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Nhbs Monthly Catalogue New and Forthcoming Titles Issue: 2016/06 June 2016 Customer.Services@Nhbs.Com +44 (0)1803 865913 nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2016/06 June 2016 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Welcome to the June 2016 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly Zoology: update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in Mammals the last month. Birds Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes ● The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life Invertebrates ● Birds of Western Ecuador: A Photographic Guide Palaeontology ● Candid Creatures: How Camera Traps Reveal the Mystery of Nature Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Cetacean Paleobiology General Natural History ● Conservation Behavior: Applying Behavioral Ecology to Wildlife Conservation and Management Regional & Travel ● Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: Lessons in Life and Death Botany & Plant Science ● Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain Animal & General Biology ● Jellyfish: A Natural History Evolutionary Biology ● Mammal Societies Ecology ● Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America Habitats & Ecosystems ● Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Integrating Models with Data Conservation & Biodiversity ● Reptile Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques ● Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements Environmental Science ● Seabirds of the World: Secret Realm of the Oceans' Wanderers Physical Sciences ● Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species Sustainable Development ● Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature Data Analysis ● Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies Reference ● Water Bugs of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia ● Wildlife of Southeast Asia ● Wild Equids: Ecology, Management, and Conservation ● What is a Dog? ● Why Ecology Matters Stock titles ● Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae ● Being a Bird in North America, North of Mexico, Volume 1: Waterfowl to Shorebirds ● Butterflies of the West Midlands: Birmingham & the Black Country, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire ● Discover Shetland's Birds: A Photographic Guide to Shetland's Breeding, Wintering and Migrant Birds ● Dragonflies & Damselflies of Gloucestershire: Their Distribution and Status ● The Feathered Tribes of Van Diemen's Land ● Finding Birds in Eastern Poland ● The Florilegium: The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney ● Flowers and Herbs in Pelion: With 12 Hiking Descriptions / Blumen under Krauter im Pilion: Mit 12 Wanderbeschreibungen ● Knowing Your Place: Wildlife in Shingle Street ● The Larger Moths of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough ● Marine Fishes of Portugal / Peixes Marinhos de Portugal ● Pocket Guide to Wildflower Families ● The Sharks of Sri Lanka ● Turning Turtles in Tortuguero: Stories From the Origin of Sea Turtle Conservation ● Whales' Bones of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands New editions ● A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea (2nd edition) ● Fishes of the World (5th edition) ● RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds (2nd edition) New in paperback ● The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS LibraryPro Best wishes, -The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Mammals Din Lumea Mamiferelor, Volume 6: Mamifere Acvatice [The World of Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789732721094 Mammals, Volume 6: Marine Mammals] | #229702A | £71.99 Add to basket Dumitru Murariu This Romanian series, which started off in 1989, can be seen as a popular science precursor of the Handbook the Mammals of the World, with an aim of bringing together disparate information on mammals orders. Fauna Romaniei: Mammalia, Volume XVI, Fascicle 1: Insectivora 164 pages | [English] Paperback | 01/2000 | #229613A | £73.99 Add to basket Dumitru Murariu This fascicle in the Fauna Romaniei covers insectivorous mammals. Fragile Balance 246 pages | colour photos, colour The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials illustrations, maps | Christopher R Dickman, Rosemary Woodford Ganf and Timothy Flannery Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781742457857 | This book distinguishes the diverse marsupial group from other mammals and places it in its #229548A | £44.99 Add to basket geographic context. 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