nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2011/04 April 2011 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913
Welcome to the April 2011 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
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Mammals Go to subject web page
Biology and Management of White-Tailed Deer 685 pages | 210 b/w illus, 42 b/w tabs | Edited by David G Hewitt CRC Press Sponsored by the Quality Deer Management Association, this book is the first comprehensive Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1439806519 | reference in more than 20 years on the white-tailed deer, the most studied .... #190567A | £76.99 Add to basket
The Elephants and I 280 pages | colour photos | Jacana Pursuing a dream in troubled Zimbabwe Pbk | 2009 | 1770096493 | #189873A | Sharon Pincott £14.99 Add to basket An unplanned visit to South Africa's Kruger National Park changed Sharon Pincott's life as she knew it. She was a high-flying Information Technology specialist Down Under, but ....
Polar Bears 128 pages | b/w photos | Heritage House The Arctic's Fearless Great Wanderers Pbk | 2010 | 1926613740 | #190770A | Anthony Dalton £8.50 Add to basket Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and hunting seals - their favourite ....
Sri Lankan Elephant 210 pages | Lake House Bookshop A Celebration of Majesty Hbk | 2010 | 955529240X | #190489A | Vajira Wijegunawardane £99.00 Add to basket
Birds Go to subject web page
100 Birds to See in Your Lifetime 224 pages | 200 full-colour David Chandler and Dominic Couzens photographs, 100 distribution maps | Contains entries on 100 of the most remarkable avian species across the world, illustrated with Carlton Publishing Group stunning photographs of each. Entries describe the natural history and .... Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1847327524 | #190501A | £14.99 Add to basket
Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Suriname 144 pages | 2 col maps | Vrienden van OH Ottema, JHJM Ribot and AL Spaans Stinasu For a small country, Suriname has a rich avifauna, with a total of 739 species and subspecies. Pbk | 2009 | 9991470220 | #189911A | This checklist presents data on the life zones and habitats where the .... £24.50 Add to basket
Aves de Cuba 376 pages | 51 col plates, 145 maps, 1 Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba illus | Comstock Orlando H Garrido, Arturo Kirkconnell and Roman Company Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0801476917 | This Spanish-language edition of the groundbreaking Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba provides #190612A | £18.95 Add to basket all Spanish-speaking visitors to the country and its citizens with an ....
Avifauna of the Eastern Himalayas and Southeastern Sub-Himalayan 176 pages | California UP Mountains Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0943610893 | #190859A | £16.95 Add to basket Center of Endemism or Many Species in Marginal Habitats? Edited by Swen C Renner and John H Rappole
Bird Watch 256 pages | Chicago UP A Survey of Planet Earth's Changing Ecosystems Hbk | 2011 | 0226872262 | #190624A | Martin Walters and Jonathan Elphick £36.50 Add to basket From the tufted puffin in the Pacific Northwest to the hook-billed hermit in the Brazilian rainforest, birds suffer from the effects of climate change in every corner of ....
Birds of Melanesia 416 pages | 75 plates | Christopher Helm Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia Pbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0713665408 | Guy Dutson #187620A | £34.99 Add to basket This new Helm Field Guide covers the species-rich Melanesia region of the south-west Pacific, from New Caledonia and the Solomons through the Bismarks to Vanuatu, a popular ....
The Birds of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica 60 pages | La Gamba TFS N Sauberer et al Pbk | 2007 | 3200009373 | #190393A | This booklet about the birds of the Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica contains descriptions well £21.50 Add to basket over a hundred of the characteristic birds of the region. Species descriptions and ....
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent 448 pages | Col plates, maps | Carol Inskipp, Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp Christopher Helm This is a new edition, in paperback, of the authors' groundbreaking Birds of the Indian Pbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1408127636 | Subcontinent (1998) and covers all the bird species found in India, Pakistian, Sri .... #187624A | £29.99 Add to basket
Coastal Waders and Wildfowl in Winter 340 pages | CUP Edited by PR Evans, JD Goss-Custard and WG Hale Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521281679 | This book arose from an international meeting held at Texel in the Netherlands in April 1981 to #190407A | £24.99 Add to basket discuss the feeding requirements and behaviour of shorebirds and coastal ....
Conservación Colombiana 13 87 pages | b/w photos, tabs | Fundacion A new species of Antpitta from the Colibrí del Sol Bird Reserve, Columbia/Revision of ProAves the status of bird species in Colombia / Una nueva especie de tororoi de la Reserva Pbk | 2010 | #190669A | £9.99 Add to Natural de las Aves Colibri del Sol, Colombia/Revision del estatus de especies de aves basket en Colombia Fundacion ProAves
Ethno-Ornithology 346 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs | Birds and Indigenous People, Culture and Society Earthscan Edited by Sonia Tidemann and Andrew Gosler Hbk | 2010 | 1844077837 | #183176A | An African proverb states that when a knowledgeable old person dies, a whole library £60.00 Add to basket disappears. In that light, this book presents knowledge that is new or has not been .... Pbk | 2011 | 1849713383 | #190585A | £29.99 Add to basket
Fauna of Inner Mongolia, Volume 3 679 pages | Figs, tabs | CSBS Aves Non-passeriformes Hbk | 2007 | 7811151537 | #190480A | Xu Rigan £93.00 Add to basket The general introduction includes the species and distribution of non-passeriformes in Inner Mongolia, the environment of the Inner Mongolia, the characteristics of the Avian ....
A Field Guide to the Birds of the Gambia and Senegal 320 pages | 140 colour plates | Nik Borrow, Ron Demey and Tony Disley Christopher Helm This new field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1408134691 | birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal. This fascinating .... #189987A | £29.99 Add to basket
The Poetry of Birds 384 pages | Viking Edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee Hbk | 2009 | 0670916412 | #182509A | Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. They are much watched and much £24.99 Add to basket loved, not least by poets. .... Pbk | 2011 | 0141027118 | #190627A | £9.99 Add to basket
Sandhill and Whooping Cranes 168 pages | 19 illustrations, 3 maps | Ancient Voices Over America's Wetlands Bison (Nebraska UP) Paul A Johnsgard Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0803234961 | Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving #190497A | £9.99 Add to basket backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice ....
Town and Country Birds 192 pages | colour photographs | AA Andy Clements Pbk | 2011 | 0749568305 | #190382A | This highly illustrated guide helps you to spot Britain's varied selection of town and country £5.99 Add to basket birds. Each entry features a log section where you can record your own findings, ....
Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher? 288 pages | Illustrations | Summersdale A Bird's Eye History of the World Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1849531455 | David Turner #190517A | £12.99 Add to basket Did the Cetti's Warbler inspire the opening notes of the last movement of Beethoven's Second Symphony? Who among a host of rivals wrote the best poem about the nightingale? ....
Reptiles & Amphibians Go to subject web page
The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica 60 pages | La Gamba TFS Edited by R Albert et al Pbk | 2005 | #190391A | £21.50 Add This booklet about the amphibians and reptiles of the Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica, contains to basket descriptions of the majority of the region's species. Species descriptions and ....
Amphibians and Reptiles of the Seribuat Archipelago (Peninsula 239 pages | 218 col photos | Chimaira Malaysia) Hbk | 2011 | 3899734823 | #190850A | £42.50 Add to basket A Field Guide LL Grismer
Amphibians of Malawi 393 pages | Col & b/w illus | Chimaira An Analysis of their Richness and Diversity in a Changing Landscape Hbk | 2011 | 3899734955 | #190848A | V Mercurio £54.50 Add to basket
Frogs and Toads 192 pages | Over 200 colour Chris Mattison photographs | Natural History Museum With nearly 6,000 species currently identified, frogs and toads are the most familiar and Hbk | 2011 | 0565092626 | #190514A | abundant amphibians on the planet. They were the first vertebrates to make a sound, .... £19.99 Add to basket
Pocket Professional Guide to Lizards 400 pages | col photos | TFH More Than 300 Essential-To-Know Species Pbk | 2010 | 0793812763 | #190600A | Robert G Sprackland £29.99 Add to basket This book is an essential directory to more than 300 lizard species, including readily available terrarium choices plus dozens of seldom seen and rare species that are of ....
Reptile Habitat Management Handbook 78 pages | col photos, tabs | ARC Trust Paul Edgar, Jim Foster and John Baker Pbk | 2010 | 0956671705 | #190482A | This handbook brings together habitat management advice for all native UK reptiles. The half £19.99 Add to basket dozen species here have experienced population declines, and are now all ....
Rhacodactylus: Biologie, Haltung und Zucht mit Einem Farbigen Anhang 173 pages | Col photos, illus, figs, tabs, Weiterer Geckoarten Neukaledoniens maps | Chimaira Hbk | 2011 | 3930612232 | #190846A | R Seipp and FW Henkel £38.00 Add to basket Standard work on this New Caledonian genus of gecko. ....
Rhacodactylus: Biology, Natural History and Husbandry 172 pages | Col photos, maps, drawings R Seipp and FW Henkel | Chimaira Standard work on this New Caledonian genus of gecko. .... Hbk | 2011 | 393061233X | #190241A | £42.50 Add to basket
The Snakes of Honduras 714 pages | Col plates, figs, dist maps, Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation tabs | SSAR James R McCranie Hbk | 2011 | 0916984818 | #190548A | Honduras is the second largest of the seven Central American countries. Its snake fauna, £100.00 Add to basket however, has been one of the least known in the region and numerous studies have ....
The Snakes of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia 349 pages | 220 col photos | Chimaira R De Lang Hbk | 2011 | 3899734807 | #190849A | A field guide to the terrestrial and semi-aquatic snakes of the Lesser Sunda Islands with £54.50 Add to basket identification key. ....
Fishes Go to subject web page
Circulation in Fishes 141 pages | CUP G H Satchell Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279372 | When this book was published in 1971, there were several thousand papers dealing with the #190405A | £14.99 Add to basket structure and functions of the heart and blood vessels of fishes. This monograph ....
Fish Evolution and Systematics: Evidence from Spermatozoa 319 pages | 21 b/w illus, 319 line illus, With a Survey of Lophophorate, Echinoderm and Protochordate Sperm and an Account 10 tabs | CUP of Gamete Cryopreservation Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521292565 | BGM Jamieson #190413A | £24.99 Add to basket Brings together the literature on fish spermatozoa and voluminous work on the evolutionary history of fishes to provide a detailed synthesis of the two fields of fish ....
Fishes of Indiana 368 pages | 240 col & 133 b/w illus, 227 A Field Guide maps | Indiana UP Thomas P Simon Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0253223083 | Indiana has more fish species than any other state north of the Ohio River. This rich variety of #189724A | £14.99 Add to basket fish fauna is on display in this informative and beautifully illustrated ....
Shark! 368 pages | Col illus | Allen & Unwin Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths Pbk | 2010 | 1741759021 | #190496A | Robert Reid £24.99 Add to basket SHARK! The cry that strikes fear into the hearts of beach lovers around the world. It carries a chill of terror, that death is nearby and waiting. Or injuries so shocking ....
Wrasses and Parrotfishes 288 pages | col photos | Microcosm The Complete Illustrated Guide to their Identification and Captive Care Hbk | 2009 | 1890087440 | #190644A | Scott W Michael £62.00 Add to basket This guide provides authoritative coverage of popular and rare species that are among the most sought-after in the aquarium world. In addition to the illustrations, tip ....
Invertebrates Go to subject web page
Agricultural Acarology 456 pages | 128 b/w illus, 48 b/w tabs | Introduction to Integrated Mite Management CRC Press Marjorie A Hoy Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1439817510 | This volume covers the basic biology, behavior, and ecology of key mite pests and of their #190557A | £63.99 Add to basket important natural enemies. It emphasizes the appropriate use of diverse control ....
Annotated Checklist of Indian Marine Molluscs (Cephalopoda, Bivalvia 358 pages | 42 col & 6 b/w plates | and Scaphopoda), Part 1 Vedams 2010 | 8181712633 | #190753A | Ramakrishna and A Dey £72.00 Add to basket This book includes details of all known species of marine molluscs from India in the classes Cephalopoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. The work was based mainly on the ....
Beekeeping 192 pages | 50-75 illustrations | Batsford A Seasonal Guide Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1906388970 | Ron Brown #190542A | £16.99 Add to basket A charming and practical guide for anyone wishing to keep bees, accompanying the would-be beekeeper through every season of the bee-keeping year. From spring awakening ....
Biodiversity of Spiders 172 pages | Vedams NP Singh and Vijay Sihag 2011 | 8187445866 | #190754A | Spiders are ubiquitous in natural and agricultural habitats. They are useful indicators of overall £43.50 Add to basket species richness and the health of terrestrial communities. This book ....
Butterflies 104 pages | 20 to 30 colour illustrations Spotting and Identifying Britain's Butterflies | National Trust Matthew Oates Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1907892052 | Our unique fascination with butterflies has been a gloriously British pastime since the early 18th #190513A | £7.99 Add to basket century, through the Victorian butterfly mania of the 1890s and two World ....
Butterflies Fauna of Jinggangshan 218 pages | Photos | CSBS Chen Chunquan and Jia Fenghai Hbk | 2008 | 7539031816 | #190484A | £97.00 Add to basket
Butterflies of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica 76 pages | La Gamba TFS H Krenn et al Pbk | 2010 | 3200018836 | #190392A | This guide book focuses on the butterflies of the Golfo Dulce Region in Costa Rica. It introduces £21.50 Add to basket the reader to a representative selection of species from the region. The text ....
Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7 373 pages | Apollo Books (Consignment) Curculionoidea I Hbk | 2011 | 8788757935 | #190491A | Edited by I Löbl and A Smetana £82.00 Add to basket The aim of Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera is to provide a tool that addresses the most urgent needs: 1) a list of available names, both valid and invalid, of taxa ....
Corbiculate Bees of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica 124 pages | La Gamba TFS S Jarau et al Pbk | 2009 | 3200017589 | #190395A | This booklet about the corbiculate bees of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica, features the £21.50 Add to basket majority of the species of the region. Species descriptions and many colour ....
Damselflies of Texas 292 pages | 632 colour photographs, 79 A Field Guide illustrations, 80 maps, 4 tables | Texas John C Abbott UP On any warm summer day, you can easily observe damselflies around a vegetated pond or the Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0292714491 | rocks along the banks of a stream. Like the more familiar .... #190520A | £16.99 Add to basket
Dragonflies of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica 56 pages | La Gamba TFS S Scheeweihs et al Pbk | 2009 | 3200017597 | #190394A | This booklet about the dragonflies of the Piedras Blancas National Park, Costa Rica features the £21.50 Add to basket majority of the species of the region. Species descriptions and many colour ....
Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 54: Lepidoptera Geometridae 787 pages | Plates | CSBS Geometrinae Hbk | 2011 | 7030295536 | #190483A | £113.00 Add to basket Han Hongxiang and Xue Dayong This volume of Fauna Sinica deals with the systematics and fauna of Geometrinae from China, where bestrides both Palaearctic and Oriental regions. The whole work includes ....
Gnaphosid Genera of the World 605 pages | illus | BAS John Murphy 2011 | 0950009342 | #190752A | With more than 2000 described species in over 100 genera, Gnaphosidae is the seventh most £62.00 Add to basket diverse spider family, out of 108. Gnaphosids are distributed over all parts of the ....
Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Satyrinae Part 4 102 pages | Col illus, distribution maps | Tribe Satyrini, Subtribe Maniolina Omnes Artes W Eckweiler and GC Bozano Pbk | 2011 | 8887989125 | #127935A | Maniola, Pyronia, Aphantopus, Hyponephele. This volume includes the first ever full revision of £41.00 Add to basket the genus Hyponephele. ....
Insect Ecology 634 pages | Illus, figs | Academic Press An Ecosystem Approach Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0123813514 | Edited by Timothy D Schowalter #190725A | £60.99 Add to basket This book provides a modern perspective of insect ecology that integrates two approaches traditionally used to study insect ecology: evolutionary and ecosystem. This integration ....
Insect Herbivore - Host Dynamics 199 pages | 91 illus, 13 tabs | CUP Tree-Dwelling Aphids Hbk | 2005 | 0521802326 | #147417A | Tony Dixon £73.00 Add to basket Literature currently available on the population dynamics of insect herbivores tends to favour Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1107402638 | top-down regulation of abundance by the action of natural enemies. This unique .... #190832A | £25.99 Add to basket
Insects in Helan Mountain of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Ningxia 472 pages | 49 plates | CSBS Helanshan Kunchong) Pbk | 2010 | 7227043967 | #190488A | £56.00 Add to basket Wang Xinpu and Yang Guijun This book is divided into two parts. Part I is general account, which is introduced the natural situation and biological resources in the Helan Mountain Natural Reserve of ....
Klic k Urcovani Drepciku (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) Ceska 232 pages | Col illus, line drawings | a Slovenska Kabourek Pbk | 2008 | 8025417859 | #190367A | Petr Cizek and Serge Doguet £40.50 Add to basket Flea-beetles of the Czech and Slovak Republics. ....
Der Kosmos Libellenführer 279 pages | 250 col photos | Kosmos Alle Arten Mitteleuropas Hbk | 2010 | 344012794X | #190425A | Heiko Bellmann £29.50 Add to basket Photo identification guide to 85 species of dragonfly in Europe. Includes ecological and life history background, keys and bibliography. ....
Longhorn Beetles of Yunan 223 pages | 10 plates | CSBS Li Lisha Hbk | 2009 | 7541627267 | #190487A | This book is divided into preface, outline, classification, the directory of longicorn beetle, new £86.00 Add to basket species and new records of species. The book tells us 512 species of ....
Phytoseiidae and Otopheidomenidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of the 208 pages | Indira World Hbk | 2011 | 093033728X | #190251A | £273.00 Add to basket A Self Study Guide Vikram Prasad This is the first book in color on the plant and stored mite predatory mite family Phytoseiidae and the sister group ectoparasitic parasitic insect associated mite family ....
Phytoseiidae of North America and Hawaii (Acari: Mesostigmata) 451 pages | Indira Harold A Denmark and Gregory A Evans Hbk | 2011 | 0930337263 | #190252A | This is the first book on the very important predatory mite family Phytoseiidae of North America £293.00 Add to basket and Hawaii. These mites are found on plants, in soil, forest litter and stored ....
Squat Lobsters 304 pages | 120 b/w & col illus | CRC Biology of the Marine Decapod Crustacean Families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Press Kiwaidae Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439866147 | Edited by Gary CB Poore, Shane T Ahyong and Joanne Taylor #190722A | £114.00 Add to basket Edited and written by the widely acknowledged global experts in the field, this comprehensive volume summarizes the state of knowledge of squat lobsters, facilitates ....
World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 10: Psychidae (Lepidoptera) 220 pages | Apollo T Sobczyk Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 8788757986 | This volume includes details of around 1300 species of Psychidae. .... #188391A | £69.00 Add to basket
Palaeontology Go to subject web page
Applications of Palaeontology 432 pages | 171 b/w illus. | CUP Techniques and Case Studies Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 110700523X | Robert Wynn Jones #190661A | £80.00 Add to basket Palaeontology, the scientific study of fossils, has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between earth and life history. ....
The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil 625 pages | Col plates, figs, illus | CUP Window into an Ancient World Hbk | 2007 | 0521858674 | #166733A | Edited by David Martill, Gunter Bechly and Robert Loveridge £92.00 Add to basket This beautifully illustrated volume describes the entire flora and fauna of the famous Lower Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521300800 | Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil - one of the world's most important fossil .... #190816A | £44.99 Add to basket
Dino Gangs 320 pages | With index | Harper Collins The New Biology of Dinosaurs Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0007413394 | Philip J Currie and Josh Young #190535A | £19.99 Add to basket With his groundbreaking new findings and extensive research, palaeontologist and dino hunter Dr Phil Currie challenges the very foundations of traditional dinosaur theories. ....
Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 336 pages | 292 col illus, 5 maps | Edited by Angel Galobart, Maite Suñer and Begoña Poza Indiana UP Eastern Iberia contains one of the richest fossil records of Mesozoic vertebrates in Europe. This Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0253356229 | record spans an 80-million-year period that includes key moments in Earth's .... #189723A | £30.99 Add to basket
The Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution 550 pages | 237 b/w & 90 col illus. | CUP Else Marie Friis, Peter R Crane and Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0521592836 | The recent discovery of diverse fossil flowers and floral organs in Cretaceous strata has #190673A | £95.00 Add to basket revealed astonishing details about the structural and systematic diversity of early ....
The Fossil Hunter 234 pages | - | Palgrave Dinosaurs, Evolution and the Woman whose Discoveries Changed Science Hbk | 2009 | 0230611567 | #181241A | Shelley Emling £16.99 Add to basket In 1811, when she was only twelve years old, Mary Anning discovered the first dinosaur Pbk | 2011 | 0230103421 | #190840A | skeleton - of an ichthyosaur - while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis. Mary, .... £9.99 Add to basket
Fossils in Amber 226 pages | 127 col photos | Siri Remarkable Snapshots of Prehistoric Forest Life Scientific Press D Penney and DI Green Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 095586366X | Fossils preserved in amber provide us with a unique insight into the biodiversity and ecology of #190495A | £39.00 Add to basket long extinct tropical forests. Today, similar habitats contain a major ....
Links with the Past in the Plant World 152 pages | CUP A C Seward Pbk | 2011 | 1107401593 | #190827A | Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of £12.99 Add to basket Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a ....
Plants and the K-T Boundary 279 pages | 28 line diagrams, 97 half- Douglas J Nichols and Kirk Johnson tones, 125 figures | CUP In Plants and the K-T Boundary, two of the world's leading experts in palynology and Hbk | 2008 | 0521835755 | #173740A | paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the fate of land plants during the 'great .... £75.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521305632 | #190817A | £32.99 Add to basket
Tretihorní Fauna Severoceské Hnedouhelné Pánve / Tertiary Fauna of col photos | Granit Northbohemian Basin | 8072960741 | #190657A | £36.50 Add to basket Zdenek Dvorák, Karel Mach, Jakub Prokob and Stanislav Knor This book features details of fossils found in the brown coal basin of Northern Bohemia. ....
Marine & Freshwater Biology Go to subject web page
The Great Barrier Reef 454 pages | 19 col plates, 6 b/w photos, History, Science, Heritage 1 map | CUP James Bowen and Margarita Bowen Hbk | 2003 | 0521824303 | #138696A | Comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of £50.00 Add to basket discovery to the most recent developments in reef science and management, providing a .... Pbk | 2011 | 0521172799 | #190385A | £26.99 Add to basket
Illustrated Keys to Free-Living Invertebrates of Eurasian Arctic Seas 168 pages | illus, maps | Alaska Sea and Adjacent Deep Waters, Vol. 2 Grant Prog Spiralbound | 2011 | 1566121620 | Edited by GN Buzhinskaja #190689A | £40.50 Add to basket This illustrated volume contains identification keys to nine taxonomic groups of arctic invertebrates - Nemertea, Cephalorhyncha, Oligochaeta, Hirudinida, Pogonophora, Echiura, ....
The Littoral Fauna of the British Isles 374 pages | CUP A Handbook for Collectors Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521294703 | N B Eales and Stanley Kemp #190807A | £26.99 Add to basket Originally published in 1967, as the fourth edition of a text first published in 1939, this reference book provided the serious student of marine biology with the means of ....
Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder 352 pages | col photos | Microcosm Martin A Moe Jr Pbk | 2010 | 0982026218 | #190602A | This indispensable resource - the bestselling saltwater aquarium book of all time - is now £21.50 Add to basket available in a completely updated and redesigned third edition that includes ....
Marine Mikroorganismer i Sand 185 pages | Almater Jahn Throndsen and Wenche Eikrem Spiralbound | | #190774A | £62.00 Add to basket
Marine Pictolife Eastern Atlantic (and British Isles) 58 pages | Col photos, waterproof | The third in the series of fully waterproof marine species identification guides for diving, boating Pictolife and the beach. It also incorporates a blank waterproof page for .... Spiralbound | 2010 | 2952780927 | #190844A | £21.99 Add to basket
Marine Pictolife Mediterranean Sea 58 pages | Col photos, waterproof | The second in the series of fully waterproof marine species identification guides for diving Pictolife boating and the beach. It also incorporates a blank waterproof page for .... Spiralbound | 2009 | 2952780919 | #190843A | £21.99 Add to basket
Seashore Detectives' Handbook 96 pages | Col illus | Miles Kelly Camilla De la Bedoyere Publishing This practical handbook enables readers to identify more than 40 UK coastal wildlife species. Spiralbound | 2011 | 1848104812 | Readers are encouraged to personalize their handbook by adding photos, making .... #190529A | £7.99 Add to basket
Seashore Safaris 224 pages | colour photos | Graffeg Exploring Rocky and Sandy Seashores with Judith Oakley Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1905582528 | Judith Oakley #190505A | £11.99 Add to basket Marine biologist Judith Oakley explores and explains the diversity of British seashores in her new book Seashore Safaris. ....
General Natural History Go to subject web page
The African Naturalist 264 pages | Book Guild The Life and Times of Rodney Carrington Wood 1889-1962 Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1846245559 | David Happold #190546A | £17.99 Add to basket Rodney Wood was a remarkable man - a great naturalist who spent 50 years mainly in Nyasaland (now Malawi) studying and collecting mammals, birds, fish, insects, shells and ....
Cicerone Guides: Walking on Guernsey 192 pages | col photos, col maps | With Routes on Alderney, Sark and Herm Cicerone Paddy Dillon Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1852846399 | Located closer to France than to Britain, Guernsey has always been an intriguing destination for #190795A | £12.95 Add to basket travellers. British visitors feel like they're at home and abroad at the ....
Cicerone Guides: Walking on Jersey 192 pages | col photos, col maps | 24 Routes and the Jersey Coastal Walk Cicerone Paddy Dillon Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1852846380 | Famous for its sunshine, history and wonderful coastline, Jersey is an intriguing destination for #190794A | £12.95 Add to basket travellers. Outwardly British but with French overtones, it is a compact ....
Countryfile: Adam's Farm 320 pages | colour photos | BBC Books My Life on the Land Hbk | 2011 | 1849900701 | #189791A | Adam Henson £16.99 Add to basket In 2001, Adam Henson was chosen from 3,500 applicants to become a presenter on Countryfile. Adam's agricultural knowledge and open manner soon made him a popular ....
Deep Country 224 pages | Hamish Hamilton Five Years in the Welsh Hills Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0241145007 | Neil Ansell #190506A | £16.99 Add to basket Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water and effectively only the wildlife ....
Dog Days, Raven Nights 352 pages | 56 black-&-white John Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff and Bernd Heinrich illustrations | Yale UP Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and Colleen Marzluff Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0300167113 | left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine. Their .... #190522A | £19.99 Add to basket
A Fleur d'Eau 192 pages | Col photos | Titom Editions Michel Loup and Aino Adriaens Hbk | 2010 | 2952298580 | #190143A | Michel Loup is a prize-winning photographer drawn to underwater scenes of great beauty, £64.99 Add to basket whether of weeds and reeds at the bottom of lakes and ponds, waterlilies seen from ....
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826 504 pages | 22 illustrations, 3 The Voyage to the Birds of America appendixes | Nebraska UP John James Audubon, Daniel Patterson and John Knott Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0803225318 | John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest #190518A | £33.99 Add to basket works of natural history and art of the nineteenth century, The Birds of ....
Life: The Wonders of Life 144 pages | 100 photos, 5 prints | Time- The Amazing World of Nature Life This books features stunning nature photography from the pages of Life Magazine. .... Hbk | 2011 | 1603201416 | #190615A | £21.99 Add to basket
The Man in Seat 61 - Worldwide 576 pages | Bantam Press A Guide to Train Travel Beyond Europe Pbk | 2011 | 0593059433 | #190775A | Mark Smith £15.99 Add to basket Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy, he is in fact the man behind the massively popular seat61.com website, ....
Mountain Adventures in the Maurienne 192 pages | col photos, maps | Cicerone The Vanoise and Dauphiné Alps Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1852846216 | Andy Hodges #190792A | £14.95 Add to basket This guide offers all the inspiration needed for a multi-activity holiday in the Haute Maurienne, in the French Alps. With many suggestions for day walks, mountaineering ....
An Optimist's Tour of the Future 256 pages | Profile Books Mark Stevenson Pbk | 2011 | 1846683564 | #190594A | Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has £12.99 Add to basket a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet ....
Physics of the Future 416 pages | Allen Lane How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1846142687 | Michio Kaku #190769A | £21.99 Add to basket Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku - in a lucid and engaging fashion - ....
The View from Lazy Point 416 pages | 35 b/w illus, 8 maps | A Natural Year in an Unnatural World Henry Holt Carl Safina Hbk | 2011 | 0805090401 | #190486A | Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, the author takes us through £19.99 Add to basket the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south ....
Weather Forecasting 80 pages | Penguin The Country Way Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0241953065 | Robin Page #190767A | £6.99 Add to basket Ever wanted to know if the sun will really shine tomorrow? ....
Wild Vision 240pp full colour with photographic In Celebration of the Natural World illustrations | Vertebrate Publishing John Beatty Hbk | 2011 | 1906148295 | #190879A | Thirty years ago a young man sailed by way of the Falkland Islands to Antarctica, where he was £24.99 Add to basket to work as a field assistant on the British Antarctic Survey. This adventure, ....
Regional & Travel Go to subject web page
American Georgics 448 pages | 33 black-&-white Writings on Farming, Society, and Culture, 1782-present illustrations | Yale UP Edited by Edwin C Hagenstein, Sara M Gregg and Brian Donahue Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0300137095 | From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the #190606A | £24.99 Add to basket image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the ....
At the Water's Edge 309 pages | - | Canongate A Personal Quest for Wildness Hbk | 2010 | 1847674046 | #183507A | John Lister-Kaye £18.99 Add to basket For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye, one of Britain's best-known nature writers, has taken Pbk | 2011 | 1847674054 | #190386A | the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small .... £8.99 Add to basket
Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places 544 pages | Allen Lane 500 Ways to Discover the Wild Hbk | 2008 | 0713999675 | #176544A | Christopher Somerville £24.99 Add to basket Christopher Somerville takes us a journey of discovery through Britain and Ireland, spanning Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0141029226 | their length and breadth as he seeks out 500 of his favourite Wild Places in .... #190531A | £16.99 Add to basket
Cicerone Guides: The High Tatras 336 pages | col illus, maps | Cicerone Walks, Treks and Scrambles Pbk | 2006 | 1852844825 | #185355A | Colin Saunders and Renata Narozna £15.95 Add to basket A detailed guide to the Tatras, a deservedly popular area between Poland and Slovakia, Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1852846828 | complete with details of the White and Western Tatras. .... #190790A | £17.95 Add to basket
Cicerone Guides: Trekking in the Stubai Alps 192 pages | Col photos, maps | Cicerone Stubai Rucksack Route and Glacier Tour Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1852846232 | Allan Hartley #190791A | £14.95 Add to basket Third edition trekking guide to two multi-day hut-to-hut tours in the stunningly scenic Austrian Tyrol, Europe, south of Innsbruck - the Stubai Rucksack Route (or Hohen Weg) ....
Crystal Wood 320 pages | 24 b/w illus | Harper Collins Chris Yates Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0007415540 | A sublime journey into the heart of the British countryside, guided by one of the masters of #190502A | £14.99 Add to basket nature writing who notices the sublime and explains the hidden. Last ....
Ecosystem Diversity in the Piedras Blancas National Park and Adjacent 36 pages | Map | La Gamba TFS Areas (Costa Rica), with the first vegetation map of the area Pbk | 2008 | #190388A | £25.50 Add to basket A Weissenhofer et al The Golfo Dulce region is botanically one of the most diverse areas in Central America. During the last 15 years, research plots have been established in the Piedras Blancas ....
Essential Illustrated Wildlife Guide to Southern Africa 368 pages | col illus | Sunbird Publishing Edited by David Bristow Pbk | 2010 | 1920289062 | #187660A | This completely revised and easy-to-use guide to Southern Africa features detailed descriptions £29.99 Add to basket and clear, colour illustrations of over 600 of the most common southern ....
A Guide to the Knobstone Trail 160 pages | 41 colour illustrations, 24 Indiana's Longest Footpath b&w illustrations, 19 maps | Indiana UP Nathan D Strange and Marion T Jackson Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0253222974 | One of the most beautiful footpaths in the country, the Knobstone Trail offers a spectacularly #190507A | £14.99 Add to basket rugged, 58-mile trek through 40,000 acres of forested land in southern ....
Helikonien und Kolibris 64 pages | La Gamba TFS M Dolezel et al Pbk | 2002 | #190389A | £21.50 Add This booklet introduces the work of the Tropical Field Station La gamba and describes the plants to basket and flowers of Costa Rica. ....
Himalayan Journals, 2-Volume Set 976 pages | 80 b/w illus. 2 maps | CUP Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia NYP 06/2011 | 110802937X | #190421A Mountains, Etc. | £44.99 Add to basket Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the nineteenth century. He succeeded his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, as Director ....
Himalayan Journals, Volume 1 460 pages | 45 b/w illus. 2 maps | CUP Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1108029353 | Mountains, Etc. #190419A | £22.99 Add to basket Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the nineteenth century. He succeeded his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, as Director ....
Himalayan Journals, Volume 2 516 pages | 35 b/w illus. | CUP Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1108029361 | Mountains, Etc. #190420A | £24.99 Add to basket Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the nineteenth century. He succeeded his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, as Director ....
Kilimanjaro 160 pages | 200 col photos | Haus A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa Publishing Michel Moushabeck and Hiltrud Schulz Pbk | 2011 | 1907973028 | #190761A | This book captures the essence of this majestic mountain with over 200 full-colour photographs £12.99 Add to basket and an engaging and entertaining narrative that smoothly ties together ....
The Naturalisation of Animals and Plants in New Zealand 624 pages | 1 map | CUP George Malcolm Thomson Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1108108318 | George Thomson (1848-1933) was born in Calcutta, grew up in Scotland and emigrated to New #190468A | £27.99 Add to basket Zealand at 20. He settled there, working as a teacher and analytical chemist, and ....
The Nature Guide to Extremadura, Spain 224 pages | Col photos, col illus | KNNV Dirk Hilbers CONSIGNMENT BOOKS The remote region of Extremadura in south-western Spain is characterised by gently rolling hills Pbk | 2011 | 9050113818 | #188893A | with a savannah-like landscape, suddenly interspersed with rugged mountain .... £19.95 Add to basket
To the River 304 pages | Canongate A Journey Beneath the Surface Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1847677924 | Olivia Laing #190499A | £16.99 Add to basket To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week, over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river ....
Botany & Plant Science Go to subject web page
The Biology of Fungal Pathogens APS Volume 5: Fungal Pathogens and Diseases of Cereals DVD DVD | 2009 | 0890543798 | #190687A Edited by Dr Joseph-Alexander Verreet and Dr Holger Klink | £252.00 Add to basket This disc feature two new videos - Pythium Root Rot of Cereals and Rhizoctonia Root Rot of Cereals. Through an exciting blend of vivid three-dimensional animations and real ....
Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa 489 pages | Illus | SANBI Bookshop Edited by H Glen and G Germishuizen Hbk | 2010 | 191997654X | #190853A | The first edition of 'Botanical Explorations' was written by M.D. Gunn and L.E.W. Codd. It was £65.00 Add to basket an invaluable source of information on the numerous collectors who have ....
Botany and Horticulture of the Genus Freesia (Iridaceae) 114 pages | SANBI Bookshop Edited by John C Manning and Peter Goldblatt Pbk | 2010 | 1919976582 | #190854A | Freesias are well-known throughout the world as striking plants that add colour and fragrance £52.50 Add to basket to any garden or bouquet. Chapters include various aspects of botany such as ....
British Parasitic Fungi 446 pages | CUP A Host-parasite Index and a Guide to British Literature on the Fungus Diseases of Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279232 | Cultivated Plants #190403A | £21.99 Add to basket W C Moore Provides a comprehensive guide to all the parasitic fungi which have been reported on cultivated plants in Great Britain, the diseases which they cause and the British ....
British Rust Fungi 402 pages | CUP Malcolm Wilson and D M Henderson Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279267 | W. B. Grove's British Rust Funghi, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1913, had #190404A | £29.99 Add to basket long been the standard work on the subject. But it had grown increasingly ....
Compendium of Wheat Diseases and Pests APS Book and CD set 2010 | #190683A | £152.00 Add to WW Bockus, RL Bowden, RM Hunger, WL Morrill, TD Murray and RW Smiley basket This set includes both the 3rd edition of the Compendium along with all of the images from the book on a CD. The disc is compatible with both PC and Mac systems. ....
Compendium of Wheat Diseases and Pests 171 pages | 269 col & b/w illus | APS Edited by WW Bockus, RL Bowden, RM Hunger, WL Morrill, TD Murray and RW Smiley CD | 2010 | 0890543860 | #190682A | This volume is the definitive publication on diseases of wheat, completely updated since the £100.80 Add to basket previous edition published in 1987. Twenty years of advances and new discoveries .... Pbk | 2010 | 0890543852 | #190681A | £103.00 Add to basket
Developmental Biology of Higher Fungi 527 pages | CUP British Mycological Society Symposium 10 Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521106273 | D Moore, LA Casselton, DA Woods and JC Frankland #190409A | £50.00 Add to basket Originally published in 1985, this book describes research on the ecological, structural, physiological, genetic and molecular factors that control morphogenesis in ....
Distribution of Grasses in Texas 196 pages | Texas Botanical RI Robert B Shaw, Barron S Rector and Amanda M Dube Pbk | 2011 | 1889878324 | #190841A | This book is a compilation of information about the distribution of grasses in the 12 ecoregions £35.50 Add to basket and 254 counties of Texas. 721 species have been reported for the state and ....
Elm 347 pages | B/w photos | CUP RH Richens Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521294622 | Elm, one of the three principal landscape trees of England, differs from the others in its complex #190806A | £26.99 Add to basket variability and its intricate relationship with human settlement. This book ....
Evolutionary Biology of the Fungi 477 pages | CUP Edited by A D M Rayner, C M Brasier and David Moore Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279259 | The fungi represent superb tools for the study of evolution 'in action' This 1987 book was the #190410A | £34.99 Add to basket first to bring together, in one volume, coverage of the growing consensus of ....
A Field Guide to the Bulbs of Greece 224 pages | Col photos | AGS Christopher Grey-Wilson Hbk | 2010 | 0900048808 | #190378A | A comprehensive guide to the bulbous plants of Greece, including all the islands. Simple £29.99 Add to basket descriptions and identification keys to aid the reader. Profusely illustrated with ....
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington 404 pages | 600 colour illustrations, 350 Edited by Pamela Camp, John Gamon and Joseph Arnett drawings, 350 maps | Washington UP This book offers a window into the beauty and diversity of the rarest plants in the state. The Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0295990929 | field guide includes: .... #190521A | £26.99 Add to basket
Flora Liquenologica Iberica, Volume 5: Physciaceae I 105 pages | Col & b/w figs | SEL Endohyalina, Rinodina y Rinodinella Pbk | 2010 | #190490A | £35.50 Add Meireia Giralt to basket
Flora Neotropica, Volume 107: Combretaceae 374 pages | maps, drawings, b&w Clive A Stace photos | NYBG Press Hbk | 2010 | 0893275034 | #187083A | £99.00 Add to basket
Flora Neotropica, Volume 108: Disterigma (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae) 126 pages | maps, line drawings, b&w Paola Pedraza-Peñalosa photos | NYBG Press Hbk | 2010 | 0893275131 | #190135A | £67.00 Add to basket
Flora of China, Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae with 884 pages | Missouri BG Annonaceae and Berberidaceae Hbk | 2011 | 1935641042 | #039115A | £143.00 Add to basket This volume features 2,024 species described in 22 families. Among these, the Acanthaceae include the large genus Strobilanthes (128 species); the Adoxaceae include ....
Flore Vasculaire du Maroc, Volume 2, Asteraceae et Monocotyledones 398 pages | Institute Scientifique Inventaire et Chorologie Pbk | 2010 | #190381A | £112.00 Add M Ibn Tattou and M Fennane to basket
Fungal Walls and Hyphal Growth 428 pages | CUP Symposium of the British Mycological Society Held at Queen Elizabeth College London, Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279194 | April 1978 #190591A | £31.99 Add to basket Edited by J H Burnett and A P J Trinci This book charts a number of significant advances in our knowledge of the cytology, physiology and biochemistry of the growth of mould hyphae. It is a symposium volume, ....
Galanthomania 160 pages | Col illus | Uitgeverij Terra Sneeuwklokjes - Snowdrops Lannoo Hanneke Van Dijk Pbk | 2011 | 9089892435 | #190396A | Contains an alphabetical list of 500 different snowdrops. This is the first book in which the new £50.00 Add to basket official classification is given based on cultivar groups. The book ....
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Berries 200 pages | 10 b/w & 7 col illus | Edited by Kevin M Folta and Chittaranjan Kole Science Publishers/Enfield Recent interest in the health-related, culinary, and biological properties of berries is stimulating Hbk | 2011 | 1578087074 | #190494A | new initiatives in berry breeding and production. Breakthroughs in molecular .... £75.00 Add to basket
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Conifers 480 pages | b/w & col illus | Science Edited by Christophe Plomion, Jean Bousquet and Chittaranjan Kole Publishers/Enfield This book presents the implications of the genomic revolution for conifers, which go all the way Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1578087198 | from a better understanding of the evolution of these organisms to new knowledge .... #190800A | £126.00 Add to basket
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Poplar 390 pages | 42 b/w & col illus | Science Edited by C P Joshi, Stephen P DiFazio and Chittaranjan Kole Publishers/Enfield Written by researchers representing 6 countries and 28 institutions, this book highlights the Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1578087147 | development of the genus Populus as a model for organism for tree .... #190796A | £96.00 Add to basket
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Vegetable Brassicas 450 pages | b/w & col illus | Science Edited by Jan Sadowski and Chittaranjan Kole Publishers/Enfield Due to their diversity, vegetable brassicas are of great economic importance and offer unique Hbk | 2011 | 1578087066 | #190551A | opportunities to enrich our knowledge about plant growth, development, and rapid .... £104.00 Add to basket
Grasses of South Texas 336 pages | 300 col photos, 6 illus, 1 A Guide to Their Identification and Value map | Texas Tech UP James H Everitt, D Lynn Drawe, Christopher R Little and Robert I Lonard Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0896726681 | The vast rangelands of south Texas - that portion of the state lying south of San Antonio and #190621A | £31.00 Add to basket extending west and south to the Rio Grande and east to the Gulf of Mexico - ....
Growing Perennials in Cold Climates 448 pages | 262 col & 16 b/w photos, 1 Mike Heger and John Whitman map | Minnesota UP Comprehensive and fully illustrated, this book serves as a resource for selecting, siting, Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0816675880 | planting, and maintaining perennials that flourish in northern climates. .... #190613A | £29.99 Add to basket
Handbook of Bryophyta 292 pages | B/w illus | Vedams Peter George Hbk | 2010 | 8178804182 | #184502A | Although aimed at graduate students, the text is written in simple language, with self- £43.50 Add to basket explanatory diagrams. ....
Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, 2 Volume Set 894 pages | CUP A Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1108030416 | Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's, and Macquarrie's Islands #190838A | £42.99 Add to basket Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, explorer, and director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, is chiefly remembered as a close friend and colleague of ....
Hardy Heathers from the Northern Hemisphere 512 pages | 230 col photos, 41 line illus, E Charles Nelson 20 maps, 15 botanical paintings | Kew This fully illustrated monograph describes all Calluna, Daboecia and Erica species growing RBG naturally in the northern hemisphere. It includes details of the distribution, .... Hbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1842461702 | #189740A | £60.00 Add to basket
Historical Plant Incidence in Southern Africa 378 pages | Col illus | SANBI Bookshop CJ Skead Hbk | 2009 | 1919976531 | #190852A | This collection of observations by early southern African travellers presents a picture of the £65.00 Add to basket vegetation as they saw it painted by the pens of the earliest European visitors ....
Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 10 136 pages | b/w plates | Herbario Amo Orchids of Mexico, Part 4 Unbound | 2008 | 9687889128 | Edited by Eric Hágsater and Miguel Soto #190654A | £70.00 Add to basket This volume is the continuation of the series with the treatment of 100 Mexican orchid species. Six new taxa are proposed and another eight new nomenclatural combinations ....
Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 11 116 pages | b/w plates | Herbario Amo The Genus Epidendrum 7 Unbound | 2008 | 6077597007 | Eric Hágsater et al #190608A | £80.00 Add to basket This volume consists of 100 botanical illustrations of the genus Epidendrum, comprising 20 species new to science, a new name, and 79 species of the genus, in some cases ....
Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 12 210 pages | b/w plates | Herbario Amo The Genus Epidendrum 8: Species New & Old in Epidendrum Unbound | 2009 | 6077597015 | Eric Hágsater #190379A | £115.00 Add to basket This volume features plates 1201 to 1300 and describes 43 new species as well as corrections and new synonyms from previous volumes. ....
Icones Orchidacearum, Fascicle 13 116 pages | b/w plates | Herbario Amo The Genus Epidendrum, Part 9 Unbound | 2010 | 6077597023 | Edited by Eric Hágsater and Luis Sánchez Saldaña #190645A | £63.00 Add to basket This volume includes 30 new species from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, and French Guyana, 2 new combinations and status, and many lectotipifications and neotypes. ....
Intermediary Metabolism in Plants 130 pages | CUP David Denzil Davies Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279291 | This book reviews the ideas and theories of biochemical action in plants. Recognising that #190427A | £14.99 Add to basket factual information requires encyclopaedic treatment, it provides biochemical facts ....
Niger Flora 678 pages | 44 b/w illus. 1 map | CUP Or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1108030386 | Edited by William Jackson Hooker #190835A | £31.99 Add to basket German scientist Theodore Vogel (1812-1841) joined an 1841 expedition to the Niger as its chief botanist. He died in the course of the journey, though not before taking ....
Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulphur Utilisation by Fungi 326 pages | CUP L Boddy Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521106249 | Presents a detailed analysis of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur utilization by fungi. Based on #190430A | £24.99 Add to basket the 1988 British Mycological Society symposium, it is broadly based, covering ....
North American Wildland Plants 520 pages | 219 figures | Nebraska UP A Field Guide Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0803234856 | James L Stubbendieck, Stephan L Hatch and Neal M Bryan #190519A | £26.99 Add to basket North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference ....
On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are 378 pages | 34 b/w illus. | CUP Fertilised by Insects Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1108027156 | #190431A | £20.99 Add to basket And on the Good Effect of Intercrossing Charles Darwin In this investigation of orchids, first published in 1862, Darwin expands on a point made in On the Origin of Species that he felt required further explanation, namely that ....
Orchidaceae of West-Central Africa, Volume 1 363 pages | 47 col photos, diagrams, Dariusz L Szlachetko et al distribution maps | Gdansk University This monograph covers geographically southern Chad, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome Press and Principe, the Central African Republic (CAR), Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the .... Hbk | 2010 | 8373267638 | #190380A | £160.00 Add to basket
The Orchids of Rwanda 438 pages | 1183 col photos, col maps | Eberhard Fischer, D Killmann, G Delepierre and JP Lebel Universitat Koblenz Landau The first fully illustrated field guide to the rich orchid flora of Rwanda covering 242 species. Pbk | 2010 | 3941326015 | #190377A | Illustrated by colour photographs and colour drawings. Introductory chapters .... £57.50 Add to basket
Organic Gardening 240 pages | 32 colour plates, illus | The Natural No-dig Way Green Books Charles Dowding Pbk | 2010 | 1900322811 | #190632A | Forget the rules: 'received wisdom' about gardening is surprisingly inaccurate. Understand £12.95 Add to basket better what is going on in the soil and with your plants, in your own garden ....
Perspectives in Plant Cell Recognition 282 pages | Illus | CUP Edited by JA Callow and JR Green Hbk | 1992 | 0521404452 | #020372A | Presents a review of advances in understanding the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms £83.00 Add to basket governing cell-cell interactions in plants. In the case of the interaction .... Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521281806 | #190434A | £34.99 Add to basket
Plant Bacteriology 336 pages | 48 col & 16 b/w illus | APS Clarence I Kado Hbk | 2010 | 0890543887 | #190686A | The study of plant bacteriology has led to countless novel findings and advances benefitting £161.00 Add to basket medicine and biotechnology as well as horticulture and agriculture. Our ....
Plant Diseases Caused by Bacteria 1006 images | APS An Image Database and Educational Resource CD CD | 2010 | 0890543909 | #190684A | Edited by MN Schroth, EI Hecht-Poinar and AM Alvarez £310.80 Add to basket This database contains 1006 images of plants affected with bacteria diseases that may be CD | 2010 | 0890543909 | #190685A | browsed or searched by host common or scientific name, disease name, pathogen, pathogen .... £546.00 Add to basket
The Plants of Mefou Proposed National Park, Central Province, 252 pages | 8 col plates, line illus, maps Cameroon | Kew RBG Pbk | 2011 | 1842464000 | #185780A | A Conservation Checklist £39.99 Add to basket Edited by Martin Cheek, Yvette Harvey and Jean Michel Onana This book provides a flora of the Mefou area, Cameroon. Introductory chapters cover the vegetation, geology, soil types, climate, threats, invasive and alien plants, ....
Pollination and Floral Ecology 840 pages | 296 col illus, 440 line illus, Pat Willmer 93 tabs | Princeton UP Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0691128618 | of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to .... #189857A | £65.00 Add to basket
Principles of Horticulture 456 pages | col illus | Butterworth CR Adams, KM Bamford and MP Early Heinemann Principles of Horticulture is an excellent introduction to a wide range of aspects of commercial Pbk | 2008 | 0750686944 | #174442A | and leisure horticulture. Written in a highly accessible and readable style, .... £20.99 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0080969577 | #190724A | £24.99 Add to basket
Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidants in Higher Plants 380 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Edited by S Dutta Gupta Hbk | 2010 | 1578086868 | #190553A | Providing basic information on reactive oxygen species (ROS), this volume describes new £111.00 Add to basket developments in the action of ROS, the role of antioxidants, and the mechanisms ....
Red List of South African Plants 668 pages | Col photos | SANBI D Raimondo et al Bookshop This Red List is a major milestone for South Africa in that it is the first data-driven, Hbk | 2009 | 1919976523 | #190851A | comprehensive assessment of the country's indigenous vascular flora. South Africa is .... £68.00 Add to basket
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Plants 612 pages | CUP Edited by P S Nutman Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521299136 | A synthesis of knowledge on the fixation of nitrogen by systems involving plants, especially #190815A | £23.99 Add to basket legumes, and micro-organisms. Such associations utilize nitrogen from the ....
Animal & General Biology Go to subject web page
Adaptation and Well-Being 192 pages | 51 b/w illus, 22 tabs | CUP Social Allostasis Hbk | 2011 | 0521509920 | #190671A | Jay Schulkin £44.99 Add to basket Recently, an interest in our understanding of well-being within the context of competition and cooperation has re-emerged within the biological and neural sciences. ....
Animal Friendships 256 pages | CUP Anne Innis Dagg Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1107005426 | Research into social behaviour in animals has often focused on aggression, yet members of #190401A | £70.00 Add to basket social species are far more likely to interact with each other in a positive way. .... Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0521183154 | #190402A | £29.99 Add to basket
The Avian Erythrocyte 650 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Its Phylogenetic Odyssey Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 157808718X | Chester A Glomski and Alessandra Pica #190759A | £133.00 Add to basket The erythrocyte is perhaps the world's single best known cell; the red cell made its debut in a few invertebrates and thereupon conducted a conceptual phylogenetic odyssey ....
Biochemistry 1050 pages | Col plates, illus, figs, tabs JM Berg, JL Tymoczko and L Stryer | WH Freeman Since its first edition in 1975, this extraordinary textbook has helped shape the way that Hbk | 2006 | 071676766X | #157907A | biochemistry is taught, and has become one of the most trusted books in the field. .... £51.99 Add to basket Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1429276355 | #190836A | £53.99 Add to basket
Biology 1300 pages | illus | Pearson Education Neil A Campbell, Jane B Reece et al Pbk | 2011 | 1408276801 | #190423A | This package contains Campbell's Biology 9th Edition, access to Mastering Biology, and access £59.69 Add to basket to all 5 Mastering Biology Virtual lab rooms. Campbell's Biology 9th Edition is a ....
Genetics 745 pages | Col illus | WH Freeman A Conceptual Approach Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1429276061 | Benjamin A Pierce #190837A | £48.99 Add to basket Since its inception, this book has been known for its engaging writing style and its focus on the key concepts in genetics. ....
In Situ Hybridisation 300 pages | CUP Application to Developmental Biology and Medicine Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521282276 | Edited by N Harris and DG Wilkinson #190426A | £32.99 Add to basket Advances in our understanding of biological mechanisms have frequently been associated with the development of techniques. In situ hybridisation is a classic case of just such ....
Integrated Molecular Evolution 357 pages | 197 b/w illus, 15 tabs | CRC Scott Orland Rogers Press This book provides an in-depth look at the processes involved in evolution at the molecular and Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439819955 | cellular levels. It begins with a broad overview of evolution, including a .... #190823A | £63.99 Add to basket
Introduction to Experimental Biophysics 674 pages | b/w & col illus | CRC Press Biological Methods for Physical Scientists Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439829535 | Jay Nadeau #190824A | £57.99 Add to basket A practical companion for physical scientists investigating wet laboratory experiments and biological research areas, this book gives a clear understanding of what is ....
Introduction to Genetic Analysis 838 pages | Col photos, illus, figs, tabs | AJF Griffiths, SR Wessler, S Carroll and John Doebley WH Freeman This best-selling textbook, known for its prominent authorship, exposes students to the Hbk | 2007 | 0716799022 | #166187A | landmark experiments in genetics, teaching them how to analyze experimental data and .... £49.99 Add to basket Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1429276347 | #190839A | £51.99 Add to basket
Manipulative Tenants 312 pages | b/w & col illus | CRC Press Bacteria Associated with Arthropods Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439827494 | Elinat Zchori-Fein and Kostas Bourtzis #190560A | £31.99 Add to basket This text provides an overview of the primary bacterial symbionts in addition to ten of the most abundant secondary symbionts known to date. The editors have brought together ....
Physiology of the Graafian Follicle and Ovulation 350 pages | 5 Col plates, 90 figs | CUP RHF Hunter Hbk | 2003 | 0521781981 | #136846A | £105.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0521205867 | #190804A | £42.99 Add to basket
Self-organisation and Evolution of Biological and Social Systems 42 line diagrams 5 half-tones 2 tables | Edited by Charlotte Hemelrijk CUP Self-organisation of social systems can be observed at all levels of biological complexity, from Hbk | 2005 | 0521846552 | #152588A | cells to organisms and communities. Although individuals are governed .... £85.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1107402565 | #190831A | £34.99 Add to basket
The Structure of Biological Membranes 552 pages | b/w illus, tabs | CRC Press Edited by Philip Yeagle UK Completely revised and updated to reflect advances in the field, this new edition focuses on Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439809577 | lipids and the lipid bilayer, as well as on membrane protein structure and .... #190554A | £99.00 Add to basket
Viruses 346 pages | b/w & col illus | Garland Biology, Applications, and Control Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0815341504 | David R Harper #190555A | £40.99 Add to basket This concise textbook covers the essential aspects of virology included in biomedical science courses. It takes a conceptual approach and examines common themes that emerge ....
Vision in 3D Environments 400 pages | 152 b/w illus, 1 tab | CUP Edited by Laurence R Harris and Michael RM Jenkin Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1107001757 | Biological and machine systems exist within a complex and changing three-dimensional world. #190672A | £65.00 Add to basket We appear to have no difficulty understanding this world, but how do we go about ....
Water, Fungi and Plants 400 pages | 7 b/w photos, 73 b/w illus, Edited by PG Ayres and L Body 33 tables | CUP Water is the solvent for metabolic processes, it participates directly in many biochemical Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521106230 | reactions and has a vital skeletal function. It also plays a key role in the .... #190474A | £31.99 Add to basket
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Evolution 176 pages | 20 b/w photos | Ronsdale The View from the Cottage Press Jean-Pierre Rogel Pbk | 2010 | 1553801040 | #190771A | With all the attention to 'creationism' in the news these days, Jean-Pierre Rogel decided it was £14.99 Add to basket time to show how Darwin's concept of natural selection can be seen in ....
On the Origin of Species Through Heteropatric Differentiation 40 pages | California UP A Review and a Model of Speciation in Migratory Animals Pbk | 2010 | 0943610885 | #190857A | Kevin Winker £13.95 Add to basket
The Origin of Our Species 272 pages | Allen Lane Chris Stringer Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1846141400 | In this ground-breaking book Chris Stringer sets out to answer all the big questions in the #190532A | £24.99 Add to basket debate about our origins. How can we define modern humans, and how can we recognise ....
The Perception of the Environment 465 pages | Figs | Routledge Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Hbk | 2000 | 041522831X | #129558A | Tim Ingold £95.00 Add to basket In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0415617472 | perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural .... #190808A | £29.99 Add to basket
Pillars of Evolution 296 pages | 70 illus | OUP Douglas W Morris and Per Lundberg Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0198568797 | This book provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new to #190727A | £65.00 Add to basket the study of evolution will find a new insight that establishes evolutionary .... Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0198568800 | #190726A | £29.95 Add to basket
Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution 175 pages | 15 b/w illus. | CUP Patrick Bateson and Peter Gluckman Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521516293 | How do we understand and explain the apparent dichotomy between plasticity and robustness #190822A | £70.00 Add to basket in the context of development? Can we identify these complex processes ....
The Rational Optimist 448 pages | Fourth Estate How Prosperity Evolves Hbk | 2010 | 0007267118 | #190787A | Matt Ridley £19.99 Add to basket Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist ....
The Reason Why 240 pages | Allen Lane The Miracle of Life on Earth Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1846143276 | John Gribbin #190533A | £19.99 Add to basket Does one planet really matter among the immensity of the Cosmos? John Gribbin is here to persuade us that it does. In this ground-breaking and provocative new book Gribbin ....
Simulating Human Origins and Evolution 241 pages | Tables, figures | CUP Ken Wessen Hbk | 2005 | 0521843995 | #152570A | The development of populations over time, and, on longer timescales, the evolution of species, £92.00 Add to basket are both influenced by a complex of interacting, underlying processes. Computer .... Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521397995 | #190821A | £29.99 Add to basket
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Biological Invasions 369 pages | B/w photos, figs, tabs, Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal and Microbe Species maps | CRC Press Edited by David Pimentel Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 143982990X | This volume reconfirms the diverse and unpredictable roles that non-native species assume as #190566A | £76.99 Add to basket they invade new ecosystems: destruction of vital crops and forests, major ....
Phylogeography 199 pages | Nova Science Concepts, Intraspecific Patterns and Speciation Processes Hbk | 2011 | 1606929542 | #190820A | Edited by Damien S Rutgers £49.50 Add to basket Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distributions of individuals. This is accomplished by ....
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Chemistry of Mangrove Ecosystem of the Indian Sundarbans 200 pages | b/w illus | LAP Ecology of Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India Pbk | 2010 | 3843377162 | #190638A | Manjistha Chattopadhyay £89.00 Add to basket At the mouth of Ganga-Brahmaputra river system, Sundarbans represents one of the largest single areas of mangrove forests. The mangrove ecosystems are hot spots of biological ....
Edgelands 256 pages | Jonathan Cape Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley Hbk | 2011 | 0224089021 | #190512A | Edgelands explores a wilderness that is much closer than you think: a debatable zone, neither £12.99 Add to basket the city nor the countryside, but a place in-between - so familiar it is never ....
Environmental Impact Assessment Methodologies 428 pages | CRC Press UK Y Anjaneyulu and Valli Manickam Hbk | 2011 | 0415665566 | #190565A | This book covers the prediction and assessment of impacts on soil and groundwater £76.99 Add to basket management, surface water management, biological environment, air environment, the ....
The Fertility of the Soil 160 pages | CUP Sir Edward J Russell Pbk | 2011 | 1107401763 | #190828A | Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of £12.99 Add to basket Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a ....
The Global Forest 192 pages | Particular Books 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1846144094 | Diana Beresford Kroeger #190593A | £14.99 Add to basket A world expert on how trees chemically affect our environment, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has woven together ecology, ancient myth, horticulture, spirituality, science and ....
Improved Grassland Management 351 pages | Col plates, figs, tabs, maps J Frame | Crowood Press This new, fully updated and revised edition of "Improved Grassland Management" covers all Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1847972616 | aspects of grassland management and is of particular relevance to the UK and the .... #190580A | £24.99 Add to basket
An Introduction into Applied Soil Hydrology 224 pages | figs, tabs | Catena Klaus Bohne | 3923381514 | #190574A | £59.50 Based on almost four decades of teaching experience as a university professor, the author Add to basket prepared the scope and contents of this soil hydrology book for readers with ....
Mangrove Ecosystems 292 pages | B/w photos, illus, figs, tabs, Function and Management maps | Springer Edited by LD de Lacerda Pbk | 2010 | 3642075851 | #190639A | Presents the current state of knowledge, of use to decision/policy makers and of interest to £148.50 Add to basket those who interested in the ecological and economic potential of the various ....
Mangroves Nova Science Ecology, Biology and Taxonomy Hbk | 2011 | 1617289914 | #190640A | Edited by James N Metras £152.50 Add to basket Mangrove ecosystems are tropical or subtropical communities of mainly tree species which can be found on low, muddy, usually intertidal coastal areas. They cover an area of ....
Principles of Snow Hydrology 416 pages | 105 line diagrams, 81 half- David R DeWalle and Albert Rango tones, 8 colour plates | CUP Principles of Snow Hydrology describes the factors that control the accumulation, melting and Hbk | 2008 | 0521823625 | #175852A | runoff of water from seasonal snowpacks over the surface of the earth. The .... £86.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521290325 | #190440A | £44.99 Add to basket
Smart Growth 288 pages | Green Books From Sprawl to Sustainability Pbk | 2011 | 190032282X | #190586A | Jon Reeds £14.95 Add to basket This book shows how urban sprawl is unsustainable in an age of climate change and peak oil, and challenges the UK to develop a 'Smart Growth' approach to improve the quality ....
Stream Ecosystems of Costa Rica 124 pages | La Gamba TFS F Schiemer et al Pbk | 2010 | 3950299610 | #190390A | This volume, a guide to tropical streams and rivers, will be of particular interest to naturalists £28.99 Add to basket and students during field trips and other visits. It focuses on the ....
Sustaining Coastal Zone Systems 160 pages | col illus | Dunedin Academic Edited by Paul Tett, Autun Sandberg and Anne Mette Press This book introduces a 'systems approach' to understanding and managing complex interactions Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1906716277 | between the natural ecosystems and the human economies and societies in the .... #190676A | £17.95 Add to basket
Tropical Palms 166 pages | Col photos, b/w illus, tabs | Dennis V Johnson FAO Originally published in 1998, this book has been updated in 2010 to include the most recent Pbk | 2010 | 9251067422 | #190493A | information and developments regarding the conservation status and use of various .... £27.99 Add to basket
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Beyond the Sacred Forest 392 pages | 10 maps | Duke UP Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0822347962 | Edited by Michael Dove, Percy E Sajise and Amity A Doolittle #190581A | £16.99 Add to basket Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique collaboration involving ethnographic research in Indonesia, ....
Illegal Trade in Wildlife 176 pages | Nova Science Edited by Horace O Williams and Viktor T Grante Hbk | 2009 | 1606922807 | #190757A | Global trade in illegal wildlife is a growing illicit economy, estimated to be worth at least $5 £57.50 Add to basket billion and potentially in excess of $20 billion annually. Some of the most ....
Peru: Maijuna 328 pages | Chicago Field MNH Edited by Michael P Gilmore et al Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0982841906 | In July of 2009 a team of socioeconomic experts from the United States and Peru conducted a #189787A | £19.50 Add to basket social asset inventory of the ancestral territory of the Maijuna indigenous ....
Zoo Conservation Biology 400 pages | 45 b/w illus, 16 tabs | CUP John E Fa, Stephan M Funk and Donnamarie O'Connell Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0521827639 | In the face of ever-declining biodiversity, zoos have a major role to play in species #190622A | £75.00 Add to basket conservation. Written by professionals involved in in-situ conservation and restoration .... Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0521534933 | #190623A | £34.99 Add to basket
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Arsenic 238 pages | CRC Press UK Natural and Anthropogenic Hbk | 2011 | 0415549280 | #190698A | Edited by Eleonora Deschamps and Jorg Matschullat £78.99 Add to basket This volume features a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination into arsenic's behaviour in air, water, soils, sediments, plants and the human body. Based on ....
Atlas of Oceans 256 pages | 320 col illus | Yale UP An Ecological Survey of Underwater Life Hbk | 2011 | 0300167504 | #190296A | John Farndon £36.00 Add to basket A tragedy is playing out beneath the surface of the world's bodies of marine waters, one that began long before the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Although many books ....
Breaking and Dissipation of Ocean Surface Waves 485 pages | 135 b/w illus, 6 tabs | CUP Alexander Babanin Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1107001587 | Wave breaking represents one of the most interesting and challenging problems for fluid #190660A | £75.00 Add to basket mechanics and physical oceanography. Over the last 15 years our understanding has ....
Burning Rivers 194 pages | Multi-Science John Hartig Pbk | 2010 | 1907132163 | #190695A | This book focuses on the use, abuse and restoration of rivers that have been heavily polluted by £33.00 Add to basket petrochemicals. As examples, the author chooses four North American rivers - ....
The Case Against Fluoride 384 pages | figs, tabs | Chelsea Green How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Pbk | 2010 | 1603582878 | #190772A | Powerful Politics That Keep it There £19.95 Add to basket Paul Connett, James Beck and H S Micklem When the US Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1959, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected ....
Climate Change Denial 224 pages | Figures, diagrams, graphs | Heads in the Sand Earthscan Haydn Washington Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1849713367 | Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something #190536A | £14.99 Add to basket interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it ....
Climate Change and National Security 256 pages | 42 maps, 2 figs, 12 tabs | A Country-Level Analysis Georgetown UP Edited by Daniel Moran Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1589017412 | In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of #190620A | £20.75 Add to basket scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate ....
Climate Extremes and Society 340 pages | 37 line diagrams, 32 half- Edited by Henry F Diaz and Richard J Murnane tones, 24 colour plates, 102 figures | Extreme climatic events present society with significant challenges in a rapidly warming world. CUP Ordinary citizens, the insurance industry and governments are concerned about the .... Hbk | 2008 | 0521870283 | #173743A | £81.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521298482 | #190812A | £42.99 Add to basket
Climate Wars 320 pages | Oneworld Publications The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1851688145 | Gwynne Dyer #190762A | £9.99 Add to basket Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Any of the expected consequences of climate change could - as Gwyne Dyer argues - tip the world towards ....
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics 384 pages | CUP Principles and Parameterizations Hbk | 2009 | 0521883385 | #179602A | Jerry Straka £75.00 Add to basket This book focuses specifically on bin and bulk parameterizations for the prediction of cloud and Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521297591 | precipitation at various scales - the cloud scale, mesoscale, synoptic scale, .... #190809A | £42.99 Add to basket
Clumsy Floodplains 170 pages | b/w illus | Ashgate Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods Hbk | 2011 | 1409418456 | #190690A | Thomas Hartmann £65.00 Add to basket Adopting an innovative interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how society can manage the use of the floodplains along rivers in the face of extreme floods, focusing ....
The Dark Side of Green 208 pages | 45 b/w illus | CRC Press The Unintended Consequences of the Climate Change Movement Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1439800618 | Gary S Moore #190563A | £38.99 Add to basket Applying science to the politically charged global warming debate, this text incorporates the work of scholars from around the world who address the issue without ....
Driven to Extinction 264 pages | Sterling The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1402772238 | Richard Pearson and American Museum of Natural History #190599A | £16.99 Add to basket Could more than a million species disappear in the 21st century? Written by a leading scientist in the field, Driven to Extinction draws upon fascinating ....
Estuaries 236 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP Dynamics, Mixing, Sedimentation and Morphology Hbk | 2009 | 0521888867 | #177953A | David Prandle £69.00 Add to basket This volume provides researchers, students, practising engineers and managers access to state- Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521297818 | of-the-art knowledge, practical formulae and new hypotheses for the dynamics, .... #190810A | £27.99 Add to basket
Frontiers of Climate Modeling 352 pages | 16 col plates, diags, tabs | Edited by JT Kiehl and V Ramanathan CUP The physics and dynamics of the atmosphere and atmosphere-ocean interactions provide the Hbk | 2006 | 0521791324 | #158460A | foundation of modern climate models, upon which our understanding of the chemistry and .... £98.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521298687 | #190813A | £42.99 Add to basket
The Great Disruption 304 pages | Bloomsbury How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy Hbk | 2011 | 1408812096 | #190545A | Paul Gilding £18.99 Add to basket Human civilisation and the economy have now grown so large that we have passed the limits of the planet to support any further growth in the current model. The science is ....
An Introduction to Ocean Remote Sensing 500 pages | Col plates, b/w illus, tabs | Martin Seelye CUP Describes the use of satellite data in the retrieval of oceanic physical and biological properties. Hbk | 2004 | 0521802806 | #143269A | The book covers radiative transfer, ocean surface properties, satellite .... £53.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521003415 | #190400A | £32.99 Add to basket
Legal Responses to Climate Change 368 pages | Federation Press Dr Nicola Durrant Pbk | 2010 | 1862878080 | #190826A | The challenges of climate change pose problems requiring new and innovative legal responses £44.00 Add to basket by legal practitioners, government officials and corporate officers. This book ....
The Little Book of Carbon Emissions 256 pages | 150 illus | UIT Cambridge Nicola Terry Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1906860149 | This is a data book of facts and figures about carbon emissions and energy use in the UK. The #190603A | £12.99 Add to basket book emphasises the impact of domestic consumption and personal lifestyle ....
Mercury Pollution 312 pages | 54 illus, 6 tabs | CRC Press An Interdisciplinary Overview Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439833842 | Edited by Michael C Newman and Sharon L Zuber #190829A | £57.99 Add to basket Using mercury pollution as an example, this book illustrates the interdisciplinary approach required for solving environmental problems. It explains the details of the ....
Metal Contamination in Aquatic Environments 573 pages | 137 line figures, 31 Science and Lateral Management halftones, tabs | CUP Samuel Luoma and Philip S Rainbow Hbk | 2008 | 0521860571 | #176675A | Metal contamination is one of the most ubiquitous, persistent and complex environmental £65.00 Add to basket issues, encompassing legacies of the past (e.g. abandoned .... Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521279011 | #190428A | £31.99 Add to basket
Phytoremediation Using Constructed Mangrove Wetlands Nova Science Mechanisms and Application Potential Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1617619256 | Lin Ke and Nora F Y Tam #190641A | £35.99 Add to basket Phytoremediation is the use of green plants and their associated microbiota, soil amendments, and agronomic techniques to remove, contain, or render harmless ....
Reporting on Climate Change 90 pages | col photos & illus | Island Understanding the Science Press Edited by L Jeremy Richardson and Bud Ward Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1585761567 | This bestselling book is the fourth in a series initially intended to help journalists - both #190731A | £21.99 Add to basket reporters and editors - understand and report on the most authoritative scientific ....
The Rough Guide to Climate Change 416 pages | Illus | Rough Guides The Symptoms, the Science, the Solutions Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1848365799 | Robert Henson #190768A | £12.99 Add to basket This book gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. ....
The Theory of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation 218 pages | 33 b/w illus. 28 exercises | Roger M Samelson CUP Mounting evidence that human activities are substantially modifying the Earth's climate brings a Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1107001889 | new imperative to the study of the ocean's large-scale circulation. This .... #189956A | £50.00 Add to basket
Visualizing Climate Change 224 pages | Computer-generated A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions landscape scenarios, maps | Earthscan Stephen Sheppard Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1844078205 | Climate change may be all around us, but it is often difficult to see. Carbon dioxide is invisible, #190584A | £39.99 Add to basket and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice ....
Weather, Climate and Human Affairs 364 pages | photos, figs, maps | A Book of Essays and Other Papers Routledge Hubert H Lamb Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0415676436 | This wide-ranging collection of essays is written by one of the world's foremost experts on #190803A | £90.00 Add to basket weather and climate. Six of the chapters have not been published before. The rest, ....
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The 4-Percent Universe 320 pages | Oneworld Publications Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality Pbk | 2011 | 1851688218 | #190855A | Richard Panek £10.99 Add to basket Only 4% of the universe consists of the matter that makes our bodies, the Earth and every star and planet. Over the last few decades scientists have been battling to ....
The Astronomy Revolution 472 pages | col illus, col tabs | Taylor & 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos Francis Edited by Donald G York, Owen Gingerich and Shuang-Nan Zhang Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439836000 | This interdisciplinary volume investigates and explains how the field of astronomy and #190786A | £49.99 Add to basket cosmology has affected human life and perceptions of the universe. Chapters cover the ....
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 2646 pages | CRC Press Edited by William M Haynes Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1439855110 | This latest, 92nd edition of the most respected scientific reference in the world contains a #190776A | £95.00 Add to basket wealth of enhancements, featuring analyses, updates, and validations of ....
Chemistry 488 pages | col illus | Macmillan Rob Lewis and Wynne Evans Pbk | 2006 | 0230000118 | #157908A | The fourth edition of this popular, student-friendly textbook provides a course in chemical £26.99 Add to basket literacy. With complete yet concise coverage of core topics, it starts from .... Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0230291821 | #190834A | £27.99 Add to basket
Chemistry 1104 pages | Col illus | Norton The Science in Context Pbk | 2011 | 0393118274 | #190467A | Thomas R Gilbert et al £55.00 Add to basket The third edition of Chemistry: The Science in Context provides additional opportunities for students to test their understanding and practice their problem-solving skills. ....
The Complete Guide to the Herschel Objects 530 pages | 600 b/w illus. | CUP Sir William Herschel's Star Clusters, Nebulae and Galaxies Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521768926 | Mark Bratton #190663A | £44.99 Add to basket Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivalled. His lasting legacy is his dedicated all-sky survey of star clusters and ....
The Continental Drift Controversy 520 pages | 36 b/w illus. | CUP Henry Frankel Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521875048 | Resolution of the sixty year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate #190461A | £80.00 Add to basket tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth Science. This three-volume treatise ....
Etna 188 pages | 10 b/w illus. 3 maps | CUP A History of the Mountain and its Eruptions Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1108028748 | G F Rodwell #190833A | £12.99 Add to basket G. F. Rodwell (1843-1905) was researching an entry about Mount Etna for the Encyclopaedia Britannica when he realised that no history of this Italian volcano ....
The Exoplanet Handbook 422 pages | 223 b/w illus. | CUP Michael Perryman Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 0521765595 | Exoplanet research is one of the most explosive subjects in astronomy today. More than 500 #190668A | £44.99 Add to basket exoplanets are now known, and groups world-wide are actively involved in a broad ....
Geographies of Mars 272 pages | 39 halftones, 6 line Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet drawings | Chicago UP K Maria D Lane Hbk | 2010 | 0226470784 | #190858A | One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of £28.99 Add to basket canals, fueled belief in intelligent life-forms on the distant red planet - a ....
Geological Observations on South America 316 pages | 5 b/w illus. 1 map | CUP Being the Third Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle Pbk | 2010 | 1108027148 | #190416A | Charles Darwin £16.99 Add to basket First published in 1846, Darwin's Geological Observations made up the third part of his memoir of his voyage on the Beagle during the years 1832-1836. While the first part ....
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, Visited During the 192 pages | 2 maps | CUP Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 110807233X | #190417A | £12.99 Add to basket Charles Darwin Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published Observations on the Volcanic Islands in 1844. It is one of three major geological works resulting from the voyage of the Beagle, and ....
The Geology of Mars 474 pages | 15 diags, 10 col plates, 155 Evidence from Earth-Based Analogs halftones | CUP Edited by Mary Chapman Hbk | 2007 | 0521832926 | #167589A | Research into the geological processes operating on Mars relies on interpretation of images and £94.00 Add to basket other data returned by unmanned orbiters, probes and landers. Such .... Pbk | 2011 | 0521206596 | #190805A | £47.99 Add to basket
Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change 434 pages | 36 figs, 16 plates, 50 tables Edited by Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer and Christine Embleton-Hamann | CUP How will global environmental change affect the landscape and our interaction with it? Apart Hbk | 2009 | 0521878128 | #181298A | from climate change, there are other important catalysts of landscape change, .... £48.00 Add to basket Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521291003 | #190418A | £31.99 Add to basket
The Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption 354 pages | CUP Geological and Geophysical Data 1975-1976 Pbk | 2010 | 0521158893 | #190793A | Edited by SA Fedotov, Ye K Markhinin, J Agrell, MR Colenso, F Cooley and A Lee £19.99 Add to basket In 1975-1976 a remarkable volcanic eruption took place on the Kamchtka peninsula, part of the Soviet Union's arc of active volcanoes. Dr Fedotov and his colleagues studied the ....
How it Ends 352 pages | 68 b/w illustrations | Norton From You to the Universe Hbk | 2010 | 0393069850 | #186690A | Chris Impey £18.99 Add to basket Although we may try to keep it hidden in the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 039333998X | own mortality. But few among us know what science, with the help of insights yielded .... #190539A | £12.99 Add to basket
Introducing Volcanology 160 pages | col illus | Dunedin Academic A Guide to Hot Rocks Press Dougal Jerram Pbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1906716226 | Volcanoes have an endless fascination. Their eruptions are a regular reminder of the power of #190537A | £9.99 Add to basket nature and our vulnerability to this raw geological phenomenon, however ....
Journey of the Universe 192 pages | Yale UP Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0300171900 | Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the #190540A | £18.99 Add to basket unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural ....
The Living Cosmos 393 pages | 129 b/w illus | Random Our Search for Life in the Universe House Chris Impey Hbk | 2007 | 1400065062 | #173983A | Considering the development of life on Earth, the existence of life in extreme environments and £23.99 Add to basket the potential for life elsewhere in the Universe, this book gives a .... Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0521173841 | #190667A | £13.99 Add to basket
The Making of the British Landscape 812 pages | Col plates, figs | Allen Lane How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today Hbk | 2010 | 1846142059 | #186279A | Francis Pryor £29.99 Add to basket This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, Pbk | 2011 | 0141040599 | #190530A | towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets .... £14.99 Add to basket
Metamorphic Rocks 264 pages | 10 line diagrams, 9 tabs | A Classification and Glossary of Terms CUP Edited by Douglas Fettes and Jacqueline Desmons Hbk | 2007 | 0521868106 | #169260A | Many common terms in metamorphic petrology vary in their usage and meaning between £55.00 Add to basket countries. The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Subcommission on the .... Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 052133618X | #190818A | £29.99 Add to basket
Minerals and Their Localities 824 pages | 1050 Col photos | Granit Jan H Bernard and Hyrsl Jaroslav | 8072960547 | #190656A | £128.00 Encyclopedic listing of every known mineral species, with paragraph-size discussions for each Add to basket species, emphasizing formation conditions and major worldwide localities. ....
Nature's Building Blocks 592 pages | Figs, tabs | OUP An A-Z Guide to the Elements Pbk | 2003 | 0198503407 | #138759A | John Emsley £12.99 Add to basket In this readable, informative, and fascinating guide to the elements are entries on each of the Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0199605637 | 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. .... #190285A | £12.99 Add to basket
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics 324 pages | National Academies Press Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding Pbk | 2011 | 0309157994 | #190785A | of the universe has changed dramatically over the course of the last few .... £26.99 Add to basket
Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy 586 pages | 35 b/w illus, 48 maps, 270 Edited by Patrick Moore and Robin Rees tabs | IOP Packed with up-to-date astronomical data about the Solar System, our Galaxy and the wider Hbk | 2000 | 0750306203 | #097078A | Universe, this is a one-stop reference for astronomers of all levels. .... £46.99 Add to basket Hbk | 2011 | 0521899354 | #190664A | £34.99 Add to basket
A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way 376 pages | 50 b/w illus. | CUP Edward Emerson Barnard Hbk | 2011 | 0521191432 | #190665A | Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was £75.00 Add to basket originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together these volumes contained a wealth ....
Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator or Spreadsheet 304 pages | 110 b/w illus. 10 tabs | CUP Peter Duffett-Smith and Jonathan Zwart Pbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0521146542 | This highly regarded book is ideal for those who wish to solve a variety of practical and #190662A | £24.99 Add to basket recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator or spreadsheet. ....
Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 600 pages | B/w photos, illus, tabs, figs, Sam Boggs maps | Pearson Education A concise treatment of the fundamental principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy, featuring Pbk | 2011 | 0321745760 | #190481A | the important physical, chemical, biological and stratigraphic characteristics .... £56.99 Add to basket
Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology 1000 pages | Elsevier A Closer Look Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0444534474 | Edited by J Ehlers, PL Gibbard and P D M Hughes #190723A | £180.00 Add to basket The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major ....
Reactions 256 pages | col illus | OUP The Private Life of Atoms Hbk | NYP 09/2011 | 0199695121 | Peter Atkins #190728A | £16.99 Add to basket Through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his characteristically clear, precise, and economical exposition, Peter Atkins explains the ....
Sizing Up the Universe 240 pages | 120 Colour Photographs | A New View of the Cosmos National Geographic J Richard Gott III and Robert J Vanderbei Hbk | 2010 | 1426206518 | #190856A | The almost unimaginably large size of many objects in the universe accounts in part for £19.99 Add to basket astronomy's tremendous appeal. Yet the problem of depicting a vast range of scales is ....
Stars and Their Spectra 422 pages | 229 b/w illus, 18 tabs | CUP An Introduction to the Spectral Sequence Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0521899540 | James B Kaler #190666A | £29.99 Add to basket Stellar spectroscopy is the fundamental tool for investigating the natures of stars and is central to our understanding of modern astronomy and astrophysics. Revised and ....
Thermodynamics of the Earth and Planets 730 pages | 200 b/w illus. 10 tables 200 Alberto Douce exercises | CUP This textbook provides an intuitive yet mathematically rigorous introduction to the Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0521896215 | thermodynamics and thermal physics of planetary processes. It demonstrates how the .... #190473A | £50.00 Add to basket
Tsunami Warning and Preparedness 296 pages | National Academies Press An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts Pbk | 2011 | 0309137535 | #190784A | Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis. After the catastrophic 2004 £31.99 Add to basket tsunami in the Indian Ocean, legislation was passed to expand U.S. tsunami warning ....
Wonders of the Universe BBC Video TV Series Blu-ray disc | 2011 | #190873A | Brian Cox £25.00 Add to basket Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This DVD | 2011 | #190872A | £19.99 Add time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. .... to basket
Wonders of the Universe 256 pages | colour illus | Harper Collins Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen Hbk | 2011 | 0007395825 | #190534A | Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This £19.99 Add to basket time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion ....
Sustainable Development Go to subject web page
Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security 288 pages | CABI A Critical Review Hbk | 2011 | 1845937619 | #190616A | Jillian M Lenné and D Wood £75.00 Add to basket Agrobiodiversity provides most of our food through our interaction with crops and domestic animals. Future global food security is firmly anchored in sound, science-based ....
Animate Earth 45 mins | Green Books Science, Intuition and Gaia - A New Scientific Story DVD | 2011 | 190032279X | #190635A Dr Stephan Harding and Clive Ardagh | £15.00 Add to basket The companion DVD to Stephan Harding's book of the same title, Animate Earth is an emotional and scientific journey that explores the complexities of our relationship with ....
Animate Earth 288 pages | Green Books Science, Intuition and Gaia Pbk | 2009 | 1900322544 | #190634A | Stephan Harding £12.95 Add to basket In Animate Earth Stephan Harding explores how Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the 'more-than-human' world. His work is based on a careful ....
Building your own Sustainable and Energy Efficient House 192 pages | Crowood Press Henry Skates Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1847972586 | Many people aspire to one day build a house for themselves but for one reason or another they #190547A | £16.99 Add to basket have never taken the plunge. This book explains how to go about building a home ....
Chernobyl 224 pages | Routledge The Long Shadow Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0415675979 | Chris Park #190707A | £75.00 Add to basket First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of ....
Choosing Wood Heating 192 pages | 40 b/w illus & photos | CAT A Guide to Pellet, Chip and Log Heating Systems Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1902175654 | Chris Laughton #190694A | £27.99 Add to basket This book includes full details of the Renewable Heat Incentive as well as covering all wood fuel technologies and heating systems - including pellet, chip and log burners, not ....
Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health 896 pages | 103 tabs, 60 illus, 10 Edited by Stephen Battersby photos | Spon Press (Routledge) Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, since its first publication in 1933, has provided a Hbk | 2004 | 0415318084 | #144203A | definitive guide for the environmental health practitioner, or reference for .... £195.00 Add to basket Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0415492858 | #190714A | £175.00 Add to basket
Confronting Collapse 224 pages | illus | Chelsea Green The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World Pbk | 2010 | 1603582649 | #190636A | Michael C Ruppert £12.95 Add to basket The world is running short of energy - especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global ....
Convert Your Home to Solar Energy 240 pages | Col photos, b/w illus | Joseph R Provey and Everett M Barber Taunton Press Consumers are clamouring for information on alternative energy; this guide has arrived at just Pbk | 2011 | 1600852521 | #190601A | the right time. Practical and authoritative, it is written by experts in the .... £17.99 Add to basket
Cosmic Society 288 pages | 72 colour illustrations | Yale Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R Primack UP After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0300165080 | groundbreaking book presents an explosive and potentially .... #190541A | £19.99 Add to basket
Disaster on the Horizon 248 pages | b/w illus | Chelsea Green High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout Pbk | 2011 | 1603583165 | #190766A | Bob Cavnar £12.50 Add to basket This book delves into the worst oil well accident in US history, which killed eleven men and led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. ....
Drilling Down 130 pages | 40 black & white tables | The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma Springer Verlag Joseph A Tainter and Tadeusz W Patzek Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1441976760 | For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an #190596A | £13.99 Add to basket unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic ....
Earth 416 pages | 8 pages of colour and 50 The Operators' Manual black-and-white illustrations | Norton Richard Alley Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0393081095 | Since the discovery of fire, humans have been energy users and always will be. Our mastery of #190538A | £19.99 Add to basket energy is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom and has ....
Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in the Western Pacific 332 pages | Wiley-Blackwell Edward Glazier Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 0813821541 | As the ecosystem-based trend in fisheries management continues to be implemented #190397A | £145.00 Add to basket worldwide, a thorough background of this new management approach and ....
The Edible Balcony 176 pages | col. Illustrations | Kyle Growing Fresh Produce in the Heart of the City Cathie Alex Mitchell Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1856269469 | Just because you don't have any soil doesn't mean you can't eat delicious fruit and vegetables #190628A | £16.99 Add to basket every day of the year. From an easy edible balcony that can be set up over a ....
Elixir 384 pages | Bloomsbury A Human History of Water Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1408815737 | Brian Fagan #190498A | £19.99 Add to basket This book spans five millennia, from the beginnings of civilisation to the global water shortages of today. Our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has ....
Environmental Management 376 pages | Federation Press Ian Thomas Pbk | 2011 | 1862878161 | #190718A | This book describes the main approaches to environmental management that come from the £41.99 Add to basket social sciences, in an Australian context. ....
The Essential Amory Lovins 384 pages | Photographs, tables, Selected Writings graphs, index | Earthscan Amory B Lovins Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1849712263 | Amory B Lovins is one of the world's leading authorities on energy, integrative design, and their #190582A | £19.99 Add to basket links with economy, environment, development, and security. This unique ....
Everyday Environmentalism 150 pages | ELI Jason J Czarnezki Pbk | 2011 | 1585761524 | #190508A | Faced with the seemingly overwhelming prospect of global climate change and its £28.99 Add to basket consequences, is there anything that a person can do to make a difference? 'Yes, there ....
Fish Stress and Health in Aquaculture 278 pages | 4 b/w photos, 11 line illus, Edited by GK Iwama, AD Pickering, J Sumpter and C Schreck 10 tabs | CUP The principal themes of this book are stress and health in fish. Stress is of central concern in Pbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0521281709 | aquaculture, as the various stressors which accompany intensive fish .... #190414A | £21.99 Add to basket
The GM Crop Manual 216 pages | BCPE A World Compendium Hbk | 2010 | 1901396207 | #190749A | Edited by L G Copping £114.00 Add to basket This book outlines all the GM products that are currently available to growers and provides a snapshot of the world of GM crops as of October 2010. This field of crop ....
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Grapes 390 pages | b/w & col illus | Science Edited by AF Adam-Blondon, JM Martinez-Zapater and C Kole Publishers/Enfield Grapevine is a highly valuable crop worldwide, both from cultural as well as commercial point of Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1578087171 | view. One major advantage this crop has is that it is well adapted to scarce .... #190799A | £104.00 Add to basket
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Potato 300 pages | b/w & col illus | Science Edited by James M Bradeen and Chittaranjan Kole Publishers/Enfield In this volume, world leaders in potato research review historical and contemporary potato Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1578087155 | research resulting in advances in nutritional quality, yield, disease and insect .... #190798A | £90.00 Add to basket
Green Activism in Post-Socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union 170 pages | Routledge Edited by Adam Fagan and JoAnn Carmin Hbk | 2011 | 0415668549 | #190802A | Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern £80.00 Add to basket Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, environmentalists were ....
Green Outcomes in the Real World 254 pages | Gower Global Forces, Local Circumstances, and Sustainable Solutions Hbk | 2010 | 0566091798 | #190691A | Peter McManners £74.00 Add to basket Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation. ....
Green Products 224 pages | 45 illus, 24 tabs | CRC Press Perspectives on Innovation and Adoption Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439854653 | Edited by Joao Neiva De Figueiredo and Mauro F Guillen #190814A | £31.99 Add to basket Sharing successful examples of sustainable products from around the world, this book supplies in-depth analysis of key factors that affect the adoption of sustainable ....
Grow Your Food for Free 192 pages | col illus | Green Books Well Almost Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1900322897 | Dave Hamilton #190764A | £14.95 Add to basket Don't like spending money in garden centres? Think you can make it yourself for a fraction of the price or find a cheaper option? Dave Hamilton shows you how. By ....
How to Grow Winter Vegetables 192 pages | col illus | Green Books Charles Dowding Pbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1900322889 | This book explains how to come through winter with plenty of vegetables stored and others #190765A | £14.95 Add to basket ready for harvest, and gives advice for growing plants through winter for eating ....
An Indispensable Truth 450 pages | 376 colour illustrations, 3 Francis F Chen black & white tables | Springer Verlag Recent books have raised the public consciousness about the dangers of global warming and Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1441978194 | climate change. This book is intended to convey the message that there is a .... #190597A | £44.99 Add to basket
Managing Environmentally Sustainable Innovation 160 pages | 22 illus, 11 tabs | Routledge Insights from the Construction Industry Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 041587971X | Bart Bossink #190811A | £75.00 Add to basket A paradigm shift is happening at this moment. Firms and consumers are aware of the fact that they cause environmental pollution, depletion of resources and are responsible for ....
Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability 320 pages | 16 black-&-white Redefining Our Relationship with Nature illustrations | Yale UP Brendon Larson Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 0300151535 | Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts, but an ill-considered #190605A | £27.99 Add to basket metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and counterproductive ....
Methods of Analysis of Food Components and Additives 512 pages | CRC Press Edited by Semih Otles Hbk | NYP 09/2011 | 1439815526 | This volume is a concise presentation of the state of the art in the analysis of food components. #189832A | £108.00 Add to basket The author brings together an international team of experts to summarize key ....
A New Agenda for Sustainability 256 pages | b/w illus | Ashgate Edited by Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Bo Elling, Erling Jelsoe and Maria Figueroa Hbk | 2010 | 0754679764 | #190692A | Two decades after the Brundtland Commission's Report "Our Common Future" adopted the £65.00 Add to basket concept of 'sustainable development', this book provides a renewal of the concept ....
Pests and Pathogens: Management Strategies 590 pages | CRC Press Edited by Vudem D Reddy, Poduri N Rao and Khareedu V Rao Hbk | 2011 | 0415665760 | #190830A | The need and demand to feed the ever-increasing global population pose major challenges for £108.00 Add to basket increasing crop productivity in an eco-friendly manner. Cultivation of crops under ....
Practical Guide to Environmental Management 500 pages | Figs | ELI Frank B Friedman Pbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1585761559 | This book provides readers with the firm grounding in history necessary to put environmental #190730A | £87.00 Add to basket issues in context and a practical map to avoid the pitfalls and capitalize ....
Renewable Energy Yearbook 2010 432 pages | CRC Press Renergy FNP CD | 2010 | 0415667666 | #190562A | Agra FNP Research £178.00 Add to basket The intensive exploration of natural resources has begun to take a heavy toll on the Hbk | 2010 | 0415667631 | #190561A | environment, economic models appear to have been worn out, and major cultural and .... £210.00 Add to basket
Renewable Energy Yearbook 2011 432 pages | CRC Press Renergy FNP CD | NYP 06/2011 | 0415667704 | Agra FNP Research #190721A | £178.00 Add to basket This yearbook maps out the renewable energy sector in Brazil, identifying potential, obstacles, Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0415667690 | and perspectives. Besides the now traditional ethanol and biodiesel, the book .... #190720A | £210.00 Add to basket
Scarcity and Frontiers 768 pages | 46 b/w illus, 42 tabs | CUP How Economies Have Evolved Through Natural Resource Exploitation Hbk | 2010 | 0521877733 | #190745A | Edward B Barbier £65.00 Add to basket Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has Pbk | 2010 | 0521701651 | #190746A | been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing .... £29.99 Add to basket
The Secret Life of Stuff 368 pages | Vintage A Manual for a New Material World Pbk | 2011 | 0099546582 | #190604A | Julie Hill £8.99 Add to basket Would you like: products that don't damage the environment? A better way of life without agonising about your 'footprint'? To really know your stuff? Climate change? Biofuels? ....
Solar Technology 192 pages | col photos, illus, maps | The Earthscan Expert Guide to Using Solar Energy for Heating, Cooling and Electricity Earthscan Lars Andren Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1849711097 | Solar energy is free, abundant and sustainable, with many methods existing to harness it. This #190778A | £34.99 Add to basket guide is an essential introduction to the subject, explaining how the ....
Sustainability in Austerity 256 pages | Greenleaf How Local Government Can Deliver During Times of Crisis Pbk | 2010 | 1906093571 | #190747A | Philip Monaghan £27.50 Add to basket As the economic crisis of 2008/09 unfolded, it became apparent that the huge mountains of debt being built up by central governments were unsustainable and that savage cuts ....
Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies 544 pages | 57 b/w illus, 35 b/w tabs | Edited by Noureddine Benkeblia CRC Press Focusing on the use of new biotechnologies to create more sustainable agriculture within the Hbk | NYP 07/2011 | 1439825041 | framework of global environmental changes, this reference highlights developments in .... #190569A | £82.00 Add to basket
The Sustainable Self 240 pages | Photographs, figures, A Personal Approach to Sustainability Education tables, graphs | Earthscan Paul Murray Pbk | 2011 | 1849712409 | #190583A | Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a £16.99 Add to basket particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way ....
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and 224 pages | Earthscan Enterprise Hbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1849712514 | #190200A | £39.99 Add to basket Edited by Joshua Bishop This book is a further key output of TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). It provides important new evidence of growing corporate concern about ....
Tourist Destination Governance 240 pages | CABI Practice, Theory and Issues Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1845937945 | Edited by E Laws, H Richins, JF Agrusa and N Scott #190618A | £65.00 Add to basket Managing and co-ordinating tourism in a destination requires the organisation and co-operation of a large number of sectors - businesses, local authorities and ....
Transition in Action 300 pages | col illus | Green Books Totnes and District 2030, an Energy Descent Action Plan Pbk | 2010 | 1900322854 | #190633A | Jacqi Hodgson and Rob Hopkins £19.99 Add to basket This is a lively and colourful community-based guide to reducing local dependence on fossil fuels and reducing the local carbon footprint over the next 20 years, a period ....
The Vegetable Growers Handbook 192 pages | illus | Chelsea Green Frank Tozer Pbk | 2010 | 0977348938 | #190637A | This highly practical book contains all the information you need to successfully grow more than £16.95 Add to basket 50 common vegetables. There are specific step-by-step instructions for each ....
Water Power and Water Mills 192 pages | 163 colour photographs and An Historical Guide drawings | Crowood Press Jonathan Brown Hbk | 2011 | 1847972438 | #190578A | The sight of the watermill is evocative of rural Britain - the wheel turning gently to grind corn. £24.99 Add to basket However, that is only part of the story of the harnessing of the power of ....
Wind Power Workshop 208 pages | 100 b/w illus & photos | CAT Building Your Own Wind Turbine Pbk | 2011 | 190217562X | #190693A | Hugh Piggott £33.00 Add to basket This fully revised edition of includes the author's thoughts about wind turbine construction, thirty new additional illustrations and an expanded and vastly superior ....
The Zero Carbon House 160 pages | Crowood Press Martin Godfrey Cook Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1847972624 | 'Zero Carbon' is an abstract concept for most people, but we have lived energy-profiligate #190579A | £16.99 Add to basket lifestyles for too long on finite fossil-fuel resources. We now face ....
Data Analysis Go to subject web page
Bayesian Model Selection and Statistical Modeling 300 pages | 46 illus, 13 tabs | Chapman Tomohiro Ando & Hall (CRC Press) Bayesian model selection is a fundamental part of the Bayesian statistical modeling process. Hbk | 2010 | 1439836140 | #190573A | The quality of these solutions usually depends on the goodness of the .... £63.99 Add to basket
Practical Statistical Methods 318 pages | 27 illus, 67 tabs | CRC Press A SAS Programming Approach Hbk | NYP 04/2011 | 1439812829 | Lakshmi Padgett #190571A | £49.99 Add to basket This reference presents a broad range of statistical methods for a diverse audience. It first introduces fundamental concepts from statistics and then discusses data analysis ....
R Graphics 552 pages | 233 illus, 27 tabs | CRC Paul Murrell Press In today's world of statistical computing, R is the program of choice for tens of thousands of Hbk | 2006 | 158488486X | #158607A | statisticians, which is why R Graphics is sure to become an instant .... £56.99 Add to basket Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 1439831769 | #190719A | £49.99 Add to basket
Systems Biology 320 pages | 126 b/w illus. | CUP Simulation of Dynamic Network States Hbk | NYP 05/2011 | 1107001595 | Bernhard O Palsson and Marc Abrams #190459A | £44.99 Add to basket Biophysical models have been used in biology for decades, but they have been limited in scope and size. In this book, Bernhard O. Palsson shows how network reconstructions that ....
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Collection Development in the Digital Age 224 pages | Facet Edited by Maggie Fieldhouse and Audrey Marshall Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1856047466 | The last decade has seen profound changes in how library collections are developed and #190610A | £49.95 Add to basket managed, driven by a rapidly evolving market place, more sophisticated user-expectations ....
E-books in Academic Libraries 200 pages | Chandos Publishing Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic Pbk | 2010 | 1843345862 | #190550A | Written from the perspective of a librarian, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the £56.50 Add to basket impact of e-books on academic libraries. The author discusses advantages to both ....
Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings 192 pages | Facet Vanda Broughton Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 1856046184 | LCSH are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of #190609A | £34.95 Add to basket a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. In mapping exercises ....
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms 2500 pages | McGraw Hill Updated to contain over 110,000 definitions from 100 areas of science and technology. .... Hbk | 2002 | 007042313X | #129870A | £95.00 Add to basket Hbk | NYP 06/2011 | 0071608990 | #190424A | £169.99 Add to basket
Peer Review and Scientific Assessment 312 pages | CUP A Handbook for Funding Agencies Pbk | NYP 08/2011 | 0521182328 | Alan Moghissi, Betty Love and Sorin Straja #190433A | £27.99 Add to basket Peer review and assessment are vital elements in numerous scientific decisions, particularly scientific publishing, research funding and regulatory science. This ....