean Hbk | 2011 | 9400703317 | #189972A | modelling, ocean data assimilation and super-computing has seen the development .... £117.00 Add to basket
Postmodern Climate Change 320 pages | Routledge Leigh Glover Pbk | 2011 | 0415663776 | #190359A | This book provides a much-needed analysis of international climate change politics as a key £24.95 Add to basket issue of modernity and in the context of environmentalism. Leigh Glover presents a ....
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 211 160 pages | 8 b/w illus | Springer Edited by David M Whitacre Hbk | 2011 | 1441980105 | #190050A | £90.00 Add to basket
The Science of Global Ozone Change 416 pages | Springer Human Activities versus Natural Variability Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 3642103332 | Arthur Philip Cracknell #190130A | £117.00 Add to basket The destruction of the ozone layer, together with global warming, is one of the hot environmental topics of today. This book examines the effect of human activities on ....
Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change 84 pages | Figures, tables | Earthscan Prioritising Social Equity and Environmental Integrity Hbk | 2011 | 1849714134 | #190360A | Edited by Siri Eriksen and Katrina Brown £65.00 Add to basket This book sets out how to ensure that adaptation efforts are socially and environmentally sustainable, contributing to poverty reduction as well as confronting ....
Physical Sciences Go to subject web page
Catastrophes! 368 pages | 80 b/w photos, 37 illus, 16 Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, and Other Earth-shattering Disasters col plates | Johns Hopkins UP Donald R Prothero Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0801896924 | Devastating natural disasters have profoundly shaped human history, leaving us with a respect #190260A | £15.50 Add to basket for the mighty power of the Earth - and a humbling view of our future. ....
Encyclopedia of Geobiology 956 pages | 450 black & white Edited by Joachim Reitner, Volker Thiel, Andreas Kappler, Kurt Konhauser and A Nunez illustrations, 32 colour illustrations | The interplay between Geology and Biology has shaped the Earth from the early Precambrian, 4 Springer billion years ago. Moving beyond the borders of the classical core .... Hbk | 2011 | 1402092113 | #190337A | £359.00 Add to basket
Eyjafjallajökull 112 pages | 85 col & b/w photos | Untamed Nature/Stórbrotin Náttúra Uppheimar Ragnar Sigurdsson and Ari Trausti Gudmundsson 2010 | 997965970X | #189950A | Stunning compilation of photographs from the Icelandic volcanic eruption that affected the £43.50 Add to basket whole of Europe during the Spring of 2010. ....
Fizzics 144 pages | 10 col photos, 42 halftones, The Science of Bubbles, Droplets, and Foams 22 illus | Johns Hopkins UP F Ronald Young Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0801898919 | Bubbles are everywhere - in water and in air, made from soap and from gas. They are #190262A | £25.99 Add to basket referenced in literature and sung about in songs, and they're even the subject of great .... Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0801898927 | #190261A | £12.99 Add to basket
Geotechnics and Earthquake Geotechnics Towards Global Sustainability 304 pages | 140 col & 50 b/w illus | Edited by Susumu Iai Springer This book is part of a bold, new initiative towards global sustainability and development that Hbk | 2011 | 9400704690 | #190045A | draws on the disciplines of geotechnical engineering and earthquake .... £90.00 Add to basket
The Hidden Reality 384 pages | Allen Lane Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos Hbk | 2011 | 0713999780 | #190255A | Brian Greene £24.99 Add to basket In this exhilarating new book, Brian Greene explores our most current understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our continuing quest to know more. "The ....
InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Volcanoes 300 pages | 40 b/w illus | Springer Monitoring a Volcanic Arc from Space Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 3642003478 | Lu Zhongmin and Daniel Dzurisin #190046A | £145.50 Add to basket Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a relatively new remote sensing tool that is capable of measuring ground-surface deformation with centimeter-to-subcentimeter ....
Planetary Surface Processes 450 pages | 141 b/w illus. 28 tables 34 H Jay Melosh exercises | CUP Planetary Surface Processes is the first advanced textbook to cover the full range of geologic Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521514185 | processes that shape the surfaces of planetary-scale bodies. Using a modern, .... #189629A | £39.99 Add to basket
The Quaternary of Western Sutherland 119 pages | b/w illus | QRA Lukas et al 2010 | #190194A | £31.00 Add to basket
The Quaternary of the Solent Basin and West Sussex Raised Beaches figs, tabs, map | QRA Field Guide 2009 | #190191A | £31.00 Add to Edited by RM Briant, MR Bates, RT Hosfield and FF Wenban-Smith basket
The Quaternary of the Solway Lowlands and Pennine Escarpment 154 pages | illus | QRA Field Guide 2010 | #190192A | £31.00 Add to Livingstone et al basket
The Quaternary of the Trent Valley and Adjoining Regions 163 pages | b/w illus | QRA White et al 2009 | #190193A | £24.99 Add to basket
Tropical Geomorphology 450 pages | 150 b/w illus. 10 colour Avijit Gupta illus. 35 tables 100 exercises | CUP Although similar geomorphic processes take place in other regions, in the tropics these Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521879906 | processes operate at different rates and with varying intensities. Tropical .... #189955A | £44.99 Add to basket
The Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know 208 pages | 50 black and white line Joanne Baker illustrations | Quercus Publishing For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the Hbk | 2011 | 0857381237 | #190256A | planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has .... £9.99 Add to basket
Sustainable Development Go to subject web page
Biology Is Technology 252 pages | 19 line illus, 7 tabs | The Promise, Peril and Business of Engineering Life Harvard UP Robert H Carlson Hbk | 2010 | 0674035445 | #181332A | Technology is a process and a body of knowledge as much as a collection of artifacts. Biology is £29.95 Add to basket no different and we are just beginning to comprehend the challenges inherent .... Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0674060156 | #190219A | £16.95 Add to basket
Coming Clean 249 pages | Illustrations | MIT Press Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance Hbk | 2011 | 0262014955 | #190356A | Michael E Kraft, Mark Stephan and Troy D Abel £37.95 Add to basket Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of information disclosure as a policy Pbk | 2011 | 0262515571 | #190357A | strategy for environmental protection. This process, which requires that firms .... £18.95 Add to basket
Crimes Against Nature 198 pages | ABC-Clio Illegal Industries and the Global Environment Hbk | 2011 | 0313384649 | #190312A | Donald R Liddick £26.99 Add to basket The alarming consequences of eco-crime go far beyond the widespread degradation of the natural world; important societal institutions are undermined and negative social and ....
Embedded Sustainability 270 pages | Greenleaf The Next Big Competitive Advantage Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 190609358X | Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva #190249A | £28.50 Add to basket Companies know how to meet the demands of shareholder value: years of managerial excellence testify to this achievement. Many also know how to create stakeholder value - ....
Ents, Elves, and Eriador 344 pages | Kentucky UP The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien Pbk | NYP 03/2011 | 0813129869 | Matthew T Dickerson and Jonathan Evans #190029A | £25.99 Add to basket Though not often recognized as environmental or agrarian literature, the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien demonstrate a complex and comprehensive ecological philosophy. The ecology ....
The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton 184 pages | Kentucky UP Monica Weis Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0813130042 | Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child #188407A | £41.99 Add to basket watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in ....
Ethics and Animals 250 pages | CUP An Introduction Hbk | 2011 | 0521888999 | #190308A | Lori Gruen £50.00 Add to basket In this fresh and comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together Pbk | 2011 | 0521717736 | #190310A | poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, .... £16.99 Add to basket
Fisheries Biology and Stock Assessment 432 pages | black & white illustrations | Toward an Ecological Approach CRC Press Janet A Ley Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0849338476 | Covering the basics as well as introducing modern procedures, "Fisheries Biology and Stock #178556A | £49.99 Add to basket Assessment" emphasizes the processes involved in biological and fishery data ....
Global Commodity Governance 336 pages | 51, 38 black & white tables, State Responses to Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification 13 figures | Palgrave Fred Gale and Marcus Haward Hbk | 2011 | 0230516637 | #190342A | Commodities like coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, timber and fish are key components of world trade. £60.00 Add to basket They unite primary and intermediary producers with retailers, wholesalers and ....
Globalisation, Agriculture and Development 264 pages | Edward Elgar Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Hbk | 2011 | 1847208185 | #190314A | Edited by Matthew Tonts and MAB Siddique £65.00 Add to basket This book explores the links between globalization, agriculture and development in a number of contemporary Asia-Pacific nations. It highlights the complex and diversified ....
Groundwater and Subsurface Environments 328 pages | Col & b/w figs | Springer- Edited by Makoto Taniguchi Verlag Tokyo Excessive groundwater pumping, groundwater contamination, and subsurface thermal Hbk | 2011 | 4431539034 | #190349A | anomalies have occurred frequently in Asian coastal cities, greatly disturbing the urban .... £135.00 Add to basket
The History of Aquaculture 244 pages | Illustrations, maps | Iowa Colin E Nash State UP The History of Aquaculture is a comprehensive history of the practices and technologies used in Hbk | 2011 | 0813821630 | #190237A | captive fish production from its small scale prehistoric roots through to the .... £62.00 Add to basket
Improving Natural Resource Management 272 pages | Illustrations | Wiley- Ecological and Political Models Blackwell Timothy Haas Hbk | 2011 | 0470661135 | #190355A | The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. These, and other £55.00 Add to basket political and social decisions affect the balance of the ecosystem and how the ....
The Lower Damodar River, India 385 pages | 50 b/w & 40 col illus | Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment Springer Kumkum Bhattacharyya Hbk | 2011 | 9400704666 | #190043A | Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including £117.00 Add to basket historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive ....
Management of Water Resources in Protected Areas 210 pages | 100 b/w & col illus | Edited by H Farfán González, JL Corvea Porras et al Springer Natural ecosystems are heavily dependent on water, as it is essential to the development of Hbk | NYP 03/2011 | 3642163297 | life. The ecology and landscape play an important role in the quality and .... #189971A | £90.00 Add to basket
Microalgae as a Feedstock for Biofuels 73 pages | Springer Luisa Gouveia Pbk | 2011 | 3642179967 | #190054A | This concise review covers the potential use of microalgae for biofuel production. .... £44.99 Add to basket
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol 304 pages | - | Kentucky UP The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis Hbk | 2009 | 0813125227 | #190030A | Matthew Dickerson and David A O'Hara £30.95 Add to basket Scholars have discussed the work of C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) for decades, but they have focused on Lewis's Christian and pagan allusions and have largely ignored his other ....
The New Harvest 288 pages | OUP Agricultural Innovation in Africa Hbk | 2011 | 0199783209 | #190315A | Calestous Juma £60.00 Add to basket African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by new threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa faces ....
Nile River Basin 490 pages | 200 col & b/w illus | Hydrology, Climate and Water Use Springer Edited by Assefa M Melesse Hbk | 2011 | 940070688X | #190091A | This book presents results of scientific studies ranging from hydrological modelling to water £117.00 Add to basket management and policy issues in the Nile River basin. It examines the physical, ....
Practical Sustainability 280 pages | illustrations | Palgrave from Grounded Theory to Emerging Strategies Hbk | 2011 | 0230104525 | #190363A | Nasrin R Khalili £39.99 Add to basket This book is fully devoted to the Practicality aspects of environmental sustainability in business practice. The presented elements, and originality of the topics discussed ....
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor 368 pages | 5 halftones | Harvard UP Rob Nixon Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0674049306 | The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the #190213A | £33.95 Add to basket environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the ....
Sustainable Agricultural Development 318 pages | 20 colour illustrations, 23 Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Shabbir A Shahid and Joyce D'Silva black & white tables | Springer Due to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands Hbk | 2011 | 9400705182 | #190365A | on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to .... £90.00 Add to basket
Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2 1006 pages | 50 b/w illus | Springer Edited by Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Mireille Navarrete and Philip Debaeke Hbk | 2011 | 9400703937 | #190040A | This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then £180.00 Add to basket propose alternative solutions. It is aimed at helping all scientists, ....
Theories and Practices of Development 288 pages | Figs, tabs | Routledge Katie Willis Hbk | 2011 | 0415590701 | #190299A | Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led academics £75.00 Add to basket and policy-makers to consider how 'development' in all parts of the world .... Pbk | 2011 | 041559071X | #190302A | £22.99 Add to basket
Towards a Sustainable Asia 668 pages | 7 black & white Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia illustrations, 150 colour illustrations | This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Springer Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of .... Pbk | 2011 | 3642166644 | #190364A | £359.50 Add to basket
UNEP Year Book 2011 88 pages | UNEP Emerging Issues in Our Global Environment Pbk | 2011 | 9280731017 | #190353A | UNEP £12.99 Add to basket What are the potential impacts of the large amounts of plastic that find their way into the ocean? Are we using phosphorus wisely in agriculture? Phosphorus is needed for food ....
Water 560 pages | illus, maps | Harper Collins The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization Hbk | 2010 | 0060548304 | #186125A | Steven Solomon £18.99 Add to basket This book offers a narrative portrait of the personalities, innovations and power struggles over Pbk | 2011 | 0060548312 | #190317A | water that have transformed human history from the irrigating .... £10.99 Add to basket
The Water Footprint Assessment Manual 192 pages | Figs, tabs | Earthscan Setting the Global Standard Hbk | 2011 | 1849712794 | #190350A | Ashok K Chapagain, Mesfin M Mekonnen, Maite M Aldaya and Arjen Y Hoekstra £29.99 Add to basket People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The water footprint is an ....
Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region 272 pages | Photographs, maps | Edited by Kate Lazarus and Bernadette P Resurreccion Earthscan The Mekong Region has come to represent many of the important water governance challenges Hbk | 2011 | 1849711887 | #190351A | faced more broadly by the mainland Southeast Asian region. This book focuses .... £60.00 Add to basket
Water Security 300 pages | Figs | Island Press The Water-food-energy-climate Nexus Hbk | 2011 | 1597267368 | #190352A | World Economic Forum £20.99 Add to basket The world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiralling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for ....
Wild Law 264 pages | Green Books Cormac Cullinan Pbk | 2011 | 1900322900 | #190340A | Wild Law fuses politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient wisdom into a fascinating £12.95 Add to basket story. It has been seminal in informing and inspiring the global movement to ....
Winds of Change 304 pages | 10 black and white line The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy illustrations | OUP Industry Hbk | 2011 | 0199746923 | #190362A | Ion Bogdan Vasi £32.50 Add to basket Winds of Change examines the global development of the wind energy industry from a political, social movements-based perspective. It argues the wind energy industry ....
Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 306 pages | Springer-Verlag Tokyo Edited by Takeshi Yao Hbk | 2011 | 4431539093 | #190361A | Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been £171.00 Add to basket engaged in a program called "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming--Toward a CO2 ....
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Biostatistics 416 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Intermediate Bayesian Inference Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0470179422 | George G Woodworth #189564A | £66.95 Add to basket This book focuses on Bayesian multivariate inference, which is defined as any inference that involves a multivariate (marginal) posterior distribution and is distinct from ....
Global Tropical Cyclogenesis 500 pages | Springer E A Sharkov Hbk | 2000 | 1852331135 | #111578A | Tropical cyclones are the most impressive and best phenomenon of the tropics, and this book £150.50 Add to basket fills a need for a thorough detailed book on the subject, concentrating on the .... Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 3642132952 | #190132A | £117.00 Add to basket
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 500 pages | Worth Susan Nolan and Thomas E Heinzen Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 142923265X | Clearly written, this text makes statistics accessible to students by applying theoretical #190242A | £47.99 Add to basket techniques to wide-ranging examples. Focusing on research design and ....
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Africa Water Atlas 314 pages | 224 maps, 104 satellite This atlas is a visual account of Africa's endowment and use of water resources, revealed images, 500 figs | UNEP through 224 maps and 104 satellite images as well as some 500 graphics, .... Hbk | 2010 | 9280731106 | #190015A | £95.00 Add to basket
Colour Chart for Mycologists and Botanists 12 pages | 900 color samples | OACCC This colour chart was originally designed for online auction users, so that they could give one Unbound | | #189946A | £6.99 Add to another a precise indication of the colour of a traded object. But it could .... basket
Museums and the Public Sphere 192 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Jennifer Barrett 2011 | 1444327925 | #190297A | Museums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, £72.00 Add to basket Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ....