December 2020 Monthly Catalogue
Welcome to the December 2020 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month.
We are starting this month with books on vertebrates, birds and mammals in particular. May next year we expect William Collins to publish Birds of the World, a combination of identification guide and the complete collection of Norman Arlott's bird paintings, while Jonathan Ball is publishing The Complete Photographic Guide to Southern African Birds: With App and Calls. Author Tessa Boase, who first wrote about the history of the RSPB when profiling Emmeline Pankhurst, returns to this topic with Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds, due June from Aurum Press. On the subject of mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press announced Opossums: An Adaptive Radiation of New World Marsupials for May.
For entomologists, we have a great list. Bloomsbury will publish Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe in April and the third edition of British Moths: A Photographic Guide to the Moths of Britain and Ireland in May. We have stock of a very nice popular science book on flies, Diptera: An Introduction to Flies, privately published by the author Nikita Vikhrev. Another title to look forward to is the May paperback rerelease of The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature from Princeton University Press. The Dutch publisher Brill is releasing two noteworthy books in December: The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book and the second edition of Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6/1: Chrysomeloidea I (Vesperidae, Disteniidae, Cerambycidae). Not insects, but of interest to arachnologists is A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India, due later this month.
We have three major botany books this month: A Field Guide to the (Wetter) Zambian Miombo Woodland, published by the authors and in stock, Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southern Africa, due March from Briza Publications, and European Bryaceae: A Guide to the Species of the Moss Family Bryaceae in Western & Central Europe and Macaronesia, due February from NatureBureau.
On the topics of wildlife conservation and environmental issues, there are a large number of interesting books forthcoming. Leaping Hare Press has announced Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World's Lost Creatures for April, while Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, due May from Jonathan Cape, covers the topic of endangered food plants. Famous novelist Jonathan Franzen is working on What If We Stopped Pretending?, due January from Fourth Estate. The controversial topic of palm oil gets a long-overdue examination in Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World, due May from C. Hurst & Co Publishers. Then there is a slew of paperback rereleases: The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet (February, Scribe Publications), Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back (March, Granta), Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (April, Fourth Estate), and Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease (May, University of California Press).
Two important forthcoming books dealing with ecosystems are the New Naturalist Ponds, Pools and Puddles, due March from Harper Collins, and the paperback of Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, due January from Oxford University Press. On a related subject is the paperback rerelease of Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand, which was published earlier this year by I.B. Tauris.
For evolutionary biologists and palaeontologists two books due in April worth mentioning are Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals from Johns Hopkins University Press and the paperback rerelease of Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA from Oneworld Publications.
Good reads and nature writing this month comes in the form of Melissa Harrison's just published The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary from Faber & Faber and paperback rereleases of Patrick Barkham's Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature (April, Granta), and Marianne Taylor's Tracking the Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats (May, Bloomsbury). Furthermore, Indiana University Press earlier this year published a translation of Steller's classic work Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition.
We see this month out with a small miscellany of titles. Breakwater Books will publish Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador in May. A major book for field biologists of all stripes will be Understanding Animal Behaviour: What to Measure and Why, due April from Cambridge University Press. And, finally, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil has just published the 2-volume Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas which is a most remarkable reference work for geologists and astronomers.
As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. In the meantime, stay safe and keep well.
Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor
Insects & other Invertebrates
Australian Weevils, Volume 4: Curculionidae: Entiminae Part I 664 pages | 198 plates with colour illustrations | CSIRO Rolf G Oberprieler(Author), Elwood C Zimmerman(Author) Hardback #19238 Dec-2020 9780643051485 £140.00 Re-announcing: after the main author Elwood Zimmerman passed away in 2004, this volume has been in limbo but has now been published in 2020 under the authorship of Rolf Oberprieler.Australian Weevils, Volume 4 covers the 11 smaller...
The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 506 pages | 138 plates with colour photos, 25 plates with b/w photos | A Steven Corbet(Author), HM Pendlebury(Author), George Michael van der Poorten(Editor), Southdene Sdn Bhd Nancy E van der Poorten(Editor) Hardback #251991 2020 9789834488635 £135.00 For the fifth edition, the text has been updated with new information on distributions, life histories and larval food plants. The taxonomy of each species has been reviewed, and the text and relevant keys have been revised with newly published...
British Moths 448 pages | 3200+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Bloomsbury A Photographic Guide to the Moths of Britain and Ireland Publishing Chris Manley(Author) Hardback #250567 Jun-2021 9781472975201 £39.99 British Moths is the most comprehensive collection of photographs of British moths ever published. It covers both macro and microspecies, and the images are all of living insects, taken in natural conditions. Concise text descriptions cover wingspan,...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6/1 924 pages | 1 b/w illustration, 3 b/w maps | E J Brill Chrysomeloidea I (Vesperidae, Disteniidae, Cerambycidae) Hardback #251926 Dec-2020 9789004429161 £165.00 Mikhail L Danilevsky(Author) Volume 6 in this series covers the Chrysomelidae. For the second edition the coverage is now divided over two volumes. Part 1 of volume 6 now covers the Vesperidae, Disteniidae, and Cerambycidae.Structured knowledge of life, as it evolved and is...
Latridiidae und Merophysiidae der West-Paläarktis [Latridiidae and Merophysiidae of 748 pages | 156 colour photos, 35 colour & 1370 b/w illustrations, 12 the Western Palearctic] colour distribution maps | Wolfgang H. Rücker (privately published) Wolfgang H Rücker(Author) Hardback #252096 2020 £190.00 This work provides a foundation Western Palearctic members of the minute brown scavenger beetles of the family Latridiidae and the beetles of the family Merophysiidae that mostly live in the company of ants. The book provides a...
The Last Butterflies 266 pages | 16 plates with 16 colour photos; 7 b/w illustrations | A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature Princeton University Press Nick Haddad(Author) Paperback #251837 May-2021 9780691217178 £15.99 Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what Hardback #244905 2019 9780691165004 £19.99 about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr? Because of their extreme rarity, these butterflies are not well-known, yet they are remarkable...
Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe 304 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps; includes audio CD | Éric Sardet(Author), Christian Roesti(Author), Yoan Braud(Author) Bloomsbury Publishing This is the first guide to the 261 species of orthopterans – the grasshoppers, crickets and Paperback #250543 May-2021 9781472954862 £27.99 katydids – of Britain and western Europe ever published. Set out in a clear and accessible format and featuring a combination of photographs and...
Diptera 160 pages | colour photos | Nikita Vikhrev (privately published) An Introduction to Flies Hardback #252005 2020 9785906811851 £14.99 Nikita Vikhrev(Author) Diptera is an order of animals that have achieved phenomenal success: we meet flies and mosquitoes more often than any other insects. Usually meeting them does not please us: Dipterans are intrusive, and some of their representatives become a real...
Hétérocères Diurnes: France, Belgique, Suisse, Luxembourg [Diurnal Moths: France, 312 pages | 30 plates with colour illustrations; 400 colour photos | Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg] Delachaux et Niestle Rainer Ulrich(Author), Odile Koenig(Translated by) Paperback #252026 2020 9782603026830 £61.50 Few butterfly guides mention nocturnal species. This book presents 339 species of moths (Heterocera) that can be observed during the day or at dusk. It describes their habitats and habits and gives information on their geographical distribution,...
A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India 400 pages | 1100+ colour photos, b/w illustrations | Siddharth Kulkarni Ayan Mondal(Author), Debomay Chanda(Author), Atul Vartak(Author), Siddharth (privately published) Kulkarni(Author) Paperback #252090 Dec-2020 £69.99 A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India is an illustrative guide for 350 spider genera reported from India.Features:- More than 1,100 color photographs and drawings depicting the vast diversity of Indian spiders- drawings of several genera-...
Faune de France, Volume 101: Hyménoptères Sphéciformes d’Europe, Volume 1: 408 pages | 54 colour photos, 447 b/w line drawings | Faune de France Généralités – Heterogynaidae, Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, Crabronidae (1ère Partie) Paperback #252091 2020 9782903052416 £89.99 [Sphecoid Hymenoptera of Europe, Volume 1] Jacques Bitsch(Author), Yvan Barbier(Contributor), Severiano Fernández Gayubo(Contributor), Hans-J Jacobs(Contributor), Jean Leclerc(Contributor), Konrad Schmidt(Contributor) After the two volumes in this series dealing with the Sphecoid Hymenoptera of France and Western Europe, Jacques Bitsch has collaborated on this masterful new work with the best specialists – Yvan Barbier, Severiano-Fernández Gayubo,...
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Victoria and Tasmania 162 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Reiner Richter(Author), Ian Endersby(Author) Entomological Society of Victoria There are 81 species of dragonflies and damselflies found in Victoria and Tasmania and each Paperback #252095 2019 9780648359210 £44.99 one has a double-page spread. There are images of the male and female, distribution maps, flight time data with notes on habitat, behaviour and information on...
The Genus Calinaga Moore, [1858] 160 pages | 56 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations | Tshikolovets (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Calinaginae) Publications Vadim V Tshikolovets(Author) Hardback #252097 2020 9788090708938 £94.99 This book contains information on all 16 known species of the butterfly genus Calinaga, including a map of the distribution of each species and additional species groups, and is the result of twenty-five years of research in nature and the study of...
Insects of Mount Wilhelm 599 pages | 886 colour photos and b/w line drawings, includes DVD- Papua New Guinea, Volume 2 ROM | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Tony Robillard(Editor), Frédéric Legendre(Editor), Claire Villemant(Editor), Maurice Hardback #252125 2020 9782856538364 £79.99 Leponce(Editor), Vojtech Novotny(Foreword By) Papua New Guinea possesses among the most remarkable ecosystems in the world in terms of plant species richness and marine biodiversity. During the biotic survey “Our Planet Reviewed – Papua New Guinea 2012-2013” more than two...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 2 Jugendstadien der Heuschrecken der Schweiz [Juvenile Stages of the Grasshoppers of 416 pages | ~700 colour photos | Verlag Paul Haupt Switzerland] Flexibound #252131 Mar-2021 9783258082097 £69.99 Dieter Thommen(Author) This new identification book presents the juvenile stages of all 109 species of grasshopper found in Switzerland.The nymph stages are of particular faunistic interest. This field guide helps the observer to identify the juvenile stages in the habitat...
Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 86 196 pages | illustrations | Academic Press Charles RC Sheppard(Editor) Hardback #252183 2020 9780128224786 £210.00 Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 86, the latest release in a series that has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in...
Habitats & Ecosystems
The Age of Islands 256 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; maps | Atlantic Books In Search of New and Disappearing Islands Paperback #251981 Apr-2021 9781786498120 £9.99 Alastair Bonnett(Author) Hardback #251980 2020 9781786498090 £16.99 New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an ever-changing map...
Grassland Ecosystems of China 583 pages | 20 colour & 105 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer A Synthesis and Resume Nature Linghao Li(Author), Jiquan Chen(Author), Xingguo Han(Author), Wen-Hao Zhang(Author), Hardback #252016 2020 9789811534201 £159.99 Changliang Shao(Author) This book provides a comprehensive overview of grassland ecosystems based on publications by Chinese scholars. It offers an up-to-date review of the recent advances in grassland research in China, discusses the climatic and physical conditions...
Histoire des Forêts Françaises: De la Gaulle Chevelue à Nos Jours [A History of the 240 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Institute pour le Developpment Forests of France: From Gaul to Our Days] Forestier Jean-Marie Ballu(Author), Gustave Huffel(Author), Georges-André Morin(Author) Hardback #252020 2019 9782916525563 £54.99 This extensively illustrated book is based on the 1925 history course of Gustave Huffel (professor at the prestigious École des Eaux et Forêts in Nancy).Commented on and completed to this day, it relates 2000 years of the history of the...
Hidden Nature 340 pages | Vanderbilt University Press Wild Southern Caves Paperback #252069 2020 9780826501028 £16.95 Michael Ray Taylor(Author) More than 10,000 known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogues and maps them. In Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves, Taylor tells the story of this vast underground...
Sahara: Erg | Reg [Multilingual] 128 pages | colour photos | Ugo Mellone (privately published) Ugo Mellone(Author) Hardback #252197 2020 £62.99 Published in partnership with the Sahara Conservation Fund, this book features parallel texts in four languages and contains essays written by Jose María Gil-Sánchez, one of the foremost experts on Saharan wildlife.Sahara: Erg |...
Natural History
From Aardvark to Zebra 780 pages | colour photos | Riëtte Questions and Answers Paperback #252094 Feb-2021 9780620695657 £34.99 Riëtte(Author), Eduan Naudé(Translated by) Aardvark to Zebra is the result of 25 years of research and investigation towards a unique collection of facts about 70 of South Africa’s wild animals (67 mammals, two reptiles and one bird). In addition to being used as a hand guide during...
Flora i Fauna de l'Espai Natural de l'Albera [Flora and Fauna of the Albera Natural Area] 127 pages | colour illustrations | Brau Edicions Joan Budó Ricart(Author), Jenar Fèlix Franquesa(Author), Toni Llobet François(Illustrator) Paperback #252153 2015 9788415885320 £13.99 This field guide is dedicated to the Albera Natural Preserve in Spain. In this guide you will find represented around 700 species of flora and fauna, from the most common to the most unique. Aimed at a wide audience, it offers the possibility of...
Traveling the 38th Parallel 288 pages | 60 colour photos, 5 maps | Phalarope Press A Water Line Around the World Paperback #252071 2020 9781087874807 £24.99 The paperback edition includes 64 color images, nearly doubling the number that appeared in Hardback #204517 2013 9780520266544 £24.99 the hardcover edition.Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human...
Born to Ice 344 pages | colour & b/w photos | TeNeues Publishing UK Ltd Paul Nicklen(Illustrator), Leonardo DiCaprio(Foreword By) Hardback #252127 2018 9783961711239 £79.99 SeaLegacy co-founder, National Geographic photographer, acclaimed ocean conservationist, and TED Talks favourite, Paul Nicklen traces his extraordinary love affair with the polar regions in his most recent book, Born to Ice. His powerful images of...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 3 The Natural History of Edward Lear 240 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press Robert McCracken Peck(Author), Sir David Attenborough(Foreword By), Edward Hardback #252046 May-2021 9780691217239 £24.99 Lear(Illustrator) Edward Lear (1812–1888) is best known today for his witty limericks and endearing nonsense verse. But the celebrated author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat also created some of the most stunning paintings of birds and mammals during an age...
Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology 340 pages | 20 b/w illustrations, 12 tables | Cambridge University Press Interpreting Violence in Past Lives Paperback #251979 2020 9780521133043 £29.99 Rebecca C Redfern(Author), Debra L Martin(Foreword By) Hardback #237709 2016 9780521115735 £50.99 The remains of past people are a testament to their lived experiences and of the environment in which they lived. Synthesising the latest research, Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology critically examines the sources of evidence used to understand and...
The Nature of Spring 246 pages | no illustrations | Saraband (Scotland) Jim Crumley(Author) Paperback #252173 Mar-2021 9781913393106 £9.99 Spring marks the genesis of nature's year. As Earth's northern hemisphere tilts ever more Hardback #245707 2019 9781912235377 £12.99 towards the life-giving sun, the icy, dark days of winter gradually yield to the new season's intensifying light and warmth. Nature responds...For...
Wild Child 342 pages | b/w illustrations | Granta Coming Home to Nature Paperback #251955 Apr-2021 9781783781935 £9.99 Patrick Barkham(Author) Hardback #249915 2020 9781783781911 £13.99 Read our author Interview: Patrick BarkhamFrom climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy childhood take place outdoors. And yet, the reality for many contemporary...
Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador 480 pages | colour photos | Breakwater Books Michael Collins(Author) Paperback #251298 May-2021 9781550813562 £34.99 The most comprehensive guide of its kind on the market today, the Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador features more than 900 photographs and illustrations: from flora and fauna to icebergs and weather, no stone is left unturned in this perfect...
A Country No More 256 pages | colour illustrations | George F. Thompson Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon Hardback #251750 May-2021 9781938086809 £42.99 Krista Elrick(Author), Gregory Nobles(Contributor), Mary Anne Redding(Contributor) In 2010, when photographer Krista Elrick began traversing John James Audubon country in search of the birds the nineteenth-century American naturalist observed, painted, and wrote about, she encountered scarcely a sighting. Instead, she found the...
The Stubborn Light of Things 206 pages | Black and white illustrations | Faber & Faber A Nature Diary Hardback #251944 2020 9780571363506 £12.99 Melissa Harrison(Author) We have a limited amount of edition with bookplates signed by the author: available while stocks last.A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Highlights, Volume 6 96 pages | colour & b/w photos | London Natural History Museum Rosamund Kidman-Cox(Editor) Hardback #251949 Dec-2020 9780565094935 £6.99 The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the most famous and prestigious event of its kind in the world, providing both an inspiring annual catalog of the wonders of nature and a thought provoking look at our complex relationship with the...
Etta Lemon Aurum Press The Woman who Saved the Birds Paperback #251960 Jun-2021 9780711263383 £9.99 Tessa Boase(Author) Introducing Etta Lemon: the pioneering conservationist who built the early RSPB from an all- female Croydon tea party.As a young Victorian woman, Etta wrote militant letters to church- going ladies wearing feathered hats. As the pugnacious Secretary of...
Nature Obscura 208 pages | Mountaineers Books A City's Hidden Natural World Paperback #252015 2020 9781680512076 £19.99 Kelly Brenner(Author) With wonder and a sense of humour, Nature Obscura author Kelly Brenner aims to help us rediscover our connection to the natural world that is just outside our front door – we just need to know where to look.Through explorations of a rich and...
Trees, Grasses and Crops 430 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Habelt, Dr Rudolf, GmBH People and Plants in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond Hardback #252033 2019 9783774942219 £150.00 Barbara Eichhorn(Editor), Alexa Höhn(Editor) Prof. Dr. Katharina Neumann had been head of the workgroup on African Archaeobotany at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for 25 years. In honour of this anniversary and to commemorate the achievements...
An Expedition to Ramsey Canyon 88 pages | Colour photographs and illustrations, tables, maps | The 1896 Field Journal of Ornithologist Harry S. Swarth Christopher W. Swarth (privately published) Harry S Swarth(Author), Christopher W Swarth(Editor) Paperback #252048 2018 9781724410382 £19.99 In 1896, Harry S. Swarth and three other young companions departed Los Angeles on foot and by horse-drawn wagon on a 650-mile, cross-country journey of avian discovery. Their mission was to reach southern Arizona and return with specimens for the...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 4 Antarctica 208 pages | colour photos | Rizzoli International Publications The Waking Giant Hardback #252061 2020 9780847868865 £57.50 Sebastian Copeland and Leonardo DiCaprio Explorer Sebastian Copeland's stunning photography delivers unparalleled access to the least explored continent on Earth and galvanizes our awareness of the threats of global warming.Antarctica's ice sheet is a powerful entity, alive and...
Eastbound through Siberia 250 pages | 12 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w maps | Indiana University Press Observations from the Great Northern Expedition Paperback #252089 2020 9780253047786 £24.99 Georg Wilhelm Steller(Author), Margritt A Engel(Translated by), Karen E Willmore(Translated Hardback #252088 2020 9780253047779 £64.99 by), Jonathan C Slaght(Foreword By) In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was to embark on a secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia as a member of the Great Northern Expedition. While searching for economic possibilities and...
To the Edges of the Earth 528 pages | Bookstorm A Journey Into Wild Land Paperback #252093 Feb-2021 9781928257844 £19.95 Peter Pickford(Author) Peter and Beverly Pickford had a dream to photograph the wildest corners of the earth and sold their farm to finance the venture. “We had become increasingly distressed by two ideas. The first was a sense of panic as to how rapidly wild space...
East Yorkshire Wildlife, Volume 1 36 pages | 120 colour photos | Charaxes Publications Autumn 2020 Magazine #252120 2020 9772634874807 £6.99 Jason Sargerson(Editor) Articles in this issue cover: Wildlife in Thixendale, Butterflies in East Yorkshire, Wildlife in the Avenues in Hull, Solitary Bees and Bumblebees of the Avenues, Wildlife at Tophill Low and North Cave Wetlands, The Renovation of Pearson Park in...
Stones of Aran 432 pages | Faber & Faber Pilgrimage Paperback #252121 2008 9780571241040 £12.99 Tim Robbins(Author), Robert W McFarlane(Introduction By) Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out'. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest...
One Life 180 pages | ~90 b/w photos | Federico Veronesi Photography Ltd Federico Veronesi(Author) Hardback #252141 2020 9789914986303 £44.99 This book tells the story of a life from birth through childhood, independence, isolation, confrontation, desolation, a journey through deserts and across rivers and thunderstorms, in search for one’s place in the world. The characters carrying...
Himalaya 605 pages | 24 plates with 65 colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations A Human History | The Bodley Head Ed Douglas(Author) Paperback #252179 Jul-2021 9781784704483 £10.99 This is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures Hardback #252178 2020 9781847924131 £24.99 among the world's highest mountains.Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is...
Beaver, Bison, Horse 292 pages | University of Regina Press The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains Paperback #252182 2020 9780889777880 £26.99 R Grace Morgan(Author), James Daschuk(Foreword By), Cristina Eisenberg(Afterword by) Hardback #252181 2020 9780889777941 £68.99 As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and horses have been the subject of numerous...
Reference
Life on Mars 310 pages | 8 plates with 10 colour photos and colour illustrations; 38 b/w What to Know Before We Go photos and b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press David A Weintraub(Author) Paperback #252059 2020 9780691209258 £16.99 Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has Hardback #239373 2018 9780691180533 £24.99 taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent...
Notes from an Apocalypse 257 pages | no illustrations | Granta A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back Paperback #251910 Mar-2021 9781783784073 £9.99 Mark O'Connell(Author) Hardback #250671 2020 9781783784066 £14.99 In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change;...
First Light 304 pages | 8 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time illustrations | Bloomsbury Sigma (Bloomsbury imprint) Emma Chapman(Author) Hardback #252040 2020 9781472962928 £16.99 Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe's history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole. There's a lot for astronomers to be...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 5 Leaving Academia 208 pages | 2 b/w illustrations, 1 table | Princeton University Press A Practical Guide Paperback #252054 2020 9780691200194 £16.99 Christopher L Caterine(Author) Hardback #252055 2020 9780691200200 £61.99 An estimated ninety-three per cent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job...
Conservation & Biodiversity
Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife 218 pages | 18 b/w illustrations, tables | Berghahn Books Ltd A Biosocial Approach Paperback #252086 2020 9781789208207 £23.95 Catherine M Hill(Editor), Amanda D Webber(Editor), Nancy EC Priston(Editor) Hardback #233720 2017 9781785334627 £98.99 Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often...
Gone 192 pages | colour illustrations | Leaping Hare Press (Ivy Press imprint) A Search for What Remains of the World's Lost Creatures Hardback #250887 Apr-2021 9780711256750 £18.99 Michael Blencowe(Author) Gone is not a scientific book about the genetics and physiology of extinct animals – it is a life- affirming, quirky and informative read that everyone will enjoy. Discover, what made 13 extinct species unique; what their habits and habitats...
Billionaire Wilderness 392 pages | 23 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | Princeton University Press The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West Paperback #252044 Mar-2021 9780691217123 £14.99 Justin Farrell(Author) Hardback #251192 2020 9780691176673 £21.99 Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County,...
Key Questions in Applied Ecology and Conservation 240 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | CABI Publishing A Study and Revision Guide Paperback #251952 Jan-2021 9781789248494 £19.99 Paul A Rees(Author) An understanding of applied ecology and conservation is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including applied biology, ecology, environmental science and wildlife conservation.Key Questions in Applied Ecology and...
Conservation Conundrum 368 pages | b/w illustrations | Notion Press Journey of India's Wildlife through Ages Paperback #252019 2017 9781948321860 £34.99 T Sekar(Author) Would you like to walk through one of the hathivanas (elephant forests) maintained by Mauryan king Chandragupta? Do you wish to be part of the royal dinner of a Mughal Emperor, with the menu containing a variety of forty meat dishes? Desirous of...
Biodiversity of the Himalaya 1100 pages | 137 colour & 38 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Jammu and Kashmir State Hardback #252076 2020 9789813291737 £199.99 Ghulam Hassan Dar and Anzar A Khuroo The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, sustains about one-fifth of the humankind. Nestled within the north-western mountain ranges of the Himalaya, the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) State harbours more than half of the biodiversity found in the...
Amarakaeri 352 pages | 1000+ colour photos | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Connecting Biodiversity Press Francisco Dallmeier(Author), Adriana Bravo(Author), Michael Tweddle(Illustrator) Hardback #252083 2020 9781944466305 £46.99 Highlighting the enormous biodiversity of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR) and the critical role this protected area plays in the conservation of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru, Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity offers readers a glimpse...
Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis 242 pages | table | Bristol University Press Giving Living Beings their Due Hardback #252177 2020 9781529208511 £74.99 Anna Wienhues(Author) As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new...
Ornithology
The Birds of Kentucky 152 pages | 51 colour illustrations | University Press of Kentucky Burt L Monroe, Jr.(Author), William Zimmerman(Illustrator) Hardback #251950 Mar-2021 9780813151410 £30.50 Originally published in 1994, this was the first book of its kind to be published for the Bluegrass State. The Birds of Kentucky is designed to provide an accurate and scientifically rigorous description of all the species of birds found in Kentucky....
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America 752 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | François Vuilleumier(Editor) Dorling Kindersley Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning Hardback #252201 2020 9780744020533 £37.99 full-colour photographs, revealing each species with unrivalled clarity.The 550 most commonly seen birds are pictured in clear, close-up photographs, with...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 6 Molt in Neotropical Birds 400 pages | 1029 colour photos, 4 b/w illustrations | Productivity Press Life History and Aging Criteria Paperback #251909 Mar-2021 9780367657635 £42.99 Erik I Johnson(Author), Jared D Wolfe(Author) Hardback #222832 2017 9781498716116 £170.00 Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and Molting in Neotropical Birds reviews and describes these strategies...
Birds of the World 640 pages | 280 colour plates with 25,000 colour illustrations | William Norman Arlott(Author) Collins (Harper Collins imprint) For the first time, the complete collection of Norman Arlott's incredibly detailed, accurate and Hardback #241769 May-2021 9780008173999 £74.99 beautiful bird paintings has been brought together in one comprehensive volume, accompanied by concise text detailing specific characteristics and...
European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Lynx Edicions Distribution, Abundance and Change Hardback #250838 2020 9788416728381 £84.99 Verena Keller(Author), Sergi Herrando(Author), Petr Voríšek(Author), Martí Rodríguez- Franch(Author), Marina Kipson(Author), Pietro Milanesi(Author), David Martí(Author), Marc Anton(Author), Alena Klvanová(Author), Mikhail V Kalyakin(Author), Hans-Günther Bauer(Author), Ruud PB Foppen(Author) Determining properly where birds are in this changing world is of paramount importance for their conservation, and doing that at a continental scale is something that can be only achieved under a strong willingness of international cooperation. To do...
Birds 176 pages | 160 illustrations and maps | The Ivy Press A Species Guide Hardback #251289 May-2021 9780711258433 £12.99 Mark E Hauber(Author) From the everyday birds we see in our backyards to the rare species that we might never catch a glimpse of, the world of birds is vast and varied. They can be found in every habitat on earth, including penguins in the Antarctic, flycatchers in...
Birds and Mammals of the Galapagos 660+ colour illustrations, 110+ colour distribution maps | Lynx Edicions Dušan M Brinkhuizen(Author), Jonas Nilsson(Author) Flexibound #251603 Dec-2020 9788416728398 £29.99 The Galapagos archipelago is one of the most famous destinations on Earth for lovers of Hardback #251604 Dec-2020 9788416728404 £34.99 natural history. Straddling the equator in the Pacific Ocean c. 1000 km west of Ecuador lies 'the world's natural laboratory' with its large...
The Complete Photographic Guide to Southern African Birds 528 pages | 5000+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Jonathan With App and Calls Ball Publishers Burger Cillié(Author), Faansie Peacock(Author), Niel Cillié(Author), Phil Penlington(Author), Paperback #251945 May-2021 9781928363125 £18.99 Karen Wiesler(Author) With over 5,000 photographs covering all bird species in Southern Africa, this new guide promises to be a feast of information. The accompanying free app features bird calls as well as additional photographs to illustrate the different plumages of...
Flight from Grace 392 pages | 114 colour photos | McGill-Queens University Press A Cultural History of Humans and Birds Hardback #251954 Mar-2021 9780228005308 £29.99 Richard Pope(Author) Human animals are despoiling nature and causing a sixth extinction on Earth. Our natural environment is being compromised, and birds and other animals are disappearing at an alarming rate. Flight from Grace does not so much reveal the extent of the...
Birds of KwaZulu-Natal and Their Zulu Names 236 pages | colour photos | Jacana Publishers Adrian Koopman(Author), Roger Porter(Author), Noleen Turner(Author), Hugh Paperback #251995 Mar-2021 9781920602062 £18.95 Chittenden(Illustrator) Accompanied by superb photographs, this ground-breaking book is the first practical field guide to record the Zulu names of bird species commonly found in KwaZulu-Natal. Where one name was previously used to describe a number of birds belonging to...
Common Birds [of India] 126 pages | 16 plates with photos | National Book Trust, India Sálim Ali(Author), Laeeq Futehally(Author) Paperback #251998 2019 9788123710327 £23.99 Originally published in 1967. Based on a study of Indian bird-life extending over four decades, this book conveys all that one would like to know about birds.
Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur 284 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w maps | Niyogi Books Birds in Paradise Hardback #251999 2019 9789389136364 £64.99 Sunayan Sharma(Author) Bharatpur’s Keoladeo National Park, a World Heritage Site in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, is a birds’ paradise, with all kinds of birds, resident and migratory, in different colours and sizes. And though Keoladeo is basically a...
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder 256 pages | Douglas & McIntyre A Memoir Paperback #252013 2020 9781771622486 £20.99 Julia Zarankin(Author) A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world and her own place in it.When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change...
Les Hirondelles [The Swallows] 204 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Delachaux et Niestle Georges Olioso(Author) Hardback #252028 2020 9782603026854 £49.99 What is happening with the swallows in France? Fewer and fewer are occupying nests in our towns and villages, let alone the large-scale gatherings on electric wires at the end of summer. What are the threats to these familiar birds?Who has not...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 7 Birdsong in a Time of Silence 224 pages | Particular Books Steven Lovatt(Author) Hardback #252113 Mar-2021 9780241493007 £14.99 Birdsong in a Time of Silence is the story of a man rediscovering his passion for birdsong and nature. Narrated against the backdrop of the current pandemic, the book opens by acknowledging the new awareness of birds and birdsong that was made...
Seabird Colonies of British Columbia, Volume 1: A Century of Changes 298 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Michael S Rodway(Author), R Wayne Campbell(Author), Moira JF Lemon(Author) Biodiversity Centre For Wildlife Studies This catalogue of the seabirds of British Columbia, published as a special issue of the journal Paperback #252159 2018 £79.99 Wildlife Afield (volume 13, numbers 1 and 2), is more than just a valuable reference document. In addition to the scientific text, with an exhaustive...
Seabird Colonies of British Columbia, Volume 2: Haida Gwaii 480 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps | This second volume of the seabird catalogue of British Columbia, published as a special issue Biodiversity Centre For Wildlife Studies of the journal Wildlife Afield (volume 16, numbers 1 and 2), presents the status and historical Paperback #252160 2020 £94.99 changes of seabird breeding populations at...
My Birding Life 179 pages | Wren Publishing Moss Taylor(Author) Paperback #252165 2020 9780954254582 £28.50 Moss Taylor has been watching birds and keeping records of his sightings since 1953, as well as ringing and photographing birds for over 50 years.Although only a hobby, birding has really taken over his life, especially during the last 25 years since...
With Wings Extended 190 pages | 19 colour photos, 3 b/w illustrations, 1 table | University of A Leap into the Wood Duck's World Iowa Press Greg Hoch(Author) Paperback #252195 2020 9781609386955 £28.95 A century ago, many people had given up on the wood duck, dooming it to extinction along with the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. Today, the wood duck is one of the most familiar and most harvested ducks in the eastern half of the country,...
A Haven in the Sun 216 pages | colour illustrations | Texas Tech University Press Five Stories of Bird Life and Its Future on the Texas Coast Hardback #252200 2020 9781682830635 £37.50 BC Robison(Author), Linda M Feltner(Illustrator) In A Haven in the Sun, nature writer B. C. Robison presents a unique portrayal of birds of the Texas Coast. Through the stories of birds that have a special bond with coastal Texas – Attwater's Prairie Chicken, White-tailed Hawk, Whooping...
Botany
Austral Hepaticae, Part III 721 pages | 225 b/w line drawings | J. Cramer Verlag Matt von Konrat(Editor), David Glenny(Editor), Anders Hagborg(Editor), Judith Dean Paperback #134920 2020 9783443510428 £210.00 Godfrey(Editor) This third and final volume of Schuster's Austral Hepaticae treats two large families: Geocalyaceae (including Lophocoleoideae), Plagiochilaceae, and several smaller families including Acrobolbaceae and Balantiopsidaceae.This volume...
Klíč ke Květeně České Republiky [Key to the Flora of the Czech Republic] 1172 pages | b/w line drawings | Academia Kaplan Zdeněk(Author) Hardback #252032 2019 9788020026606 £59.99 Thanks to its location in the middle of Europe, the Czech flora is very rich and diverse. During the Ice Age, it was enriched by plants from the cold north, later by thermophilic plants from southern Europe, and it is still affected by the proximity...
Lessons from Plants 192 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | Harvard University Press Beronda L Montgomery(Author) Hardback #252129 Apr-2021 9780674241282 £19.95 We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the...
Trees 600 pages | colour photos | Earth Aware Editions Between Heaven and Earth Hardback #251982 2020 9781683839262 £19.99 Art Wolfe(Illustrator), Gregory McNamee(Author), Wade Davis(Introduction By) Hardback #244131 2018 9781683830825 £49.99 Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia.From the ancient Assyrian Tree of Life to the Iroquois peoples' Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality...
European Bryaceae 416 pages | colour photos | NatureBureau A Guide to the Species of the Moss Family Bryaceae in Western & Central Europe and Hardback #251600 Feb-2021 9781913994006 £37.50 Macaronesia David T Holyoak(Author) European Bryaceae is a guide to the species of the moss family bryaceae in western & central Europe and Macaronesia. This guide to European Bryaceae by Dr David T Holyoak is illustrated with line drawings, photos and maps for all species,...
Field Guide to Orchids of the Southern Tablelands of NSW Including the ACT 256 pages | colour photos | Inkpen Press Jean Egan(Author), Tony Wood(Author), Roger Farrow(Author), Tobias Hayashi(Author) Paperback #251932 2020 9780646820866 £49.99 This up to date field guide covers all 181 species and 32 genera of orchids found in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Each species is covered in details with one page per species and usually 2-4...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 8 Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia, Volume 2: Spiranthoideae - Spirantheae 468 pages | 58 plates with colour photos, 34 plates with b/w distribution Dariusz L Szlachetko(Editor), Marta Kolanowska(Editor), Slawomir Nowak(Author) maps | Koeltz Scientific Books This second part of this flora covers five subtribes in the tribe Spirantheae, which is in the Hardback #251937 2019 9783946583233 £165.00 orchid family Spiranthoideae.Since the authors did not manage to reach all the herbaria in Colombia, nor all the material deposited outside Colombia, they...
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia, Volume 3: Spiranthoideae - Cranichideae, 580 pages | 288 colour photos, 466 b/w line drawings, 73 b/w distribution Vanilloideae maps | Koeltz Scientific Books Dariusz L Szlachetko(Editor), Marta Kolanowska(Editor), Przemyslaw Baranov(Author), Hardback #251938 2020 9783946583295 £185.00 Magdalena Dudek(Author) This third part of this flora covers the remainder of the orchid family Spiranthoideae and the families Cranichideae and Vanilloideae.Since the authors did not manage to reach all the herbaria in Colombia, nor all the material deposited outside...
Succulents Galore 400 pages | 866 colour photos | John Pilbeam (privately published) John Pilbeam(Author) Hardback #251942 2020 £47.99 This book contains 866 colour photos in habitat and cultivation of 174 genera of succulent plants (not cacti).
Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Volume 26: Mouretia to 369 pages | no illustrations | Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh Myxolibertella Hardback #251946 2020 9788194332343 £89.99 Additions to M: Vols. 23 to 25: Macdonaldia to Menestoria Sudhir Chandra(Author) The present work represents volume 25 of the projected 42 volumes. It is hoped to cover over 25,000 commemorative names covering all fields of botany.Generic names have been used as markers through which light is thrown on the botanical history of a...
Plant Landscape of Corsica 210 pages | 82 colour & 5 b/w illustrations, 81 tables | Springer Nature Pauline Delbosc(Editor), Frédéric Bioret(Editor), Christophe Panaïotis(Editor) Hardback #251976 2020 9783030357757 £109.99 Since the 1970s and particularly the works of Tüxen (1978) and Géhu & Rivas-Martínez (1981), dynamico-catenal phytosociology has facilitated the integration of vegetation dynamics by more precisely describing the trajectories...
Flowering Plants Discovered from Nepal 300 pages | colour photos | Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests and Keshab Raj Rajbhandari(Author), Sanjeev Kumar Rai(Author), Mohan Dev Joshi(Author), Environment, Department of Plant Resources Subhash Khatri(Author), Ganga Datt Bhatt(Author), Rita Chhetri(Author), Bishwa Nath Hardback #251987 2019 9789937924832 £49.99 Oli(Foreword By) The present book is based on the herbarium specimens, digitized images and descriptions of newly discovered plants from Nepal published in various publications. The type specimens of Nepalese owering plants were collected from different localities...
A Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Nepal (2-Volume Set) 1183 pages | colour photos | Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests Keshab Raj Rajbhandari(Author), Sanjeev Kumar Rai(Author), Akhileshwar Lal and Environment, Department of Plant Resources Karna(Foreword By), Bishwa Nath Oli(Foreword By) Hardback #251988 2019 £79.99 A Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Nepal is a list of the flowering plants of Nepal. Considering the discussion held in the 7th intemational editorial meeting of the flora of Nepal in Kathmandu in January 2017, the Department of Plant Resources...
Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series I: Ferns and Lycophytes, Volume 3 307 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | Barbara S Parris, Ruth Kiew, RCK Chung and YH Cheah Forest Research Institute Malaysia The Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series I provides revisions for lycophyte and fern families Hardback #251996 2020 9789672149644 £94.99 that occur in Peninsular Malaysia. Volume 3 includes 9 families, 32 genera and 115 species in the Lycopodiaceae, Adiantaceae, Aspleniaceae, Blechnaceae,...
Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southern Africa 830 pages | 2000+ colour photos | Briza Publications CE van Ginkel(Author), CJ Cilliers(Author) Hardback #251997 Mar-2021 9781920217631 £34.99 The most comprehensive identification guide to the aquatic and wetland plants of southern Africa.The book conceptualises the importance of aquatic and wetland plants in the aquatic and transitional zone environment where they are found, and includes...
A Field Guide to the (Wetter) Zambian Miombo Woodland (2-Volume Set) 1020 pages | colour photos | Mike Merrett & Lari Merrett (privately Kaj Vollesen(Author), Lari Merrett(Author), Paul Smith(Introduction By), Noah Zimba(Foreword published) By) Paperback #252003 2020 9781949677201 £120.00 This compilation of photographs, collections and expertise gathered over the past 25 years describes the miombo woodland, the threats it is facing and contains descriptions of 143 families, 611 genera and 1634 species found within the Mutinondo...
Identifier Arbres et Arbustes en Toutes Saisons: Bourgeons, Fleurs, Feuilles, Fruits 368 pages | colour photos | Delachaux et Niestle [Identifying Trees and Shrubs during All Seasons: Buds, Flowers, Leaves, Fruits] Paperback #252027 2020 9782603027028 £56.50 Rita Lüder(Author), Jean Terrisse(Translated by) Trees change with the seasons and their identification can be carried out using specific criteria: leaves or flowers in the spring, fruits in autumn, and buds in winter.Four successive determination keys, with the help of questions and clear answers...
Common Flora of South Sikkim 492 pages | Notion Press A Glance to Ethnicity and Diversity of Common Flora of South Sikkim Paperback #252029 2018 9781644296912 £72.99 Pramod Rai(Author) The book contains the current status of very common plant species in South Sikkim, India. Here proper identification, distribution, important descriptions like flowering times, habit and habitats, family membership and the ethnic values...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 9 Plant Galls of the Western United States 400 pages | 400 colour photos | Princeton University Press Ronald A Russo(Author) Paperback #252047 Apr-2021 9780691205762 £24.99 Beautiful and bizarre, plant galls are growths of various shapes, sizes, and colours produced in response to invading organisms. Describing 536 species of galls and their causative agents, Plant Galls of the Western United States explores this unique...
Ferns of Palau 116 pages | colour photos | Environment, Inc. A Field Guide Paperback #252066 2018 9789829818416 £28.50 Ann E Hillmann Kitalong(Author) Ferns of Palau: A Field Guide provides images for 62 fern species representing 41 Genera within 21 families. There are descriptions for 39 species and photographic plates of 23 species. The species were selected based upon available information in...
The Nation of Plants 144 pages | Profile Books Stefano Mancuso(Author), Gregory Conti(Translated by) Hardback #252138 Mar-2021 9781788168601 £9.99 From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago – nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet – humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a...
Planting for Wildlife 144 pages | colour photos | Quadrille Publishing The Grower's Guide to Rewilding Your Garden Hardback #252143 May-2021 9781787136755 £11.99 Jane Moore(Author) Making a haven for wildlife doesn't require acres of land in the countryside. If you get the habitat and planting right, then even the tiniest of urban gardens can host a variety of creatures from birds and bees to hedgehogs.Covering everything...
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volumen 4, Parte 1 920 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; 15 b/w photos, 344 b/w line Dicotiledóneas (Acanthaceae - Asteraceae) [MSB 137] drawings, colour maps | Missouri Botanical Garden Press Barry E Hammel(Editor), Michael H Grayum(Editor), Cecilia Herrera(Editor), Nelson Hardback #252146 2020 9781935641230 £220.00 Zamora(Editor) Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica is a concise, illustrated guide to all of the species of native, naturalized and commercially cultivated vascular plants of this Central American country, which lies between Nicaragua and Panama and is thus centred in...
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volumen 4, Parte 2 544 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; 33 b/w photos, 213 b/w line Dicotiledóneas (Balanophoraceae - Clethraceae) [MSB 138] drawings | Missouri Botanical Garden Press Barry E Hammel(Editor), Michael H Grayum(Editor), Cecilia Herrera(Editor), Nelson Hardback #252147 2020 9781935641247 £200.00 Zamora(Editor) Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica is a concise, illustrated guide to all of the species of native, naturalized and commercially cultivated vascular plants of this Central American country, which lies between Nicaragua and Panama and is thus centred in...
Flora Mesoamericana, Volume 2 (Part 2): Piperaceae [Spanish] 618 pages | 73 b/w line drawings, 2 b/w maps | Missouri Botanical Gerrit M Davidse(Editor), Carmen Ulloa Ulloa(Editor), Héctor M Hernández(Editor), Sandra Garden Press Knapp(Editor), Ricardo Callejas Posada(Author) Hardback #252148 2020 9781935641209 £215.00 The Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants growing in the southeasternmost states of Mexico, including the Yucatan Peninsula, and all the Central American republics. Hundreds of botanists specializing in tropical taxonomy from...
Algae of India, Volume 4 328 pages | 20 colour photos | Botanical Survey of India A Checklist of Indian Diatoms Paperback #252166 2020 9788194522973 £69.99 RK Gupta(Author), Sudipta Kumar Das(Author) The present checklist of diatoms has been carried out to assess and prepare an inventory of the diatom diversity in India. It covers all possible habitats, e.g. freshwater, marine, brackish water and terrestrial ecosystem. The checklist deals with a...
Desert Weeds 353 pages | 194 colour & 113 b/w illustrations, 100 tables | Springer Personal Narrative on Botanical First Responders Nature Garry Rogers(Author) Hardback #252190 2020 9783030458539 £139.99 In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). Weeds are the first responders when disasters occur in nature. They occupy bare...
Botanical Curses and Poisons 224 pages | 224 b/w illustrations | Liminal 11 The Shadow Lives of Plants Hardback #252202 Jan-2021 9781912634224 £12.99 Fez Inkwright(Author) Discover the folklore and history of our most malignant, toxic plants. Poisonings are among the most memorable deaths in history, from the Roman Empire to the Medieval era and beyond. Concealed and deliberate, it is a crime that must be planned in...
Mammals
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals 576 pages | 14 plates with colour illustrations, 2 plates with colour David M Forsyth(Editor), Carolyn M King(Editor) distribution maps | Otago University Press The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the Hardback #251921 Jan-2021 9781988592589 £80.99 landbreeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). It lists 65 species, including native and exotic, wild and...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 10 The Florida Manatee 352 pages | 40 illustrations | University Press of Florida Biology and Conservation Paperback #251972 May-2021 9780813066820 £34.50 Roger L Reep(Author), Robert K Bonde(Author) From two scientists who have been at the forefront of manatee research for over three decades, The Florida Manatee offers an engaging, accessible introduction to manatee biology, including communication, diet, long-distance migration, and much...
Écologie Acoustique des Chiroptères d'Europe [Acoustic Ecology of European Bats] 360 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, includes DVD-ROM Identification des Espèces, Étude de Leurs Habitats et Comportements de Chasse | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Michel Barataud(Author), Jean-Claude Roché(Foreword By), Philippe Jourde(Foreword By) Paperback #252126 2020 9782856539347 £54.99 Bats find their way around by echolocation to fly in the most perfect darkness. Even if these acoustic emissions are inaudible to us, they can be studied quite easily by appropriate means (recorders that display sonograms).Michel Barataud has...
Down from the Mountain 288 pages | Mariner Books The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear Paperback #252082 2020 9780358299271 £18.50 Andrews Bryce(Author) Hardback #244856 2019 9781328972453 £25.99 The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American WestThe grizzly is one of North America's few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but...
Tracking the Highland Tiger 256 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Bloomsbury Publishing In Search of Scottish Wildcats Paperback #248491 May-2021 9781472954374 £9.99 Marianne Taylor(Author) Hardback #244908 2019 9781472900920 £16.99 A mysterious and rarely seen beast, the Scottish Wildcat is Britain's rarest mammal, and one of the most endangered carnivores in the world.While looking somewhat like a beefed-up version of the familiar tabby cat, Scottish Wildcats are fierce...
On the Trail of Wolves 280 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Bloomsbury Publishing A British Adventure in the Wild West Paperback #251821 May-2021 9781472972071 £9.99 Philippa Forrester(Author) Hardback #249391 2020 9781472972040 £17.99 Wolves fascinate us – they always have and always will – and with her new non-fiction narrative, author and TV presenter Philippa Forrester aims to help us understand the wolf better and learn its real place in modern America to try and...
Opossums 320 pages | 26 b/w photos, 23 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins An Adaptive Radiation of New World Marsupials University Press Robert S Voss(Author), Sharon A Jansa(Author) Hardback #251853 May-2021 9781421439785 £44.50 Opossums are the most diverse and ecologically important group of New World marsupials, although only the Virginia opossum is familiar to North American residents. In fact, many species of opossums are found in Neotropical rainforests, savannas, and...
The Population Ecology of White-Headed Langur 400 pages | 100 colour photos and colour illustrations | Springer Nature Wenshi Pan(Author) Hardback #251966 Jan-2021 9789813341173 £159.99 The Population Ecology of White-Headed Langur offers a rare and detailed insight into 20 years' of in-depth field research and conservation of the white-headed langur. It focuses on the primate's natural refuge, territory and home range,...
Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Otariids and the Odobenid 490 pages | 159 colour & 58 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Claudio Campagna(Editor), Robert Harcourt(Editor) Nature This book is focused on the marine mammalian groups the Otariidae and the Odobenidae, Hardback #251971 Jan-2021 9783030591830 £119.99 otherwise known as fur seals, sea lions and the walrus. In 30 chapters, more than 60 authors from 30 institutions and 13 nationalities, discuss a broad suite of...
Ecology and Conservation of Pinnipeds in Latin America 265 pages | 67 colour & 17 b/w illustrations, 15 tables | Springer Nature Gisela Heckel(Editor), Yolanda Schramm(Editor) Hardback #251973 Feb-2021 9783030631765 £109.99 Pinnipeds are marine mammals that include eared seals, true seals, and walruses. This book presents detailed reviews on the ecology and conservation of 10 pinniped species along the coasts and islands in Latin America, from Mexico to Chile and...
Animal Skulls & Bones 12 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Waterford Press A Folding Pocket Guide to the Bones of Common North American Animals Unbound #252060 2012 9781583557969 £10.99 James R Kavanagh(Author), Raymond Leung(Illustrator) Indulge your inner explorer and learn where you are likely to find bones and how to identify animals based on their skull and limb shape and size, dental patterns, horns and beaks. This pocket guide teaches users how to identify the skulls and bones...
Journey of the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear 322 pages | photos, illustrations, maps | Steve Nadeau (privately The Inside Story of a Grizzly Reintroduction Effort and the Journey of a Remarkable Young published) Grizzly Paperback #252064 2020 9781087872490 £19.99 Steve Nadeau(Author) In Journey of the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear, author Steve Nadeau creates a compelling insider's look at a unique grassroots recovery effort that encouraged leaders in conservation, industry, and government to collaborate on a proposal unlike any...
Takaya 192 pages | colour photos | Rocky Mountain Books Lone Wolf Paperback #252074 2020 9781771603737 £21.99 Cheryl Alexander(Author), Carl Safina(Foreword By) An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer.A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia’s Salish Sea,...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 11 What Bears Teach Us 224 pages | colour photos | Rocky Mountain Books Sarah Elmeligi(Author), John E Marriott(Illustrator) Hardback #252075 Dec-2020 9781771603935 £34.99 A lavishly illustrated book that explores the complex behavioural characteristics of North America’s largest land carnivores by examining the bear-human relationship from the bear’s perspective.From the first moment Sarah Elmeligi came...
Atlas der Säugetiere: Schweiz und Liechtenstein [Atlas of Mammals of Switzerland and 480 pages | ~450 colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, 120 colour Liechtenstein] distribution maps, tables | Verlag Paul Haupt Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Wildtierbiologie (SGW)(Editor), Roland Graf(Editor), Claude Hardback #252133 Mar-2021 9783258081786 £125.00 Fischer(Editor), Monika Niehaus(Translated by) This distribution atlas is available is simultaneously published in three different languages: German, French, and Italian.A total of 99 wild mammal species are currently found in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Atlas der Säugetiere Schweiz...
Atlas des Mammifères de Suisse et du Liechtenstein [Atlas of Mammals of Switzerland 480 pages | ~450 colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, 120 colour and Liechtenstein] distribution maps, tables | Verlag Paul Haupt Société Suisse de Biologie de la Faune (SSBF)(Editor), Roland Graf(Editor), Claude Hardback #252134 Mar-2021 9783258081793 £125.00 Fischer(Editor), Thierry Niderman(Translated by) This distribution atlas is available is simultaneously published in three different languages: German, French, and Italian.A total of 99 wild mammal species are currently found in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Atlas des Mammifères de...
Atlante dei Mammiferi della Svizzera e del Liechtenstein [Atlas of Mammals of 480 pages | ~450 colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, 120 colour Switzerland and Liechtenstein] distribution maps, tables | Verlag Paul Haupt Società Svizzera di Biologia della Fauna (SSBF)(Editor), Roland Graf(Editor), Claude Hardback #252135 Mar-2021 9783258081809 £125.00 Fischer(Editor), Bärbel Koch(Translated by), Chiara Solari(Translated by) This distribution atlas is available is simultaneously published in three different languages: German, French, and Italian.A total of 99 wild mammal species are currently found in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Atlante dei Mammiferi della...
The Extraordinary Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat 350 pages | Springer Nature Rochelle Buffenstein(Editor), Thomas Park(Editor), Melissa Holmes(Editor) Hardback #252137 Mar-2021 9783030659424 £119.99 This volume focuses on the huge advances in the last 25 years on the use of this animal model for biomedical research (cancer, heart disease and neurodegeneration), fundamental neuroscience and basic subterranean biology. In 2013, Science magazine...
Acróbatas [English / Spanish] 144 pages | 150 colour photos, 1 colour map | Cerval Ugo Mellone(Author), Bruno D'Amicis(Foreword By), José Enrique Granados Hardback #252196 2016 9788494266812 £53.99 Torres(Contributor), Paulino Fandos(Contributor) The Iberian ibex is an endemic mammal of the Iberian peninsula. While it disappeared from several areas, including the Pyrenees, in Andalusia it is still quite widespread. For three years, the author photographed them in the province of...
Reptiles & Amphibians
Dans la Peau des Serpents de France [Under the Skin of Snakes of France] 160 pages | 200 colour photos, colour distribution maps | Editions Quae Françoise Serre Collet(Author), Allain Bougrain-Dubourg(Preface By) Hardback #251967 2020 9782759232277 £32.99 The snakes of France are just as beautifull and fascinating as their exotic cousins. This book introduces the biological characteristics and morphological diversity of four vipers and nine snakes living in mainland France. The book offers exceptional...
A Photographic Guide to Australian Monitors 156 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Gunther Schmida Gunther Schmida(Author) (privately published) This is the redesigned and updated new softcover edition of the original hardcover book. Still Paperback #252199 2020 £75.99 the most comprehensive and up to date volume about Australian monitors with amazing images and informative texts, distribution maps and more.
Snake 160 pages | Bloomsbury Academic (Bloomsbury imprint) Erica Wright(Author) Paperback #251974 2020 9781501348716 £9.99 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things, published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.Feared and worshiped in equal measure, snakes have captured the imagination...
The Complete Knob-Tailed Gecko 250 pages | 313 colour photos, 14, illustrations, 7 colour maps | Justin Julander(Author), Michael Plank(Author) Ecouniverse Herpetological Publishing The Complete Knob-Tailed Gecko focuses on all aspects of this group of geckos in the genus Hardback #252114 2020 9781938850325 £79.99 Nephrurus, with a particular focus on natural history and husbandry. The authors have beautifully documented the diversity of appearance and colouration of...
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Ponds, Pools and Puddles 288 pages | HarperCollins Jeremy Biggs(Author) Paperback #127505 Mar-2021 9780002200868 £29.99 Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape – there are at least ten times as many Hardback #127504 Mar-2021 9780002200851 £52.99 ponds as lakes in the UK – and they are also important wildlife habitats. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of these...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 12 Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic Salmon 287 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | CRC Press Tomislav Vladić(Editor), Erik Petersson(Editor) Paperback #251908 Dec-2020 9780367738020 £42.99 Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.) is an anadromous species contributing to major fishery Hardback #216622 2015 9781466598485 £110.00 catches and comprising a significant part of the aquaculturally produced fish for human consumption. The aim of Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic Salmon is to...
Ocean Outbreak 216 pages | 17 b/w illustrations, 6 b/w maps | University of California Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease Press Drew Harvell(Author) Paperback #251915 May-2021 9780520382985 £20.99 There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Hardback #245589 2019 9780520296978 £22.99 Marine epidemics have the potential to cause a mass die-off of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chain, impacting the health of ocean...
At the Heart of the Coral Triangle 264 pages | 205 colour photos | CRC Press Celebrating Biodiversity Hardback #251951 Dec-2020 9780367428167 £40.99 Alan J Powderham(Author), Sancia ET van der Meij(Author), Charles RC Sheppard(Foreword By) The Coral Triangle, straddling the confluence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, harbours the greatest biodiversity of marine life on the planet. It is home to a wondrous variety, including 75% of the world's coral species and around 2500 species...
Coral Reef Curiosities 139 pages | colour photos | Dayton Publishing LLC Intrigue, Deception and Wonder on the Reef and Beyond Paperback #252011 2020 9781732526532 £31.50 Chuck Weikert(Author) Hardback #252012 2020 9781732526549 £38.50 Wonder on the Reef and Beyond chronicles the secret lives of coral reef animals. This lively book also reveals this diverse ecosystem's connections with humankind, as expressed in art, science and literature.The book is populated with the likes...
Great Salt Lake Biology 527 pages | 140 colour & 20 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature A Terminal Lake in a Time of Change Hardback #252014 2020 9783030403515 £119.99 Bonnie K Baxter(Editor), Jaimi K Butler(Editor) Great Salt Lake is an enormous terminal lake in the western United States. It is a highly productive ecosystem, which has global significance for millions of migrating birds who rely on this critical feeding station on their journey through the...
Open-Sea and Deep-Water Fish of the Balearic Islands 16 pages | colour illustrations | Cossetània Edicions Toni Llobet François(Author), Enric Ballesteros Sagarra(Author) Paperback #252035 2020 9788490349410 £29.99 The Balearic Sea is teeming with marine life. In its waters, large numbers of tuna breed. Conger eels, hake and angler fish live near the sea bed, while towards the surface swim vast schools of sardines and dolphinfish. This easy-to-use guide...
Coastal Fish of the Balearic Islands 16 pages | colour illustrations | Cossetània Edicions Toni Llobet François(Author), Enric Ballesteros Sagarra(Author) Paperback #252036 2020 9788490349427 £29.99 The Balearic Islands are a Paradise for Mediterranean marine life. In this guide, you will find accurately illustrated many of the coastal species that live between the wave-break zone and a depth of a few metres. These are fish you will see if you...
Dead Zones 224 pages | Oxford University Press The Loss of Oxygen from Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and the Ocean Hardback #252062 Feb-2021 9780197520376 £25.99 David L Kirchman(Author) Dead zones are on the rise.Human activity has caused an increase in uninhabitable, oxygen- poor zones – also known as "dead zones" – in our waters. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, and it is a necessity...
Elegy for a River 272 pages | Doubleday Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope Hardback #252112 Mar-2021 9780857527011 £12.99 Tom Moorhouse(Author) Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, once they were a ubiquitous part of our waterways. They were a totem of our rivers. Now, however, they are nearly gone. This is...
Evolutionary Biology
Reproduction and Adaptation 280 pages | 38 b/w illus, 9 tabs | Cambridge University Press Topics in Human Reproductive Ecology Paperback #252189 2020 9781108822510 £29.99 CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor(Editor), Lyliane Rosetta(Editor) Hardback #186828 2011 9780521509633 £74.99 In the space of one generation major changes have begun to take place in the field of human reproduction. A rapid increase in the control of fertility and the understanding and treatment of sexual health issues have been accompanied by an emerging...
Jaws 224 pages | Stanford University Press The Story of a Hidden Epidemic Paperback #252010 Dec-2020 9781503613584 £15.99 Sandra Kahn(Author), Paul R Ehrlich(Author), Robert M Sapolsky(Foreword By) Hardback #239950 2018 9781503604131 £19.99 There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 13 The Human Swarm 469 pages | no illustrations | Head of Zeus How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall Paperback #252194 2020 9781789544183 £9.99 Mark W Moffett(Author) Hardback #245726 2019 9781789544176 £19.99 A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and national distinctions mirror those of other animals.In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W....
Some Assembly Required 271 pages | 40 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Oneworld Publications Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA Paperback #252022 Apr-2021 9781786079428 £10.99 Neil Shubin(Author), Kalliopi Monoyios(Illustrator) Hardback #247509 2020 9781786078018 £18.99 The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth. Over billions of years, fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and...
Wayfinding 296 pages | 8 plates with colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations; 16 The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Picador Michael Bond(Author) Paperback #251959 Mar-2021 9781509841097 £9.99 The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We Hardback #249725 2020 9781509841066 £19.99 can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years...
On Human Nature 276 pages | 12 b/w illustrations, 3 tables | Routledge The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human Paperback #251032 2020 9780367556471 £32.99 Jonathan H Turner(Author) Hardback #251031 2020 9780367556488 £145.00 This new book by the distinguished sociological theorist Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature, as it was inherited from the common ancestors...
The World Before Us 320 pages | Viking Books How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins Hardback #251923 Mar-2021 9780241440674 £19.99 Tom Higham(Author) Fifty-thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, who occupied Europe, the Near East and parts of Eurasia; the enigmatic Homo floresiensis, or 'Hobbits',...
Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know 160 pages | Oxford University Press David W Deamer(Author) Paperback #252030 2020 9780190099008 £12.99 Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems Hardback #252031 2020 9780190098995 £54.99 possible that scientists will soon discover how life is created on habitable planets like Earth and Mars. Scientists have responded to a renewed public...
The First Cell 178 pages | 47 colour & 1 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature The Mystery Surrounding the Beginning of Life Hardback #252065 2020 9783030453800 £24.99 Ulrich Schreiber(Author), Christian Mayer(Author) This book introduces a fresh perspective on the conditions for the genesis of the first cell. An important possible environment of the prehistoric Earth has long been overlooked as a host to the perfect biochemical conditions for this process. The...
Behavior in our Bones 295 pages | Elsevier How Human Behavior Influences Skeletal Morphology Paperback #252154 Jun-2021 9780128213834 £95.95 Cara Stella Hirst(Editor) There is a wealth of research papers, spanning multiple fields, that investigates morphological changes in the human skeleton in relation to behaviour and biomechanics. Finding this information is time consuming and often not accessible. Behavior in...
Learning Among Neanderthals and Palaeolithic Modern Humans 218 pages | 82 colour & 45 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Archaeological Evidence Paperback #252155 Dec-2020 9789811389825 £54.99 Yoshihiro Nishiaki(Editor), Olaf Jöris(Editor) Hardback #252156 2019 9789811389795 £79.99 This book is based on the research performed for the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Project. The central issue of the project is the investigation of possible differences between the two populations in cognitive ability for learning....
Digital Endocasts 289 pages | 106 colour & 37 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature From Skulls to Brains Paperback #252157 2019 9784431568278 £99.99 Emiliano Bruner(Editor), Naomichi Ogihara(Editor), Hiroki C Tanabe(Editor) Hardback #252158 2018 9784431565802 £129.99 This book is dedicated to a specific component of palaeoneurology, probably the most essential one: endocasts. A series of original papers collected here focus on describing methods and techniques that are dedicated to reconstruct and study fossil...
Culture History and Convergent Evolution 302 pages | 21 colour & 44 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory? Hardback #252191 2020 9783030461256 £89.99 Huw S Groucutt(Editor) This volume brings together diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists, covering various spatial and temporal periods to distinguish convergent evolution from cultural transmission in order to see if we can discover...
Ecology
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 14 Ecosystem Services from Forest Landscapes 265 pages | 46 colour & 16 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Broad-Scale Considerations Paperback #252072 2018 9783030090104 £99.99 Ajith H Perera(Editor), Urmas Peterson(Editor), Guillermo J Martínez Pastur(Editor), Louis R Hardback #240258 2018 9783319745145 £139.99 Iverson(Editor) Over the last two decades, the topic of forest ecosystem services has attracted the attention of researchers, land managers, and policy makers around the globe. The services rendered by forest ecosystems range from intrinsic to anthropocentric...
Open Ecosystems 194 pages | 16 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Oxford University Press William J Bond(Author) Paperback #251993 Jan-2021 9780198869306 £27.99 Open Ecosystems explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of 'open ecosystems', which Hardback #246641 2019 9780198812456 £47.99 include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support closed forest ecosystems and often form mosaics with forest...
Plant-Fire Interactions 208 pages | 32 colour & 23 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management Hardback #252018 2020 9783030411916 £109.99 Víctor Resco de Dios(Author) This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires. It bridges the gap between plant ecologists, interested in the functional...
Biology of Composts 291 pages | 26 colour & 13 b/w illustrations, 20 tables | Springer Nature Mukesh Kumar Meghvansi(Editor), Ajit Varma(Editor) Hardback #252078 2020 9783030391720 £149.99 This book highlights the latest findings on fundamental aspects of composting, the interaction of various microorganisms, and the underlying mechanisms. In addition to addressing modern tools and techniques used for composting research, it provides...
Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States 455 pages | 66 colour & 21 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature A Comprehensive Science Synthesis for the United States Forest Sector Hardback #252170 Jan-2021 9783030453664 £44.99 Therese M Poland(Editor), Toral Patel-Weynand(Editor), Deborah Finch(Editor), Chelcy Ford Miniat(Editor), Vanessa M Lopez(Editor) This book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever-increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written...
Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions 289 pages | 66 colour & 21 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Richard Pouyat(Editor), Deborah S Page-Dumroese(Editor), Toral Patel-Weynand(Editor), Hardback #252171 2020 9783030452155 £44.99 Linda H Geiser(Editor) This book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, and explores directions that positively...
The Soils of Libya 230 pages | 5 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Hamdi A Zurqani(Author) Hardback #252172 Mar-2021 9783030663674 £109.99 This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya. Soils are the source of all life; there can be no life without them. Further, each soil has its own history and its present conditions, which have been shaped by many different factors (e.g....
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction 376 pages | 40 colour & 8 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Juan Núñez-Farfán(Editor), Pedro Luis Valverde(Editor) Hardback #252184 2020 9783030460112 £119.99 Plant-herbivore interactions are a central topic in evolutionary ecology. Historically, their study has been a cornerstone for coevolutionary theory. Starting from classic ecological studies at the phenotypic level, it has since expanded to molecular...
Earth System Sciences
Geology Underfoot in Southern California 308 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Mountain Press Publishing Arthur Gibbs Sylvester(Author), Robert P Sharp(Author), Allen F Glazner(Author), Elizabeth Company O'Black Gans(Illustrator) Paperback #252068 2020 9780878426980 £23.99 First published in 1993, this groundbreaking book is now fully revised and updated with the Paperback #56594 1995 9780878422890 £16.99 latest scientific information. Join a team of geologists as they use clear prose, concise illustrations, and dramatic full-colour photographs to tell the...
Ice Rivers 272 pages | Allen Lane A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and People, Histories Entwined, at a Moment When Their Hardback #251820 May-2021 9780241467688 £19.99 Relationship is about to Change Forever Jemma L Wadham(Author) The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater – but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an...
The New Forest 160 pages | 198 colour photos and colour illustrations | Crowood Press The New Forest Paperback #251935 Feb-2021 9781785008160 £16.99 James Barnet(Author) This book is intended to be the most complete and up-to-date guide to the geology and fossils of the New Forest National Park in southern England, providing a wealth of information of interest to both the amateur fossil collector and the professional...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 15 The Physics of Climate Change 224 pages | illustrations | Head of Zeus Lawrence M Krauss Hardback #251953 Apr-2021 9781800244788 £14.99 The news is full of hotly debated divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science populizers, cuts through the confusion by succinctly presenting the...
Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas (2-Volume Set) 608 pages | 435 colour photos, 205 colour maps | Verlag Dr. Friedrich Manfred Gottwald(Author), Thomas Kenkmann(Author), Wolf Uwe Reimold(Author) Pfeil Impact cratering is one of the fundamental processes in the solar system and, with all certainty, Hardback #251970 2020 9783899372618 £135.00 beyond. This process played a major role when the planets and their moons began to form from the protoplanetary disk, and throughout planetary evolution...
The Andaman Islands and Adjoining Offshore 400 pages | 120 colour & 20 b/w illustrations, 130 tables | Springer Geology, Tectonics and Palaeoclimate Nature Jyotiranjan S Ray(Editor), M Radhakrishna(Editor) Hardback #251975 2020 9783030398422 £109.99 The Andaman Islands and Adjoining Offshore gathers peer-reviewed research articles on recent advances concerning the geology, geophysics, tectonics, geochronology, sedimentology, igneous petrology, paleo-climate and paleo-oceanography of the Andaman...
Enciclopédia dos Minerais do Brasil, Volume 7: Filossilicatos [Encyclopedia of Brazilian 432 pages | Editora da ULBRA Minerals, Volume 7: Phyllosilicates] Paperback #251986 2019 9788575285749 £130.00 Paulo César Pereira das Neves(Author), Daniel Atencio(Author) This book represents an unprecedented systematic review of the entire Brazilian mineralogical universe of all species of phyllosilicates, geographically locating its main deposits.Summary in Portuguese:Este livro representa uma revisão...
Volcanoes of Auckland 344 pages | colour photos | Auckland University Press A Field Guide Flexibound #252073 2019 9781869409012 £48.50 Bruce W Hayward(Author), Alastair Jamieson(Illustrator) A fully illustrated field guide for Aucklanders and visitors to take with them out among the 53 volcanoes that shape this city. Volcanoes of Auckland is a handy field guide to the fiery natural world that so deeply shapes New Zealand’s largest...
30-Second Oceans 160 pages | 60 photos and illustrations | The Ivy Press 50 Key Ideas about the Sea's Importance to Life on Earth Hardback #252150 Mar-2021 9780711252660 £14.99 Yueng-Djern Lenn(Editor), Mattias Green(Editor) Oceans cover two-thirds of the Earth’s surface and are the driving force behind our weather systems, taking warm and cold water around the globe. Understanding solar radiation, currents, and rising sea levels are vital starting points to...
Environmental & Social Studies
Climate in Crisis 240 pages | Hot Books Who's Causing It, Who's Fighting It, and How We Can Reverse It Before It's Too Late Paperback #252067 2020 9781510760561 £19.99 Robert F Kennedy, Jr.(Author), Dick Russell(Author), David Talbot(Foreword By) Hardback #236111 2017 9781510721753 £23.99 The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet:...
Trees in Trouble 288 pages | Counterpoint Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Hit the West Paperback #251969 Apr-2021 9781640094666 £14.99 Daniel Mathews(Author) Hardback #248292 2020 9781640091351 £18.99 A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in-depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn...
Our Final Warning 372 pages | no illustrations | Fourth Estate Six Degrees of Climate Emergency Paperback #251911 Apr-2021 9780008308575 £9.99 Mark Lynas(Author) Hardback #248862 2020 9780008308551 £19.99 Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it's only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation...
Eating to Extinction 350 pages | Jonathan Cape The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them Hardback #248954 May-2021 9781787331235 £19.99 Dan Saladino(Author) A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, with an urgent message for our times.We live in an age of mass extinction. The earth's biodiversity is decreasing at a faster rate than ever....
Planet Palm 304 pages | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World Hardback #250350 May-2021 9781787383784 £19.99 Jocelyn C Zuckerman(Author) It's in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and fuel tanks. But what is palm oil, and how has it come to dominate our lives so completely?Jocelyn C. Zuckerman travels across four continents and back in time two centuries to find...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 16 The New Climate War 336 pages | Scribe Publications The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Paperback #251940 Feb-2021 9781913348687 £16.99 Michael E Mann(Author) Hardback #250832 Jan-2021 9781541758230 £29.99 Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the tactics that we've been told can slow climate change. But most of these recommendations are a result of a multi-pronged marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility...
Lost in Growth 240 pages | Agenda Publishing Finding Our Way on a Finite Planet Paperback #251018 Apr-2021 9781788211796 £23.99 Jonathan Temple(Author) Hardback #251019 Apr-2021 9781788211789 £75.99 Few ideas are more central to the modern world than economic growth. It is linked to the advancement of knowledge, improvements in technology, and higher incomes. The rate of growth shapes our everyday experience and our expectations for the future....
The Atlas of Disappearing Places 224 pages | colour illustrations | The New Press Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis Hardback #251738 May-2021 9781620974568 £21.99 Christina Conklin(Author), Marina Psaros(Author), Lawrence E Susskind(Foreword By) An unforgettable, beautifully rendered illustration of the threat of rising sea levels around the world Spurred by manmade climate change, the seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and...
The World for Sale 416 pages | Random House Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources Hardback #251914 Feb-2021 9781847942654 £19.99 Javier Blas(Author), Jack Farchy(Author) The modern world is built on commodities – from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to consider where they come from. But we should.In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on...
Doughnut Economics 384 pages | Random House Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Paperback #251933 2018 9781847941398 £9.99 Kate Raworth(Author) Unforeseen financial crises. Extreme wealth inequality. Relentless pressure on the environment. Can we go on like this? Is there an alternative?In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth lays out the seven deadly mistakes of economics and...
Planetary Health 536 pages | 100 colour photos and colour illustrations, colour tables | Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves Island Press Samuel Myers(Editor), Howard Frumkin(Editor) Paperback #251977 2020 9781610919661 £29.99 Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems – the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate – are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater,...
Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air 244 pages | Colour photos and illustrations | UIT Cambridge Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way to Help Save the Planet Paperback #251983 0200 9780857845030 £19.99 Sarah L Bridle(Author) A quarter of our carbon emissions comes from food. This accessible description of how food and climate change are connected, inspired by the author's former mentor David Mackay (Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air), steers clear of emotive...
The Bearded Lady Project 208 pages | b/w photos | Columbia University Press Challenging the Face of Science Hardback #251985 2020 9780231198042 £33.99 Lexi Jamieson Marsh(Editor), Ellen Currano(Editor) During a discussion of how women are treated in traditionally male-dominated fields, paleobotanist Ellen Currano lamented to filmmaker Lexi Jamieson Marsh that, as the only young and female faculty member in her department, she was not taken...
What If We Stopped Pretending? 80 pages | Fourth Estate Jonathan Franzen(Author) Paperback #252006 Jan-2021 9780008434045 £4.99 The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending. This is Jonathan Franzen’s controversial New Yorker essay, published as a single volume that discusses a planet...
Ending Hunger 352 pages | Oneworld Publications The Quest to Feed the World Without Destroying It Hardback #252007 Jan-2021 9781786079268 £16.99 Anthony Warner(Author) Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred other foods. But is it really incumbent on us as individuals to...
The Alchemy of Disease 352 pages | Columbia University Press How Chemicals and Toxins Cause Cancer and Other Illnesses Hardback #252041 2020 9780231191661 £29.99 John Whysner(Author) Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have unleashed a bewildering number of potentially harmful chemicals. But out of this vast array, how do we identify the actual threats? What does it take to prove that a certain chemical causes cancer? How do...
The Spirit of Green 320 pages | 33 b/w illustrations, 19 tables | Princeton University Press The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World Hardback #252053 May-2021 9780691214344 £24.99 William D Nordhaus(Author) Solving the world’s biggest problems – from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance – requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us....
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 17 Save the Humans? 272 pages | PM Press Common Preservation in Action Paperback #252070 2020 9781629637983 £17.99 Jeremy Brecher(Author) We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimper of an expiring ecosphere. Today our individual self-preservation depends on common preservation...
Super Polluters 296 pages | Columbia University Press Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions Paperback #252085 Dec-2020 9780231192170 £23.99 Don Grant(Author), Andrew Jorgenson(Author), Wesley Longhofer(Author) Hardback #252084 Dec-2020 9780231192163 £73.99 Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon...
The Ecology of Everyday Things 178 pages | 23 b/w illustrations | CRC Press Mark Everard(Author) Paperback #252117 2020 9780367636319 £18.99 For many people, ecosystems may be a remote concept, yet we eat, drink, breathe and Hardback #252116 Dec-2020 9780367636340 £47.50 interface with them in every moment of our lives. In this engaging textbook, ecosystems scientist Dr Mark Everard considers a diversity of ‘everyday...
The Great Re-Think 203 pages | Pari Publishing A 21st Century Renaissance Paperback #252140 Jan-2021 9788895604343 £14.99 Colin Tudge(Author) All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse – yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal...
The New Map 512 pages | Allen Lane Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations Hardback #252180 2020 9780241472347 £24.99 Daniel Yergin(Author) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize and The Quest reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future.A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. The global order is being simultaneously shaken by...
Environmental Management Handbook (6-Volume Set) 3819 pages | 937 b/w illustrations | CRC Press Brian D Fath(Editor), Sven Erik Jørgensen(Editor) Hardback #252188 2020 9781138342620 £575.00 Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a topical...
History & Other Humanities
Seeds of Empire 256 pages | 40 illustrations, 7 tables | IB Tauris The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand Paperback #252175 2020 9781350166004 £28.99 Tom Brooking(Editor), Eric Pawson(Editor) Hardback #188386 2010 9781845117979 £94.99 The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies...
Imperial Mud 256 pages | 8 plates with b/w photos and b/w illustrations; 3 b/w maps | The Fight for the Fens Icon Books James Boyce(Author) Paperback #252098 Apr-2021 9781785787157 £9.99 Between the English Civil Wars and the mid-Victorian period, the proud indigenous population Hardback #250493 2020 9781785786501 £12.99 of the Fens of eastern England fought to preserve their homeland against an expanding empire. After centuries of resistance, their culture and community were...
The Flowering of Ecology colour & b/w illustrations | E J Brill Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book Hardback #251930 Dec-2020 9789004284791 £79.99 Kay Etheridge(Author), Maria Sybilla Merian(Illustrator), Brian Ogilvie(Foreword By) The Flowering of Ecology presents an English translation of Maria Sibylla Merian's 1679 'caterpillar' book, Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumen–Nahrung. Her processes in making the book and an analysis of its...
Organismal to Molecular Biology
Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes 1008 pages | photos | Wiley-Blackwell Alexander S Graphodatsky(Editor), Polina L Perelman(Editor), Stephen J O'Brien(Editor), Hardback #252081 2020 9781119418030 £417.00 Malcolm A Ferguson-Smith(Foreword By), Denis M Larkin(Foreword By), Jennifer A Marshall Graves(Afterword by) The updated new edition of the popular collection of high-resolution chromosome photographs – for geneticists, mammologists, and biologists interested in comparative genomics, systematics, and chromosome structure.Filled with a visually...
The Design of Mammals 376 pages | 79 b/w illustrations, 168 tables | Cambridge University Press A Scaling Approach Paperback #252034 2020 9781108828864 £29.99 John William Prothero(Author) Hardback #222745 2015 9781107110472 £88.99 Despite an astonishing 100 million-fold range in adult body mass from bumblebee bat to blue whale, all mammals are formed of the same kinds of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and to the same overall body plan. A scaling approach investigates the...
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 18 Hacking Darwin 368 pages | Sourcebooks Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity Paperback #251984 2020 9781728214139 £12.99 Jamie Metzl(Author) Hardback #245469 2019 9781492670094 £19.99 After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules...From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations...
Understanding Animal Behaviour 200 pages | Cambridge University Press What to Measure and Why Paperback #251957 Apr-2021 9781108705103 £24.99 Sergio Pellis(Author), Vivien Pellis(Author) Hardback #251958 Apr-2021 9781108483452 £64.99 All students and researchers of behaviour – from those observing freely-behaving animals in the field to those conducting more controlled laboratory studies – face the problem of deciding what exactly to measure. Without a scientific...
Cooperation and Conflict 350 pages | Cambridge University Press The Interaction of Opposites in Shaping Social Behaviour Hardback #251994 Feb-2021 9781108475693 £64.99 Walter Wilczynski(Editor), Sarah F Brosnan(Editor) Understanding the interaction between cooperation and conflict in establishing effective social behaviour is a fundamental challenge facing societies. Reflecting the breadth of current research in this area, Cooperation and Conflict brings together...
Structure and Function of the Bacterial Genome 416 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Charles J Dorman(Author) Hardback #252176 2020 9781119308799 £129.00 Presents an integrated view of the expression of bacterial genetic information, genome architecture and function, and bacterial physiology and pathogenesis.This book blends information from the very latest research on bacterial chromosome and...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters 160 pages | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Anna Buckley(Author), Jim Al-Khalili(Foreword By) Hardback #252192 Jan-2021 9781474607469 £16.99 BBC Radio 4’s celebrated The Life Scientific has featured some of the world’s most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global...
Palaeontology
Dinosaurs 492 pages | 366 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations, 3 A Concise Natural History tables | Cambridge University Press David E Fastovsky(Author), David B Weishampel(Author), John Sibbick(Illustrator) Paperback #251086 May-2021 9781108469296 £61.99 The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages Hardback #251085 May-2021 9781108475945 £139.99 students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganized and...
Extinct: Hallucigenia 144 pages | colour illustrations | Zephyr Ben Garrod(Author), Gabriel Ugueto(Illustrator) Hardback #251577 May-2021 9781838935269 £14.99 The story of life on Earth through the planet's major mass extinctions. Book one, Hallucigenia, is about a weird worm that lived 443 million years ago. TV scientist Professor Ben Garrod presents a unique exploration of the most iconic animals...
Extinct: Dunkleosteus 144 pages | colour illustrations | Zephyr Ben Garrod(Author), Gabriel Ugueto(Illustrator) Hardback #251578 May-2021 9781838935290 £14.99 The story of life on Earth through the planet's major mass extinctions. Book two, Dunkleosteus, is about the famous armoured fish, weighing one tonne. TV scientist Professor Ben Garrod presents a unique exploration of the most iconic animals ever...
Extinct: Trilobite 144 pages | colour illustrations | Zephyr Ben Garrod(Author), Gabriel Ugueto(Illustrator) Hardback #251579 May-2021 9781838935320 £14.99 The story of life on Earth through the planet's major mass extinctions. In book three, it's trilobites, some of the first anthropods. TV scientist Professor Ben Garrod presents a unique exploration of major mass extinctions and how they...
Extinct: Lisowicia 144 pages | colour illustrations | Zephyr Ben Garrod(Author), Gabriel Ugueto(Illustrator) Hardback #251581 May-2021 9781838935351 £14.99 The story of life on Earth through the planet's major mass extinctions. Book four, Lisowicia, focuses on a massive nine-tonne, elephant-sized animal. TV scientist Professor Ben Garrod presents a unique exploration of major mass extinctions and...
Fossilization 304 pages | 13 colour & 37 b/w photos, 3 colour & 14 b/w illustrations | Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals Johns Hopkins University Press Carole T Gee, Victoria E McCoy and P Martin Sander Hardback #251936 Apr-2021 9781421440217 £88.99 Understanding the complex interplay of physical and chemical processes leading to fossilization is crucial to elucidating the 3800 million years of life on earth. And yet, the process of fossilization also leads to the loss of pivotal biological...
Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners 300 pages | 45 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Guillermo Rougier(Author), Agustín Martinelli(Author), Analía M Forasiepi(Author) Hardback #251939 Apr-2021 9783030638603 £109.99 Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals' evolution, their close ancestors and their...
Mycology
05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 19 Fungi 176 pages | 160 illustrations and maps | The Ivy Press A Species Guide Hardback #251290 May-2021 9780711258457 £12.99 Peter Roberts(Author), Shelley E Evans(Author) Fungi are an indispensable part of the great chain of life: more than 90% of the world’s plant species depend on them for their nutrition. There are believed to be about 1.5 million species, thriving in virtually every habitat, from temperate...
Fungi Europaei, Volume 14A: Hebeloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. – Supplement, Based on 470 pages | 294 colour photos, 86 b/w line drawings | Edizioni Candusso Collections from Italy [English] Hardback #252092 2020 9788894371017 £84.99 Edmondo Grilli(Author), Henry J Beker(Author), Ursula Eberhardt(Author), Nicole Schütz(Author) Based on collections from Italy, this is a supplement to Fungi Europaei, Volume 14 and covers new species in the genus Hebeloma.
Monograph of Orbiliomycetes (Ascomycota) Based on Vital Taxonomy (2-Volume Set) 1752 pages | 1028 colour photos & b/w line drawings, 158 colour Hans-Otto Baral(Author), Evi Weber(Author), Guy Marson(Author) distribution maps, 95 tables | Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, The present work is the result of an over 30 years extensive study of discomycetes, a former Luxembourg taxonomic class of Ascomycete fungi, recognized in the family Orbiliaceae, which was Hardback #252122 2020 9782919877249 £225.00 previously considered as a comparatively small group within the...
Biodiversity in the North West: The Mildews of Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria University of Chester Press Bruce Ing(Author) Paperback #252161 2020 9781910481097 £10.99 The historical counties of Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland have a rich diversity of geology, landscape, vegetation and wildlife. This is an account of a group of fascinating fungi, the downy and powdery mildews. They belong to quite...
Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Lancashire and Cumbria University of Chester Press Bruce Ing(Author) Paperback #252162 2020 9781910481066 £10.99 The historical counties of Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland have a rich diversity of geology, landscape, vegetation and wildlife. This is an account of a group of fascinating organisms, the slime moulds, which are neither slimy nor moulds, and...
The Fungi of North East Wales 299 pages | 13 colour photos, 3 colour & b/w maps | University of A Mycota for Vice-Counties 50 (Denbighshire) and 51 (Flintshire) Chester Press Bruce Ing(Author) Paperback #252164 2020 9781910481127 £19.99 The historical counties of Flint and Denbigh have a rich diversity of geology, landscape, vegetation and wildlife. It is particularly rich in fungi. This is the first account of the fungi that occur, or have occurred, in the region, right...
The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms 160 pages | colour photos | Quarry Books Everything You Need to Know, from Foraging to Cultivating Paperback #252174 Dec-2020 9781631599118 £18.99 Britt Bunyard(Author), Tavis Lynch(Author) The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms is your ultimate guide to mycology, focusing on North American species. Whether you've never picked a mushroom before in your life or you've been cultivating mushrooms at home for ages, the expert advice...
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