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NHBS Backlist Bargains 2011 Main Web Page NHBS Home Page www.nhbs.com [email protected] T: +44 (0)1803 865913 The Migration Biochemistry How To Identify How and Why Collins Field Guide: The Iberian Lynx: Ecology of Birds £51.99 £30.50 Trees in Southen Species Multiply: Birds of the Extinction or Africa The Radiation of Palearctic - Non- Recovery? £83.00 £48.99 £14.99 £8.99 Darwin's Finches Passerines £6.99 £4.50 £27.95 £16.50 £24.99 £12.99 For Love of Insects Field Guide to the The Status and Atlas of Seeds and The Biology of A Primer of £18.95 £11.50 Birds of The Distribution of Fruits of Central African Savannahs Ecological Statistics Gambia and Dragonflies of the and East-European £34.95 £20.50 £32.99 £19.50 Senegal Mediterranean Flora £24.99 £14.99 Region £359.00 £209.99 £9.99 £6.50 Browse the subject pages Dear Customers, Mammals Birds Welcome to the 2011 Backlist Bargains Catalogue! 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See contact details to the right -> NHBS Environment Bookstore 2 - 3 Wills Road Totnes Devon TQ9 5XN UK Tel: +44 (0)1803 865913 Fax: +44 (0)1803 865280 [email protected] www.nhbs.com [email protected] T: +44 (0)1803 865913 Zoology: Mammals NHBS Backlist Bargains 2011 main web page NHBS Home Page Activity Patterns in Small Mammals 318 pages | 59 figs, 11 tabs | Springer An Ecological Approach Hbk | 2000 | 354059244X | #109391 | Edited by S Halle and NC Stenseth £134.50 £78.99 approx. $126/€92 Links chronobiology with behavioural and evolutionary ecology, drawing on research on mammals ranging from mongooses and civets to weasels, martens and shrews. .... African Antelope Database 1998 434 pages | Tabs, maps | IUCN Rod East Pbk | 1999 | 2831704774 | #101961 | Provides those interested in antelope conservation with the information currently £34.99 £23.50 approx. $38/€28 held by the IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group on the conservation status of each antelope .... African Rhino 92 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs | IUCN Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Pbk | 1999 | 2831705029 | #106031 | Richard Emslie and Martin Brooks £19.50 £12.99 approx. $21/€16 Action plan aimed at donors, government and non-government organisations, and all those involved in rhino conservation. It outlines the actions and strategies needed to .... The African Wild Dog 341 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation maps | Princeton UP Scott Creel and Nancy Creel Pbk | 2002 | 0691016542 | #071612 | With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's £50.00 £29.99 approx. $48/€35 most endangered large carnivores. This book emphasises ecology, concentrating on why .... All Apes Great and Small, Volume 1: African Apes 298 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, Edited by BMF Galdikas, N Erickson Briggs, LK Sheeran, GL Shapiro and J Goodall maps | Springer Many of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Third International Hbk | 2002 | 0306467577 | #131443 | Great Apes of the World Conference, held July 3-6, 1998 in Kuching, Sarawak, £86.00 £50.99 approx. $81/€60 Malaysia. The .... Among Orangutans 224 pages | 95 col illus | Harvard UP Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture Hbk | 2005 | 0674015770 | #149025 | Carel van Schaik £22.95 £13.50 approx. $22/€16 The local people know him as the "Man of the Forest," who refused to speak for fear of being put to work. And indeed the bear-like Sumatran orangutan, with his moon face, .... The Asian Elephant: An Action Plan for its Conservation 80 pages | B/w photos, figs, maps | Edited by C Santiapillai and P Jackson IUCN Pbk | 1990 | 2880329973 | #011095 | £15.50 £10.50 approx. $17/€13 Badger 400 pages | Harper Collins Tim Roper Hbk | 2010 | 0007320418 | #177548 | The badger is a large mammal, common but very rarely seen in Britain, which has £50.00 £29.99 approx. $48/€35 become one of Britain's best-loved animals. It is a very social animal, living in large family .... Pbk | 2010 | 0007339771 | #177549 | £29.99 £17.50 approx. $28/€21 Bears 259 pages | 111 b/w illus | Yale UP A Brief History Hbk | 2007 | 0300122993 | #168613 | Bernd Brunner £18.99 £11.50 approx. $19/€14 Examines the shared history of people and bears. Combining history, literature, and science, this book presents the interactions between the two species and explores how .... Beaver Protection, Management and Utilization in Europe and 182 pages | Figs, tabs, maps | Kluwer North America Hbk | 1999 | 0306461218 | #100874 | £79.00 £46.99 approx. $75/€55 Edited by Peter E Busher and Ryszard M Dzieciolowski The result of a symposium that was part of the Euro-American Mammal Congress. Includes reports from both Europe and North America on beaver ecology, management programmes and .... The Behaviour of Pinnipeds 424 pages | B/w photos, figures | D Renouf Chapman & Hall (Kluwer) This volume presents a worldwide summary of current knowledge on Pinnipeds Hbk | 1990 | 0412305402 | #005932 | (seals, sea lions, fur seals and the walrus). Subjects covered include mating £276.00 £161.99 approx. $258/€189 systems, behavioural .... Behavioural Ecology of Siberian and European Roe Deer 296 pages | 57 line illus, 45 b/w photos A Danilkin and AJM Hewison | Chapman & Hall (Kluwer) Focuses on studies of both European and Siberian roe deer to provide an Hbk | 1996 | 0412638800 | #051717 | authoritative insight into the taxonomy, ecology, feeding patterns, social behaviour £118.50 £69.99 approx. $112/€82 and population .... The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives 234 pages | 16 page col insert, 149 illus An Illustrated Guide to their Evolution and Natural History | Columbia UP Mauricio Antón and Alan Turner Hbk | 1997 | 0231102283 | #065311 | A compelling account of the evolution and anatomy of big cats past and present £54.50 £31.99 approx. $51/€38 from an acclaimed artist (Anton) and a renowned paleontologist (Turner). The first book of its .... Pbk | 2000 | 0231102291 | #105463 | £17.95 £10.50 approx. $17/€13 Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants 576 pages | 229 illus | Blackwell Edited by Murray E Fowler and Susan K Mikota Hbk | 2007 | 0813806763 | #160896 | "Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants" serves as a comprehensive text on £104.99 £61.99 approx. $99/€73 elephant medicine and surgery. Based on the expertise of 36 scientists and clinical .... California Grizzly 335 pages | 36 b/w illus, 5 line illus, 2 Tracy I Storer and Lloyd P Tevis maps | California UP Still the most comprehensive natural history of the great animal, extinct in Pbk | 1996 | 0520205200 | #060289 | California since the 1920s. .... £17.95 £10.50 approx. $17/€13 Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs 430 pages | Illus, maps | IUCN Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Pbk | 2004 | 2831707862 | #150263 | Edited by Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Michael Hoffmann and David W Macdonald £34.99 £23.50 approx. $38/€28 This publication updates the first Canid Action Plan published in 1990, and aims to set the agenda for canid conservation into the 21st century. The first two parts deal with .... Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands 209 pages | B/w photos, 18 figs, maps | J du P Bothma Springer Following a general introduction to aridity and arid lands in Africa, the major Hbk | 1998 | 3540592652 | #064393 | carnivore families are presented. The ecological adaptations of carnivores in arid £110.50 £64.99 approx. $104/€76 lands .... Chimpanzee Cultures 424 pages | 41 b/w photos, figs, tabs | Edited by RW Wrangham, WC McGrew, FBM De Waal and PG Heltne Harvard UP With a foreword by Jane Goodall The world's leading authorities on chimpanzees Pbk | 1996 | 0674116631 | #056673 | and bonobos chronicle the animals' behaviour in captive, laboratory conditions, £28.95 £16.99 approx. $27/€20 and wild, .... Chimpanzee and Red Colobus 296 pages | 25 b/w photos, 58 figs, tabs The Ecology of Predator and Prey | Harvard UP Craig B Stanford Pbk | 1998 | 0674007220 | #123963 | Based on a six-year study in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, of how £20.95 £12.50 approx. $20/€15 predation by chimpanzees has influenced the behaviour, ecology and demography of a population of red .... Classification of Mammals 631 pages | - | Columbia UP Above the Species Level Pbk | 2000 | 0231110138 | #110923 | Malcolm C McKenna and Susan K Bell £48.00 £28.50 approx. $46/€34 The most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down to the rank of genus.
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