Ornithology Books 2014 Incorporating Award-Winning Imprints Christopher Helm and T&AD Poyser Includes Newly Acquired Titles from New Holland Natural History
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BLOOMSBURY ORNITHOLOGY BOOKS 2014 Incorporating award-winning imprints Christopher Helm and T&AD Poyser Includes newly acquired titles from New Holland Natural History www.bloomsbury.com WELCOME TO THE 2014 ORNITHOLOGY CATALOGUE CONTENTS: NEW HOLLAND �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3 HELM ENHANCED EBOOKS . .4 GENERAL:. 5 RSPB. 9 Page 5 Page 5 Page 5 Page 5 Britain . .11 Europe ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������12 Africa . 13 MIDDLE EAST �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������14 ASIA. 15 AUSTRALASIA. 16 THE Americas. 16 Page 5 Page 5 Page 6 Page 6 MONOGRAPHS AND familY GUIDES. 18 natural historY. 22 ALSO OF INTEREST. 23 HOW TO ORDER Page 9 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Bloomsbury books are available via your local representative, from good bookshops, from our website www.bloomsbury.com and direct from Macmillan Distribution Limited: Direct Customer Orders: Telephone: +44 (0)1256 302699 | Fax: +44 (0)1256 812521 Email: [email protected] Trade Orders: Contact your local representative or: Page 12 Page 14 Page 20 Page 21 Telephone: +44 (0)1256 302692 | Fax: +44 (0)1256 812558 Email: [email protected] Key to territory and rights information: Export Orders: AF Afrikaans Telephone: +44 (0)1256 302692 | Fax: +44 (0)1256 842084 AU Australia CH Chinese EBOOKS CWXCA Commonwealth, excluding Canada CW Commonwealth Many titles are available as eBooks – look out for details throughout the CA Canada catalogue. eBooks can be purchased from your usual eBook retailer. 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WOXUSA World all languages, excluding USA WOXCA World all languages, excluding Canada Cover photo from RSPB Migration Hotspots by Tim Harris. © Neil Bowman WOXIN World all languages, excluding India ZA South Africa 2 Blog: bloomsburywildlife.com | Twitter: twitter.com/chiffchat Bloomsbury is delighted to announce the acquisition of the New Holland Natural History list NEW NEW 9781780092478 | £20.00 9781780094625 | £9.99 9781780094601 | £19.99 9781780092454 | £12.99 9781847738264 | £19.99 9781780090757 | £20.00 NEW 9781780094472 | £14.99 9781847739377 | £19.99 9781780090498 | £24.99 9781780090580 | £16.99 NEW 9781780090221 | £24.99 9781780091785 | £20.00 9781780094946 | £7.99 9781780092508 | £30.00 Please continue to order these titles via GBS until Spring 2014: Tel: 01476 541 000 | email: [email protected] | fax: 01476 541 060 | website: www.granthambookservices.co.uk NEW Helm Enhanced eBooks The complete, field ID solution no birder will dare to be without Buy now at iTunes Store Calls and songs embedded in eBook field guides for the first time! • Optimised for iPad • These unique and incredibly comprehensive enhanced eBooks combine text and images from the original Helm Guides with sounds clips • The ultimate field indentification resource. Available now and coming soon 9781408162644 | £19.99 9781408181218 | £19.99 9781408193327 | £9.99 9781408181232 | £19.99 9781408171011 | £19.99 9781408189023 | £19.99 9781408125809 | £29.99 9781408181225 | £19.99 9781408181249 | £19.99 9781472905925 | £21.99 • Play songs and calls – see and hear identifying characteristics of each species • Light and portable – an entire library of guides only weighs 308 grams* in total! • Fully hyperlinked to ease navigation • View pages or spreads like a traditional print field guide, with similar species grouped and viewed together For more information, or to download a free demo to your iPad, visit: www.bloomsbury.com/helm-enhanced-field-guides Sign-up to our natural history newsletter to be informed when Android versions become available this icon indicates which titles are available as enhanced eBooks throughout the catalogue * weight of iPad Mini NEW The Helm Guide to Bird NEW GE Identification An In-depth Look at Confusion Species N Keith Vinicombe, Alan Harris and ER Laurel Tucker AL A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects David Callahan and Dominic Mitchell The artworks, books, inventions and technology that have influenced how birds were studied and recorded. Items covered include: • Ornithologiae libri tres: the first British bird guide [a 1676 publication that attempted to itemise all British birds known at the time] • The Dodo specimen held at the Horniman museum An essential field guide companion covering difficult identification issues by looking • Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus [the first-ever system of scientific names in at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their 1758, and still the international standard today] respective features. Designed as a field companion, it supplements the standard field • Many more modern innovations including walkie talkies, pagers, radio tags and guides and provides much additional information. apps. Territory: WO | Paperback | 400pp | 216x140mm | Colour artworks throughout Territory: WO | Hardback | 224pp | 234x178mm | More than 100 illlustrations | | March 2014 | ISBN: 9781408130353 | eBook: 9781472905536 | Price: £24.99 June 2014 | ISBN: 9781408186183 | Price: £20.00 NEW Poyser Monograph NEW The Eponym Feasting, Fowling and Dictionary of Birds Feathers Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins A History of the Exploitation of and Michael Grayson Wild Birds A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people Michael Shrubb whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds. The way wild birds have been exploited over Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas’s the centuries forms the focus of this remarkable Warbler, Hume’s Owl, Swainson’s Thrush, Steller’s new book. It looks at the use of birds as food, Eider or Brünnich’s Guillemot. But few people for feathers and skins, for eggs, as cage birds, as today will have even heard of Albertina’s Myna, specimens and for hunting, focusing on Britain, Barraband’s Parrot, Guerin’s Helmetcrest or northern Europe and the North Atlantic. Savigny’s Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous Along with discussions of broader themes of exploitation, the book is packed with names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an amazing facts. For example, we learn eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, • why Grey Herons were so important in medieval falconry followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. The text is punctuated • why the Black Death was good news for bustards with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors’ extensive research. • why Napoleon is to blame for the scarcity of Quail in Britain today Territory: WO | Hardback | 576pp | 240x170mm | March 2014 | ISBN: 9781472905734 Territory: WO | Hardback | 256pp | 234x156mm | ISBN: 9781408159903 | | eBook: 9781472905741 | Price: £50.00 Price: £50.00 NEW The Secret Lives of NEW Penguins Puffins Their world, their ways Photographs by Mark Sisson Tui de Roy, Mark Jones, and text by Dominic Couzens Julie Cornthwaite Puffins are among the most instantly recognisable, A spectacular celebration of the penguin family iconic and well loved of birds. For many they are – stunning photography by award-winner Tui de a highlight of the UK's summer coastline and Roy alongside accounts of all 18 species and the their colourful appearance, comedy antics and latest research into many of their more unusual approachability just add to adaptations, such as their deep-diving abilities their popularity. This is an Penguins are the intimate portrait of one of 'canaries in the coalmine' the world's favourite birds of the oceans, and their featuring stunning images presence is indicative from award-winning of a healthy marine wildlife photographer environment, what Mark Sisson and text penguins can teach us written by leading wildlife about our changing writer Dominic Couzens. seas is of truly global significance. Territory: WO | Hardback | 176pp | 254x210mm | Full colour photos throughout | ISBN: 9781408186671 | Price: £20.00 Territory: EU | Hardback | 240pp | 292x235mm | ISBN: 9781408152126 | Price: £35.00 www.bloomsbury.com 5 GE NEW Going, Going, Gone NEW Lost Animals 100 animals and plants on Extinction and the Photographic Record N the verge of extinction Errol Fuller ER AL A unique book packed with facts and amazing photography, written by the world's undisputed