March 2018 Monthly Catalogue
Welcome to the March 2018 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. We have an all-round strong list this month with a number of books for each of the main organism groups.
Ornithologists can look forward to Bloomsbury's African Raptors, a new Helm Identification Guide due in August. Oregon State University Press is publishing Penguins in the Desert in April, which takes a look at penguins in Patagonia. John Beaufoy will publish a second edition of their Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Philippines in May, while we have just received stock of the fold-out guide Costa Rica: Central Valley Birds. We also have stock of The Birds of Pamirs, Hissar, Alai and Tien Shan, Volume 1: Non-Passerines, Part 1, which is the first in a new large format, photographic avifauna series. Finally, of more regional interest is One Man's Marshes: The Birds of Lymington and Keyhaven, which is in stock, whereas armchair birders will be interested in North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring, of which we expect stock soon.
On the subject of mammals we have Hair and Fur Atlas of Central European Mammals, and Chelsea Green's Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, due July. John Beaufoy is publishing a second edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, while Oxford University Press has announced a paperback version of Kalahari Cheetahs: Adaptations to an Arid Region, both due May.
Herpetologists can look forward to three new titles from Chimaira: Amphibians and Reptiles of the St. Vincent and Grenada Banks, West Indies, the biography A Quest for African Herpetology, and the second edition of Chameleons of Africa: An Atlas including the chameleons of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, all of which are due this month. John Beaufoy is publishing the second edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia in May, while Ivy Press has just announced a new entry in their Book Of series with The Book of Snakes: A Lifesize Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, which is due August.
For entomologists some titles worth mentioning are a revised second edition of Ocelli's very successful Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain & Ireland, and the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America, adding to the coverage provided by an earlier Peterson guide to Northeastern North America. Both these books are due this month. We further stock The Butterflies of Afghanistan and a special issue of ZooKeys: Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America, both which have just been published.
For those with an interest in fish and other marine life, Wild Nature Press has announced Guide to Manta & Devil Rays of the World for May, while Island Press will publish The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World in July.
For botanists, then, we also have an exciting number of books. Kew has just published Identification Guide to Grasses and Bamboos in Madagascar, Pelagic Publishing has announced Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia for August, and we have received stock of the Illustrated Flora of Cyprus. Oxford University Press will publish The Biology of Grasslands in July, though details for this book are still scant at the moment. And we have stock of two hard-to-find titles from the Seychelles: Vallée de Mai (Seychelles): A Primeval Palm Forest, a Nature Reserve and a UNESCO Heritage Site and Striking Plants of Aride Island (Seychelles).
On the topic of nature and wildlife conservation we have a strong list of titles to announce this month. CSIRO will publish a second edition of Effective Ecological Monitoring in May, Cambridge University Press has announced Satellite Remote Sensing for Conservation Action: Case Studies from Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems for July, Pelagic Publishing will publish Marine Conservation: People, Ideas and Action in August, and The University of Chicago Press revealed The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation for April. We also have stock for Killing by Proxy: Wildlife Crime in the UK Today, while Beacon Press has announced a paperback of The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World for April.
To finish off, Bellevue Literary Press has just published A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice, which looks like a very interesting crossover between nature writing and a geology book. We have stock of Striking Nature of Curieuse Island (Seychelles). Windgather Press recently published New Forest: The Forging of a Landscape. And the very successful Improbable Destinies: How Predictable is Evolution? will be published in paperback in August by Penguin.
As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch.
Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor
Palaeontology
Fossils & Rocks of the Jurassic Coast 40 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Inspiring Places Robert Westwood(Author) Publishing From Exmouth in Devon to Studland in Dorset, the 95 miles of the Jurassic Coast provides a Paperback #240490 2014 9780956410443 £6.99 fascinating record of 185 million years of earth's history. Divided into three periods, the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous, this is an epic era in the...
Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 2 795 pages | 39 b/w photos, 147 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Small Mammals, Xenarthrans, and Marine Mammals Press Christine M Janis(Editor), Gregg F Gunnell(Editor), Mark D Uhen(Editor) Paperback #240517 Mar-2018 9781108462082 £74.99 This second volume completes the unique survey of North American Tertiary mammals, and Hardback #166175 2008 9780521781176 £56.99 covers all the remaining taxa not contained in Volume 1. It provides a complete listing of mammalian diversity over time and space, and evaluates the effect of...
Bioarchaeology and Climate Change 176 pages | 17 b/w Illustrations | University Press of Florida A View from South Asian Prehistory Paperback #240862 2016 9780813054124 £20.95 Gwen Robbins Schug(Author) Hardback #189887 2011 9780813036670 £82.50 In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.In Indian archaeology, climate...
Discrete Biochronological Time Scales 178 pages | 9 colour & 32 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Jean Guex(Author), Federico Galster(Author), Øyvind Hammer(Author) Paperback #240803 2016 9783319372723 £69.99 The object of Discrete Biochronological Time Scales is to explain how to create a synthesis of Hardback #230455 2015 9783319213255 £84.99 complex biostratigraphic data, and how to extract from such a synthesis a relative time scale based exclusively on the fossil content of sedimentary rocks....
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Dinosaur Discovery 64 pages | colour illustrations | Western Australian Museum Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous Paperback #240552 2018 9781925040326 £29.99 Mikael Siversson(Author) The world during the Cretaceous Period was a very different place to what we know it as today. Dinosaurs reached their peak in diversity and mammals were confined to a life in the shadows. The abrupt end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago,...
Fossils of Iowa 212 pages | b/w illustrations | Open Road Media Field Guide to Paleozoic Deposits Paperback #240603 2016 9781504032919 £10.99 Robert Charles Wolf(Author), Carol Ann Ratcliff(Illustrator) The Fossils of Iowa field guide is written primarily for amateurs in geological exploration and collecting. Robert Wolf provides a comprehensive coverage of more than 150 sites in Iowa and adjacent areas of Minnesota and Nebraska with the types of...
The Anatomy and Taxonomy of the Exquisitely Preserved Green River Formation (Early 91 pages | 35 colour & b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 7 tables | Eocene) Lithornithids (Aves) and the Relationships of Lithornithidae American Museum of Natural History Sterling J Nesbitt(Author), Julia A Clarke(Author) Paperback #240685 2016 £11.99 Fossil remains of Paleogene Palaeognathae are poorly documented and are exceedingly rare. One group of palaeognaths, the lithornithids, is well represented in the Paleogene of North America. Nevertheless, few specimens of the same species are known...
Diverse Orthorrhaphan Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera) in Amber from the 131 pages | 64 colour photos and b/w line drawings | American Museum Cretaceous of Myanmar: Brachycera in Cretaceous Amber, Part 7 of Natural History David A Grimaldi(Author) Paperback #240688 2016 £23.99 A remarkable diversity of new nonempidoid orthorrhaphan flies from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (late Albian-early Cenomanian, ca. 99 Ma) is presented, including 28 species (all but one new) in 22 genera (13 new), and at least 12 families. Two...
New Specimens of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda, Paraves) from the Late Jurassic of 66 pages | 40 colour photos and b/w illustrations, 1 table | American Northeastern China Museum of Natural History Rui Pei(Author), Quanguo Li(Author), Qingjin Meng(Author), Mark A Norell(Author), Ke-Qin Paperback #240690 2017 £11.99 Gao(Author) Four new specimens of Anchiornis huxleyi were recently recovered from the late Jurassic fossil beds of the Tiaojishan Formation in northeastern China. These new specimens are almost completely preserved with cranial and postcranial skeletons....
Osteology of the Middle Eocene Ceratomorph Hyrachyus modestus (Mammalia, 68 pages | 34 b/w photos and b/w line drawings, 22 tables | American Perissodactyla) Museum of Natural History Bin Bai(Author), Jin Meng(Author), Yuan-Qing Wang(Author), Hai-Bing Wang(Author), Luke Paperback #240692 2017 £11.99 Holbrook(Author) The middle Eocene ceratomorph Hyrachyus has been considered a pivotal genus in ceratomorph evolution, either as a transitional form from tapiroids to rhinocerotoids, giving rise to all later rhinocerotoids, or else as the sister taxon to other...
Landscape and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand 334 pages | 53 colour & 25 b/w illustrations | Atlantis Press James Shulmeister(Author) Hardback #240843 2016 9789462392366 £129.99 This book brings together an overview of the recent geological history, active earth and biological processes and human settlement of New Zealand. Topics covered include the very active neotectonic and volcanic setting. Mountain geomorphic processes...
Earth System Evolution and Early Life 440 pages | Geological Society A Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier Hardback #240956 2017 9781786202796 £170.00 Alexander T Brasier(Editor), Duncan McIlroy(Editor), Nicola McLoughlin(Editor) This volume in memory of Professor Martin Brasier, which has many of his unfinished works, summarizes recent progress in some of the hottest topics in palaeobiology including cellular preservation of early microbial life and early evolution of...
101 American Fossil Sites You've Gotta See 254 pages | colour photos | Mountain Press Publishing Company Albert B Dickas(Author) Paperback #240966 2018 9780878426812 £25.99 Examining in detail at least one amazing fossil site in every state, Albert Dickas clearly explains the critters preserved in the rocks, from sharks and rhinoceroses to trilobites and horn corals. At some sites, you can sift through the shale in...
Marine & Freshwater Life
NHK Supesharu Dīpu Ōshan Shinkai Seibutsu no Sekai [NHK Deep Ocean Special: 127 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations | Takarajimasha World of Deep Sea Life] Paperback #240526 2017 9784800273055 £24.99 NHK Supesharu 'Dīpu Ōshan' Seisaku Han(Author) This book ties in with a Japanese documentary series on the deep sea broadcast by NHK, Japan's largest broadcasting organization. It introduces the ecology of deep-sea creatures featured in the program mainly, and includes many beautiful photos...
Ecosystems and Living Resources of the Baltic Sea 291 pages | 73 colour & 26 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Their Assessment and Management Hardback #240835 2017 9783319530093 £126.00 Evald Ojaveer(Author) Ecosystems and Living Resources of the Baltic Sea presents a reconstruction of the formation of the environmental conditions and biota in the present-day Baltic Sea area during the last glacial cycle and thereafter under the influence of...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 2 Plankton Ecology of the Southwestern Atlantic 570 pages | 47 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag From Subtropical to the Subantarctic Realm Hardback #240871 Jun-2018 9783319778686 £99.99 Mónica S Hoffmeyer(Editor), Marina Elena Sabatini(Editor), Frederico P Brandini(Editor), Danilo Calliari(Editor), Norma Herminia Santinelli(Editor) Plankton Ecology of the Southwestern Atlantic integrates a variety of issues such as regional settings of productivity and nutrient cycling; plankton of coastal and shelf systems; plankton, climate change and human-induced changes; harmful algae and...
Managing Coral Reefs 250 pages | Anthem Press An Ecological and Institutional Analysis of Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia Hardback #240976 Aug-2018 9781783087969 £69.99 Managing Coral Reefs compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
General Natural History
Animal Experimentation 138 pages | no illustrations | Cambridge University Press A Guide to the Issues Paperback #240985 2017 9781316614945 £17.99 Vaughan Monamy(Author) Hardback #240984 2017 9781107162020 £44.99 An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and opponents alike. This fully updated third edition includes discussion of genetically altered animals...
Life: A Journey Through Time 304 pages | colour photos | Taschen Frans Lanting(Illustrator), Christine K Eckstrom(Editor) Hardback #240471 May-2018 9783836572743 £29.99 Out of print for a number of years, Taschen has made this book available again in hardback.In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made...
A Travel Guide to Captain James Cook's New Zealand 192 pages | 16 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w Exploring Significant Locations from Cook's Voyages of Discovery photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps | New Holland Publishers New Graeme Lay(Author) Zealand This book depicts in words, maps and photographs, the places of special importance which Paperback #240480 2017 9781869664602 £29.99 Cook visited or witnessed during his journeys from 1769 until his last departure in 1777. The locations are vividly described as they are today, and as they were...
Wildlife in Pictures 320 pages | colour photos | New Holland Publishers Craig Hayman(Author) Paperback #240875 Mar-2018 9781925546217 £12.99 Author Craig Hayman had the rare opportunity of living and working in some of Africa's most Hardback #226708 2015 9781921517624 £29.99 spectacular wilderness areas for several years. During his time as a wildlife photographic safari guide he was able to capture many dramatic and intimate...
Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain 290 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Canongate David Eagleman(Author) Paperback #239706 2016 9781782112464 £7.99 If the conscious mind – the part you consider you – is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain...
The Great Cat & Dog Massacre 248 pages | 30 b/w photos | University of Chicago Press The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy Paperback #240959 May-2018 9780226573946 £12.95 Hilda Kean(Author) Hardback #235396 2017 9780226318325 £19.95 The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why...
The Animals' Agenda 240 pages | Beacon Press Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age Paperback #240833 Apr-2018 9780807027608 £14.99 Marc Bekoff(Author), Jessica Pierce(Author) Hardback #235423 2017 9780807045206 £22.50 Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotional animals are – did you know rats like to play and laugh, and also display empathy, and the ears and noses of cows tell us how they're feeling? At...
The Man Who Climbs Trees 298 pages | WH Allen James Aldred(Author) Paperback #240666 Jun-2018 9780753545881 £9.99 'The wide horizontal branches stretched away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an Hardback #235859 2017 9780753545874 £16.99 enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the centre of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of Fallow deer I...
The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe 320 pages | (Over 800 b/w illustrations and photographs) | William Brian Cox(Author), Robin Ince(Author), Alexandra Feachem(Author) Collins (Harper Collins imprint) From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of Paperback #240971 Apr-2018 9780008276324 £9.99 scientific marvels – a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human Hardback #236499 2017 9780008254957 £19.99 imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos...
Dark Ecology 208 pages | Columbia University Press For a Logic of Future Coexistence Paperback #239577 Aug-2018 9780231177535 £19.95 Timothy Morton(Author) Hardback #236783 2016 9780231177528 £24.95 Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 3 Nelson's Arctic Voyage 320 pages | illustrations | Featherstone Education The Royal Navy's First Polar Expedition 1773 Hardback #237937 Aug-2018 9781472954176 £24.99 Peter Goodwin(Author) In the summer of 1773 the 14-year old Nelson took part in an expedition to the Arctic, which came close to ending his naval career before it had begun. The expedition was to find a navigable northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific, and was...
Origins: How The Earth Made Us 320 pages | Bodley Head Lewis Dartnell(Author) Hardback #238111 Aug-2018 9781847924353 £16.99 Why is the world the way it is? What forces have forged our planet and how have they in turn governed our evolution, influenced the rise and fall of civilisations through history, and ultimately shaped the story of humanity?Lying imperceptibly...
Botanical Painting 160 pages | colour illustrations | Pavilion Books With the Society of Botanical Artists Hardback #239136 Aug-2018 9781849944526 £24.99 Margaret Stevens(Author) An illustrated, comprehensive guide to botanical painting written by the Society of Botanical Artists.In this new book the Society of Botanical Artists provides a comprehensive guide to the different styles and methods of botanical painting,...
Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory and History of Genetics 540 pages | 4 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Press Selected Papers of A.W.F. Edwards with Commentaries Hardback #239438 Jul-2018 9781107111721 £69.99 AWF Edwards(Author), Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther(Editor) A. W. F. Edwards is among the world's most influential mathematical geneticists. One of the last students of R. A. Fisher, he pioneered the statistical analysis of phylogeny in collaboration with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, and he promoted Fisher's...
The Ghosts of Gombe 240 pages | University of California Press A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness Hardback #239897 May-2018 9780520297715 £24.95 Dale Peterson(Author) On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall's famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later,...
The Invention of Sustainability 432 pages | Cambridge University Press Nature and Destiny, c. 1500–1870 Hardback #240050 Jul-2018 9781107151147 £34.99 Paul Warde(Author) The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This ground-breaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how...
Linnaeus, Natural History and the Circulation of Knowledge 274 pages | 7 b/w photos, 1 table | Voltaire Foundation Hanna Hodacs(Editor), Kenneth Nyberg(Editor), Stéphane Van Damme(Editor) Paperback #240443 2018 9780729412056 £112.00 The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In Linnaeus, Natural History and the Circulation of Knowledge a group of...
The Parrots / Die Papageien / Les Perroquets 152 pages | colour illustrations | Taschen The Complete Plates Hardback #240470 Apr-2018 9783836569088 £29.99 Edward Lear(Illustrator), Francesco Solinas(Author) Edward Lear may be best known for his nonsense verse, but in his early years, he excelled as an illustrator of birds and reptiles. This set of 42 hand-coloured lithographs, originally entitled Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots,...
Film and the Natural Environment 144 pages | 16 b/w illustrations | Wallflower Press Elements and Atmospheres Paperback #240498 2017 9780231182652 £17.95 Adam O'Brien(Author) Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. Film and the Natural Environment...
The Secret Life of Fat 288 pages | WW Norton The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You Paperback #240502 2017 9780393354973 £17.50 Sylvia Tara(Author) Hardback #240501 2016 9780393244830 £21.50 This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing – and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part...
The Weather Detective 176 pages | Rider Books Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs Hardback #240549 Jun-2018 9781846045783 £12.99 Peter Wohlleben(Author) In The Weather Detective Peter Wohlleben uses his long experience and deep love of nature, to help us decipher the weather in a completely new and compelling way. At what temperature do bees stay at home? Why do southerly winds in winter often bring...
The Foragers' Cookbook 160 pages | colour photos | Totally Wild Publishing A Countryside Guide to Foraging and Cooking with Wild Food Paperback #240565 2016 9780995665309 £14.99 James Wood(Author) The Foragers' Cookbook offers a unique insight in to the huge abundance and massive potential uses for the plants we walk past on a daily basis. This book will give you the confidence and guidance to explore your surrounding green spaces and...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 4 Undercurrents: From Oceanographer to University President 368 pages | 26 b/w photos | Oregon State University Press John V Byrne(Author) Paperback #240602 Feb-2018 9780870719141 £32.50 Undercurrents recounts the life and career of John Byrne, who started as a geologist at an oil company and retired as president of a major land grant university. He came to Oregon State in 1960 as a faculty member, later becoming department chair,...
Botanical Drawing In Color 144 pages | colour illustrations | Watson-Guptill Publications A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Realistic Form and Naturalistic Color Paperback #240620 2010 9780823007066 £21.99 Wendy Hollender(Author) Botanical Drawing In Color contains lessons that are developed in a basic step-by-step process that builds in complexity. All demonstrations feature the delicate, exquisitely rendered, botanically accurate work of the author. A thorough immersion in...
Travels in North America, 1832-1834 624 pages | 32 colour & 16 b/w illustrations, 1 map | University of A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied Oklahoma Press Maximilian Alexander Philipp(Author), Marsha V Gallagher(Editor), William J Orr(Translated Hardback #240629 2017 9780806155791 £46.99 by), Paul Schach(Translated by), Dieter Karch(Translated by), Jack F Becker(Foreword By) The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative...
The Science of Sympathy 198 pages | University of Illinois Press Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization Paperback #240653 2016 9780252082054 £21.99 Rob Boddice(Author) Hardback #240652 2016 9780252040580 £75.99 In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also...
The Beachcomber's Companion 128 pages | 45 colour illustrations | Chronicle Books An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Identifying Beach Treasures Hardback #240658 Apr-2018 9781452161167 £12.99 Anna Marlis Burgard(Author) The Beachcomber's Companion is a charmingly illustrated guide to collecting and identifying shells and other coastal treasures. Each of the entries includes fascinating descriptions, fun tidbits, and detailed artwork that makes it easy for...
International Garden Photographer of the Year, Collection 11 168 pages | colour & b/w photos | Garden World Images Curtis McGlinchey(Editor), Roy Lancaster(Foreword By) Hardback #240661 2018 9780993452925 £24.99 This hardback volume showcases the winners and best entries for the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 11 and accompanies a major exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in February 2018.There are ten main categories for...
Everything You Know About Science is Wrong 176 pages | 50 illustrations | B T Batsford Matt Brown(Author) Hardback #240674 2017 9781849944021 £9.99 A highly entertaining, myth-busting read for anyone with even a passing interest in science. Everything You Know About Science is Wrong, written by author Matt Brown in his trademark humourous style, debunks the scientific myths we all take for...
The Source 352 pages | 20 illustrations | W.W. Norton & Co. How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers Hardback #240707 Jun-2018 9780393242355 £21.99 Martin Doyle(Author) America has more than 250,000 rivers, coursing over more than 3 million miles, connecting the disparate regions of the United States. On a map they can look like the veins, arteries, and capillaries of a continent-wide circulatory system, and in a...
New Forest Walks 176 pages | 150 colour photos | Sigma Press A Seasonal Wildlife Guide Paperback #240720 2014 9781850589846 £13.99 Andrew Walmsley(Author) New Forest Walks: A Seasonal Wildlife Guide is a walks book with a difference. Produced to appeal to both a general audience and those with a special interest in wildlife, the book features twelve walk routes that are all fully described and...
The Yellowstone Group 292 pages | Robert Culliton (privately published) Robert Culliton(Author) Paperback #240730 2018 9781977079848 £10.99 In an effort to curb global warming, the innovators of tomorrow overshot the mark and now the Earth is cooling. The ambitious have adjusted their sights to focus on adaptation to falling temperatures, and a young engineer takes it upon himself to...
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences 277 pages | 11 colour & 5 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Marie I Kaiser(Author) Hardback #240754 2015 9783319253084 £79.99 Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what...
A Greene Country Towne 248 pages | 45 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Pennsylvania State Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination University Press Alan C Braddock(Editor), Laura Turner Igoe(Editor) Hardback #240762 2016 9780271077130 £60.95 An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces.By examining a...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 5 Walden 124 pages | 58 b/w photos | Kehrer Verlag SB Walker(Illustrator), Alan Trachtenberg(Contributor) Hardback #240771 2017 9783868287653 £36.50 What has become of the fabled Walden Pond? In his debut title, S. B. Walker surveys the symbolically charged landscape of literary giant Henry David Thoreau. Deeply rooted in the American collective conscious, it is a mythical place perceived as wild...
Natura Morta [English / German] 136 pages | 57 colour photos | Kehrer Verlag Oliver Mark(Illustrator) Hardback #240772 2016 9783868287592 £59.99 Natura Morta is a photographic series by the photographer Oliver Mark, who was born in 1963. Taken in the evidence room of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation in Bonn in 2015 to 2016, it shows products that have been found on incoming...
The Most Beautiful Flowers 196 pages | 88 colour photos | Kehrer Verlag Kenji Toma(Illustrator), Kyohei Abe(Contributor) Hardback #240773 2017 9783868287899 £39.99 This photo series is Kenji Toma's homage to the botanical illustrations in Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, one of the most well regarded flower encyclopedias of the 19th century. Back when colour photography did not...
Iceland [English / German] 240 pages | 184 colour photos, 1 b/w illustration | Kehrer Verlag Ulrike Crespo(Illustrator), Halldór Guðmundsson(Contributor), Matthias Wagner K(Contributor) Hardback #240774 2017 9783868287776 £39.99 With her Iceland series, Ulrike Crespo takes on an extraordinary landscape, which has inspired countless travel and art photographers since the 19th century. And yet she succeeds in producing images that depict the breath-taking wealth of colours and...
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge 104 pages | Princeton University Press Abraham Flexner(Author), Robbert Dijkgraaf(Contributor) Hardback #240775 2017 9780691174761 £8.95 A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus...
Thoreau and the Language of Trees 248 pages | 102 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | University of California Henry David Thoreau(Author), Richard Higgins(Author), Robert D Richardson(Foreword By) Press Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his Hardback #240778 2017 9780520294042 £19.95 thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote...
Albrecht Dürer 300 pages | 200 colour & 50 b/w illustrations | Prestel Catalogue of the Paintings Hardback #240784 2017 9783791383453 £34.99 Albrecht Dürer(Illustrator), Norbert Wolf(Author) This lavishly illustrated volume draws on the latest research to present an exciting new interpretation of Albrecht Dürer, both as a man and as an artist.Albrecht Dürer's prints and drawings have inspired hundreds of artists, both...
Gaia 256 pages | colour photos | La Fabrica Pio Cabanillas Alonso(Illustrator) Hardback #240785 2017 9788416248827 £34.99 From Ha-Long Bay in Vietnam to the Grand Canyon in Colorado, Gaia is a collection of the most beautiful and startling natural landscapes in the world. It is a book that not only photography enthusiasts will enjoy, but also nature and travel lovers as...
Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene 338 pages | 131 colour & 4 b/w illustrations, 160 tables | Springer-Verlag Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison Hardback #240787 2016 9783319459639 £23.99 This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text,...
The Quest for the Invisible 332 pages | 40 b/w illustrations | Ashgate Microscopy in the Enlightenment Hardback #240792 2009 9780754661504 £110.00 Marc J Ratcliff(Author) The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy, as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the seventeenth century. As such, developments in the field...
Cicerone Guide: The Speyside Way Map Booklet 56 pages | 40 colour maps | Cicerone Press 1:25,000 OS Route Mapping Paperback #240800 2016 9781852849382 £7.95 Alan Castle(Author) All the mapping you need to complete Scotland's 66-mile (106 km) Speyside Way, an official Scottish Long Distance Route which follows the River Spey through northern Scotland from Aviemore to the old port of Buckie on the Moray coast. As well as...
The Central European Magdalenian 455 pages | 163 b/w illustrations, 56 tables | Springer-Verlag Regional Diversity and Internal Variability Paperback #240804 2016 9789402404180 £89.99 Andreas Maier(Author) Hardback #240805 2015 9789401772051 £89.99 This monograph on the Central European Magdalenian, a human culture of the Upper Paleolithic in western Europe, dating from around 17,000 to 12,000 years, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the archaeological record of this period. It sheds...
Made in England b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Little Toller Books Dorothy Hartley(Author), Fran Edgerley(Introduction By) Paperback #240829 Apr-2018 9781908213600 £13.99 First published in 1939, Made in England is a book about the crafts and people of the cottage industries of England, from the social historian, illustrator and photographer Dorothy Hartley. In the mid 1930s Hartley travelled by car and bicycle,...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 6 Respecting Animals 246 pages | Prometheus Books A Balanced Approach to Our Relationship with Pets, Food, and Wildlife Paperback #240830 Jun-2018 9781633884250 £15.99 David S Favre(Author) In this fresh approach to the animal rights debate, a legal scholar and expert on the humane treatment of animals argues for a middle ground between the extreme positions that often receive the most public attention. Professor Favre advocates an...
Cicerone Guides: Trekking the GR10 Trail 320 pages | 82 colour photos, 120 colour maps | Cicerone Press Through the French Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees Paperback #240844 2016 9781852847739 £16.95 Brian Johnson(Author) Guidebook to the GR10, a 955 km trek across the French Pyrenees from Hendaye on the Atlantic Coast to the Mediterranean coast at Banyuls-sur-Mer. This book replaces the 2013 guidebook authored by Paul Lucia. Described in 55 day-stages, the route can...
Richard Feynman 320 pages | Icon Books A Life in Science Paperback #240869 2018 9781785783722 £9.99 John Gribbin(Author), Mary Gribbin(Author) One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnificently charismatic and fun-loving, he brought a sense of adventure to the study of science. His...
Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt 227 pages | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Science and the Battle for Public Trust Hardback #240912 2006 9780879698058 £29.99 Elof Axel Carlson(Author) The intent and uses of science are a continuing preoccupation, especially in public debates on issues such as new pharmaceuticals, cloning, stem cells, genetically modified foods, and assisted reproduction. Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt, written...
Neither Gods Nor Beasts 180 pages | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press How Science Is Changing Who We Think We Are Hardback #240915 2008 9780879697860 £22.50 Elof Axel Carlson(Author) Traditional views of human nature focus on the supernatural, defining us as creatures with souls, minds, and spirits that transcend our physical attributes. In this provocative book, distinguished scientist and historian Elof Axel Carlson argues for...
The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals 240 pages | 50 colour & 450 b/w illustrations | Walter Foster Publishing More than 200 Drawing Techniques, Tips & Lessons for Rendering Lifelike Animals in Hardback #240937 2017 9781633221925 £16.99 Graphite and Colored Pencil With helpful tips and easy to follow step-by-step lessons, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals is the perfect resource for artists looking to hone their drawing style and technique.The book starts with a thorough introduction to the...
The Wild Within 256 pages | 27 b/w illustrations | University of Virginia Press Histories of a Landmark British Zoo Hardback #240958 2018 9780813940939 £37.95 Andrew Flack(Author) Established in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo innovation. In The Wild Within, Andrew Flack uses the experiences of the Bristol Zoo to explore the...
The Anglo-Saxon Fenland 160 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Windgather Press Susan Oosthuizen(Author) Paperback #240986 2017 9781911188087 £29.95 Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using...
Egyptian Bioarchaeology 248 pages | 45 colour & 46 b/w illustrations | Sidestone Press Humans, Animals, and the Environment Paperback #240989 2015 9789088902871 £39.99 Salima Ikram(Editor), Jessica Kaiser(Editor), Roxie Walker(Editor) Hardback #240988 2017 9789088903854 £120.00 Although the bioarchaeology (study of biological remains in an archaeological context) of Egypt has been documented in a desultory way for many decades, it is only recently that it has become an inherent part of excavations in Egypt. Egyptian...
Flora Trade between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity 112 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Oxbow Books Proceedings of a Conference Held in Naples, Italy, 13 April 2015 Paperback #240991 2017 9781785706363 £29.99 Ilaria Incordino(Editor), Pearce Paul Creasman(Editor) In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view. This collection of papers focuses on one particularly...
Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behaviour 192 pages | Oxbow Books Daniella E Bar-Yosef Mayer(Editor) Paperback #240992 2016 9781785704598 £35.99 Molluscs are the most common invertebrate remains found at archaeological sites, but archaeomalacology (the study of molluscs in archaeological contexts) is a relatively new archaeological discipline and the field of zooarchaeology is seen by many as...
Biosphere to Lithosphere 160 pages | Oxbow Books New Studies in Vertebrate Taphonomy Hardback #240993 2016 9781785704604 £35.99 Terry O'Connor(Editor) Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology. Zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists were the first to realise how vital it was to study the entire process of how food enters the...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 7 Forest Forensics 160 pages | 50 colour photos | Countryman Press A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape Paperback #240995 2013 9780881509182 £10.99 Tom Wessels(Author) Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire...
Games & Puzzles
Build Your Own Human Skeleton 304 pages | Taschen First published in 1996, this classic kit is big in print.From the medical student and biology Unbound #240472 Apr-2018 9783836572545 £29.99 enthusiast to the graphic designer and artist: this life-size model (1.8 m) gives everyone access to an age-old classic of scientific illustration. Simply...
Regional Natural History
Eden Project: The Guide (2017/2018 Edition) 64 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Eden Project Books Eden Project(Author) Paperback #239518 Aug-2018 9781909513174 £5.99 This is a revised and updated highly illustrated guide to the Eden Project in a pocket-sized format. The guide gives a flavour of the sort of things the Eden Project does and takes the reader on a tour of the exhibits, introduces them to events on...
Wilder Wales 192 pages | colour photos | Graffeg Julian Rollins(Author), Chris Packham(Foreword By), Drew Buckley(Illustrator) Hardback #240897 Mar-2018 9781912213665 £9.99 From the awe-inspiring, rock-strewn uplands of Snowdonia to the rugged beauty of the Pembrokeshire islands, Wales is blessed with more than its fair share of natural wonders. In Wilder Wales, author Julian Rollins and award-winning photographer Drew...
The Last Wolf 480 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | Abacus How the Killing of the Last Wolf in England Changes the Course of History Paperback #240967 May-2018 9780349141862 £9.99 Robert Winder(Author) Hardback #235833 2017 9781408707791 £19.99 What sort of a place is England? And who are the English? As the United Kingdom turns away from its European neighbours, and begins to look increasingly disunited at home, it is becoming necessary to ask what England has that is singular and its...
Life in the Polar Regions 256 pages | Parragon Books Ltd. Welcome to the ends of the Earth. Isolated by ice, snow, freezing winds and unforgiving Hardback #240423 Jul-2018 9781474897488 £16.99 oceans, the Arctic and Antarctic are the coldest and most inhospitable parts of the globe. Life in the Polar Regions is a superbly illustrated book, allowing you...
The Natural History of Texas 390 pages | 250 colour & 6 b/w photos, 15 maps | Texas A & M Brian R Chapman(Author), Eric G Bolen(Author), Andrew Sansom(Foreword By) University Press From two veteran ecologists comes a new and sweeping exploration of the natural history of Hardback #240465 Mar-2018 9781623495725 £47.95 Texas in all its biological diversity and geological variation. Few states, if any, can match Texas for its myriad species, past and present, and its many...
The Cotswolds – Slow Travel 304 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Bradt Travel Guides Including Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford & Bath Paperback #240481 2017 9781784770433 £12.99 Caroline Mills(Author) In this new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's The Cotswolds – Slow Travel, resident expert author Caroline Mills shares more of her favourite places in a region that remains as popular as ever. The area covered includes: the Cotswold...
Sussex – Slow Travel 296 pages | colour photos | Bradt Travel Guides South Downs, Weald & Coast Paperback #240482 2017 9781784770426 £12.99 Tim Locke(Author) This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's much-praised guide to Sussex, including the South Downs, Weald and Coast offers a greater and more personal selection of places to explore and discover than any other guide. Resident expert author...
South Orkney Islands, East Sheet (Map) 1 colour map, scale 1:100,000 | British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) Map #240486 1988 9780856651878 £9.50 The eastern part of the South Shetland Islands on a topographic map at 1:100,000 from the British Antarctic Survey. The map is available as a flat wall map that will be delivered in a poster roll.
Willapa National Wildlife Refuge 12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Waterford Press An Introduction to Common Plants & Animals Unbound #240497 2011 9781583556443 £6.99 James R Kavanagh(Author), Raymond Leung(Illustrator) Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, located in southwest Washington, was established in 1937 to protect migrating and wintering populations of brant, waterfowl, shorebirds, and other migratory birds. The Refuge preserves a number of unique ecosystems...
Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park 240 pages | 49 photos, 1 map | University Press of Kansas Ellen E Wohl(Author), SueEllen Campbell(Foreword By) Hardback #240504 2016 9780700623365 £25.95 To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earth's interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults. To learn what...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 8 Belize Wildlife 12 pages | colour illustrations | Waterford Press A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals Unbound #240533 2014 9781583558676 £5.99 James R Kavanagh(Author), Raymond Leung(Illustrator) Belize is the permanent or migratory home of 500 species of birds, including the national bird – the keel-billed toucan. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,...
An Elephant in My Kitchen 320 pages | Macmillan What the Herd Taught me about Love, Courage and Survival Paperback #240551 Jul-2018 9781509864911 £14.99 Françoise Malby-Anthony(Author), Katja Willemsen(Author) Hardback #240550 Jul-2018 9781509864898 £16.99 A blonde, chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But when she fell in love with renowned conservationist Lawrence Anthony her life took an unexpected turn. Lawrence died in 2012 and...
From Mountains to Mangroves 172 pages | Oxford University Press Protecting Pakistan’s Natural Heritage Hardback #240577 Apr-2018 9780199405466 £19.99 Rina Saeed Khan(Author) Pakistan is a geographical gem – a land with the greatest change in elevation within any sovereign state on earth, from 0 metres at Sonmiani Bay to 8,611 metres at the summit of K-2. Such dramatic changes in altitude have resulted in incredibly...
Mount Baker 130 pages | b/w illustrations | Arcadia Publishing John D'Onofrio(Author), Todd Warger(Author) Paperback #240605 2013 9781467131070 £21.99 Mount Baker rises over northern Washington State like a mirage, dominating the landscape Hardback #240604 2013 9781531675790 £27.99 like few mountains in the United States. On a clear day, it is visible from as far away as Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tacoma, Washington. This immense...
Voices in the Wilderness 148 pages | b/w illustrations | Blue Creek Press A Collection of Wild Essays Paperback #240633 2016 9781886591233 £15.99 Sandy Compton(Editor) These are the collected wild adventures of people of many ages and many callings. Teachers, executives, students, loggers, biologists, politicians, miners, hunters and more tell personal stories about big experiences in big country. This is a joint...
The Last Horsemen 256 pages | Andre Deutsch A Year at Sillywrea, Britain's Only Horse-Powered Farm Hardback #240670 2017 9780233005119 £12.99 Charles Bowden(Author) A century ago, power on farms was provided by one and a half million heavy horses, the pride of rural Britain. Today, heavy horses in the countryside are a distant memory, except Sillywrea Farm in Northumberland. It is the last farm in the country...
A Wilder Time 224 pages | Bellevue Literary Press Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice Paperback #240675 2018 9781942658344 £12.99 William E Glassley(Author) Greenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure trove of information on Earth's early history embedded in its pristine landscape. Over numerous seasons, William E. Glassley and two fellow geologists traveled there to collect...
Graham Land (map) 1 colour map, scale 1:250,000 | British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Map #240738 1986 9780856651816 £12.99 A section of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula on a topographic map at 1:250,000 from the British Antarctic Survey. This is a flat wall map that will be delivered in a poster roll.
African Animal Tracks 12 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Waterford Press A Folding Pocket Guide to the Tracks & Signs of Familiar Animals Unbound #240755 1999 9781583550373 £5.99 James R Kavanagh(Author), Raymond Leung(Illustrator) When tracking animals in Africa, guides rely on spoor (tracks and dung) to let them know where and when animals are present. African Animal Tracks is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for nature enthusiasts wanting to learn more about the...
Palmer Land (SR 19-20/16, map) 1 colour map, scale 1:250,000 | British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) Map #240756 1976 9780856651830 £12.99 This is a topographic map at 1:250,000 from the British Antarctic Survey covering a section of the Palmer Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz, and on a map is located on the land tongue that...
Palmer Land (SR 19-20/12, map) 1 colour map, scale 1:250,000 | British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) Map #240767 1976 9780856651847 £12.99 This is a topographic map at 1:250,000 from the British Antarctic Survey covering a section of the Palmer Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz, and on a map is located on the land tongue that...
Atlas Fauny Ceské Republiky [Atlas of the Fauna of the Czech Republic] 668 pages | 263 plates with colour illustrations | Academia Miloš Anděra(Author), Jan Sovák(Author) Hardback #240769 2018 9788020027566 £59.99 This atlas presents animals according to the environment in which they live in the Czech Republic. There are nearly 2100 species covered on 263 coloured plates, divided into chapters on forests, mountains, steppes, open cultural landscapes, wetlands,...
James Ross Island (map) 1 colour map, scale 1:100,000 | British Antarctic Survey AJ Fox(Author) Map #240777 1995 9780856651861 £12.99 This folded maps shows Ross Island off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula presented by the British Antarctic Survey at a scale of 1:100.000.
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 9 Joinville Island (map) 1 colour map, scale 1:250,000 | British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) Map #240790 1986 9780856651809 £12.99 This map shows Joinville Island in the Weddell Sea off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula on a contoured map. It was published by the British Antarctic Survey in 1973 as part of their topographic survey of the area at 1:250,000. This is a flat wall...
Busen Region, South Georgia (map) colour photos, 1 colour map, scale 1:25,000, size folded 14.5 × 23 cm, British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) size unfolded 69 × 88 cm | British Antarctic Survey This double-sided map features a topographic map of the Busen Region on side A and local Map #240812 2013 9780856652189 £21.99 information and photos regarding a number of topics on the reverse. Side A shows contours at Map #240811 2013 9780856651694 £21.99 25 m intervals and the locations of ice, rivers and lakes. Man-made...
Walden: Selections from the American Classic 176 pages | Shambhala Publications Henry David Thoreau(Author), Terry Tempest Williams(Foreword By), Michael Paperback #240831 May-2018 9781611806007 £8.99 McCurdy(Illustrator) In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature. Since its first publication in 1854, the work has become a classic,...
Northern Antarctic Peninsula (map) 2 colour maps, scale 1:250,000, size folded 13.5 × 22.5 cm, size British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) unfolded 75 × 89 cm | British Antarctic Survey This double-sided map provides an overview of the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It Map #240886 2017 9780856652127 £18.50 covers the area between Joinville Island and Hughes Bay, including James Ross and Snow Map #240887 2017 9780856652134 £18.50 Hill islands and the northern limit of the Larsen Ice Shelf on the...
Wild Karoo 224 pages | 200+ colour photos | Random House Struik A Journey Through History, Change and Revival In An Ancient Land Paperback #240896 2017 9781775843252 £13.50 Mitch Reardon(Author) After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa's parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with...
Striking Nature of Curieuse Island (Seychelles) 130 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map | Mifa Publications Steen G Hansen(Author), Victorin F Laboudallon(Author), Didier Dogley(Preface By) Paperback #240921 2017 9789993196624 £29.99 Curieuse Island in the Seychelles is part of the Curieuse Marine National Park, designated in 1979. This book focuses on the island and its striking habitats and species, describing a selection of its plants and animals.
Thatcher Peninsula, South Georgia (map) colour photos, 2 colour maps, scale 1:25,000, size folded 14.5 × 21.7 cm, British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) size unfolded 58 × 65 cm | British Antarctic Survey This double-sided map features both a topographic and a satellite image map of Thatcher Map #240930 2010 9780856652172 £15.99 Peninsula, South Georgia. The topographic map includes contours at 25 m intervals and the Map #240929 2010 9780856651496 £15.99 locations of moraine, ice, rivers and lakes. The map covers King Edward...
Yorkshire Landscapes 112 pages | colour photos | Windgather Press A Photographic Tour of England's Largest County Hardback #240947 2017 9781909686977 £16.99 Doug Kennedy(Author), Cecil B Snell(Foreword By) Yorkshire is by far the largest county in England, taking up most of the land area from Sheffield in the south to Cleveland in the north. Covering such a large area between the North Sea and the Pennine watershed, the variety of landscapes is...
Animal Heroes 320 pages | Michael Joseph Moving True Stories of the Animals Alongside Australian Soldiers Paperback #240948 2017 9780143784609 £19.99 Anthony Hull(Author) In Darwin in 1942, Gunner's barking alerted an entire army base of impending air raids, well before the enemy planes appeared on radar. Following an ambush, Sarbi the explosive detection dog was held captive by the Taliban for over a year, before...
Adelaide Island and Arrowsmith Peninsula (map) colour photos, 2 colour maps, scale 1:250,000, size folded 13.5 × 22.5 Magdalena Biszczuk(Author) cm, size unfolded 84 × 88 cm | British Antarctic Survey Adelaide Island and the Arrowsmith Peninsula of Antarctica at 1:250,000 on a double-sided Paperback #240952 2017 9780856651984 £15.99 map from the British Antarctic Survey presenting on one side contoured topographic mapping Map #240951 2017 9780856651953 £15.99 and on the reverse a stunning satellite image of the same area which...
Volcano: An A to Z and Other Essays about Geology, Geography, and Geo-Travel in the 128 pages | Bauhan Publishing American West Paperback #240997 2017 9780872332294 £14.99 Neil Mathison(Author) Neil Mathison's writing explores the many ways in which the physical world influences our lives. He muses on heritage, boats, and the sea; ponders how living in the shadow of a volcano shapes a person; and ties the physical world to deeper themes...
Fauna of Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu 356 pages | 32 plates with colour photos; illustrations, maps | Zoological Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)(Author) Survey of India The Indian district of Kaniyakumari is located in the state of Tamil Nadu, at the southernmost Paperback #240998 2017 9788181714725 £42.99 tip of mainland India. This book describes the invertebrate and vertebrate fauna, covering Rotifera, crustaceans, Myriapoda, spiders, molluscs, and a...
Fauna of Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharashtra 212 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; illustrations, maps | Zoological Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)(Author) Survey of India Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary in the Indian state of Maharashtra was established in 1986. This Paperback #240999 2017 9788181714602 £44.99 publication gives an inventory of the invertebrate and vertebrate fauna found here, including sponges, freshwater crabs, molluscs, spiders, scorpions and...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 10 Fauna of Sultanpur National Park Haryana 219 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; colour & b/w illustrations, colour Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)(Author) maps | Zoological Survey of India Sultanpur National Park and Bird Sanctuary is located in the Indian state of Haryana, and is Paperback #241000 2017 9788181714749 £32.99 located only about 50 km from Delhi. It was established as a Sanctuary in 1971, and upgraded to a National Park in 1991. The park is famous for its migratory...
Man of the Woods 277 pages | 42 photos | Syracuse University Press Herbert F Keith(Author), Paul F Jamieson(Introduction By) Paperback #241001 1972 9780815601265 £20.95 Herbert F. Keith lives between two worlds and is at home in both. His is the last mown lawn at the edge of the village. South of the iron stakes that mark his property line are twenty-one air miles of unbroken Adirondack forest preserve, all the way...
Botany & Plant Science
Flora Mesoamericana, Volume 5 (Part 2): Asteraceae [Spanish] 608 pages | no illustrations | Missouri Botanical Garden Press Gerrit M Davidse(Editor), Mario S Sousa(Editor), Sandra Knapp(Editor), Fernando Chiang Hardback #36836 2018 9780915279982 £145.00 C(Editor), Carmen Ulloa Ulloa(Editor), John F Pruski(Editor) Volume 5(2) is the latest volume of Flora Mesomericana, the first major regional flora ever written in Spanish. The Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants growing in the southeasternmost states of Mexico, including the Yucatan...
Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture 888 pages | colour & b/w photos, tables | CABI Publishing Richard A Sikora(Editor), Daniel L Coyne(Editor), Johannes Hallmann(Editor), Patricia Hardback #240816 May-2018 9781786391247 £150.00 Timper(Editor) Covering all aspects of practical plant nematology in subtropical and tropical agriculture, the third edition of this definitive global reference work is fully revised and in full colour throughout. It covers the presence, distribution, symptomology...
Texas Wildflowers 512 pages | 322 colour photos, 1 colour map | University of Texas Press A Field Guide Paperback #240879 Mar-2018 9781477314760 £14.99 Campbell Loughmiller(Author), Lynn Loughmiller(Author), Joe Marcus(Contributor), Lady Bird Johnson(Foreword By) With more than 175,000 copies sold, Texas Wildflowers has established itself as the go-to guide for identifying the state's roadside flowers. The 2006 second edition was edited by Damon Waitt, whereas this new 2018 edition has been updated by Joe...
Die Kosmos Kanarenflora [The Kosmos Canary Islands Flora] 320 pages | 922 colour photos, 111 b/w line drawings, b/w distribution Peter Schönfelder(Author), Ingrid Schönfelder(Author) maps | Kosmos Verlag Die Kosmos Kanarenflora shows the amazing variety of flora found on the Canary Islands, from Paperback #240846 2018 9783440154076 £39.99 the arid succulent bush to the canary pine forests, the misty, evergreen laurel forests and the mountainous vegetation. More than 640 characteristic Canary...
Tomatoes: Crop Production Science in Horticulture 384 pages | illustrations | CABI Publishing Ep Heuvelink(Editor) Paperback #240723 Jun-2018 9781780641935 £44.99 This new edition of a successful, practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the production of the tomato crop, within the context of the global tomato industry. Tomatoes are one of the most important...
Flora Briofítica Ibérica, Volumen 6 466 pages | 134 plates with colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings | Hypnales Sociedad Espanola de Briologia Juan Guerra(Editor) Paperback #162218 2018 £105.00 Volume 6 deals with the moss Hypnales. For each species, subspecies, or variety the following information is provided: the correct name, basionym (if different), type, all synonyms, descriptions based on Iberian materials, habitat, chorology,...
Illustrated Pollen Terminology 300 pages | 200 colour illustrations | Springer-Verlag Heidemarie Halbritter(Author), Silvia Ulrich(Author), Fridgeir Grimsson(Author), Martina Hardback #238745 May-2018 9783319713649 £44.99 Weber(Author), Reinhard Zetter(Author), Michael Hesse(Author), Ralf Buchner(Author), Hardback #176473 2008 9783211798935 £87.99 Matthias Svojtka(Author), Andrea Frosch-Radivo(Author) Illustrated Pollen Terminology provides a fully illustrated compendium of key terms and basic principles in the field of palynology, making it an indispensable tool for all palynologists. It is a revised and extended edition of Pollen Terminology: An...
World Checklist of Bamboos and Rattans 511 pages | Science Press Maria S Vorontsova(Author), Lynn G Clark(Author), John Dransfield(Author) Paperback #240473 2017 9787030551016 £69.99 This book contains a global checklist of all known species of bamboos and rattans. It is an authoritative source of information on accepted species of bamboos and rattans,the correct names that should be applied to them, and the incorrect names that...
The Gentianaceae, Volume 2 452 pages | 37 colour photos, 91 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, tables | Biotechnology and Applications Springer-Verlag Jan J Rybcziński(Editor), Michael R Davey(Editor), Anna Mikuła(Editor) Paperback #240814 2016 9783662510674 £109.99 The Gentianaceae, Volume 2, the second of two volumes on the Gentianaceae, is devoted to Hardback #225678 2015 9783642541018 £129.99 aspects of biotechnology and their applications. It consists of 18 chapters and covers micropropagation by means of organogenesis or somatic embryogenesis, and...
Mycorrhizal Networks 286 pages | 16 colour & 25 b/w illustrations, 26 tables | Springer-Verlag Thomas R Horton(Editor), Jim Trappe(Foreword By) Paperback #240525 2016 9789402408225 £99.99 The last 25 years have seen significant advances in our understanding of the mycorrhizal fungi Hardback #227221 2015 9789401773942 £119.99 that colonize most of the world's plants, and the mycorrhizal networks that form and extend into the soil beyond plant roots. In addition to a thorough...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 11 Edible Mushrooms 512 pages | colour photos | Green Books A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain, Ireland and Europe Hardback #240899 Jun-2018 9780857844590 £34.99 Geoff Dann(Author) Hardback #228419 2016 9780857843975 £24.99 An up-to-date, comprehensive and brilliantly illustrated book on fungi foraging in Britain and Europe. It covers every known edible species, and all the poisonous groups, as well as a few other extremely common ones and a handful that are of interest...
Illustrated Flora of Cyprus 383 pages | colour photos | Yiannis Christofides (privately published) Yiannis Christofides(Author) Hardback #240151 2017 9789963854226 £44.99 The new Illustrated Flora of Cyprus is the most comprehensive and up-to-date identification guide to the flora of Cyprus. lt includes:- descriptions of all native and adventive flowering plants, except the Poaceae- their distribution in Cyprus,...
Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia 392 pages | 1049 illustrations, 5 maps | Pelagic Publishing Shamil Shetekauri(Author), Martin Jacoby(Author), Tolkha Shetekauri(Author) Paperback #240241 Aug-2018 9781784271732 £29.99 The mountains of Caucasia lie between the Black and Caspian Seas and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. They include the highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain ranges of the northern hemisphere after the Himalayas and...
A Guide to Growing the Native Plants of Singapore 168 pages | colour photos | Singapore Science Centre Hugh TW Tan(Author), T Morgany(Author) Paperback #240441 2001 9789810430740 £29.99 This is a little reference book which highlights 65 of the more attractive and interesting native Singapore plants for growing on streets, parks or gardens. The earlier sections provide a brief introduction to Singapore, plants, conservation, native...
The Garden Visitor's Handbook 2018 744 pages | colour photos | Constable The National Gardens Scheme (NGS)(Author) Paperback #240462 2018 9781472129116 £13.99 Published annually in spring, The Garden Visitor's Handbook 2018 lists nearly 4,000 gardens open for visiting. It is packed with full-colour photographs and informed comment.Fully updated and supported by an online database, The Garden...
Wildflowers of Texas 544 pages | 486 colour photos, maps | Shearer Publishing Geyata Ajilvsgi(Author) Paperback #240467 2003 9780940672734 £19.50 In her popular Wildflowers of Texas, native-plant expert Geyata Ajilvsgi gives lay readers the most comprehensive field guide currently available on the state's abundant wildflowers.This latest edition contains information on 482 of the most...
Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country 277 pages | colour photos | Shearer Publishing Marshall Enquist(Author) Paperback #240468 1987 9780961801304 £19.50 A land of rugged hills and deeply cut canyons with clear streams running over beds of solid limestone, the Hill Country is rich in regional species, from Sycamore-Leaf Snow Bell and Texas Barberry to Canyon Mock-Orange and Scarlet Leatherflower.In...
Flora of Uzbekistan, Volume 1: Amaryllidaceae [Russian] 173 pages | b/w line drawings, distribution maps | Navroz Publishers Furkat O Khassanov(Author) Paperback #240474 2016 9789943381827 £150.00 Volume 1 of this new flora deals with the family Amaryllidaceae. The descriptions contains complete synonymy, nomenclature, distribution data, descriptions and identification keys.
Cultivation of Bursera 318 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Jason Eslamieh (privately Frankincense of the Americas published) Jason Eslamieh(Author) Paperback #240488 2013 9781939828996 £94.99 The genus Bursera covers a vast area in the New World, extending from the southwestern part Hardback #240487 2013 9781939828095 £110.00 of the United States through México, Central and South America, and into the Caribbean Islands. Bursera has been embedded in the folklore of the...
A Survey of the Genus Narcissus 345 pages | colour illustrations, b/w distribution maps | Michael Salmon Michael A Salmon(Author) (privately published) This is the first botanical monograph devoted to the genus Narcissus to be published since the Hardback #240495 2018 9781527205871 £69.99 AGS published Narcissus: A Guide to Wild Daffodils in 1990. The book is illustrated with botanical paintings by the author. There are also maps showing...
Philadelphia Trees 280 pages | 700 colour photos, 130 b/w illustrations, 11 maps | Columbia A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley University Press Edward Sibley Barnard(Author), Paul W Meyer(Author), Catriona Briger(Author) Paperback #240496 2017 9780231152495 £14.95 Philadelphia Trees is a pocket-sized resource for identifying the native trees, commonly encountered exotics, and popular ornamentals of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and adjacent counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Each of the...
Venezuelan Ruellia (Acanthaceae) colour photos, b/w line drawings, distribution maps | New York Botanical A Monograph Garden Press Erin Anne Tripp(Author), Manuel Luján(Author) Hardback #240506 2018 9780893275556 £110.00 The Acanthaceae are among the 10 or so most taxonomically diverse families of flowering plants. Taxonomically, northern regions of the Neotropics including Mexico and much of Central America have been studied to a greater degree than have more...
Identification Guide to Grasses and Bamboos in Madagascar 169 pages | 190 colour photos | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Maria S Vorontsova(Author), Soejatmi Dransfield(Author), Stephen A Renvoize(Author), Paperback #240512 2018 9781842466483 £49.99 Guillaume Besnard(Author), Andrew McRobb(Author), Jacqueline Razanatsoa(Author), Nanjarisoa Olinirina Prisca(Author), Solofo Eric Rakotoarisoa(Author), Hélène Ralimanana(Author) Grasses and bamboos are part of the same botanical group, the grass family, also called Poaceae, a family with an estimated 12,000 species. Grasses occur throughout the world with similar diversity in the tropical and temperate regions, in all...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 12 Coffee Atlas of Ethiopia 128 pages | 40+ colour photos and colour illustrations, 40+ colour maps | Aaron P Davis(Author), Tim Wilkinson(Author), Zeleke Kebebew Challa(Author), Jenny Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Williams(Author), Susana Baena(Author), Tadesse Woldemariam Gole(Author), Justin Hardback #240513 Feb-2018 9781842466605 £29.99 Moat(Author) Ethiopia is the birth-place of coffee, the home of wild Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica), and the largest coffee producer in Africa. Coffee drinking is an important part of Ethiopian culture and society. Ethiopian coffee is renowned for its wide...
The Wildlife Garden 176 pages | colour photos | How To Books The Essential Guide to Attracting Wildlife into Your Garden Paperback #240529 2014 9780716023494 £8.99 John Lewis-Stempel With the erosion of native wildlife habitats, gardens increasingly provide an invaluable source of food and shelter for Britain's fauna and flora. The Wildlife Garden is the essential guide to attracting birds to your bushes, butterflies to your...
The Illustrated Practical Guide to Wildlife Gardening 256 pages | 960+ colour photos | Southwater How to Make Wildflower Meadows, Ponds, Hedges, Flower Borders, Bird Feeders, Wildlife Paperback #240530 2017 9781846811487 £9.99 Shelters, Nesting Boxes and Hibernation Sites Christine Lavelle(Author), Michael Lavelle(Author) In this book, Christine and Michael Lavelle give advice on creating and caring for a range of garden types, showing how simple techniques will allow you to have a dazzling display while also helping native wildlife. Easy-to-follow instructions on...
A Taxonomic Revision of the Erpodiaceae (Bryophyta) New York Botanical Garden Press Ronald A Pursell(Author), Bruce Allen(Editor) Hardback #240536 2017 9780893275457 £115.00 The Erpodiaceae (Bryophyta) is a family of very small to small, pleurocarpous mosses most closely related to the Orthotrichaceae. Mosses in the Erpodiaceae are found mainly in drier areas of the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Five...
Vegetation of the Canary Islands 355 pages | 75 colour illustrations | Springer-Verlag Marcelino J del Arco Aguilar(Author), Octavio Rodríguez Delgado(Author) Hardback #240559 Jul-2018 9783319772547 £99.99 The volcanic and oceanic nature of the Canary Islands, its rich plant biodiversity and high rate of endemism, as well as the relict character of some of its plant communities make it a territory of great biological interest. The main geographic,...
Plant Anatomy 390 pages | 450 colour & 40 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag A Concept-Based Approach to the Structure of Seed Plants Hardback #240560 Jun-2018 9783319772080 £69.99 Richard Crang(Author), Sheila Lyons-Sobaski(Author), Robert Wise(Author) Intended as a text for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students and as a potential reference, this broad-scoped resource is extensive in its educational appeal by providing a new concept-based organization with end-of-chapter literature...
An Initial Guide to the Identification of Mushrooms and Toadstools 36 pages | Totally Wild Publishing Paul Nichol(Author) Paperback #240564 2017 9781527212251 £11.99 The task of identifying mushrooms and toadstools has long been an overwhelming process. With over 3000 species found in Britain, field guides can add to the confusion. An Initial Guide to the Identification of Mushrooms and Toadstools is a must-have...
Three Degrees of Latitude 128 pages | 20 colour illustrations | Hypanthium Press A Curious Guide to the Natural History of the Pehuén Paperback #240586 2016 9780692667866 £17.99 Jane C Coffey(Author) Three Degrees of Latitude is about an ancient species of tree. It is about art and observation and the rift between seeing and knowing. It is about examining our preferred perception of evolution, our philosophy of success. It is about fear and faith...
Guide to the Ferns and Lycophytes of REBIO Uatumã - Central Amazonia / Guia de 315 pages | colour photos | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia Samabaias e Licófitas da REBIO Uatumã - Amazônia Central Paperback #240592 2012 9788521100799 £89.99 Gabriela Zuquim(Author) This is a richly illustrated work that presents information on the ecology and identification of 120 species of ferns and lyophytes found in Uatumã Biological Reserve (Reserva Biológica do Uatumã, or REBIO Uatumã for...
European Atlas of Forest Tree Species 200 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz(Editor), Daniele de Rigo(Editor), Giovanni Caudullo(Editor), Tracy Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (EU) Houston Durrant(Editor), Achille Mauri(Editor), Karmenu Vella(Preface By), Tibor Hardback #240596 2016 9789279367403 £9.99 Navracsics(Preface By) The European Atlas of Forest Tree Species is the first comprehensive publication of such a unique and essential environmental resource, that is, our trees. Leading scientists and forestry professionals have contributed in the many stages of the...
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid Monitoring Protocol for Pipestone National Monument 76 pages | b/w illustrations | US National Park Service National Park Service (NPS)(Author) Paperback #240606 2013 9781492388586 £18.99 The western prairie fringed orchid monitoring protocol guides monitoring of this threatened plant on Pipestone National Monument in southwestern Minnesota. The monitoring protocol is designed to achieve two objectives: to track temporal and...
The Irish Garden 400 pages | 250 colour photos | Frances Lincoln Ltd Jane Powers(Author), Jonathan Hession(Illustrator) Hardback #240621 2015 9780711232228 £39.99 Visit over forty of Ireland's most beautiful gardens without moving from your armchair with this stunning book, ranging from the grand old demesnes of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy to the intensely personal creations of passionate plantsmen and...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 13 The Botanical Art Files 126 pages | colour illustrations | Botanical Press Narratives Paperback #240622 2016 9780992562441 £27.50 Rita Mary Parkinson(Author), Dolores Sk-Malloni(Illustrator) Most people associate botanical illustration with the classic works of the Golden Age of Botanical Art and their contemporary equivalents.The Botanical Art Files: Narratives takes a wider look beyond the traditional and looks at a variety of...
Geobotanik: Pflanze und Vegetation in Raum und Zeit [Geobotany: Plants and 616 pages | 50 colour & 285 b/w illustrations | SpringerSpektrum Vegetation in Space and Time] (formerly Spektrum Akademischer Verlag) Wolfgang Frey(Author), Rainer Lösch(Author) Hardback #240637 2010 9783827423351 £49.99 This geobotany textbook addresses one of the major sub-disciplines of plant science and covers:- The history of geobotany and current research trends- Floristry, chorology (i.e. biogeography) and phylogeography- Vegetation science- Flora and...
Gardens of Marrakesh 128 pages | colour photos | Frances Lincoln Ltd Angelica Gray(Author), Alessio Mei(Illustrator) Paperback #240654 2017 9780711238909 £14.99 Nicknamed ‘the rose among the palms’, the thousand-year-old city of Marrakesh in western Morocco is characterised by its pink-coloured pisé architecture and its deeply rooted tradition for gardens and green spaces. The majority of...
Flora del Paraguay, Volume 47: Xyridaceae 34 pages | 4 b/w line drawings, 9 b/w distribution maps, 1 b/w map | Maria das Graças Lapas Wanderley(Author), Tania Maria Cerati(Author) Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique Ville de Genève Volume 47 covers the family Xyridaceae, which in Paraguay is represented by one genus Paperback #240657 2017 9782827705498 £27.99 (Xyris) and nine species.
A Field Guide to the Flora of Ladakh 292 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | Academia Miroslav Dvorský(Author) et al Paperback #240659 Feb-2018 9788020028266 £54.99 This is a field guide to the flora of Ladakh, a mountainous area in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir. For each species, a description is given of their morphology, ecology, and distribution. Distribution maps and elevation charts are included....
Boissiera, Volume 71: Taxonomic Treatment of Abrahamia Randrian. & Lowry, a New 149 pages | 31 colour photos and b/w line drawings, 10 b/w distribution Genus of Anacardiaceae from Madagascar maps | Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique Ville de Genève Armand Randrianasolo(Author), Porter P Lowry II(Author), George E Schatz(Author) Paperback #240668 2017 9782827700875 £84.99 The Malagasy endemic genus Abrahamia Randrian. & Lowry (Anacardiaceae) is described and a taxonomic revision is presented in which 34 species are recognized, including 19 that are described as new. The previously known taxa from Madagascar have...
Tasting the Past 288 pages | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Original Wine Grapes Hardback #240708 Jun-2018 9781616205775 £20.99 Kevin Begos(Author) A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek the origins of wine. What he discovers is a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists,...
Peas and Bean 179 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, tables | CABI Publishing Crop Production Science in Horticulture Paperback #240722 2017 9781780640914 £44.99 Anthony J Biddle(Author) This practical book provides an accessible overview of all aspects of pea and bean production, including botany and physiology, breeding, agronomy, weed management, pests and diseases, harvesting, nutritional value and uses. It also reflects on the...
Blackberries and Their Hybrids 358 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | CABI Crop Production Science in Horticulture Publishing Harvey K Hall(Editor), Richard C Funt(Editor) Paperback #240725 2017 9781780646688 £44.99 This practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the commercial production of blackberries and their hybrids, covering plant growth and development, cultivar description and selection, propagation, pruning, soil...
House of Plants 224 pages | colour photos | Frances Lincoln Ltd Living with Succulents, Air Plants and Cacti Hardback #240735 2016 9780711238374 £19.99 Rose Ray, Caro Langton and Erika Rax Learn how to care for your succulents, cacti and air plants with this beautiful but practical guide to indoor plants. These gorgeous, fashionable plants are handsome, hardy and perfect for urban living and this comprehensive companion is all you need...
Annotated Checklist of Vascular Plants of Southern Nigeria 345 pages | no illustrations | UNIBEN Press A Quick Reference Guide to the Vascular Plants of Southern Nigeria – A Systematic Approach Paperback #240747 2014 9789789394609 £39.99 Emmanuel Izaka Aigbokhan(Author), John Aroye Okhuoya(Foreword By) An annotated checklist of vascular plants of southern Nigeria is presented. In addition to the name, for each taxon the following citations are included where available: basionym and synonym, family, common and vernacular names. The checklist...
Gardening with Conifers 224 pages | 250 colour photos | Firefly Books Adrian Bloom(Author), Richard Bloom(Illustrator), Michael A Dirr(Foreword By) Paperback #240802 2017 9781770859081 £19.95 Fifteen years after the first edition, this is a revised and expanded edition of this highly acclaimed reference. Among the changes is the addition of a foreword by Michael A. Dirr, author of such classics as Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 14 Good Soil 256 pages | Frances Lincoln Ltd Manure, Compost and Nourishment for your Garden Hardback #240820 2017 9780711238725 £19.99 Tina Råman(Author), Ewa-Marie Rundquist(Author), Justine Lagache(Author) Maximise your garden, whatever you grow in it, with some Swedish expertise.Plants need nutrients to grow, flower and bear fruit, nutrients that can be found in offal, the sea, fire, rocks, rubbish and, of course, dung heaps. Tina Råman digs...
Weeds, Plants and People 310 pages | colour illustrations | Penfolk Publishing John Dwyer(Author), Timothy J Entwisle(Foreword By) Paperback #240825 2016 9780958699372 £54.99 What is the perplexing category of plants that we call 'weeds? Why do some people spend so much effort trying to eradicate plants in certain circumstances, while other people nurture those very same species for food, medicine, or simple enjoyment...
Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli 106 pages | 6 colour & 28 b/w illustrations, 7 tables | Springer-Verlag The Role of Specific Forms of Plant Memory Hardback #240828 2017 9789402410464 £87.99 Michel Thellier(Author) In this unique book, Michel Thellier has combined recent discoveries with older data dealing with plant memory and its potential role on plant acclimatization to environment stimuli. By placing memory within an evolutionary frame, the author...
Weeds In The Urban Landscape 392 pages | North Atlantic Books Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them Paperback #240832 May-2018 9781623172114 £21.99 Richard Orlando(Author) Richard Orlando provides the only book to discuss weeds commonly found in urban environments, offering detailed descriptions of 189 common weeds, explaining their families and characteristics, and suggesting strategies for managing their presence in...
Ethnobotany for Beginners 71 pages | 11 colour illustrations, 15 tables | Springer-Verlag Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque(Author), Marcelo Alves Ramos(Author), Washington Soares Paperback #240837 2017 9783319528717 £39.99 Ferreira Júnior(Author), Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros(Author) Designed for new scholars, Ethnobotany for Beginners features a quick and easy-to-read discussion of ethnobotany along with its major developments. The language is clear and concise, objective and straightforward, and structured to lead the reader...
Genetics and Genomics of Cucurbitaceae 430 pages | 61 colour illustrations, 35 tables | Springer-Verlag Rebecca Grumet(Editor), Nurit Katzir(Editor), Jordi Garcia-Mas(Editor) Hardback #240838 2017 9783319493305 £126.00 Genetics and Genomics of Cucurbitaceae provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of the genetics and genomics of the agriculturally important Cucurbitaceae plant family, which includes crops such as watermelon, melon, cucumber, summer...
Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 16(1) 144 pages | 66 plates with colour photos and b/w line drawings; colour The Genus Epidendrum, Part 12: Species New & Old in Epidendrum photos, b/w distribution maps | Herbario Amo Eric Hágsater(Author) Unbound #240864 2018 £64.99 In this issue, work has centered on Andean orchid species, as well as several from the Guiana Shield. The authors present 38 species new to science.
Flowers of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro 437 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Associaçao de Amigos do Cecilia Beatriz da Veiga Soares(Author), Carolyn Brissett(Translated by), Patricia Anne Jardim Botanico Tate(Translated by) Paperback #240868 2016 9788561007133 £94.99 Flowers of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro has been written by its director, landscape designer Cecília Beatriz, who is a living legacy of the Botanical Garden Friends' Association. In her comments while walking through the...
Check List of Flora of Nagaland Botanical Survey of India Ashiho Asosii Mao(Author), N Odyuo(Author), D Verma(Author), P Singh(Author) Paperback #240890 2017 9788181770691 £44.99 Nagaland, one of the smallest states of India with an area of 16,579 km2 is a mountainous state in northeast India. Botanical exploration of the state dates back to efforts done in 1837 by British botanists W. Griffith and subsequently by many other...
Striking Plants of Aride Island (Seychelles) 96 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map | Mifa Publications Steen G Hansen(Author), Victorin F Laboudallon(Author) Paperback #240920 2016 9789993196600 £28.99 This book describes and shows a selection plants from the island of Aride in the Seychelles. For each plant a short morphological description is given; as well as information on ethnobotanical uses; notes on the scientific, English and Creole species...
Historic Gardens and Parks of Derbyshire 272 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Windgather Press Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920 Paperback #240945 2017 9781911188049 £24.99 Dianne Barre(Author) The open hilly terrain of much of Derbyshire has long been a challenge to gardeners and landscapers, but has produced some spectacular walled and terraced gardens. Wealthy aristocrats created important and unusual pleasure gardens including the...
Identification and Properties of Malaysian Timbers 538 pages | Forest Research Institute Malaysia SC Lim(Author), AS Nordahlia(Author), M Abd Latif(Author), KS Gan(Author), S Rahim(Author) Paperback #240949 2016 9789670622606 £150.00 The aim of this book is to provide a quick reference to cross-section images of the structure, characteristics, structural features, mechanical properties, drying and woodworking properties, durability, preservatives treatment and uses of 212...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 15 Grasses of the Southwest 180 pages | b/w illustrations | Steve Chadde (privately published) A Key to Common Species Using Vegetative Features Paperback #240982 2017 9781548335496 £17.99 Steve W Chadde(Author) Grasses of the Southwest provides keys, descriptions, and illustrations to identify 73 important range grasses of the American southwest using only vegetative features. An overall line- drawing of each grass plus a detailed sketch of each species'...
Animal & General Biology
Concepts of Genetics (Global Edition) 896 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | William S Klug(Author), Michael R Cummings(Author), Charlotte A Spencer(Author), Michael A Pearson Education Palladino(Author) Paperback #240673 2015 9781292077260 £55.99 Concepts of Genetics, Eleventh Edition emphasizes the fundamental ideas of genetics, while exploring modern techniques and applications of genetic analysis. The best-selling text has a strong problem-solving approach, and this edition has been...
An Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology 722 pages | Sinauer Associates Randy J Nelson(Author), Lance J Kriegsfeld(Author) Hardback #240628 2016 9781605353203 £79.99 An Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology, Fifth Edition, retains all of the features of the bestselling prior editions, and provides an updated, integrated presentation of the study of hormone-behavior-brain interactions. Continuing to emphasize a...
Animal Physiology (International Edition) 828 pages | 675 colour photos and colour illustrations, colour tables | Richard W Hill(Author), Gordon A Wyse(Author), Margaret Anderson(Author) Sinauer Associates Animal Physiology, Fourth Edition presents all the branches of modern animal physiology with Paperback #240903 2017 9781605357379 £49.99 a strong emphasis on integration of physiological knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Integration extends from genes to organ systems and from one...
Developmental Biology (International Edition) 933 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations | Sinauer Associates Scott F Gilbert(Author), Michael JF Barresi(Author) Paperback #240905 Oct-2017 9781605357386 £49.99 A classic gets a new coauthor and a new approach: Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition keeps the excellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of the Gilbert Developmental Biology book, streamlines it, adds innovative electronic supplements, and...
Escaping From Predators 442 pages | 116 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 15 tables | Cambridge An Integrative View of Escape Decisions University Press William E Cooper, Jr.(Editor), Daniel T Blumstein(Editor), Ron Ydenberg(Foreword By), Paperback #240572 Mar-2018 9781107630635 £34.99 Lawrence "Larry" M Dill(Foreword By) Hardback #220085 2015 9781107060548 £66.99 When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of Escaping From Predators. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory...
Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates 391 pages | 12 plates with colour photos; 181 b/w photos and b/w Studies of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior illustrations, 32 tables | Cambridge University Press Walter D Koenig(Editor), Janis L Dickinson(Editor), Stef den Ridder(Illustrator) Paperback #240901 Jun-2018 9781107642126 £34.99 Cooperative breeders are species in which individuals beyond a pair assist in the production of Hardback #224577 2016 9781107043435 £89.99 young in a single brood or litter. Although relatively rare, cooperative breeding is widespread taxonomically and continues to pose challenges to our...
Modern Prometheus 440 pages | 6 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR-Cas9 Press James Kozubek(Author) Paperback #240476 Jun-2018 9781108454629 £15.99 Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the Hardback #232057 2016 9781107172166 £24.99 genome', the recent discoveries of CRISPR-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome....
Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition Cambridge University Press A Comparative Guide Paperback #240264 Jul-2018 9781108413947 £39.99 Nereida Bueno-Guerra(Editor), Federica Amici(Editor), Josep Call(Foreword By) Hardback #240263 Jul-2018 9781108420327 £84.99 Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human species may inhabit the same world, it's likely that our perceptual worlds differ significantly....
Genes, Brains, and Human Potential 408 pages | Columbia University Press The Science and Ideology of Intelligence Hardback #240493 2017 9780231178426 £27.95 Ken Richardson(Author) For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology,...
Aquatic Animal Health – Riding the Wave to the Future Office International des Epizooties Proceedings of the Third OIE Global Conference on Aquatic Animal Health, Ho Chi Minh City, Paperback #240617 2016 9789290449997 £29.99 Vietnam World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)(Editor) These proceedings include 20 papers by internationally renowned experts who delivered presentations at the Third OIE Global Conference on Aquatic Animal Health. The conference addressed the importance of aquatic animal health in aquaculture and...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 16 Cilia 387 pages | 57 colour & 10 b/w illustrations | Cold Spring Harbor Wallace Marshall(Editor), Renata Basto(Editor) Laboratory Press Nearly every cell in the human body has one or more protrusive structures called cilia or Hardback #240625 2016 9781621821410 £105.00 flagella. These power cell movement and fluid flow, sense the extracellular environment, coordinate cell signaling, and establish left-right asymmetry during...
The Cytoskeleton 391 pages | 100 colour & 22 b/w illustrations | Cold Spring Harbor Thomas D Pollard(Editor), Robert D Goldman(Editor) Laboratory Press The cytoskeleton is the intracellular filament system that controls the morphology of a cell, Hardback #240731 2016 9781621820161 £137.00 allows it to move, and provides trafficking routes for intracellular transport. It comprises three major filament systems-actin, microtubules, and...
Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology 296 pages | 17 b/w illustrations | Columbia University Press Scott F Gilbert(Author), Clara Pinto-Correia(Author), Donna J Haraway(Foreword By) Hardback #240776 2017 9780231170949 £27.95 How does one make decisions today about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other matters of reproduction? Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology provides the intellectual and emotional...
Plagues 248 pages | 51 colour illustrations | Cambridge University Press Jonathan L Heeney(Editor), Sven Friedemann(Editor) Paperback #240826 2017 9781316644768 £12.99 Plagues have inflicted misery and suffering throughout history. They can be traced through generations in our genes, with echoes in religion and literature. Featuring essays arising from the 2014 Darwin College Lectures, Plagues examines the spectrum...
The Unfit 451 pages | illustrations | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press A History of a Bad Idea Paperback #240916 2001 9780879695873 £19.99 Elof Axel Carlson(Author) The Unfit, by Elof Carlson, explores the sources of a movement – negative eugenics – that was used to justify the Holocaust, which claimed millions of innocent lives in World War II. The title reflects the nearly three centuries of belief...
Deep Ancestry 256 pages | illustrations | National Geographic Society Inside the Genographic Project Paperback #240918 2007 9781426201189 £8.99 Spencer Wells(Author) Hardback #240917 2006 9780792262152 £15.99 In Deep Ancestry, scientist and explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he translates complicated...
Evolutionary Biology
How Humans Evolved 512 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, tables | W.W. Norton & Co. Robert Boyd(Author), Joan B Silk(Author) Paperback #239657 2017 9780393603453 £145.00 How Humans Evolved teaches the processes that shape human evolution with a unique blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics, and behavioral ecology. The new edition continues to offer the most up-to-date research in particular, significantly...
Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy 310 pages | Sinauer Associates A How-To Manual Paperback #240570 Oct-2017 9781605357102 £49.99 Barry G Hall(Author) Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, Fifth Edition helps the reader get started in creating phylogenetic trees from protein or nucleic acid sequence data.Although aimed at molecular and cell biologists, who may not be familiar with phylogenetic or...
Across the Bridge 288 pages | 19 b/w photos, 12 b/w illustrations | University of Chicago Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates Press Henry Gee(Author) Paperback #240391 Aug-2018 9780226403052 £18.99 Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each Hardback #240392 Aug-2018 9780226402864 £56.50 new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....
Improbable Destinies 368 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Penguin Books How Predictable is Evolution? Paperback #240700 Aug-2018 9780141981192 £9.99 Jonathan B Losos(Author), Marlin Peterson(Illustrator) Hardback #235065 2017 9780241201923 £14.99 See our interview with the author here.The natural world is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. Convergence suggests that evolution is...
Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press Marlene Zuk(Author), Leigh W Simmons(Author) Paperback #237344 Aug-2018 9780198778752 £7.99 What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds of paradise to the antlers on deer? And why are the traits that distinguish the sexes sometimes apparently detrimental to survival? Even...
Children Of Prometheus 320 pages | Perseus Running Press The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution Paperback #240612 1999 9780738201689 £11.99 Christopher Wills(Author) Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Biologist Christopher Wills argues that we are not only continuing to evolve but that our pace of change is accelerating. He examines the rapid, short-term...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 17 The Strange Order of Things 336 pages | Random House Antonio Damasio(Author) Hardback #240642 2018 9780307908759 £22.50 From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation...
Synergistic Selection 304 pages | World Scientific Publishing How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution And The Rise Of Humankind Paperback #240644 Feb-2018 9789813234604 £25.99 Peter A Corning(Author) Hardback #240643 Feb-2018 9789813230934 £68.99 "Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy." Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution and is a tour de force that takes the reader on a synergy-guided tour of...
Adaptive Oncogenesis 250 pages | 16 b/w illustrations | Harvard University Press A New Understanding of How Cancer Evolves Inside Us Hardback #240669 Mar-2018 9780674545397 £28.95 James DeGregori(Author), Robert A Weinberg(Foreword By), Michael DeGregori(Illustrator) Popular understanding holds that genetic changes create cancer. James DeGregori uses evolutionary principles to propose a new way of thinking about cancer's occurrence. Cancer is as much a disease of evolution as it is of mutation, one in which...
Now You're Talking 320 pages | Bodley Head The Story of Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence Hardback #240672 May-2018 9781847924254 £19.99 Trevor Cox(Author) If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them – not just by their words but by the way they...
Gazing Upon Sheba's Breasts 232 pages | b/w illustrations | Markosia Enterprises David Price Williams(Author) Paperback #240740 2016 9781909276710 £18.99 Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africa's Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African Hardback #240739 2016 9781909276703 £24.99 environments. It was the ideal laboratory where David Price Williams and a team of scientists developed a major research project to investigate the...
Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection 307 pages | 5 colour & 17 b/w illustrations, 5 tables | Springer-Verlag What's Left after Darwin? Paperback #240749 2016 9789401779906 £89.99 Thierry Hoquet(Editor) Hardback #240748 2015 9789401795845 £89.99 This root-and-branch re-evaluation of Darwin's concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Contributions from a wealth of disciplines have been marshaled for this volume, with key...
On the Origin of Autonomy 297 pages | 61 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag A New Look at the Major Transitions in Evolution Paperback #240750 2016 9783319353869 £87.99 Bernd Rosslenbroich(Author) Hardback #240751 2014 9783319041407 £87.99 On the Origin of Autonomy describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution. In recent years ideas about major transitions in evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. They include questions...
For Whose Benefit? 172 pages | 1 b/w illustration | Springer-Verlag The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation Hardback #240765 2017 9783319508733 £108.00 Patrik Lindenfors(Author) For Whose Benefit? takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.Cooperation is one of life's fundamental...
The Human Instinct 304 pages | Simon & Schuster How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will Hardback #240809 Apr-2018 9781476790268 £25.99 Kenneth R Miller(Author) Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of...
Landscape of the Mind 288 pages | illustrations | Quadrille Publishing Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought Hardback #240938 2011 9780231147040 £54.95 John F Hoffecker(Author) In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback...
The Hand 397 pages | illustrations | Vintage How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Paperback #240939 1999 9780679740476 £16.50 Frank R Wilson The human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious sound and stir emotion; those of a surgeon can perform the most delicate operations;...
Evolution of Lightweight Structures 206 pages | 82 colour & 39 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Analyses and Technical Applications Paperback #240944 2016 9789402403831 £89.99 Christian Hamm(Editor) Hardback #240943 2015 9789401793971 £109.99 This volume contains studies on the evolution and function of lightweight constructions of planktonic and other organisms, and examples of how they can be used to create new solutions for radical innovations of lightweight constructions for...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 18 Turning Points 384 pages | Prometheus Books How Critical Events Have Driven Human Evolution, Life, and Development Hardback #240981 2018 9781633883291 £21.99 Kostas Kampourakis(Author) An accessible introduction to core concepts in evolution for lay readers, which shows that random events have played a critical role in the development of lifeCritical historical events – or "turning points" – have shaped...
Ecology
Invasion Biology 300 pages | CABI Publishing Hypotheses and Evidence Hardback #240715 Apr-2018 9781780647647 £74.99 Jonathan M Jeschke(Editor), Tina Heger(Editor) There are many hypotheses describing the interactions involved in biological invasions, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. Invasion Biology fills that gap by developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses...
Origins of Biogeography 173 pages | 21 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag The Role of Biological Classification in Early Plant and Animal Geography Paperback #240752 2016 9789401779913 £89.99 Malte Christian Ebach(Author) Hardback #240753 2015 9789401799980 £89.99 This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born...
Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia 160 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Peter West(Author) CSIRO Australia's introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, Paperback #240852 Apr-2018 9781486305674 £29.95 environmental and social impacts. The Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia is a comprehensive, practical guide to 60 introduced pest animal...
Habitats, Ecosystems & Natural Spaces
Glossary of Arboricultural Terms 2015 199 pages | no illustrations | International Society of Arboriculture International Society or Arboriculture (ISA)(Author) Spiralbound #240505 2014 9781881956860 £77.50 Expanded to include nearly 1,500 arboricultural terms, this pocket-sized glossary is essential for everyone in the tree care industry as a foundation for using a shared language of defined terms to work with professionals in arboriculture and related...
The Biology of Agroecosystems 304 pages | illustrations | Oxford University Press Nicola Randall(Author), Barbara Smith(Author) Paperback #237156 Aug-2018 9780198737537 £34.99 This book provides a novel perspective on agroecosystems, summarising our current Hardback #237157 Aug-2018 9780198737520 £69.99 understanding of the basic and applied aspects of these important and complex habitats, whilst focusing on environmental concerns in the context of global change.
The Prairie Peninsula 128 pages | colour photos | Kent State University Press Gary Meszaros(Author), Guy L Denny(Author) Paperback #240466 2017 9781606353202 £23.95 The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous...
Natural Quiet and Natural Darkness 352 pages | 20 illustrations | University Press of New England The "New" Resources of the National Parks Paperback #240546 Apr-2018 9781512601893 £55.99 Robert Manning(Author), Peter Newman(Author), Jesse Barber(Author), Christopher Hardback #240547 Apr-2018 9781512601886 £118.00 Monz(Author), Jeffrey Hallo(Author), Steven Lawson(Author) Excess noise and light challenge the ecological integrity of the natural environment, along with our enjoyment of the natural world. Although a substantive body of scientific and professional literature on quiet and darkness in national parks and...
The Soils of Argentina 250 pages | illustrations | Springer-Verlag Gerardo Rubio(Editor), Raul S Lavado(Editor), Fernando Pereyra(Editor), José Luis Hardback #240557 Jun-2018 9783319768519 £79.99 Panigatti(Editor) This is the first comprehensive book on Argentinian pedology. It discusses the main soil types of Argentina, their geographical distribution, classification, functions, agricultural use, ecological aspects, and the threats to which they have been...
Forest Pathology and Plant Health 234 pages | 63 colour illustrations | Mdpi AG Matteo Garbelotto(Editor), Paolo Gonthier(Editor) Paperback #240571 2018 9783038426714 £59.99 This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Forest Pathology and Plant Health that was published in the journal Forests.Every year, a number of new forest pathosystems are discovered as the result of introduction of alien pathogens, host...
National Park Roads 352 pages | 249 colour & b/w photos | University of Virginia Press A Legacy in the American Landscape Hardback #240613 2016 9780813937762 £47.50 Timothy Davis(Author) From Acadia and Great Smoky Mountains to Zion and Mount Rainier, millions of visitors tour America's national parks. While park roads determine what most visitors see and how they see it, however, few pause to consider when, why, or how the roads...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 19 Restoring Natural Areas in Australia 264 pages | colour photos, tables | New South Wales Industry & Robin Buchanan(Author) Investment Restoring Natural Areas in Australia is a practical handbook for managing natural areas in Paperback #240614 2009 9780731306213 £54.99 Australia. A lavishly illustrated, full-colour publication, it covers all aspects of natural area restoration projects. You'll learn how to assess...
Florida's Rivers 256 pages | illustrations | Pineapple Press Charles R Boning(Author) Paperback #240635 2016 9781561649860 £24.99 Florida's rivers comprise a tapestry of natural wonders. They support rich ecosystems. They define the landscape and lend character to the regions through which they pass. The first half of this book provides an overview of Florida's...
The Biology of Grasslands 240 pages | Oxford University Press Brian Wilsey(Author) Paperback #240712 Jul-2018 9780198744528 £34.99 A comprehensive introduction to the biology of native and non-native grasslands which now Hardback #240711 Jul-2018 9780198744511 £74.99 cover approximately 50% of the terrestrial environment, providing essential ecosystem services and some of the most important areas for the produciton of food...
Soils within Cities 253 pages | 113 illustrations, 23 tables | Catena Global Approaches to their Sustainable Management Paperback #240732 2017 9783510654116 £44.99 Maxine J Levin(Editor), Kye-Hoon John Kim(Editor), Jean Louis Morel(Editor), Wolfgang Burghardt(Editor), Przemysław Charzyński(Editor), Richard K Shaw(Editor), IUSS Working Group SUITMA(Editor) As the proportion of people living in urban areas has been and still is increasing, Soils within Cities: Global Approaches to their Sustainable Management undertakes to shed light on the role and importance of soils in cities, and stresses the need...
Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East 388 pages | 126 colour & 25 b/w illustrations, 10 tables | Springer-Verlag Past and Future Projection Hardback #240768 2017 9783319498928 £120.00 Jan Harff(Editor), Kazimierz Furmańczyk(Editor), Hans von Storch(Editor) Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East discusses sea-level and coastline changes. These topics are becoming increasingly important for populations living along the edge of the world's oceans and seas, especially in areas where...
Global Cities 472 pages | 37 illustrations | MIT Press Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China Hardback #240782 2017 9780262035910 £27.95 Robert Gottlieb(Author), Simon Ng(Author) Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities – in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In Global Cities, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the...
Wetland Science 587 pages | 60 colour & 49 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Perspectives From South Asia Hardback #240840 2017 9788132237136 £160.00 B Anjan Kumar Prusty(Editor), Rachna Chandra(Editor), PA Azeez(Editor) This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline 'wetland science' and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia. Wetland Science presents 30 chapters by an...
Plant Material Transfer Guidelines for Tropical Forest Species 65 pages | Forest Research Institute Malaysia CT Lee(Author), LH Tnah(Author), KKS Ng(Author), Z Nurul-Farhanah(Author), CH Paperback #240855 2017 £74.99 Ng(Author), KH Lau(Author), N Tani(Author), MJ Kobayashi(Author), B Diway(Author), E Khoo(Author), SL Lee(Author) Plant Material Transfer Guidelines for Tropical Forest Species offers a tool for foresters and stakeholders in selecting a suitable source of planting materials for enrichment planting, reforestation and plantation programmes. Plant material transfer...
The 50 Greatest National Parks of the World 304 pages | Icon Books Aaron Millar(Author) Paperback #240857 Apr-2018 9781785783395 £8.99 Olympus, the Grand Canyon, Uluru and the Serengeti: national parks are home to the wonders of our natural world. Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar explores the greatest national parks of the world, giving insider tips on how best to discover...
Desert Life 160 pages | colour photos | Adventure Publications A Guide to the Southwest's Iconic Animals & Plants and How They Survive Paperback #240863 2017 9781591935551 £10.99 Karen Krebbs(Author) Have you ever wondered which animals thrive in the American Southwest and how they survive? Although it may look barren, the desert is teeming with life. This fantastic guide is filled with stunning photography and fascinating information by Karen...
The Ocean Book 128 pages | colour illustrations | Green Books How Endangered Are Our Seas? Hardback #240900 Jun-2018 9783962380342 £19.99 Esther Gonstalla(Author) The Ocean Book is full of easy-to-read, beautiful infographics that present the key issues facing our oceans. Rising sea levels, growing rubbish patches and overfishing are putting our oceans in grave danger. Though we love our oceans, we must learn...
Phytocoenologia, Volume 46, Issue 4: Special Issue on Halophytic Vegetation 81 pages | illustrations | Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlag This special Issue on halophytic vegetation (vegetation associated with coastal and inland Paperback #240911 2016 £125.00 saline habitats) contains the following papers:Classifying halophytes and halophytic vegetation – an Editorial Bergmeier,...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 20 Vallée de Mai (Seychelles) 74 pages | colour photos, 1 colour map | Mifa Publications A Primeval Palm Forest, a Nature Reserve and a UNESCO Heritage Site Paperback #240919 2017 9789993196617 £27.99 Steen G Hansen(Author), Victorin F Laboudallon(Author), Maurice Loustau-Lalanne(Preface By) Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve is a nature park and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the island of Praslin, Seychelles that is famed for its unique palm forest that is thought not to have changed since its creation 80 million years ago. This...
Life-Supporting Asia-Pacific Marine Ecosystems, Biodiversity and their Functioning 216 pages | Science Press Tatyana N Dautova(Editor), Xiaxiao Sun(Editor), Song Sun(Editor), Andrey V Adrianov(Editor) Hardback #240941 2017 9787030552099 £77.99 This book contains the results of investigations presented on the international conference held on April 26-28, 2017 in Qingdao, China, at the Institute of Oceanology CAS, which as devoted to the status of marine ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific...
New Forest 232 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps | The Forging of a Landscape Windgather Press Hadrian Cook(Author) Paperback #240946 2017 9781911188193 £34.99 Hadrian Cook's new account of the New Forest in southern England provides an historical narrative of the occupation and use of a vast area that was, for centuries, important as a Royal Hunting Forest and subject to many contentious laws and...
Granite, Fire, and Fog 168 pages | 48 colour photos | University Press of New England The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia Paperback #240994 2017 9781512600087 £18.99 Tom Wessels(Author) Acadia National Park, on Maine's Mount Desert Island, is among the most popular national parks in the United States. From the road, visitors can experience magnificent vistas of summit and sea, but on a more intimate scale, equally compelling...
Conservation & Biodiversity
Endangered Species 269 pages | Illus | ABC-Clio A Reference Handbook Hardback #240878 2018 9781440848995 £46.99 Jan A Randall(Author) Endangered species is a more complex issue and problem than it may seem on the surface. What species are endangered, and what is causing them to become vulnerable to population decline? How can essential industries such as farming, housing...
Rewilding European Landscapes 227 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Springer- Henrique Miguel Pereira(Editor), Laetitia M Navarro(Editor) Verlag Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly Paperback #240813 2016 9783319348223 £44.99 traditional agriculture in remote areas. Rewilding European Landscapes proposes that this land Hardback #219682 2015 9783319120386 £44.99 abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to restore natural...
The Wasting of Borneo 224 pages | Beacon Press Dispatches from a Vanishing World Paperback #240834 Apr-2018 9780807081013 £15.99 Alex Shoumatoff(Author) Hardback #235257 2017 9780807078242 £24.99 Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of BorneoIn his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from...
Satellite Remote Sensing for Conservation Action Cambridge University Press Case Studies from Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems Paperback #240252 Jul-2018 9781108456708 £34.99 Allison K Leidner(Author), Graeme M Buchanan(Author) Hardback #238884 Jul-2018 9781316513866 £69.99 Satellite remote sensing presents an amazing opportunity to inform biodiversity conservation by inexpensively gathering repeated monitoring information for vast areas of the Earth. However, these observations first need processing and interpretation...
Conservation Drones 144 pages | 45+ illustrations | Oxford University Press Mapping and Monitoring Biodiversity Hardback #239568 Jun-2018 9780198787617 £34.99 Serge A Wich(Author), Lian Pin Koh(Author) Increasing numbers of ecologists and conservation biologists have begun to explore the use of drone technology to obtain accurate and up-to-date data on the distribution and density of species, as well as the threats to their habitats, in their...
Killing by Proxy 256 pages | 16 plates with 33 colour photos | Thirsty Books Wildlife Crime in the UK Today Paperback #240494 2017 9780993282843 £9.99 Alan Stewart(Author) Is foxhunting pest control or simply a nice day out for garishly dressed people on horses? What cruelty is involved? What is happening to the satellite-tagged hen harriers and golden eagles that have disappeared? Why is evidence obtained by covert...
The National and State Animals of India and Their Conservation Status 156 pages | Kalpaz Publications Madhab Chandra Dash(Author) Paperback #240556 2018 9789386397416 £21.99 The Indian government has adopted the Bengal Tiger as National animal and all the 29 States and Union territories have also adopted specific animals as their state animal. India has diverse ecosystems including Ramsar Sites and landscapes. Large...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 21 In Defence of Home Places 240 pages | 3 illustrations, 1 map, 16 tables | University of British Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia Columbia Press Mark R Leeming(Author), Graeme Wynn(Foreword By) Paperback #240624 2017 9780774833400 £25.99 As environmental deterioration became a major political issue near the end of the twentieth Hardback #240623 2017 9780774833394 £59.99 century, activists in Nova Scotia stood together to defend the places they called home. Though they worked in concert to protect their unique environments and...
A Biodiversity Status Profile of Bundala National Park 37 pages | photos, b/w illustrations, tables | IUCN Sri Lanka A Ramsar Wetland in Sri Lanka Paperback #240634 2002 9789558177167 £24.99 Channa NB Bambaradeniya(Author), SP Ekanayake(Author), RHSS Fernando(Author), WPN Perera(Author), Ruchira Somaweera(Author) The Bundala National Park (6216 ha), is located in the Hambantota District, within the Southeastern Arid Zone of Sri Lanka. The park consists mainly of dry thorny scrubland and lagoons, namely, Koholankala (390 ha), Malala (650 ha), Embilikala (430...
The Re-Origin of Species 272 pages | Scribe Publications A Second Chance for Extinct Animals Paperback #240704 Jul-2018 9781911617228 £14.99 Torill Kornfeldt(Author), Fiona Graham(Translated by) What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today's birds? Do aurochs moo like cows? You may soon find out.From the Siberian permafrost to the Californian desert, scientists across the globe are working to...
Animal Property Rights 156 pages | Lexington Books A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals Paperback #240757 2016 9781498524339 £24.95 John Hadley(Author) Hardback #240758 2015 9780739189252 £59.99 Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to...
The Ark and Beyond 528 pages | 51 b/w photos, 2 b/w illustrations, 6 tables | University of The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Chicago Press Ben A Minteer(Editor), Jane Maienschein(Editor), James P Collins(Editor), George Paperback #240874 Apr-2018 9780226538464 £26.50 Rabb(Foreword By) Hardback #240876 Apr-2018 9780226538327 £78.99 Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums....
Marine Conservation 300 pages | 30 illustrations | Pelagic Publishing People, Ideas and Action Paperback #240888 Aug-2018 9781784271763 £29.99 Bob Earll(Author), Sylvia A Earle(Foreword By) In the last 50 years marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organisations. Marine conservation activities have been applied to a huge diversity of species, habitats,...
The Encyclopedia of Animal Predators 288 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Storey Publishing Learn About Each Predator's Traits and Behaviors, Identify the Tracks and Signs of More Than Paperback #240931 2017 9781612126999 £18.99 50 Predators, Protect Your Livestock, Poultry, and Pets Hardback #240935 2017 9781612127057 £32.99 Janet Vorwald Dohner(Author) This richly illustrated book profiles more than 30 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles commonly found in North America. Readers will learn to identify predatory species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Aimed at people in...
Wild and Rare 320 pages | 35 b/w photos, 10 b/w illustrations | Minnesota Historical Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest Society Press Adam Regn Arvidson(Author) Hardback #240980 2018 9781681340876 £22.99 The elusive Canada lynx bears kittens in Minnesota's northeastern woods. In the far southeastern part of the state, the succulent Leedy's roseroot clings to cold cliffs. On the northwestern grasslands, the western prairie fringed orchid grows...
Environmental Science
Hydroclimatology: Perspectives and Applications 480 pages | 54 b/w photos | Cambridge University Press Perspectives and Applications Paperback #240538 Mar-2018 9781108462099 £34.99 Marlyn L Shelton(Author) Hardback #177952 2008 9780521848886 £61.99 Hydroclimatology provides a systematic structure for analysing how the climate system causes time and space variations (both global and local) in the hydrologic cycle. Changes in the relationship between the climate system and the hydrologic cycle...
Meteorology Today 656 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | Cengage An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment Learning C Donald Ahrens(Author), Robert Henson(Author) Hardback #240996 2018 9781337616669 £144.00 Written by expert meteorologists, Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment shows you how to observe, calculate and synthesize information as a budding scientist and systematically analyze meteorological concepts....
Environmental Crises in Central Asia 214 pages | 21 b/w photos, 47 b/w illustrations, 12 tables | Earthscan From Steppes to Seas, from Deserts to Glaciers Paperback #240561 Apr-2018 9781138597532 £36.99 Eric Freedman(Editor), Mark Neuzil(Editor) Paperback #228810 2015 9781138824843 £110.00 Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central Asia, such...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 22 Polar Environments and Global Change Cambridge University Press Roger G Barry(Author), Eileen A Hall-McKim(Author) Paperback #239025 Jul-2018 9781108436359 £44.99 The polar regions are the 'canary in the coal mine' of climate change: they are likely to be hit Hardback #239024 Jul-2018 9781108423168 £110.00 the hardest and fastest. This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible introduction to the scientific study of polar environments against a...
Environmental Success Stories 256 pages | 23 b/w illustrations | Columbia University Press Solving Major Ecological Problems and Confronting Climate Change Paperback #240500 2017 9780231179195 £24.95 Frank M Dunnivant(Author), Kari Marie Norgaard(Afterword by) Hardback #240499 2017 9780231179188 £74.95 Unlike many titles on environmental issues that portend a dark future, Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and a responsive public...
The Weather Companion 242 pages | b/w illustrations | John Wiley & Sons An Album of Meteorological History, Science, and Folklore Paperback #240744 1998 9781620457047 £20.99 Gary Lockhart(Author), Steven D Steinke(Foreword By) Hardback #240743 1998 9781620457887 £27.99 Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and worried about the weather. We have devised ways to observe it, to predict it, to protect ourselves from it, to take advantage of it. It plays a major role in the...
Stormchasing: On the Hunt for Thunderstorms / Auf der Jagd nach Gewittern, Stürmen 160 pages | 150 colour photos | Delius Klasing Verlag und Tornados Hardback #240759 2016 9783667106629 £44.99 Michael Sachweh Magnificent pictures tell the story of an unusual passion: storm chasing. Storm chasers are weather experts, photographers, film-makers and many others, who fell for the fascination of unusual experiences of nature. You will find these extreme...
How Does Produced Water Cause a Reduction in the Genetic Diversity of Harpacticoid 48 pages | b/w illustrations | US Department of the Interior Minerals Copepods? Paperback #240761 2015 9781505544350 £19.99 John W Fleeger(Author), David W Foltz(Author), Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares(Author) Cryptic species (morphologically-similar but genetically-distinct sibling species) may contribute to observed reductions in genetic diversity at contaminated sites (a) if some taxa among the groups studied form a cryptic-species complex in which...
Tidal Inlets 220 pages | 59 colour & 10 b/w illustrations, 14 tables | Cambridge Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics University Press J van de Kreeke(Author), RL Brouwer(Author) Hardback #240764 2017 9781107194410 £94.99 Tidal Inlets describes the latest developments in the hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of tidal inlets, with an emphasis on natural inlets. A review of morphological features and sand transport pathways is presented, followed by an overview of...
Circulations in the Northwestern Pacific and its Neighboring Marginal Sea, Volume 3 488 pages | China Ocean Press Yaochu Yuan(Author) Hardback #240780 2017 9787502799779 £89.99 In recent decades, research on water circulation of the western North Pacific and its margins has received great attention from the Chinese state and oceanographic community, resulting in a series of important achievements. With the development of...
Marine Pollution 288 pages | 116 illustrations | Oxford University Press Christopher LJ Frid(Author), Bryony A Caswell(Author) Paperback #240822 2017 9780198726296 £34.99 As a society, we use more than 100,000 different industrial compounds to promote health and Hardback #240823 2017 9780198726289 £74.99 treat disease, to grow food and to access clean water. While technological developments have improved our lives, most of these compounds end up in our oceans...
Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries 441 pages | 77 colour & 31 b/w illustrations, 52 tables | Springer-Verlag Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life Hardback #240839 2017 9783319500935 £120.00 Walter Leal-Filho(Editor) This book showcases vital lessons learned from research, field projects and best practice examples with regard to climate change adaptation in countries throughout the Pacific region, a part of the planet that is particularly vulnerable to and...
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa 757 pages | 171 colour & 21 b/w illustrations, 146 tables | Springer- Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt Verlag Walter Leal-Filho(Editor), Simane Belay(Editor), Jokasha Kalangu(Editor), Wuta Hardback #240841 2017 9783319495194 £191.50 Menas(Editor), Pantaleo Munishi(Editor), Kumbirai Musiyiwa(Editor) This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent. It includes a set of papers presented at a symposium held in Addis Abeba in February 2016, which brought together...
America's Endangered Coasts 232 pages | 168 colour photos, 6 colour maps | George F. Thompson Photographs from Texas to Maine Hardback #240861 2016 9781938086434 £36.99 John Ganis(Illustrator), Liz Wells(Contributor), James E Hansen(Contributor) America's Endangered Coasts: Photographs from Texas to Maine is a pioneering and thought- provoking photographic survey of coastal areas of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States that are already threatened by a rising sea. Using a...
The Man Who Caught the Storm 304 pages | Simon & Schuster The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras Hardback #240883 Apr-2018 9781476796093 £24.99 Brantley Hargrove(Author) The Man Who Caught the Storm is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an extraordinary account of humanity's high-stakes race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon.At the turn of the...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 23 No. More. Plastic. 160 pages | Ebury Press What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Just 2 Minutes Paperback #240963 Apr-2018 9781785039874 £6.99 Martin Dorey(Author) Plastic is ruining our environment, and we can do something about it. Now. Martin Dorey, founder of the anti-plastic movement and #2minutebeachclean, is the expert when it comes to understanding the impact plastics have on our planet. No. More....
Physical Sciences
Ionospheres: Physics, Plasma Physics and Chemistry 584 pages | b/w illus, 28 tabs | Cambridge University Press Physics, Plasma Physics, and Chemistry Paperback #240541 Mar-2018 9781108462105 £49.99 Robert W Schunk(Author), Andrew F Nagy(Author) Hardback #182232 2009 9780521877060 £97.99 This combination of text and reference book describes the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling the behaviour of ionospheres, upper atmospheres and exospheres. It summarises the structure, chemistry, dynamics and energetics of the...
The Chronologers' Quest 291 pages | 31 b/w photos, 24 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University The Search for the Age of the Earth Press Patrick N Wyse Jackson(Author) Paperback #240573 Mar-2018 9781108462532 £24.99 The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has Hardback #160614 2006 9780521813327 £35.99 pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the fascinating story of our...
The Surface of Mars 328 pages | 215 b/w photos, 40 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Michael Carr(Author) Press Our knowledge of Mars has grown enormously over the last decade as a result of the Mars Paperback #240827 Mar-2018 9781108462754 £39.99 Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the two Mars Rover missions. The Surface Hardback #161640 2007 9780521872010 £124.00 of Mars is a systematic summary of what we have learnt about the...
Komatiite 465 pages | 4 colour plates, 94 b/w photos, 72 b/w illustrations, 29 tables Nicholas Arndt(Author), C Michael Lesher(Author), Steve J Barnes(Author) | Cambridge University Press Komatiites erupted billions of years ago as pulsating streams of white-hot lava. Their unusual Paperback #240542 Mar-2018 9781108460514 £54.99 chemical compositions and exceptionally high formation temperatures produced highly fluid Hardback #173747 2008 9780521874748 £87.99 lava that crystallized as spectacular layered flows....
Inverse Theory for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization and History Matching 352 pages | 132 b/w photos, 468 illustrations | Cambridge University Dean S Oliver(Author), Albert K Reynolds(Author), Ning Liu(Author) Press Inverse Theory for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization and History Matching is a guide to the Paperback #240540 2018 9781108462075 £49.99 use of inverse theory for estimation and conditional simulation of flow and transport parameters Hardback #174934 2008 9780521881517 £103.00 in porous media. It describes the theory and practice of...
Geological Fluid Dynamics 285 pages | 6 illustrations | Cambridge University Press Sub-surface Flow and Reactions Paperback #240518 Mar-2018 9781108462068 £29.99 Owen M Phillips(Author) Hardback #177955 2009 9780521865555 £56.99 This book is the long-awaited successor to Owen Phillips's classic textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991. In the intervening 18 years between the two, significant advances have been made to our understanding of...
Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Past 590 pages | 140 illustrations, tables | Cambridge University Press A Guide to Techniques in Historical Seismology Paperback #240515 Mar-2018 9781108462051 £44.99 Emanuela Guidoboni(Author), John Ebel(Author) Hardback #177963 2009 9780521837958 £95.99 Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Past defines the discipline of historical seismology by detailing the latest research methodologies for studying historical earthquakes and tsunamis. It describes the various sources that reference seismic phenomena,...
Sandstone Landforms 332 pages | 116 b/w photos, 5 tables | Cambridge University Press Robert W Young(Author), Robert AL Wray(Author), Ann RM Young(Author) Paperback #240514 Mar-2018 9781108462044 £34.99 Sandstones form the backdrop to some of the world's most spectacular scenery, and are found Hardback #178823 2009 9780521877336 £54.99 all over the planet and in all climates. Following on from the authors' successful 1992 book, this is the only volume that considers sandstone...
Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow 310 pages | 41 b/w photos | Cambridge University Press Theory, Evaluation, Utilization Paperback #240537 Mar-2018 9781108460545 £34.99 József Tóth(Author) Hardback #179583 2009 9780521886383 £92.99 Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow recognises groundwater flow as a fundamental geologic agent, and presents a wide-ranging and illustrated overview of its history, principles, scientific consequences and practical utilization.The author, one...
The Red Sea 638 pages | 300 colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, and colour & The Formation, Morphology, Oceanography and Environment of a Young Ocean Basin b/w maps; tables | Springer-Verlag Najeeb MA Rasul(Editor), Ian CF Stewart(Editor) Paperback #240806 2016 9783662509135 £149.99 The Red Sea presents a broad overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the Red Hardback #219681 2015 9783662452004 £169.99 Sea, from its geological formation and oceanographic development to the environmental influences on its ecology and the changes it is experiencing due to the...
The Last Volcano 356 pages | 8 plates with b/w illustrations | Pegasus Books A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury Paperback #240484 2017 9781681772981 £12.99 John Dvorak(Author) Hardback #227627 2015 9781605989211 £17.99 Volcanoes have fascinated – and terrified – people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific study of volcanoes and the life of...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 24 The Great Quake 304 pages | 8 plates with b/w photos; 2 b/w maps | Crown Publishing How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet Group Henry Fountain(Author) Paperback #240977 Aug-2018 9781101904084 £12.99 In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake Hardback #233685 2017 9781101904060 £29.99 in recorded history in North America – the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village...
Bathymetry and Geological Setting of the Drake Passage 1 colour map, scale 1:1,500,000 | British Antarctic Survey I Riley(Author) Map #240503 2016 9780856651991 £15.99 This folded map shows the depth profile of the Drake Passage, the body of water between South America's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Rockhounding Washington 256 pages | 200 b/w photos, 15 maps | Falcon Guides A Guide to the State's Best Sites Paperback #240585 2017 9781493019090 £15.95 Lars W Johnson(Author) This book provides detailed directions and GPS coordinates to the best rockhounding sites in Washington, with valuable tips on what to tools to bring and how to conduct your search. Comprehensive lists of minerals or fossils for each site and...
The Andes 368 pages | 450 colour & 26 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag A Geographical Portrait Paperback #240589 2016 9783319342474 £109.99 Axel Borsdorf(Author), Christoph Stadel(Author), Brigitte Scott(Translated by) Hardback #240588 2015 9783319035291 £129.99 The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by...
Bathymetry and Geological Setting of the South Sandwich Volcanic Arc 2 colour maps, scale 1:750,000, size folded 13.5 × 23 cm, size unfolded British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) 89 × 113 cm | British Antarctic Survey A double-sided map from the British Antarctic Survey: on one side is a bathymetry and Map #240591 2016 9780856651908 £15.99 geological setting map of the South Sandwich Islands Volcanic Arc at 1:750,000; on the reverse individual islands are shown on separate panels at 1:50,000 or...
Uranium 224 pages | Polity Press Anthony Burke(Author) Paperback #240608 2017 9780745670522 £14.99 Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the Hardback #240607 2017 9780745670515 £49.99 global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also...
Geological Map of Eastern Graham Land 1 colour maps, scale 1:625,000, size folded 13.5 × 23 cm, size unfolded British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) 112 × 88 cm | British Antarctic Survey A geological map of the Eastern Graham Land, the northernmost part of the Antarctic Map #240609 2011 9780856652028 £15.99 Peninsula, at a scale of 1:625,000 from the British Antarctic Survey. Two insets show in greater detail the region around Botany Bay and around the Sobral and Longing...
Geological Map of James Ross Island 1 colour maps, scale 1:125,000, size folded 13 × 22.5 cm, size unfolded British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) 112 × 91 cm | British Antarctic Survey A geological map of the James Ross Island off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula at Map #240618 2013 9780856652042 £15.99 1:125,000 from the British Antarctic Survey. Several insets provide more information: a geological cross-section of the island, an outcrop map, a digital...
The Souss-Massa River Basin, Morocco 355 pages | Springer-Verlag Redouane Choukr-Allah(Editor), Ragab Ragab(Editor), Lhoussaine Bouchaou(Editor), Damià Hardback #240619 2017 9783319511290 £231.50 Barceló(Editor) This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the water resources in the Souss-Massa river basin in southwestern Morocco and provides novel water-management approaches to narrow the gap between supply and demand for water. It evaluates conventional...
St Andrews Bay - Royal Bay, South Georgia Geomorphology Map 1 colour maps, scale 1:50,000 | British Antarctic Survey British Antarctic Survey (BAS)(Author) Paperback #240632 1995 XL00000008470 £12.99 This is a geomorphology map of the St. Andrews Bay - Royal Bay area of South Georgia, Map #240631 1995 9780856651885 £12.99 Antarctica, at 1:50,000 from the British Antarctic Survey. The map is available as either a folded map, or a flat wall map that will be delivered in a poster roll.
Allostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) 172 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour & b/w Western Canada Foreland Basin maps, tables | American Museum of Natural History Neil H Landman(Editor), A Guy Plint(Editor), Irek Walaszczyk(Editor) Paperback #240693 2017 £23.99 This bulletin contains three closely integrated papers that treat Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian- Santonian) strata of the Western Canada Foreland Basin (WCFB). It presents the results of 12 seasons of geological feldwork in the Rocky Mountain Foothills...
Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology 480 pages | colour illustrations | W.W. Norton & Co. Allan Ludman(Author), Stephen Marshak(Author) Spiralbound #240742 2015 9780393937916 £69.99 Engaging, hands-on, and visual – the geology manual that helps your students think like a geologist. The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to help make your geology lab more active and engaging. This edition features new "What Do...
Gemstones: A Complete Color Reference for Precious and Semiprecious Stones of the 320 pages | colour photos | Chartwell Books World Paperback #240745 2016 9780785834984 £16.99 Karen Hurrell(Author), Mary L Johnson(Author) This fascinating work provides a truly stunning visual guide to the beautiful world of gemstones. It brings together a wealth of information in clearly worded text accompanied by a dazzling collection of color photographs showing gems in their...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 25 The Physical Geography of Hungary 334 pages | 22 colour & 187 b/w illustrations, 100 tables | Springer- Gábor Mezősi(Author) Verlag This book presents the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the physical environment Hardback #240746 2016 9783319451824 £129.99 of Hungary. The book makes a specific effort to connect regional geography with natural forcing and influencing factors. The first section discusses general...
Geodynamics of the Latin American Pacific Margin 454 pages | Birkhäuser Verlag William L Bandy(Editor), Juanjo Dañobeitia(Editor), Carlos Mortera Gutiérrez(Editor), Yuri Paperback #240766 2017 9783319515281 £47.99 Taran(Editor), Rafael Bartolomé(Editor) Geodynamics of the Latin American Pacific Margin presents a collection of 22 studies by a multinational group of investigators whose common interest is to better understand the complex geodynamic processes occurring along the Pacific margin of Latin...
Deep-Sea Mining 535 pages | 175 colour & 95 b/w illustrations, 113 tables | Springer- Resource Potential, Technical and Environmental Considerations Verlag Rahul Sharma(Author) Hardback #240770 2017 9783319525563 £160.00 This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining. Interest in exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals...
Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World 376 pages | 26 b/w illustrations | MIT Press Joanna Radin(Editor), Emma Kowal(Editor) Hardback #240783 2017 9780262035859 £32.95 As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support...
Poisons and Poisonings 297 pages | Royal Society of Chemistry Death by Stealth Paperback #240791 2016 9781782627173 £21.99 Tony Hargreaves(Author) It is London in the 1890s. A young woman has just taken a dose of a tonic she's been given in the belief that it will improve her complexion. About ten minutes pass and she starts to experience breathing difficulties. Another minute and she...
World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk 368 pages | 30 colour & 374 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Peijun Shi(Editor), Roger Kasperson(Editor) Paperback #240807 2016 9783662526156 £119.99 This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, Hardback #240808 2015 9783662454299 £117.00 vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 types of natural disasters, i.e. earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, storm surges, sand-dust storms, tropical...
Earth 144 pages | 12 b/w illustrations | Bloomsbury Publishing Jeffrey Jerome Cohen(Author), Linda T Elkins-Tanton(Author) Paperback #240821 2017 9781501317910 £9.99 In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a "blue marble", "a blue pale dot", or, as Chaucer described it, "this litel spot of...
Die Geologie der Paläolithischen Fundstellen von Schöningen [The Geology of the 274 pages | 20 plates with colour photos; 118 colour & b/w illustrations | Paleolithic Sites of Schöningen] Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Thomas Terberger(Editor), Stefan Winghart(Editor) Hardback #240865 2016 9783884672679 £94.99 For over 30 years, the open-pit mine of Schöningen in Lower Saxony, Germany, has offered excellent insights into the geology of the ice age in this area. In particular, profiles of the deposits of the last 400,000 years (Middle and Upper...
Gemstones in the First Millennium AD 332 pages | 206 colour & b/w illustrations | Römisch-Germanisches Mines, Trade, Workshops and Symbolism Zentralmuseum Alexandra Hilgner(Editor), Susanne Greiff(Editor), Dieter Quast(Editor) Paperback #240866 2017 9783884672716 £69.99 Researchers from different fields like archaeology, history, philology and natural sciences present their studies on ancient gemstones. Using precious minerals as an example, trade flows and craftsmanship, but also utilisation and perception are...
Geologic Structures of the Arctic Basin 320 pages | Springer-Verlag Alexey L Piskarev(Editor), Victor A Poselov(Editor), Valery D Kaminsky(Editor) Hardback #240870 Jul-2018 9783319777412 £79.99 This book contains the most complete description of the geologic and geophysical data of the structure of Arctic Basin including structures of the earth's crust, crustal and acoustic basement, and sedimentary cover. The book includes information...
Geomorphology of Georgia 230 pages | 165 colour & 168 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Levan Tielidze(Editor) Hardback #240873 Aug-2018 9783319777634 £99.99 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphology of Georgia. It describes a country characterized by geological, geomorphological and geographical diversities, located in the Caucasus region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. This...
Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction 408 pages | 115 colour & 82 b/w illustrations, 114 tables | Springer- Biological Design and Integrative Structures Verlag Jan Knippers(Editor), Klaus Nickel(Editor), Thomas Speck(Editor) Hardback #240942 2016 9783319463728 £139.99 Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction comprises a first survey of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 141 'Biological Design and Integrative Structures – Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 26 Tectonics of the Deccan Large Igneous Province 363 pages | illustrations | Geological Society Soumyajit Mukherjee(Editor), Achyuta Ayan Misra(Editor), Gérôme Calvès(Editor), Michal Hardback #240950 2017 9781786202758 £155.00 Nemčok(Editor) Understanding the Deccan Trap Large Igneous Province in western India is important for deciphering the India–Seychelles rifting mechanism. This book presents 13 studies that address the development of this province from diverse perspectives...
Monogenetic Volcanism 388 pages | illustrations | Geological Society Károly Németh(Editor), G Carrasco-Núñez(Editor), JJ Aranda-Gómez(Editor), IEM Hardback #240953 2017 9781786202765 £155.00 Smith(Editor) The nature and origin of the small-scale volcanic systems, generally referred to as 'monogenetic', have enjoyed an elevated level of interest during the past decade. There has been recognition that their ostensibly simple volcano types are a...
The NE Atlantic Region 468 pages | Geological Society A Reappraisal of Crustal Structure, Tectonostratigraphy and Magmatic Evolution Hardback #240954 2017 9781786202789 £168.00 Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic(Editor), John R Hopper(Editor), Martyn S Stoker(Editor), Carmen Gaina(Editor), Johannes Cornelis Doornenbal(Editor), Thomas Funck(Editor), Uni E Árting(Editor) The NAG-TEC project was a collaborative effort by the British Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, the Geological Survey of Ireland, the Geological Survey of the Netherlands, the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland,...
Tectonostratigraphic Atlas of the Northeast Atlantic Region 338 pages | colour maps | Geological Society John R Hopper(Editor), Thomas Funck(Editor), Martyn S Stoker(Editor), Uni E Árting(Editor), Hardback #240955 2014 9788778713780 £250.00 Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic(Editor), Johannes Cornelis Doornenbal(Editor), Carmen Gaina(Editor) The NAG-TEC Atlas provides a comprehensive review of geological and geophysical information over the north-east Atlantic region.The Atlas was produced as part of the NAG-TEC project, a collaborative effort by the British Geological Survey, the...
Sustainable Development
People, Land and Water 272 pages | tables | Earthscan Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management Paperback #240479 2016 9781138978126 £32.99 Guy Bessette(Editor) Hardback #158087 2006 9781844073436 £79.99 In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and development parameters and contribute to decision making....
Hydrological Modelling in Arid and Semi-arid Areas 250 pages | Cambridge University Press Howard S Wheater(Editor), Soroosh Sorooshian(Editor), KD Sharma(Editor) Paperback #240539 Mar-2018 9781108460415 £34.99 Arid and semi-arid regions are defined as areas where water is at its most scarce. The Hardback #167176 2007 9780521869188 £108.00 hydrological regime in these areas is extreme and highly variable, and they face great pressures to deliver and manage freshwater resources. However, there is no...
Grapes 352 pages | illustrations, tables | CABI Publishing Glen L Creasy(Author), Leroy L Creasy(Author) Paperback #240718 Jul-2018 9781786391360 £44.99 Fully updated with new content and full-colour figures throughout, the second edition of this Paperback #174855 2009 9781845934019 £21.99 successful book reflects the impact of climate change and seasonal management, the expansion of production into new areas, and changing methods of grape...
Volcanic and Tectonic Hazard Assessment for Nuclear Facilities 638 pages | 32 colour & 169 b/w illustrations, 27 tables | Cambridge Charles B Connor(Editor), Neil A Chapman(Editor), Laura J Connor(Editor) University Press Geoscientists worldwide are developing and applying methodologies to estimate geologic Paperback #240741 Mar-2018 9781108460583 £64.99 hazards associated with the siting of nuclear facilities. Understanding such hazards, Hardback #182234 2009 9780521887977 £124.00 particularly in the context of the long functional lifetimes of many nuclear...
Blueberries: Crop Production Science in Horticulture 352 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | CABI Publishing Jorge B Retamales(Author), James F Hancock(Author) Paperback #240716 Jun-2018 9781780647265 £44.99 Blueberry cultivation has increased dramatically as production has shifted into new regions. Blueberries are now widely available as food and also processed to be used in medicine and pharmaceuticals for their antioxidant properties. This new and...
The Technocratic Antarctic 224 pages | 6 b/w photos, 3 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | Cornell An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance University Press Jessica O'Reilly(Author) Paperback #240737 2017 9780801456923 £18.95 The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who Hardback #240736 2017 9780801454127 £62.50 work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance....
Dirty Gold 272 pages | 5 illustrations | MIT Press How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry Hardback #240779 2017 9780262035781 £24.95 Michael John Bloomfield(Author) Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has funded wars....
How to Feed the World 256 pages | 11 Illustrations | Island Press Jessica Eise(Editor), Ken Foster(Editor) Paperback #240881 May-2018 9781610918848 £22.99 By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental Hardback #240880 May-2018 9781610918831 £44.99 change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 27 Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know 192 pages | Oxford University Press PK Newby(Author) Paperback #240964 Jun-2018 9780190846633 £10.99 From cleanses and raw veganism to the clean eating and paleo diets, it seems that every day Hardback #240965 Jun-2018 9780190846640 £47.99 there is news about some new super-nutrient, super diet, or super food that promises to help us to be healthier, smarter, happier, fight disease, lose weight,...
Data Analysis & Modelling
Effective Ecological Monitoring 224 pages | illustrations, tables | CSIRO David B Lindenmayer(Author), Gene E Likens(Author) Paperback #240510 May-2018 9781486308927 £72.99 Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and Paperback #184456 2010 9781849711456 £16.99 managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. Hardback #184457 2010 9781849711449 £58.99 This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological...
Statistical Inference as Severe Testing 474 pages | Cambridge University Press How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars Paperback #239880 Jul-2018 9781107664647 £21.99 Deborah G Mayo(Author) Hardback #239879 Jul-2018 9781107054134 £42.99 Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. Statistical Inference as Severe Testing pulls back the cover on disagreements between experts charged with restoring...
Virtual Reconstruction 333 pages | b/w illustrations | John Wiley & Sons A Primer in Computer-Assisted Paleontology and Biomedicine Hardback #240719 2005 9780471205074 £129.00 Christoph PE Zollikofer(Author), Marcia S Ponce de León(Author) Virtual Reconstruction serves as an introduction to the principles of three-dimensional visualization techniques as they relate to fossil reconstruction and reverse engineering. It covers data acquisition, processing, virtual reconstruction,...
Evolutionary Computation with Biogeography-Based Optimization 344 pages | Wiley-ISTE Haiping Ma(Author), Dan Simon(Author) Hardback #240818 2017 9781848218079 £108.00 Evolutionary computation algorithms are employed to minimize functions with large number of variables. Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is an optimization algorithm that is based on the science of biogeography, which researches the migration...
Parameter Estimation for Animal Populations 256 pages | Caught Napping Publications A Primer for the Rest of Us Paperback #240962 2015 9781329061514 £15.99 Larkin A Powell(Author), George A Gale(Author), John P Carroll(Foreword By) Based on lectures the authors have given in graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Nebraska, this book is a simple introduction to the logic behind analyses and sampling design for mark-recapture and survey efforts. With a focus on...
Reference
Oxford Atlas of the World 448 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps | Oxford The only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current University Press USA geographic information, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative atlas on the Hardback #240884 2017 9780190843625 £74.99 market. Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and...
Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland 400 pages | Springer-Verlag The History of Life of Fossil Organisms at Museums and Universities Hardback #240706 May-2018 9783319774008 £99.99 Lothar A Beck(Author), Ulrich Joger(Author) Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland is devoted to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving palaeontological specimens by generations of scientists. Palaeontological collections are a huge resource for modern...
The Data Librarian's Handbook 192 pages | Facet Publishing (formerly Library Association Publishing) Robin Rice(Author), John Southall(Author) Paperback #240733 2016 9781783300471 £59.95 An insider's guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data.Interest in data has been growing in recent years. Support for this peculiar class of...
The Special Collections Handbook 336 pages | Facet Publishing (formerly Library Association Publishing) Alison Cullingford(Author) Paperback #240734 2016 9781783301263 £64.95 This comprehensive and no-nonsense guide to working with special collections and rare books is an essential day-to-day companion.Working with special collections can vary dramatically from preserving a single rare book to managing and digitizing vast...
Children's
Botanicum 96 pages | colour illustrations | Big Picture Press Katherine J Willis(Author), Katie Scott(Illustrator) Paperback #240545 Feb-2018 9781783706815 £8.99 The 2016 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum is a Hardback #231547 2016 9781783703944 £19.99 stunningly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Hardback #231549 2016 9781783705344 £49.99 Botanicum gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition... Hardback #232280 2016 9781783707256 £19.99
The Pond 32 pages | colour illustrations | Graffeg Nicola Davies(Author), Cathy Fisher(Illustrator) Paperback #241022 2018 9781912213504 £7.99 A touching picture book for children about a young boy and his family overcoming the loss of Hardback #235045 2017 9781912050703 £11.99 his father. This colourful, emotional book is filled with natural imagery, centering on a small pond in the garden, and will teach children not only about...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 28 Whose Eyes are These? 64 pages | colour illustrations | Tate Publishing Virginie Gobert-Martin(Author), Madeline Peirsman(Illustrator) Hardback #240630 2017 9781849765060 £12.95 Whose Eyes are These? proposes an unforgettable journey with magnificent illustrations, fun text and engaging animals to be discovered in stunning scenery. Plunge into the colourful sea and join the jellyfish, be in the company of the dizzy...
Wild Animals of the South 152 pages | colour illustrations | Flying Eye Books Dieter Braun(Illustrator), Jen Calleja(Translated by) Hardback #240936 2017 9781909263970 £19.99 Famous German illustrator Dieter Braun offers his readers an accurate representation of animals from the southern hemisphere in this gorgeously illustrated volume. Through his beautiful and colorful illustrations, readers will be dazzled by the...
Ornithology
African Raptors 512 pages | 52 plates with colour illustrations; 300+ colour photos, colour Bill Clark(Author), Rob Davies(Illustrator) distribution maps | Bloomsbury Publishing Africa has the most diverse range of raptors of any continent, with almost a third of the world's Hardback #181133 Aug-2018 9780713665383 £39.99 species occurring in the region. This comprehensive new book treats all of these species in impressive detail, with emphasis on their field...
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Philippines 176 pages | ~300 colour photos, 2 colour maps | John Beaufoy Books Maia Tañedo(Author), Adrian Constantino(Author), Trinket Constantino(Author), Robert Paperback #240453 May-2018 9781912081530 £11.99 Hutchinson(Author) Now fully revised, this easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 bird species most commonly seen in the Philippines is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from some of the Philippines' top nature photographers are...
Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird 244 pages | 12 plates with b/w photos | University Press of New England Katie Fallon(Author) Paperback #240548 Mar-2018 9781512602494 £18.99 Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the Hardback #232970 2017 9781611689716 £25.99 planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards;...
Mozart's Starling 288 pages | b/w illustrations | Corsair (Little, Brown and Company Lyanda Lynn Haupt(Author) Imprint) On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling who sang (an Paperback #240970 May-2018 9781472153067 £8.99 improved version of!) the theme from his Piano Concerto Number 17 in G to him. Knowing a Hardback #234438 2017 9781472153050 £14.99 kindred spirit when he met one, Mozart wrote "That was...
The Birds of Pamirs, Hissar, Alai and Tien Shan. Volume 1: Non-Passerines, Part 1 572 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps | Sergei A. Toropov Sergei A Toropov(Author) (privately published) This is the first book of a series and combines characters of a scientific work and photobook, Hardback #240477 2017 9789967473263 £190.00 devoted to the birds of this remarkable mountain area in Central Asia. In total, this book presents 77 species breeding in the region and 32 non-residents...
North on the Wing 208 pages | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring Hardback #240566 Feb-2018 9781588346131 £16.99 Bruce M Beehler(Author) In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, and bike and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers...
One Man's Marshes 192 pages | 113 colour photos and colour illustrations | TatNat The Birds of Lymington and Keyhaven Paperback #240568 2017 9781999899806 £14.99 Ed Wiseman(Author), Dan Powell(Illustrator), Rosemary Powell(Illustrator) February 2nd 1831: ’A tremendous hurricane, with an overwhelming fall of snow and with the wind south-west. An extraordinary inux of Fieldfares, not less than 20,000 dispersed round Keyhaven and Westover.'– From the Diary of...
Toronto Birds 12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Waterford Press A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species Unbound #240584 2013 9781583557891 £5.99 James R Kavanagh(Author), Raymond Leung(Illustrator) Toronto is the permanent or temporary home of nearly 400 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes map featuring the prominent birding hotspots in the Greater Toronto Area....
Game Birds 256 pages | 384 colour photos | Gary Kramer (privately published) A Celebration of North American Upland Birds Hardback #240590 2016 9781591521853 £54.99 Gary Kramer(Author), Howard K Vincent(Foreword By) Through the words and images of award-winning photographer and writer Gary Kramer, Game Birds: A Celebration of North American Upland Birds takes readers on a visual journey across North America in search of turkey, pheasant, quail, grouse,...
Orkney Bird Report 2015 141 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, tables | Orkney Bird Julian Branscombe(Editor) Report Committee The 2015 edition of The Orkney Bird Report, with full colour photographs, includes information Paperback #240597 2016 £15.99 on species, sightings, nesting habitats and locations.
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 29 Penguins in the Desert 277 pages | Oregon State University Press Eric Wagner(Author) Paperback #240599 Apr-2018 9780870719240 £17.50 Most of us wouldn't think to look for penguins in a hot desert, but every year along a windswept edge of coastal Patagonia, hundreds of thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to rear their young at Punta Tombo, Argentina. It is the largest...
Dr Jack's Illustrated South African Byrd Book 80 pages | 70 b/w illustrations | Random House Struik Dr. Jack(Author) Paperback #240615 2016 9781775845287 £19.99 This humorous book follows the earlier successful publication of two similar books by Dr Jack. Picture driven, it features a collection of cartoons that lampoon birds on the basis of their common names. The author draws on some existing material, but...
Birds in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences 232 pages | China Forestry Publishing House Wang Ximin(Author) Paperback #240616 2017 9787503892639 £34.99 The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, where hydrothermal conditions are favorable and species richness is high. It is a comprehensive research...
The Birds of Vancouver Island's West Coast 544 pages | 140 b/w photos, 1 map | University of British Columbia Press Adrian Dorst(Author) Hardback #240626 Apr-2018 9780774890106 £31.99 The west coast region of Vancouver Island encompasses mountainous terrain, rainforest, mudflats, and ragged coastlines that bear the brunt of storms spawned by an immense ocean. Remote and inaccessible until well into the twentieth century, the...
Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 4: Singvögel (Passeriformes) [The Avifauna of 1198 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps, Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 4: Perching Birds (Passeriformes)] (2-Volume Set) tables | Gesellschaft für Naturschutz und Ornithologie Rheinland-Pfalz Christian Dietzen(Editor), H-G Folz(Editor), T Grunwald(Editor), P Keller(Editor), A e.V. Kunz(Editor), Manfred Niehuis(Editor), M Schäf(Editor), M Schmolz(Editor), M Wagner(Editor) Hardback #240627 2018 9783946121022 £99.99 Volume 4 of the series Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz deals with the perching birds (Passeriformes) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and is published in 2 volumes. A total of 136 species are presented in detail with information on...
Seven Summers with Peregrines 358 pages | 36 b/w photos | Gary G Ruhser (privately published) Finding Midlife Adventures Paperback #240636 2016 9780986054600 £22.99 Jean C Beyer Ruhser(Author), Gary G Ruhser(Author) In Seven Summers with Peregrines a retired husband and wife recount the midlife adventures they shared while participating in the historic effort to return then-endangered Peregrine Falcons to their former range. During these summers, the couple...
American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Michigan 368 pages | colour photos | Scott & Nix, Inc Allen T Chartier(Author), Brian E Small(Illustrator) Paperback #240660 May-2018 9781935622673 £24.99 From the green suburbs, farm fields, and parks of the lower peninsula to the sub-boreal forests of the upper peninsula, to the thousands of miles of shoreline along four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan has it all for birds and for birders. The...
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? 272 pages | Unbound 200 Birds, 12 Months, 1 Lapsed Birdwatcher Hardback #240664 May-2018 9781783524839 £18.99 Lev Parikian(Author) At twelve years old, Lev Parikian was an avid birdwatcher. He was also a fraud, a liar and a cheat. Those lists of birds seen and ticked off? Lies. One hundred and thirty species? More like sixty. Then, when he turned fifty, he decided to right his...
Costa Rica: Central Valley Birds [English / Spanish] 14 pages | colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications Robert Dean(Illustrator) Unbound #240729 2017 9780997901818 £6.99 This guide shows bird species recorded in the Greater Metropolitan Area, better known as the Central Valley, a plateau and a geographic region of central Costa Rica. Measurements are the total average length, from the tip of the bill to the end of...
Caring for Birds and Nature 184 pages | Seattle Audubon Society 100 Years of Seattle Audubon Hardback #240815 2016 9780914516170 £76.99 Constance Sidles(Editor) An in-depth look at the first 100 years of Seattle Audubon with historic photos, interviews, and moving stories about our history of working to protect birds and nature in Washington.On April 17, 1916, a few dedicated bird-watchers, teachers, and...
New Jersey's Hawks 62 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | The Raptor Trust Len Soucy(Author), Michael McNelly(Illustrator) Paperback #240817 2016 £69.99 The first book dedicated entirely to diurnal raptors in New Jersey since 1970. A guide to the natural history and identification of sixteen species of hawks, eagles, and falcons. Individual species accounts include measurements, description, range,...
The Hunters 240 pages | colour photos | Random House New Zealand The Precarious Lives of New Zealand's Birds of Prey Paperback #240853 May-2018 9780143771685 £58.99 Debbie Stewart(Author) From an extinct giant eagle and an owl that sounded like the devil, to the morepork that can be heard calling at night, the falcon that appears on New Zealand's $20 note and the hawks that can be seen swooping on the grisly remains of dead...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 30 Africa Birds 12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Waterford Press A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species Unbound #240859 1999 9781583550335 £5.99 James R Kavanagh(Author), Raymond Leung(Illustrator) Having one of the richest avifaunas in the world, Africa's diverse ecosystems are the permanent or migratory home of over 2,600 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a...
Les Oiseaux du Kouilou: A la Côte Atlantique aux Contreforts du Mayombe [The Birds 232 pages | colour photos, colour maps | BIOTOPE of Kouilou Department: From the Atlantic coast to the Foothills of Mayombe] Paperback #240860 2018 9782366622058 £45.99 Vincent Delhaye-Prat(Author), Christine Gonzalez-Dunia(Author), Xavier Rufray(Author), Teva Kami(Author) The deparment of Kouilou is Congo's only maritime region, and is an important flyway for many birds. This book summarizes the most common species of this coastal province, located between the Atlantic and the foothills of Mayombe. A total of 208...
Greifvögel und Eulen: Die Arten Nordwesteuropas [Birds of Prey and Owls: The 256 pages | 93 plates with colour illustrations; 2 colour photos, 310 Species of Northwestern Europe] colour & 115 b/w illustrations | Kosmos Verlag Paul Böhre(Author), Joris De Raedt(Author) Hardback #240913 2018 9783440159323 £29.99 Majestic, wild and mysterious – birds of prey and owls impress us with their unique lifestyle. In captivatingly beautiful and realistic illustrations, this bird guide tells everything about the species found in northestern Europe. The book...
The Birds of the Bagmati and Taudaha Area, 2003-2016 362 pages | 43 plates with colour photos; illustrations, maps | Vajra Status, Stories and Trends of 263 Bird Species in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Books Arend van Riessen(Author) Paperback #240934 2017 9789937028332 £110.00 Does the Kathmandu valley have a beach and gulls? Why did Taudaha’s cormorants increase at the same time as Pharping’s Buddhist monasteries? How do bird species trends reflect the local environmental changes? Why does the Black Redstart...
Taking Flight 224 pages | Wisconsin Historical Society Press A History of Birds and People in the Heart of America Paperback #240979 2018 9780870208362 £27.99 Michael Edmonds(Author) A dynamic account of ornithological history in America's heartland.Today, more than fifty million Americans traipse through wetlands at dawn, endure clouds of mosquitoes, and brave freezing autumn winds just to catch a glimpse of a bird. The...
Aves De Mallorca: Dónde y Cuando Observar-Las / Aus De Mallorca: On i Quan colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | BM21, Observar-Les [Birds of Majorca: When and Where to See Them] editorial de Natura i Medi Ambient Maties Rebassa(Author), Josep Manchado(Author), Sebastià Torrens(Author), Carmen Paperback #240983 2018 £26.99 Oriola(Author) This bilingual guide in Spanish and Catalan is designed for both the uninitiated and the expert in Balearic ornithology.In its pages the reader will find:- Rigorous and updated information about each and every bird species observed.- 200 entries with...
Fishes
Eels and Humans 300 pages | 79 colour & 72 b/w illustrations, 1 table | Springer-Verlag Katsumi Tsukamoto(Editor), Mari Kuroki(Editor) Paperback #240587 2016 9784431563372 £84.99 Eels and Humans explains much of what is known currently about freshwater eels, focusing on Hardback #208343 2013 9784431545286 £109.99 social and cultural aspects as well as science. A wealth of eel-related material is presented by scientists from around the world, including information on...
Comparative Studies on the Pharyngeal Teeth of Cyprinids 176 pages | colour photos | Tokai University Press Tsuneo Nakajima(Author) Paperback #240553 2018 9784486037385 £69.99 Because of the wide distribution of carp family fishes, comparative morphological studies of pharyngeal teeth have not been done before. The author compiled embryological studies of carpid fishes and published monographs comparing SEM images of...
Zootaxa, Volume 2252: A Revision of the Australian Handfishes (Lophiiformes: 77 pages | 27 plates with illustrations | Magnolia Press Brachionichthyidae), with Descriptions of Three New Genera and Nine New Species Paperback #240595 2009 9781869774257 £74.99 Peter R Last(Author), Daniel C Gledhill(Author) The family Brachionichthyidae is represented by at least 14 small, Australian endemic, lophiiform fishes distributed from central eastern Australia to the Great Australian Bight. All but three of these species occur in the seas off Tasmania. The...
Guide to Manta & Devil Rays of the World 144 pages | 200+ colour photos, colour illustrations | Wild Nature Press Guy Stevens(Author), Daniel Fernando(Author), Marc Dando(Author), Giuseppe Notarbartolo Paperback #240798 May-2018 9780995567399 £14.99 di Sciara(Author) Manta and devil rays are some of the most charismatic creatures in the ocean, and yet, until now there has never been a guide to these fascinating animals. Born into a life of perpetual motion, these rays must keep swimming to survive. Driven...
Fishes of the Okavango Delta & Chobe River, Botswana 120 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Random House Struik Mike Bruton(Author), Glenn Merron(Author), Paul H Skelton(Author) Paperback #240893 2018 9781775845058 £7.99 A comprehensive guide to the freshwater fishes of the Okavango Delta and Chobe River, this book offers background information on the diverse aquatic habitats of the region and on fish feeding, breeding and survival strategies. The species entries...
Classification of Fishes and Inland Fisheries in India 224 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Shubhi Publication Rajendra R Dandawate(Author), Ramdas G Pawar(Author), Rahul S Lonkar(Author) Paperback #240960 2015 £34.99 This book describes the freshwater fish commonly caught in inland fisheries in India.
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 31 Invertebrates
Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain & Ireland 108 pages | 90 colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution Mike Edwards(Author), Martin Jenner(Author) maps | Ocelli Limited Bumblebees are popular and well loved insects. Yet, surprisingly, until recently the majority of Paperback #240836 Mar-2018 9780954971328 £13.99 people knew little or nothing about them. Over the last 4 decades, populations of some of the rarer species have seriously declined and even some of the...
The Curious Life of Krill 190 pages | 14 photos, 4 illustrations | Island Press A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World Hardback #238877 Jul-2018 9781610918534 £22.99 Stephen Nicol(Author) Krill – it's a familiar word that conjures oceans, whales, and swimming crustaceans. Scientists say they are one of most abundant animals on the planet. But when pressed, few people can accurately describe krill or explain their ecological...
Annual Review of Entomology, Volume 63 625 pages | Annual Reviews Volume 63 contains 30 review articles. See the table of contents for details. Hardback #240237 2018 £550.00
Butterflies of Uttarakhand 308 pages | colour photos | Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh A Field Guide Paperback #240469 2018 9788121109185 £43.99 Sanjay Sondhi(Author), Krushnamegh Kunte(Author) Butterflies of Uttarakhand covers 500 species of butterflies that have been recorded in Uttarakhand, a state in northern India, since the 1880's. The book contains photographs of each of the butterfly species and provides key features to...
Beekeeping for Dummies 480 pages | illustrations | John Wiley & Sons Howland Blackiston(Author) Paperback #240478 2017 9781119310068 £16.99 If you've ever thought about becoming a backyard beekeeper – or have already tried a hand at it and want to be better one – then this is the book for you! In Beekeeping for Dummies, 4th Edition you'll find everything you need to...
A Beekeeper's Year 224 pages | colour photos | New Holland Publishers New Zealand A Practical Guide to Caring for Bees and Beehives Paperback #240483 2016 9781869664565 £12.99 Janet Luke(Author) A Beekeeper's Year follows the progress of three novice beekeepers with three different types of hive, as they navigate their way through their first year of beekeeping. Follow their journey as they set up and manage their Top Bar, Warre and Flow...
Bird Watcher's Digest Butterflies Backyard Guide 160 pages | 128 colour photos | Cool Springs Press Identify, Watch, Attract, Nurture, Save Paperback #240485 2017 9781591866756 £10.99 Erin Gettler(Author), Bill Thompson III(Foreword By) Butterflies are likely the most popular insects in the entire insect class. With their large, brightly coloured wings and beneficial pollinator roles in the ecosystem, it's no wonder they have such a big fan base amongst their human observers....
ZooKeys 727: A Review of the Madagascan Pelican Spiders of the Genera Eriauchenius 96 pages | 34 colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, and b/w distribution O. Pickard- Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae) maps | Pensoft Publishers Hannah M Wood(Author), Nikolaj Scharff(Author) Paperback #240521 2018 9789546429100 £44.99 An endemic genus of Madagascan spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae, Eriauchenius) is revised. All 20 species of Eriauchenius are described and keyed, of which 14 are new species: Eriauchenius andriamanelo sp. n., Eriauchenius andrianampoinimerina sp. n.,...
ZooKeys 728: Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America 455 pages | 41 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Pensoft Publishers Yves Bousquet(Author), Donald B Thomas(Author), Patrice Bouchard(Author), Aaron D Paperback #240555 2018 9789546429117 £99.99 Smith(Author), Rolf L Aalbu(Author), Andrew Johnston(Author), Warren E Steiner, Jr.(Author) Hardback #240554 2018 9789546429124 £125.00 Darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) form a species-rich and morphologically diverse family with approximately 2300 genera and 20,000 species worldwide. As a result of recent comparative and phylogenetic studies, several taxa previously...
Heather Honey 384 pages | 125 colour & b/w photos, 28 b/w illustrations | Bee Craft Ltd A Comprehensive Guide Paperback #240611 2016 9780900147296 £29.99 Michael Badger(Author) Hardback #240610 2016 9780900147289 £39.99 This book contains everything you want to know about how to gather a crop of heather honey, from selecting the right strains of bees and preparing the strongest colonies, to choosing and using various kinds of equipment, how and when to transport the...
Insect Science 215 pages | colour illustrations | Syrawood Publishing House Evolution, Behavior and Management of Insects Hardback #240638 2016 9781682860946 £124.00 Christopher Fleming(Editor) Insects have been studied across the globe for decades. Insect Science includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world, on various topics related to entomology. It strives to provide a fair idea about this discipline and to...
The Dynastine Scarab Beetles of the USA and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: 298 pages | illustrations, distribution maps | University of Nebraska State Dynastinae) Museum Brett C Ratcliffe(Author), Ronald D Cave(Author) Paperback #240656 2017 £69.99 The 61 species and two subspecies of dynastine scarab beetles that occur in the United States of America (including Guam) and Canada are comprehensively reviewed. This is the fifth volume in the series that documents the scarab beetle subfamily...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 32 Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Hungary, Volume 3: Phytomyzinae II 427 pages | 137 plates with 1384 b/w line drawings | Pars Ltd. László Papp(Author), Miloš Černý(Author) Hardback #240662 2017 9789638833952 £64.99 The third of a five-volume monograph on the Agromyzidae of Hungary. The geographical scope of the work is that of the Pannonian Biogeographical Region. Not only the species hitherto found in Hungary, but also all the species which are expected to...
Taxonomic Monograph of the Endemic Millipede Assassin Bug Fauna of Madagascar 152 pages | 24 plates with colour photos; 13 b/w distribution maps, 2 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Ectrichodiinae) tables | American Museum of Natural History Michael Forthman(Author), Dominik Chłond(Author), Christiane Weirauch(Author) Paperback #240676 2016 £23.99 Madagascar is one of the world's most recognized biodiversity hotspots and has a diverse assassin bug (Reduviidae) fauna that is still incompletely known, especially for the Ectrichodiinae, or millipede assassin bugs. Ectrichodiinae are a...
Nineteen New Genera and 82 New Species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, Including 279 pages | 55 plates with colour photos; 93 b/w photos and b/w line Analyses of Host Relationships and Distributions (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: drawings, 23 b/w distribution maps, 5 tables | American Museum of Phylinae: Cremnorrhinini) Natural History Randall T Schuh(Author), Michael D Schwartz(Author) Paperback #240677 2016 £23.99 The tribe Cremnorrhinini, subtribe Cremnorrhinina, is recognized for the first time as occurring in Australia. Existing collections allow for the description of the following 19 new genera within which 82 new species of the group are placed:...
Revision of the North American Syntropine Vaejovid Scorpion Genera Maaykuyak, 67 pages | 30 colour & b/w photos, b/w line drawings, and b/w Syntropis, and Vizcaino, with Description of the Adults of Syntropis williamsi distribution maps; 5 tables | American Museum of Natural History Edmundo González-Santillán(Author), Lorenzo Prendini(Author) Paperback #240679 2016 £11.99 Four distinct genera, forming two monophyletic groups, are basal in the phylogeny of the North American vaejovid scorpion subfamily Syntropinae Kraepelin, 1905: Konetontli González- Santillán and Prendini, 2013; Maaykuyak...
Redefinition and Systematic Revision of the East African Scorpion Genus Pandinoides 66 pages | 22 colour & b/w photos and 1 colour map, 6 tables | American (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) with Critique of the Taxonomy of Pandinus, Sensu Lato Museum of Natural History Lorenzo Prendini(Author) Paperback #240687 2016 £11.99 The scorpion fauna of East Africa, encompassing Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda, is more diverse than those of West and Central Africa, but a systematic survey has never been conducted and the distributions of its species remain poorly...
Taxonomic Revision of the Jumping Goblin Spiders of the Genus Orchestina Simon, 362 pages | 233 colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings, 32 b/w 1882, in the Americas (Araneae, Oonopidae) distribution maps | American Museum of Natural History Matías A Izquierdo(Author), Martín J Ramírez(Author) Paperback #240689 2017 £35.99 The spider genus Orchestina Simon is distributed worldwide and is characterized by having an enlarged fourth femur with which these species are capable of jumping. The genus is also characterized by having a well-sclerotized sperm duct, a near...
Phylogenetic Relationships of a New Genus of Calliopsine Bees from Peru, With a 71 pages | 21 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Review of Spinoliella Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) American Museum of Natural History Víctor H González(Author), Allan H Smith-Pardo(Author), Michael S Engel(Author) Paperback #240691 2017 £11.99 We establish a new genus for an unusual species of Peruvian calliopsine bees (Panurginae: Calliopsini) that was initially reported in the literature as an undescribed species of Spinoliella Ashmead that purportedly expanded the range of the latter...
Systematic Revision of the Neotropical Club-Tailed Scorpions, Physoctonus, 134 pages | 63 colour & b/w photos, b/w line drawings, and b/w Rhopalurus, and Troglorhopalurus, Revalidation of Heteroctenus, and Descriptions of distribution maps; 4 tables | American Museum of Natural History Two New Genera and Three New Species (Buthidae, Rhopalurusinae) Paperback #240694 2017 £23.99 Lauren A Esposito(Author), Humberto Y Yamaguti(Author), Cláudio A Souza(Author), Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha(Author), Lorenzo Prendini(Author) The Neotropical "club-tailed" scorpions of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876, and two related genera in family Buthidae C.L. Koch, 1837, i.e., Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934, and Troglorhopalurus Lourenço et al., 2004, are...
Insect Behavior 400 pages | Oxford University Press From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences Paperback #240710 Jul-2018 9780198797517 £37.50 Alex Cordoba-Aguila(Editor), Daniel González-Tokman(Editor), Isaac González- Hardback #240709 Jul-2018 9780198797500 £74.99 Santoyo(Editor) This edited volume offers a new approach that will provide readers with the theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understand insect behaviour.
Atlas Illustré des Rhopalocères du Bénin [Illustrated Atlas of Rhopalocera of Benin] 731 pages | 230 plates with 3100 colour photos | Centre d'Etudes et de Alain Coache(Author), Bernard Rainon(Author), Antonio AC Sinzogan(Author) Recherches Entomologiques Béninois A large butterfly fauna including all the species and subspecies in the suborder Rhopalocera Hardback #240786 2017 £240.00 known from Benin. Both sexes are illustrated life size, recto and verso, for each species, while many varieties are also illustrated. Forty plates show...
Words of Wisdom 80 pages | b/w illustrations | Northern Bee Books A Collection of Apicultural Essays Paperback #240789 2016 9781908904973 £13.50 Ian Copinger(Author) A collection of essays on apiculture from the hand of beekeeper Ian Copinger.
The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest 277 pages | University of Arizona Press With an Arizona Check List Paperback #240799 1973 9780816535163 £30.95 Joseph C Bequaert(Author), Walter B Miller(Author) Originally published in 1973, this book is made available again as part of The University of Arizona Press Century Collection. This book provides a wealth of firsthand information combined with major sources provides an understanding of desert...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 33 Keeping Bees 256 pages | 150 colour photos and b/w illustrations, colour tables | Flame Choosing, Nurturing & Harvests Tree Publishing Pam Gregory(Author), Claire Waring(Author), Paul Peacock(Foreword By) Paperback #240819 2017 9781786642288 £9.99 Beekeeping is a fascinating and rewarding activity and is hugely important to the survival of our declining bee population, as much covered recently by the media. This attractive book offers practical and informative advice on how to get started, how...
Eat The Beetles! 276 pages | Essays on Canadian Writing Press An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects Paperback #240824 2017 9781770413146 £14.99 David Waltner-Toews(Author) Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us – mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea,...
Review of Invertebrate Biological Control Agents Introduced into Europe 208 pages | CABI Publishing Esther Gerber(Author), Urs Schaffner(Author) Hardback #240842 2016 9781786390790 £94.99 This book provides an overview of all documented releases of exotic (non-European) invertebrate biological control agents into the environment in Europe and summarizes key information on the target species as well as on the biological control agent...
Fauna Helvetica 29: Apidae 1 [French / German] 188 pages | colour illustrations, b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | Allgemeiner Teil, Gattungen, Apis, Bombus / Partie Générale, Genres, Apis, Bombus Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune Felix Amiet(Author), Andreas Müller(Author), Christophe Praz(Author) Paperback #240847 2018 £64.99 The first edition of Apidae 1 was published in 1996 in the series Insecta Helvetica of the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG). This volume was a novelty, as it contained not only keys but also distribution maps, which were produced by the Center...
Fibigeriana, Volume 4 165 pages | 87 plates with colour photos and b/w line drawings | Geometridae Heterocera Press Gyula M László(Author), Martin Lödl(Author), Sabine Gaal-Haszler(Author), Anthony Hardback #240848 2018 9786155279072 £140.00 Galsworthy(Author), Gábor Ronkay(Author), László Ronkay(Author), Zoltán Varga(Author) The fourth part of the Vartian catalogue comprises the complete checklist of the Geometridae taxa collected in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Southern Central Asia and the Western Himalayas, with reference to the numbers and countries of...
Dragonflies (Odonata) in Latvia: History of Research, Bibliography and Distribution 352 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, colour tables from the 18th Century to 2016 / Spāres (Odonata) Latvijā: Pētījumu Vēsture, | ZaIa Upe Bibliogrāfija un Izplatība no 18. Gadsimta līdz 2016. Gadam Hardback #240850 2016 9789934192494 £89.99 Mārtiņš Kalniņš(Author) This book gives a complete description of the history of dragonfly exploration in Latvia, descriptions, identification keys, phenology data and maps for each species, as well as a lot of additional information (habitats of dragonflies in Latvia,...
Identification Key to the European Species of the Bee Genus Nomada Scopoli, 1770 253 pages | 966 colour photos, 208 colour distribution maps | Museum (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Including 23 New Species Witt Jan Smit(Author) Hardback #240858 2018 £76.99 The bee genus Nomada is one of the largest genera in the family Apidae, and the largest genus of cleptoparasitic "cuckoo bees". Worldwide some 850 species occur. This book gives an identification key to the European species and describes 23...
Stingless Bees of Mexico 300 pages | 129 colour & 9 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag The Biology, Management and Conservation of an Ancient Heritage Hardback #240872 Aug-2018 9783319777849 £99.99 José Javier G Quezada-Euán(Author) The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planet's tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive. In Mexico, the management of stingless bees dates back centuries, and they were an...
Giant Carpenter Bees 68 pages | colour illustrations | Pineway Press Taxonomy and Identification of the Species of the Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) Group Paperback #240882 2017 9781981740970 £25.99 Jonathan Ralph Mawdsley(Author) This volume reviews the taxonomy and provides materials for the identification of the African and Asian carpenter bees belonging to the "Mesotrichia Group" of the genus Xylocopa Latreille. Subgenera of Xylocopa which are treated in this...
Mollusc Shells in Bangladesh National Museum 488 pages | Bangladesh National Museum Abu Tweb Abu Ahmed(Author) Paperback #240892 1970 9789843390806 £165.00 This book provides an overview of the 444 types of molluscan shell found in the collection of the Bangladesh National Museum. The taxonomic classication of the molluscan shells given in the appendix will provide important information to the...
Orthoptera of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR) 67 pages | 9 plates with colour photos; colour illustrations, 1 b/w map | A Systematic Information on Grasshoppers Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Indian Council of Forestry N Senthilkumar(Author), S Murugesan(Author), N Krishna Kumar(Author), RS Research and Education) Prashanth(Author) Paperback #240908 2014 9789382387091 £57.99 The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR) is the oldest and most popular biosphere reserve in India, established in 1986. It is situated in the Western Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills range of South India. Although studies on the biodiversity of relating to...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 34 Brazilian Sand Flies 377 pages | 26 colour & 185 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Biology, Taxonomy, Medical Importance and Control Hardback #240927 May-2018 9783319755434 £112.00 Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel(Editor), Jeffrey Jon Shaw(Editor) This is the first English-language book dedicated to Brazilian sand flies and their medical importance. No other country has so many species of these haematophagous insects as Brazil and their diversity has reached an astonishing level. Brazilian...
My Encounters with Minibeasts 192 pages | colour photos | Reed New Holland From Purple Moonbeams to Itchy Cows Paperback #240969 Mar-2018 9781925546170 £44.99 Densey Clyne(Author) My Encounters with Minibeasts is a collection of stories about insects and spiders by naturalist Densey Clyne, who is internationally known for her writing, photography and nature documentaries. The 35 chapters comprise personal recollections of her...
Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America 640 pages | colour illustrations | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Seabrooke Leckie(Author), David Beadle(Author) Paperback #240973 Mar-2018 9780544252110 £27.99 Southeastern North America is home to an incredible variety of moths, from drab browns to bright yellows and pinks, the small and simple to the flashy or bizarrely shaped. Just a few are common house and garden pests; thousands more harmless species...
The Butterflies of Afghanistan 328 pages | 64 plates with ~4000 colour photos | Tshikolovets Vadim V Tshikolovets(Author), Igor G Pliushch(Author), Oleg Pak(Author), Yuriy Publications Skrylnik(Author) Hardback #240978 2018 £175.00 Afghanistan is one of the least studied countries in the Palaearctic region for its Lepidoptera. Large endemism makes this country particularly attractive to taxonomists and researchers, but collecting of entomological material, and butterflies in...
Reptiles & Amphibians
A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Asia 176 pages | ~300 colour photos | John Beaufoy Books Indraneil Das(Author) Paperback #240460 May-2018 9781912081929 £11.99 A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia contains high quality photographs from Paperback #201460 2012 9781906780708 £9.99 the region's top nature photographers, which are accompanied by detailed species descriptions including nomenclature, size, distribution, habits, and...
The Book of Snakes 656 pages | colour photos | The Ivy Press A Lifesize Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World Hardback #239809 Aug-2018 9781782405597 £29.99 Mark O'Shea(Author) There are over 3,600 species of snake found on every continent except for Antarctica, ranging in size from Barbados' tiny threadsnake to Southeast Asia's massive reticulated python. More than any other creature snakes are surrounded by dark,...
Suomen Matelijat ja Sammakkoeläimet [Finnish Reptiles and Amphibians] 180 pages | colour photos | Metsäkustannus Oy Antti Koli(Author) Hardback #240528 2016 9789526612751 £59.99 Snakes and frogs have sparked curiosity and fear in humans for centuries. This book is a clear guide to the species, the identification and lifestyle of the reptiles and amphibians of Finland. There is information about the biology and observation of...
Amphibians and Reptiles of the St. Vincent and Grenada Banks, West Indies 448 pages | 400+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Edition Robert W Henderson(Author), Robert Powell(Author) Chimaira In the Eastern Caribbean, the more than 40 islands of the St. Vincent Bank and the Grenada Hardback #240639 Mar-2018 9783899734836 £52.99 Bank (Grenada and the Grenadine Islands) harbour at least 32 species of frogs and reptiles. Like many West Indian islands, the combined herpetofaunas of the...
A Quest for African Herpetology 253 pages | 120 colour & b/w photos | Edition Chimaira Donald G Broadley(Author), Jens Reissig(Editor), Aaron M Bauer(Foreword By) Paperback #240640 Mar-2018 9783899734393 £26.50 Don Broadley is universally regarded as the "godfather" of modern African herpetology. With more than six decades of active research based in Zimbabwe, Don's career has been at the nexus of the field since shortly after his arrival in...
Chameleons of Africa 643 pages | 816 colour photos, 142 b/w illustrations, colour distribution An Atlas, Including the Chameleons of Europe, the Middle East and Asia maps | Edition Chimaira Colin R Tilbury(Author), Bill Branch(Foreword By) Hardback #240641 Mar-2018 9783899731156 £115.00 This second edition is written by a leading expert on the group, so that means it’s up to date and comprehensive. The success of the first edition (2010) meant that the book was very soon ‘out of print’. However, the revision was no...
Die Marokkanische Dornschwanzagame: Uromastyx nigriventris [Moroccan Spiny- 64 pages | colour photos | Natur und Tier-Verlag Tailed Lizard] Paperback #240914 2012 9783866591868 £30.99 Michael Frank(Author) This guide describes the biology and husbandry techniques for Uromastyx nigriventris, or the Moroccan spiny-tailed lizard.
Mammals
Bear Attacks 320 pages | b/w illustrations | Lyons Press Their Causes and Avoidance Paperback #240648 Jun-2018 9781493029419 £13.95 Stephen Herrero(Author) Alan Precup disappeared while backpacking in the Alaskan wilderness. Days later, searchers found his campsite. In the bushes about 150 feet away, they found Precup's bare skeleton, one intact hand, and both feet, still booted. In his camera were...
01-03-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 35 The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses 218 pages | 325 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Press Donald R Prothero(Author) Paperback #240574 Mar-2018 9781108457200 £29.99 The family Rhinocerotidae has a long history in North America. From their first appearance Hardback #147450 2005 9780521832403 £92.99 about 40 million years ago, they diversified into a remarkable array of taxa, with a variety of ecologies at variance with the five living species. They ranged...
A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of Southeast Asia 176 pages | ~300 colour photographs | John Beaufoy Books Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand Paperback #240457 May-2018 9781912081905 £11.99 and Vietnam Paperback #201466 2012 9781906780715 £9.99 Chris R Shepherd(Author), Loretta Ann Shepherd(Author) This easy-to-use identification guide to the 129 species of mammal most commonly seen in Southeast Asia (covering Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) is perfect for resident and...
The Mandrill 260 pages | 16 plates with 24 colour photos; 124 b/w photos and b/w A Case of Extreme Sexual Selection illustrations, 15 tables | Cambridge University Press Alan F Dixson(Author) Paperback #240902 Jun-2018 9781107535121 £29.99 Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is Hardback #223919 2015 9781107114616 £49.99 notoriously elusive and has evaded scientific scrutiny for decades. Yet, it is the largest and most sexually dimorphic of all the Old World monkeys, and...
Kalahari Cheetahs 207 pages | 8 plates with 16 colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w Adaptations to an Arid Region photos, b/w illustrations. tables | Oxford University Press Gus Mills(Editor), Margaret Mills(Editor), CTT Edwards(Contributor), D Gottelli(Contributor), Paperback #240697 May-2018 9780198815563 £29.99 DM Scantlebury(Contributor), David W Macdonald(Foreword By) Hardback #230465 2017 9780198712145 £64.99 The cheetah, the fastest terrestrial animal, has widespread appeal amongst wildlife biologists and enthusiasts alike. However, like all large carnivores, it is increasingly threatened by habitat loss and its status is now classified as...
Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology 416 pages | Academic Press Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Population Health Paperback #240244 Aug-2018 9780128121443 £72.99 Maria Fossi(Author), Cristina Panti(Author) Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology: Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Population Health provides tactics on how to develop a comprehensive methodology for the study of existing threats to marine mammals. By presenting a conservation-biology approach and new...
Hair and Fur Atlas of Central European Mammals 307 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w line drawings | Pars Ltd. Mária Tóth(Author) Hardback #240663 2017 9789638833976 £59.99 The macro- and microscopic structure of the mammal hair is amazingly diverse, being specific and appropriate to identify the species, genera or higher taxa. The identification of mammals using the morphological characters of their hair requires time...
A Revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus Marmosops, Part 1: Species of the 70 pages | 28 colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, and b/w Subgenus Sciophane maps; 5 tables | American Museum of Natural History Juan F Díaz-Nieto(Author), Robert S Voss(Author) Paperback #240678 2016 £11.99 In this report, the first installment of a comprehensive revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosops, the authors revise the species of the subgenus Sciophanes. Based on morphological character variation among almost 300 examined specimens...
Mammifères Sauvages du Maroc: Peuplement, Répartition, Ecologie [Wild Mammals of 340 pages | colour distribution maps | Société Française pour l'Etude et Morocco: Populations, Distribution, Ecology] la Protection des Mammifères Stéphane Aulagnier(Editor), Fabrice Cuzin(Editor), Michel Thévenot(Editor), Abdellatif Paperback #240726 2018 £34.99 Bayed(Author), Bouchra Bougariane(Author), Denis Geraads(Author), Alain Rodrigue(Author), Emmanuelle Stoetzel(Author), Dominique Barreau(Author), Alain Rocher(Author) This work describes about a hundred valid species having existed since historical time on the present territory of the Kingdom of Morocco. Among them, eight have already gone extinct, two have not recently been observed and are on the verge of...
Cuddle Me, Kill Me 200 pages | colour photos | Random House Struik From Bottle To Bullet - A True Account of South Africa's Captive Lion Industry Paperback #240894 Aug-2018 9781775845935 £9.99 Richard Peirce(Author) Richard Peirce, veteran wildlife campaigner, tackles another controversy in his latest book, that of lion breeding and canned hunting – an industry that has burgeoned in the last decade or so, dropping largely under the radar of public...
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter 240 pages | 8 plates with 30 colour photos; 3 b/w illustrations | Chelsea Ben Goldfarb(Author), Dan E Flores(Foreword By) Green In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that everything we think we know Hardback #240926 Jul-2018 9781603587396 £18.99 about what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is inaccurate a historical artefact produced by the removal of beavers from their former haunts....
My Encounter with the Big Cat and Other Adventures in Ranthambhore 184 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Niyogi Books Daulat Singh Shaktawat(Author) Paperback #240961 2018 9789386906144 £24.99 A dramatic encounter with a belligerent tiger, a near-death experience, hunting for missing tigers, a mystifying leopard who attacks humans at will with no fear, tracking and monitoring tigers, and the fascinating story of an aggressive male...
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