nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2014/12 December 2014 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913
Welcome to the December 2014 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This Zoology: monthly update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to Mammals nhbs.com in the last month. Birds
Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes
● Birds of Costa Rica (2nd edition; Helm Field Guide) Invertebrates ● Britain's Habitats: A Guide to the Wildlife Habitats of Britain and Ireland Palaeontology ● Crossbill Guides: Canary Islands - I Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Docks and Knotweeds of Britain and Ireland General Natural History ● The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern Africa: Handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe Regional & Travel ● Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America (2-Volume Set) Botany & Plant Science ● Introduction to Ecological Sampling Animal & General Biology ● Irish Bats in the 21st Century Evolutionary Biology ● Mammals of Mexico Ecology ● Primates of Vietnam Habitats & Ecosystems ● Understanding the Flowering Plants: A Practical Guide for Botanical Illustrators Conservation & Biodiversity Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS Environmental Science LibraryPro Physical Sciences Sustainable Development Best wishes, -The NHBS Team Data Analysis Reference View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document.
Mammals
Evolution of the Rodents 550 pages | 18 colour & 124 b/w Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development illustrations, 43 tables | Philip G Cox, Lionel Hautier, Jean-Louis Hartenberger and W Patrick Luckett Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | The widespread use of mouse models in developmental, behavioural and genetic studies has 9781107044333 | #217272A | £74.99 sparked wider interest in rodent biology as a whole. This book brings together the latest Add to basket research on rodents to better understand the evolution of ......
Fox Watching 96 pages | colour photos, b/w In the Shadow of the Fox illustrations | Martin Hemmington and Stephen A Harris Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | To watch wild foxes as they go about their lives is a thrill to convert anyone to a fox lover. It is 9781873580967 | #220138A | £9.99 not that difficult, if you know how. Here are tips on how to choose a likely spot, by studying all Add to basket the telltale signs; how to find your ......
Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals 544 pages | colour illustrations | Jonathan Kingdon Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Jonathan Kingdon, one of the world's foremost authorities on African mammals, has both 9781472912367 | #220135A | £29.99 written and illustrated this landmark field guide.The unique combination of his extensive field Add to basket experience and artistic talent has produced a stunning ......
Mammals of Essex 260 pages | colour photos, colour John Dobson, Darren Tansley and Germaine Greer distribution maps | Mammals of Essex features: - All species of Essex mammals fully updated and illustrated with Hardback | 11/2014 | 9780905637198 | colour photographs throughout - Distribution maps of all resident species plus many of those #219472A | £19.99 Add to basket extinct during tne last 200 years ...
Of Orcas and Men 368 pages | David Neiwert Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | The orca – otherwise known as the killer whale – is one of earth's most intelligent animals. 9780715649916 | #218664A | £19.99 Remarkably sophisticated, orcas have languages and cultures and even long-term memories, Add to basket and their capacity for echolocation is ......
Primates of Vietnam 376 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Tilo Nadler, Diane K Brockman and Russell A Mittermeier & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables | Primates of Vietnam was produced on the occasion of the 25th Congress of the International Hardback | 07/2014 | 9783000463280 | Primatological Society, in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 2014. It gives an overview of the current #219456A | £49.99 Add to basket threats to primates in Vietnam ......
The Antelope of Africa 372 pages | Willem Frost and Trevor Carnaby Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | This is the definitive field guide to the antelope of Africa. The Antelope of Africa conveys their 9781431406081 | #219864A | £22.95 conservation status, threats and risks for survival, distribution ranges, habitat requirements, Add to basket habits and how some of the species ......
War Dogs 272 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; Tales of Canine Heroism, History and Love b/w photos | Rebecca Frankel Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781137279682 | Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special #219515A | £15.99 Add to basket Forces patrol with his military working dog. Without warning an insurgent popped up, his weapon raised. At the handler's command, the dog ......
Wimperfledermaus, Bechsteinfledermaus und Mopsfledermaus 160 pages | ~80 colour photos, ~20 Einblicke in die Lebensweise Gefahrdeter Arten in Baden-Wurttemberg colour illustrations | Claude Steck, Robert Brinkmann and Klaus Echle Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Bats are both secretive and at the same time incredibly exciting predators. To promote rare 9783258079103 | #219903A | £43.50 species in Baden-W•rttemberg, protected areas have been designated and conservation Add to basket projects are being carried out. The latter allowed a scientific ......
Wolves, Courts and Public Policy 260 pages | The Children of the Night Return to the Northern Rocky Mountains Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Edward A Fitzgerald 9781498502672 | #219648A | £57.95 Wolves, Courts and Public Policy examines the reintroduction and recovery of the wolf in the Add to basket Northern Rocky Mountains. The wolf was driven to brink of extinction through conscious government policy. The Endangered Species Act ......
Birds
A Natural History of Lighthouses 288 pages | 200+ colour illustrations | John A Love Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | This is the story of lightkeepers' contributions to the natural history of lighthouses in 9781849951548 | #220066A | £19.99 conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons – their Add to basket primary function of course – 'for the safety ......
American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of California 352 pages | 450+ colour photos | Alvaro Jaramillo Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | California has it all for birders – lush coastal coniferous forests, dry chaparral, oak woodlands, 9781935622505 | #220065A | £20.99 grasslands, alpine slides, riparian valleys, watered suburbs, and desert scrubs. Hundreds of Add to basket types of birds nest in the Golden State ......
American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania 352 pages | colour photos | George L Armistead Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Pennsylvania is one of the best places to go birding in North America. From the shores of Lake 9781935622529 | #220064A | £20.99 Erie in the northwest and the great river basins of the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela to the Add to basket central Allegheny Mountains and east along the ......
Atlas des Vogelzugs 664 pages | ~600 colour photos, ~250 Ringfunde Deutscher Brut- und Gastvogel colour distribution maps | Franz Bairlein, Jochen Dierschke, Volker Dierschke, Volker Salewski, Olaf Geiter and Kathrin Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Huppop 9783891047705 | #219746A | £58.99 The ringing of birds is still one of the most important methods for the study of bird migration. Add to basket In Germany, birds have been ringed for more than 100 years. Since then, about 20 million animals have provided more than one million datapoints. ....
Birds Of South-East Asia 544 pages | 120 plates with 3600+ Craig Robson colour illustrations | This is the definitive volume on the region's birdlife. This award-winning book, which was first Paperback | NYP 01/2014 | published in 2000, was fully updated in 2008 to include 76 new species for the region that were 9781472916693 | #219460A | £24.99 recent discoveries for science, taxonomic 'splits' ...... Add to basket
Birds of Maharashtra 329 pages | colour illustrations | Satish Pande, Pramod Deshpande and Niranjant Sant Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788190695589 This book is specially designed such that it will generate interest in the minds of amateur | #219767A | £58.99 Add to basket birdwatchers, teachers, and ornithologists and also induct lay persons to the amazing world of birds. It is intended to serve as a quick reference ......
DVD Guide to British Waders (Region 0) runtim: 117 min | Paul Doherty DVD | 11/2014 | #219599A | £17.95 Waders are very popular with birdwatchers and DVD Guide to British Waders has been specially Add to basket filmed as an identification guide to British waders. It shows birds as the birdwatcher sees them – flying, feeding, calling ......
Die Voegel Mitteleuropas Sicher Bestimmen (2-Volume Set) 1150 pages | ~2000 colour photos, Wolfgang Fiedler ~200 b/w illustrations | This field guide consists of two independently usable parts that can be bought together or Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | independently, and sets a new standard, as identification of bird species can be achieved in 9783494015934 | #219749A | £58.99 three different ways. The second volume with binomial ...... Add to basket
Die Voegel Mitteleuropas Sicher Bestimmen, Band 1 700 pages | ~2000 colour photos | Bildatlas mit Schnellzugang Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Wolfgang Fiedler 9783494016474 | #219747A | £39.99 This field guide consists of two independently usable parts that can be bought together or Add to basket independently, and sets a new standard, as identification of bird species can be achieved in three different ways. The second volume with binomial keys ......
Die Voegel Mitteleuropas Sicher Bestimmen, Band 2 450 pages | ~ 200 b/w illustrations | Schluessel zur Art-, Alters- und Geschlechtsbestimmung Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Wolfgang Fiedler 9783494016467 | #219748A | £34.99 This field guide consists of two independently usable parts that can be bought together or Add to basket independently, and sets a new standard, as identification of bird species can be achieved in three different ways. This second volume with binomial keys ......
Fauna Ptits Stran Severnoi Evrazii v Granitsakh Byvshego SSSR: Spiski 171 pages | Vidov [Avifauna of the States of Northern Eurasia Paperback | 01/2014 | 9785873179855 | #219844A | £34.99 Add to basket Evgenii Aleksandrovich Koblik, Vladimir Yu Arkhipov and MG Wilson This report is part of a series on an inventory of the avian fauna of the territory spanning the historical range of the Russian Empire and the USSR. We present a complete checklist of the birds of Northem Eurasia within the borders of the ......
Practical Projects to Make 40 Bird Boxes, Feeders and Birdbaths 128 pages | 380+ colour photos | Easy-to-follow Step-by-step Instructions and 380 Photographs Paperback | 12/2013 | 9781846817823 Jen Green | #219541A | £7.99 Add to basket Practical Projects to Make 40 Bird Boxes, Feeders and Birdbaths shows you how to attract birds to your garden by creating nest boxes, roosts, birdhouses, dovecotes, tables, feeding stations and birdbaths. It explains what to feed ......
The Birdwatcher's Pocket Guide to Britain and Europe 320 pages | 500 colour photos and Peter Hayman and Rob Hume colour illustrations | This is the most compact and concise guide to the 430 species of birds that live in or regularly Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780753726280 visit Britain and the rest of Europe. It is the only truly pocket-sized field guide. There are at | #220103A | £9.99 Add to basket least six illustrations of each species ......
The Snow Geese 250 pages | no illustrations | William Fiennes and Robert MacFarlane Paperback | 03/2010 | 9780330375795 I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds | #135576A | £8.99 Add to basket couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | William Fiennes finds himself restless and ...... 9781447275442 | #219581A | £9.99 Add to basket
Wings for My Flight 216 pages | b/w illustrations | The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock [Updated Edition] Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780826354341 Marcy Cottrell Houle | #219602A | £20.95 Add to basket Forty years ago, the peregrine falcon was on the U.S. endangered species list and many doubted that it would survive. Marcy Houle was a young wildlife biologist observing one of the last remaining pairs – located at a site in southern ......
Reptiles & Amphibians
Amphibians of China, Volume 1 989 pages | 706 colour & 169 b/w Liang Fei, Changyuan Ye, Alain Dubois and Annemarie Ohler illustrations | Amphibians of China, Volume 1 describes each amphibian with its alternate name, its main Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | characteristics, biological data, population status, and geographic distribution. Each entry is 9789401795630 | #219675A | £153.00 accompanied by plenty of figures and colored ...... Add to basket
Snakes of Tasmania 58 pages | colour photos, b/w line Simon Fearn drawings, maps | Having been passionate about snakes all his life, Fearn's experience, knowledge and Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780958620307 understanding are enthusiastically shared in Snakes of Tasmania, providing a fascinating insight | #220087A | £14.99 Add to basket into the biology and habits of Tasmania's ......
The Biology of Lacertid Lizards 313 pages | Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives Paperback | 01/2004 | 9788495718204 Valentín Perez-Mellado, Nuria Riera and Anna Perera | #219884A | £24.99 Add to basket The Biology of Lacertid Lizards: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives includes the results of the Fouth International Symposium that was held in May 2001 at Mao (Menorca), with the support of several institutions. The report ......
Tous les Serpents du Monde 272 pages | 200+ colour photos and Chris Mattison colour illustrations, colour distribution This is a French translation of Snakes of the World. maps | Hardback | 11/2014 | 9782603021347 | #220287A | £42.99 Add to basket
Veldgids Amfibien en Reptielen 304 pages | 250+ colour photos and Anton HP Stumpel and Henk Strijbosch colour illustrations | This photographic field guide decribes 125 species of amphibians and reptiles found in Europe. Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789050115247 | Only a few endemic of islands in the Mediterranean Sea are missing. Thanks to over 250 colour #219618A | £27.50 Add to basket photos and colour illustrations, clear descriptions ......
Fishes
Classification and Identification of Freshwater Fishes [India] 119 pages | 77 b/w photos, 1 map | Chandrashekhar J Hiware, Rajkumar T Pawar, Jaiprakash M Gaikwad, Smita R Sonawane, DK Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789351243168 Belsare and | #219808A | £44.99 Add to basket Classification and Identification of Freshwater Fishes presents the general aspects of the fish identification and the systematics of fishes collected from different localities of Marathwada region of Maharashtra State, India. ....
Pictorial Handbook on Fishes of North East India 348 pages | 451 illustrations, tables | Nibedita Sen and Dimos Khynriam Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788181713759 | Fishes are cold-blooded backboned animals and are the most ancient and numerous of #219449A | £165.00 Add to basket vertebrates. Diversified fish fauna of North Eastern region was worked out by several authors on regional basis resulting in a good number of publications ......
Invertebrates
A Key to the Major Groups of British Terrestrial Invertebrates illustrations | Steve M Tilling Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781908819208 The second edition of this popular AIDGAP identification guide is designed to help non- | #220179A | £7.99 Add to basket specialists identify the larger (>1 mm length) invertebrates found on land throughout the British Isles. An identification key is included ......
A Photographic Guide to Moths & Butterflies of New Zealand 144 pages | colour photos | Robert JB Hoare and Olly Ball Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Given that they are found in a huge range of habitats, from the porch light to the forests, 9781869663995 | #219651A | £10.99 pastures and high country, it is easy to stumble across New Zealand's moths and butterflies. Add to basket That study is still very much a 'work in progress ......
Accrescimenti, Volume 6 [English / Italian] 192 pages | colour photos | Stages of Growth of the Marine Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea / Stadi di Hardback | 10/2014 | #219457A | Accrescimento dei Molluschi Marini del Medit £69.99 Add to basket Maria Scaperrotta, Stefano Bartolini and Cesare Bogi In this sixth volume another 124 species are figured, leading to a overall number of 756 well- treated species in this series. A main focus in this book is on several species belonging to the families Cerithiopsidae, Raphitomidae, Yoldiidae. ....
Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, Volume 5 744 pages | colour photos, b/w Antonius van Harten and Mubarak Sa'ad Al Ahbabi illustrations, b/w distribution maps | After the series was prematurely halted in 2011 when the project's sponsor retracted their Hardback | 06/2014 | 9789948220862 | support, a new sponsor has stepped in and a fifth volume has been published in 2014. For the #219601A | £44.99 Add to basket present volume, chapters were written ...
Atlas of Pests and Natural Enemies of Tea in Fujian [Chinese] 151 pages | Zeng Mingsen Paperback | 06/2014 | 9787511616890 Atlas of Pests and Natural Enemies of Tea in Fujian is based on research by Tea Research | #220068A | £26.99 Add to basket Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China, and contains information on disease occurrence and damage to tea crops, symptoms ......
Baumbewohnende Ameisen Mitteleuropaeischer Auenwaelder 131 pages | 120 illustrations, 52 tables | Artenspektrum und Oekologie Arborikoler Ameisen in Naturnahen Hartholzauen an Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Rhein, Elbe und Donau 9783258079165 | #219905A | £48.50 Juergen Schuler Add to basket Because of the difficulty accessing tree crowns, little is known today about arboricolous ants. By using a special rope climbing technique while researching this book, the authors have successfully observed and studies ants directly in ......
Bee Keeping 256 pages | colour illustrations | How To Start, Nurturing, Harvesting Honey & Beeswax, Troubleshooting & Care Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | Pam Gregory, Claire Waring and Paul Peacock 9781783613885 | #219576A | £8.99 Beekeeping is a fascinating and rewarding activity and is hugely important to the survival of our Add to basket declining bee population, as much covered recently by the media. This attractive book offers practical and informative advice on how to get ......
Butterflies of Nandankanan 31 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour Sudarsan Panda map | A field guide to 85 butterfly species, belonging to 5 families and 65 genera, found in Paperback | 01/2009 | #219498A | Nandankanan Biological Park in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. £19.99 Add to basket
Butterflies: A Complete Guide to their Biology and Behaviour 112 pages | colour photos | Dick Vane-Wright Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Many questions are raised in this examination of the butterfly, which concludes by considering 9780565093570 | #219956A | £12.99 the threats and opportunities that now face them. Butterflies offers an overview of the biology Add to basket and diversity of this, the major group ......
Des Moustiques et des Hommes Paperback | 11/2014 | 9782709918374 Chronique d'une Pullulation Annoncee | #219469A | £30.99 Add to basket Frederic Darriet Malaria, yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, Nile Valley fever, filariasis ... All these diseases are often fatal, and are transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. They take advantage of the tremendous development of transport and increasingly ......
Die Biene 224 pages | 180+ colour & 40+ b/w Geschichte, Biologie, Arten photos and illustrations | Noah Wilson-Rich, Kelly Allin, Norman L Carreck and Andrea Quigley Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | This is German translation of The Bee: A Natural History. 9783258078694 | #219722A | £42.99 Add to basket
Fibigeriana Supplement, Volume 2 324 pages | 53 plates wtih colour The second volume of the series contains 9 individual papers dealing with different groups of photos; 382 b/w line drawings | the families Noctuidae and Nolidae. The papers of the second volume include the descriptions of Hardback | 11/2014 | #220084A | altogether 149 new species, 3 new subspecies and ...... £115.00 Add to basket
Geants des Profondeurs 330 pages | photos and illustrations | Guerra Angel and Segonzac Michel Paperback | 11/2014 | 9782759222209 Since ancient times, if there has been a mythical animal that could frighten marine and coastal | #220021A | £24.99 Add to basket populations, it has been the giant squid! Writers and artists in their fertile imagination gave him extreme forms and dimensions.
Handbook on Butterflies of Arunachal Pradesh 320 pages | 472 colour photos | Parmod Kumar Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788181713797 The Handbook on Butterflies of Arunachal Pradesh is an effort by the author to provide pictorial | #219560A | £116.00 Add to basket and simple linguistic descriptions of the beautiful insects that attract the naturalists and the commons. The butterflies ......
In Pursuit of Butterflies 336 pages | A 50 Year Affair Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Matthew Oates 9781910389003 | #219858A | £17.99 Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist and conservationist, and passionate lover of Add to basket poetry, he has devoted himself entirely to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises and to ensuring their ......
In den Tiefen des Ozeans 256 pages | 200+ colour photos | Die Schillernde Welt der Wirbellosen Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783868737448 | Susan Middleton, Sylvia A Earle, Bernadette Holthuis and Werner Kuegler #219470A | £49.99 Add to basket This is a German translation of Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life.
Kentucky's Land Snails and their Ecological Communities 298 pages | colour photos, colour Daniel C Dourson distribution maps | Not since 1962, when John B. Burch published his classic work, How to Know the Eastern Land Hardback | 01/2010 | 9780615455938 | Snails, has there been an illustrated manual for Kentucky's land snails. Since then, many new #219609A | £36.99 Add to basket species have been described, forms have ......
Land Snails of the Great Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachians 351 pages | 600+ colour photos and Tennessee & North Carolina colour illustrations; colour maps | Daniel C Dourson, Keith Langdon, Judy Dourson, Rachael Grabowski and AB Bobby J Osborne Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780615896960 | The most comprehensive field guide developed for land snails of the Great Smoky Mountains #219606A | £43.99 Add to basket National Park and Southern Appalachians features over 200 species accounts including several recently described species. Over 600 dazzling color images ......
Limnoperna fortunei 350 pages | 90 colour & 60 b/w The Ecology, Distribution and Control of a Swiftly Spreading Invasive Fouling Mussel illustrations | Demetrio Boltovskoy Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | This book summarizes all currently available information on the ecology, environmental impacts 9783319134932 | #219352A | £89.99 and control methods of the golden mussel in industrial plants. The golden mussel was Add to basket introduced in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South America ......
Loricate Ciliate Tintinnids in a Tropical Mangrove Wetland 110 pages | 35 colour & 1 b/w Diversity, Distribution and Impact of Climate Change illustrations | Santhosh Kumar Sarkar Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | Loricate Ciliate Tintinnids in a Tropical Mangrove Wetland is an integrated approach to present a 9783319127927 | #219684A | £44.99 detailed case study in order to address the taxonomic and ecological features of this planktonic Add to basket choreotrich protists in an iconic ......
Los Insectos en la Sierra de Guadarrama, Incluido el Parque Nacional i 424 pages | colour photos | Zonas Limítrofes Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788480148610 | #219492A | £19.99 Add to basket Alfredo Robledo An introductory guide to the insects of the Sierra de Guadarrama, a Spanish mountain range forming the main eastern section of the Sistema Central, the system of mountain ranges at the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. The book contains ......
Manuka: The Biography of an Extraordinary Honey 240 pages | Cliff Van Eaton Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781775591634 Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most | #219514A | £14.95 Add to basket peculiar honey. It was much darker than the clover honey everyone put on their toast in the morning, and it tasted very different. In fact, the honey ......
Microlepidoptera of Europe, Volume 7 382 pages | plates with colour photos; b/ Tineidae I: (Dryadaulinae, Hapsiferinae, Euplocaminae, Scardiinae, Nemapogoninae w line drawings | and Meessiinae) Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Reinhard Gaedike 9789004256415 | #219885A | £108.00 This first volume of Tineid Moths from Europe treats 179 species of the subfamilies Add to basket Dryadaulinae, Hapsiferinae, Euplocaminae, Scardiinae, Nemapogoninae and Meessiinae. For each species a diagnosis, colour photos of the moths and line drawings ......
Pchely Podsemeistv Rophitinae i Nomiinae (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) 381 pages | 12 plates with colour Rossii i Sopredel'nykh Territorii [Bees of the subfam photos; b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | IUliia Viacheslavovna Astafurova Hardback | 01/2014 | #219843A | This book is devoted to the bees of the subfamilies Rophitinae and Nomiinae as found in Russia £49.99 Add to basket and her territories. Rophitinae and Nomiinae belong to the very diverse and numerous family Halictidae and are common and important in plant ......
Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 144 pages | 450 colour illustrations | Richard Lewington Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Practical guide, written and illustrated by one of Europe's leading natural history artists and 9781910389041 | #219820A | £8.99 butterfly experts. Identifies life stages including British Caterpillars and all the resident and Add to basket migrant species of butterfly that have ......
Rice Planthoppers 247 pages | 17 colour & 29 b/w Ecology, Management, Socio Economics and Policy illustrations | Kong Luen Heong, Jia-an Cheng and Monica M Escalada Hardback | 11/2014 | 9789401795340 | Rice Planthoppers discusses planthopper pests of rice. These insects are one of the most #219676A | £126.00 Add to basket destructive pests, threatening food security around the world. The historical development of the rice planthopper problem shows that they ......
Schmetterlinge Entdecken, Beobachten, Bestimmen 400 pages | ~300 colour illustrations | Die 150 Haufigsten Tagaktiven Arten Mitteleuropas Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Edelgard Seggewisse and Hans-Peter Wymann 9783258078915 | #219901A | £43.50 This identification guide portrays 150 butterfly species that can be found in Germany. In Add to basket addition to the common butterflies, moths are also taken into account, many of which are diurnal or crepuscular. A table for the seasonal ......
Spiders of Nandankanan 64 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour A Field Guide to Few Spiders of Odisha map | Sudarsan Panda, Satyanarayan Mishra, Devi Priyadarshini and Siba Prasad Parida Paperback | 01/2011 | 9788192065701 This field guide covers 51 species of spiders belonging to 37 genera and 17 families found in | #219497A | £19.99 Add to basket Nandankanan Biological Park in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Swallowtail Butterflies of Manas Biosphere Reserve of Northeast India 102 pages | colour photos | A Pictorial Guide Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788190366960 Kushal Choudhury, Hilloljyoti Singha and Hemanta Kumar Sahu | #219895A | £21.50 Add to basket This pictorial guide book introduces the swallowtail butterflies of Manas Biosphere Reserve of Assam, one of the biologically richest areas of northeast India. Sixty-two species of swallowtail butterflies are already known from this region ......
The Amazing Snails [Chinese] 207 pages | colour photos | Xie Bo Juan Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789573271383 A guide to 100 species of common snails from Taiwan, illustrated in colour. | #219544A | £49.99 Add to basket
The Bee Book 295 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Beekeeping in Australia illustrations | Peter Warhurst and Roger Goebel Paperback | 01/2013 | 9790734503304 This practical, readable and comprehensive book contains detailed information on honeybees | #219673A | £61.99 Add to basket and on every aspect of responsible, successful beekeeping. It also covers the special requirements of managing hives in Australia where, in contrast ......
The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern Africa 264 pages | 360+ colour photos. 1120 b/ Handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe w line drawings, 1 b/w map, tables | Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra, Viola Clausnitzer, Guido Gryseels and Edwin van Huis Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789491615061 Few animal groups can represent the greatest (insects) and most threatened (freshwater) | #219700A | £23.99 Add to basket biodiversity on earth as well as dragonflies, perhaps the best-known and most colourful of all aquatic insects. Fifteen years in development ......
The Spirals in Time 288 pages | The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Helen Scales 9781472911360 | #219029A | £16.99 Stories of seashells stretch from the deep past into the present day. They are touchstones Add to basket leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Shell-makers Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | (members of the phylum Mollusca) are among the most ...... 9781472911384 | #219030A | £9.99 Add to basket
World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 12 244 pages | Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea I (Argyresthiidae, Attevidae, Praydidae, Scythropiidae, Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | and Yponomeutidae) 9789004254749 | #219883A | £83.50 Jon A Lewis and Jae-Cheon Sohn Add to basket This is the first part of the World Catalogue of Insects of the superfamily Yponomeutoidea with the most current scientific classification, synonymies and misspellings. Primary type locations, status, depositories, reference ......
ZooKeys 450 182 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w A Taxonomic Monograph of Nearctic Scolytus Geoffroy (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, illustrations | Scolytinae) Paperback | 10/2014 | 9789546427502 Sarah M Smith and Anthony L Cognato | #219451A | £51.99 Add to basket The Nearctic bark beetle genus Scolytus Geoffroy was revised based in part on a molecular and morphological phylogeny. Monophyly of the native species was tested using mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear (28S, CAD, ArgK) genes and ......
Palaeontology
Bernstein: Fossile Harze aus aller Welt 80 pages | colour photos, colour Beetles, spiders, plants - they can all be enclosed in bright shimmering amber. Nowadays many illustrations | people are fascinated by the fossilized resin, whose colors range from the classic shades of Paperback | 11/2014 | 9783494015835 yellow to blue or even black. This special issue ...... | #219468A | £15.99 Add to basket
Earth's Climate Evolution 264 pages | Colin P Summerhayes Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth's climate changed over 9781118897393 | #219626A | £49.99 the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of Add to basket sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by ......
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago 320 pages | 32 b/w photos, 32 b/w [Revised Edition] illustrations | Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Douglas H Erwin 9780691165653 | #219629A | £13.95 Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Add to basket Around 95 percent of all living species died out – a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later ......
Latest Ordovician and Earliest Silurian Brachiopods Succeeding the 142 pages | 100 illustrations, 1 table | Hirnantia Fauna in South-East China Paperback | 12/2013 | 9781118861684 | #211055A | £59.99 Add to basket Rong Jiayu, Huang Bing, Zhan Ren-Bin and David AT Harper Late Hirnantian and early Rhuddanian shelly faunas dominated by brachiopods are well developed in the clastic facies succeeding the cool and deep-water, very-low-diversity Hirnantia fauna in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, southern ......
Life on a Young Planet 288 pages | 6 plates with colour photos; The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth [Revised Edition] 25 b/w photos, 47 b/w illustrations | Andrew H Knoll Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites – such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled 9780691165530 | #219634A | £13.95 with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form Add to basket only the half-billion-year tip of ......
The World Encyclopedia of Fossils & Fossil-Collecting 256 pages | 1000+ colour photos, 400+ Steve Parker colour illustrations | This is an illustrated reference source to over 400 plant and animal fossils from around the Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781780193946 globe and how to identify them, with over 1•000 colour photographs and over 400 colour | #219530A | £7.99 Add to basket illustrations. It serves as a complete guide to ......
Yorkshire's Dinosaur Coast 96 pages | 70 colour illustrations | Ian D Rotheram Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781445618050 North Yorkshire boasts some of the most stunning countryside and amazing seaside anywhere | #219529A | £14.99 Add to basket in England, and its history is equally dramatic. Whitby Museum holds evidence of the great sea creatures that formerly populated this region millions ......
Marine & Freshwater Biology
A Criticism and Account on China Marine Invertebrates [Chinese] 149 pages | This book gives an overview of historical records on marine invertebrates dating back Paperback | 08/2013 | 9787567001695 thousands of years, covering ancient history, meaning of names, anecdotal stories, biological | #219621A | £32.50 Add to basket knowledge etc.
A Criticism and Account on China Marine Vertebrates [Chinese] 268 pages | Chen Wanqing Paperback | 04/2014 | 9787567001701 This book gives an overview of historical records on marine vertebrates dating back thousands | #219620A | £27.50 Add to basket of years, covering ancient history, meaning of names, anecdotal stories, biological knowledge etc.
Animals of Sandy Shores 104 pages | 4 plates with colour Peter Joseph Hayward illustrations | The assemblage of animals living in sandy shores is richer than it might first appear, and it Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | offers wonderful opportunities for ecological explanation without the need for expensive 9781784270391 | #219603A | £19.99 equipment. Animals of Sandy Shores introduces ...... Add to basket Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781784270414 | #219604A | £24.99 Add to basket
Atlas of Common Freshwater Zooplankton in Zhejiang [Chinese] 76 pages | 47 plates with colour photos | Hardback | 08/2013 | 9787511113856 | #219622A | £39.99 Add to basket
Nekton in Dongshan Bay and Adjacent Areas, China [Chinese] 214 pages | Lin Longshan and Zhang Jin Hardback | 12/2013 | 9787502787646 | This book introduces 168 species of common nekton from Dongshan bay, among of them 114 #219546A | £55.50 Add to basket fishes, 9 Cephalopods and 45 Crustacea.
Survey and Study on the Marine Species Resources in Haizhou and 314 pages | Laizhou Bays of China [Chinese] Paperback | 09/2014 | 9787511115072 | #219655A | £37.50 Add to basket Wang Haiyan The main contents of this work include a catalogue of important and introduced species in these two Chinese bays; the survey methodology and stations; survey results; the evaluation System; assessment; the main problem ...
The Relationship Between Scyphomedusae Biology and Human Beings 212 pages | 100 maps, 12 tables | in China Seas [Chinese] Hardback | 06/2014 | 9787502786847 | #219685A | £39.99 Add to basket Hong Huixin This book is China's first comprehensive, and systematic presentation and discussion of jellyfish in China's Sea, and their relation to humans. The book is divided into seven chapters. Chapters 1 to 4 deals with jellyfish biology ......
The Superclass Hydrozoa of the Phylum Cnidaria in China (2-Volume 945 pages | illustrations | Set) [Chinese] Hardback | 01/2014 | 9787502786915 | #219686A | £115.00 Add to basket Xu Zhen-Zu, Huang Jia-Qi and Lin Mao The Superclass Hydrozoa of the Phylum Cnidaria in China describes 750 species of Chinese hydroids, belonging to two classes, 7 subclasses, 82 families, and 259 genera. The book contains 10 new species, eight new records, six new ......
General Natural History
A Comparative Hand List of the Birds of Japan and the British Isles 115 pages | Masa U Hachisuka Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Originally published in 1925, this book constitutes an attempt to supply the materials for a 9781107492905 | #219480A | £14.99 complete comparison between the birds of the Islands of Japan and the birds found in Great Add to basket Britain and Ireland. A bibliography and detailed index ......
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa 412 pages | 27 b/w illustrations, 35 Robert O Collins and James M Burns maps | The second edition of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to provide an accessible Hardback | 01/2014 | 9781107037809 | introduction to the continent's history for students and general readers. The authors employ a #220104A | £54.99 Add to basket thematic approach to their subject, focusing ...... Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781107628519 | #220105A | £19.99 Add to basket
A Hunger for High Country 192 pages | b/w photos | One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780870717567 Susan Marsh | #219561A | £15.95 Add to basket Before the 1970s few women were employed by the United States Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws meant that the Forest Service began to hire talented women in professional careers.
A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco 274 pages | Sir John Graham Kerr Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Sir John Graham Kerr (1869–1957) was a Scottish zoologist and politician, well known for his 9781107495050 | #220048A | £19.99 work in relation to the embryology of lungfishes. Originally published in 1950, A Naturalist in Add to basket the Gran Chaco provides an account ......
A Third Pot-Pourri 462 pages | Maria Theresa Villiers Earle Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as Maria Theresa Villiers. After 9781108076685 | #219830A | £27.99 training as an artist, she married Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family property which Add to basket enabled a comfortable lifestyle with a town house ......
A Walk in the Clouds 224 pages | 16 plates with b/w photos | 50 Years Among the Mountains Paperback | 08/2013 | 9781852847265 Kev Reynolds | #219572A | £12.95 Add to basket Alpine expert Kev Reynolds has spent fifty years exploring mountain landscapes and thirty writing about his experiences. Here he shares some of the high points of a full life as a wanderer and writer. Kev is the leading international author ......
Abominable Science! 411 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other Famous Cryptids & b/w illustrations | Daniel Loxton, Donald R Prothero and Michael Shermer Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780231153201 | Large numbers of people believe in demonstrably false phenomena, from UFOs and ESP to #196189A | £19.95 Add to basket Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Even though these fictions have been repeatedly debunked Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | and discredited, they persist in the human imagination and ...... 9780231153218 | #219637A | £13.95 Add to basket
Alpine Exposures 288 pages | colour photos | Jon Griffith and Ueli Steck Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781910240137 | In Alpine Exposures, mountain sports photographer Jon Griffith presents over ten years of #219506A | £34.99 Add to basket breathtaking photography in the Western Alps. Written in English, French and German languages, and with a foreword by leading alpinist ......
Ananas, Reine des Plantes 216 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | L'Etat des Connaissances Acquises en 1716 par les Voyageurs, les Botanistes, Hardback | 04/2014 | 9791093104010 | Naturalistes et Jardiniers sur cette Plant #219787A | £25.99 Add to basket Michael Friedrich Lochner, Anne-Marie Bogaert-Damin, Gabriel Michel and Yves-Marie Allain In 1716, Friedrich Lochner, a doctor based in Nuremberg, Germany, published his Commentatio of Ananasa, a work in Latin that contained the contemporary body of knowledge on the pineapple, an exotic fruit found in many colonies ......
Animals in Photographs 112 pages | 92 colour photos | Arpad Kovacs Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | This is a compelling look at one of photography's most beloved subjects. Animals in 9781606064412 | #220154A | £18.95 Photographs is the ninth in a group of photography books drawn from the holdings of The J. Add to basket Paul Getty Museum, each volume focusing on a specific ......
Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Collection 3 198 pages | colour photos | Royal Observatory Greenwich and Maggie Aderin-Pocock Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780007598694 | All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2014 Astronomy Photographer of the Year #219703A | £24.99 Add to basket competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories ...
Children and Other Wild Animals 176 pages | Brian Doyle Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780870717543 In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) | #219562A | £15.95 Add to basket describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human mammals ......
Cocoa: All About it 142 pages | 29 b/w illustrations | Richard Cadbury Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781108082273 A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. In Britain, the name of | #219481A | £14.99 Add to basket Cadbury has been synonymous with chocolate ever since John Cadbury opened his factory in 1831. Cocoa: All About it ...
Deposition of the Sedimentary Rocks 253 pages | JE Marr Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Originally published in 1929, Deposition of the Sedimentary Rocks contains an overview of the 9781107492530 | #219482A | £27.99 conditions that have controlled the distribution of various sedimentary deposits. Marr covers Add to basket topics such as marine deposits and the ......
Der Wurm, mein Bester Freund 68 pages | colour illustrations | Das Kompost-Buch fuer Familien Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Ben Raskin 9783258078700 | #219723A | £33.50 This is a German translation of Compost: A Family Guide to Making Soil From Scraps. Add to basket
Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition 444 pages | 93 b/w photos | Jr.,Richard Evelyn Byrd Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | First published in 1935. From the moment Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, 9781442241664 | #219501A | £15.95 he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific Add to basket promise it held were too much to leave behind forever ......
Drawing and Painting the Seashore 96 pages | 250 illustrations | Agathe Ravet-Haevermans Paperback | 07/2013 | 9781408184004 The perfect guide for nature lovers who want to draw and paint with watercolours, Drawing and | #219542A | £16.99 Add to basket Painting the Seashore begins with a brief history of seaside scenes in art, a guide to the materials required and the basics of drawing ......
El Bosque Blanco: Lacuniacha 184 pages | colour photos | This book contains photos of the natural park Lacuniacha, a forest in the heart of Huesca Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788497356978 Pyrenees with plentiful wildlife that make it a lively space, capable of providing visitors the | #219494A | £34.99 Add to basket chance to discover the infinite secrets that nature ......
Footprint's Diving the World 360 pages | colour photos, colour maps A Guide to the World's Most Popular Dive Sites | Beth Tierney and Shaun Tierney Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781910120057 Footprint's Diving the World is essential reading for anyone interested in diving. With over 200 | #220063A | £19.95 Add to basket prime sites and color images throughout, Diving the World offers the ultimate inspiration as well as all the practical ......
For the Beaches, for the Waves 144 pages | The Spirit of Ramon Navarro Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Chris Malloy, Gerry Lopez, Josh Berry and Jack Johnson 9781938340420 | #219861A | £13.99 Ramon Navarro, a third-generation subsistence fisherman and farmer who lives on the coast of Add to basket Chile at Punta Lobos, learned to surf on a busted surfboard left by a visiting surfer. Since then he has become one of the top-ten big wave rides ......
Fortunes of Africa 768 pages | A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | Martin Meredith 9781471135453 | #219567A | £12.99 In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Add to basket Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5•000 years. With compelling narrative, he Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781471135439 | traces the rise and fall of ...... #219568A | £24.99 Add to basket
Fred Sanger - Double Nobel Laureate 223 pages | 8 colour & 94 b/w A Biography illustrations | George G Brownlee and Sir Edwin Southern Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781107083349 | Considered 'the father of genomics', Fred Sanger (1918-2013) paved the way for the modern #219811A | £27.99 Add to basket revolution in our understanding of biology. His pioneering methods for sequencing proteins, RNA and, eventually, DNA earned him two Nobel Prizes ......
From Deptford to Antarctica - The Long Way Home 500 pages | photos | Containing the Unabridged Diaries from Five Greenpeace Antaractic Voyages Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781905916764 Pete Wilkinson | #219573A | £14.99 Add to basket Pete Wilkinson grew up in Deptford, south London, in the 50s. Somehow he got to grammar school and was spat out of the education system in 1962 with a few GCE 'O' levels and no idea of what to do with his life.
GoPro Cameras For Dummies 288 pages | colour illustrations | John Carucci Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | The GoPro camera has taken the market by storm. Durable and weatherproof, these cameras 9781119006183 | #219582A | £14.50 are tailor-made for athletes, filmmakers, journalists, and hobbyists who want a hands-free Add to basket device. Whether you're BASE-jumping, mountain biking ......
Ian McTaggart-Cowan 320 pages | b/w photos | The Legacy of a Pioneering Biologist, Educator and Conservationist Hardback | 05/2014 | 9781550176230 | Wayne Campbell, Dennis A Demarchi and Ronald D Jakimchuck #219479A | £41.99 Add to basket A born naturalist, Ian McTaggart-Cowan grew up exploring the woods around his North Vancouver home and went on to embrace his passion and energize others with his enthusiasm and knowledge. He greatly influenced conservation and scientific ......
In the Kingdom of Ice 480 pages | 8 plates with b/w photos | The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Hampton Sides 9781780745213 | #219958A | £19.99 In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of Add to basket publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and one of the last unmapped areas of the globe ......
John Muir 288 pages | 8 plates with b/w photos | The Scotsman Who Saved America's Wild Places Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780745956664 Mary Colwell | #219513A | £9.99 Add to basket John Muir is regarded as the 'father of America's national parks' and is a towering figure in the history of that country's involvement with ecology. Born into a harsh home in Dunbar, Scotland he would often escape to ......
Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe 256 pages | David Beck Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers 9781848935181 | #219450A | £59.99 had no such distinctions, with 'knowledge' being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter Add to basket of this collection presents a case study ......
L'Art de la Photographie de Nature 252 pages | colour & b/w photos | 50 Ans d'Images du Concours Wildlife Photographer of the Year Hardback | 11/2014 | #220017A | Rosamund Kidman Cox £38.99 Add to basket This is a French translation of 50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year: How Wildlife Photography Became Art.
L'Homme et la Nature 280 pages | Une Histoire Mouvementee Hardback | 04/2014 | 9782603018439 | Valerie Chansigaud #220020A | £37.99 Add to basket How did we get here? This is the nagging question we ask at each announcement of the disappearance of a species or depletion of natural resources. Our world in crisis needs an explanation and retracing of the history of human influence on ......
La Republique Naturaliste 614 pages | 165 colour illustrations | Collection d'Histoire Naturelle & Revolution Francaise (1789-1804) Paperback | 12/2014 | 9782856537558 Pierre-Yves Lacour | #220175A | £33.50 Add to basket La Republique Naruraliste examines the encounter between a small part of the history of culture and science, natural history collections, and a colossal event, the French Revolution. The years 1789-1804 were indeed a special moment in ......
La mia Vita con gli Scimpanze 176 pages | Una Storia dalla Parte degli Animali Paperback | 10/2014 | 9788808253088 Dame Jane Goodall and Y Nicolini | #219664A | £19.99 Add to basket This is an Italian translation of My Life With the Chimpanzees.
Lake Nipigon 307 pages | 65 colour illustrations | Where the Great Lakes Begin Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | Nancy Scott 9781459724426 | #220100A | £19.99 The name Nipigon is evocative of storied brook trout, cold clear waters, elusive woodland Add to basket caribou, sweeping vistas, and spectacular scenery. Situated in the heart of Northwestern Ontario, almost every map of North America shows Lake Nipigon ......
Le Jardin Sauvage ou Jardin Naturel 336 pages | 8 plates with colour Le Fameux illustrations; b/w illustrations | William Robinson and Florence Andre Paperback | 11/2014 | 9791093104027 This is a French translation of the 1870 book The Wild Garden. | #219786A | £24.99 Add to basket
Les Secrets de la Photo d'Animaux 224 pages | colour photos | Materiel, Prise de Vue, Terrain Paperback | 05/2014 | 9782212139884 Erwan Balanca | #220018A | £28.99 Add to basket This practical book is dedicated to making animals visible. Whether you want to photograph birds in your garden or on sea cliffs, or are after birds of prey and mammals (squirrels, hedgehogs, deer, foxes, wild boar, ibex, marmots ...) ......
Little America 436 pages | 74 b/w photos | Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | Jr.,Richard Evelyn Byrd 9781442241701 | #219502A | £15.95 First published in 1930. American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story Add to basket of his first journey through Antarctica and the founding of a series of camps and bases referred to as "Little America." Over the ......
More Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden 468 pages | Maria Theresa Villiers Earle Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) 9781108076661 | #219806A | £27.99 was born into the minor aristocracy as Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she Add to basket married Captain C. W. Earle ......
Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow 288 pages | My Life as a Country Vet Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781592408979 | Jan Pol and David Fisher #219624A | £23.99 Add to basket The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four Paperback | NYP 08/2015 | decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised 9781592409129 | #219625A | £16.99 the in Netherlands on a ... Add to basket
Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth 622 pages | 205 b/w illustrations | A Book of the Sweet O' the Year Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | Alice Morse Earle 9781108076616 | #219807A | £33.99 A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The American social historian Add to basket and antiquarian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) published Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth in 1901.
On Safari with Outdoorphoto 240 pages | 243 colour photos | Southern Africa, East Africa, Svalbard, Japan, Scotland, the Himalayas and the Hardback | 11/2014 | 9780620612906 | Pantanal #219522A | £28.99 Add to basket HPH Publishing Nature and wildlife photography specialists HPH Publishing have brought together the finest images from guests and professional photograpers who have gone on Outdoorphoto Safaris. All images were photographed in destinations that are ......
Parasitic Animals 385 pages | b/w illustrations | Geoffrey Lapage Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Originally published in 1951 as part of the Cambridge Library of Modern Science, Parasitic 9781107496613 | #220049A | £32.99 Animals discusses the life cycles of various parasitic animals, as distinct from parasitic bacteria Add to basket and plants. Key biological ......
Philip's Astrophotography with Mark Thompson 160 pages | colour illustrations | Mark Thompson Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781849073141 Philip's Astrophotography with Mark Thompson is an essential guide for anyone wishing to | #219516A | £9.99 Add to basket photograph or image the stars and planets, written by TV's favourite astronomer. For many people, looking at the sky is not enough ......
Ptitsy, Dorogi, Liudi: (Vospominaniia Ornitologa), Chast 1 [Birds, 664 pages | 232 illustrations | Roads, People: (Memoirs of an Ornithologist), Part 1] Hardback | 01/2014 | 9786017287139 | #219845A | £72.50 Add to basket Half a Century in the USSR, in Socialism (1941-1991) AF Kovshar These memoirs of a well-known Kazakhstan omithologist comprise more than 70 years and represent a mixture of memoirs and documentary: based on the diaries of the author, they contain many specific dates of the events, detailed descriptions ......
Science and Hope 269 pages | b/w photos, b/w A Forest History illustrations | John Dargavel and Elisabeth Johann Hardback | 06/2013 | 9781874267737 | Science and Hope tells the story of the hopeful science and trusting art of forestry. It is a story #212980A | £56.99 Add to basket about the hopes of foresters and other scientists to understand the forests more deeply, and Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781874267874 about their unspoken trust that the ...... | #219511A | £24.99 Add to basket
Seeds for Change 278 pages | illustrations | Marly Cornell Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780990620716 Seeds for Change documents how Suri and Edda Sehgal, refugees who each escaped dangerous | #219945A | £29.99 Add to basket and difficult circumstances as children, came to America as young adults (from India and Germany respectively), met and fell in love, and ......
Shackleton's Heroes 416 pages | William McOrist Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 'A gripping tale with the most tragic of endings.' – Sir Ranulph Fiennes Shackleton's Heroes is a 9781849548151 | #219592A | £19.99 genuine treasure of Antarctic history, and an almost unbelievable tale of real heroes who risked Add to basket them ......
The Birth of a Jungle 240 pages | Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Michael Lundblad 9780190231583 | #219378A | £19.99 Illustrating a new methodology identified as animality studies, The Birth of a Jungle explores Add to basket animality at the turn of the twentieth century in the U.S.-a moment when shifts in what it meant to be both human and animal produced ......
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 22: 1874 901 pages | 40 b/w illustrations | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt and James A Secord Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 22: 1874 is part of the definitive edition of 9781107088726 | #218780A | £94.99 letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth Add to basket century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating ......
The Determination of Sex 218 pages | L Doncaster Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Originally published in 1914, The Determination of Sex contains a study of the causes that lead 9781107492844 | #219483A | £18.99 to the appearance of males and females in a number of species, including humans. Doncaster Add to basket uses simple language to appeal to a ......
The Gentleman Farmer 478 pages | 3 b/w illustrations | Being an Attempt to Improve Agriculture by Subjecting it to the Test of Rational Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | Principles 9781108074377 | #219817A | £28.99 Lord Kames,Henry Home Add to basket A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) gained recognition as an advocate at the Scottish bar, and subsequently as a judge whose writings on the philosophy ......
The Geology of the Lake District 242 pages | And the Scenery as Influenced by Geological Structure Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | JE Marr 9781107492820 | #219484A | £21.99 Originally published in 1916, The Geology of the Lake District contains a condensed account of Add to basket the geology of the Lake District and how geology has influenced its visible features. The text is illustrated with a number of drawings ......
The Mechanism of Creative Evolution 387 pages | b/w illustrations | Charles Chamberlain Hurst Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Originally published in 1932, The Mechanism of Creative Evolution presents a detailed 9781107495234 | #220050A | £21.99 discussion regarding the capacity of humans to influence the process of natural selection and Add to basket thereby control its outcomes. The text was written ......
The Medea Hypothesis 180 pages | no illustrations | Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? Hardback | 05/2009 | 9780691130750 | Peter Ward #178040A | £16.95 Add to basket Renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | relationship with the Earth's biosphere, one that has frightening implications for our future – yet 9780691165806 | #219630A | £12.50 also offers hope. Using the ...... Add to basket
The Metabolism of Living Tissues 247 pages | b/w illustrations | Eric Holmes Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Originally published in 1937, The Metabolism of Living Tissues contains a general overview of 9781107494756 | #220051A | £18.99 'the dynamic side of biochemistry', namely how cells process and produce energy. Holmes Add to basket considers the metabolic activity of ......
The Origins of the Modern World 256 pages | 6 b/w illustration, 6 maps | A Global and Environmental Narrative Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Robert B Marks 9781442212398 | #219646A | £44.95 This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the Add to basket modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | the West" is the story of the coming of the ...... 9781442212404 | #219647A | £16.95 Add to basket
The RSPB Complete Naturalist 352 pages | colour illustrations | Nick Baker Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and 9781472912077 | #218429A | £24.99 Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. His The Complete Naturalist is an up-to-date, Add to basket practical introduction to observing ...
The Wild Life of Our Bodies 290 pages | Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We are Today Hardback | 07/2011 | 9780061806483 | Rob Dunn #192069A | £16.99 Add to basket We evolved, like every other species, in a wilderness of parasites, mutualists and pathogens. Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | But we no longer see ourselves as being part of nature and the broader community of life. In 9780061806469 | #219584A | £7.99 the name of progress and clean living ... Add to basket
The World's Heritage 912 pages | 650+ colour photos, colour A Guide to All 1007 UNESCO World Heritage Sites maps | Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations Educational Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | Bestselling guide to all 1•007 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Fully updated to include the latest 9780008126308 | #219503A | £19.99 sites added to the World Heritage List in June 2014. The List is managed by the World Heritage Add to basket Committee and each site is judged under ......
Underwater Potholer 208 pages | 16 plates with colour A Cave Diver's Memoirs photos; b/w photos, illustrations | Duncan Price Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Duncan's curiosity has got him into a lot of tight spots quite literally! As a teenager, Duncan 9781849951586 | #220022A | £18.99 really wanted to be an astronaut but took to the exploration of inner space instead. Only a Add to basket dozen men might have stood on the moon but ......
Wanderungen zu Murmeltier, Steinbock & Co. 208 pages | ~230 colour photos | Die Besten Gebiete fuer Tierbeobachtungen in der Schweiz Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Lorenz Here 9783258078823 | #219667A | £61.50 This book guides you to the best wildlife viewing areas in Switzerland: from red deer in the Val Add to basket Trupchun to ibex at Creux du Van. Deer in rut, bellowing young marmots and fighting ibex. This book presents the best areas of ...
Weather Lore 212 pages | 1 b/w illustration | A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings, and Rules Concerning the Weather Paperback | 12/2014 | 9781108077620 Richard Inwards | #219486A | £16.99 Add to basket A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Richard Inwards (1840–1937) trained as a mining engineer, working on projects in Europe and South America (his book on Tiwanaku in Bolivia ...
Wild Experiences 240 pages | Prosenjit Das Gupta Paperback | 01/2011 | 9789380213699 Prosenjit Das Gupta, born in Kolkata in 1944, was educated at St. Xavier's Collegiate School | #220137A | £15.99 Add to basket and the Presidency College, Kolkata. In spite of his professional commitments in a well-known establishment in Kolkata, he retained a keen ......
Wildlife Fotografien des Jahres, Portfolio 24 160 pages | colour & b/w photos | Rosamund Kidman Cox, Jim Brandenburg and Ulrike Kretschmer Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783868737530 | This is a German translation of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 24. #219617A | £36.50 Add to basket
With Trees: Photography by Dav Thomas 107 pages | 84 colour photos | Dav Thomas Hardback | 06/2013 | 9780957634503 | "I think of Dav's work like I think of red wine and coffee, it has layers. The first time you take a #219521A | £49.99 Add to basket sip you get that familiarity, the warmth of something you know. Take a longer time and you start to discover the complexity ......
Zoology in Early Modern Culture 522 pages | Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education Hardback | 10/2014 | 9789004268234 | Karl AE Enenkel and Paul J Smith #219765A | £109.50 Add to basket Zoology in Early Modern Culture tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of the "Book of Nature" comprised, among ......
Regional & Travel
A Guide to Finding Wild Food in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & 72 pages | colour photos | Oxfordshire Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781874357636 | #219659A | £5.95 Add to basket Peter Creed and Rachel Hudson Foraging for wild food not only adds to the enjoyment of a walk through woods and fields, or along a riverbank, it is a wonderful way to savour the seasons. It can be a solitary journey of discovery, or a communal activity with family and ......
Biodiversity of the Maya Mountains with a Focus on the Bladen Nature 343 pages | colour photos, colour Reserve, Belize, Central America illustrations, colour maps | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9780615727950 | Daniel C Dourson, Steven Brewer, Peter Esselman, Jacob A Marlin, Adam Rollins and C Farneti #219607A | £47.50 Add to basket Foster Biodiversity of the Maya Mountains with a Focus on the Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize, Central America is chock full of stunning images captured in the wilds of the jungles of Belize by biologist Dan Dourson. It is a journey through ......
Few and Far Between 272 pages | On the Trail of Britain's Rarest Animals Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Charlie Elder 9781472905185 | #218434A | £14.99 Seeking both the beautiful and the bizarre, Charlie Elder goes in search of Britain's rarest and Add to basket most endangered animals. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK, and meeting up with experts along the way, he tracks down secretive ......
Flora and Fauna of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India 156 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Mukund V Deshpande, Vandana Ghormade and S Sivaram Paperback | 01/2010 | #219726A | From the preface: "ln January 2000, when the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) completed £31.99 Add to basket fifty glorious years, my colleagues Dr. Mukund V. Deshpande and Dr. (Ms). Vandana Ghormade, brought out an exceptionally beautiful ...
India: Land of Tigers and Temples 160 pages | ~170 colour photos | Alex Gomille Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | To venture into the jungle and look a tiger in the eye, to marvel at the fantastic monument of 9781909612471 | #219613A | £24.99 the Taj Mahal, to watch pilgrims bathe in the holy waters of the Ganges – moments like these Add to basket are among the highlights of a trip to India ......
Mai Po 212 pages | 170+ colour photos | The Seasons - A Photographic Essay Hardback | 11/2014 | 9789881509130 | David Diskin #219831A | £33.99 Add to basket Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong is a wetland of international importance. Up to 90•000 water birds spend the winter in the area, and the marshes and mud flats are famous for the number and variety of shorebirds that pass through ......
Naturerbe der Schweiz 392 pages | 310 colour photos, 163 Die Landschaften und Naturdenkmaeler von Nationaler Bedeutung colour maps | Raymond Beutler and Andreas Gerth Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Alpine ice worlds and dry steppes, vast moors alongside bizarre karst areas, ancient terraced 9783258077673 | #219665A | £64.99 vineyards, picturesque lakes, impressive gorges and waterfalls - the beauty of the Swiss Add to basket countryside is famous the world over.
Nepal's Chitwan National Park 239 pages | colour illustrations, colour A Handbook maps | Hemanta R Mishra, Jr.,Jim Ottaway and Christopher Elliman Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789937623193 From the foreword: "Chitwan National Park lies in the heart of the Terai, Nepal, a belt of | #219495A | £76.50 Add to basket marshy grasslands, savannas, and forests located south of the outer foothills of the Himalaya. Historically, Chitwan was all but ...
Patrimoine Naturel de Suisse 392 pages | 310 colour photos, 163 Les Paysages, Sites et Monuments Naturels d'Importance Nationale colour maps | Raymond Beutler and Andreas Gerth Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Alpine ice worlds and dry steppes, vast moors alongside bizarre karst areas, ancient terraced 9783258078472 | #219666A | £79.99 vineyards, picturesque lakes, impressive gorges and waterfalls - the beauty of the Swiss Add to basket countryside is famous the world over.
Pflanzen und Tiere des Moedlinger Eichkogels 614 pages | Pannonische Artenvielfalt Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783902421784 | Hermann Kusel #219657A | £39.99 Add to basket The Pannonikum is a flora area in Central Europe that covers parts of Austria, Hugary, Serbia, Romania, Slowakia and the Czech Republic. The plant and animal diversity in the Pannonikum of eastern Austria is known to experts ...
Rough Guide: Panama 328 pages | colour photos, colour maps Sara Humphreys | The new-look Rough Guide to Panama – now in full colour throughout – is the ultimate travel Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781409353430 guide to this vibrant and fascinating country. Discover Panama's highlights with stunning | #219520A | £16.99 Add to basket photography, colour-coded maps ......
Survey and Study on the Important Wild Animals in the Karst Regions 269 pages | of Southwest China [Chinese] Paperback | 09/2014 | 9787511113894 | #220112A | £34.99 Add to basket Jiang Zhigang The contents of Survey and Study on the Important Wild Animals in the Karst Regions of Southwest China include an introduction, chapter on research methods, chapters describing landscape and biota, wildlife resources, and protected ......
The Conservation Movement in Norfolk 184 pages | 12 colour & 44 b/w A History illustrations | Susanna Wade Martins Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | "Rare and beautiful Norfolk", as described by the artist John Sell Cotman in 1841, with its rich 9781783270071 | #219458A | £19.99 wildlife habitats, historic buildings, diverse landscapes and archaeological sites, has long been a Add to basket focus of interest for both ......
The Countryside Book 208 pages | colour photos, b/w 101 Ways to Play, Watch Wildlife, Be Creative and Have Adventures in the Country illustrations | Tessa Wardley Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Britain's countryside offers a host of varied habitats for the walker, the amateur naturalist, and 9781408187036 | #218438A | £14.99 the family in search of entertainment for children. This brand-new collection of reflections on Add to basket the countryside from an author passionate ......
The Scenery of Sidmouth 112 pages | Its Natural Beauty and Historic Interest Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Vaughan Cornish 9781107492783 | #219485A | £14.99 Originally published in 1940, The Scenery of Sidmouth contains a detailed description of the Add to basket natural beauty of the area around Sidmouth in Devon, the author's appreciation for which he says 'no aspect of the world from ......
Wild Coast 208 pages | 150+ colour illustrations | A Celebration of the Places where Land Meets Sea Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Marianne Taylor 9781408181782 | #218436A | £19.99 Wild Coast is a celebration of the wildlife and landscapes of Britain's most vital wildlife habitats Add to basket – those that make up our coastline. Sheer limestone crags resound with the voices of thousands of bickering seabirds ......
Botany & Plant Science
Additions to Flowers of Sahyadri 304 pages | colour photos, colour maps Field Guide to Additional 800 Flowers of North Western Ghats of India | Shrikant Ingalhalikar Hardback | 01/2014 | #219768A | A third addition to this series of field guides. Some new plant groups are included in this book £42.99 Add to basket to cover the plant diversity of Sahyadri. Large plant groups with inconspicuous flowers such as sedges and grasses have still remained outside ......
Anatomical Properties and Colorized Illustrations of Important 437 pages | Commercial Wood Species from Hunan in China Hardback | 01/2011 | 9787030298478 | #219771A | £59.99 Add to basket Fang Wenbing and Wu Yiqiang Anatomical Properties and Colorized Illustrations of Important Commercial Wood Species from Hunan in China provides fundamental information about wood identification, as well as wood anatomical properties of 50 important commercial ......
Blumen und ihre Bewohner 304 pages | 300 colour photos, 65 Der Naturfuehrer zum Reichen Leben an Garten- und Wildpflanzen illustrations | Margot Spohn, Baerbel Oftring and Roland Spohn Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | #219721A | From the root to the fruit, each flower offers a habitat for beetles, butterflies, bugs, mushrooms £42.99 Add to basket and more. Some of them turn out to be enemies, others friends, and often a highly specialized partnership. arises between flower and their ......
Characteristics and Distribution of Woody Plants in Shandong [Chinese] 400 pages | Chen Jinghe Paperback | 07/2013 | 9787560747729 This book describes the woody plants of the Chinese province of Shandong, their morphological | #220002A | £59.99 Add to basket characteristics, geographical distribution, and use. At the same time, an annex lists the number of related species or cultivars and whether it is ......
Chercheurs d'Orchidees 180 pages | 200+ colour photos | Gilbert Hayoz and Patrick Veya Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | This book contains more than 200 photographs to get acquainted with wild orchids and admire 9782940365760 | #219663A | £27.50 their stunning beauty. Gilbert Hayoz and Patrick Veya present more than 70 species of orchids Add to basket and give readers the necessary information ......
City Trees of Pune 249 pages | colour photos, colour maps Field Guide to 482 Arboreal Plants of Pune Including Palms, Conifers, Cycads & | Bamboos Paperback | 01/2010 | #219727A | Shrikant Ingalhalikar and Sharvari Barve £31.50 Add to basket This field guide to the trees of the city of Pune, India includes 482 species. To keep the book portable information on economic medicinal uses has not been included, nor have religious or literary references. A simple, non-botanical key ......
Coloured Illustrations of the Trees in Fujian Province [Chinese] 501 pages | 1570 colour photos | He Guosheng Hardback | 09/2013 | 9787561546376 | Coloured Illustrations of the Trees in Fujian Province describes wild and culvivated trees: 1•355 #219814A | £99.99 Add to basket species belonging to 126 families in Fujian Province, Southeast China. Morphological characteristics, habitat, distribution ......
Coloured Illustrations of the Trees in Songyang [Chinese] 364 pages | 1000+ colour photos | Tang Zhaocheng Paperback | 10/2013 | 9787503871757 This book contains colour photos of woody plants found in Songyang County, a county of | #219813A | £62.99 Add to basket Zhejiang, China. The illustrations include trees, shrubs, and lianas for a total of 653 varieties and 101 species belonging to 88 families and 288 genera ......
Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants 936 pages | 53 colour & 7 b/w A Functional Genomic Perspective illustrations, 3 colour tables | Girdhar K Pandey Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop 9781493922109 | #219688A | £139.50 productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational Add to basket engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis ......
Essentials of Plant Breeding 260 pages | 71 illustrations, 30 tables | Rex Bernardo Hardback | 08/2014 | 9780972072427 | Essentials of Plant Breeding is a textbook for a first-semester course in plant breeding. #219880A | £110.00 Add to basket Essentials of Plant Breeding was written as a prequel to Dr. Bernardo's first textbook, Breeding for Quantitative Traits ......
Ferns and Fern-Allies of Sikkim: A Pictorial Handbook, Part 1 207 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w BS Kholia maps | This small handy pictorial manual, the first part of Pteridophytes of Sikkim, describes 150 Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788190968010 species of Sikkim's pteridophyte wealth with over 600 colour pictures of pteridophytes and their | #220142A | £25.99 Add to basket different parts in nature.
Ferns and Shrubs 79 pages | Diversity, Cultivation & Implications for the Environment Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | Jerald Tuft 9781634634267 | #219672A | £68.99 The current presence of plant species in a particular area is explained by a series of events and Add to basket processes of a diverse nature – mainly geological and climatic, but also anthropozoogenic – which have occurred over millions of ......
Field Manual of Michigan Flora 976 pages | colour photos | Edward G Voss and Anton A Reznicek Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780472118113 | Field Manual of Michigan Flora is the most up-to-date guide available for all seed plants growing #219446A | £20.95 Add to basket wild in Michigan. Significantly expanding and updating the three-volume ...
Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fascículo 242 pages | 64 plates with colour 20 illustrations, 18 with b/w illustrations | Paperback | 11/2014 | 9783874294799 Myricaceae, Ochnaceae, Olacaceae, Papaveraceae, Sapindaceae | #219658A | £87.99 Add to basket Volume 20 covers five families: Myricaceae, Ochnaceae, Olacaceae, Papaveraceae, and Sapindaceae.
Flowers of Sahyadri 184 pages | colour photos, colour maps Field Guide to 600 Flowers of North Western Ghats of India | Shrikant Ingalhalikar Paperback | 01/2012 | #219725A | From the preface: "This new edition precedes two editions published in the years 2001 and £31.99 Add to basket 2003. A number of changes and improvements were necessary in the new edition. These include botanical updating besides a few corrections. ....
Fujian Endemic Trees [Chinese] 383 pages | b/w line drawings | Zheng Qingfang Paperback | 08/2014 | 9787561549919 | #219966A | £42.99 Add to basket
Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot 384 pages | 61 b/w photos and Peter Crane illustrations | Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780300187519 | than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice #203252A | £24.99 Add to basket ages as a relic in China, but it earned its ...... Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | 9780300213829 | #220153A | £14.99 Add to basket
Great Gardens of the National Trust 192 pages | colour photos | Stephen Lacey Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781849941549 Stephen Lacey paints a vivid historical and horticultural picture of the great gardens of the | #219577A | £15.99 Add to basket National Trust. All the major periods and styles of garden design are represented, ranging from magnificent 18th century landscapes like Stowe ......
Hidden Histories and Ancient Mysteries of Witches, Plants and Fungi Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | #219654A | Frank M Dugan £134.00 Add to basket For centuries, peasants leapt over bonfires with accompaniment of song, ale and courtship, in spring, mid-summer and fall, all to combat plant diseases such as smut, rust, darnel, and rinderpest. During these times, rituals ...
Informal Urban Agriculture 218 pages | 34 colour & 1 b/w The Secret Lives of Guerrilla Gardeners illustrations | Michael Hardman and Peter J Larkham Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783319095332 | Informal Urban Agriculture explores how unused and under-used urban spaces – from grass #219692A | £135.00 Add to basket verges, roundabouts, green spaces – have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) ......
Keys of Woody Plants in Fujian [Chinese] 369 pages | You Yongsheng Paperback | 07/2013 | 9787503870934 Fujian province is located on China's southeast coast, and has a land area of 124•000 square | #219815A | £29.99 Add to basket kilometers. There are large regional differences in climate, and vertical zonation is pronounced, making for a complex and diverse ......
Les Fougeres (Polypodiales) du Sud de la Drome 276 pages | colour photos | Jean-Louis Amiet Paperback | 11/2014 | 9782954950709 The great botanists who gathered knowledge on the Drome flora in France have left out an | #219763A | £31.99 Add to basket entire region, ranging roughly between Dieulefit, Vesc Bourdeaux and Felines-sur-Rimandoule, a region that after the early 2000s proved to be ......
Livre Rouge des Plantes Menacees aux Antilles Francaises 464 pages | colour photos, colour Jean-Francois Bernard, Elisabeth Etifier-Chalono, Philippe Feldmann and Jean-Pierre Fiard distribution maps | This book is the culmination of nearly three years of floristic inventories and environmental Hardback | 12/2014 | 9782856537626 | expertise applied to the flora of Guadeloupe and Martinique. It is the first red data book whose #220088A | £49.99 Add to basket subject is the threatened flora of a French region ......
Lunar and Biodynamic Gardening 144 pages | Planting Your Biodynamic Garden by the Phases of the Moon Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Matthew Jackson 9781782491880 | #219578A | £14.99 Biodynamic gardening means taking a holistic approach to the garden and being aware of the Add to basket interrelatedness of the soil, plants and vegetables. The principles of biodynamics also bring a spiritual aspect to the meditative art of gardening ......
Lycium barbarum and Human Health 200 pages | 11 colour & 6 b/w Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang and Kwok-Fai So illustrations, 9 tables | Lycium barbarum and Human Health seeks to unravel the mysteries of wolfberry, and Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | systematically introduces its mechanisms in preventing aging-associated diseases, such as 9789401796576 | #219354A | £126.00 cardiovascular diseases, inflammation, liver and ...... Add to basket
Making a Wildflower Meadow 160 pages | 20 colour & 10 b/w Pam Lewis illustrations | Meadow-making helps preserve our fragile environment from further decline but it requires Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | knowledge and skill to create a successful meadow. In this timely book, Pam Lewis's passion for 9780711236103 | #219959A | £14.99 traditional pasture management and the preservation ...... Add to basket
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volume VII 840 pages | 205 b/w line drawings | Dicotiledoneas (Picramniaceae - Zygophyllaceae) [MSB 129] Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781930723566 | Barry E Hammel, Michael H Grayum, Cecilia Herrera, Nelson Zamora and Silvia Troyo #206897A | £89.99 Add to basket Piperaceae, with 465 species, has emerged as the largest family in Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volume VII. But despite its species richness, Piperaceae comprises notably low macromorphological diversity, with only three genera ......
Medicinal Plants of Arya Vaidya Sala Herb Garden 529 pages | 4 plates with colour photos; PS Udayan and Indira Balachandran colour illustrations | This comprehensive handbook provides details information on the 1025 medicinal plants species Paperback | 01/2011 | 9789380148076 in different languages, places where they grow naturally, parts used in medicine, important | #219724A | £28.50 Add to basket uses, etc. For the benefit of professionals, students ......
Montana Lichens 183 pages | An Annotated List Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780979073717 Bruce McCune, Roger Rosentreter, Toby Spribille, Othmar Breuss and Tim Wheeler | #219475A | £58.99 Add to basket This is the first comprehensive summary of the occurrence, literature references, and ecological context for lichens in any state or province in the Pacific Northwest or northern Rocky Mountains. Because we also include reports from adjoining ......
Mycorrhizal Fungi 448 pages | 5 colour & 3 b/w Use in Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration illustrations | Zakaria M Solaiman, Lynette K Abbott and Ajit Varma Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | Mycorrhizal Fungi explores the various functions and potential applications of mycorrhizas, 9783662453698 | #219679A | £126.00 including topics such as the dynamics of root colonization, soil carbon sequestration and the Add to basket function of mycorrhizas in extreme environments ......
Naturalist's Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe 160 pages | 300 colour photos | Andrew Cleave and Paul Sterry Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 tree species most commonly seen in Britain and 9781909612372 | #219863A | £9.99 northern Europe is perfect for amateur naturalists. High quality photographs from Britain's top Add to basket nature photographers are accompanied by ......
Naturnah Gaertnern 336 pages | 378 colour photos | Die 140 Wertvollsten Pflanzen fuer den Naturgarten Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | Norbert Griebl 9783258078809 | #219900A | £43.50 Near-natural gardens are veritable biodiversity hotspots: They provide food and hiding places Add to basket for countless insects, birds and small mammals and are a refuge for species that can not survive in our cleared landscapes and monocultures. ....
Nitric Oxide in Plants 318 pages | 17 colour & 22 b/w Metabolism and Role in Stress Physiology illustrations | M Nasir Khan, Mohammad Mobin, Firoz Mohammad and Francisco J Corpas Hardback | 05/2014 | 9783319067094 | This book covers the key features of nitric oxide (NO) in plants. Comprising nine chapters, Part #219975A | £135.00 Add to basket I highlights its metabolism and identification in plants. Part II, which consists of eight chapters, focuses on the chemical, physical and ......
Orchids of South-West Australia 520 pages | colour photos, colour Noel Hoffman and Andrew Brown distribution maps | The Third Edition of Orchids of South-West Australia is a major revision of this States 413 Paperback | 09/2011 | 9780646562322 species, of which, 42 have been recognised recently as being new species. The information | #219474A | £49.99 Add to basket contains up to date descriptions and many new ......
Orchids of the Darian Gap 348 pages | 162 colour photos | Marta Kolanowska and Natalia Oledrzynska Hardback | 11/2014 | 9783874294751 | Descriptions of 270 orchid species. – The Darién Gap (Spanish: Tapón del Darién) is a large #219660A | £118.00 Add to basket undeveloped swampland and forest forming part of a Tumbes – Chocó – Magdalena biodiversity hotspot ......
Phytohormones: A Window to Metabolism, Signaling and 361 pages | 28 colour & 10 b/w Biotechnological Applications illustrations | Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781493904907 | Lam-Son Phan Tran and Sikander Pal #220077A | £126.00 Add to basket Abiotic and biotic stresses adversely affect plant growth and productivity. The phytohormones regulate key physiological events under normal and stressful conditions for plant development. Accumulative research efforts have discovered ......
Plant Hormones and Growth Regulators 500 pages | Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction and Crosstalk Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Yanhai Yin 9781118504123 | #218012A | £86.95 A firm grasp of plant biology is an important factor to understanding environmental changes Add to basket and biotic and abiotic stressors. Plant Hormones and Growth Regulators combines accepted information about plant hormones with that of ......
Plant Life 288 pages | illustrations | A Brief History Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | #220170A | Frederick B Essig £45.99 Add to basket A chronological narrative of the evolution of photosynthetic organisms, with a focus on those that led to land-based plants.
Plant Physiology and Development 761 pages | 654 colour & b/w photos Lincoln Taiz, Eduardo Zeiger, Ian Max Moller and Angus Murphy and colour & b/w illustrations | Throughout its twenty-two year history, the authors of Plant Physiology have continually Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | updated the book to incorporate the latest advances in plant biology and implement 9781605353265 | #220182A | £61.99 pedagogical improvements requested by adopters. Add to basket
Plants: From Roots to Riches 368 pages | 200 colour & b/w photos Kathy J Willis and Carolyn Fry and colour & b/w illustrations | Our peculiarly British obsession with gardens goes back a long way and the BBC Radio 4 series Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | Plants: From Roots to Riches is going to take us back to where it all began. Across 25 vivid 9781444798258 | #217479A | £9.99 episodes, Kathy Willis, Kew's charismatic ...... Add to basket Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781444798234 | #219653A | £19.99 Add to basket
Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Wood, Fiber and 1438 pages | Pulping Chemistry (2-volume Set) Paperback | 01/2011 | 9787501982066 | #219772A | £177.00 Add to basket Tianjin, China, June 8-10, 2011 Lijun Wang and Shijun Kuang This symposium was held in Tianjin, China, in June of 2011, and was organised by the China Technical Association of Paper Industry. There are a total of 286 papers in 2 volumes, with a wide coverage of the topics, including ...
Quinoa: Sustainable Production, Variety Improvement, and Nutritive 400 pages | Value in Agroecological Systems Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | 9781118628058 | #219736A | £133.00 Kevin S Murphy Add to basket Quinoa: Sustainable Production, Variety Improvement, and Nutritive Value in Agroecological Systems brings together authors from around the world to provide a complete assessment of the current state of global quinoa research and ......
Reproductive Biology of Plants 390 pages | 12 colour & 41 b/w Kishan Gopal Ramawat, Jean-Michel Merillon and KR Shivanna illustrations | Reproductive biology is the basis of species improvement and a thorough understanding of this Hardback | 02/2014 | 9781482201321 | is needed for plant improvement, whether by conventional or biotechnological methods. #220161A | £94.99 Add to basket Reproductive Biology of Plants presents an up to date ......
Saxicolous Lichens of India 256 pages | Checklist and Keys Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788121108935 Bharati Om Sharma | #219893A | £72.50 Add to basket Lichens are found on a great variety of substrates which provide relative permanence and surface stability. Lichens are conspicuous pioneers on rocks and frequently initiate stages of succession. As a substrate a rock surface is far more ......
Sylva Guangxigensis, Volume 1 [Chinese] 639 pages | b/w line drawings | Forestry Research Institute of Guangxi Hardback | 12/2012 | 9787503868153 | #219968A | £84.50 Add to basket
Sylva Guangxigensis, Volume 2 [Chinese] 1291 pages | 582 b/w line drawings | Forestry Research Institute of Guangxi Hardback | 02/2014 | 9787503872556 | #219967A | £100.00 Add to basket
Teeny Tiny Gardening 144 pages | colour photos | Emma Hardy Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781908862808 | Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales. No matter how tiny your space – #219580A | £14.99 Add to basket indoor or outdoor, garden, yard, balcony or even just a windowsill or tabletop – here you will find original, fun and ......
That Glorious Forest 224 pages | 83 colour & 90 b/w photos, Exploring the Plants and Their Indigenous Uses in Amazonia 7 illustrations | Sir Ghillean T Prance Hardback | 11/2014 | 9780893275280 | After nearly fifty years since his first journey to the tropics exploring for plants, and a total of #220083A | £69.99 Add to basket thirty-nine expeditions to the Amazon, Professor Sir Ghillean Prance has gathered in That Glorious Forest a fascinating and ......
The Algal Genus Pediastrum Meyen (Chlorophyta) in Poland 104 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Joanna Lenarczyk Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788352975221 Covers 32 taxa in 19 species in 50 sites, with an introduction, study area, methods, results, | #219447A | £34.50 Add to basket discussion and bibliography.
The Checklist of Cultivated Plants of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical 359 pages | Garden Paperback | 10/2014 | 9787030420633 | #220113A | £66.99 Add to basket Hu Yonghong This is a checklist to the cultivated plants found in Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai.
The Flowering Plants Handbook 607 pages | 3000+ colour photos and b/ A Practical Guide to Families and Genera of the World w line drawings, colour maps | James W Byng Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780992999308 This plant book aims to help identify flowering plants to genus and family level anywhere in the | #219952A | £39.99 Add to basket world. In 2014 there are very few available works which are both comprehensive and up-to- date for all the flowering plants families and genera ......
The Gardener's Year 320 pages | colour illustrations | Create, Care for, and Enjoy your Garden Season by Season Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781409339854 | Dorling Kindersley (DK) #219543A | £19.99 Add to basket Plan a garden that's pretty and productive all year round with this essential garden guide. Gardener's Year will help you create, care for and enjoy a colourful and fruitful garden throughout the year, from the first ...
The Gardens of the British Working Class 388 pages | 24 colour & 80 b/w Margaret Willes illustrations | This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by Hardback | 03/2014 | 9780300187847 | the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. #220150A | £24.99 Add to basket Spanning more than four centuries ...... Paperback | NYP 06/2015 | 9780300212358 | #220151A | £12.99 Add to basket
The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles 626 pages | b/w illustrations | Jean A Paton Paperback | 10/2014 | 9789004285378 The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles, first published in 1999, was the culmination of well over | #219889A | £78.50 Add to basket 30 years' personal study of Britain's hepatic flora in the field which has enabled the author to take into account the ......
The Plants of China 480 pages | 286 colour & 51 b/w A Companion to the Flora of China illustrations, 54 tables | De-Yuan Hong, Stephen Blackmore, Wu Zheng-Yi and Peter H Raven Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | The flora of China is astonishing in its diversity. With 32?500 species of vascular plants, over 9781107070172 | #219465A | £74.99 fifty per cent of which are endemic, it has more botanical variety than anywhere else in the Add to basket world and provides unbroken connections to all its ......
The Ultimate Practical Guide to Pruning and Training 256 pages | 700+ colour photos, 270 Richard Bird illustrations | The Ultimate Practical Guide to Pruning and Training shows you how to prune and train trees, Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781780193533 shrubs, hedges, topiary, tree and soft fruit, climbers and roses. It offers expert advice and step- | #219526A | £7.99 Add to basket by-step techniques, with over 700 ......
The Urban Wildlife Gardener 144 pages | colour photos | How to Attract Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and More Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Emma Hardy 9781782491873 | #219579A | £14.99 The Urban Wildlife Gardener is packed with planting ideas and simple gardening techniques to Add to basket attract birds, bees, butterflies, beneficial bugs and more to your outside space. If you would like to attract wildlife to your garden ......
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds 368 pages | colour photos, colour 13 Plants for Human Survival illustrations | Katrina Blair and Sandor Ellix Katz Paperback | 10/2014 | 9781603585163 When Katrina Blair was eleven, she had a life-changing experience during which wild plants | #219528A | £19.99 Add to basket spoke to her, beckoning her to become a champion of their cause. Since then she has spent months on end taking walkabouts in the wild, eating nothing ......
Trace Elements in Plants 282 pages | b/w illustrations | Walter Stiles Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781107698376 First published in 1961, as the third edition of a 1946 original, Trace Elements in Plants | #219824A | £27.99 Add to basket presents a comprehensive analysis of trace elements in plants, and the effects of their deficiency or excess on grazing animals where ......
Tree Species Diversity of a Tropical Seasonal Rainforest in 153 pages | Xishuangbanna [Chinese] Paperback | 08/2014 | 9787503875519 | #219687A | £34.99 Add to basket Lan Guoyu Tropical rainforests are one of China's most biologically diverse areas and are internationally identified as important centers of biodiversity protection. Tropical rainforests are special, rare and irreplaceable, but also endangered ......
Trees for Gardens, Orchards, and Permaculture 256 pages | colour illustrations | Martin Crawford Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | Martin Crawford has researched and experimented with tree crops for 25 years and has 9781856232166 | #219961A | £24.95 selected over 100 of the best trees producing fruits, nuts, edible leaves and other useful Add to basket products that can be grown in Europe and North America. ....
Where the Slime Mould Creeps 102 pages | colour photos | The Fascinating World of Myxomycetes Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780646924519 Sarah Lloyd | #220086A | £17.99 Add to basket Slime moulds are not slimy, nor do they look like mould; in fact, most are exquisite. Fuligo septica is an exception. This common cosmopolitan species forms amorphous yellowish blobs known variously throughout the world as ......
Wild Orchids of Bedfordshire 144 pages | colour photos, distribution Richard Revels, Chris Boon and Graham Bellamy maps | Wild Orchids of Bedfordshire is a superbly illustrated and up-to-date account of Bedfordshire's Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | wild orchid flora following two years of intensive fieldwork by local naturalists. Accounts of all 9780950652191 | #219783A | £19.99 27 species that have ever been ...... Add to basket
Wood Properties of the Global Important Tree Species 544 pages | 1338 photos | Jiang Zehui Hardback | 10/2013 | 9787030387387 | Wood Properties of the Global Important Tree Species describes 458 tree species, including 84 #219731A | £91.99 Add to basket coniferous tree species within 32 genera and 8 families; 374 broad-leaved tree species within 257 genera and 66 families, with an appendix ......
Wychwood 244 pages | colour photos | Karen Hall and Peter Cooper Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781743360750 | "Inarguably the most beautiful garden in Tasmania" – Leo Schofield The garden at Wychwood, #219527A | £24.99 Add to basket at the foot of Great Western Tiers in northern Tasmania, is one of the world's most magical gardens.
Animal & General Biology
Analysis of Genes and Genomes 520 pages | Richard J Reece Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780470777817 This beautifully illustrated textbook provides a clear guide to the tools and techniques of genetic | #220107A | £34.95 Add to basket engineering, gene cloning and molecular biology. All aspects of genetic engineering in the post- genomic era are covered, beginning with ......
Biodegradative Bacteria 358 pages | 22 colour & 57 b/w How Bacteria Degrade, Survive, Adapt, and Evolve illustrations, 26 tables | Hideaki Nojiri, Masataka Tsuda, Masao Fukuda and Yoichi Kamagata Hardback | 11/2013 | 9784431545194 | Biodegradative Bacteria highlights the novel nature of bacterial cell functions in the field of #220160A | £135.00 Add to basket biodegradation by putting them into three parts: (1) Genetic and genomic systems, (2) Degradative enzyme systems, and (3) Bacterial ......
Cells to Civilizations 360 pages | 81 b/w photos, 20 colour & The Principles of Change That Shape Life 9 b/w illustrations | Enrico Coen Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780691149677 | Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production #198059A | £19.95 Add to basket of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | evolving microbes, an egg that develops ...... 9780691165608 | #219642A | £13.95 Add to basket
Experimental Investigation of the Aerodynamics of Owl Wings 174 pages | 84 illustrations | Andrea Winzen Paperback | 11/2014 | 9783844031386 In the past decade, there has been an increased effort to design small aircraft for special, | #219605A | £56.50 Add to basket limited duration missions, which may include, e.g., search and rescue or surveillance tasks. The present research aims at the development of ......
Fundamentals of Microbiology: Body Systems Edition 776 pages | illustrations | Jeffrey C Pommerville Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and 9781284057096 | #218119A | £55.99 interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor Add to basket resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. ....
Guide to Terrestrial Animal Health Surveillance 108 pages | World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Paperback | 10/2014 | 9789290448426 The purpose of surveillance is to provide early warning of disease events and give timely and | #219574A | £64.99 Add to basket relevant information to policy makers to enable them to mount a rapid response to reduce the spread and mitigate the impact of disease.
Immunocytochemistry and Related Techniques 430 pages | 56 colour & 38 b/w Adalberto Merighi and Laura Lossi illustrations, 20 tables | Immunocytochemistry and Related Techniques presents a collection of protocols for Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | immunocytochemical analysis of neurons and neural networks. Chapters focus on 9781493923120 | #220117A | £92.99 immunocytochemical localization at light and electronic levels ...... Add to basket
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives - And Our Lives Change 272 pages | Our Genes Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781455549443 | #212292A | £23.99 Add to basket Sharon Moalem Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781444763218 | Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem's #213394A | £18.99 Add to basket groundbreaking book shows us that the human genome is far more fluid and fascinating than your ninth grade biology teacher ever imagined. .... Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | 9781444763232 | #219500A | £9.99 Add to basket
Lactic Acid Bacteria 632 pages | illustrations | Biodiversity and Taxonomy Hardback | 06/2014 | 9781444333831 | William H Holzapfel and Brian JB Wood #220005A | £150.00 Add to basket The lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a group of related micro-organisms that are enormously important in the food and beverage industries. Generally regarded as safe for human consumption (and, in the case of probiotics, positively beneficial ......
Large Animal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians 456 pages | colour illustrations, colour Laura Lien, Susan Loly and Sheryl Ferguson tables | This comprehensive guide to all aspects of caring for horses, cattle, camelids, small ruminants, Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781118346716 and pigs helps veterinary technician students learn everything they need to know about large | #220074A | £41.99 Add to basket animal medicine. Presented in full-color ......
Laser Interaction with Biological Material 215 pages | 14 colour & 16 b/w Mathematical Modeling illustrations | Kirill Kulikov Hardback | 09/2013 | 9783319017389 | Laser Interaction with Biological Material covers the principles of laser interaction with biological #219781A | £89.99 Add to basket cells and tissues of varying degrees of organization. The problems of biomedical diagnostics are considered. Scattering of laser ......
Life's Engines 256 pages | 38 b/w illustrations | How Microbes Made Earth Habitable Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Paul G Falkowski 9780691155371 | #219641A | £19.95 For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The Add to basket stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us.
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology 1240 pages | colour illustrations | Gerard J Tortora and Bryan Derrickson Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781118808436 This 14th edition of the phenomenally successful Principles of Anatomy and Physiology | #219623A | £183.99 Add to basket continues to set the standard for the discipline. Written and superbly illustrated for two-term, introductory Anatomy and Physiology students ......
Small Animal ECGs 128 pages | 72 illustrations | An Introductory Guide Paperback | 11/2007 | 9781405141604 Mike Martin | #219782A | £36.99 Add to basket Electrocardiography is an extremely valuable tool for clinical examination and as an investigative technique in cardiorespiratory cases. ECGs are the definitive means for the diagnosis of dysrhythmias in the dog and cat and may also suggest ......
The Low Molecular Weight Proteome 235 pages | 26 colour & 24 b/w Methods and Protocols illustrations, 6 tables | Helena Backvall and Janne Lehtio Hardback | 06/2013 | 9781461471677 | Small proteins with molecular weights of <25 kDa are involved in major biological processes #219978A | £85.50 Add to basket such as ribosome formation, stress adaption and cell cycle control. The study of the low- molecular-weight proteome has identified many central ......
Evolutionary Biology
Before Modern Humans 350 pages | New Perspectives on the African Stone Age Hardback | 01/2014 | 9781611322224 | Grant S McCall #220145A | £75.95 Add to basket This fascinating volume, assessing Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory, argues that the onset of the Middle Stone Age marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers. Inaugurating a paradigm shift ......
Divine Creatures 264 pages | 40 illus | Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt Hardback | 12/2004 | 9789774248580 | Salima Ikram #153237A | £25.64 Add to basket The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies, not only Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four 9789774166969 | #219698A | £19.95 different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals ...... Add to basket
The Domestication of Language 288 pages | Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Daniel Cloud 9780231167925 | #219619A | £23.99 Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of Add to basket words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day.
The Science of Human Origins 200 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | Claudio Tuniz, Giorgio Manzi and David Caramelli Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781611329728 Our understanding of human origins has been revolutionised by new discoveries in the past two | #220143A | £19.50 Add to basket decades. In The Science of Human Origins, three leading paleoanthropologists and physical Hardback | 03/2014 | 9781611329711 | scientists illuminate, in friendly, accessible ...... #220144A | £71.95 Add to basket
Ecology
Les Plantes Exotiques 144 pages | Une Reputation Perdue? Paperback | 01/2014 | 9791093104003 Yves-Marie Allain | #219788A | £19.99 Add to basket After a long period of enthusiasm for exotic plants, with such plants being given special places in parks and, contemporary currents of thought seem reluctant to promote these plants, rather giving priority to the protection of native ......
Survey and Study on the Alien Invasive Species in the Nature Reserves 296 pages | of the Coast Areas in China [Chinese] Paperback | 09/2014 | 9787511114266 | #219656A | £36.50 Add to basket Wang Zhi This study reports on a survey of invasive alien species in a large number of Chinese coastal nature reserves. Data are provided on the number of species, including the distribution of invasive alien species, population distribution patterns ......
Habitats & Ecosystems
Agricultural Prairies 298 pages | Natural Resources and Crop Productivity Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | KR Krishna 9781771880503 | #220073A | £81.99 Agricultural Prairies is a comprehensive volume that brings together vast knowledge about Add to basket agricultural prairies in one place, providing concise information and providing concise descriptions of natural resources and their influence ......
Basses Temporals Mediterranies 679 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour LIFE BASSES: Gestio i Conservacio a Menorca illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Pere Fraga i Arguimbau, Irene Estaun Clariso and Eva Cardona Pons Paperback | 01/2010 | 9788495718730 This volume contributes to the current state of knowledge on Mediterranean temporary ponds | #219879A | £29.99 Add to basket framed within the reality of the island of Menorca. Often forgotten and neglected, these ecosystems, with their irregular and unpredictable dynamics ......
Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA 150 pages | 34 colour & 33 b/w Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments illustrations, 3 tables | Raymond Charles Rauscher and Salim Momtaz Hardback | 05/2014 | 9783319057613 | Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA offers an extended case study of the #220007A | £89.99 Add to basket urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of ......
Diverse Forests of China 204 pages | 250 illustrations | Chen Jianwei Hardback | 01/2010 | 9787503854897 | The author has compiled an ecological album, highlighting the photos he has taken over the #219730A | £99.99 Add to basket past decades in order to present a more comprehensive picture about China's forest resources from the perspective of ecosystem diversity. ....
Forests: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | Jaboury Ghazoul Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and 9780198706175 | #216280A | £7.99 energy. The history of human development is also one of forest loss and transformation, and Add to basket yet even in our increasingly urbanized societies we remain ......
Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon 630 pages | 435 b/w illustrations, 65 Sequestration, and Reversing CO Increas tables | 2 Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Thomas J Goreau, Ronal W Larson, Joanna Campe, John Todd and Rattan Lal 9781466595392 | #219821A | £76.99 Global climate change, increasing pollution, and continued rapid population growth is wreaking Add to basket havoc on the planet. Stabilizing the environment at safe levels requires a large-scale restoration of damaged ecosystems.
Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and 32 pages | Development of Forest Genetic Resources Paperback | 11/2014 | 9789251084229 | #219507A | £7.50 Add to basket Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Forest genetic resources (FGR) are the heritable materials maintained within and among tree and other woody plant species that are of actual or potential economic, environmental, scientific or societal value. This Global Plan of Action ......
International Conference on Mediterranean Temporary Ponds Paperback | 01/2009 | 9788495718723 Proceeding & Abstracts | #219882A | £29.99 Add to basket Pere Fraga i Arguimbau This book contains the proceedings and abstracts of the first International conference on Mediterranean temporary ponds.
Islands and Evolution Paperback | 01/2010 | 9788495718822 Valentín Perez-Mellado and Cori Ramon | #219881A | £29.99 Add to basket Evolution and Islands includes the papers presented at the International Symposium on Evolution and Islands, Menorca conducted in September 2009, which brought together leading figures from the international community in various ......
Landscape Analysis and Planning 260 pages | Geographical Perspectives Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Malgorzata Luc, Jacek Boguslaw Szmanda and Urszula Somorowska 9783319135267 | #219351A | £89.99 Landscape Analysis and Planning presents recent advances in landscape analysis and landscape Add to basket planning based on selected landscape studies conducted in different parts of Europe. Included are methodological problems and case studies ......
Optimal Thinning within the Faustmann Approach 261 pages | 15 b/w illustrations, 4 Renke Coordes tables | Forest stands are thinned all over the world. Yet, there was hitherto no consistent theory which Paperback | 08/2014 | 9783658069582 allowed deriving unambiguous conditions for thinnings as the harvest of trees prior to the | #219732A | £58.99 Add to basket rotation age. Renke Coordes closes this gap by ......
Protecting the Wild 248 pages | Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist and Tom Butler 9781610915489 | #215419A | £15.99 A big, bold vision for protected areas and re-wilding the Earth, this book presents a spirited Add to basket argument on the future of conservation. Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land ......
Rybníky Ceske Republiky [Ponds of the Czech Republic] 584 pages | colour photos | Petr Liebscher and Jan Rendek Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788020023681 The Czech Republic has a fish farming tradition dating back to the 12th century. The largest | #219729A | £42.99 Add to basket pond system is in southern Bohemia, but the ponds were established all over the country. In this book, the authors present over 200 of them, and ......
Soil Chemistry 350 pages | Daniel G Strawn, Hinrich L Bohn and George A O'Connor Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Soil is key to sustaining life – affecting air and water quality, the growth of plants and crops, 9781118629253 | #219639A | £94.99 and the health of the entire planet. Soil Chemistry 4e provides comprehensive coverage of the Add to basket chemical interactions among ...... Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | 9781118629239 | #219640A | £39.95 Add to basket
Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry 598 pages | ~200 illustrations | Eldor A Paul Hardback | 11/2014 | 9780124159556 | The fourth edition of Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry updates this widely used #219585A | £60.99 Add to basket reference as the study and understanding of soil biota, their function, and the dynamics of soil organic matter has been revolutionized ......
Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology 800 pages | 539 b/w illustrations, 89 Randall Schaetzl and Michael L Thompson tables | In its first edition, Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology established itself as the leading textbook Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | in the fields of pedology and soil geomorphology. Expanded and fully updated, this second 9781107016934 | #214974A | £59.99 edition maintains its highly organized ...... Add to basket
The Biology and Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests 408 pages | 95 b/w illustrations, 5 David R Schiel and Michael S Foster tables | Giant kelp (Macrocystis) is a remarkable plant, the largest seaweed and most rapidly growing Hardback | NYP 06/2015 | and prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the sea 9780520278868 | #219855A | £51.99 surface in lush canopies, giant kelp ...... Add to basket
Towards Low Carbon Cities in China 230 pages | 14 b/w photos, 106 b/w Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions illustrations, 57 tables | Sun Sheng Han, Ray Green and Mark Y Wang Hardback | 10/2014 | 9780415743310 | Towards Low Carbon Cities in China explores the relationship between urban form and #219693A | £84.99 Add to basket greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing on the results of a four-year ......
Typical Coast Wetland of Fujian [Chinese] 412 pages | Li Rongguan Hardback | 08/2014 | 9787030410214 | This book describes the research on coastal wetlands, specifically those of Fujian, China. In it, #220111A | £76.99 Add to basket the main types and distribution of Fujian coastal wetlands and mangrove forests are described, as is the environmental quality and ecological ......
Wissen Schaffen 384 pages | colour photos, tables | 100 Jahre Forschung im Schweizerischen Nationalpark Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Bruno Baur and Thomas Scheurer 9783258078625 | #220089A | £57.99 The Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences was instrumental in the founding of the Swiss National Add to basket Parks in 1914. By excluding humans there should arise a lovely open-air laboratory for the study of undisturbed natural development.
Conservation & Biodiversity
Biodiversity Status and Conservation Strategies with Special Reference 350 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/ to North-East India w maps | Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788192334318 R Vartharajan | #220140A | £73.99 Add to basket From the preface: "Conservation International recognizes a total of 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world, of which India is one among the 17 mega-diversity nations, having about 45•000 plant and 91•000 animal ......
Central American Biodiversity 540 pages | 414 colour & 18 b/w Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future illustrations, 71 tables | Falk Huettmann Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Central American Biodiversity highlights key results and lessons learnt from two field sites, La 9781493922079 | #219677A | £139.50 Suerte in Costa Rica and Ometepe in Nicaragua. It provides long term data on species Add to basket abundance and distribution. Primates receive ......
Creating Africas 224 pages | Struggles over Nature, Conservation and Land Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Knut G Nustad 9781849042581 | #219532A | £24.99 In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and their surrounding human Add to basket populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates ......
Islands and Plants: Preservation and Understanding of Flora on 410 pages | b/w photos, b/w Mediterranean Islands illustrations, b/w maps, tables | Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788495718952 2nd Bontanical Conference in Menorca - Proceedings and Abstracts | #219878A | £29.99 Add to basket Eva Cardona Pons, Irene Estaun Clariso, Mireia Comas Casademont, Pere Fraga i Arguimbau and Bla Proceedings and abstracts of the 2nd botanical conference in Menorca, held from april 26-30, 2011. See table of contents for more details.
Proceedings of National Conference on Biodiversity Depletion 267 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps Causes, Consequences and Solutions (28-29 September, 2012, India) | KL Meena Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788172338435 This book contains the proceedings of the National Conference on Biodiversity Depletion, held | #219897A | £35.99 Add to basket on 28-29 September 2012 at the botany department of the MLV Government College, Bhilwara, India. A total of 124 delegates participated in these ......
Rewilding European Landscapes 286 pages | Henrique M Pereira and Laetitia Navarro Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly 9783319120386 | #219682A | £89.99 traditional agriculture in remote areas. Rewilding European Landscapes proposes that this land Add to basket abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to ......
Sustainable Development of Natural Resources and Wildlife 117 pages | b/w illustrations | Conservation Hardback | 11/2014 | 9789351243281 | #219960A | £24.99 Add to basket Ashwani Kumar Dubey Natural resources may exist as a separate entity such as freshwater, and air, as well as a living organism such as a fish, or it may exist in an alternate form which must be processed to obtain the resource such as ores, oil, and most ......
The Care and Feeding of an IACUC 352 pages | 10 tables | The Organization and Management of an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Whitney Kayla Petrie and Sonja Lea Wallace 9781482201109 | #219860A | £57.99 Maintaining its user-friendly approach, this new edition of a bestseller summarizes information Add to basket necessary for the effective and efficient operation of an IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee). Chapters cover training programmes ......
The Sixth Extinction 320 pages | An Unnatural History Hardback | 02/2014 | 9781408851210 | Elizabeth Kolbert #210302A | £16.99 Add to basket Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most 9781408851241 | #219499A | £9.99 devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact ...... Add to basket
White Beech 372 pages | 1 b/w map | The Rainforest Years Hardback | 01/2014 | 9781408846711 | Germaine Greer #210650A | £24.99 Add to basket "For years I had wandered Australia with an aching heart. Everywhere I had ever travelled Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | across the vast expanse of the fabulous country where I was born I had seen devastation, 9781408846735 | #219575A | £9.99 denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over ...... Add to basket
Environmental Science
Activated Sludge - 100 Years and Counting 464 pages | David Jenkins and Jiri Wanner Hardback | 06/2014 | 9781780404936 | Activated Sludge - 100 Years and Counting covers the current status of all aspects of the #220123A | £135.00 Add to basket activated sludge process and looks forward to its further development in the future. It celebrates 100 years of the Activated Sludge process ......
Carbon Capture, Storage and Use 350 pages | 2 colour & 69 b/w Technical, Economic, Environmental and Societal Perspectives illustrations | Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs and Juergen-Friedrich Hake Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783319119427 | Carbon Capture and Storage technologies (CCS) are moving from experiment toward #220070A | £89.99 Add to basket commercial applications at a rapid pace, driven by urgent demand for carbon mitigation strategies. Carbon Capture, Storage and Use examines the potential ......
Climate Change, Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Developing 176 pages | 19 colour & 26 b/w Countries illustrations | Hardback | 05/2013 | 9784431543428 | Keshav Lall Maharajan and Niraj Prakash Joshi #219829A | £89.99 Add to basket This book is about climate change and its relation to agriculture and rural livelihoods. It starts by providing a basic understanding of climate change science followed by the relation of climate change to agriculture, the impact of which ......
Climate-Challenged Society 192 pages | b/w illustrations | John S Dryzek, Richard B Norgaard and David Schlosberg Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780199660117 Climate-Challenged Society is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the | #219740A | £16.99 Add to basket severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780199660100 | respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge ...... #219741A | £54.99 Add to basket
EU Waste Law 416 pages | Geert van Calster Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | A comprehensive introduction to the Regulations, Directives, and case law in this area, 9780198719786 | #220168A | £125.00 providing a guide to the practical application of the law, in the various methods and processes Add to basket of dealing with waste.
Health Effects of Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water 150 pages | black & white illustrations | M Ferrante, G Oliveri Conti, Z Rasic-Milutinovic and D Jovanovic Paperback | 12/2013 | 9781780405971 Metals are inorganic substances that occur naturally in geological formations. Naturally | #219775A | £110.00 Add to basket occurring metals are dissolved in water when it comes into contact with rock or soil material. Some metals are essential for life and are naturally ......
Lectures in Meteorology 610 pages | 17 colour & 184 b/w Nicole Moelders and Gerhard Kramm illustrations | Lectures in Meteorology is a comprehensive reference book for meteorologists and Hardback | 07/2014 | 9783319021430 | environmental scientists to look up material on the thermodynamics, dynamics and chemistry #219822A | £67.99 Add to basket of the troposphere. The lectures demonstrate how to derive ......
Management of Natural Resources in a Changing Environment 257 pages | 73 colour & 25 b/w N Janardhana Raju, Wolfgang Gossel and M Sudhakar illustrations | Management of Natural Resources in a Changing Environment addresses issues related to Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | sources of groundwater pollution such as arsenic, uranium, fluoride and their effects on human 9783319125589 | #219683A | £89.99 health. It discusses extensively the removal of ...... Add to basket
Study on Heterotrophic-Autotrophic Denitrification Permeable Reactive 114 pages | 2 colour & 36 b/w Barriers (HAD PRBs) for in Situ Groundwater Remedi illustrations | Paperback | 09/2013 | 9783642381539 Fei Liu, Guoxin Huang, Howard Fallowfield, Huade Guan, Lingling Zhu and Hongyan Hu | #219695A | £44.99 Add to basket Study on Heterotrophic-Autotrophic Denitrification Permeable Reactive Barriers (HAD PRBs) for in Situ Groundwater Remediation is an unmatched reference work on PRBs for groundwater in situ remediation. It proposes a novel HAD ......
The Climate Casino 320 pages | 46 b/w illustrations | Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World Hardback | 11/2013 | 9780300189773 | William Nordhaus #211949A | £19.99 Add to basket Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global- 9780300212648 | #220152A | £10.99 warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. .... Add to basket
The Last Fisherman 276 pages | colour photos | Witness to the Endangered Oceans Hardback | 11/2014 | 9780789211910 | Jeff L Rotman, Yair Harel and Les Kaufman #219571A | £33.99 Add to basket When author Jeff Rotman began his adventures as an underwater photographer more than 40 years ago, he relished the beauty of the deep sea and the thrill of the hunt. A member of an elite group of photographers, he has captured iconic photographs ......
Wastewater Stabilization Ponds 343 pages | 35 b/w illustrations, 45 Frank R Spellman and Joanne E Drinan tables | Ponds (lagoons) have been used for centuries with great success in the treatment of Hardback | 03/2014 | 9781466593183 | wastewater. Ponds created for treatment, known as stabilization ponds, model the physical and #220008A | £76.99 Add to basket biochemical interactions that occur in natural ponds. ....
Water Ecosystem Services 175 pages | 15 colour & 28 b/w A Global Perspective illustrations, 19 tables | Julia Martin-Ortega, Robert C Ferrier, Iain J Gordon and Shahbaz Khan Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in 9781107100374 | #218347A | £69.99 addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity Add to basket loss, and water security in the developing world, by ......
While Glaciers Slept 224 pages | Being Human in a Time of Climate Change Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | M Jackson 9780996087261 | #219769A | £22.50 While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of Add to basket a family and a planet change. Jackson, a National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply similar and intertwined. ....
Physical Sciences
AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most 256 pages | Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781476756219 | #219570A | £19.99 Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown Add to basket From the creators of the wildly popular and seriously scientific YouTube channel, AsapSCIENCE, comes entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible answers to the questions you never got to ask in science class.
Asteroids: Relics of Ancient Time 330 pages | 92 b/w illustrations, 8 Michael K Shepard tables | Where do asteroids come from and what are they made of? What clues do they hold about the Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | evolution of the Solar System? Scientists have catalogued hundreds of thousands of asteroids, 9781107061446 | #217199A | £19.99 and many are thought to contain water and amino acids ...... Add to basket
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water 360 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Fundamentals and Applications Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780444531780 | Erik G Sogaard #219734A | £110.00 Add to basket Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water covers the fundamentals behind a broad spectrum of advanced purification processes for various types of water, showing numerous applications through worked examples ......
Climate Change and Himalaya 262 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Natural Hazards and Mountain Resources colour & b/w maps | J Sundaresan, Pankaj Gupta, KM Santosh and Ram Boojh Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788172338817 | Glaciers and snow cover of the Himalayas are the major source of water in Central Asia. Natural #219671A | £61.50 Add to basket calamities and geohydrological hazards occur in this area due to the rapid uplift of the Himalayas and the under-thrusting of the Indian Plate ......
Geología de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantabrica 251 pages | colour illustrations | Arantxa Bodego Aldasoro, Miren Mendia Aranguren, Arantxa Aranburu Artano and Artur Apraiz Paperback | 01/2014 | 9788498609912 Atutxa | #219853A | £53.50 Add to basket A textbook on the geology of the Vasco-Cantrabria basin in northern Spain.
Geologie der Alpen 400 pages | ~220 colour illustrations | O Adrian Pfiffner Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | The Alps, with their outstanding outcrop conditions, represent a superb natural laboratory for 9783825286101 | #220019A | £69.99 many geological processes, and have played a crucial role in the history of geology. Geologie Add to basket der Alpen gives an up-to-date and holistic overview ......
Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the Lakshadweep Coral 90 pages | 37 colour & 23 b/w Islands in the Indian Ocean illustrations | Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | TN Prakash, L Sheela Nair and TS Shahul Hameed 9783319123660 | #219680A | £44.99 The Lakshadweep islands are a group of 36 coral islands in the Indian Ocean. These small Add to basket islands are unique for their aquatic biodiversity and vast blue lagoons.
Heart of Darkness 288 pages | 16 colour & 40 b/w photos | Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe Hardback | 02/2013 | 9780691134307 | Jeremiah P Ostriker and Simon Mitton #199848A | £19.95 Add to basket Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little- 9780691165776 | #219643A | £13.95 understood components – dark matter ...... Add to basket
Human Universe (Region 2 & 4) 2 discs, runtime: min, aspect ratio: Brian Cox 16:9, rating: E | In this spectacular series, Professor Cox offers an original new perspective on human life: the DVD | 11/2014 | #218681A | £15.00 story of a group of apes that evolved to leave their home planet and step out into the universe. Add to basket Humans are curious creatures. 11/2014 | #218682A | £19.99 Add to basket
Infinite Worlds 344 pages | 300+ colour photos | The People and Places of Space Exploration Hardback | 11/2014 | 9781476738321 | Michael Soluri and John Glenn #219517A | £29.99 Add to basket Michael Soluri has been photographing the people and places of space exploration for more than fifteen years. With the support of Discover magazine, NASA, and the astronaut crew, he was able to gain unfettered access to the ......
Introduction to Atmospheric Modelling 27 b/w illustrations | Douw G Steyn Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Introduction to Atmospheric Modelling explores the power of mathematics to help us 9781107499799 | #219190A | £15.99 understand complex atmospheric phenomena through mathematical modelling. The author has Add to basket thoughtfully chosen a path into and through the subject ......
Landforms of India from Topomaps and Images 135 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, R Vaidyanadhan and KV Subbarao colour maps | India, a country that for long attracted notice from the world over for its multiplicity of cultures, Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789380998039 ethnicities and faiths is blessed with an array of equally diverse physical landscapes. The | #219668A | £145.00 Add to basket landforms of this South Asian subcontinent ......
Medicinal Plants In Changing Environment 326 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Altaf Ahmad, Tariq O Siddiqi and Muhammad Iqbal Hardback | 01/2011 | 9788185589145 | Gradual changes in the environment have had tremendous impact on the growth and #219549A | £39.99 Add to basket performance of plants; which has been duly documented. However, it seems that properties of medicinal plants in relation to environmental changes are yet ......
Naturwerksteine aus Baden-Wuerttemberg 765 pages | 1248 illustrations | Vorkommen, Beschaffenheit und Nutzung Paperback | 02/2014 | 9783000411007 Wolfgang Werner, Jens Wittenbrink, Helmut Bock, Birgit Kimmig, Friedrich Gruener and Karl-Jo | #219674A | £56.99 Add to basket Stein Western Germany is rich in diverse and high-quality natural stone: light to dark red, violet red, yellow, gray green to almost white sand stones, ocher-colored calcareous sandstone, fossil rich and marble-like textured limestone in gray ......
Old Stellar Populations 538 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | How to Study the Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation Paperback | 03/2013 | 9783527410590 Santi Cassisi and Maurizio Salaris | #220081A | £59.99 Add to basket Old Stellar Populations discusses the theoretical path to decoding the information gathered from Hardback | 03/2013 | 9783527410767 | observations of old stellar systems. It focuses on old stellar systems because these are the #220082A | £99.99 Add to basket fossil record of galaxy formation and ......
Origin of Carbonate Rocks 320 pages | Noel P James and Brian Jones Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Origin of Carbonate Rocks provides an overview of the origin and preservation of carbonate 9781118652701 | #218788A | £74.99 sedimentary rocks. The focus is on limestones and dolostones and the sediments from which Add to basket they are derived. The approach is general and ...... Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781118652732 | #218789A | £34.95 Add to basket
Precession, Nutation and Wobble of the Earth 571 pages | 41 b/w illustrations, 11 Veronique Dehant and Piravonu M Mathews tables | Covering both astronomical and geophysical perspectives, Precession, Nutation and Wobble of Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | the Earth describes changes in the Earth's orientation, specifically precession and nutation, and 9781107092549 | #217702A | £89.99 how they are observed and computed ...... Add to basket
Sediment-Body Geometry and Heterogeneity 299 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Analogue Studies for Modelling the Subsurface colour & b/w maps | AW Martinius, JA Howell and T Good Hardback | 07/2014 | 9781862393721 | Over the past 20 years there has been a major growth in efforts to quantify the geometry and #219742A | £84.99 Add to basket dimensions of sediment bodies from analogues to provide quantitative input to geological models. The aim of ...
Stochastic Population Processes 664 pages | 90 b/w illustrations | Analysis, Approximations, Simulations Hardback | 02/2011 | 9780199575312 | Eric Renshaw #188869A | £67.50 Add to basket The vast majority of random processes in the real world have no memory – the next step in Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | their development depends purely on their current state. Stochastic realizations are therefore 9780198739067 | #220108A | £34.99 defined purely in terms of successive ...... Add to basket
The Astronomical Almanac (2015-2019) 492 pages | b/w illustrations | A Comprehensive Guide to Night Sky Events Paperback | 09/2014 | 9781502448781 Richard J Bartlett | #219702A | £21.99 Add to basket Designed for astronomers of all levels, the almanac provides details of thousands of astronomical events from 2015 through to 2019. Written by a former freelance writer for Astronomy magazine, the guide includes almost daily data and ......
The Geology of Egypt 272 pages | 24 plates with colour photos A Traveler's Handbook | Bonnie M Sampsell Paperback | 05/2014 | 9789774166327 Egypt is primarily a land of deserts and mountains, the habitable Nile Valley and Delta | #219558A | £24.95 Add to basket occupying less than 5 percent of the country. Although the ancient Egyptians lived on only a small fraction of the land, they made extensive use of ......
The Neutrino Hunters 256 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | The Chase for the Ghost Particle and the Secrets of the Universe Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781780743264 Ray Jayawardhana | #207145A | £11.99 Add to basket Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | secrets of the universe – the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to still 9781780746470 | #219540A | £8.99 more mysteries. How did the Big Bang happen? .... Add to basket
The Physics of Galaxy Formation 260 pages | 86 colour illustrations | Claudia Del P Lagos Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783319015255 | This thesis addresses two of the central processes which underpin the formation of galaxies: #219780A | £126.00 Add to basket the formation of stars and the injection of energy into the interstellar medium from supernovae, called feedback. In her work Claudia Lagos has ......
The Red Sea 980 pages | 300 colour illustrations | The Formation, Morphology, Oceanography and Environment of a Young Ocean Basin Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Najeeb Rasul and Ian CF Stewart 9783662452004 | #219681A | £135.00 The Red Sea presents a broad overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the Red Add to basket Sea, from its geological formation and oceanographic development to the environmental influences on its ecology and the changes it is ......
The Royal Society of Chemistry Periodic Table Wallchart colour illustrations | Murray Robertson and John Emsley 09/2012 | 9781849736787 | #219564A The periodic table from the Royal Society of Chemistry has been updated for 2013. Our new | £11.94 Add to basket periodic table poster is two-sided. On one side, a Visual Elements version, with fascinating 01/2014 | 9781782620730 | #219565A element artwork by Murray Robertson based on scientific ...... | £53.99 Add to basket
The Shark's Paintbrush 352 pages | 114 photos | Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation Hardback | 07/2013 | 9781935952848 | Jay Harman #204900A | £17.99 Add to basket The wave of the future has been around since the beginning of time: it's called Nature. Let Hardback | 07/2013 | 9781857886054 | inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman introduce you to stunning solutions to some of the #207277A | £19.99 Add to basket world's thorniest problems. Why does the bumblebee ...... Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781940468211 | #219448A | £12.99 Add to basket
Sustainable Development
A New Scramble for Africa? 11 b/w illustrations | The Rush for Energy Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Soren Scholvin 9781472430762 | #219510A | £59.99 Global energy consumption will increase rapidly in the next decades. The discrepancy between Add to basket demand and supply is worrisome within the old and new cores of the world-economy. Sub- Saharan Africa meanwhile possesses vast potential for energy ......
A Place in the Sun 224 pages | 225 colour photos | Green Living and the Solar Home Hardback | 03/2014 | 9780847842292 | Stephen Snyder #220119A | £32.50 Add to basket A Place in the Sun showcases two dozen inspiring homes from across the country that are well- appointed, stunning, and filled inside and out with green materials, design, and decor. These environmentally responsible, perfectly ......
Accounting for Carbon 592 pages | Monitoring, Reporting and Verifying Emissions in the Climate Economy Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Valentin Bellassen and Nicolas Stephan 9781107098480 | #217198A | £74.99 The ability to accurately monitor, record, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions is the Add to basket cornerstone of any effective policy to mitigate climate change. Accounting for Carbon provides the first authoritative overview of the ......
Achieving Environmental Justice 304 pages | A Cross-national Analysis Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781447305941 | Karen Bell #220118A | £69.99 Add to basket Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making. In order to develop successful strategies to achieve this, it is important to understand the factors ......
Anne Frank's Tree 250 pages | Nature's Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Eric Katz 9781874267850 | #218665A | £56.99 In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Add to basket Katz explores technology's role in dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology dominates, and hence destroys ......
Assessing and Managing Groundwater in Different Environments 304 pages | illustrations | Jude Cobbing, Shafick Adams, Ingrid Dennis and Kornelius Riemann Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781138001008 | This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical #220159A | £76.99 Add to basket methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping legal, social, organisational, institutional and governance considerations. Groundwater is ......
Bioenergy from Wood 276 pages | 33 colour & 29 b/w Sustainable Production in the Tropics illustrations, 25 tables | Thomas Seifert Hardback | 12/2013 | 9789400774476 | Bioenergy from Wood is written for scientists and practitioners interested in deepening their #219737A | £126.00 Add to basket knowledge of the sustainable production of bioenergy from wood in tropical and sub-tropical countries. Utilising the value chain ......
Biotechnological Applications of the Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica 74 pages | 4 colour & 7 b/w illustrations Farshad Darvishi Harzevili | Due to its ability to degrade hydrophobic substrates highly efficiently, the non-conventional Paperback | 04/2014 | 9783319064369 yeast Yarrowia lipolytica offers various applications in the food, feed, pharmaceutical, and fine | #219773A | £44.99 Add to basket chemistry industries, as well as ......
Bridging the Boundaries 266 pages | Human Experience in the Natural and Built Environment and Implications for Paperback | 05/2014 | 9780889374669 Research, Policy and Practice | #220006A | £43.99 Add to basket Edward Edgerton, Ombretta Romice and Kevin Thwaites Current interdisciplinary research and practice in human – environment interactions Bridging the Boundaries outlines current interdisciplinary research on the reciprocal relations between humans and the built and natural ......
Business Models for Sustainability 208 pages | Peter E Wells Hardback | 08/2013 | 9781781001523 | With increasing awareness that innovative technology alone is insufficient to make sustainable #219738A | £66.99 Add to basket lifestyles a reality, Business Models for Sustainability brings into sharp focus the need to create Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781782547518 radical new business models. .... | #219739A | £19.99 Add to basket
Climate, Energy and Water 336 pages | 51 b/w illustrations, 28 Jamie Pittock, Karen Hussey and Stephen Dovers tables | With the global population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, our capacity to provide Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | enough food, water and energy relies on our understanding and management of the complex 9781107029163 | #216550A | £44.99 interdependencies in the climate-energy-water nexus. .... Add to basket
Company Law and Sustainability 368 pages | Legal Barriers and Opportunities Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Beate Sj? fell and Benjamin J Richardson 9781107043275 | #219704A | £79.99 This investigation of the barriers to and opportunities for promoting environmental Add to basket sustainability in company law provides an in-depth comparative analysis of company law regimes across the world. The social norm of shareholder primacy ....
Cow Talk 256 pages | Understanding Dairy Cow Behaviour to Improve Their Welfare on Asian Farms Paperback | NYP 02/2015 | Rebecca Doyle and John Moran 9781486301614 | #219557A | £41.95 The aim of Cow Talk is to improve the welfare of dairy cattle in tropical developing countries, Add to basket and by doing so, optimise cow and herd performance. It gives the stockmen and farmers directly concerned with the cattle a better ......
Earth Stewardship 400 pages | Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Ricardo Rozzi, SF Chapin III, J Baird Callicott, Steward TA Pickett, ME Power, Juan J Armesto 9783319121321 | #219678A | £135.00 and M Add to basket This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from ......
Electricity Restructuring in the United States 5 b/w illustrations | Markets and Policy from the 1978 Energy Act to the Present Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Steve Isser 9781107100787 | #218342A | £79.99 The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure as a classic Add to basket network industry makes it intricate in business terms as well, so deregulation of such a complicated industry was a particularly detailed ......
Energy: All That Matters 160 pages | Paul Younger Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781473601888 Energy is probably the defining topic of our age. Uncertainty over the long-term availability of | #219531A | £8.99 Add to basket some hydrocarbons and nuclear fuels are increasingly prompting volatility in energy prices on world markets. Meanwhile, no serious scientist ......
Environment, Politics and Activism 232 pages | The Role of Media Hardback | 08/2014 | 9781138795631 | Somnath Batabyal #219774A | £74.99 Add to basket Environment, Politics and Activism examines the role of the media in environmental politics and activism in the 21st century. It highlights how politics is mediated in myriad ways through newspapers and news channels, through ......
Faith Versus Fact 320 pages | Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Jerry A Coyne 9780670026531 | #218575A | £24.99 In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, Add to basket dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion – including faith, dogma ......
Family Farming and the Worlds to Come 354 pages | 6 colour & 11 b/w Jean-Michel Sourisseau and Ibrahim Assane Mayaki illustrations, 11 tables | Jointly published with Éditions Quæ, France. What is family farming? How can it help meet the Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable 9789401793575 | #219974A | £117.00 development? Not only is ... Add to basket
Fundamentals of Sustainable Drilling Engineering 600 pages | Nazli Hossain and A Al-Majed Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Fundamentals of Sustainable Drilling Engineering clearly explains the concepts of the drilling 9780470878170 | #219735A | £130.00 engineering and presents the existing knowledge ranging from the history of drilling technology Add to basket to well completion. This book takes ......
Global Environmental Constitutionalism 350 pages | Implications for Present and Future Generations Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | James R May and Erin Daly 9781107022256 | #217739A | £64.99 Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to Add to basket healthy air, water and land, and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights.
Governance, Democracy and Sustainable Development 360 pages | Moving Beyond the Impasse? Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781849807562 | James Meadowcroft, Oluf Langhelle and Audun Ruud #201626A | £92.99 Add to basket This insightful book deals with governance of the environment and sustainable development. Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781782544913 The contributors explore the difficulties developed countries are experiencing in coming to | #219650A | £29.99 Add to basket terms with environmental limits and the resultant ......
How on Earth 250 pages | Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050 Paperback | 12/2014 | 9780990369004 Donnie Maclurcan and Jennifer Hinton | #220072A | £13.99 Add to basket From construction and manufacturing, through to software development, food catering and retail, the not-for-profit ethic is permeating global commerce. Not-for-profit entities increasingly generate their own income, rather than relying on ......
International Cooperation and Arctic Petroleum 224 pages | A Scenarios Approach in the Barents Sea Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Anatoli Bourmistrov 9781138783263 | #218910A | £84.99 The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain Add to basket global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is a region that is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and ......
International Environmental Law 488 pages | 36 b/w illustrations, 1 table An Introduction | Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E Vinuales Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | International Environmental Law provides a concise, conceptually clear, and legally rigorous 9781107041240 | #218675A | £69.99 introduction to contemporary international environmental law and practice. Written in an Add to basket accessible style ... Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | 9781107673342 | #218676A | £29.99 Add to basket
Interpreting Nature 400 pages | The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780823254262 Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, David Utsler and Martin Drenthen | #220078A | £23.99 Add to basket The twentieth century saw the rise of hermeneutics, the philosophical interpretation of texts, Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780823254255 | and eventually the application of its insights to metaphorical "texts" such as individual and #220079A | £82.99 Add to basket group identities. It also saw the rise ......
Just Water 230 pages | Theology, Ethics and the Global Water Crisis Paperback | 02/2014 | 9781626980563 Christiana Z Peppard | #219777A | £18.99 Add to basket Do we truly understand the significance of fresh water in an era of economic globalisation? Aimed at the educated non-specialist as well as scholars, Just Water explores important aspects of the global fresh water crisis while ......
L'Energie, Moteur du Progres? 176 pages | 120 Cles pour Comprendre les Energies Paperback | 11/2014 | 9782759222575 Paul Mathis | #219662A | £23.99 Add to basket Energy is a complicated matter! And this applies to specialists and politicians! This book will show you otherwise ... Why? Because we are all called upon to ask questions on energy.
Language, Ethics and Animal Life 248 pages | Wittgenstein and Beyond Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781628922363 Niklas Forsberg, Mikel Burley and Nora Hamalainen | #219533A | £19.99 Add to basket A number of factors-new research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened Hardback | 12/2012 | 9781441140555 | awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about #219600A | £69.99 Add to basket animal welfare and ecology-have made our relationship to animals ......
Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World 415 pages | 28 colour & 10 b/w Values, Philosophy and Action illustrations, 6 tables | Ricardo Rozzi, Steward TA Pickett, Clare Palmer, Juan J Armesto and J Baird Callicott Hardback | 02/2014 | 9789400774698 | To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in #219728A | £135.00 Add to basket global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science ......
Management of Water, Energy and Bio-Resources in the Era of Climate 393 pages | 52 colour & 83 b/w Change illustrations, 57 tables | Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783319059686 | Emerging Issues and Challenges #219733A | £117.00 Add to basket N Janardhana Raju, Wolfgang Gossel, AL Ramanathan and M Sudhakar Given our rapidly growing population, the need for judicious management of essential natural resources is becoming a major challenge for planners, managers and scientists/researchers.
Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility 304 pages | Illustrations | Moshe Givoni and David Banister Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781781007228 | The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource #220164A | £87.99 Add to basket intensive. Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781782540144 and behavioural perspective, as well ...... | #220165A | £29.99 Add to basket
Nanobiosensors and Nanobioanalyses 301 pages | 91 colour & 55 b/w Mun'delanji C Vestergaard, Kagan Kerman, I-Ming Hsing and Eiichi Tamiya illustrations, 17 tables | Nanobiosensors and Nanobioanalyses provides a comprehensive review of established, cutting- Hardback | 02/2015 | 9784431551898 | edge, and future trends in the exponentially growing field of nanomaterials and their #220071A | £135.00 Add to basket applications in biosensors and bioanalyses.
Natural Resources Law 1145 pages | illustrations | A Place-Based Book of Cases and Problems Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781454825098 | Christine A Klein, Federico Cheever and Bret C Birdsong #219691A | £183.00 Add to basket By using specific examples from locations across the country, authors Klein, Cheever, and Birdsong evoke the intensity of debate that arises out of disputes over natural resources. Creating context through a place-based approach, the authors ......
Naturnaher Tourismus 300 pages | ~140 illustrations | Qualitatsstandards fuer Sanftes Reisen in den Alpen Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Susanne Gessner, Lea Ketterer Bonnelame and Dominik Siegrist 9783258079226 | #219908A | £48.50 To ensure a high quality of nature-based tourism, a functioning quality management is Add to basket important. To that end, the authors present these ten standards. They range from the protection of nature and landscape conservation, good architecture ......
Networks in Contention 200 pages | 20 b/w illustrations, 9 The Divisive Politics of Climate Change tables | Jennifer Hadden Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | How do civil society organizations mobilize on climate change? Why do they choose certain 9781107089587 | #216562A | £54.99 strategies over others? What are the consequences of these choices? Networks in Contention Add to basket examines how the interactions between different ...... Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781107461109 | #216563A | £17.99 Add to basket
Perspectives on Biofuels 240 pages | Illustrations | Potential Benefits and Possible Pitfall Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780841228825 | Caroline Taylor, Rich Lomneth and Frankie Wood-Black #219697A | £96.99 Add to basket Today, fossil fuels dominate the worldwide energy mix. Combining the finite supply of fossil fuels with their adverse environmental impact and the uneven worldwide distribution causes political and economic tensions. Biofuels can improve ......
Renewable Energy Resources 800 pages | 65 b/w photos, 305 colour John Twidell and Tony Weir illustrations, 39 colour tables | Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text covering the full range of Paperback | NYP 01/2015 | renewable energy technologies and their implementation worldwide. Energy supplies from 9780415584388 | #219586A | £36.99 renewables (such as from biofuels, solar heat ...... Add to basket Hardback | NYP 01/2015 | 9780415584371 | #219587A | £115.00 Add to basket
Resource Curse or Cure? 322 pages | 29 b/w illustrations | On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia Hardback | 04/2014 | 9783642538728 | Martin Brueckner, Angela Durey, Robyn Mayes and Christoph Pforr #219694A | £117.00 Add to basket Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development. The once assumed link between economic development and societal ......
Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations 452 pages | 12 b/w illustrations, 10 Preben Hempel Lindoe, Michael Baram and Ortwin Renn tables | Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations evaluates and compares risk regulation Hardback | 09/2013 | 9781107025547 | and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, United #219595A | £74.99 Add to basket Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an ...... Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | 9781107515260 | #219596A | £29.99 Add to basket
Russian Climate Politics 112 pages | 3 illustrations | When Science Meets Policy Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781137310514 | Elana Wilson Rowe #220080A | £46.99 Add to basket Scholarly work in many fields has shown the important and changing role played by experts in international and national policymaking. Historical studies have revealed how Soviet scientists figured in politics in unexpected ways.
Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures 516 pages | 169 colour & 190 b/w Alper Ilki and Michael N Fardis illustrations | In the past, facilities considered to be at the end of their useful life were demolished and Hardback | 08/2013 | 9783319004570 | replaced with new ones that better met the functional requirements of modern society, #219977A | £117.00 Add to basket including new safety standards. Humankind has recently ......
Sun Above the Horizon 548 pages | 98 b/w illustrations | Meteoric Rise of the Solar Industry Hardback | 06/2014 | 9789814463805 | Peter F Varadi #220075A | £44.99 Add to basket The meteoric rise of the photovoltaic (PV) industry is an incredible story. In 2013, Google's Paperback | 06/2014 | 9789814613293 investments in PV systems totaled about half a billion dollars and Warren Buffet, one of the | #220076A | £16.95 Add to basket famous investors, invested $2.5 billion in the ......
Sustainable Transport 136 pages | Tony Parry, Graham Hughes, Richard Fenner and Charles Ainger Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | The Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure series is a new series of practical handbooks which 9780727757579 | #219776A | £29.99 provide engineers with an understanding of sustainability principles and solutions. Sustainability Add to basket concepts are set within well-known ......
The Ecology of Coexistence and Conflict in Cyprus 206 pages | 10 b/w illustrations | Exploring the Religion, Nature, and Culture of a Mediterranean Island Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781614513445 | Irene Dietzel #219649A | £125.00 Add to basket What is the significance of sustainable resource management for the functioning of Mediterranean island societies? How do human-environment relations reflect in a multi-ethnic religious landscape?
The Greenhouse of the Future DVD package (Region 1) NTSC, runtime: 70 min, 200-page ebook Abundance and Energy Autonomy and 40-page plans included on the DVD Curt Close | The Greenhouse of the Future is an innovative and strategic design, built of recycled and DVD | 01/2014 | #219491A | £41.22 natural materials, that interacts with the natural phenomena of the planet in order to create the Add to basket ideal environment for growth and abundance. ....
The Greenhouse of the Future DVD package (Region 2) PAL, runtime: 70 min, 200-page ebook Abundance and Energy Autonomy and 40-page plans included on the DVD Curt Close | The Greenhouse of the Future is an innovative and strategic design, built of recycled and DVD | 01/2014 | #219490A | £41.22 natural materials, that interacts with the natural phenomena of the planet in order to create the Add to basket ideal environment for growth and abundance. ....
The Philosopher's Plant 288 pages | illustrations | An Intellectual Herbarium Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | Michael P Marder and Mathilde Roussel 9780231169028 | #220101A | £51.99 Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, Add to basket blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned Paperback | NYP 12/2014 | plants in passing as the natural backdrops for ...... 9780231169035 | #220102A | £16.95 Add to basket
The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia 208 pages | b/w illustrations | David Lewis Feldman and Ivan Blokov Hardback | 11/2012 | 9780857938503 | In recent years, international, inter-governmental entities have acknowledged the importance #201638A | £66.99 Add to basket of civil society for engaging stakeholders in environmental change, especially at the local Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781782544906 community level, and in promoting democracy. | #219716A | £19.99 Add to basket
The Unnatural History of the Sea 435 pages | b/w photos, b/w Callum M Roberts illustrations | Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered Paperback | 01/2009 | 9781597265775 herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast | #189499A | £18.99 Add to basket had been harpooned into extinction. ....
Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community 224 pages | Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Paperback | 11/2014 | 9781626980952 Thomas Berry (1914-2009), a Passionist priest, was a geologian, historian of religion, | #219809A | £14.99 Add to basket philosopher, and the single most important Catholic voice on the link between faith, reverence for all life, and the environmental crisis.
Venoms to Drugs 352 pages | Venom as a Source for the Development of Human Therapeutics Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | Glenn F King 9781849736633 | #219563A | £155.00 This unique book will provide an up to date and comprehensive account of the potential of Add to basket peptides and proteins from animal venoms as possible therapeutics. The pharmaceutical industry has become increasingly interested in biologics from ......
Water Tech 224 pages | 30 b/w illustrations | A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector Hardback | 09/2013 | 9781849714730 | William Sarni and Tamin Pechet #220009A | £49.99 Add to basket Water Tech unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakeholders can improve water use in their homes, their businesses, and the world. ....
Who Rules the Earth? 304 pages | How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | Paul F Steinberg 9780199896615 | #217395A | £19.99 Humanity is confronted with an alarming number of environmental problems that seem to grow Add to basket worse by the day. We hear a steady stream of news reports about climate change, water shortages, and rampant deforestation. We learn of toxic chemicals ......
Data Analysis
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Computational Evolution with BEAST 2 275 pages | 70 colour & 21 b/w Alexei Drummond and Remco Bouckaert illustrations, 9 tables | What are the models used in phylogenetic analysis and what exactly is involved in Bayesian Hardback | NYP 04/2015 | evolutionary analysis using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods? How can you choose 9781107019652 | #219548A | £39.99 and apply these models, which parameterisations and ...... Add to basket
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis 776 pages | ~175 illustrations | A Tutorial with R, JAGS and Stan Paperback | 11/2014 | 9780124058880 John Kruschke | #219583A | £54.99 Add to basket There is an explosion of interest in Bayesian statistics, primarily because recently created computational methods have finally made Bayesian analysis obtainable to a wide audience.
Earth System Modelling, Volume 1 58 pages | 1 colour illustrations | Recent Developments and Projects Paperback | 03/2013 | 9783642365966 Kamal Puri, Rene Redler and Reinhard Budich | #219828A | £44.99 Add to basket Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in ...
International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants 512 pages | (Melbourne Code) Adopted by the Eighteenth International Hardback | NYP 12/2014 | 9783874294805 | #219661A | £94.99 John H Wiersema, John R McNeill, Nicholas J Turland, FR Barrie, William R Buck, V Demoulin Add to basket and Greu The rules that govern the scientific naming of algae, fungi, and land Plants are revised at Nomenclature Section meetings at successive International Botanical Congresses. Issues arising at the Congress in Australia in July 2011 were ......
Microscopy: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 20 b/w illus | Terence Allen Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | Microscopy is a dynamic area of science, incorporating both basic classroom microscopes and 9780198701262 | #216283A | £7.99 sophisticated research style instruments that can be driven by light, electrons, or X-rays. The Add to basket rate of advance in the area over the last 50 years ......
Reference
Perspectives: Academic Reading Skills and Practice 300 pages | 42 colour photos, 36 Marina Rozenberg illustrations | Inspiring students to take a critical and multifaceted approach to reading, Perspectives Paperback | NYP 03/2015 | combines skills instruction and authentic academic content to prepare learners for the demands 9780199009541 | #219512A | £29.99 of post-secondary education. Add to basket