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April 2020 Monthly Catalogue April 2020 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the April 2020 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. The months ahead look uncertain in many ways (see our COVID-19 update here), but our team at NHBS will continue to bring you relevant and exciting new books. An exceptionally strong list of bird books was either announced or arrived in stock. Penguin Random House South Africa will publish the 5th edition of SASOL Birds of Southern Africa in August. As with the 4th edition, it will be published in three versions. Two site guides for Mallorca have been published simultaneously: we received stock of Birds of Mallorca: An Accurate and Comprehensive Guide to the 340 Species of Birds, Covering 31 Sites Across the Island, published by the author Neville Davies, and there is the bilingual (English / German) Birds of Mallorca: Where and When to Observe Them from Balearmex XXI. Also just published by the Paris Museum of Natural History is the French distribution atlas Atlas des Oiseaux Migrateurs et Hivernants d'Aquitaine: Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénéés-Atlantiques. Then there are several books on bird biology on the horizon. Princeton University Press will publish the paperback of Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds in September while Harper Collins will reissue Ian Newton's New Naturalist volume Bird Migration in May. More academically oriented are the third edition of Raptor Medicine, Surgery and Rehabilitation, due August from CABI Publishing, and two titles from Cambridge University Press: the paperback Avian Cognition, due June, and the completely new book The Kestrel: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of an Open-Land Predator, due September. Lastly, we have stock of the privately published A Brush with Birds of Paradise: Paintings from the Papua New Guinea Rainforest. On the topic of mammals, we have the first volume in a new Springer series, Handbook of the Mammals of Europe. The introductory volume Mammals of Europe: Past, Present, and Future is due August. Academic Press will publish Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal: Panthera onca at the Meeting of the Waters in June and there are two primate titles coming, New World Monkeys: The Evolutionary Odyssey, due September from Princeton University Press, and the paperback of Mahale Chimpanzees: 50 Years of Research due June from Cambridge University Press. KNNV Publishing has recently published a new edition of their Dutch Field Guide to Animals Tracks of Europe. Lastly, Harper Collins will publish the paperback of The Hidden World of the Fox in September. For other animal groups, we have one or two titles each to announce. The Ivy Press will publish Lizards of the World: A Guide to Every Family in September, and Johns Hopkins University Press has announced Shark Biology and Conservation: Essentials for Educators, Students, and Enthusiasts for September. An entomology title we are very excited about is Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: Geotrupidae to Scraptiidae due July. This is the penultimate title in this series, with only volume 2 remaining to be written. WILDGuides has announced new editions of Britain's Butterflies: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (4th edition) and Britain's Spiders: A Field Guide (2nd edition), both due September. On the topic of plants there is one noteworthy title: Illustrated Field Guide to the Flowers of Sri Lanka, Volume 3. Ecologists can look out for four new exciting books. WILDGuides will publish the second edition of the staggeringly successful Britain's Habitats: A Field Guide to the Wildlife Habitats of Great Britain and Ireland in August. CRC Press has just published the paperback of the 2001 book Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives. Chartwell Books will publish Atlas of Oceans: An Ecological Survey of This Fascinating Hidden World in April. And, lastly, Springer has just published a new annotated edition of Charles Elton's classic 1958 text The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. On the topic of conservation biology and environmental issues, there are three books worth mentioning in the pipeline. Johns Hopkins University Press will publish the paperback of Becoming a Wildlife Professional in August, while Island Press has announced Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction for April. Earthscan has recently published Writing a New Environmental Era: Moving Forward to Nature, which makes a case for the importance of environmental humanities in addressing climate change and other environmental issues. Finally, there is a smattering of titles covering different disciplines and genres. W.W. Norton will publish the paperback of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait in September. Columbia University Press has announced The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It for September, which will be the fourth such book authored by Donald R. Prothero. A new, inexpensive version of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is due May from Harper Collins. Penguin Books will publish the paperback of Jared Diamond's Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change in May. Very topical is Adam Kurcharski's The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop, just published by Profile Books. As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. In the meantime, keep safe and keep well. Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor Insects & other Invertebrates Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea 904 pages | illustrations | Oxford University Press A Story of Scientific Method Hardback #250276 Jul-2020 9780195365764 £96.99 Frederick R Schram(Author), Stefan Koenemann(Author) The scientific understanding of arthropod phylogeny and evolution has changed significantly in recent decades. One of the most momentous alterations involved crustaceans, which are not a monophyletic group, but are part of a larger group along with... Making Nests for Bumble Bees 44 pages | b/w line drawings | International Bee Research Association A Way to Save an Endangered Species Paperback #250301 2018 9780860982869 £15.99 Manfred Intenthron(Author), John Gerrard(Author) If the bumblebee is to flourish, one place that can become its haven is the garden. Flowers, which are their food supply, are what every gardener grows. All gardeners aim to have flowers all the year-round and in great variety which is what... Nymphalidae Part 3 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region) 77 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps | Subfamily Limenitidinae, Tribe Neptini Omnes Artes Gian Cristoforo Bozano(Author) Paperback #250197 2019 9788887989236 £34.99 Nymphalidae Part 3 covers subfamily Limenitidinae, tribe Neptini.From the foreword:"The second edition of Nymphalidae part III comes out exactly eleven years after the rst one. In the case of other volumes of the series Guide to the... 03-04-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 3 670 pages | 79 plates with 473 colour photos; b/w line drawings | A.G. Geotrupidae to Scraptiidae Duff Publishing Andrew G Duff(Author) Hardback #200647 Jul-2020 9780957334724 £109.00 Volume 3 covers a large number of families which exhibit a wide range of morphologies and ways of life, including the familiar dor beetles, stag beetles, dung beetles and chafers, jewel beetles, click beetles, glow-worms, soldier beetles, chequered... Britain's Butterflies 256 pages | 600+ colour photos, 10 b/w illustrations, 76 colour A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland distribution maps | WILDGuides David E Newland(Author), Robert Still(Author), Andy Swash(Author), David Tomlinson(Author) Paperback #249909 Sep-2020 9780691205441 £14.99 Britain’s Butterflies is a comprehensive and beautifully designed photographic field guide to the butterflies of Britain and Ireland. Containing hundreds of stunning colour photographs, the fourth edition has been extensively revised and... Britain's Spiders 496 pages | 700+ colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution A Field Guide maps | WILDGuides Lawrence Bee(Author), Geoff Oxford(Author), Helen Smith(Author) Paperback #250196 Sep-2020 9780691204741 £19.99 Now in a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, Britain's Spiders is a guide to all Paperback #233994 2017 9780691165295 £19.99 38 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. Illustrated with a remarkable collection of photographs, it is... Veldgids Zweefvliegen [Field Guide to Hoverflies] 388 pages | 1700+ colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution Sander Bot(Author), Frank van de Meutter(Author) maps | KNNV Uitgeverij This is the second edition of the first Dutch field guide to allow identification of all 384 hoverfly Hardback #250077 2020 9789050117562 £30.99 species of the Netherlands and Belgium, an increase of two species compared to the first edition. Hoverflies have long been favourites of... Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Hungary, Volume 4: Phytomyzinae III 708 pages | 226 plates with 2300+ b/w line drawings | Pars Ltd. László Papp(Author), Miloš Černý(Author) Hardback #243380 2020 9789638833969 £99.99 The final volume of this 4-volume monograph on the Agromyzidae of Hungary. Volume 4 contains the third systematic part of the subfamily Phytomyzinae with the genera Chromatomyia (33 species), Napomyza (19 species), Phytomyza (166 species) for a total... Veldgids Sprinkhanen en Krekels van Europa [Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and 412 pages | <700 colour photos, 160 b/w line drawings, 284 colour Crickets of Europe] distribution maps | KNNV Uitgeverij Heiko Bellmann(Author), Florin Rutschmann(Author), Christian Roesti(Author), Axel Paperback #250076 May-2020 9789050117326 £34.99 Hochkirch(Author) Grasshoppers are some of the most common, striking and diverse insects.
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