nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2017/02 February 2017 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the February 2017 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 Invertebrates

● Cephalopods of the World, Volume 3: Octopods and Vampire Squids: An Palaeontology Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date Marine & Freshwater Biology ● The Eurasian Hobby General Natural History ● A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials Regional & Travel ● Guide to Birds of the Kruger National Park Botany & Plant Science ● HBW and Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 2 Animal & General Biology ● Illustrated Key to the British False Scorpions (Pseudoscorpions) Evolutionary Biology ● Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Ecology ● Rays of the World Habitats & Ecosystems Conservation & Biodiversity Stock titles Environmental Science Physical Sciences ● An Atlas of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Anglesey Sustainable Development ● Atlas des Mammiferes Sauvages de France, Volume 1: Mammiferes Marins Data Analysis [Atlas of Wild Mammals of France, Volume 1: Marine Mammals] ● Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015 ● Biodiversity of Tengchong, Gaoligongshan ● The Birds of Samoa ● Botanische Revolutie: De Plantenleer van Charles Darwin [Botanical Revolution: The Botany of Charles Darwin] ● Call of Nature: The Secret Life of Dung ● Complete Birds of Seychelles ● A Guide to Fossil Collecting in England and Wales ● An Introduction to the Wildlife of Cyprus ● Landscape Ecological Vegetation Map of St. Eustatius (Lesser Antilles) ● Oman Plant Red Data Book ● Plant Biodiversity: Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation ● Theodor Cantor: Zoology of Chusan (China) ● Where to Watch Birds in Morocco ● Wild Flowers of the Mani: A Comprehensive Photographic Identification Guide for the Flowers of the Mani Peninsula in Southern Greece ● Wildlife Diary: A Year in the Old Welsh County of Meirionnydd

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Mammals

Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015 207 pages | colour photos, colour Liam Lysaght and Ferdia Marnell illustrations, colour distribution maps | The Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015 is the first publication to map all mammals that Hardback | 12/2016 | 9781911172048 | occur on the island of Ireland and its marine waters. Almost a quarter of a million mammal #234271A | £39.99 Add to basket sightings from 57 different datasets were used ...

Foxes Unearthed 282 pages | no illustrations | A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781783961498 | Lucy Jones #226342A | £14.99 Add to basket The British people have a unique relationship with the fox; no other animal attracts such Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so deeply woven into our culture over 9781783963041 | #234325A | £9.99 the centuries. But as well as being the most ubiquitous ... Add to basket

Horses of the World 528 pages | colour photos, 600 colour Elise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris and Teresa Lavender Fagan illustrations, colour maps | Horses of the World is a comprehensive, large-format overview of 570 breeds of domestic and Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | extant wild horses, including hybrids between the two and between domestic breeds and other 9780691167206 | #234240A | £32.95 equids, such as zebras. This beautifully illustrated ... Add to basket

Irish Wild Mammals 180 pages | no illustrations | A Guide to the Literature Paperback | 11/2016 | 9781906642884 Pat Smiddy and D Paddy Sleeman | #234252A | £31.99 Add to basket The fourth edition now lists approximately 3,200 entries to the literature on wild mammal in Ireland (compared to 2,663 entries in the third, and 1,389 entries in the second edition). A large number of these have come about by re-connecting ..

Marine Mammals of British Columbia 464 pages | colour photos, b/w John KB Ford illustrations, maps | Dr. John Ford presents the latest information on 31 species of marine mammals that live in or Paperback | 12/2016 | 9780772667342 visit British Columbia waters: 25 whales, dolphins and porpoises, 5 seals and sea lions, and the | #234353A | £21.50 Add to basket sea otter. He describes each species and summarises ...

North Atlantic Right Whales 464 pages | 8 colour plates, 76 b/w From Hunted Leviathan to Conservation Icon illustrations, 12 maps | David W Laist Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | In the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some of the heartiest humans of 9781421420981 | #234433A | £28.99 medieval days ventured out in search of whales. Through the centuries, people on both sides of Add to basket the Atlantic became increasingly dependent on whales ...

Panthera onca: In the Shadow of the Forests / A Sombra das Florestas 304 pages | colour photos | Adriano Gambarini, Laís Duarte, Mario Haberfeld, Rogerio Cunha de Paula and Rodrigo Cunha Hardback | 01/2017 | 9788560120390 | An exceptional coffee table book with photos of the jaguar (Panthera onca). The text covers #234378A | £75.99 Add to basket various topics such as symbolism; biology, ecology and behaviour; distribution, conflicts with man, and persecution; efforts to save and ...

The Otter's Tale 320 pages | Simon Cooper Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Otters hold an almost unique place in the animal kingdom of the British Isles, being one of the 9780008189716 | #234262A | £16.99 very few creatures that give birth once every two years. They are the most secretive yet also Add to basket the most popular mammals – they are found ...

Birds

A Lizard Bird Diary 160 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w A Study of the Birds of the South Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall: 1970-2015 illustrations, colour maps | Brian Cave Paperback | 12/2016 | 9781527200401 A Lizard Bird Diary is a unique summary of 45 years of fieldwork by the author, focusing on the | #234270A | £24.99 Add to basket migration and status of the bird fauna of the South Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. It includes many previously unpublished records.

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East Asia 648 pages | 1700+ colour photos, [Japanese] colour distribution maps | Paperback | 09/2016 | 9784908712005 Tadao Shimba | #234481A | £69.99 Add to basket Based on Christopher Helm's A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East Asia published in 2007, the second Japanese edition of this field guide shows 673 species of wild birds found in Japan and Northeast Asia.

A Sparrowhawk's Lament 272 pages | 80 b/w illustrations | How British Breeding Birds of Prey are Faring Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780691157641 | David Cobham, Bruce Pearson and Chris Packham #211300A | £24.95 Add to basket Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | Sparrowhawk to the breathtaking White-tailed Eagle. In this handsomely illustrated book, 9780691175720 | #234242A | £14.95 acclaimed British filmmaker and naturalist David Cobham offers unique ... Add to basket

A Sweet, Wild Note 208 pages | What We Hear When the Birds Sing Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Richard Smyth 9781783963140 | #234351A | £14.99 The first cultural history of one of our nation's enduring pleasures: birdsong. Add to basket

American Museum of Natural History: Pocket Birds of North America, 296 pages | colour photos | Eastern Region Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781465456311 | #234281A | £18.99 Add to basket Stephen W Kress and Elissa Wolfson Profiling more than 350 of the most commonly seen birds in eastern North America, this handy photographic field guide brings each species to life on the page. From the American black duck to the snowy owl to the American Goldfinch ...

American Museum of Natural History: Pocket Birds of North America, 296 pages | colour photos | Western Region Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781465456304 | #234279A | £18.99 Add to basket Stephen W Kress and Elissa Wolfson Profiling more than 400 of the most commonly seen birds in western North America, this handy photographic field guide brings each species to life on the page. From the bald eagle to the California quail to the golden-crowned ...

An Identification Guide to the Ducks of Japan [Japanese] 304 pages | plates with colour Osao Ujihara and Michiaki Ujihara illustrations; 639 colour photos, colour Produced by father-and-son duo Osao and Michiaki Ujihara, well known amongst gull distribution maps | enthusiasts for their website on the identification of Siberian and Pacific gulls, this is a pocket- Paperback | 11/2015 | 9784416715574 sized guide to the ducks of Japan. All 43 duck species ... | #234236A | £67.99 Add to basket

Bird Migration Across the Himalayas Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Wetland Functioning Amidst Mountains and Glaciers 9781107114715 | #231628A | £69.99 Herbert HT Prins, Tsewang Namgail and The Dalai Lama Add to basket Birds migrating across the Himalayan region fly over the highest peaks in the world, facing immense physiological and climatic challenges. The authors show the different strategies used by birds to cope with these challenges. Many wetland ...

Birds Art Life 240 pages | illustrations | A Year of Observation Hardback | 01/2017 | 9781501154201 | Kyo Maclear #234381A | £26.99 Add to basket A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life – a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear ...

Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands 154 pages | 39 colour & 5 b/w Using Species Distribution Models as Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro- illustrations | Ecosystems Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Federico Morelli and Piotr Tryjanowski 9783319502823 | #234372A | £99.99 Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands helps to establish a simple Add to basket framework to identify and use bird species as bioindicator for high nature values (HNV) farmlands. HNV farming is present in all European countries ...

Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao 488 pages | plates with colour A Site and Field Guide illustrations | Jeffrey V Wells, Allison Childs Wells and Robert Dean Paperback | NYP 06/2017 | Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao is the essential guide for anyone traveling to those 9781501701078 | #234259A | £27.95 islands. It showcases the more than 280 species seen on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao and Add to basket provides descriptions of and directions ...

Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East 448 pages | 2200 colour photos, colour A Photographic Guide distribution maps | Frederic Jiguet, Aurelien Audevard and Tony Williams Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East is the first comprehensive pocket-sized 9780691172439 | #234235A | £24.95 photographic field guide to every bird species in Europe – this includes winter visitors and Add to basket common migrants but also all rarities ...

Birds of Ireland 360 pages | colour illustrations | Facts, Folklore and History Hardback | 09/2008 | 9781905172726 | Glynn Anderson #176740A | £19.99 Add to basket There's more to Irish bird folklore than the `wran' boys and the Children of Lir. Irish bird names Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | are rich and full of meaning. This book focuses on our interaction with birds, covering 9781848893139 | #234466A | £11.99 mythology and folklore, birds as omens ... Add to basket

Birds of Paradise 88 pages | colour photos, b/w A Colouring Expedition illustrations | Edwin Scholes, Tim Laman and Andrew Leach Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781843653417 What could be more delightful than to colour in the amazing plumage of true-to-life birds of | #234479A | £9.99 Add to basket paradise? This beautiful book contains illustrations of 39 different birds of paradise, drawn by Andrew Leach, from the work of Dr. Edwin Scholes ...

Birds of Spain 250 pages | ~1000 colour illustrations, Eduardo de Juana and Juan M Varela Simo 300+ colour distribution maps | An English translation of the third edition of Aves de Espana, the most popular field guide to the Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | identification of the birds of Spain, with more than 40,000 copies of previous editions sold. 9788416728022 | #234234A | £24.99 Recommended by SEO/Birdlife. Contains updated ... Add to basket

Birds of Washington State 384 pages | colour illustrations, colour Brian Bell and Gregory Kennedy distribution maps | Full of interesting facts and useful information, Birds of Washington State has something for Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781772130232 anyone with an interest in birds, from the casual backyard observer to the keen naturalist. | #234394A | £24.99 Add to basket You'll find full-page accounts, complete ...

Birdwatching in Maine 472 pages | 33 colour photos, 35 maps A Site Guide | Derek J Lovitch Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | With nearly 450 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities 9781611687224 | #234390A | £24.99 for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for Add to basket the first time to knowledgeable visitors looking ...

Complete Birds of Seychelles 304 pages | colour photos | B Narainsamy Ramen, Adrian Skerrett and James Michel Hardback | 07/2016 | 9789994902958 | In Complete Birds of Seychelles, highly accomplished bird photographer Narainsamy Ramen #234427A | £36.99 Add to basket teams up with Adrian Skerrett, author of many Seychelles books. Together they have produced a grand celebration of the birds of these islands ...

Der Weissstorch [The White Stork] 720 pages | illustrations | Christoph Kaatz, Dieter Wallschlaeger, Krista Dziewiaty and Ute Eggers Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | A comprehensive and up-to-date monograph on perhaps the most popular bird species ever – 9783894322731 | #234332A | £69.99 published and written by leading stork experts. Contents: - Systematics, evolutionary history, Add to basket morphology and physiology - Behaviour ...

First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa 57 pages | 70 colour photos, b/w Tracey Hawthorne illustrations, colour distribution maps, 2 SASOL First Field Guide to Common Birds of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into colour maps | the birdlife of the region. With the help of full-colour photographs and distribution maps, and Paperback | 10/2015 | 9781775844129 easy-to-read text, the young ... | #234294A | £9.99 Add to basket

Happiness Is a Rare Bird 250 pages | Living the Birding Life Paperback | 12/2016 | 9780888015839 Gene Walz | #234379A | £23.99 Add to basket Gene Walz's Happiness Is a Rare Bird is a celebration of birding. Through a series of humorous anecdotes detailing his adventures over every continent save Antarctica, Walz brings to life the avian beauty and grace he studied ...

Ireland's Garden Birds 186 pages | 150 colour photos, colour A Guide to Attracting and Identifying Garden Birds illustrations | Oran O'Sullivan, Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody Paperback | 08/2008 | 9781905172733 An essential companion for bird lovers and gardeners alike since it was first published, this | #176739A | £12.99 Add to basket highly successful guide to identifying garden birds has now been fully updated with the latest Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | information and statistics. Highlighting a range ... 9781848893030 | #234465A | £12.99 Add to basket

Mozart's Starling 277 pages | Lyanda Lynn Haupt Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese 9780316370899 | #234438A | £14.99 shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Add to basket Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart ...

One More Warbler 295 pages | 9 colour & 9 b/w photos | A Life with Birds Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | Victor Emanuel and S Kirk Walsh 9781477312384 | #234356A | £25.99 Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America's leading birders. He has observed more Add to basket than six thousand species during travels that have taken him to every continent. He founded the largest company in the world specializing in ...

Raptors of Mexico and Central America 272 pages | 32 plates with colour William S Clark, N John Schmitt and Lloyd Kiff illustrations; 213 colour photos, 3 b/w Raptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to their bewildering illustrations, 64 colour dis | variability of plumage, flight silhouettes, and behavior. Raptors of Mexico and Central America Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | is the first illustrated guide to the ... 9780691116495 | #234239A | £32.95 Add to basket

Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of Prey 336 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; Keith L Bildstein 1 illustration, 8 maps, 11 tables | Raptors are formally classified into five families and include birds – such as eagles, ospreys, Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | kites, true hawks, buzzards, harriers, vultures, and falcons – that are familiar and recognized 9781501705793 | #234260A | £24.50 by many observers. These diurnal ... Add to basket

Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 2014: Passerines 68 pages | colour photos, colour Adrian Pitches illustrations, colour tables | The January 2017 issue of British Birds contains the Report on Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain in 01/2017 | #234280A | £9.00 Add to 2014, dealing with the passerines. This report presents data on the passerine scarce migrants basket recorded in Britain in ...

Songs of Love & War 256 pages | The Dark Heart of Bird Behaviour Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Dominic Couzens 9781472909916 | #232447A | £16.99 The dawn chorus: a single voice cutting through the morning mist soon develops into a Add to basket symphony of different songs hailing the new day. Many of these songbirds are familiar and iconic features of wildlife, and yet much about their lives ...

The Big Bird Spot 32 pages | colour illustrations | A Globe-Trotting Bird-Spotting Adventure Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | Matt Sewell 9781843653264 | #234478A | £9.99 Travel the world to a variety of amazing locations – from jungle to desert to woodland to ocean Add to basket and see if you can spot the birds that are hiding there. It's harder than you think! The brilliant and highly successful wildlife ...

The Curious Bird Lover's Handbook 400 pages | Niall Edworthy Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | You don't have to be a dedicated birdwatcher to be a bird lover. Millions of us love the sight and 9781784162719 | #216211A | £7.99 sound of them. And yet most of us know very little about their remarkable behaviour, incredible Add to basket diversity and the story of their evolution ...

The Egg 96 pages | 50 colour illustrations | Britta Teckentrup and Kathrin Koller Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Beautiful, whimsical, and entertaining, The Egg of illustrations by Britta Teckentrup shows eggs 9783791372945 | #234310A | £11.99 in all their fragility, complexity, and variety. Is there anything as simple as an egg? Is there Add to basket anything as complex?

The North American Geese 160 pages | 28 b/w photos, 21 b/w Their Biology and Behavior illustrations, 8 maps | Paul A Johnsgard Paperback | 08/2016 | 9781609620943 There are eight currently recognized species of North American geese: emperor, greater white- | #234395A | £19.99 Add to basket fronted, snow, Ross's, Canada and cackling, barnacle, and brant geese. The North American Geese describes each species' geography ...

Waiting for the Albino Dunnock 288 pages | How Birds Can Change Your Life Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Rosamond Richardson 9781474603003 | #234350A | £16.99 Written by a beginner-birdwatcher with the freshness and passion of a convert, Waiting for the Add to basket Albino Dunnock explores the world of birds through the seasons of a single year. It describes encounters with particular birds in the ...

Where to Watch Birds in Carinthia, Austria / Vogel Beobachten in 160 pages | Kaernten Paperback | 01/2017 | 9783853280737 | #234435A | £24.99 Add to basket Gerald Malle and Peter Wiedner Watching birds is a very fulfilling hobby for many people and enjoys increasing popularity. Following this trend, this book presents twenty selected areas in Carinthia, the southernmost state of Austria, where birds can be observed.

Reptiles & Amphibians

Amphibians of China, Volume 1 1060 pages | 706 colour & 169 b/w Fei Liang and Ye Changyuan illustrations | Amphibians of China, Volume 1 describes each amphibian with its alternate name, its main Hardback | 04/2016 | 9789401795630 | characteristics, biological data, population status, and geographic distribution. Each entry is #219675A | £153.00 Add to basket accompanied by plenty of figures and colour ... Hardback | 01/2017 | 9787030417862 | #234430A | £175.00 Add to basket

L'Etymologie des Noms Latins des Serpents [The Etymology of Latin 294 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Names of Serpents] Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782746687134 | #234267A | £83.99 Add to basket Remi Ksas and Jean-Philippe Chippaux Discover the meaning of the scientific names of all snakes. This unique work contains close to 3800 definitions.

Invertebrates

A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America 272 pages | 3250 colour photos, Jeffrey Glassberg distribution maps | This is a revised second edition of a groundbreaking photographic field guide to the butterflies Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | of Mexico and Central America. It covers almost all of the more than 1,700 butterfly species 9780691176482 | #234273A | £37.95 found in Mexico, plus many found only in Central ... Add to basket

A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America 416 pages | 500 colour photos, Jeffrey Glassberg distribution maps | This is a revised second edition of the most detailed, comprehensive, and user-friendly Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | photographic field guide to the butterflies of North America. Written by Jeffrey Glassberg, the 9780691176505 | #234274A | £24.95 pioneering authority on the field identification of ... Add to basket

Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Hungary, Volume 2: Phytomyzinae I 385 pages | 126 b/w illustrations | Laszlo Papp and Milos Cerny Hardback | 12/2016 | 9789638833938 | Second of a four-volume monograph on the Agromyzidae of Hungary. Not only the species #234484A | £59.99 Add to basket hitherto found in Hungary, but also all the species which are expected to occur, are treated. The second volume contains a short Introduction ...

Atlas and Red Book of Carabini, Cychrini and Lucanidae of Galicia / 164 pages | colour photos, colour Atlas e Libro Vermello de Carabini, Cychrini e distribution maps | Paperback | 04/2014 | 9788488194213 The SGHN (the Galician natural history society) has released a new atlas, the first in Galicia on | #234322A | £36.50 Add to basket two groups of Carabidae or ground beetles, and on the family Lucanidae. This book was born of a project started many years ago ...

Atlas of Crabs of the Persian Gulf 290 pages | 372 colour & 63 b/w Reza Naderloo illustrations, distribution maps | This illustrated atlas describes 256 extant brachyuran crab species in the Persian Gulf and the Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Gulf of Oman. Identification keys are provided for 37 brachyuran families, 142 genera and 256 9783319493725 | #234263A | £85.99 species on the basis of their main synapomorphic ... Add to basket

Attachment Structures and Adhesive Secretions in Arachnids 184 pages | 38 colour & 19 b/w Jonas O Wolff and Stanislav N Gorb illustrations, 10 colour tables | This book surveys attachment structures and adhesive secretions occurring in this class of Hardback | 12/2016 | 9783319457123 | animals and discusses the relationships between structure, properties, and function in the #234312A | £99.99 Add to basket context of evolutionary trends, and biomimetic potential ...

Bee Quest 256 pages | Dave Goulson Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from the Salisbury plains to the 9781911214137 | #234331A | £14.99 Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumblebees Add to basket in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the ...

Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Volume 63: The Diatom Genus Neidium 120 pages | 281 b/w photos, 2 tables | Pfitzer (Bacillariophyceae) from Zoige Wetland, China Paperback | 01/2017 | 9783443570545 | #234485A | £83.99 Add to basket Morphology, Taxonomy, Descriptions Qi Liu, John Patrick Kociolek, Bo Li, Qingming You and Quanxi Wang In this volume twenty-three species of Neidium are described. Sample materials were collected in the Zoigê Wetland, an expansive network of lakes and wetlands located in Sichuan Province, China. From the total number of ...

Checklist of the Tiger Beetles of the World / Verzeichnis der 364 pages | Sandlaufkaefer der Welt (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) Hardback | 01/1992 | 9783931374068 | #234346A | £71.99 Add to basket Juergen Wiesner This book contains a species list in taxonomic order, a reference list and alphabetical order, and an index in both alphabetical and taxonomical order.

Crustacea: The World Book of Shrimps, Crabs and their Companions 291 pages | b/w photos, b/w [Japanese] illustrations | Paperback | 06/2003 | 9784486016113 Akira Asakura | #234362A | £49.99 Add to basket This book covers a wide range of topics from crustacean classification to ecology and conservation.

Die Tagfalter der Turkei [The Butterflies of Turkey] (3-Volume Set) 2201 pages | 164 plates with colour G Hesselbarth, Harry van Oorschot and S Wagener photos, 13 plates with b/w illustrations; This is a comprehensive treatment of the butterflies of Turkey. 346 distribution maps | Hardback | 01/1995 | 9783931374297 | #234337A | £239.00 Add to basket

Field Guide to Butterflies of Lebanon and the Middle East plates with colour illustrations, colour Husein Ali Zorkot distribution maps | A vivid world of butterflies awaits in this comprehensive field guide. For the first time, the Paperback | 01/2016 | #234448A | butterflies of Lebanon as well as those from Morocco to Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula £135.00 Add to basket are found together in one volume. In addition to ...

Fireflies, Glow-Worms, and Lightning Bugs 376 pages | 637 colour photos, 10 Identification and Natural History of the Fireflies of the Eastern and Central United illustrations, 1 map, 1 table | States and Canada Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | Lynn Frierson Faust 9780820348728 | #234380A | £33.50 This is the first comprehensive firefly guide for eastern and central North America ever Add to basket published. It is written for all those who want to know more about the amazing world of lightning bugs and learn the secrets hidden in the flash ...

Geotrupes and Related Species of Japan [Japanese] 116 pages | plates with colour photos; b/ Keiichi Tsukamoto, Masashi Inagaki, Masakazu Kawahara and Masato Mori w photos, b/w distribution maps | Volume 9 depicts beetles of the genus Geotrupes and related species from Japan on colour Hardback | 01/2017 | #234476A | plates, and includes information on locality in the form of distribution maps. £84.99 Add to basket

Illustrated Key to the British False Scorpions (Pseudoscorpions) 12 pages | colour photos, b/w line Gerald Legg, Francis Farr-Cox and Richard Jones drawings | Most people who see a false scorpion for the first time are fascinated. Although tiny (4 mm or Unbound | 01/2017 | 9781908819307 | less), their body shape is intriguing and can be discerned with the naked eye. This new AIDGAP #234277A | £4.50 Add to basket guide, in the fold-out chart style, is an illustrated ...

Insects of the Los Angeles Basin 464 pages | 500+ colour photos and b/ Charles L Hogue and James N Hogue w line drawings | Updated for the first time in over twenty years, the third edition of Insects of the Los Angeles Hardback | 12/1993 | 9780938644323 | Basin is a beautifully produced and richly illustrated field guide to more than 450 common or #033462A | £61.00 Add to basket conspicuous insects, spiders, millipedes ... Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780938644446 | #234512A | £35.99 Add to basket

Meeres-Gehauseschnecken Deutschlands: Bestimmungsschussel, 180 pages | 8 colour & 1 b/w plates, 60 Lebensweise, Verbreitung [Sea Snails of Germany: illustrations | Hardback | 01/2008 | 9783939767138 | Klaus-Juergen Goetting #234336A | £47.99 Add to basket In the present volume, the sea snails discovered in the German area of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are compiled. The species are classified according to current systematics and all illustrated, in many cases with images of live ...

Molluscs in Archaeology 200 pages | Methods, Approaches and Applications Paperback | NYP 06/2017 | Michael J Allen 9781785706080 | #234385A | £24.99 The subject of molluscs in archaeology has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. Add to basket This new volume in Oxbow's Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology.

Monarchs and Milkweed 296 pages | 80+ colour photos and A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution illustrations | Anurag A Agrawal Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright 9780691166353 | #234283A | £24.95 colours and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is Add to basket much more to the monarch than its distinctive ...

Neritidae of the World, Volume 2 672 pages | 170 plates with colour Thomas E Eichhorst photos; colour & b/w photos, b/w Nerites inhabit marine, brackish, freshwater, and arboreal environments worldwide in tropical to distribution maps | temperate climes. Neritidae of the World is a two-volume set of books that provides an in-depth Hardback | 12/2016 | 9783939767763 | examination of the almost 300 nerites ... #234238A | £166.00 Add to basket

New Worldwide Cowries 292 pages | 40 plates with 659 colour Felix Lorenz photos; 422 b/w photos and b/w This work on this popular family of shells called a nomenclaturally refreshing book, and is a illustrations, 37 b/w maps | trendsetter for the future taxonomy in cowries. Six new species and 16 new subspecies of Hardback | 07/2002 | 9783925919596 | cowries are described. The text part is enriched by an ... #234335A | £68.50 Add to basket

Other Minds 263 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness 20 b/w illustrations | Peter Godfrey-Smith Hardback | 01/2017 | 9780374227760 | Please note that two hardback versions are available, one published in January 2017 by Farrar, #228672A | £19.99 Add to basket Straus & Giroux, the other to be published in March 2017 by William Collins (an imprint of Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Harper Collins). Other than different subtitles ... 9780008226275 | #234296A | £19.99 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780008226312 | #234297A | £14.99 Add to basket

Papillons du Jura [Butterflies of the Jura] 368 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Jean-Claude Gerber illustrations | Reference work describing all 152 butterfly and burnet moth species found in the Jura Hardback | 12/2016 | 9782839919319 | Mountains (Switzerland). Richly illustrated with watercolour drawings, photographs and line #234504A | £96.50 Add to basket drawings, it is an indispensable source of information for ...

The Bees of Norfolk 224 pages | 400+ colour photos, colour Nick Owens distribution maps | The Bees of Norfolk is the first to cover all of Norfolk's 197 bee species, including bumblebees, Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | honeybees and solitary bees. Each species has its own page with images and distribution maps 9781874357780 | #234347A | £24.95 with notes on flight period, habitat ... Add to basket

The Butterflies of Thailand, Volume 3: Nymphalidae [English / 245 pages | colour photos, colour Japanese] distribution maps | Paperback | 11/2016 | #234454A | Yunosuke Kimura, Toshiaki Aoki, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Yoshinobu Uemura and Tamamitsu Saito £155.00 Add to basket Based on the Yunosuke Kimura Collection. Each species account is accompanied by a short bilingual description, a colour distribution maps and several colour photos. The third volume focuses on the butterfly family Nymphalidae.

The Cricket as a Model Organism 376 pages | 62 colour & 44 b/w Development, Regeneration, and Behavior illustrations, 62 colour tables | Hadley Wilson Horch, Taro Mito, Aleksandar Popadic, Hideyo Ohuchi and Sumihare Noji Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | The Cricket as a Model Organism covers a broad range of topics about the cricket from its 9784431564768 | #234371A | £159.50 development, regeneration, physiology, nervous system, and behavior with remarkable recent Add to basket updates by adapting the new, sophisticated molecular ...

Palaeontology

A Guide to Fossil Collecting in England and Wales 287 pages | 500+ colour photos, colour Steve Snowball, Craig Chapman and Dean R Lomax illustrations and colour maps | This is a guide on how and where to collect fossils in England and Wales. It provides invaluable Paperback | 01/2017 | 9780992997991 advice for the amateur collector; whether a beginner or a seasoned hand. Each of the many | #234253A | £17.99 Add to basket localities described (more than 50) contains up-to-date ...

Animals of a Bygone Era 112 pages | 54 b/w Illustrations | An Illustrated Compendium Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Maja Safstrom 9780399578526 | #234317A | £11.99 In the past, amazing and strange animals roamed the earth, including giant sea scorpions, tiny Add to basket horses, enormous sloths, and fierce "terror birds." These and many more fantastic extinct animals are illustrated in this whimsical ...

Bring Back the King 288 pages | b/w illustrations | The New Science of De-Extinction Hardback | 09/2016 | 9781472912251 | Helen Pilcher #218997A | £16.99 Add to basket If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be Paperback | NYP 09/2017 | anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' 9781472912275 | #218998A | £9.99 Roll, Elvis Presley, and beyond. Add to basket Paperback | 09/2016 | 9781472912268 | #218999A | £12.99 Add to basket

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 157 [English] 210 pages | Lower Cretaceous Ammonites X - Scaphitoidea Including the Upper Cretaceous Paperback | 01/2017 | 9783823617372 Representatives | #234439A | £97.99 Add to basket Jaap Klein The classification in this Fossilium Catalogus largely follows that of Cooper, 1994 and Wright et al., 1996. The reference lists that belong to the species are mainly references of specimens that are depicted. But also ...

The Ends of the World 320 pages | Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Hardback | NYP 06/2017 | Extinctions 9780062364807 | #234282A | £29.99 Peter Brannen Add to basket Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth's past dead ends, and in the process ...

The Worst of Times 215 pages | 16 plates with colour & b/w How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions photos and 1 colour map; 2 b/w photos, Paul B Wignall 11 b/w illustrations | Two hundred and sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic Hardback | 10/2015 | 9780691142098 | extinctions, with the worst – the end-Permian extinction – wiping out nearly every species on #224383A | £22.95 Add to basket the planet. Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | 9780691176024 | #234291A | £14.95 Add to basket

Written in Stone 320 pages | b/w illustrations | The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781848312623 Brian Switek | #214793A | £12.99 Add to basket Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be 9781785782015 | #234327A | £8.99 found. By the 1970s this absence of 'transitional fossils ... Add to basket

Marine & Freshwater Biology

Daphnia: Development of a Model Organism in Ecology and Evolution 250 pages | 100 b/w illustrations, 4 Winfried Lampert and Otto Kinne tables | EE Book 21 summarizes decades of work by Winfried Lampert and his colleagues on the Hardback | 01/2011 | 9783946729211 | evolutionary adaptations that determine the composition of plankton communities. The author #163428A | £37.99 Add to basket illustrates changes in paradigms over the years, reviews ecological ...

Die Fische Kaerntens: Fische, Neunaugen, Flusskrebse, Grossmuscheln 280 pages | 177 colour illustrations, 66 [The Fishes of Carinthia: Fish, Lampreys, Riverine distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9783853280293 Wolfgang Honsig-Erlenburg and Werner Petutschnig | #234432A | £24.99 Add to basket The Austrian state of Carinthia is a watery region with a great variety of streams, rivers and lakes. It is therefore not surprising that a large number of creatures exists in the native waters, 65 of which are described in this book.

Sunken Gardens 252 pages | 200 colour photos, 10 b/w A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting Freshwater Aquariums illustrations | Karen A Randall Paperback | 09/2016 | 9781604695922 Everyone who sees a skillfully planted aquarium falls under its spell: it's like looking at a | #234436A | £19.99 Add to basket tropical forest, an enchanted meadow, or a miniature mountain range. Sunken Gardens shows you how to plan, design, plant, and maintain ...

General Natural History

A World Trimmed with Fur 288 pages | Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Jonathan Schlesinger 9780804799966 | #234382A | £55.99 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed Add to basket China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu ...

All These Worlds Are Yours 214 pages | no illustrations | The Scientific Search for Alien Life Hardback | 11/2016 | 9780300208696 | Jon Willis #234420A | £18.99 Add to basket Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.

Botanical Sketchbooks 288 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Helen Bynum and William F Bynum Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the 9780500518816 | #234316A | £29.95 preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely Add to basket seen and have often remained hidden and locked ...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean 530 pages | 130 colour photos, 28 The Birth of Eurasia illustrations, 150 colour maps | Sir Barry Cunliffe Hardback | 09/2015 | 9780199689170 | By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started #224723A | £29.99 Add to basket building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to Paperback | NYP 09/2017 | China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years ... 9780199689187 | #234315A | £19.99 Add to basket

Climate Change and the Health of Nations 392 pages | illustrations | Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Anthony John McMichael, Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir 9780190262952 | #234396A | £25.99 When we think of "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by Add to basket greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate' ...

Energy and Civilization 552 pages | 113 illustrations | A History Hardback | NYP 06/2017 | Vaclav Smil 9780262035774 | #234306A | £32.95 Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion Add to basket of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on ...

Hidden Nature 240 pages | b/w illustrations | A Voyage of Discovery Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Alys Fowler 9781473623002 | #234393A | £19.99 Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an Add to basket inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book ...

Ireland's Birds 290 pages | 24 plates with colour Myths, Legends and Folklore illustrations; b/w illustrations | Niall Mac Coitir and Gordon D'Arcy Hardback | 09/2015 | 9781848892477 | Birds have been part of our culture for thousands of years. They have inspired poets and #226216A | £19.99 Add to basket painters, and feature in many legends and place names. Here Niall Mac Coitir provides a Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | comprehensive look at the mythology, legends and folklore of .. 9781848892989 | #234464A | £11.99 Add to basket

Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy 236 pages | 4 b/w maps | Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781107034488 | Paolo Squatriti #211604A | £71.99 Add to basket This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods Paperback | 02/2017 | 9781316633205 offers valuable new perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval | #234383A | £19.99 Add to basket world in Italy. Integrating evidence from botanical and ...

Limestone Country 208 pages | Fiona Sampson Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | Limestone Country is an account of a long-standing love affair with this sedimentary rock, 9781908213518 | #234458A | £14.99 largely calcium carbonate, that time and water have made out of bones and shells. It is a love Add to basket letter to limestone, describing the farming ...

Munsary Peatlands 56 pages | colour photos | Plantlife International's Most Northerly Reserve in the UK Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781366487087 Richard Lindsay | #234508A | £54.99 Add to basket A photo essay about Plantlife International's most northerly nature reserve in the UK – essentially a love letter to the site. It celebrates the plants, wildlife and landscape features which characterise this prime example of ...

My Life with Cranes 160 pages | colour photos | A Collection of Stories Paperback | 10/2016 | 9780997940503 George Archibald and Betsy Didrickson | #234461A | £57.50 Add to basket George Archibald is the co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, which has published this collection of autobiographical stories. George is a great storyteller, true stories that he himself made happen through faith ...

Nature's Line 457 pages | 60 colour & b/w photos, George Goyder - Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary illustrations, maps | Janis M Sheldrick Paperback | 12/2016 | 9781743054666 George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and | #234359A | £56.50 Add to basket to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries in ...

Rain: Four Walks in English Weather 104 pages | b/w illustrations | Melissa Harrison Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780571328932 | A wonderful meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and #228258A | £12.99 Add to basket nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife ... 9780571328949 | #234329A | £8.99 Add to basket

The Book That Changed America 304 pages | How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation Hardback | 01/2017 | 9780525428336 | Randall Fuller #234473A | £28.99 Add to basket Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs. Randall Fuller takes us back to one of those turning points, in 1860, with the story of the influence of Charles Darwin's just-published On the Origin ...

The Eternal Darkness 400 pages | 100 b/w photos | A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration Paperback | 03/2002 | 9780691095547 Robert D Ballard and Will Hively | #129767A | £22.95 Add to basket Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer Paperback | NYP 04/2017 | space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth's surface with an average depth of more than two 9780691175621 | #234287A | £19.95 miles – yet humans had never ventured ... Add to basket

The Eye of the Sandpiper 240 pages | Stories from the Living World Paperback | NYP 06/2017 | Brandon Keim 9781501707728 | #234355A | £13.95 In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of Add to basket nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first ...

The Seductions of Darwin 200 pages | Art, Evolution, Neuroscience Hardback | 01/2017 | 9780271077420 | Matthew Rampley #234402A | £24.95 Add to basket The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of ...

The Southern Fells 344 pages | colour illustrations, b/w Wainwright's Illustrated Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells, Book 4 maps | Alfred Wainwright and Clive Hutchby Paperback | NYP 04/2017 | One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred 9780711236578 | #216210A | £13.99 Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955- Add to basket 66, has become the definitive guidebook.

Where Poppies Blow 400 pages | The British Solider, Nature, the Great War Hardback | 11/2016 | 9780297869269 | John Lewis-Stempel #234357A | £19.99 Add to basket Where Poppies Blow is the unique story of the British soldiers of the Great War and their Paperback | NYP 11/2017 | relationship with the animals and plants around them. This connection was of profound 9781780224916 | #234358A | £8.99 importance, because it goes a long way to explaining ... Add to basket

Wildlife Diary 70 pages | 52 b/w illustrations | A Year in the Old Welsh County of Meirionnydd Hardback | 01/2017 | 9781526205650 | Brian Macdonald and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe #234428A | £14.99 Add to basket This weekly diary was first written for a local newspaper, based on observations and events recorded in the beautiful area of Ardudwy in the old Welsh county of Meirionnydd. Most of the entries are based on regular wildlife walks of the ...

Regional & Travel

A Highland Safari: In Search of Scotland's Big Five (Region 2) 1 disc, runtime: 60 min, PAL | Robert Grove DVD | 10/2013 | #234453A | £5.99 This film takes you on an adventure in the Highlands of Scotland to find what can be considered Add to basket as Scotland's "Big Five" animals that visitors would like to see on a visit to the last true wilderness of the British Isles.

Biodiversity of Tengchong, Gaoligongshan [English / Chinese] 444 pages | ~500 colour photos | Chan Pui Look Bosco, Bi Zheng and Chen Hong-Zhi Paperback | 09/2016 | 9789628869756 Gaoligongshan, in the southwest corner of China, is a massive mountain range characterised by | #234245A | £24.99 Add to basket low latitude and high altitude. The southwest monsoon from the Indian Ocean brings plentiful rainfall, providing perfect conditions for the ...

Ramsey Island 192 pages | colour photos | Ffion Rees Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | Owned by the RSPB. Ramsey Island lies about 1 km off the ctoast of the St David's peninsula in 9781909823754 | #229024A | £19.99 Pembrokeshire. Along with its spectacular sea bird cliffs, coastal scenery and heathland, Add to basket Ramsey has the most important Grey Seal breeding ...

The New Neotropical Companion 448 pages | 18 colour illustrations | John C Kricher Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book that 9780691115252 | #234243A | £27.95 has helped thousands of people to understand the complex ecology and natural history of the Add to basket most species-rich area on Earth, the ...

The Tymphaean Symphony 256 pages | 1 colour map | Michael David Jones Paperback | 11/2016 | 9781908241498 A naturalist’s account of an eight-day walk across the massif of Tymphi in Zagori, a remote | #234334A | £9.99 Add to basket mountainous enclave in north-western Greece. Bounded by the great forested defiles of the Vikos and the Aoos, the region has a wonderfully ...

The Way That I Went 468 pages | 38 b/w plates, illustrations | An Irishman in Ireland Paperback | 03/2014 | 9781848891944 Robert Lloyd Praeger and Michael Viney | #234463A | £13.99 Add to basket Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5,000 miles across hills and bogs, swimming through ...

Wildlife of Ecuador 304 pages | 411 colour photos, 341 A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians colour distribution maps | Andres Vasquez Noboa and Pablo Cervantes Daza Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | Mainland Ecuador's spectacular wildlife makes it a magnet for nature tourists, but until now 9780691161365 | #234237A | £24.95 there hasn't been a go-to, all-in-one guide geared to the general reader. With this handy and Add to basket accessible guide, visitors now have everything ...

Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day 496 pages | Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Expert birders start each January by drawing up their yearlist – the birds they are determined 9781473609242 | #234352A | £19.99 to see in the next 365 days. Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss want to help us do the same Add to basket thing for nature. Every day of the year ...

Botany & Plant Science

A Guide to the Common Epiphytes and Mistletoes of Singapore 390 pages | Jean WH Yong, James Wang Wei, Joanne YT Khew, Sheue Chiou Rong and Wong Wei San Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789814609777 This book is the first to profile the unique epiphytic plant communities found in Singapore. The | #234505A | £32.99 Add to basket first section of A Guide to the Common Epiphytes and Mistletoes of Singapore provides a concise scientific introduction to the biology ...

A Revision of the Spiny Solanums, Solanum Subgenus Leptostemonum 432 pages | illustrations, distribution (Solanaceae), in Africa and Madagascar maps | Hardback | 11/2016 | 9781943751006 | Maria S Vorontsova and Sandra Knapp #234412A | £122.00 Add to basket Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) in continental Africa and Madagascar contains 76 native and 10 introduced species; the native species form part of a monophyletic clade of Old World spiny solanums, while the ...

A la Decouverte de la Flore de l'Oukaimeden, Haut Atlas de Marrakech 283 pages | colour photos | [Discover the Flora of the Oukaimeden, High Atlas Paperback | 08/2016 | 9789954375495 | #234553A | £41.99 Add to basket Marie Coste-El Omari At 2,600 meters above sea level in the High Atlas of Marrakech, Morocco, the Oukaïmeden (colloquailly known as "l'Ouka") is known for its ski resort and its rock carvings. But it is also a mountain of great botanical ...

Ancient Oaks In the English Landscape 360 pages | 190 colour photos, 6 maps Aljos Farjon | England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to do with climate or soil factors. This 9781842466407 | #234389A | £29.99 story goes back to the Norman conquest of England ... Add to basket

Britain's Wild Flowers 280 pages | colour illustrations | A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Literature Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Rosamond Richardson 9781909881921 | #234471A | £12.99 From hedgerows to meadows, wildflowers can be found throughout our green and pleasant Add to basket land. In Britain's Wild Flowers, journalist and garden writer Rosamond Richardson traces the history and myths behind each flower to discover ...

Chinese Medicinal Plants, Herbal Drugs and Their Substitutes 760 pages | 3000+ colour photos, 1 An Identification Guide map | Christine Leon and Lin Yu-Lin Hardback | 12/2016 | 9781842463871 | This is the first comprehensive, botanically authoritative and practical illustrated identification #234408A | £110.00 Add to basket guide to Chinese medicinal plants and drugs and their substitutes. It offers authoritative guidance on the identification of the herbal ...

Compendium of Indian Folk Medicine and Ethnobotany (1991-2015) 542 pages | 1 b/w map | Vartika Jain, SK Jain and Sir Ghillean T Prance Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789380702100 | India is rich in ethnic and floristic diversity and an enormous treasure house of traditional #234324A | £76.99 Add to basket knowledge. Many scholars have worked hard to document this knowledge in the last 25 years (1991–2015) and this book is a concise representation ...

Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5 550 pages | 23 colour & 6 b/w The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India illustrations | T Pullaiah, KV Krishnamurthy and Bir Bahadur Hardback | NYP 06/2017 | Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India is the fifth of a 9781771885997 | #234354A | £131.00 five-volume set on the ethnobotany of India. Bringing together in one place information on the Add to basket ethnobotany of the Indo-Gangetic Region ...

Fern Names and their Meanings 59 pages | b/w line drawings | James W Dyce and John A Edgington Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780950980614 First published by J.W. Dyce in 1988, and now fully revised and much enlarged. Includes the | #234421A | £10.99 Add to basket etymology of generic names of European and many horticultural ferns, the meaning of their specific epithets, glossaries of technical terms and ...

Flowers of Verloren Valei 80 pages | 180 colour photos, 1 map | Field Guide to the Orchids and Selected Flowers of Verloren Valei Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780620692502 Gerrit van Ede | #234515A | £29.99 Add to basket A field guide to the wonderful floral diversity of the Verloren Valei Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga – A RAMSAR Wetland Site in South Africa. Compiled by Gerrit van Ede whose intimate knowledge of Verloren Valei and its botanical ...

Intermountain Flora, Volume 7 312 pages | 532 illustrations | Potpourri: Keys, History, Authors, Artists, Collectors, Beardtongues, Glossary, Indices Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Noel H Holmgren and Patricia K Holmgren 9780893275464 | #207773A | £199.00 Included in this ninth part of the series is an update to the 1984 treatment of Intermountain Add to basket Penstemon published in volume 4, keys to families represented in the Intermountain Flora, a cumulative index for all seven volumes, and a ...

Landscape Ecological Vegetation Map of Saba (Lesser Antilles) 62 pages | John de Freitas, AC Rojer, BSJ Nijhof and AO Debrot Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789069847085 A colour landscape-based vegetation map is provided for the Caribbean island of Saba (Lesser | #234376A | £86.99 Add to basket Antilles). The results provide new insights into vegetation changes over a period of more than 40 years. These changes are discussed in the light ...

Landscape Ecological Vegetation Map of Sint Eustatius (Lesser Antilles) 66 pages | 1 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w John de Freitas, AC Rojer, BSJ Nijhof and AO Debrot maps, 9 tables, 1 colour fold-out map | This publication consist of a 66-page book and a fold-out map in a plastic folder. It provides a Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789069846798 colour landscape-based vegetation map of the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius (Lesser | #234377A | £86.99 Add to basket Antilles). The results give new insights into vegetation ...

Liverworts and Hornworts of India 439 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour An Annotated Checklist map | DK Singh and SK Singh Hardback | 06/2016 | 9788181770882 | Liverworts and Hornworts of India: An Annotated Checklist provides a comprehensive inventory #234343A | £28.50 Add to basket of 930 species and infraspecific taxa of liverworts and hornworts of India belonging to 140 genera and 59 families, with full nomenclature ...

Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada 600 pages | colour photos | Timber Press Field Guide Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | Timothy J Baroni 9781604696349 | #233493A | £29.99 The Northeast is one of the best places to find mushrooms; they are both abundant and Add to basket spectacularly diverse. Mushrooms of the Northeast is a compact, beautifully illustrated guide packed with descriptions and photographs of more than ...

NGS Gardens to Visit 2017 744 pages | colour photos | The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | Published annually in spring and previously known as The Yellow Book, NGS Gardens to Visit 9781472126795 | #234554A | £12.99 2017 lists nearly 4,000 gardens open for visiting. It is packed with full-colour photographs and Add to basket informed comment. Fully updated ...

Orchids of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana), Volume 1 528 pages | 240 colour photos, 522 b/w Cypripediaceae, Orchidaceae, Orchidoideae, Tropidioideae, Spiranthoideae, line drawings, 56 distribution maps | Vanilloideae, Epidendroideae p.p. Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Dariusz L Szalechetko, Slawomir Nowak, Przemyslaw Baranov and Marta Kolanowska 9783946583073 | #234333A | £183.00 The first part of this orchid flora of the Guianas deals with the families Cypripediaceae, Add to basket Orchidaceae, Orchidoideae, Tropidioideae, Spiranthoideae, Vanilloideae, and a part of Epidendroideae. The keys for the determination of the taxa ...

Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum 144 pages | 66 colour illustrations | A Brief History Paperback | NYP 04/2017 | Stephen A Harris 9781851244652 | #234360A | £14.99 Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site Add to basket in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of civil war and nurtured during the restoration ...

Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago 748 pages | colour photos, illustrations | Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California Hardback | 10/2012 | 9780816502431 | Richard Stephen Felger, Benjamin Theodore Wilder, Humberto Romero-Mo and Exequiel Ezcurra #200043A | £75.50 Add to basket The desert islands of the Gulf of California are among the worlds best-preserved archipelagos. Paperback | 01/2017 | 9780816534302 The diverse and unique flora, from the cardón forests of Cholludo to the agave-dominated | #234311A | £53.95 Add to basket slopes of San Esteban remain much as they were ...

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 41: Analytical and 490 pages | Processing Techniques Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781626990784 | #234341A | £138.00 Add to basket Manohar Pathak and JN Govil About 80% of the population of many developing countries still use traditional medicines for their health care. These are still produced using age old methods which can affect their quality, stability and efficacy. The study of secondary ...

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 42: Nutraceuticals and 540 pages | Functional Foods Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781626990791 | #234342A | £138.00 Add to basket Manohar Pathak and JN Govil Functional foods/Nutraceutical (medicinal plants) have nowadays witnessed a tremendous increase in the interest among the consumers due to their potential of providing health benefits. This volume is a compilation of phytochemicals and ...

Revision of the Asian Genus Pertya (Asteraceae, Pertyoideae) 90 pages | b/w illustrations, distribution Susana E Freire maps | Pertya Sch. Bip. (Asteraceae: Pertyoideae: Pertyeae) is an Asiatic genus, ranging from Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781943751013 Afghanistan to Japan. Pertya comprises 22 species of small shrubs: 16 species are endemic to | #234414A | £32.99 Add to basket China, one to Japan, one to China and ...

Taxonomy of Wild Potatoes and Their Relatives in Southern South 240 pages | illustrations, distribution America (Solanum sects. Petota and Etuberosum) maps | Hardback | 12/2016 | 9780912861999 | David M Spooner, Natalia Alvarez, Iris E Peralta and Andrea M Clausen #234413A | £74.99 Add to basket Solanum L. section Petota Dumort., which includes the cultivated potato (S. tuberosum L.) and its wild relatives, is distributed from the southwestern United States to central Argentina, Uruguay, and adjacent ...

The Living Jigsaw 240 pages | 200 colour photos | The Secret Life in Your Garden Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Val Bourne and Chris Packham 9781842466261 | #234411A | £19.99 After decades of emphasis on pest control, often achieved through chemical means, gardeners Add to basket around the world are beginning to come around to a new – or, really, old – way of thinking: a garden whose very diversity of plant and ...

The Resupinates of Hampshire colour photos | Paul Hugill and Alan Lucas Paperback | 01/2017 | #234511A | Resupinate fungi are often overlooked as they can be difficult to identify, an issue exacerbated £31.50 Add to basket by the lack of suitable reference literature. To address this issue, two members of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group have compiled a ...

Wild Flowers of the Mani 262 pages | colour photos, colour A Comprehensive Photographic Identification Guide for the Flowers of the Mani illustrations, 2 colour maps | Peninsula in Southern Greece Hardback | 10/2016 | 9780957400375 | Roger Marchant #234340A | £29.99 Add to basket Wild Flowers of the Mani contains entries for more than 930 species of flowering plants, trees and ferns from the very floristically diverse and popular area of Southern Greece that is the Mani Peninsula. Every plant is illustrated ...

Wild Orchids of Cameron Highlands 208 pages | 313 colour photos | Antony van der Ent, Cheam May Choo and Liau Tai Leong Paperback | 01/2009 | 9789834444907 The aim of this book is to showcase the beauty of wild orchids found in Cameron Highlands, | #234426A | £84.99 Add to basket Malaysia’s most extensive hill station. In the process the authors hope to create public awareness on the rich biodiversity present here and ...

Wild Plants of Southern Spain 280 pages | 600+ colour photos, 500 A Guide to the Native Plants of Andalucia colour distribution maps | Tony Hall Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | Southern Spain, and Andalucia in particular, is home to many common garden plants, including 9781842466315 | #234388A | £29.99 daffodils, lavenders and shrubs. And yet it is also one of the most florally diverse regions in the Add to basket world. Wild Plants of Southern Spain ...

Animal & General Biology

Animal Vocal Communication 256 pages | 49 b/w illustrations, 5 Assessment and Management Roles tables | Eugene S Morton Hardback | 04/1998 | 9780521324687 | How do animals communicate using sounds? How did animal vocal communication arise and #074302A | £83.99 Add to basket evolve? Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal communication, this new edition moves Paperback | 11/2006 | 9780521031295 beyond an earlier emphasis on the role of senders in managing ... | #190738A | £39.99 Add to basket Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | 9781107052253 | #234272A | £74.99 Add to basket

Deep Life 486 pages | 32 b/w photos, 19 b/w The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond illustrations | Tullis C Onstott Hardback | 11/2016 | 9780691096445 | Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in #234467A | £27.95 Add to basket extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find life in the ...

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 6 214 pages | 69 colour & 8 b/w photos Deuterostomia and illustrations, colour tables | Andreas Wanninger Hardback | 09/2015 | 9783709118559 | This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental #222220A | £62.99 Add to basket biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, Paperback | 12/2016 | 9783709119976 organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an ... | #234314A | £62.99 Add to basket

I Contain Multitudes 362 pages | 8 plates with colour photos The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life | Ed Yong Hardback | 08/2016 | 9781847923288 | Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. #230034A | £19.99 Add to basket In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, Paperback | NYP 09/2017 | protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour ... 9781784700171 | #234419A | £8.99 Add to basket

Lewin's Genes XII 992 pages | illustrations | Jocelyn E Krebs, Elliott S Goldstein and Stephen T Kilpatrick Hardback | 01/1970 | 9781284104493 | Long considered the quintessential molecular biology textbook, for decades Lewin's Genes has #234370A | £69.99 Add to basket provided the most modern presentation to this transformative and dynamic science. Now in its twelfth edition, this classic text ...

Organic Chemistry 1648 pages | illustrations | Marc G Loudon and Jim Parise Hardback | 08/2015 | 9781936221349 | Loudon and Parise's Organic Chemistry is known for its clear writing, high standard of accuracy, #232712A | £59.99 Add to basket and creative problems. This edition contains over 1,800 problems – many of them new and taken directly from the scientific ...

Pain: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | Rob Boddice Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | What is pain? Has the experience of pain always been the same? How is pain related to the 9780198738565 | #233633A | £7.99 emotions, to culture, and to pleasure? What happens to us when we feel pain? How does pain Add to basket work in the body and in the brain? In this ...

Sex in the Sea 286 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, b/w illustrations | and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781137279972 | Marah J Hardt and Missy Chimovitz #227065A | £19.99 Add to basket Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781250118592 the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively | #234348A | £19.99 Add to basket threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon ...

The Skeleton Revealed 360 pages | 192 b/w photos | An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Steve Huskey 9781421421483 | #234434A | £31.99 The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, Add to basket it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body's fascinating ...

Evolutionary Biology

Building Bones 332 pages | 48 b/w illustrations, 20 Bone Formation and Development in Anthropology tables | Christopher J Percival Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Anthropologists study the changing shapes of the skeleton during growth and across 9781107122789 | #232303A | £59.99 evolutionary time. This volume brings together examples of how novel methods and approaches Add to basket can be used to expand our understanding of skeletal variation ...

Darwin's Unfinished Symphony 464 pages | 13 b/w illustrations | How Culture Made the Human Mind Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Kevin N Laland 9780691151182 | #234278A | £27.95 Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language Add to basket to science and technology. How did the human mind – and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture – evolve from its ...

Evolution's Bite 280 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | Peter S Ungar 9780691160535 | #234265A | £24.95 Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are Add to basket like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite ...

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels 360 pages | 2 b/w photos, 26 b/w How Human Values Evolve illustrations, 4 maps | Ian Morris and Stephen Macedo Hardback | 02/2015 | 9780691160399 | Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that #221173A | £24.95 Add to basket violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10•000 years Paperback | NYP 06/2017 | before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite ... 9780691175898 | #234286A | £14.95 Add to basket

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) 240 pages | 17 colour plates | Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Hardback | NYP 05/2017 | Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut 9780226444185 | #234468A | £19.50 Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy Add to basket ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs – they are foxes. They are the result of ...

Mate Choice 664 pages | 24 b/w photos, 99 b/w The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans illustrations, 4 tables | Gil G Rosenthal Hardback | NYP 07/2017 | The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass 9780691150673 | #234284A | £45.95 good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional Add to basket wisdom. Providing the first synthesis of the ...

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity 208 pages | Colin McGinn Hardback | 09/2015 | 9780262029322 | Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, #224127A | £20.95 Add to basket Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | we take for granted: the importance ... 9780262533645 | #234309A | £14.95 Add to basket

The Evolution of Desire 368 pages | Strategies of Human Mating Paperback | 10/2016 | 9780465097760 David M Buss | #234425A | £12.99 Add to basket If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human ...

The Human Advantage 272 pages | 79 b/w illustrations | A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780262034258 | Suzana Herculano-Houzel #227785A | £24.95 Add to basket Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. 9780262533539 | #234308A | £14.95 And it became enormous in a very short amount of time ... Add to basket

The Invaders 266 pages | 19 b/w photos, 4 b/w How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction illustrations, 2 tables | Pat Shipman Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780674736764 | With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals #221390A | £23.95 Add to basket are the closest known relatives to humans. Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary ... 9780674975415 | #234418A | £15.95 Add to basket

The Journey of Man 240 pages | 54 b/w photos, 3 maps | A Genetic Odyssey Paperback | 12/2003 | 9780141008325 Spencer Wells | #142073A | £11.99 Add to basket Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important respects – lived in Africa. Paperback | NYP 04/2017 | Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up father of 9780691176017 | #234288A | £14.95 us all? What happened to the descendants ... Add to basket Hardback | 12/2002 | 9780691115320 | #234290A | £28.95 Add to basket

The Princeton Guide to Evolution 853 pages | 4 b/w photos, 16 colour & Jonathan B Losos, David A Baum, Douglas J Futuyma, Hopi E Hoekstra, Richard E Lenski and All 97 b/w illustrations, 1 map, 23 tables | Moore Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780691149776 | The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to #206594A | £51.99 Add to basket the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary ... 9780691175874 | #234293A | £45.95 Add to basket

Why Only Us 224 pages | 4 colour & 7 b/w Language and Evolution illustrations | Robert C Berwick and Noam Chomsky Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780262034241 | We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, #227679A | £18.95 Add to basket infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | conversations. This remarkable, species ... 9780262533492 | #234307A | £13.95 Add to basket

Ecology

Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms 410 pages | 68 b/w illustrations | John H Andrews Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual synthesis of microbial ecology with 9781493968954 | #234244A | £55.99 plant and animal ecology. Drawing on examples from the biology of microorganisms and Add to basket macroorganisms.

Ecological Forecasting 288 pages | 1 b/w photo, 81 b/w Michael C Dietze illustrations, 6 tables | Ecologists are being asked to respond to unprecedented environmental challenges. How can Hardback | NYP 06/2017 | they provide the best available scientific information about what will happen in the future? 9780691160573 | #234285A | £54.95 Ecological Forecasting is the first book to ... Add to basket

Habitats & Ecosystems

Floodplain Forests of the Temperate Zone of Europe 623 pages | photos, illustrations, maps | Emil Klimo, Herbert Hager, Slavko Matic, Igor Anic and Jirí Kulhavó Hardback | 01/2008 | 9788087154168 | The aim of this comprehensive publication is to gather information on the status and #234361A | £93.99 Add to basket importance of floodplain forests in Europe (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands ...

Floodplains: Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services 280 pages | 49 illustrations | Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services Hardback | NYP 07/2017 | Jeffrey J Opperman, Peter B Moyle, Eric W Larsen, Joan L Florsheim and Amber D Manfree 9780520293069 | #234303A | £70.95 Floodplains provides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions. It Add to basket synthesizes decades of research on floodplain ecosystems, explaining hydrologic, geomorphic Paperback | NYP 07/2017 | and ecological processes and how these ... 9780520294103 | #234304A | £37.95 Add to basket

Freshwater Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle 125 pages | 33 colour photos and colour Jonathan J Cole and Otto Kinne & b/w illustrations | In EE Book 18, Jon Cole examines the role of freshwater ecosystems in the global carbon cycle Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783946729181 | and subsequently focuses on terrestrial subsidies to lake food webreeding season. He analyzes #144855A | £27.99 Add to basket the complex mechanisms responsible for converting ...

Rivers of the Anthropocene 196 pages | 30 b/w photos, 25 Jason M Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James PM Syvitski and Michel Meybeck illustrations, 3 tables | This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Paperback | NYP 06/2017 | Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, 9780520295025 | #234305A | £27.95 policy makers, and community organizers working ... Add to basket

The Soils of Wisconsin 154 pages | 144 colour & 45 b/w James G Bockheim and Alfred E Hartemink illustrations, 150 colour tables | This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive report on the soils of Wisconsin, a state Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | that offers a rich tapestry of soils. It discusses the relevant soil forming factors and soil 9783319521435 | #234373A | £64.99 processes in detail and subsequently reviews the ... Add to basket

Conservation & Biodiversity

Insect Conservation and Urban Environments 244 pages | 13 colour photos, 48 b/w Tim R New illustrations, 32 tables | Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the Hardback | 09/2015 | 9783319212234 | variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more #224316A | £108.00 Add to basket particularly urban threats. The first global overview and ... Paperback | 12/2016 | 9783319367682 | #234313A | £108.00 Add to basket

What Works in Conservation 338 pages | colour tables | William J Sutherland, Lynn V Dicks, Nancy Ockendon and Rebecca K Smith Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781783741571 - Is leaving headlands in fields unsprayed beneficial for wildlife? - Is paying farmers to cover | #225390A | £17.54 Add to basket the costs of bird conservation measures effective? - Is using prescribed fire beneficial for young Hardback | 07/2015 | 9781783741588 | trees in forests? #225391A | £65.99 Add to basket Paperback | 01/2017 | 9781783743087 | #234189A | £28.50 Add to basket Hardback | 01/2017 | 9781783743094 | #234190A | £42.50 Add to basket

Whittled Away 300 pages | b/w photos | Ireland's Vanishing Nature Hardback | NYP 03/2017 | Padraig Fogarty 9781848893108 | #234475A | £15.99 "Ireland's natural heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and Add to basket other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation." – Irish Government Report ...

Wildlife Politics 450 pages | Bruce Rocheleau Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Attitudes towards charismatic animals such as tigers, lions, bears and wolves vary greatly and 9781107187306 | #234444A | £44.99 change over time, resulting in bitter political debates. This comprehensive book identifies and Add to basket analyses the factors that influence policies ...

Environmental Science

Climate Change 56 pages | colour illustrations | HRH The Prince Of Wales, Tony Juniper and Emily Shuckburgh Hardback | 01/2017 | 9780718185855 | Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening #234510A | £7.99 Add to basket introduction to one of the most important issues facing our world today. From HRH The Prince of Wales, environmentalist ...

Physical Sciences

15 Million Degrees 296 pages | 8 plates with 18 colour A Journey to the Centre of the Sun photos and colour illustrations; b/w Lucie Green photos, b/w illustrations | Light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun Hardback | 05/2016 | 9780670922185 | takes hundreds of thousands of years. What is going on in there? What are light and heat? How #212917A | £18.99 Add to basket does the Sun produce them? Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780241963555 | #234328A | £9.99 Add to basket

Colliding Continents 438 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, & Tibet illustrations | Mike Searle Hardback | 03/2013 | 9780199653003 | The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it #201148A | £16.99 Add to basket continues today. The result is the Himalaya and Karakoram – one of the largest mountain Paperback | NYP 10/2017 | ranges on Earth. The Karakoram has half of ... 9780198798514 | #234407A | £18.99 Add to basket

Cometography: A Catalog of Comets, Volume 6: 1983-1993 632 pages | Gary W Kronk Hardback | NYP 04/2017 | Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 9780521872164 | #234443A | £180.00 1990s, when the internet took off as a medium of scientific record. It uses the most reliable Add to basket orbits known to determine the distances from ...

Forces of Nature 288 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen & b/w illustrations | "Why is the sky blue?" "Why is the Earth round?" "Why is every snowflake unique?" To answer Hardback | 07/2016 | 9780007488827 | these and many other questions, Professor Brian Cox will reveal some of the most #197879A | £24.99 Add to basket extraordinary ... Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | 9780008210038 | #234326A | £8.99 Add to basket

From Dust to Life 299 pages | 41 b/w photos, 19 b/w The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System illustrations, 7 tables | John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton Hardback | 12/2013 | 9780691145228 | The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide #206496A | £14.99 Add to basket answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | the celestial objects that make up the ... 9780691175706 | #234292A | £18.95 Add to basket

Nature's Third Cycle 304 pages | 78 b/w illustrations | A Story of Sunspots Hardback | 01/2015 | 9780199674756 | Arnab Rai Choudhuri and Nigel O Weiss #218577A | £24.99 Add to basket The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around Paperback | NYP 08/2017 | which many human activities are organized. But is there a third natural cycle of importance for 9780198807643 | #234417A | £14.99 us humans? On 13 March 1989, six million people in ... Add to basket

The Continental Drift Controversy (4-Volume Set) 2280 pages | 227 b/w illustrations | Henry R Frankel Hardback | 05/2012 | 9780521875073 | Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate #196342A | £309.00 Add to basket tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth Science. This four-volume treatise on the continental Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | drift controversy is the first complete history ... 9781316616512 | #234338A | £150.00 Add to basket

The Continental Drift Controversy, Volume 1 604 pages | 36 b/w illustrations and Wegener and the Early Debate maps | Henry R Frankel Hardback | 04/2012 | 9780521875042 | Resolution of the sixty year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate #190461A | £124.00 Add to basket tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth Science. This three-volume treatise on the Paperback | NYP 02/2017 | continental drift controversy is the first complete ... 9781316616048 | #234266A | £44.99 Add to basket

The Quaternary Glaciation of the Mourne Mountains 163 pages | illustrations, maps | Field Guide Paperback | 10/2016 | 9780907780236 S Roberson, I Barr and M Cooper | #234422A | £36.99 Add to basket This field guide was produced to accompany the joint QRA - GLWG - IQUA Field Meeting to the Mourne Mountains, a granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland, 27th – 30th October 2016.

The Serengeti Rules 263 pages | 18 b/w photos, 26 b/w The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters illustrations, 1 b/w map | Sean B Carroll Hardback | 02/2016 | 9780691167428 | How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the #225742A | £19.95 Add to basket African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | our organs and bloodstream? 9780691175683 | #234241A | £14.95 Add to basket

Sustainable Development

Dry Stone Walling Techniques & Traditions 112 pages | colour photos and b/w The Dry Stone Walling Association (DSWA) illustrations | This book is an approachable and fascinating look at the traditional craft of dry stone walling. Paperback | 01/2004 | 9780951230688 Written in plain language, it offers a practical guide to the techniques used in different parts of | #234254A | £12.50 Add to basket the country and gives background details ...

How Did We Get into This Mess? 342 pages | no illustrations | Politics, Equality, Nature Hardback | 04/2016 | 9781784783624 | George Monbiot #227847A | £16.99 Add to basket This collection of previously published articles gives an overview of some of the things George Paperback | NYP 03/2017 | Monbiot tries to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental 9781786630780 | #234384A | £9.99 destruction, injustice, inequality and the ... Add to basket

In Pursuit of Giants 336 pages | 20 photos, 1 map | One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | Matt Rigney 9781512600674 | #234387A | £16.99 For millennia the great fish – marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish – have reigned over the Add to basket world's oceans and awed human beings. Naturalists, photographers, sportfishermen, and writers from Zane Grey to Ernest Hemingway ...

The Reducetarian Solution 320 pages | How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Paperback | NYP 05/2017 | Transform Your Health and the Planet 9780143129714 | #234397A | £18.99 Brian Kateman and Mark Bittman Add to basket Brian Kateman coined the term "Reducetarian" – a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat – and a global movement was born. In The Reducetarian Solution, Kateman, the founder of the ...

Data Analysis

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations 1131 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | David L Thompson, Evan G Cooch and Michael J Conroy Hardback | 02/2009 | 9780387781501 | Much of biology can be understood in terms of demography. It is the demographic processes of #181822A | £170.50 Add to basket birth and death which govern rates of population growth and the rates at which gene Paperback | 05/2016 | 9781489979100 frequencies change. The analysis of demographic processes in ... | #234447A | £170.50 Add to basket