Nhbs Monthly Catalogue New and Forthcoming Titles Issue: 2015/07 July 2015 [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913
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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 Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS LibraryPro Best wishes, -The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. 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