nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2015/07 July 2015 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the July 2015 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

Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes

● African Wild Dogs: On the Front Line Invertebrates ● Collins British Common Wild Flower Guide Palaeontology ● Collins British Tree Guide Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Hybrid Flora of the British Isles General Natural History ● Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth Regional & Travel ● Lakes, Loughs and Loughs (New Naturalist Volume 128) ● Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes Botany & Plant Science ● Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Butterfly Animal & General Biology ● Nature's Architect: The Beaver's Return to Our Wild Landscapes Evolutionary Biology ● Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication Ecology ● An Oological Record of British Raptors Habitats & Ecosystems ● Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World Conservation & Biodiversity ● A Photographic Guide to Snakes, Other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa ● Roads & Ecological Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications for Small Animals Environmental Science ● Tales from Concrete Jungles: Urban Birding Around the World Physical Sciences ● Wolves on the Hunt: The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey Sustainable Development Data Analysis Now in paperback Reference

● Among Chimpanzees: Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives ● The Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle ● The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration ● The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great & Small, and Why They Matter ● Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

Stock titles

● Assynt: The Geologists' Mecca ● British Seahorses ● Cuvier's History of Natural Sciences, Volume 2: Nineteen Lessons on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ● The Falkland Islands and Their Natural History ● Field Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the Golden Monkey National Park/ Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China ● A Geological Excursion Guide to the Stirling and Perth Area ● In Pursuit of Hidden Camellias: 32 Camellia Species from Vietnam and China ● Ordovician Trilobites of Southern Ontario, Canada and the Surrounding Region ● Ostergotlands Trollslandor [Dragonflies in Ostergotland] ● A Systematic Revision of the Land Snails of the Western Ghats of India ● The Travels of the Oostende Whale Skeleton ● Whales' Bones of France, Southern Europe, the Middle East and North America

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Mammals

A Systemic Review of Sulawesi Bunomys (Muridae, Murinae) With the 313 pages | Description of Two New Species Paperback | 06/2015 | #224558A | £39.99 Add to basket Guy G Musser Two new species of Bunomys are described, B. karokophilus and B. torajae, both from the west- central mountain region of central Sulawesi. The descriptions are presented within the context ...

African Wild Dogs 269 pages | 16 plates with 38 colour On the Front Line photos | Brendan Whittington-Jones Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781431421299 About 450 is optimistically the number of free-ranging African wild dogs left in South Africa. If | #224306A | £14.95 Add to basket ever a charismatic, African species could be considered an underdog in the face of human development, the wild dog, Lycaon pictus ...

Among the Bone Eaters 272 pages | 48 illustrations, 3 maps | Encounters with Hyenas in Harar Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Marcus Baynes-Rock and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 9780271067209 | #224174A | £22.95 Large carnivores in wild places are usually studied by biologists inside vehicles using telemetry Add to basket and noninvasive methods. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores ...

An Indomitable Beast 257 pages | 16 plates with 28 colour The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar photos, colour illustrations, and colour Alan Rabinowitz maps | The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781597269964 | in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly #212929A | £18.99 Add to basket because of an evolutionary history unique among wild ... Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781597269971 | #220141A | £15.99 Add to basket

Badger Behaviour, Conservation and Rehabilitation 175 pages | 8 colour plates | 70 Years of Getting to Know Badgers Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | George E Pearce 9781907807046 | #224101A | £19.99 A fascinating insight into badger biology, life in the sett, rescue and rehabilitation, consultancy, Add to basket badgers and farming, and badger-watching with George E. Pearce – an expert on badgers. He has surveyed over 700 sites, visited over ...

Bats of Estonia and Adjacent Regions 116 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Matti Masing illustrations, colour distribution maps, Bats of Estonia and Adjacent Regions gives a summary of bat research carried out by Dr. Matti colour tables | Masing and his colleagues in Estonia and elsewhere in Europe during the last 40 years. It is the Paperback | 06/2015 | 9789949383719 first book about all 15 bat species ... | #224103A | £24.99 Add to basket

Bats of Somalia and Neighbouring Areas 566 pages | 65 colour illustrations, 333 Benedetto Lanza, Ugo Funaioli and Marco Riccucci b/w illustrations, 32 distribution maps | A detailed guide to the bat fauna of Somalia and neighbouring areas, featuring 65 fine colour Hardback | 03/2015 | 9783899734478 | plates by Ugo Funaioli. #224569A | £90.99 Add to basket

Guide to Mammals of Salta Province, Argentina / Guía de los Mamíferos 320 pages | 6 b/w illustrations | de la Provincia de Salta, Argentina Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9780806152028 | #224100A | £28.99 Michael A Mares, Ricardo A Ojeda, Ruben M Barquez, Enrique Guanuco and Patr Capllonch de Add to basket Barquez Salta Province, which lies astride the Tropic of Capricorn in extreme northwest Argentina, encompasses many of South America's major habitats: montane moist forest, thorn forest, lowland desert, highland desert, and deciduous forests ...

How Dogs Work 224 pages | Raymond Coppinger, Mark Feinstein and Gordon M Burghardt Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best 9780226128139 | #224353A | £17.99 friend," but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads Add to basket as they look at us with their big, expressive ...

Les Chauves-Souris de France, Belgique, Luxembourg et Suisse [Bats of 544 pages | colour photos, colour France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland] illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 05/2015 | 9782366621396 Michele Lemaire and Laurent Arthur | #224463A | £42.99 Add to basket This book summarizes all available knowledge of the 34 bat species in the francophone area. For this second edition, the authors conducted a comprehensive update of the data. Much information from recent observations has been added.

Mammals of Alabama 480 pages | colour illustrations, colour & Troy L Best and Julian L Dusi b/w maps | Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first Paperback | 04/2014 | 9780817357498 and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama's diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna. | #224480A | £31.95 Add to basket European and American naturalists ...

Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America 348 pages | colour photos | Vladimir Dinets Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780544373273 To see a fog shrew, should you go to Muir Woods National Monument? If you're planning to visit | #224012A | £19.99 Add to basket Yellowstone National Park, what animals can you expect to see? When should a photographer visit to get a shot of a gray fox?

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves 248 pages | 123 b/w photos | Vintage American Photographs Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780271063317 | Ann-Janine Morey #224175A | £22.95 Add to basket Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love as well as symbolizing some of the less ...

Seal 224 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Victoria Dickenson & b/w illustrations | Playful and inquisitive, seals have long been interested in humans – and humans have Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | reciprocated that interest, falling for their beauty, grace, and charm as they frolic alongside our 9781780234892 | #223381A | £12.95 boats or loll on sandy shores. In this newest ... Add to basket

Skunk 224 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Alyce L Miller & b/w illustrations | Solitary, nocturnal creatures, skunks generally go about their business unnoticed. But then Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | there's that thing they do . . . and oh, boy, when they do it, no one can ignore them. But 9781780234908 | #223379A | £12.95 there's far more to skunks than the ... Add to basket

The Carnivore Way 308 pages | b/w photos, b/w Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators illustrations, b/w distribution maps | Cristina Eisenberg Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781597269827 | What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their #212930A | £18.99 Add to basket elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | a pastoral, peaceful human civilization? 9781597269834 | #224159A | £13.99 Add to basket

The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins 417 pages | 16 plates with 15 colour Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell photos and colour illustrations; 7 b/w In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock photos, 4 b/w illustration | a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the Hardback | 12/2014 | 9780226895314 | dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect the ... #215695A | £24.50 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780226325927 | #224372A | £17.50 Add to basket

The Mandrill 24 colour & 124 b/w illustrations, 15 A Case of Extreme Sexual Selection tables | Alan F Dixson Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is 9781107114616 | #223919A | £44.99 notoriously elusive and has evaded scientific scrutiny for decades. Yet, it is the largest and most Add to basket sexually dimorphic of all the Old World ...

The Travels of the Oostende Whale Skeleton 119 pages | b/w photos, b/w Nicholas Redman illustrations | In 1827, a dead whale was found floating in the North Sea by some fishermen, and then towed Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788364313745 to Oostende, Belgium, where first the carcass and then the skeleton were put on display. Hence | #224470A | £14.99 Add to basket it became known as "The Ostend Whale" ...

The Wild Mammals of Japan 506 pages | ccolour illustrations | SD Ohdachi, Y Ishibashi, MA Iwasa, D Fukui and T Saitoh Hardback | 07/2015 | 9784879746917 | Includes accounts for 170 species of mammals in Japan. It is the most comprehensive and up- #224594A | £74.99 Add to basket to-date guide available, and will be of interest to anyone in the world who has an interest in Japanese mammals. Descriptions for each species ...

Whales' Bones of France, Southern Europe, the Middle East and North 254 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Africa illustrations, b/w maps | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780954580063 | Nicholas Redman and Richard C Sabin #224478A | £49.99 Add to basket Whales' Bones of France, Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa is a record of whale bone monuments in around 250 locations in France, Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira), Spain (including the Canary Islands) ...

Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon 192 pages | 100+ colour photos, colour Rebecca L Grambo and Daniel J Cox illustrations, colour tables | In this updated and expanded edition with 16 new pages, Rebecca Grambo paints an intimate Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | portrait of an animal that has fascinated, inspired and terrified people throughout human 9781770855595 | #224466A | £16.95 history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the author ... Add to basket

Birds

A Check-List of the Birds of Keyhaven-Lymington and Milford-on-Sea 36 pages | 19 colour illustrations, 1 Ed Wiseman colour map | A checklist of the birds recorded from this popular and productive birding area. The modern day Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780956771247 checklist is compared to the hundred year old checklist of Milford-on-Sea, written by Kelsall & | #224451A | £8.99 Add to basket Coles. The checklist was delivered to ...

A Field Guide to the Birds of Wesleyan 48 pages | colour illustrations | Oliver James Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | The sixteen birds detailed in this charming field guide will be well known to birders in 9780819575630 | #224105A | £6.99 Connecticut, but the attention to detail and personality quirks in each bird's description make A Add to basket Field Guide to the Birds of Wesleyan special ...

A Pocket Guide to the Birds of Meghalaya 160 pages | 63 colour photos, 60 b/w Anwaruddin Choudhury illustrations, 24 maps | The Indian state of Meghalaya has more than 600 species of birds, with 25 globally threatened, Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789380652030 17 near-threatened, and nine restricted-range species. A Pocket Guide to the Birds of | #224221A | £24.99 Add to basket Meghalaya is the first such book for the state.

An Oological Record of British Raptors 186 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Tony Ladd and Errol Fuller & b/w illustrations | Tony Ladd, an experienced graphic designer and wildlife artist, has produced a truly remarkable Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780993209406 | publication with all the hallmarks of a Victorian Journal from the olden days. Through thousands #224293A | £175.00 Add to basket of hours research and visits to the great ... Hardback | 01/2015 | 9780993209406 | #224294A | £275.00 Add to basket

Australian Predators of the Sky 216 pages | 200+ colour & b/w Penny Olsen and Sean Dooley illustrations, maps | Our relationship with the birds of prey has always been conflicted. Raptors are admired for their Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | strength and independence, but despised for their depredations on livestock and favourite 9780642278562 | #224624A | £39.99 garden birds, while the owls are at once respected ... Add to basket

Avian Cognition 424 pages | 25 colour illustrations | Exploring the Intelligence, Behavior, and Individuality of Birds Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Debra S Herrmann 9781498748421 | #224161A | £94.99 Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and Add to basket individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared.

Birds of Kangaroo Island 577 pages | colour photos, maps | A Photographic Field Guide Paperback | 01/2015 | 9781921511189 Chris Baxter | #224573A | £52.99 Add to basket This comprehensive account covers all 267 bird species recorded on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Each species is illustrated by full colour photographs and information is provided on habits, habitats, breeding, status, abundance and ...

Birds of Minnesota State Parks 222 pages | colour photos, colour maps Robert B Janssen and Carrol L Henderson | Each of Minnesota's 75 state parks is represented by a birding-oriented description, a page of Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780975433881 recommended places to visit, and a map. The parks are a haven for birds, often providing the | #223996A | £34.99 Add to basket only suitable habitat for a species in the ...

Birds of New England 192 pages | colour illustrations | Todd Telander Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780762783625 Falcon Pocket Guide: Birds of New England is a field guide to more than 300 of the most | #224192A | £9.95 Add to basket common and sought-after species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each bird's prominent ...

Birds of Siberia, Volume 1 [Russian] 438 pages | b/w illustrations | B Ryabitsev Hardback | 01/2014 | 9785752529559 | This is the first complete illustrated guide to the birds of Siberia and contains descriptions of #224485A | £69.99 Add to basket more than 550 species of birds observed in the whole of Siberia between the Urals and the Far East. The book consists of two volumes, sold ...

Birds of Siberia, Volume 2 [Russian] 452 pages | colour illustrations, B Ryabitsev distribution maps | This is the first complete illustrated guide to the birds of Siberia and contains descriptions of Hardback | 01/2014 | 9785752529931 | more than 550 species of birds observed in the whole of Siberia between the Urals and the Far #224486A | £69.99 Add to basket East. The book consists of two volumes, sold ...

Booming from the Mists of Nowhere 158 pages | The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | Greg Hoch 9781609383879 | #224010A | £18.50 For ten months of the year, the prairie-chicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the Add to basket landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other ...

Fastest Things on Wings 320 pages | Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood Hardback | NYP 06/2015 | Terry Masear 9780544416031 | #224312A | £22.50 Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat Add to basket cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backwards ...

Florida Seashore & Wildlife 208 pages | colour illustrations | Todd Telander Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780762781874 Falcon Pocket Guide: Florida Seashore & Wildlife is a field guide to 180 of the most commonly | #224193A | £9.95 Add to basket found shells, plants, and animals along Florida's coast. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions make it ...

Hampshire Bird Report 2011 241 pages | 94 colour photos, colour & Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS) b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, The major part of the book is taken up with the Systematic list, covering the species recorded colour & b/w tables | in the county during the year. The book also contains regular papers including the Review of Paperback | 02/2013 | 9780956771223 the Year and the Ringing Report and various appendices ... | #224453A | £13.99 Add to basket

Hampshire Bird Report 2012 209 pages | 79 colour photos and colour Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS) & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w maps, The major part of the book is taken up with the Systematic list, covering the species recorded colour & b/w tables | in the county during the year. The book also contains regular papers including the Review of Paperback | 11/2013 | 9780956771230 the Year and the Ringing Report and various appendices ... | #224452A | £13.99 Add to basket

Hampshire Bird Report 2013 219 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Hampshire Ornithological Society (HOS) illustrations, colour & b/w maps, colour The major part of the book is taken up with the Systematic list, covering the 266 species & b/w tables | recorded in the county during the year. The book also contains regular papers including the Paperback | 03/2015 | 9780956771254 Review of the Year and the Ringing Report and various ... | #224454A | £13.99 Add to basket

Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand 184 pages | 85 colour illustrations, Hugh Robertson, Barrie Heather and Derek Onley distribution maps | The Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is a trusted, invaluable reference for lovers of New Paperback | 08/2015 | 9780143570936 Zealand birds. Comprehensive and easy to use, this new edition features: - 374 species, | #224625A | £34.99 Add to basket including 35 new additions ...

Ireland's First in Over 100 Years: Lough Derg White Tailed Sea Eagles runtime: 32 min, PAL | (Region 0) DVD | NYP 06/2015 | #223999A | £19.99 Add to basket Nigel Beers Smith Ireland’s First White Tailed Sea eagles in over 100 years The author filmed and photographed this historic event for over 6 months, every single day, from the start, right up to the chicks fledging. This documentary is the story of ...

Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Albatrosses 300 pages | colour photos, colour and Fulmarine Petrels illustrations, colour distribution maps, includes 2 DVDs (Region ALL | Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Innovative new concept to seabird identification using words, photographs, illustrations, 2 9780956886729 | #192844A | £39.95 DVDs. Cross-comparison of all species covered: Atlantic Yellow-nosed, Indian Yellow-nosed, Add to basket Grey-headed, Black-browed, Shy, and Tristan Albatrosse ...

Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica 240 pages | 595 colour photos, 789 A Field Guide illustrations, 194 distribution maps | Richard Garrigues Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | Few ecosystem destinations are as abundant in their biodiversity as Costa Rica. Having the 9781501700255 | #224379A | £15.50 right field guides in hand can make all the difference when you're enjoying the country's Add to basket birdlife. Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica ...

Swallow 224 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Angela Turner & b/w illustrations | Known as heralds of spring and beautiful, elegant flyers, swallows are among the most beloved Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | of familiar birds. Because they return with the spring, swallows, as Angela Turner explains, 9781780234915 | #223380A | £12.95 have long been associated with the renewal of life ... Add to basket

The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand 464 pages | colour illustrations, b/w line Hugh Robertson, Barrie Heather and Derek Onley drawings, distribution maps | The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand is the modern classic of the genre – the tried and Paperback | 04/2015 | 9780143570929 trusted reference for lovers of New Zealand birds. Comprehensive, reliable and easy to use, this | #224626A | £44.99 Add to basket fourth revised edition ...

The Finnish Bird Ringing Atlas, Volume II / Suomen Rengastusatlas II 784 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Jari Valkama, Pertti Saurola, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Esa Lehikoinen, Markus Piha, Petri Sola and illustrations, b/w line drawings, colour Velmal maps, colour distribu | This second volume of the Finnish Bird Ringing Atlas contains more data than the first. Not only Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789515101372 | is the number of species higher, but also the data used in this volume comprise 92% of the #224167A | £41.99 Add to basket ringing data and 77% of the recovery data stored ...

The Galapagos Hawk / El Gavilan de Galapagos 200 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Tjitte de Vries and Therese Newenham & b/w illustrations | First monograph in a new series. The Galapagos Hawk / El Gavilán de Galápagos describes the Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | #224225A | biology and ecology of the Galagapos Hawk, Buteo galapagoensis. £24.99 Add to basket

The Urban Birder 222 pages | b/w photos | David Lindo and Stephen Moss Paperback | / | 9781472925527 | Anyone can become an Urban Birder. You can do it anywhere and any time, whether you've got #224099A | £9.99 Add to basket the day to spare, on your way to work, during your lunch break or just looking out of a window. Look up and you will see. The Urban Birder is an inspirational ..

Tout Savoir sur les Oiseaux d'Europe [Everything about the Birds of 224 pages | colour illustrations | Europe] Paperback | 06/2015 | 9782603021385 | #224575A | £22.99 Add to basket Marc Duquet and Francois Desbordes This guide provides all the numerical and factual information known about the 439 species of birds regularly seen in Europe (including of course all the nesting birds, migrating birds and those overwintering in France): classification ...

Type Specimens of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History, 165 pages | no illustrations | Part 12 Paperback | 06/2015 | #224559A | £28.50 Add to basket Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamida Mary LeCroy This 12th and last part of Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History includes taxa in the passerine families included in volume 15 of Peters' ...

Winter's Hawk 176 pages | 188 colour illustrations, 1 Red-Tails on the Southern Plains map | James W Lish Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | Every autumn, thousands of migrating Red-tailed Hawks arrive on the southern Great Plains to 9780806148359 | #224006A | £22.99 spend the winter, and Oklahoma is one of the best places to observe this amazing Add to basket phenomenon. Above the prairie, as Oscar Hammerstein wrote, they ...

Reptiles & Amphibians

Bushmaster: Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World's Largest 320 pages | colour & b/w photos | Viper Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781628725117 | #224432A | £16.99 Add to basket Dan Eatherley Raymond Ditmars (1876–1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York's famous Bronx Zoo, brought cold-blooded animals to public attention as never before. Through wildly successful books and movies, he inspired a generation of ...

Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Volume 1 268 pages | 52 plates with colour Kraig Adler illustrations, 8 plates with b/w In 1989, SSAR issued the first volume in what became a series of three containing the illustrations | biographies (with portraits and signatures) of 786 herpetologists from throughout the world. Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780916984199 | The biographies provide key details of each person’s ... #224477A | £39.99 Add to basket

Die Zwergohreule (Otus scops) in Oesterreich [The Eurasian Scops Owl 288 pages | 420 illustrations, 29 tables | in Austria] Paperback | 06/2015 | 9783853280683 | #138443A | £24.99 Add to basket Bestand, Oekologie und Schutz in Zentraleuropa unter Besonderer Berucksichtigung der Kaernter Artenschutzprojekte Gerald Malle and Remo Probst In this extensive monograph all aspects of the life of this particular Austrian owl species are treated for the first time: their identification features and moulting cycles, the taxonomy, food, breeding biology, phenology and reproduction ...

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg 304 pages | 155 colour illustrations, 1 The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles table | Marty Crump Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Frogs are worshipped for bringing nourishing rains, but blamed for devastating floods. Turtles 9780226116006 | #224361A | £24.50 are admired for their wisdom and longevity, but ridiculed for their sluggish and cowardly Add to basket behavior. Snakes are respected for their ability to ...

Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management 210 pages | illustrations, tables | John E Simmons Paperback | 06/2015 | 9780916984908 This is the 3rd edition of this popular herpetological circular. John Simmons has greatly | #223669A | £30.99 Add to basket expanded the information on the history of collections, laws and permits needed for collecting in the US and internationally. The Collection Management ...

Le Lezard Ocelle 192 pages | colour photos, colour Un Geant sure le Continent Europeen illustrations, colour tables | Florian Dore, Marc Cheylan and Pierre Grillet Hardback | 06/2015 | 9782366620276 | The ocellated lizard dates back to the mid Pliocene epoch, extending from 5.3 to 2.6 to million #224438A | £29.99 Add to basket years ago. Specialists now distinguish four different species (Timon lepidus, T. nevadensis, T. tangitanus, and ...

My First Book of Southern African Frogs 64 pages | colour illustrations, colour Jeanne Tarrant and Sally MacLarty distribution maps, includes audio CD | Frogs are appealing and colourful creatures. Children may be familiar with stages of the frog's Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781775841586 curious life cycle, and see their eggs or tadpoles in local streams; and everyone has heard their | #224028A | £14.99 Add to basket calls. My first book of Southern African ...

Reptiles & Amphibians 144 pages | colour illustrations | Todd Telander Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780762781928 Falcon Pocket Guide: Reptiles & Amphibians is a field guide to 180 of the most common and | #224266A | £8.95 Add to basket sought-after reptile and amphibian species in the USA. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animal's ...

Texas Turtles & Crocodilians 264 pages | 117 colour photos, 36 A Field Guide colour distribution maps | Troy D Hibbitts, Terry L Hibbitts and David Haynes Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781477307779 Texas has a large and diverse turtle population, with forms that are found nowhere else | #224596A | £16.99 Add to basket (Cagle's Map Turtle and the Texas Map Turtle) and wide-ranging species that barely touch the state, including the Painted Turtles and the ...

Turtles of the United States 360 pages | illustrations | Carl H Ernst and Roger W Barbour Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | The first comprehensive work in its field to be published since 1952, Turtles of the United 9780813155821 | #224479A | £31.95 States offers a survey of current knowledge concerning the life history of the forty-nine species Add to basket of turtles native to the United States ...

Venomous Terrestrial Snakes of the Middle East 186 pages | 200+ colour & ~80 b/w Findlay E Russell and James R Campbell photos, 20 b/w illustrations, 33 b/w This volume provides an overview on the venomous snakes species of the region, snakebite and distribution maps | the available antisera. Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783899734461 | #224571A | £46.50 Add to basket

Fishes

1000 Marine Fishes Illustrated [Japanese] 383 pages | colour photos, colour Kato Shoichi illustrations | This book showcases 1000 fish species, mainly saltwater fish, recorded in Japan. The photos Paperback | 08/2014 | 9784416714201 will help the reader to distinguish between juveniles, males, and females. Quick reference | #224215A | £34.99 Add to basket tables give information on features such a body shape ...

Annual Fishes 328 pages | 38 colour & 49 b/w Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution illustrations, 16 tables | Nibia Berois, Graciela García and Rafael O de Sa Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Annual fishes inhabit isolated bodies of freshwater in Africa and South America that dry up 9781482299717 | #223768A | £76.99 seasonally. They provide a unique opportunity to serve as a model organism for studies in Add to basket vertebrate biology, such as behavior, sexual selection ...

British Seahorses 33 pages | colour photos | This booklet on British seahorses allows you to learn more about these amazing animals, these Paperback | 01/2015 | #224354A | 'Little horses of the sea'. It is full of facts and information about what makes these incredible £4.99 Add to basket fish be able to survive in our waters ...

Great White 256 pages | colour photos | James Woodford Paperback | 12/2014 | 9781742612546 "I remember thinking two things at the time. Firstly, if it had wanted to eat us we wouldn't | #224621A | £39.99 Add to basket have stood a chance and second, it didn't want to eat us." When James Woodford was confronted by half a dozen sharks ...

Guía de Peces para Aguas Continentales en la Vertiente Occidental del 416 pages | colour photos, b/w line Ecuador [Guide to the Freshwater Fish of Western drawings, colour maps, colour tables | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789942207401 Nowhere in the world are freshwater fishes more diverse than in Neotropical streams. Niches | #224613A | £64.99 Add to basket such as wood-eating and blood sucking exist nowhere else on the planet than in the Neotropics, and nearly all niches occupied by freshwater fishes ...

The Biology and Ecology of Parrotfishes 450 pages | 25 colour illustrations | Andrew Scott Hoey, David Roy Bellwood and Roberta Martini Bonaldo Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Parrotfishes (subfamily Scarinae, family Labridae), named for their brightly colored bodies and 9781482224016 | #223657A | £88.99 beaklike jaw, are a unique group of marine fishes that have captured the attention of Add to basket researchers, conservationists and the general public ...

Invertebrates

200 Hermit Crabs Illustrated [Japanese] 223 pages | colour photos, colour Kato Shoichi and Arima Kei Hito illustrations | This field guide describes 200 species of hermit crab that can be found in the waters around Paperback | 05/2014 | 9784416614297 Japan. The descriptions mention habitat, and identifying features and characteristcs. The book | #224217A | £34.99 Add to basket also touches on photography techniques.

Oestergoetlands Trollslaendor [Dragonflies in Oestergoetland] 159 pages | 175 colour photos, colour Tommy Karlsson and Claes Svedlindh distribution maps, colour tables | Östergötlands Trollsländor is a compilation of the results of a survey of dragonflies in the Hardback | 06/2015 | 9789163785986 | Swedish county Östergötland during 2008-2012, together with older records. The survey was #224242A | £14.99 Add to basket performed by the ...

A Pictorial Guide Butterflies of Gorumara National Park 350 pages | colour photos, colour maps Sumita Ghatak and Arjan Basu Roy | This book is a first attempt to compile baseline information about various butterflies reports Paperback | 03/2013 | #224290A | from Gorumara National Park, West Bengal, India. It compiles information about more than 300 £44.99 Add to basket butterfly species, out of which five species have ...

Atlas of Lifetime Coloring of the Cephalopods (Portraits of 208 pages | colour illustrations | Cephalopods) [Russian] Hardback | 01/2013 | 9785853823907 | #224147A | £125.00 Add to basket DO Alekseev and Various Artists Bizikov Atlas of Lifetime Coloring of the Cephalopods (Portraits of Cephalopods) contains detailed descriptions of 66 species of cephalopods, including information about their distribution, biology and economic importance, characteristics ...

Beetle 224 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Adam Dodd & b/w illustrations | Ancient and strange, beetles call to mind a lost world of Egyptian magic and belief – a reminder Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | of the fascination they've long held for human culture. In Beetle, Adam Dodd offers a richly 9781780234885 | #223378A | £12.95 illustrated, engaging account ... Add to basket

Biologie der Spinnen [Biology of Spiders] 423 pages | 267 colour photos and Rainer F Foelix illustrations, 463 b/w illustrations | This third German edition is based on the previous versions of this classical book, but has been Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783899734447 | revised to include the up-to date knowledge on spider biology. In contrast to many spider books #224570A | £69.99 Add to basket on the market (mainly field guides and ...

Butterflies 288 pages | colour photos | Ronald Orenstein and Thomas Marent Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Here are some of the most colorful, spectacular and sometimes weird examples of the world's 9781770855809 | #224018A | £29.99 butterflies and moths. From the common swallowtail to the iridescent blue morpho, Thomas Add to basket Marent's stunning photographs provide a close-up ...

Cetoniimania, Volume 7 [English / French] 80 pages | 41 plates with colour photos S Rojkoff | Contains 5 contibutions on Cetoniinae groups from Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Paperback | 05/2015 | 9782353871155 | #224009A | £46.50 Add to basket

Changing Global Perspectives on Horseshoe Crab Biology, Conservation 390 pages | 35 colour & 56 b/w and Management illustrations | Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | Ruth H Carmichael, Mark L Botton, Paul KS Shin and Siu Gin Cheung 9783319195414 | #224160A | £126.00 Changing Global Perspectives on Horseshoe Crab Biology, Conservation and Management Add to basket reports significant progress of scientific research on horseshoe crabs, including aspects of evolution, genetics, ecology, population dynamics ...

Conchiglie del Mondo [Shells of the World] 400 pages | 3000+ colour photos | Guida ai Molluschi Marini, d'Acqua Dolce e Terrestri di Tutto il Mondo Hardback | 12/2013 | 9788865203354 | Mauro Doneddu and Egidio Trainito #224581A | £39.99 Add to basket A guide to help you discover the beautiful forms of shells from all the world's seas, and how to recognize them. An indispensable tool for those who are passionate about collecting them, whether beginner or expert. Includes over 3,000 ...

Das Grosse Buch der Bienen [The Big Book of Bees] 320 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Jutta Gay and Inga Menkhoff illustrations | Over 600 hobbyist beekeepers live in Berlin alone – and their numbers are growing daily. Hardback | 05/2012 | 9783771644956 | Reason enough to look at the fascinating world of bees even closer. This magnificent illustrated #224610A | £32.99 Add to basket book gives an insight into the most exciting ...

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 55: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae [Chinese] 769 pages | 15 plates with colour Yuan Feng, Yuan Xiangqun and Xue Guoxi photos; b/w line drawings | Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 55: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae contains two parts. The first part is Hardback | 05/2015 | 9787030439147 | a general account. The second part is a systematic account of Chinese skippers. Out of a total #224489A | £94.99 Add to basket of 370 species, 200 species are studied ...

Folia Heyrovskyana, Supplement 14: Revision of Anthaxia 96 pages | 60 colour photos | (Haplanthaxia) aeneocuprea Species-Group (Coleoptera: Buprestida Paperback | 06/2015 | 9788086447186 | #224164A | £29.99 Add to basket Svatopluk Bíly The Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) aeneocuprea Kerremans, 1913 species-group is defined, keyed and all the 56 included species are fully illustrated. Twenty-five new species are described. All available bionomical data ...

Get Started in Beekeeping 240 pages | illustrations | All You Need for Happy, Healthy Bees Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781473611832 Adrian Waring and Claire Waring | #224038A | £12.99 Add to basket Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in the beekeeping community, this is a new and updated edition of a popular reference title which contains everything the beginner, or even intermediate, beekeeper could ...

Handsome Beetles in Thailand, Volume 1 [Thai] 214 pages | 156 plates with colour Sukhasawadi Pholpinit photos | Handsome Beetles in Thailand, Volume 1 has been written by Dr. Sukhsawad Pholphinit from Paperback | 01/2014 | 9786163820693 Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is specialized in beetles, especially the | #224243A | £27.99 Add to basket Cerambycidae. The book contains additional ...

Het Veen, de Vlinder en de Openbaring 96 pages | colour illustrations | Caspar Janssen Hardback | 06/2015 | 9789050115513 | On a gorgeous summer's day, one hundred years ago, an unsuspecting schoolboy from the #224019A | £7.50 Add to basket Dutch province of Friesland caught a Lycaenid butterfly that was thought to be extinct. The discovery was a sensation for lepidopterists ...

Hmyzí Rodiny a Staty [Insect Families and States] 584 pages | Jan Zdarek Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788020022257 | This is a supplemented and expanded edition of a popular 1997 book on social insects, Pro?ì #224337A | £54.99 Add to basket Vosy, V?ìely, ?îmeláci, Mravenci a Termiti…aneb Hmyzí Státy, written by an entomologist, a university ...

Indian Bumblebees 248 pages | 442 colour photos, 62 b/w Malkiat S Saini, Rifat H Raina and Harpreet Singh Ghator illustrations | Indian Bumblebees covers the first revisionary taxonomical work on Indian Bumblebees, it deals Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788121108270 | with 48 species out of which an extensive detail of 37 species has been provided, Indian #224497A | £95.99 Add to basket Bumblebees is an outcome of extensive ...

Insect Behavior 514 pages | 45 plates with colour Robert W Matthews and Janice R Matthews photos; 173 b/w illustrations | Insect Behavior is the second edition of the text that for thirty years served as the fundamental Hardback | 11/2009 | 9789048123889 | introduction to a field of study that has been growing enormously. Today, new technologies and #180167A | £62.99 Add to basket understandings are allowing ... Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789400790704 | #224260A | £62.99 Add to basket

Insect Diets 473 pages | 164 b/w illustrations, 57 Science and Technology tables | Allen Carson Cohen Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Dr. Allen Carson Cohen's new edition of Insect Diets: Science and Technology continues to 9781466591943 | #224342A | £76.99 provide a current, integrated review of the field of insect diets. It reaffirms and expands upon Add to basket the belief that the science of diet ...

Life Extension 414 pages | 26 colour & 23 b/w Lessons from Drosophila illustrations | Alexander M Vaiserman, Alexey A Moskalev and Elena G Pasyukova Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Life Extension looks at aging through research on Drosophila, the fruit fly that is one of the 9783319183251 | #224129A | £126.00 most widely used model organisms in bio-gerontology. Work in model organisms can expand Add to basket the theoretical knowledge of aging ...

Los 125 pages | Javier I Sanchez Almazan Paperback | 06/2015 | 9788400099503 The polychaete collection, part of the collection of invertebrates of the Museo Nacional de | #224500A | £18.99 Add to basket Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Spain, has experienced a rapid growth over the last twenty years, thanks to the research activity of many Spanish and ...

Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo [Nudibranchs of the Mediterranean] 192 pages | 300+ colour photos | Mauro Doneddu and Egidio Trainito Paperback | 07/2014 | 9788865204801 A guide for lovers of shellfish and for all those who love to discover the beauty of the | #224580A | £29.99 Add to basket Mediterranean. The descriptive part contains information for over 180 different species. A total of over 300 images form a complete documentation on ...

Odonati d'Italia 222 pages | colour photos | Guida al Riconoscimento e Allo Studio di Libellule e Damigelle Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788890978821 C Galliani, R Scherini and A Piglia | #224228A | £36.99 Add to basket A guide to the recognition and study of dragonflies and damselflies in Italy. The book gives detailed guidance and simple consultation, and is suitable for both beginners and for an audience of more experienced users who want to deepen ...

Outstanding Birdwing Butterflies (2-Volume Set) 1642 pages | 9300 colour photos, 139 Gilles Deslisle and Jean-Pierre Sclavo maps | This is the most complete reference book about Birdwing Butterflies to date, and is a work for Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | #224349A | ornithopterists as well as for lepidopterists who wish to specialize in this extraordinary genus of £599.00 Add to basket butterflies, but will also be of interest ...

Planet of the Bugs 248 pages | 8 plates with 12 colour Evolution and the Rise of Insects photos; 31 b/w photos | Scott Richard Shaw Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780226163611 | Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and #214198A | £19.50 Add to basket are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | of insects. Starting in the shallow ... 9780226325750 | #224371A | £11.99 Add to basket

Pristionchus pacificus 416 pages | A Nematode Model for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology Hardback | 03/2015 | 9789004260290 | Ralf J Sommer #224112A | £79.99 Add to basket This edited volume on the nematode model Pristionchus pacificus describes an integrative approach to evolutionary biology. It aims for a merger of evolutionary and comparative biology with mechanistic approaches based on genetic ...

Ragni: Biologia, Ecologia e Rapporti con l'Uomo 320 pages | b/w illustrations | Riccardo Groppali Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788890978838 Known to all and frightening to some, spiders are an integral part of various human cultures: | #224227A | £32.99 Add to basket with positive roles in legends that bestow them even with the creation of the world, or negative roles as representatives of evil forces.

Susswassermollusken: Ein Bestimmungsschlussel fur die Muscheln und 135 pages | colour photos, distribution Schnecken im Susswasser der Bundesrepublik Deutsch maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9783923376025 Peter Gloer | #224223A | £15.99 Add to basket This work allows the identification of 74 freshwater snail species and 44 mussel species that occur in Germany. This even covers the species occurring in neighboring countries. Where it is essential for identification, anatomical features ...

Taschenlexikon der Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Die Haufigsten Arten im 400 pages | ~300 colour photos | Portrat [Field Guide to the Spiders of Central Europ Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | 9783494016559 | #224484A | £32.99 Wolfgang Willner Add to basket Spiders are fascinating creatures. In proven style and design, this field guide treats the 400 most common species of spiders in Central Europe. Starting with brilliant pictures, all kinds of features, distribution, ways of life and ...

Taschenlexikon der Wildbienen Mitteleuropas: Alle Arten im Portraet 800 pages | ~350 colour photos | [Field Guide to Wild Bees of Central Europe] Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9783494016535 | #224483A | £40.99 Erwin Scheuchl and Wolfgang Willner Add to basket In Central Europe, there are around 850 species of wild bees. In this field guide the reader will find the most important information about all spceis, from the nomenclature / systematics of characteristics, food sources, nest construction ...

The Bee Keeper's Problem Solver 224 pages | colour photos, colour 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained illustrations | James E Tew Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780600630128 | With the rise in popularity of beekeeping, it's more important than ever that new starters and #224037A | £12.99 Add to basket even seasoned beekeepers are able to solve their bee problems. The Bee Keeper's Problem Solver provides the information you need ...

The Geometrid Moths of Europe, Volume 5 657 pages | 16 plates with 709 colour Ennominae I photos; 145 b/w illustrations | Peder Skou and Pasi Sihvonen Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Half of European Ennominae, a total of 141 species are covered in The Geometrid Moths of 9789004252202 | #117742A | £145.00 Europe, Volume 5: Ennominae I, including difficult genera like Crocallis, Aspitates and Dyscia. Add to basket Not less than ...

The Reproductive System and Gametogenesis of Bombyx mori 612 pages | An Ultrastructural Point of View 2 Paperback | 03/2015 | 9784486020462 Keiichiro Miya, Koichi Suzuki, Masanobu Goryo and Toshinobu Yaginuma | #224039A | £59.99 Add to basket This book is a summary of the microstructure of the reproductive organs in the silkworm Bombyx mori.

ZooKeys 497: Identification Guide to Some Diaptomid Species 112 pages | b/w photos, b/w (Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) of "de la P illustrations | Paperback | 04/2015 | 9789546427762 Gilmar Perbiche-Neves, Geoffrey Allan Boxshall, Daniel Previattelli, Marcos Gomes Nogueira and | #224239A | £37.50 Add to basket Fa A group formed by zoologists from Brazil and England present an identification guide for species of planktonic calanoid copepods (Diaptomidae) from “de la Plata” basin, the second largest in South America and tenth ...

ZooKeys 499: A Revision of the Neotropical Caddisfly Genus 100 pages | b/w line drawings | Leucotrichia Mosely, 1934 (Hydroptilidae, Leucotrichiinae) Paperback | 04/2015 | 9789546427779 | #224238A | £32.50 Add to basket Robin E Thomson and Ralph W Holzenthal The microcaddisfly genus Leucotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) is endemic to the New World and species diversity is greatest in Central and northern South America. The small adults of many of the species have large ...

ZooKeys 502 143 pages | illustrations | This issue contains the following 8 contributions: Cherax (Astaconephrops) pulcher, a new Paperback | 05/2015 | #224442A | species of freshwater crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Kepala Burung ... £41.99 Add to basket

Palaeontology

British Polacanthid Dinosaurs 224 pages | 194 colour photos and Observations on the History and Palaeontology of the UK Polacanthid Armoured colour illustrations | Dinosaurs and their Relatives Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | William T Blows 9780992997946 | #224305A | £59.99 130 million years ago, armoured dinosaurs roamed what is now southern England, parts of Add to basket Europe and the USA. These were the Polacanthidae, and today their remains are becoming better known and understood.

Catalogo de Fosiles de El Salvador 96 pages | illustrations, maps | Daniel Huziel Aguilar Calles and Mauricio Alejandro Molina Leddi Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789992302620 Description of some pieces of the paleontological collection housed at the Museum of Natural | #224434A | £37.99 Add to basket History, El Salvador. Includes bibliographical references.

Fossils 288 pages | colour photos | The Key to the Past Hardback | 04/2009 | 9780565092337 | Richard A Fortey #177382A | £19.99 Add to basket This is a clear and authoritative introduction to fossils, their study and their use in Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Paleontologist Richard Fortey explains in accessible 9780565093754 | #224151A | £14.99 language what fossils are, how they form, and how ... Add to basket

From Fish to Human: The March of Vertebrate Life In China [English / 576 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Chinese] illustrations | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9787110089378 | Corwin Sullivan, Yuan Wang and Brian Choo #224182A | £92.99 Add to basket This is a history of vertebrate life in China reconstructed by three palaeontologists from three different countries, which not only answers the classic philosophic question: "where did we come from", but also opens a window to ...

High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior 428 pages | Time and Space in Level J of Abric Romani (Capellades, Spain) Hardback | 03/2012 | 9789400739215 | Eudald Carbonell i Roura #224475A | £89.99 Add to basket The aim of High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior is to provide a new insight Paperback | 04/2014 | 9789400796331 on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romani rockshelter (north- | #224476A | £89.99 Add to basket eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics ...

Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History 196 pages | 8 plates with 9 colour A Four Billion Year History photos and colour illustrations; 20 b/w Donald E Canfield photos, 35 b/w illustration | The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780691145020 | world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How #206595A | £19.95 Add to basket did it become this way? Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | 9780691168364 | #224523A | £12.50 Add to basket

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 3: Basal Synapsids and Mammals 105 pages | b/w illustrations | Fascicle 1 (Series no. 14): Basal Synapsids [Chinese] Hardback | 01/2015 | 9787030424129 | #224180A | £46.99 Add to basket Li Jinling and Liu Jun 47 species in 30 genera, 12 families, and 6 undentified species are described. 65 fossil pictures and figures are provided.

Palaeovertebrata Sinica, Volume 3: Basal Synapsids and Mammals 487 pages | b/w photos | Fascicle 3 (Series no. 16): Eulipotyphlans, Proteutheres, Hardback | 01/2015 | 9787030424211 | #224181A | £99.99 Add to basket Li Chuankui and Qiu Zhuding This volume is a summary of data obtained since 2012. A total of 275 species in 38 families and 171 genera are described, and 287 fossil pictures and figures are provided.

The Worst of Times 216 pages | 2 b/w photos, 16 colour & How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions 11 b/w illustrations | Paul B Wignall Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Two hundred and sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic 9780691142098 | #224383A | £19.95 extinctions, with the worst – the end-Permian extinction – wiping out nearly every species on Add to basket the planet.

Marine & Freshwater Biology

Plancton: Aux Origines du Vivant 216 pages | 550 colour photos | Christian Sardet Hardback | 10/2013 | 9782841386345 | Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to #194262A | £40.99 Add to basket mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a vague squiggle or a greyish fleck.

The Extreme Life of the Sea 241 pages | 16 plates with colour Stephen R Palumbi and Anthony R Palumbi photos; 30 b/w photos, 6 b/w The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The illustrations | Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the aquatic world – the fastest Hardback | 02/2014 | 9780691149561 | and deepest, the hottest and oldest ... #209989A | £19.95 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780691169811 | #224384A | £12.50 Add to basket

Vertical Reefs 160 pages | 112 colour photos, 2 Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico illustrations, 3 maps | Mary Katherine Wicksten Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of 9781623493110 | #224157A | £27.50 these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana play an important role in the lives of Add to basket underwater species who find food, shelter, and ...

General Natural History

50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 252 pages | colour & b/w photos | How Wildlife Photography Became Art Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780565093518 | Rosamund Kidman Cox #214935A | £34.99 Add to basket This is a collection of the most beautiful and memorable pictures taken over the 50-year history Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | of what is now the world's most prestigious wildlife photography competition. The pictures also 9780565093839 | #224148A | £24.99 tell the story of how the competition has ... Add to basket

A Monograph of the Fossil Reptilia of the Liassic Formations 294 pages | 56 b/w illustrations | Sir Richard Owen Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781108081351 A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Discoveries of fossil reptiles in | #224125A | £19.99 Add to basket the sea cliffs of south-western England helped to consolidate ideas of 'deep time' and extinction by revealing ...

A Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic Formations 170 pages | 40 b/w illustrations | Sir Richard Owen Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781108081344 A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Sir Richard Owen (1804-92) | #224207A | £18.99 Add to basket produced a series of monographs on the fossil reptiles found in the Mesozoic and Tertiary rocks of the United Kingdom, describing ...

A Scientific Peak 296 pages | 20 b/w photos | How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | Joseph P Bassi 9781935704850 | #224413A | £24.50 Scroll through a list of the latest incredible scientific discoveries and you might find an Add to basket unexpected commonality-Boulder, Colorado. Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of ...

An Illustrated Coastal Year 192 pages | 300 colour illustrations | The Seashore Uncovered Season by Season Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | Celia Lewis 9781472911704 | #224433A | £19.99 Written and presented in the same style as 2013's popular An Illustrated Country Year, Celia Add to basket Lewis's beautiful new book covers the wildlife found on and around the seashore, above and under water.

Animal Stories 440 pages | illustrations | A Lifetime Collection Paperback | 08/2013 | 9780806143668 Max Evans, Keith Walters and Luther Wilson | #224205A | £24.50 Add to basket Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully ...

Australasian Nature Photography: ANZANG Eleventh Edition 116 pages | colour photos | Australian Geographic Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781742456508 | The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural #224616A | £36.99 Add to basket heritage stretching back 50 million years to the break-up of Gondwana. This annual photography competition focuses on this extraordinary legacy ...

Australia on Horseback 512 pages | The Story of the Horse and the Making of a Nation Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781742614168 | Cameron Forbes #224636A | £44.99 Add to basket The first horse set foot in Australia on 30 January 1788, one of seven aboard the First Fleet's Lady Penrhyn, which also carried a cargo of female convicts. From then on, horses carried explorers who opened up the country ...

Awesome Snake Science! 144 pages | colour illustrations | 40 Activities for Learning about Snakes Paperback | 07/2012 | 9781569768075 Cindy Blobaum | #224186A | £13.99 Add to basket From cobras and copperheads to pythons and boas, all types of snakes are covered in Awesome Snake Science! of 40 science experiments, art projects, and games that help budding herpetologists gain a greater appreciation for these ...

Bird Watching for Kids 72 pages | colour photos, colour Bite-Sized Learning & Backyard Projects illustrations | George H Harrison Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781623438500 | US-centric. A fascinating opportunity for children to learn how to attract birds to their own #224011A | £15.99 Add to basket backyards. Bird Watching for Kids is filled with entertaining and fulfilling projects that allow children to interact with nature while ...

Cereals of Antiquity and Early Byzantine Times 518 pages | Wheat and Barley in Medical Sources (Second to Seventh Centuries) Paperback | 07/2015 | 9788323339014 Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak and Zofia Rzeznicka | #224414A | £41.50 Add to basket The present book entitled Cereals of Antiquity and Early Byzantine Times: Wheat and Barley in Medical Sources (Second to Seventh Centuries), penned by Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak and Zofia Rze??nicka, aims at a detailed ...

Charles Darwin: Pocket GIANTS 128 pages | Stephen Webster Paperback | 08/2014 | 9780752499406 Pocket GIANTS is an accessible and informative series about some of the most fascinating | #223992A | £6.99 Add to basket figures in world history – kings, queens, writers and artists. When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural ...

Chimp Rescue 32 pages | colour illustrations | Clare Hibbert Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781445133904 | Chimp Rescue follows the ups and downs of the lives of these special animals as they are cared #224533A | £12.99 Add to basket for at a specialist chimp sanctuary on Ngamba Island in Lake Victoria, Africa and focuses on both individual animals and the incredible ...

Communicating Environmental Patriotism 184 pages | 27 b/w photos | A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement Hardback | 06/2013 | 9780415828093 | Anne Marie Todd #211799A | £84.99 Add to basket Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country's Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781138915565 greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. | #224237A | £29.99 Add to basket Communicating Environmental Patriotism is the first to ...

David Brower 312 pages | The Making of the Environmental Movement Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Tom Turner and Bill McKibben 9780520278363 | #224525A | £19.95 In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the Add to basket environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings ...

Die Vermessung der Erde: Die Geschichte der Kartografie von der 320 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Papyrusrolle bis zum GPS [Measuring the Earth: The Histo & b/w maps | Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | Reinhard Barth 9783771646097 | #224627A | £32.99 Maps have accompanied the history of mankind for millennia. They give testimony of how our Add to basket ancestors saw their environment, and by which religious or philosophical ideas they were guided, which grotesque mistakes they made at times and ...

East of Ireland Walks 128 pages | colour photos, colour maps On River and Canal | Lenny Antonelli Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781848892385 River and canal walks can have special appeal, the scenery always changing due to flowing | #224137A | £9.99 Add to basket water, weirs, locks and the changing countryside. Ireland's rivers and canals are rich in wildlife, history and folklore, and many can be explored ...

Ecological Imperialism maps | The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Alfred W Crosby 9781107569874 | #224005A | £12.99 People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of Add to basket the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases ...

Einstein's Masterwork 240 pages | 8 black & white halftones | 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781848318526 | John Gribbin #224487A | £10.99 Add to basket In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life' ...

Feral Cities 256 pages | illustrations | Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781569760673 Tristan Donovan | #224204A | £16.99 Add to basket We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wildlife that we share our streets ...

Flora: Federico Cesi's Botanical Manuscripts (3-Volume Set) 1328 pages | 869 colour & b/w Brent Elliott, Luigi Guerrini and David N Pegler illustrations | This three-volume catalogue presents five manuscripts containing some 780 mainly botanical Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781905375783 | drawings, now in the library of the Institut de France. They were produced for Federico Cesi in #070318A | £195.00 Add to basket the 1620s to further the researches of the scientists ...

From Eve to Evolution 256 pages | 12 b/w photos | Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780226134611 | Kimberly A Hamlin #212248A | £27.99 Add to basket From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's 9780226324777 | #224411A | £16.99 rights movement. Add to basket

Genesis: Velky Pribeh Biologie [Genesis: The Story of Biology] 532 pages | Jan Sapp Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788020023957 | Why has biological research gone down the routes it went down? This book gives a description #224336A | £37.99 Add to basket of the birth and evolution of Lamarck's theory of evolution after Darwin, the beginnings and development of cell and developmental biology ...

How are Insects Helpful? 24 pages | Illustrations | Molly Aloian Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780778712817 From eating pests to being a source of food for other animals, insects play a vital role in the | #224534A | £7.99 Add to basket world. This exciting new title, How are Insects Helpful?, examines some of the many ways insects are helpful to other living ...

Hurricane Waves 192 pages | 93 b/w photos | Clifford Ross, Jay A Clarke, Phong Bui, Jay Clarke, Orville Schell and Joseph Thompson Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | To photograph storm-tossed waves during a hurricane, Clifford Ross goes into the surf himself, 9780262029971 | #224415A | £34.95 deploying a wetsuit, flotation vest, and a rope that tethers him to his assistant back on the Add to basket beach. The result is a series of stunningly dramatic ...

Hyper Nature 176 pages | 200+ colour photos | Philippe Martin Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Philippe Martin revolutionized digital nature photography by "stacking" images. To take one 9781770856042 | #224017A | £29.99 photograph, he will shoot a subject hundreds of times, stack the images into a composite, and Add to basket then clean up the composite image pixel ...

Ice Bear 32 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Nicola Davies and Gary Blythe Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781406364644 This is an informative, gorgeously illustrated study of the majestic polar bear. Huge, | #224504A | £6.99 Add to basket magnificent, alone, a white bear moves through the frozen Arctic. Powerful hunter, tender mother and gentle playmate – she shares this land of ...

Isaac Newton: Pocket GIANTS 128 pages | b/w illustrations | Andrew May Paperback | 03/2015 | 9780750962322 Pocket GIANTS is an accessible and informative series about some of the most fascinating | #223991A | £6.50 Add to basket figures in world history – kings, queens, writers and artists. Why is Isaac Newton a pocket GIANT? Because he discovered the law of gravity ...

Last Man Off 256 pages | A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780241002780 | Matt Lewis #224554A | £16.99 Add to basket The waters of Antarctica, June 6th 1998. 23-year-old Matt Lewis has just started his dream job. Paperback | 04/2015 | 9780241967447 An observer aboard a deep sea fishing boat, he is mesmerized by his new surroundings: | #224572A | £9.99 Add to basket glistening icebergs, killer whales and majestic albatross ...

Life Atomic 448 pages | 35 b/w photos, 21 b/w A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine illustrations | Angela NH Creager Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780226017808 | After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing #207498A | £31.50 Add to basket radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of ... 9780226323961 | #224410A | £20.99 Add to basket

Life Cycle of Insects 24 pages | colour photos | Molly Aloian Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780778712824 Vivid photographs and engaging text combine to explain how insects grow and change. This | #224535A | £7.99 Add to basket informative title, Life Cycle of Insects, introduces readers to complete and incomplete metamorphosis and encourages readers to compare ...

Local Realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia 272 pages | 12 b/w photos, 26 b/w Ts'ui-Jung Liu illustrations, 10 tables | Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of 9781138906150 | #224055A | £84.99 human interactions with natural and man-made environments ... Add to basket

Lonely Planet's Wild World 256 pages | colour photos | Lonely Planet Publications Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Featuring breath-taking photographs of the natural world, Lonely Planet's Wild World is a 9781743607480 | #224015A | £29.99 beautiful photography book that will get your heart racing. The follow-up to the super-sized Add to basket bestseller ...

Mining and Communities in Northern Canada 400 pages | 25 illustrations, 10 maps | History, Politics, and Memory Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | Arn Keeling and John Sandlos 9781552388044 | #222231A | £24.99 For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of Add to basket colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from ...

Monograph on the Reptilia of the Kimmeridge Clay and Portland Stone 114 pages | 23 b/w illustrations, 1 table With a Monograph on the British Fossil Cetacea from the Red Crag | Sir Richard Owen Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781108084369 A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The discovery of marine | #224126A | £17.99 Add to basket reptiles in the Jurassic rocks of central and southern England helped spark a revolution in the earth sciences, opening new ...

National Parks of Costa Rica 304 pages | 233 colour photos, 1 map | Gregory Basco, Robin Kazmier and Rodrigo Gomez-Lobo Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | The unique geography and climate of Costa Rica provide the small country with extraordinary 9780801454011 | #224380A | £33.50 biodiversity – North American and South American species of flora and fauna can be found side Add to basket by side there, taking advantage of the ...

Natural Resources and Economic Growth 394 pages | 106 b/w illustrations, 30 Learning from History tables | Marc Badia-Miro, Vicente Pinilla and Henry Willebald Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781138782181 | The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of #224208A | £94.99 Add to basket economic development. Is an abundance of natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic performance? The field of Economic History offers ...

Naturalists at Sea 333 pages | 24 plates with 39 colour Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Glyn Williams Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780300180732 | On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the #207501A | £24.99 Add to basket first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic ... 9780300205404 | #224022A | £14.99 Add to basket

Pancha Tantra [English / French / German] 304 pages | colour illustrations | Walton Ford and Bill Buford Hardback | 05/2015 | 9783836559089 | At first glance, Walton Ford's large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints #224292A | £27.99 Add to basket of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic ...

Pongo 32 pages | colour illustrations | Jesse Hodgson Hardback | 07/2013 | 9781909263093 | Pongo lived deep in the dark dark depths of the rainforest. The trees grew so tightly together #224188A | £11.99 Add to basket that hardly any sunshine ever reached down to the forest floor. Pongo is a debut book by the talented illustrator Jesse Hodgson.

Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya 435 pages | 16 b/w illustrations | Martin S Shanguhyia Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya examines the social history 9781580465397 | #104416A | £64.99 of the politics of land management in colonial western Kenya from 1920 through 1963, a period Add to basket of rapid economic and social change.

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters 328 pages | Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment Hardback | 03/2014 | 9780813562421 | Robert K Musil #224109A | £24.50 Add to basket In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of 9780813576213 | #224110A | £21.95 American women activists and writers and introducing ... Add to basket

Restoration and History 348 pages | 13 b/w photos, 29 b/w The Search for a Usable Environmental Past illustrations, 7 tables | Marcus Hall Hardback | 02/2010 | 9780415871761 | Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else #212659A | £89.99 Add to basket plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781138868076 simply create them? How does the past shed light on ... | #224068A | £29.99 Add to basket

Sharks Have Six Senses 40 pages | colour illustrations | John F Waters and Bob Barner Paperback | 06/2015 | 9780064451918 In the ocean, sharks are near the top of the food chain. Sharks have the same five senses as | #224189A | £5.99 Add to basket humans do, but they have an extra sixth sense that makes them especially deadly hunters. What is this sense and how does a shark use all six senses ...

Skydancer 36 pages | colour illustrations | Martin Bradley and Iolo Williams Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | Martin Bradley's third book, Skydancer, is an educational children’s book aimed to engage the 9780993274206 | #224358A | £4.99 younger generation in wildlife, conservation and to spotlight a species in trouble and fighting for Add to basket its survival.

The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace 616 pages | Alfred Russel Wallace and John van Wyhe Paperback | 03/2015 | 9789971698201 The Malay Archipelago, the classic account of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace's travels | #224591A | £19.95 Add to basket through Southeast Asia, first appeared in 1869 and has been much loved by generations of readers ever since. Despite numerous ...

The Art of Australian Geographic Illustration 224 pages | colour photos | Alasdair McGregor Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781742454726 | Twenty seven years of excellence in illustration is celebrated in this sumptuously presented #224633A | £59.99 Add to basket book from Australian Geographic. The illustrator's art has been one of the cornerstones of Australian Geographic since ...

The Dingle Peninsula 128 pages | colour photos, colour maps A Walking Guide | Adrian Hendroff Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781848892330 The spectacular Dingle Peninsula in southwest Ireland extends westward into the Atlantic from | #224136A | £12.99 Add to basket Tralee to Slea Head. Voted among the Top 100 destinations in the world by TripAdvisor and referred to as 'the most beautiful place on earth ...

The East India Company and the Natural World 320 pages | 8 b/w illustrations, 6 tables Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester | The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting Hardback | 12/2014 | 9781137427267 | impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company, on the natural #224133A | £67.99 Add to basket environment. The EIC both contributed ...

The English Lakes 210 pages | 2 colour & 45 b/w Harriet Martineau illustrations, 1 map | A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The Lake District was a popular Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | tourist destination in the mid-Victorian period, and the changes it underwent following the 9781108082983 | #224555A | £19.99 arrival of the railway ... Add to basket

The Human Shore 272 pages | 50 b/w photos | Seacoasts in History Hardback | 10/2012 | 9780226922232 | John R Gillis #199879A | £17.99 Add to basket Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate 9780226324296 | #224409A | £11.99 change raises water levels, our relationship to the ... Add to basket

The Lagoon 501 pages | b/w photos, b/w How Aristotle Invented Science illustrations, tables | Armand Marie Leroi Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781408836200 | In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes #210721A | £24.99 Add to basket and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was ... 9781408836224 | #224000A | £9.99 Add to basket

The Mountain 352 pages | 25 b/w photos, 2 tables | A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Bernard Derbarbieux, Gilles Rudaz, Jane Marie Todd and Martin F Price 9780226031118 | #224407A | £34.99 What is a mountain? Seems like a simple question, right? But if we take the question seriously, Add to basket the answers turn out to be complicated, wide ranging, and fascinating. In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz ...

The Other Side of the Ice 320 pages | 50 colour photos | One Family's Treacherous Journey Negotiating the Northwest Passage Hardback | 08/2012 | 9781616086237 | Sprague Theobald and Allan Kreda #224123A | £16.99 Add to basket Sprague Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with over 40 Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the Northwest Passage – the sea route 9781634502986 | #224124A | £11.99 connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific – the ... Add to basket

The RHS Birthday Book 112 pages | 56 colour illustrations | Brent Elliott Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780711236271 | Birthdays and anniversaries are never easy to remember. The RHS Birthday Book is the place #224117A | £6.66 Add to basket to keep all your important dates together so that you will never have to suffer the embarrassment of forgetting them again.

The Restless Clock 544 pages | 9 colour plates, 51 b/w A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick illustrations | Jessica Riskin Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would 9780226302928 | #224364A | £27.99 not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the Add to basket natural sciences and often in the social sciences ...

The Sea and Civilization 784 pages | b/w illustrations, colour A Maritime History of the World illustrations | Lincoln Paine Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the 9781782393580 | #224553A | £19.99 story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and Add to basket illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization ... Hardback | 02/2014 | 9781782393559 | #224556A | £29.99 Add to basket

Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall 96 pages | illustrations | Anita Silvey and Dame Jane Goodall Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Jane Goodall, one of the most recognized scientists in the Western world, became 9781426315183 | #224296A | £11.99 internationally famous because of her ability to observe and connect with another species. A girl Add to basket of humble beginnings and training, she made scientific ...

Walden: Roads Classic 336 pages | Henry David Thoreau Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781909399532 A reprint of a classical work in the Classics by Roads series. In March 1845, Henry David | #224052A | £9.99 Add to basket Thoreau moved into a small cabin in the woods surrounding Walden Pond. Here he conducted a two-year social experiment, removing ...

What is an Insect? 24 pages | colour photos | Molly Aloian Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780778712831 More than half of all the animals on Earth are insects. This informative overview title, What is | #224536A | £7.99 Add to basket an Insect? introduces readers to the world of insects and identifies the defining characteristics and behaviors common to all ...

Where Do Insects Live? 24 pages | colour photos | Molly Aloian Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780778712848 Insects, like all living things, need a place to call home. In this fact-filled title, readers will get a | #224537A | £7.99 Add to basket close-up look at different insect habitats, including those underground, above ground, and in water.

Wild Australasia 224 pages | colour photos | Celebrating Ten Years of the ANZANG Photo Competition Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781742456393 | Chrissie Goldrick #224632A | £59.99 Add to basket The ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year Competition was founded in 2004 and this book showcases the best photographs from the ten years. The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea (ANZANG) possesses a unique ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2016 112 pages | colour photos | The Natural History Museum (London - UK) Hardback | 07/2015 | 9780565093600 | The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very #224150A | £10.83 Add to basket best photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2016 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural world from ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2016 112 pages | colour photos | The Natural History Museum (London - UK) Hardback | 07/2015 | 9780565093617 | The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the very #224149A | £5.83 Add to basket best photography featuring natural subjects. The Natural History Museum's 2016 week-to-view diaries feature stunning photographs of the natural ...

Woolly Mammoth 32 pages | colour illustrations | Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Woolly Mammoth? It was very hard! These 9781847806642 | #224187A | £6.99 kings of the elephant race faced the harsh Ice Age climate and the threat of natural predators – Add to basket none more terrifying than Man and his merciless ...

Regional & Travel

A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End 207 pages | colour photos, maps | Penny van Oosterzee, Ian Morris, Diane Lucas and Noel Preece Paperback | 09/2014 | 9780992420833 An essential guide for those travelling to Australia's Top End. Written and compiled by | #224620A | £34.99 Add to basket renowned naturalists and photographers, A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End is split into two parts, one covering ...

All the Wild That Remains 368 pages | illustrations | Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780393089998 | David Gessner #224198A | £16.99 Add to basket Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the 9780393352375 | #224199A | £10.99 ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalist ... Add to basket

California Seashore & Wildlife 208 pages | colour illustrations | Todd Telander Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780762781836 Falcon Pocket Guide: California Seashore & Wildlife is a field guide to 180 of the most | #224191A | £9.95 Add to basket commonly found shells, plants, and animals along California's coast. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions ...

City Creatures 264 pages | 102 colour & 16 b/w photos Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness | Gavin Van Horn Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | We usually think of cities as the domain of humans – but we are just one of thousands of 9780226192895 | #224404A | £20.99 species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar Add to basket creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but ...

Fauna de Honduras en Peligro de Extincion 191 pages | colour photos, colour Peces, Anfibios, Reptiles, Aves, Mamíferos illustrations, colour distribution maps | Jose Modesto Canales Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789992625583 | #223800A | £76.99 Add to basket Honduras, a Central American country with an area of 112 492 km2, is located in the intertropical zone of the planet and in Mesoamerica; it has a high diversity of terrestrial and marine ecosystems where many animal and plant ...

Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the Surrounding Savanna 344 pages | 600 colour photos and b/w Veronica Roodt line drawings | An accessible reference to the grasses and grazers of this region, Veronica Roodt's book details Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | the fascinating ways in which these plants and animals have evolved together. Grasses & 9781775841159 | #224027A | £19.99 Grazers of Botswana and the Surrounding ... Add to basket

Guide des Milieux Naturels de Suisse 440 pages | illustrations | La Reference pour Identifier et Interpreter tout les Milieux de Suisse Hardback | NYP 06/2015 | Raymond Delarze, Yves Gonseth, Stefan Eggenberg and Mathias Vust 9782940365906 | #224171A | £67.50 Everyone knows what a swamp, a forest or scree is. These are terms commonly used to Add to basket describe elements of the landscape. Looking closely, one realizes that these categories include many different natural environments, each housing a different ...

Natur in Deutschland: Entdecken, Erleben, Geniessen [Nature in 416 pages | colour photos | Germany: Discovering, Experiencing, Enjoying] Hardback | 04/2013 | 9783771645175 | #224631A | £32.99 Add to basket Hans Otzen Germany offers a magnificent diversity of landscapes. Here, one will find different natural habitats such as coastal dunes and cliffs, the lowlands with heaths and lakes, wooded mountain ranges with volcanoes and volcanic lakes, the Alpine ...

Stadtnatur im Wandel 276 pages | 229 colour illustrations, 9 Artenvielfalt in Frankfurt am Main tables | Indra Starke-Ottich, Dirk Boensel, Thomas Gregor, Andreas Malten, Christina Mueller and Geor Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | Zizka 9783510614042 | #224503A | £22.99 "Times, they are a-changing, and we change with them". This saying is true not only for Add to basket humans, but for the whole of nature But what changes can be observed in the urban nature in Frankfurt, Germany? What causes these changes ...

The Bangladesh Sundarbans 168 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Enayetullah Khan maps | The Sundarbans is the world's largest mangrove forest, which stretches from Bangladesh to Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789843338297 | India. lt was declared a RAMSAR site in 1992 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The #224513A | £89.99 Add to basket forest is almost 10,000 square kilometers, and roughly ...

The Dandenong Ranges 181 pages | colour photos, colour maps Kornelia Freeman and Ulo Pukk | With 32 more pages, this new, updated and expanded edition includes many new place Hardback | 12/2014 | 9781922129598 | descriptions, stunning photographs and recommended walks complete with maps. This stunning #224635A | £36.99 Add to basket book showcases the beauty and splendour of both the public and ...

The Falkland Islands and Their Natural History 160 pages | 115 colour & b/w photos | Images and Observations by a Naturalist Hardback | 02/2015 | 9780955070846 | Ian J Strange #224102A | £24.99 Add to basket The Falkland Islands and Their Natural History is a replacement for a popular book written by the author in 1987. Brought up to date with new photographs and information it presents a picture of the Islands' unique wildlife ...

The Natural History Museum of El Salvador: Beginnings, Evolution and 100 pages | illustrations | Future / Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador: Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789992302538 | #224435A | £38.99 Add to basket Secretraría de Cultura de la Presidencia Spanish and English versions bound back to back and upside down, each with its own title page. Details the beginnings, evolution and future of the Natural History Museum of El Salvador.

The Nature of Wyre 320 pages | colour photos | A Wildlife-Rich Forest in the Heart of Britain Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | #224474A | Brett Westwood, Peter Shirley, Rosemary Winnall and Harry Green £34.99 Add to basket On the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, the Wyre Forest is one of Britain's most important ancient woodlands and its survival, just 25 miles from the centre of Birmingham, is a modern miracle. Its history and geographical ...

The Polar Regions 248 pages | Adrian Howkins Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and 9780745670805 | #223740A | £19.99 contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental Add to basket degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations ...

Yosemite 208 pages | colour photos, colour Kate Nearpass Ogden illustrations | In 1851 a small militia trekked through California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and discovered a Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | site so spectacular that, over the succeeding century and a half, many millions followed in order 9781780235271 | #224113A | £19.99 to experience the splendour of Yosemite. Add to basket

Botany & Plant Science

A Shakespearean Botanical 128 pages | 60 colour illustrations | Margaret Willes Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is 9781851244379 | #224116A | £12.99 highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to Add to basket England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac ...

Ancient Plants and People 244 pages | b/w illustrations, maps, Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany tables | Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti and Manon Savard Hardback | 10/2014 | 9780816527106 | Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric #224511A | £63.50 Add to basket people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food ...

Apples: A Field Guide 193 pages | colour photos, colour Michael Clark illustrations | Apples are second only to roses as the most enquired about plants at the Royal Horticultural Hardback | 06/2015 | 9780954950859 | Society. With the help of this completely revised new edition of Apples: A Field Guide anyone #214475A | £24.99 Add to basket wanting to name an apple should be able ...

Astounding Mushrooms 192 pages | colour photos | Alain Bellocq and Jaroslav Maló Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Astounding Mushrooms features gorgeous full-color photographs of more than 200 mushroom 9781770855748 | #224016A | £16.95 species in their wild habitat. The close-up images reveal every size of growth, every shade of Add to basket color, every shadow of silhouette, and every ...

Atlas de la Flore Patrimoniale du Val d'Oise 368 pages | colour photos, colour Fabrice Pierrat, Sebastien Filoche and Frederic Hendoux distribution maps | For over ten years, the Conservatoire Botanique National du Bassin Parisien (CBNBP) and the Hardback | 05/2015 | 9782366621532 | County Council of Val d'Oise have worked together to develop knowledge about the flora of the #224462A | £37.99 Add to basket region of Val d'Oise, northern France, and ...

Atlas of Woody Plant Stems 229 pages | 710 illustrations | Evolution, Structure, and Environmental Modifications Hardback | 12/2006 | 9783540325239 | Fritz Hans Schweingruber, Annett Boerner and Ernst-Detlef Schulze #160921A | £89.99 Add to basket The Atlas of Woody Plant Stems gives a unique assemblage of microscopic slides of wood Paperback | 12/2014 | 9783642436444 anatomy and of the respective species in nature and demonstrates the reaction of stem | #224539A | £89.99 Add to basket anatomy to environments in which plants form woody ...

Bryoflore du Mont Lozere 215 pages | Jacques Bardat, Pierre Boudier and Robert Gauthier Paperback | 01/2014 | #224437A | The Mont Lozère, France, encompasses some 40,000 ha and peaks at nearly 1,700 m altitude. £49.99 Add to basket It is a geological whole, morphologically and climatically unique on the southern edge of the Massif Central in contact with the Causses ...

CHENIA: Contributions to Cryptogamic Biology, Volume 11 265 pages | Wei Jiang-Chun, Wu Peng-Cheng, Zhang Lie and Jia Yu Paperback | 08/2013 | 9787502786427 CHENIA: Contributions to Cryptogamic Biology, Volume 11 contains proceedings of the | #224506A | £48.99 Add to basket International Symposium on Systematic Lichenology and Bryology that was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China in October, 2010. It contains ...

Chinese Medicinal Identification 560 pages | colour photos, colour An Illustrated Approach illustrations | Zhongzhen Zhao, Hubiao Chen, Ping Guo and Eric Brand Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780912111995 | For centuries, pharmacists and clinicians have relied on the traditional method of macroscopic #224046A | £165.00 Add to basket identification to assess the quality and authenticity of medicinal materials. Macroscopic identification uses the naked senses to assess herbal ...

Ecology of Leaf Longevity 147 pages | 62 illustrations | Kihachiro Kikuzawa and Martin J Lechowicz Hardback | 07/2011 | 9784431539179 | Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and #190033A | £117.00 Add to basket determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species. Variation in leaf Paperback | 10/2014 | 9784431547426 longevity is associated with a wide array of ... | #224262A | £117.00 Add to basket

Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska 246 pages | 415 colour photos, 57 maps Iralee Barnard | Once covered by wild grasses, America's heartland is by nature a grassland, populated with Paperback | 03/2014 | 9780700619450 plants whose ecological importance, practical value and subtle beauty we are only now | #224512A | £22.95 Add to basket beginning to comprehend. Of the 3,000 species of wild plant ...

Fiori delle Prealpi [Flowers of the Prealps] 96 pages | colour photos | Luciano Vinco and Gianfranco Caoduro Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788883147227 This little book is a useful tool for the rapid identification of the most common flowers in the | #224106A | £9.99 Add to basket Prealps. The plants have been photographed in their natural environment and are ordered on their time of flowering; the page dedicated to each ...

Flora Belarusi - Griby, Tom 1: Boletales: Amanitales: Russulales [Flora 198 pages | colour photos, b/w line Belarusi - Mushrooms, Volume 1] drawings | Hardback | 01/2012 | 9789850814821 | OS Gapienko, IAA Shaporova and VI Parfenova #224429A | £47.50 Add to basket This volume is devoted tp the orders Boletales, Amanitales, and Russulales. A total of 232 species and forms are describes, registered in the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The authors give the keys to the species, genera, and family ...

Flora Belarusi - Griby, Tom 2: Anamorfnye Griby, Kniga 1: 160 pages | illustrations | Temnookrashennye Gifomitsety [Flora of Belarus - Mushrooms, Vo Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789850818355 | #224428A | £63.99 Add to basket DB Belomesiatseva and TG Shabashova This volume Includes 103 genera and 215 species of dark-colored filamentous fungi identified in the territory of Belarus. The authors give the keys to the genera and species, detailed diagnoses, information on the terms of host plants and ...

Flora Mesoamericana, Volume 2 (Part 3): Saururaceae a 347 pages | 2 b/w maps | Zygophyllaceae [Spanish] Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781935641704 | #223993A | £82.99 Add to basket Gerrit M Davidse, Mario S Sousa, Sandra Knapp, Fernando Chiang C and Carmen Ulloa Ulloa Volumen 2(3) is the latest volume of Flora Mesomericana, the first major regional flora ever written in Spanish. The Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants growing in the southeasternmost states of Mexico ...

Flora Vodoemov i Vodotokov Astrakhanskoi Oblasti [Flora of the Ponds 314 pages | and Streams of the Astrakhan Oblast] Paperback | 01/2014 | 9785919103325 | #224431A | £67.99 Add to basket Aleksei Pavlovich Laktionov, NO Meshcheriakova and VN Pilipenko The monograph reflects the results of a study of the flora of the reservoirs and waterways of the Astrakhan oblast, southern Russia. A total of 436 taxa of vascular plants are describes. Each type is characterized by basic criteria such ...

Flora of Colorado 818 pages | 76 plates with colour Jennifer Ackerfield photos; b/w distribution maps | Colorado has a rich diversity of ecosystems and vegetation communities, ranging from 3 500 ft Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781889878454 to over 14 000 ft in elevation, and ultimately supports over 3 300 vascular plant species. Flora | #224001A | £77.99 Add to basket of Colorado is a comprehensive guide ...

Flora of Oregon, Volume 1 608 pages | 73 colour photos, 520+ b/w Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and Monocots line drawings, distribution maps | Stephen C Meyers, Thea Jaster, Katie E Mitchell, Linda K Hardison and John Myers Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | The Oregon Flora Project, Oregon State University, and Botanical Research Institute of Texas 9781889878461 | #224002A | £83.99 Press have collaborated to publish the Flora of Oregon, the first comprehensive flora of Oregon Add to basket in over 50 years – with illustrations ...

Flora of Sultanpur National Park, Gurgaon District, Haryana 169 pages | 6 plates with colour photos; MR Debta and SK Srivastava 80 colour photos, tables | The inventorisation and documentation of indigenous flora is an essential prerequisite for Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181770660 formulating effective conservation strategies. Keeping this in view, the Department of Forests, | #224622A | £34.99 Add to basket Haryana, India, has approached Botanical Survey of ...

Flora of West Bengal, Volume 1 486 pages | 20 plates with colour Ranunculaceae to Moringaceae photos; 77 b/w line drawings | Stretching between the high Himalayan territory in the northern limit and the Bay of Bengal in Paperback | 01/1997 | #223997A | the south, the present political boundary of the state of West Bengal enjoys a unique landmark £79.99 Add to basket from floristic point of view. It is the only ...

Flora of West Bengal, Volume 2 441 pages | 16 plates with colour Leguminosae to Aizoaceae photos; 37 b/w line drawings | TK Paul, P Lakshminarasimhan, HJ Chowdhery, SS Dash and P Singh Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181770639 The second part of flora deals with the families Leguminosae to Aizoaceae. See the table of | #223998A | £79.99 Add to basket contents for a complete listing.

Flore du Cameroun, Volume 41 [English] 59 pages | 6 plates with b/w line Anthericaceae drawings | Charlotte Sletten Bjora, Inger Nordal, Jean Michel Onana and YB Harvey Paperback | 01/2014 | #224146A | Volume 41 treats the 22 species of Chlorophytum known from Cameroon. Several are £39.99 Add to basket documented here for the first time from that country. Few people know that most of the world's c.215 species of Chlorophytum are native ...

Garden Plants: Flowers & Trees in India 272 pages | 700 colour photos | Premananda Das, Rupinder Khullar and Reeta Khullar Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789380625874 Flowers and plants have enchanted our lives since time immemorial, and many professionals, | #224490A | £29.99 Add to basket garden enthusiasts and nature lovers have encapsulated their knowledge, experiences and feelings to highlight the beauty, utility, and role of plants ...

Gardens in France / Jardins de France en Fleurs / Gaerten in Frankreich 340 pages | colour photos | Angelika Taschen, Deidi von Schaewen and Marie-Francoise Valery Hardback | 03/2015 | 9783836556552 | From stylized Zen gardens in Provence to cactus displays on the Cote d'Azur, from classical #224122A | £12.99 Add to basket palace gardens to quaint domestic beds, travel round the most beautiful gardens in France, home to some of the most elegant, charming, and ...

Giardini Botanici ed Escursioni Floristiche 288 pages | 305 colour photos, maps | In Italia, Francia, Svizzera, Germania, Austria, Slovenia Paperback | 04/2015 | 9788890860331 Adriano Bernini | #224032A | £49.99 Add to basket This book describes 51 botanical gardens and 100 floristic excursions in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

Grasses in Your Pocket 59 colour photos, 3 b/w line drawings | A Guide to the Prairie Grasses of the Upper Midwest Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781609382384 Anna B Gardner, Michael Hurst, Deborah Lewis and Lynn G Clark | #224522A | £9.95 Add to basket At the time of European settlement, tallgrass prairie was the iconic landscape in much of the Upper Midwest. Although its extent has been drastically reduced, intact prairie remnants exist, prairie species persist along roadsides, and ...

Green Retreats 312 pages | 25 b/w photos and b/w Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture illustrations | Stephen Bending Hardback | 06/2013 | 9781107040021 | Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century #224220A | £24.99 Add to basket women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world – whether willed or enforced ...

Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana 408 pages | 200+ colour photos, 15+ Chris Erikson, Dan Michaels and Erik Christiansen illustrations | Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana presents an eye-popping package and is filled with Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781452134055 | hyperdetailed photography of individual buds. This essential guide to marijuana is smart, #224050A | £18.99 Add to basket practical and exceedingly beautiful.

Guia de Camp de la Flora de la Serra de Vandellos, la Vall de Llors i 480 pages | 472 colour photos | l'Hospitalet de l'Infant Paperback | 04/2015 | 9788490343241 | #224568A | £37.99 Add to basket Agustín García and Roberto Bueno On the coast of Tarragona, a port city in northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region, halfway between the capital and the Ebro delta, there is a small area where the light of the Mediterranean feeds flowers, shrubs, and plants, producing ...

Holubinky [Russula] 520 pages | colour photos | Radomír Socha, Vaclav Halek, Jirí Baier and Jirí Hak Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788020019936 | This book is the most comprehensive so far released by the publisher in their series of floras on #224301A | £41.50 Add to basket the members of the family Russulaceae, which, after Boletaceae, are the most popular and best- known group of fungi collected for kitchen ...

Il Larice (El Lares) 423 pages | 16 plates with colour L'Albero che si Veste d'Oro photos; b/w illustrations, tables | Dino Dibona Paperback | 10/2014 | 9788883147708 There are many books on flowers, fewer on trees and even fewer monographs on a single forest | #224107A | £19.99 Add to basket species. Yet each of us remembers a tree (or tree species) in particular, that more than others has sparked interest in observing when it bears ...

In Pursuit of Hidden Camellias 339 pages | colour photos, colour 32 Camellia Species from Vietnam and China illustrations, colour maps, tables | George Orel and Anthony Stephen Curry Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780646934846 In Pursuit of Hidden Camellias showcases the work of two Australian researchers, Dr. George | #224291A | £74.99 Add to basket Orel and Tony Curry. Their book opens a door to a previously undiscovered, or forgotten, world: the Camellia species of Southeast Asia.

In Their Branches 176 pages | b/w illustrations | Stories from ABC Radio National Trees Project Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780733333842 | Gretchen Miller #224634A | £16.99 Add to basket A very special collection of over one hundred stories, memories, and reflections on trees that have had a special meaning in the lives of Australians, from ABC Radio National. We all have a favourite tree. We scaled their trunks in childhood ...

Jewels of the Plains 288 pages | 63 colour plates, 2 b/w Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills photos, 2 maps | Claude A Barr, James H Locklear and H Lincoln Foster Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | From Abronia to Zinnia, Jewels of the Plains describes the natural history and garden merits of 9780816698011 | #224334A | £20.99 more than five hundred Great Plains wildflowers. Considered the authoritative guide by native Add to basket plant enthusiasts and ...

Krasnaia Kniga Respubliki Belarus': Rasteniia: Redkie i 443 pages | illustrations | Nakhodiashchiesia pod Ugrozoi Ischeznoveniia Vidy Dikorastushchi Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789851108431 | #224430A | £73.50 Add to basket IM Kachanovskii The Red Book of the Republic of Belarus is an annotated and illustrated list of rare and endangered species in Belarus species of wild animals and plants for protection. The previous edition of the plants volume included 274 plant species ...

L'Art de Creer les Jardins 416 pages | b/w illustrations | Narcisse Vergnaud and Joseph Disponzio Paperback | 06/2015 | 9791093104072 It is said that to understand a garden one needs a plan, a description, and a plant list. | #224226A | £27.99 Add to basket Vergnaud’s L’Art de Créer les Jardins includes them all. And for good measure he adds a bibliography of important gardens ...

Lamiacees de France 528 pages | colour photos, colour Andre Gonard distribution maps | This full-color book treats the Lamiaceae family, including many species that are brightly Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | #224352A | colored and have culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses. All species of France are covered, £81.99 Add to basket accompanied by photos and a distribution map.

Le Guide des Champignons 1120 pages | 1400 colour photos | France et Europe Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782701182896 Guillaume Eyssartier and Pierre Roux | #224338A | £43.50 Add to basket This field guide describes approximately 3000 species of mushrooms found in Europe, of which more than 1400 are illustrated by photographs, which is an absolute record among the mushrooms guides, even globally. Leafing through this guide ...

Les Orquídies del Bergueda [The Orchids of Bergueda] 160 pages | 162 colour photos | Marc Sola, Carles Navarro and Artur Lluent Vallet Paperback | 05/2015 | 9788490343289 This richly illustrated field guide document the orchid flora of the Berguedà, an inland comarca | #224567A | £31.99 Add to basket (county) in Catalonia, Spain, lying partly in the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees, and partly in the Catalan Central Depression. This is an ...

Les Plantes Vasculaires Atlantiques, les Pyreneo-Cantabriques et les 495 pages | colour photos, distribution Elements Floristiques Voisins dans la Peninsula maps | Paperback | 06/2015 | #224578A | Vascular Atlantic and Pyrenean-Cantabrian Plants, and the Neighbouring Floristic £69.99 Add to basket Elements in the Iberian Peninsula and F Pierre Dupont To start with, Les Plantes Vasculaires Atlantiques, les Pyrénéo-Cantabriques et les Éléments Floristiques Voisins dans la Péninsule Ibérique et en France was to be the mere updating of ...

Les Plus Belles Fleurs des Alpes 192 pages | colour photos | Bernard Nicollet and Bertrand Bodin Hardback | 06/2015 | 9782344007990 | Alpine flowers are admired for their beauty and their amazing adaptations to extreme living #224501A | £29.99 Add to basket conditions. Combining the superb photography of Bertrand Bodin, this book invites you to discover the most beautiful flowers of the Alps.

Medical Mycology 400 pages | 20 colour illustrations | Current Trends and Future Prospects Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh, Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi and Mahendra Rai 9781498714211 | #224232A | £88.99 The identification of medically important fungi has been an important area of study that Add to basket warrants further extensive research. The use of traditional and molecular methods of identification, provides new insights into differentiation of ...

Mojave Desert Wildflowers 338 pages | colour photos, b/w A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert, Including the illustrations, 1 colour map | Mojave National Preserve, Death Vall Paperback | 03/2013 | 9780762780334 Pam Mackay, John S Reid, Stephen Ingram, Tim Thomas and RT Hawke | #224040A | £15.95 Add to basket The Mojave Desert eco-region extends from eastern California to northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah, and boasts plant communities as diverse as alkali sinks, dune systems, Joshua tree woodland, pinyon juniper wood ...

Mousses & Hepatiques de France [Mosses and Livertworts of France] 288 pages | colour photos, colour Manuel d'Identification des Especes Communes distribution maps | Vincent Hugonnot, Jaoua Celle and Florine Pepin Paperback | 05/2015 | 9782366621501 Mosses and liverworts play a big role in many ecosystems, including peatlands and forests. With | #224468A | £27.99 Add to basket this new field guide, dedicated to bryophytes, the authors give you the identification keys necessary to identify the 170 most common species ...

Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region 300 pages | colour photos, b/w Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming illustrations | Vera Stucky Evenson and Denver Botanic Gardens Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | In Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region, Vera Evenson, curator of the Sam Mitchel 9781604695762 | #224013A | £24.99 Herbarium of Fungi at the Denver Botanic Gardens, covers species of mushrooms found in Add to basket Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. This comprehensive ...

Orchids of the Hunter Region 184 pages | colour photos | Elisabeth Burton Paperback | 06/2015 | 9780646934242 Over 150 orchid species were found while collecting orchid specimens from the Hunter Region | #224560A | £32.99 Add to basket for the herbarium at the Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney. Orchids of the Hunter Region is a pictorial guide to those orchids, with ...

Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, 340 pages | colour photos | Sultanate of Oman with a Complete Checklist of Va Paperback | 05/2015 | #224029A | £34.99 Add to basket Annette Patzelt The Western Hajar Mountains of northern Oman are botanically rich, with a variety of interesting and beautiful native plant species. Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman with a ...

Plant Guide: Maritime Succulent Scrub Region, Northwest Baja 207 pages | colour photos, 2 colour California, Mexico / Guía de Plantas de la Region del Mat illustrations, 3 colour maps | Paperback | 03/2015 | 9781889878447 Jim Riley, Jon P Rebman and Sula Vanderplank | #224004A | £53.99 Add to basket The Plant Guide: Maritime Succulent Scrub Region, Northwest Baja California, Mexico is a bilingual wildflower guide designed to reach a broad audience of botanists, conservationists, and lay people. But the Guide is more than a ...

Progress in Botany, Volume 66 420 pages | 49 illustrations | Genetics, Physiology, Systematics, Ecology Hardback | 12/2004 | 9783540224747 | Karl Esser, Ulrich E Luettge, Wolfram Beyschlag and J Murata #150181A | £207.00 Add to basket With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the Paperback | 11/2014 | 9783642429422 latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.The present volume includes | #224184A | £207.00 Add to basket reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology ...

Progress in Botany, Volume 67 570 pages | 57 illustrations | Genetics-Physiology-Systematics-Ecology Hardback | 12/2006 | 9783540279976 | Karl Esser, Ulrich E Luettge, Wolfram Beyschlag and J Murata #156792A | £341.50 Add to basket With one volume each year, Progress in Botany keeps scientists and advanced students Paperback | 12/2014 | 9783642442025 informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present | #224265A | £341.50 Add to basket volume includes reviews on genetics, cell ...

Schimmelpilze und deren Bestimmung [Moulds and their identification] 460 pages | 37 illustrations, 12 tables | Liliane E Petrini and Orlando Petrini Paperback | 01/2015 | 9783443500399 The procedure for the determination of moulds is described in detail, which facilitates the | #224143A | £49.99 Add to basket reader's entry into the practice of determination. Based on simplified identification keys, individual, frequently occurring species can be ...

Single-Pollen Genotyping 139 pages | 41 illustrations | Yuji Isagi and Yoshihisa Suyama Hardback | 11/2010 | 9784431539001 | Pollination is one of the most important processes in plant reproduction. It directly influences #190037A | £135.00 Add to basket reproductive success and fitness and the genetic structure of the plant population. Methods Paperback | 10/2014 | 9784431547235 exist to infer the pattern and distance of pollenation ... | #224263A | £135.00 Add to basket

Somatic Embryogenesis 320 pages | 4 colour & 49 b/w Abdul Mujib and Jozef Samaj illustrations | Somatic embryogenesis, the initiation of embryos from previously differentiated somatic cells, is Hardback | 12/2005 | 9783540287179 | a unique process in plants. Somatic Embryogenesis expands our view of a subject that is #154930A | £206.50 Add to basket important for plant biotechnology, genetic ... Paperback | 12/2014 | 9783642424731 | #224507A | £206.50 Add to basket

Suomen Rupijakalat [Crustose Lichens of Finland] 454 pages | colour photos, colour Soili Stenroos, Saara Velmala, Juha Pykala and Teuvo Ahti distribution maps | Suomen Rupijäkälät presents the crustose lichens of Finland, as well as some accompanying Paperback | 06/2015 | 9789515108371 mushrooms, for a total of 300 species. Suomen Rupijäkälät is a continuation of the Tieto- | #224449A | £49.99 Add to basket Finlandia ...

The Ancient Yew 216 pages | colour & b/w photos, A History of Taxus baccata illustrations | Robert Bevan-Jones Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish 9781785700781 | #224618A | £29.95 language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link Add to basket between our own landscapes and those of the ...

The Cycads (2-Volume Set) 944 pages | 902 colour photos, 3 Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom illustrations | There are few plants, with the possible exception of palms, that can rival cycads for variety of Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | #224034A | foliage, size, and form. In spite of such diversity, however, cycads represent an ancient lineage £139.99 Add to basket whose fossil history extends over 200 million years.

The Cycads, Volume 1: Asia and Australia (Collector's Edition) 460 pages | 473 colour photos | Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | The Collector's edition is essentially the same as the standard edition, but with silver-foil 9780989651479 | #224044A | £99.99 stamping on the spine and on the front & back and with 135 gsm Egyptian Dynic Saifu cloth Add to basket over 3 mm Graphic Board on the book.

The Cycads, Volume 2: Africa and the Americas (Collector's Edition) 500 pages | 820 colour photos | Loran M Whitelock and Duke Benadom Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | The Collector's edition is essentially the same as the standard edition, but with silver-foil 9780989651493 | #224045A | £99.99 stamping on the spine and on the front & back and with 135 gsm Egyptian Dynic Saifu cloth Add to basket over 3 mm Graphic Board on the book.

The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia 434 pages | illustrations, tables | Ben A LePage, Christopher J Williams and Hong Yang Hardback | 12/2005 | 9781402026317 | The plant fossil record provides evidence that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed #152742A | £180.00 Add to basket and experienced a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions throughout the Northern Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789400791664 Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous ... | #224258A | £180.00 Add to basket

The Jones Nature Prints 134 pages | illustrations, includes CD- Nature Printing and the Victorian Fern Cult ROM | Michael Hayward Paperback | 05/2015 | #224014A | Between 1876 and 1880, Col. A. M. Jones produced 48 sets of nature prints to illustrate the £25.99 Add to basket varieties of the British native ferns that were then being collected or raised. Around 300 large prints were sent to each subscriber.

The Mushroom at the End of the World 352 pages | 29 b/w photos | On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Anna lowenhaupt Tsing 9780691162751 | #224422A | £19.95 Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human- Add to basket disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places.

Trees in Towns and Cities 256 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | A History of British Urban Arboriculture Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | Mark Johnston 9781909686625 | #224104A | £39.95 This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain's towns and cities and the people who Add to basket have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans ...

Wild Flowers of Namaqualand 480 pages | 600 colour photos | A Botanical Society Guide Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | Annelise le Roux 9781775841319 | #224026A | £19.99 Namaqualand is justifiably famous for the floral wonderland it becomes in spring, when seas of Add to basket bright flowers carpet the land. Astonishingly, the carpet comprises some 3 800 species, of which 28% are endemic.

Wollongong's Native Trees 440 pages | 700+ colour photos, colour Leon Fuller and Bryon McGregor-Cawthorne distribution maps | Illustrated with over 700 photographs, this book details the 156 indigenous tree species of the Paperback | 01/2011 | 9780959471137 Wollongong area, New South Wales, Australia. | #224450A | £44.99 Add to basket

Animal & General Biology

A Planet of Viruses 128 pages | 12 colour plates | Carl Zimmer, Judy Diamond and Charles Wood Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, 9780226294209 | #224374A | £8.99 public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the Add to basket powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest ...

Animal Behavior 552 pages | illustrations | Michael D Breed and Janice Moore Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | Animal Behavior, Second Edition, covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its 9780128015322 | #224427A | £48.99 neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael Add to basket Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of ...

Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Nutrient Management 360 pages | Dinesh K Maheshwari Hardback | 08/2011 | 9783642210600 | The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without #192612A | £153.00 Add to basket sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy Paperback | 12/2014 | 9783642432736 is the application of microorganisms, such as the ... | #224540A | £153.00 Add to basket

Biology: An Australian Focus colour photos, colour illustrations | Bruce Knox, Pauline Ladiges, Barbara Evans and Robert Saint Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781743073414 | Biology: An Australian Focus reflects on worldwide biological research and knowledge to provide #224623A | £181.00 Add to basket a global outlook with Australian examples and cases woven throughout. Students are able to connect with what they're learning and ...

Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery 1183 pages | 1500+ illustrations | M Joseph Bojrab, Eric Monnet, Don Ray Waldron and James P Toombs Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781591610359 | Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery, Fifth Edition provides current information #224340A | £114.00 Add to basket regarding surgical techniques from the perspective of clinicians who are performing specific procedures on a regular basis. It is intended to ...

Discovering Human Sexuality 560 pages | 265 illustrations | Simon LeVay, Janice Baldwin and John Baldwin Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | This is an alternative version of Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin's acclaimed textbook, Human 9781605352756 | #224025A | £47.99 Sexuality, which is now in its fourth edition. This version has been prepared in response to Add to basket requests for a text that maintains the evidence-based approach ...

Do Unto Animals 208 pages | illustrations | A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Tracey Stewart and Lisel Ashlock 9781579656232 | #224561A | £14.99 Through hundreds of charming illustrations, a few homemade projects, and her humorous, Add to basket knowledgeable voice, Stewart provides insight into the secret lives of animals and the kindest ways to live with and alongside them. At home, she shows ...

Exotic Animal Hematology and Cytology 424 pages | illustrations | Terry W Campbell Hardback | 03/2015 | 9781118611272 | Exotic Animal Hematology and Cytology, Fourth Edition updates the most comprehensive #224203A | £93.99 Add to basket reference available on exotic animal hematology and cytology of all major species. - Acts as both an atlas and a text, offering high ...

Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 2 288 pages | biography | Adhesion Related Phenomena Hardback | 10/2009 | 9781402066948 | Stanislav N Gorb #182610A | £153.00 Add to basket Functional Surfaces in Biology, Volume 2 is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science Paperback | 12/2014 | 9789400791657 dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular | #224542A | £153.00 Add to basket functions. This volume, written by a ...

Genetic Resources as Natural Information 160 pages | 17 b/w illustrations, 13 Implications for the Convention on Biological Diversity and Nagoya Protocol tables | Manuel Ruiz Muller and Joseph Henry Vogel Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Demonstrating the shortcomings of current policy and legal approaches to access and benefit- 9781138801943 | #224066A | £84.99 sharing (ABS), Genetic Resources as Natural Information is based on the premise that genetic Add to basket resources are widely distributed across countires ...

Honeybee Veterinary Medicine 280 pages | colour illustrations | Apis mellifera L. Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | Nicolas AL Vidal-Naquet 9781910455043 | #222229A | £59.99 Honeybees are an essential part of farming and the wider ecosystem. Since the middle of the Add to basket 1990s bee populations around the world have suffered dramatic decline through diseases, intoxication, and unknown causes. Veterinarians have had ...

Induction of Bone Formation in Primates 240 pages | 49 b/w illustrations, 1 table The Transforming Growth Factor | Ugo Ripamonti Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | The effects of the bone morphogenetic protein family (BMP) of growth factors on bone 9781482216165 | #224231A | £134.00 formation are well documented, but the TGF-beta isoforms are much less studied and have the Add to basket potential to shed light on the apparent redundancy of bone ...

Landscape Genetics 350 pages | Concepts, Methods, Applications Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Niko Balkenhol, Samuel Cushman, Andrew Storfer and Lisette Waits 9781118525289 | #218791A | £89.99 Despite the substantial interest in landscape genetics from the scientific community, learning Add to basket about the concepts and methods underlying the field remains very challenging. The reason for this is the highly interdisciplinary nature of the ...

Mammalian Endocrinology and Male Reproductive Biology 360 pages | 20 colour & 68 b/w Shio Kumar Singh illustrations, 18 tables | Mammalian Endocrinology and Male Reproductive Biology provides comprehensive and current Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | coverage of the area of endocrinology and male reproductive biology, covering not just 9781498727358 | #224072A | £81.99 humans, but mammals in general. It incorporates the ... Add to basket

Microbiology: A Clinical Approach 650 pages | 1260 colour illustrations | Anthony J Strelkauskas, Jennifer E Strelkauskas, Angela Edwards, Beatrix Fahnert and Gregor Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Pryor 9780815345138 | #224233A | £59.99 As with the successful first edition, the new edition of Microbiology: A Clinical Approach is Add to basket written specifically for pre-nursing and allied health students. It is clinically-relevant throughout and uses the theme of infection ...

Molecular Biology of RNA 455 pages | 8 plates with colour David J Elliott and Michael Ladomery illustrations; 300+ b/w illustrations | RNA plays a central, and until recently, somewhat underestimated role in the genetics Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | underlying all forms of life on earth. This versatile molecule not only plays a crucial part in the 9780199671397 | #223529A | £41.99 synthesis of proteins from a DNA template, but is a ... Add to basket

Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice 256 pages | Catherine Kendig Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Natural kinds are an important topic in current philosophical debate. Previous work on kinds has 9781848935402 | #214655A | £59.99 looked at the relationship between concepts of kinds and the contents of the world. This edited Add to basket collection examines kinds from a new focal ...

Odd Couples 300 pages | 16 plates with 17 colour Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom photos; 5 b/w photos, 12 b/w Daphne J Fairbairn illustrations, 7 tables | While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't Hardback | 05/2013 | 9780691141961 | compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies #203577A | £19.95 Add to basket after mating with a female more than fifty times ... Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780691169781 | #224524A | £13.95 Add to basket

On the Wing 192 pages | 2 b/w photos, 41 b/w The Evolution of Animal Flight illustrations | David E Alexander Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | From airplanes to birds, the phenomenon of flight has always amazed and mystified humans. 9780199996773 | #222712A | £19.99 Therefore, it is unsurprising that scientists have invested a substantial amount of research into Add to basket unraveling the secrets of flight evolution.

People, Parasites, & Plowshares 216 pages | 43 b/w illustrations | Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780231161947 | Dickson D Despommier and William C Campbell #204423A | £19.95 Add to basket Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over 9780231161954 | #224008A | £15.99 thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite ... Add to basket

Practical Handbook of Microbiology 1055 pages | 9 colour & 116 b/w Emanuel Goldman and Lorrence H Green illustrations, 94 tables | The Practical Handbook of Microbiology, Third Edition presents basic knowledge about working Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | with microorganisms in a clear and concise form. It also provides in-depth information on 9781466587397 | #224385A | £114.00 important aspects of the field-from classical ... Add to basket

Reptiles and Amphibians 192 pages | 462 colour illustrations | Self-Assessment Color Review Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Fredric L Frye 9781482257601 | #224073A | £26.99 This edition in the Self-Assessment Color Review series portrays 200 new reptile and amphibian Add to basket cases, many illustrated in color. Species covered include snakes, lizards, tortoises, and frogs. Exercises accompany the case studies ...

Sex on Earth 272 pages | no illustrations | A Celebration of Animal Reproduction Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781408193419 | Jules Howard #216335A | £16.99 Add to basket 1000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex happened for the first time; Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | from this moment the world became ever more colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate 9781408193433 | #224471A | £9.99 songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries ... Add to basket

Skulls: Die Faszinierende Schaedel-Sammlung des Alan Dudley 256 pages | colour photos | Simon Winchester, Nick Mann, Dieter Kuhaupt and Hans W Kothe Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783771645311 | In Skulls: Die Faszinierende Schädel-Sammlung des Alan Dudley, Simon Winchester tells the #224592A | £20.99 Add to basket captivating story of skulls, both human and animal, and of one man who has spent a lifetime obsessively assembling what is the largest ...

Tajemství Genu: Od Vzniku Zivota po Genom Cloveka [The Mystery of 112 pages | Genes: Life Since the Human Genome] Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788020024787 | #224351A | £31.99 Add to basket Eduard Kejnovsky and Vaclav Paces Did life originate on Earth's surface, in the depths of the oceans, or in the earth's crust? Or is possible that life forms, or at least the building blocks of life have an extraterrestrial origin? The core of this book is the ...

The Biology of Parasites 500 pages | illustrations | Richard Lucius, Brigitte Loos-Frank, Richard K Grencis, Boris Striepen and Robert Poulin Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | A long needed parasitology text incorporating the latest knowledge in cell and molecular biology 9783527328482 | #223465A | £49.99 of parasites. The Biology of Parasites covers each class of animal parasites including all major Add to basket human parasites.

The Body: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 10 b/w photos | Chris Shilling Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, 9780198739036 | #223792A | £7.99 morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of Add to basket society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there ...

Evolutionary Biology

An Introduction to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics 480 pages | 425 colour photos and Lindell Bromham colour illustrations | DNA can be extracted and sequenced from a diverse range of biological samples, providing a Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | vast amount of information about evolution and ecology. The analysis of DNA sequences 9780198736363 | #224043A | £37.99 contributes to evolutionary biology at all levels, from ... Add to basket

Biosocial Becomings 288 pages | 16 b/w illustrations, 1 table Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology | Tim Ingold and Gísli Palsson Hardback | 06/2013 | 9781107025639 | All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet #224131A | £54.99 Add to basket the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond ...

Body by Darwin 304 pages | How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Jeremy Taylor 9780226059884 | #224398A | £20.99 We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions-whether it's a cough Add to basket or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial ...

Causes and Consequences of Human Migration 544 pages | 71 b/w illustrations, 33 An Evolutionary Perspective tables | Michael H Crawford and Benjamin C Campbell Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781107012868 | Migration is a widespread human activity dating back to the origin of our species. Advances in #199395A | £79.99 Add to basket genetic sequencing have greatly increased our ability to track prehistoric and historic population Paperback | 07/2014 | 9781107644649 movements and allowed migration to be described ... | #224130A | £29.99 Add to basket

Coevolution of Life on Hosts 320 pages | 16 colour plates, 110 b/w Integrating Ecology and History photos, 3 b/w illustrations | Dale H Clayton, Sarah E Bush and Kevin P Johnson Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of 9780226302133 | #224367A | £83.99 childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a certain Add to basket breed of biologist, lice make for fascinating science ... Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9780226302270 | #224368A | £31.50 Add to basket

Demography and Evolutionary Ecology of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers 570 pages | 135 b/w illustrations, 39 Nicholas Blurton Jones tables | The Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | hunter-gatherer populations in existence. With a history spanning 130 000 years but rapidly 9781107069824 | #223807A | £79.99 losing their land and traditional ways of life ... Add to basket

Evolutionary Biology 345 pages | 48 colour & 47 b/w Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution illustrations | Pierre Pontarotti Hardback | 07/2011 | 9783642207624 | The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading scientists, #196898A | £153.00 Add to basket promote the exchange of ideas and encourage the formation of international collaborations. Paperback | 12/2014 | 9783642427770 | #224541A | £153.00 Add to basket

Evolving Ourselves 384 pages | How Un-Natural Selection is Changing Life on Earth Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans 9781780748412 | #224315A | £12.99 'We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, Add to basket what dies, where and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands.' Why are rates of ...

God is Watching You 304 pages | 7 b/w illustrations | How the Fear of God Makes Us Human Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | Dominic Johnson 9780199895632 | #224049A | £18.99 "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein Add to basket is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The Flood that God used to destroy the ...

Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution 424 pages | 68 colour plates, 62 b/w Kenneth P Dial, Neil Shubin and Elizabeth L Brainerd photos, 14 b/w illustrations, 12 tables | How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great 9780226268118 | #224369A | £94.50 transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | 9780226268255 | #224370A | £31.50 Add to basket

Intelligence in Ape and Man 388 pages | David Premack Paperback | 01/2015 | 9781848722644 What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? Intelligence in | #224392A | £29.99 Add to basket Ape and Man, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these Hardback | 07/2013 | 9781848722637 | questions. The author describes his ... #224393A | £84.99 Add to basket

Language in Prehistory 250 pages | 7 b/w illustrations, 8 tables Alan Barnard | For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language 9781107041127 | #220416A | £47.99 exists; we do not even know if early ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781107692596 | #220417A | £16.99 Add to basket

Organisms, Agency, and Evolution 280 pages | 3 b/w illustrations, 4 tables Denis M Walsh | The central insight of Darwin's On the Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the 'struggle for life'. By contrast, the 9781107122109 | #223907A | £59.99 Modern Synthesis theory of evolution, which rose to ... Add to basket

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity 208 pages | Colin McGinn Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, 9780262029322 | #224127A | £17.95 Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that Add to basket we take for granted: the importance ...

Sex Itself 311 pages | 21 b/w photos, 11 b/w The Search for Male & Female in the Human Genome illustrations | Sarah S Richardson Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780226084688 | Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a #207743A | £31.50 Add to basket matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive ... 9780226325613 | #224464A | £18.99 Add to basket

Shaping Humanity 345 pages | 163 colour photos and How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins colour illustrations | John Gurche Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780300182026 | What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How #207568A | £29.99 Add to basket do we know? In Shaping Humanity, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | describes the extraordinary process ... 9780300216844 | #224024A | £19.99 Add to basket

Stress Ecology 480 pages | 99 colour & 97 b/w Environmental Stress as Ecological Driving Force and Key Player in Evolution illustrations, tables | Christian EW Steinberg Hardback | 09/2011 | 9789400720718 | Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the mutation #194449A | £135.00 Add to basket threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestations of population structures and biodiversity, Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789400798977 and has played a substantial role in the ... | #224185A | £135.00 Add to basket

Tales of the Ex-Apes 235 pages | 4 b/w illustrations | How We Think About Human Evolution Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Jonathan Marks 9780520285811 | #224527A | £44.95 What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and Add to basket wisdom, in Tales of the Ex-Apes anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | of human origins – evolution ... 9780520285828 | #224528A | £19.95 Add to basket

The Politics of Evolution 198 pages | 8 tables | David F Prindle Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781138887831 | The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a #224209A | £94.99 Add to basket policy paradox. Two sets of values – science and democracy – are in conflict when it comes to Paperback | 04/2015 | 9781138887848 the question of what to teach in public ... | #224210A | £27.99 Add to basket

The Real Planet of the Apes 280 pages | 18 b/w photos, 16 colour & A New Story of Human Origins 14 b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables | David R Begun Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the 9780691149240 | #224382A | £19.95 explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important Add to basket hallmarks of our human lineage – such as ...

The Runes of Evolution 528 pages | How the Universe Became Self-Aware Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781599474649 | Simon Conway Morris #224629A | £32.99 Add to basket How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evolution, Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of evolution from the perspective of ...

The Secret of Our Success 456 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Smarter 9780691166858 | #224419A | £19.95 Joseph Henrich Add to basket Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ...

Women After All 400 pages | Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780393239966 | Melvin Konner #217136A | £16.99 Add to basket There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is 9780393352313 | #224563A | £10.99 malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is ... Add to basket

Ecology

Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications 626 pages | 16 plates with colour Mark Eric Benbow, Jeffery Keith Tomberlin and Aaron M Tarone photos; 103 b/w illustrations, 17 tables In recent years, there have been major technological innovations allowing important microbial | mechanisms and interactions with arthropods that drive carrion decomposition to be described. Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | 9781466575462 | #224230A | £76.99 Add to basket

Connectivite de l'Habitat Prairial et Pullulations de Rongeurs 68 pages | Claire Poirson Paperback | 05/2015 | 9783841661395 Landscape connectivity has frequently been used from a conservation point of view. Here the | #223995A | £25.99 Add to basket concept has been applied to a species whose abundance is a problem, the fossorial water vole and its cyclic and periodic outbreaks, on the Jura ...

Ecology in Action 675 pages | 555 colour illustrations, 88 Fred Singer tables | Taking a fresh approach to integrating key concepts and research processes, this Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | undergraduate textbook encourages students to develop an understanding of how ecologists 9781107115378 | #223666A | £44.99 raise and answer real-world questions. Four unique chapters describe ... Add to basket

Patterns in Nature 184 pages | 34 b/w photos, 15 tables | The Analysis of Species Co-Occurrences Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | James G Sanderson and Stuart L Pimm 9780226292724 | #224363A | £31.50 What species occur where, and why, and why some places harbor more species than others are Add to basket basic questions for ecologists. Some species simply live in different places: fish live underwater, birds do not. Adaptations follow: most fish have ...

Poisson-Lion! [Red Lionfish] 80 pages | colour photos | Eric Rolland and Michel Kulbicki Paperback | 01/2015 | 9782954028095 Until recently, the red lionfish (Pterois volitans) was unknown in the Antilles. Today, it is | #224469A | £18.99 Add to basket everywhere and it is not uncommon, when diving, to come cross his unmistakable silhouette. Its sting is more painful than dangerous ...

Population Systems 222 pages | illustrations | A General Introduction Hardback | 03/2008 | 9781402068188 | Alan A Berryman and Pavel Kindlmann #171976A | £35.99 Add to basket Population Systems: A General Introduction is concerned with the general principles and Paperback | 09/2014 | 9789400798366 theories of population ecology, based on the idea that the rules governing the dynamics of | #224264A | £35.99 Add to basket populations are relatively simple, and ...

Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology 672 pages | 30 b/w photos, 271 b/w Kelvin S-H Peh, Richard T Corlett and Yves Bergeron illustrations, 23 tables | This comprehensive handbook Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology provides a unique Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective. It covers both natural 9780415735452 | #224069A | £135.00 and managed forests, from boreal, temperate ... Add to basket

Habitats & Ecosystems

American Zoo 336 pages | A Sociological Safari Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | David Grazian 9780691164359 | #224423A | £24.95 Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes Add to basket topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television set ...

Costa Rican Ecosystems 744 pages | 244 colour plates, 82 b/w Maarten Kappelle, Rodrigo Gomez and Thomas E Lovejoy photos, 10 b/w line drawings, 25 tables In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic Costa Rican | Natural History, research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well- Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a ... 9780226121505 | #224365A | £105.00 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9780226278933 | #224366A | £45.50 Add to basket

Deutschlands Fluesse [Germany's Rivers] 288 pages | colour photos, colour maps Leander Brandt and Mina Brandt | Subject of songs, romanticized, lifelines for millions and highly frequented waterways: Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783771645755 | Deutschlands Flüsse is a fascinating journey along the banks of the rivers Rhine, Main, Danube #224612A | £32.99 Add to basket and Elbe – to name only the ...

Earth Matters 288 pages | How Soil Underlies Civilization Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | Richard D Bardgett 9780199668564 | #222240A | £18.99 For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans. Add to basket Entire societies have risen, and collapsed, through the management or mismanagement of soil; farmers and gardeners worldwide nurture their soil ...

Ecosystems of California 968 pages | 258 colour & 142 b/w Harold A Mooney and Erika Zavaleta illustrations, 14 maps, 53 tables | This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California's remarkable ecological Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type its distribution, 9780520278806 | #224206A | £69.95 structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis ... Add to basket

Lebensraum Meer: Menschen, Kuesten, Handelsrouten [The Marine 320 pages | colour photos | Environment: People, Coasts, Trade Routes] Hardback | 05/2015 | 9783771645977 | #224628A | £32.99 Add to basket Wolfgang Korn and Ulli Kulke All life comes from the water – and from time immemorial the sea has exerted an incomparable fascination: as thoroughfare and recreation area, as food provider and waste dump, as source of raw materials and energy supplier ...

Soil and Water Chemistry 656 pages | 373 b/w illustrations, 100 An Integrative Approach tables | Michael E Essington Hardback | 01/2015 | 9781466573154 | The second edition of a bestseller, Soil and Water Chemistry: An Integrative Approach #224344A | £49.99 Add to basket maintains the balanced perspective that made the first edition a hugely popular textbook. The second edition includes new figures and tables ...

Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals 359 pages | 106 illustrations | Mineral and Biologic Interactions Hardback | 12/2009 | 9783642034985 | Bruce Velde and Pierre Barre #183723A | £117.00 Add to basket Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals treats the inter-relations between plants and minerals in an Paperback | 11/2014 | 9783642425936 entirely new way in that it introduces the notion of eco-engineering, that is, the manipulation of | #224348A | £117.00 Add to basket the mineral world by the living world ...

Temperate Agroforestry Systems 272 pages | Andrew M Gordon and Scott M Newman Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | The first edition of Temperate Agroforestry Systems explored the development of temperate 9781780644851 | #222770A | £84.99 agroforestry systems, concentrating on those areas within the temperate zones where the Add to basket greatest advances, adoptions and modifications had ... Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | 9781780644868 | #222771A | £44.99 Add to basket

The Amazon Varzea 503 pages | 29 colour & b/w illustrations The Decade Past and the Decade Ahead | Miguel A Pinedo-Vazquez, Mauro L Ruffino, Christine J Padoch and Eduardo S Brondízio Hardback | 12/2010 | 9789400701458 | The Amazon Várzea takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has changed over the #188914A | £153.00 Add to basket last ten years in one of the world's most important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon Paperback | 12/2014 | 9789400790216 floodplain or várzea. | #224538A | £153.00 Add to basket

The Soils of Serbia 290 pages | 20 colour & 60 b/w Pavle Pavlovic, Nikola Kostic, Branko Karadzic and Miroslava Mitrovic illustrations | The main objective of The Soils of Serbia is to present the distribution and diversity of major Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | soil types in Serbia. It focuses on giving a detailed description of the physical, chemical and 9789401786591 | #221037A | £89.99 biological properties of soil and ... Add to basket

Wildlife in the Marches 368 pages | ~400 colour & b/w photos | Mark Lawley Hardback | 01/2015 | 9780956132826 | The Welsh Marches' gentle countryside makes a delightful, miniature mosaic of ever-varying #224445A | £49.99 Add to basket views. Lanes, tracks and paths criss-cross hills that are more mound than mountain, neither spectacularly high nor steep, attracting discerning ...

Conservation & Biodiversity

Animals in Emergencies 256 pages | colour photos | Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes Paperback | NYP 11/2014 | Annie Potts and Donelle Gadenne 9781927145500 | #224138A | £26.50 After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury, New Zealand on September 4, Add to basket 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this first quake killed at least 3,000 ...

Conociendo las Especies Raras y Endemicas 36 pages | colour illustrations | Leonel Marineros Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789992692844 Discusses the endangered species of fauna and flora of Honduras. Includes bibliographical | #224436A | £54.50 Add to basket references.

Conservation and Development 276 pages | 30 b/w photos, 110 b/w Andrew Newsham and Shonil Bhagwat illustrations | How can we reconcile environmental conservation and economic development? Conservation Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | and Development asks what is entailed in approaching environmental conservation and 9780415687805 | #224056A | £94.99 economic development simultaneously, and how that changes ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9780415687812 | #224057A | £32.99 Add to basket

Conservation of Freshwater Fishes 75 b/w illustrations, 16 tables | Gerard P Closs, Martin Krkosek and Julian D Olden Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Freshwater fish are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, but are also amongst the 9781107040113 | #223987A | £79.99 most threatened. With contributions from leaders in the field, this is the first assessment of the Add to basket global state of freshwater fish diversity ... Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781107616097 | #223988A | £34.99 Add to basket

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest 248 pages | 3 b/w photos, 43 b/w Environmental Organizations and Development illustrations, 10 tables | Luiz C Barbosa Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781138825826 | The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with #224285A | £84.99 Add to basket deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest focuses on the contributions of ...

Insect Conservation in Urban Environments 250 pages | 27 colour & 48 b/w Tim R New illustrations, 32 tables | Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more 9783319212234 | #224316A | £94.99 particularly urban threats. The first global overview and ... Add to basket

Lions in the Balance 440 pages | 29 b/w photos | Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Craig Packer 9780226092959 | #224355A | £24.50 From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of Add to basket grass, the Serengeti is one of the world's most renowned ecosystems. And at the apex of this incredible landscape prowls its seemingly ...

Paradise Saved 320 pages | The Remarkable Story of New Zealand's Wildlife Sanctuaries and How They are Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781869796860 Stemming the Tide of Extinction | #224617A | £43.50 Add to basket Dave Butler, Tony Lindsay and Janet Hunt New Zealanders will all have heard of Tiritiri Matangi and all know about the Karori wildlife sanctuary. Since they were established, over 100 more wildlife sanctuaries have sprung up, all round New Zealand, where control of predators has ...

Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy 272 pages | 2 photos, 17 illustrations | Joe S Whitworth Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, 9781610916141 | #224162A | £19.99 efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same Add to basket terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle ...

Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report, Volume 27: Peru: 400 pages | 24 colour plates | Tapiche-Blanco [English / Spanish] Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | 9780982841952 | #224377A | £20.99 Nigel Pitman Add to basket In October 2014 an interdisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, and social scientists carried out a rapid inventory of the biological and cultural diversity of the remote Tapiche and Blanco watersheds of Amazonian Peru.

Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands 246 pages | biography | Frameworks & Perspectives Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781461457930 | Stephen J Walsh and Carlos F Mena #224313A | £99.50 Add to basket In this launch of the Galapagos series, Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands Paperback | 01/2015 | 9781493902163 provides a broad "framing" assessment of the current status of social and ecological systems in | #224314A | £99.50 Add to basket the Galapagos Islands, and the ...

The Annihilation of Nature 208 pages | 83 colour photos | Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H Ehrlich and Paul R Ehrlich 9781421417189 | #224473A | £19.50 The Annihilation of Nature shows us the face of Earth's sixth great mass extinction, revealing Add to basket that this century is a time of darkness for the world's birds and mammals. In The Annihilation of Nature, three of ...

The Quiet Extinction 232 pages | illustrations | Stories of North America's Rare and Threatened Plants Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Kara Rogers 9780816531066 | #224158A | £22.95 In the United States and Canada, thousands of species of native plants are edging toward the Add to basket brink of extinction, and they are doing so quietly. They are slipping away inconspicuously from settings as diverse as backyards and protected ...

Whaling and International Law 423 pages | Malgosia Fitzmaurice Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Whales are regarded as a totemic symbol by some nations and as a natural marine resource by 9781107021099 | #223989A | £79.99 others. Whaling and International Law presents a complex picture of legal problems Add to basket surrounding the interpretation of the International ...

Where Have All the Animals Gone? 304 pages | colour photos | Travels with Karl Ammann Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Dale Peterson and Karl Ammann 9780872332089 | #224619A | £16.99 In this new memoir, nature historian Dale Peterson (author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Add to basket Redefined Man) describes his travels through Africa with Swiss wildlife photographer Karl Ammann. Dedicated to stopping the slaughter of endangered bushmeat ...

Environmental Science

Climate Change and Temperate Forests 400 pages | Impact, Responses and Management Strategies Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Gebhard Schueler, Steffen Schobel and Paul Nolan 9781482212037 | #216621A | £81.99 On a regional level, climate change has serious impacts on the environmental, societal and Add to basket economic worlds. Hand-in-hand with this will be an inevitable shift in forest site conditions in the next decades with serious implications for ...

Climate System Dynamics and Modeling 378 pages | 185 colour & 3 b/w Hugues Goosse illustrations, 5 tables | Climate System Dynamics and Modeling presents all aspects of climate system dynamics, on all Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | timescales from the Earth's formation to modern human-induced climate change. It discusses 9781107083899 | #222922A | £79.99 the dominant feedbacks and interactions ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | 9781107445833 | #222923A | £39.99 Add to basket

Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and 350 pages | 51 colour & 210 b/w Climate Events illustrations, 18 tables | Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Jianping Li, Richard Swinbank, Richard Grotjahn and Hans Volkert 9781107071421 | #224222A | £79.99 Based largely on an International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) workshop, this Add to basket timely volume, written by leading researchers in the field, covers a range of important research issues related to high-impact weather and extreme ...

Ecological Climatology 754 pages | 32 colour & 402 b/w Concepts and Applications illustrations | Gordon B Bonan Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary 9781107043770 | #223622A | £125.00 framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. Add to basket Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students ... Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781107619050 | #223623A | £49.99 Add to basket

Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground 175 pages | 4 b/w photos, 10 An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska illustrations, 6 maps | Elizabeth Marino Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an 9781602232662 | #224412A | £17.50 unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still Add to basket live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into ...

Heinz-Wolfram Kasemir: His Collected Works 718 pages | b/w illustrations | Valdislav Mazur and Lothar H Ruhnke Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780875907376 This publication presents the collected works of Heinz-Wolfram Kasemir, a prolific researcher in | #224510A | £62.50 Add to basket many branches of atmospheric electricity, with commentaries by Lothar Ruhnke and Vladislav Mazur. Because many of his papers were not reviewed ...

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie 240 pages | 31 b/w photos, 1 b/w Australia, America, and the Environment illustration, 2 maps | Corey JA Bradshaw and Paul R Ehrlich Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in 9780226316987 | #224362A | £15.99 common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in Add to basket land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast ...

Lightning: Nature and Culture 240 pages | colour illustrations | Derek M Elsom Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | Nature's own spectacular firework display, lightning is awe-inspiring, beautiful and dangerous. 9781780234960 | #224115A | £14.95 Early civilizations believed lightning was so powerful that only gods and goddesses could wield Add to basket such formidable forces. By the eighteenth ...

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 53 344 pages | 9 colour & 27 b/w RN Hughes, DJ Hughes, IP Smith and AC Dale illustrations, 12 tables | Ever-increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and their relevance to global Hardback | 09/2015 | 9781498705455 | environmental issues create a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing the results of #224343A | £121.00 Add to basket recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual ...

Oceans: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives 168 pages | b/w photos, b/w Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives illustrations | James Fargo Balliett Hardback | 10/2010 | 9780765682291 | Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions #224389A | £87.99 Add to basket necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. Oceans: Environmental Paperback | 05/2014 | 9780765682345 Issues, Global Perspectives explains ... | #224447A | £24.99 Add to basket

On the Burning Edge 224 pages | illustrations | A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought it Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780553392128 | Kyle Dickman #224134A | £22.50 Add to basket On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than eight thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters the Granite Mountain Hotshots walked together into the blaze, tools in their hands ...

Our Once and Future Planet 515 pages | 35 b/w photos | Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century Hardback | 11/2013 | 9780226907390 | Paddy Woodworth #206810A | £21.99 Add to basket The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to 9780226333403 | #224373A | £13.50 convince people of the dangers we face, it's hard ... Add to basket

Partial Order in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry 406 pages | 140 illustrations | Rainer Brueggemann and Lars Carlsen Hardback | 12/2006 | 9783540339687 | The environmental and chemical sciences are ever more reliant on computers. This dependence #161374A | £126.00 Add to basket needs formalization, and the theory of algebraic relations is one possibility. Under algebraic Paperback | 11/2014 | 9783642428333 relations, "order" turns out to be of ... | #224257A | £126.00 Add to basket

Principles of Toxicology 455 pages | 144 b/w illustrations, 14 Karen E Stine and Thomas Miller Brown tables | Reflecting the broad and interdisciplinary nature of toxicology, this third edition of Principles of Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781466503427 | Toxicology explores the biochemical, physiological, and environmental aspects of the subject. #224386A | £49.99 Add to basket This new edition is updated and ...

Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change 248 pages | New Northern Horizons Hardback | 04/2015 | 9781138845152 | Frank Sejersen #224287A | £84.99 Add to basket This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland's vision to boost ...

Physical Sciences

A Geological Excursion Guide to the Stirling and Perth Area 232 pages | colour photos, b/w MAE Browne and Con Gillen illustrations, colour & b/w maps, tables | The Stirling and Perth area comprises some wonderfully varied geology, from the Dalradian Paperback | 01/2015 | 9781905267880 metamorphic rocks in the southern Highlands to a range of sedimentary and igneous rocks | #224036A | £15.99 Add to basket within the Midland Valley. The eighteen excursions in ...

Assynt: The Geologists' Mecca 38 pages | 16 colour & b/w photos and PM Dryburgh, SM Ross, CL Thompson and Graham Leslie colour & b/w illustrations | The Assynt district of Sutherland has long been recognised as a jewel in the crown of Scottish Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780904440140 geology; and in October 2004 the North-west Highlands, of which Assynt forms an integral part, | #224035A | £4.99 Add to basket was accorded Geopark status by the European ...

Campi Flegrei [English] 299 pages | 50 colour & 80 b/w Giovanni Orsi, Lucia Civetta and Roberto Moretti illustrations | The densely populated Campi Flegrei resurgent caldera is one of the widest known, best studied Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | and highly dangerous volcanoes of the world. Campi Flegrei will synthesize the current 9783642370595 | #223191A | £89.99 knowledge of this volcano, through different ... Add to basket

Copahue Volcano Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Franco Tassi, Orlando Vaselli and Alberto Tomas Caselli 9783662480045 | #224472A | £89.99 Copahue Volcano provides a comprehensive description of the volcanological, petrological and Add to basket geochemical features of the Copahue volcano, located at the border between Argentina and Chile. Scientific studies are limited for this ...

Das Grosse Buch der Mineralien und Kristalle [The Big Book of Minerals 240 pages | colour photos | and Crystals] Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783771645700 | #224611A | £26.99 Add to basket Adalberto Giazotto, Federico Pezzotta, Giovanni Pratesi, Jeffrey Scovil, Ines Klaehn and K Schuler Originally published in Italian as Cristalli. With over 500 specimens the mineral collection of Adalberto Giazotto is not only one of the largest worldwide, it also includes some of the by far most beautiful examples ...

Demain: Les Animaux du Futur 144 pages | colour illustrations | Marc Boulay and Sebastien Steyer Hardback | 05/2015 | 9782701158860 | 2014 + 10 million years... that is the future to which Demain: Les Animaux du Futur takes us. #224163A | £30.99 Add to basket The human race has disappeared from the face of the Earth, but not life itself. It is this life that the reader discovers in a compelling ...

Enciclopedia dos Minerais do Brasil, Volume 1: Elementos Nativos e 256 pages | colour photos | Halogenetos Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788575285169 | #224030A | £62.99 Add to basket Paulo Cesar Pereira das Neves and Daniel Atencio Enciclopédia dos Minerais do Brasil represents the largest-ever compilation of information on minerals from Brazil. This work covers a broad spectrum of information about Brazil's minerals, including their occurrence ...

Enciclopedia dos Minerais do Brasil, Volume 2: Sulfetos e Sulfossais 431 pages | colour photos | Paulo Cesar Pereira das Neves and Daniel Atencio Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788575285220 | Volume 2 in this planned six-volume series deals with sulfuric minerals from Brazil. #224031A | £78.99 Add to basket

Encyclopedia of the Solar System 1311 pages | 700+ colour & b/w photos Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer, Torrence V Johnson and Jr.,Wesley T Huntress and colour & b/w illustrations, tables | The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Third Edition provides a framework for understanding Hardback | 04/2014 | 9780124158450 | the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary #223994A | £110.00 Add to basket bodies and how they interact-with an ...

Fundamentals of Hydrology 376 pages | 19 b/w photos, 20 colour & Tim Davie and Nevil Quinn 205 b/w illustrations, 30 tables | Fundamentals of Hydrology, Third Edition provides an absorbing and comprehensive Hardback | NYP 01/2016 | introduction to the understanding of how fresh water moves on and around the planet and how 9780415858694 | #224234A | £94.99 humans affect and manage the freshwater resources available ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780415858700 | #224235A | £30.99 Add to basket

How UFOs Conquered the World 320 pages | 16 plates with colour The History of a Modern Myth illustrations | David Clarke Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781781313039 | A history of the various manifestations and shifting meaning of the Twentieth Century's single #224488A | £18.99 Add to basket great contribution to mythology: the UFO. Neither a credulous work of conspiracy theory nor a sceptical debunking of belief in 'flying ...

Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern, and Process on Earth 511 pages | Through Isotope Mapping Hardback | 11/2009 | 9789048133536 | #184065A | £71.99 Add to basket Jason B West, Gabriel J Bowen, Todd E Dawson and Kevin P Tu Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789400791206 Stable isotope ratio variation in natural systems reflects the dynamics of Earth systems | #224259A | £71.99 Add to basket processes and imparts isotope labels to Earth materials. Carbon isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 record exchange of carbon between the ...

Mercury's Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment 97 pages | 44 colour & 10 b/w Latest Discoveries illustrations, 10 tables | Pamela Elizabeth Clark Paperback | 03/2015 | 9781493922437 This SpringerBrief details the MESSENGER Mission, the findings of which present challenges to | #224443A | £44.99 Add to basket widely held conventional views and remaining mysteries surrounding the planet. The work answers the question of why Mercury is so dense, and the ...

Meteorite: Nature and Culture 240 pages | colour photos, colour Maria Golia illustrations | Meteorites are among the rarest objects on Earth, yet they have left a pervasive mark on our Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | planet and civilization. Arriving amidst thunderous blasts and flame-streaked skies, meteorites 9781780234977 | #224114A | £14.99 were once thought to be messengers from the gods ... Add to basket

Molekuele: Die Elemente und die Architektur aller Dinge [Molecules: 240 pages | 500 colour photos | The Elements and the Architecture of Everything] Hardback | 03/2015 | 9783771645908 | #224630A | £26.99 Add to basket Theodore Gray, Nick Mann and Hubert Mania In Moleküle: Die Elemente und die Architektur aller Dinge Gray goes beyond the 118 elements in the periodic table to explore, through fascinating stories and stunning photographic imagery, what he considers to be the most ...

Neviditelny Lidsky Svet / Invisible Human World 252 pages | colour & b/w photos | Viktor Sykora Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788020024008 | People spend most of their lives in the same environment, surrounded by familiar objects. But #224303A | £41.50 Add to basket are they really that familiar? Most of the information we receive about the world is through sight, which has its limitations. How will our world ...

Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section 192 pages | 180 colour illustrations | A Colour Atlas Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | WS MacKenzie, AE Adams and Kate H Brodie 9781138028067 | #224236A | £26.99 The Second Edition of this concise, clear, and handy-sized volume, highly respected and Add to basket successful authors explain to the reader, with the help of 180 superb color photomicrographs, how to observe, describe and identify thin section samples ...

Sound: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | b/w photos, b/w Mike Goldsmith illustrations | Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves 9780198708445 | #222993A | £7.99 exploited in musical instruments? Add to basket

Surf, Sand, and Stone 240 pages | 68 colour & 18 b/w How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast illustrations, 1 table | Keith Heyer Meldahl Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | Southern California is sandwiched between two tectonic plates with an ever-shifting boundary. 9780520280045 | #224526A | £19.95 Over the last several million years, movements of these plates have dramatically reshuffled the Add to basket Earth's crust to create rugged landscapes ...

The Astrophotography Manual 288 pages | 388 colour illustrations, 33 A Practical and Scientific Approach to Deep Space Imaging colour tables | Chris Woodhouse Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Capturing the serene beauty of planets, stars, and celestial bodies is both fine art and scientific 9781138912076 | #224176A | £93.99 discovery. Fascinating, challenging, and extremely rewarding, astrophotography is a pursuit Add to basket that is greatly enhanced by gaining access to ... Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | 9781138776845 | #224177A | £31.99 Add to basket

The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction 544 pages | 303 illustrations | Fourth Edition Paperback | 06/2015 | 9780198738688 Christopher Hammond | #224153A | £34.99 Add to basket The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction provides a clear and very broadly based Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780198738671 | introduction to crystallography, light, X-ray and electron diffraction – a knowledge which is #224154A | £74.99 Add to basket essential to students in a wide range of ...

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas 186 pages | 6 b/w illustrations, 62 Bruce Macevoy and Wil Tirion maps, 5 tables | The Cambridge Double Star Atlas is back. It is the first and only atlas of physical double stars Spiralbound | NYP 11/2015 | that can be viewed with amateur astronomical instruments. Completely rewritten, this new 9781107534209 | #224033A | £34.99 edition explains the latest research into ... Add to basket

The Nature of Space and Time [Revised Edition] 160 pages | 75 line illustrations | Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | This reprint features a new afterword by the authors. Einstein said that the most 9780691168449 | #224426A | £10.95 incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can Add to basket the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's ...

Thermal Convection, Magnetic Field, and Differential Rotation in Solar- 81 pages | 11 colour & 38 b/w Type Stars illustrations, 1 table | Hardback | 01/2015 | 9784431553984 | Hideyuki Hotta #224444A | £89.99 Add to basket This thesis describes the studies on the solar interior where turbulent thermal convection plays an important role. The author solved, for the first time, one of the long-standing issues in solar physics, i.e., the maintenance mechanism ...

Treatise on Geophysics (11-Volume Set) 5604 pages | colour & b/w photos, Gerald Schubert, Barbara Romanowicz, Adam Dziewonski, G David Price, Lars Stixrude and Tho colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w Herring maps, tables | Treatise on Geophysics, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and in-depth study of the physics Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780444538024 | of the Earth beyond what any geophysics text has provided previously. Thoroughly revised and #224003A | £2550.00 Add to basket updated, it provides fundamental and ...

Volcanoes: A Folding Pocket Guide to Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hot 12 pages | colour illustrations | Springs, Geysers & More Paperback | 02/2014 | 9781583558478 | #224548A | £4.99 Add to basket James R Kavanagh Educational and entertaining, this folding pocket field guide Volcanoes provides a simplified introduction to the different types of volcanoes, volcanic hazards (including flying debris, pyroclastic flows, geysers and mud ...

Sustainable Development

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth 528 pages | b/w illustrations | How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Paperback | 03/2015 | 9780985616908 Government, and Systematically Deceive | #224020A | £20.99 Add to basket Steven M Druker and Dame Jane Goodall Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780985616915 | Altered Genes, Twisted Truth tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the #224021A | £27.99 Add to basket massive enterprise to reconfigure the genetic core of the world's food supply was born, how it has routinely advanced through ...

Becoming Salmon 232 pages | 12 b/w illustrations | Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish Hardback | NYP 06/2015 | Marianne Elisabeth Lien 9780520280564 | #224529A | £44.95 Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn Add to basket in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of ... 9780520280571 | #224530A | £24.95 Add to basket

Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries 448 pages | 36 illustrations | DG Webster Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries 9780262029551 | #224128A | £26.95 management are not technical but political and economic. In Beyond the Tragedy in Global Add to basket Fisheries, D. G. Webster describes how the political ...

Biomass Assessment Handbook 336 pages | 8 b/w photos, 135 b/w Energy for a Sustainable Environment illustrations, 53 tables | Frank Rosillo-Calle, Peter de Groot, Sarah L Hemstock, Jeremy Woods and Jose Goldemberg Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781138019645 | The increasing importance of biomass as a renewable energy source has led to an acute need #224390A | £105.00 Add to basket for reliable and detailed information on its assessment, consumption and supply. Responding to Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781138019652 this need, and overcoming the lack of standardised ... | #224391A | £44.99 Add to basket

Coastal Water Bodies 289 pages | Nature and Culture Conflicts in the Mediterranean Hardback | 04/2010 | 9789048188536 | Felicita Scapini and Gabriele Ciampi #185316A | £108.00 Add to basket There is a need of books addressing the links between science and the real world with a sound Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789400790919 scientific baseline. Coastal Water Bodies targets researchers of various disciplines, for an | #224261A | £108.00 Add to basket integrated sustainable management of water ...

Coastal and Marine Environmental Site Guide 180 pages | S John, N Meakins, K Basford, H Craven and P Charles Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | Any construction project, irrespective of the location, size or nature of the development, will 9780860177494 | #224335A | £49.99 have environmental consequences. This is particularly true when working on the coast or at sea Add to basket given the often sensitive nature of the environment ...

Community Seed Banks 296 pages | Origins, Evolution and Prospects Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780415708050 | Ronnie Vernooy, Pitambar Shrestha and Bhuwon Sthapit #224213A | £89.99 Add to basket Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780415708067 support of international and national non-governmental organizations. Community Seed Banks | #224214A | £29.99 Add to basket is the first to provide a global review of their ...

Crop Epigenetics 450 pages | Graham King Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Crop Epigenetics offers a comprehensive look at the science of agricultural epigenetics. 9781118492925 | #218890A | £133.00 Grounded with an introduction to the fundamental epigenetic molecular mechanisms of Add to basket inheritance and the role these play in programming development ...

Development for Sustainable Agriculture 272 pages | 25 illustrations, 14 maps, The Brazilian Cerrado 19 tables | Akio Hosono, Carlos Magno Campos da Rocha and Yutaka Hongo Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | Brazil has become one of today's major producers and net exporters of grains. This was 9781137431349 | #224132A | £64.99 achieved by converting barren land into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the Add to basket world. Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna ...

Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture 276 pages | 10 b/w photos, 12 b/w Fernando Vidal and Nelia Dias illustrations | The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures 9781138847415 | #224284A | £89.99 aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a ... Add to basket

Environment and Politics 296 pages | 9 b/w photos, 11 b/w Timothy Doyle, Doug McEachern and Sherilyn MacGregor illustrations, 2 tables | Environment and Politics, Fourth Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding field, Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. 9780415825528 | #224060A | £84.99 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | 9780415825535 | #224061A | £29.99 Add to basket

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment 380 pages | 170 b/w illustrations | Olivier Jolliet, Myriam Saade, Shanna Shaked and Alexandre Jolliet Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | From raw materials through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and 9781439887660 | #220010A | £76.99 maintenance, and disposal or recycling, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment demonstrates Add to basket how to conduct environmental assessments for ...

Environmental Politics in Egypt 216 pages | b/w photos, b/w maps, Activists, Experts, and the State tables | Jeannie L Sowers Hardback | 12/2012 | 9780415783002 | Environmental Politics in Egypt examines the evolution and development of environmental #195873A | £84.99 Add to basket politics in Egypt, and how networks operate inside an authoritarian system. Drawing on Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781138832220 extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt between 1997 ... | #224396A | £24.99 Add to basket

European Fisheries at a Tipping-Point / La Pesca Europea Ante Un 581 pages | 110 colour photos, 20 Cambio Irreversible tables | Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | Thomas Hojrup and Klaus Schriewer 9788763543255 | #224376A | £62.99 European Fisheries at a Tipping Point faces the difficult fact that European fishing is at a Add to basket dangerous crossroads. It deals with the problem that the privatization of fishing rights and the introduction of Individual Transferable ...

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth 230 pages | 4 b/w photos, 111 b/w Following Nature's Way illustrations, 21 tables | Sven Erik Jorgensen, Brian D Fath, Soren Nors Nielsen, Federico Maria Pulselli and Daniel Fiscus Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our 9781138842526 | #224062A | £94.99 increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. Add to basket Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | 9781138842533 | #224063A | £29.99 Add to basket

Food Wars 352 pages | 32 b/w illustrations, 41 The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets tables | Tim Lang and Michael Heasman Hardback | NYP 10/2015 | In the ten years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the 9781138802582 | #224064A | £94.99 world of food policy. Food Wars, Second Edition brings these developments fully up to date Add to basket within the original analytical framework ... Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | 9781138802629 | #224065A | £27.99 Add to basket

Green Building with Concrete 459 pages | 208 b/w illustrations, 39 Sustainable Design and Construction tables | Gajanan M Sabnis Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | Green Building with Concrete: Sustainable Design and Construction, Second Edition provides an 9781498704106 | #224388A | £94.99 overview of all available information on the role of concrete in green building. A handbook Add to basket offering viewpoints from worldwide experts ...

Hamburgers in Paradise 560 pages | 25 colour illustrations | The Stories Behind the Food We Eat Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | Louise O Fresco 9780691163871 | #224418A | £27.95 For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More Add to basket people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every ...

Handbook of Plant Nutrition 773 pages | 32 colour & 124 b/w Allen V Barker and David J Pilbeam illustrations, 84 tables | In 2007, the first edition of Handbook of Plant Nutrition presented a compendium of information Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781439881972 | on the mineral nutrition of plants available at that time-and became a bestseller and trusted #224341A | £94.99 Add to basket resource. Updated to reflect recent advances ...

Homo sapiens: An Appraisal of Modern Humans 288 pages | 35 b/w photos and b/w Rajan Jaisinghani illustrations | Why Homo sapiens, a seemingly intelligent species, continues to irreparably damage the earth, Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | so vital to not only our own survival but to that of all the intertwined living things around us, is 9780992997922 | #224304A | £11.99 passionately and insightfully ... Add to basket

Methodism in the American Forest 240 pages | Russell E Richey Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780199359622 | During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American #224108A | £35.99 Add to basket Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which ...

Mindreading Animals 264 pages | 38 illustrations | The Debate Over What Animals Know About Other Minds Hardback | 08/2011 | 9780262016056 | Robert W Lurz #200536A | £24.95 Add to basket Animals live in a world of other minds, human and nonhuman, and their well-being and survival Paperback | NYP 07/2015 | often depends on what is going on in the minds of these other creatures. But do animals know 9780262528238 | #224381A | £13.95 that other creatures have minds? And how would we ... Add to basket

Nature's Ghosts 497 pages | 62 b/w photos | Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology Hardback | 10/2009 | 9780226038148 | Mark V Barrow #180708A | £24.50 Add to basket The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists 9780226323657 | #224375A | £17.50 and concerned citizens recognized – and ... Add to basket

Plastic Water 288 pages | 36 b/w illustrations | The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race 9780262029414 | #224417A | £17.95 How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water Add to basket become an economic good – no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance 'fast moving consumer good' ...

Psychology for Sustainability 448 pages | 164 colour illustrations, 1 Britain A Scott, Elise L Amel, Susan M Koger, Christie M Manning and Deborah Winter table | Psychology for Sustainability, 4th Edition – known as Psychology of Environmental Problems: Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | Psychology for Sustainability in its previous edition – applies psychological theory and research 9781848725805 | #224070A | £43.99 to so-called ... Add to basket Hardback | NYP 08/2015 | 9781848725799 | #224071A | £110.00 Add to basket

Research and Development on Genetic Resources 394 pages | 10 tables | Public Domain Approaches in Implementing the Nagoya Protocol Hardback | NYP 06/2015 | Evanson Chege Kamau, Gerd Winter, Peter-Tobias Stoll and Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias 9781138858619 | #224286A | £94.99 National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded Add to basket enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike. The Nagoya Protocal brings novel ...

Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology 464 pages | 7 b/w photos, 13 b/w Nigel South and Avi Brisman illustrations, 14 tables | Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in Hardback | 12/2012 | 9780415678827 | environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge #207315A | £140.00 Add to basket International Handbook of Green Criminology is ... Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781138846692 | #224397A | £35.99 Add to basket

Sounding the Limits of Life 328 pages | 29 b/w photos, 6 b/w Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond illustrations | Stefan Helmreich Paperback | NYP 11/2015 | What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist 9780691164816 | #224420A | £16.95 Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists – biologists, oceanographers, and Add to basket audio engineers – are redefining ... Hardback | NYP 11/2015 | 9780691164809 | #224421A | £54.99 Add to basket

Sustainability 248 pages | 6 illustrations | Kent E Portney Paperback | NYP 10/2015 | The word "sustainability" has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic 9780262528504 | #224416A | £10.95 development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent Add to basket ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainable ...

Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas 304 pages | 14 b/w photos, 118 b/w Francesco Orsi illustrations, 30 tables | Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across Hardback | NYP 07/2015 | the world. As visitor numbers increase, so does awareness of the harmful effects that large 9781138788572 | #224288A | £84.99 crowds may have on both natural resources and ... Add to basket

Tapping Molecular Wilderness 200 pages | Drugs from the Chemistry-Biology Interface Hardback | NYP 09/2015 | Yongyuth Yuthavong 9789814613590 | #224387A | £31.99 Tapping Molecular Wilderness is for readers with some background in science, concerning the Add to basket search for drugs, starting from molecular diversity in nature or molecular wilderness. Drug molecules may be used as such, or as starting ...

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