Nhbs Monthly Catalogue New and Forthcoming Titles Issue: 2016/01 January 2016 [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

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nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2016/01 January 2016 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the January 2016 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly Zoology: update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in Mammals the last month. Birds

Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes

● The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees Invertebrates ● Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands (Helm Field Guide) Palaeontology ● Conservation of Freshwater Fishes Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Diving Physiology of Marine Mammals and Seabirds General Natural History ● The Fishes of New Zealand: A Comprehensive Guide (4-Volume Set) Regional & Travel ● Freshwater Life: A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of Southern Africa ● The Hunt Botany & Plant Science ● Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae) of Central Europe / Brouci Celedi Sluneckovit¡ Animal & General Biology Stredn¡ Evropy Evolutionary Biology ● The Life of the Robin Ecology ● North American Hummingbirds: An Identification Guide Habitats & Ecosystems ● Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World's Most Captivating Birds Conservation & Biodiversity ● Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica ● Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile Physical Sciences ● Polecats (The British Natural History Collection) Sustainable Development ● State of the Apes: Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation Data Analysis Reference Stock titles

● Birds of Morocco ● Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour ● The British Mammal Guide DVD ● De Das [The Badger] ● Finding Birds in Hungary DVD ● Gu¡a Practica de los Peces de Canarias [Field Guide to the Fish of the Canary Islands] ● A Guide to Dendrobium of Australia ● Hampshire Bird Atlas 2007-2012 ● Loe Bar and the Sandhill Rustic Moth: The Biogeography, Ecology and History of a Coastal Shingle Bar ● The Nature of Wyre: A Wildlife-Rich Forest in the Heart of Britain ● Northumbria Bird Atlas

New editions

● Arachnologists' Handbook (2nd edition)

New in paperback

● The Ash Tree

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Mammals

Atlas de Repartition des Mammiferes d'Alsace [Distribution Atlas of the 700 pages | colour photos, colour Mammals of Alsace] distribution maps | Paperback | 01/2014 | 9782363290410 Antoine Andre, Christelle Brand and Fabrice Capber | #227349A | £37.99 Add to basket The French region of Alsace lies in the east of the country and borders Germany and Switzerland. Since 2006, the Office des Données Naturalistes d'Alsace (ODONAT) has been coordinating a project to realize the publication of ...

Bovids of the World 664 pages | 337 colour illustrations, 313 Antelopes, Gazelles, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Relatives colour distribution maps | Jose R Castello, Brent Huffman and Colin Groves Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Bovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow 9780691167176 | #227303A | £17.99 horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive field guide to cover all 279 bovid species, Add to basket including antelopes, gazelles, cattle, buffaloes ...

Der Goldhamster [Golden Hamster] 500 pages | 60 colour & 180 b/w Mesocricetus auratus illustrations, tables | Rolf Gattermann, Peter Fritzsche and Karsten Neumann Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Almost 100 years had to pass after its scientific description in 1839, before the Golden Hamster 9783894321604 | #226352A | £59.99 was rediscovered in 1930 in the desert of northern Syria. After having succeed in starting a Add to basket breeding population from three male and a female ...

Dolphin Diaries 322 pages | 8 plates with colour photos My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas (hardback) / b/w photos (paperback) | Denise L Herzing Paperback | 08/2012 | 9781250006912 Dr. Denise Herzing began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, | #227335A | £20.99 Add to basket almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of these individuals, has witnessed and recorded them feeding, playing, fighting ...

Foxes Unearthed 256 pages | A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Lucy Jones 9781783961498 | #226342A | £14.99 The British people have a unique relationship with the fox; no other animal attracts such Add to basket controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so deeply woven into our culture over the centuries. But as well as being the most ubiquitous ...

Monkeys of Peru 22 pages | 66 colour illustrations, colour Pocket Identification Guide distribution maps | Rolando Aquino Y, Fanny M Cornejo, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Filomeno Encarnacion C and Eck Unbound | 11/2015 | 9781934151648 | Heymann #227292A | £6.99 Add to basket This laminated fold-out guide has 66 illustrations to identify all monkey species in Peru, with illustrations of both sexes for some species, and includes individual distribution maps. In addition, you can use the checklist to note the ...

Otters in Shetland 276 pages | colour photos | The Tale of the 'Draatsi' Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Richard Shucksmith and Brydon Thomason 9781910997000 | #227329A | £36.50 A stunning collection of photographs, history and ecology of one of the most charismatic of Add to basket British mammals, this is a must have for any visitor to Shetland, or anybody who loves the great outdoors! Written with a deep understanding for ...

Primates del Peru: Guia de Identificacion de Bolsillo [Monkeys of Peru: 22 pages | 66 colour illustrations, colour Pocket Identification Guide] distribution maps | Unbound | 11/2015 | 9781934151914 | Rolando Aquino Y, Fanny M Cornejo, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Filomeno Encarnacion C and Eck #227293A | £6.99 Add to basket Heymann This laminated fold-out guide has 66 illustrations to identify all monkey species in Peru, with illustrations of both sexes for some species, and includes individual distribution maps. In addition, you can use the checklist to note the ...

Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2012-2014 89 pages | colour photos, colour Christoph Schwitzer, Russell A Mittermeier, Anthony B Rylands, Lucy A Taylor and Federica illustrations, colour distribution maps, Chiozza tables | This report was released at the International Primatological Society (IPS) meeting in August Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781934151693 2014, Hanoi, Vietnam. Here the IUCN reports on the seventh iteration of the biennial listing of a | #227339A | £9.99 Add to basket consensus of the 25 primate species ...

Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2014-2016 93 pages | colour photos, colour Christoph Schwitzer, Russell A Mittermeier, Anthony B Rylands, Federica Chiozza and El illustrations, colour distribution maps, Williamson tables | This report was first presented at the Asian Red-Listing meeting the IUCN had in Singapore in Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | November 2015. Here the IUCN reports on the eighth iteration of the biennial listing of a 9781934151952 | #227340A | £9.99 consensus of the 25 primate species considered ... Add to basket

RSPB Spotlight: Badgers 128 pages | 300 colour photos | James Lowen Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Badgers are elusive wanderers of the night and few mammals are as mysterious. Their 9781472921819 | #226295A | £9.99 nocturnal lifestyle means not many of us have ever glimpsed their monochrome form as they Add to basket sniff and bustle their way through woodland or across pasture ...

Red Squirrels 330 pages | Ecology, Conservation & Management in Europe Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780954757618 Craig M Shuttleworth, Peter WW Lurz, Matthew W Hayward and Iolo Williams | #227358A | £33.50 Add to basket This is the first book of its kind in 20 years on red squirrel management and conservation in the UK and across Europe. Red Squirrels: Ecology, Conservation & Management in Europe ties together subjects covering habitat, ecology ...

Spirit of Dartmoor Ponies 64 pages | 60 colour photos | Dartmoor Pony Society Hardback | 06/2009 | 9781906887230 | With over sixty fascinating and heart-warming images, Spirit of Dartmoor Ponies by the #227459A | £4.99 Add to basket Dartmoor Pony Society captures the essence of these beautiful creatures, the living heart of the Dartmoor landscape.

Status Survey of Some Mammals in Gujarat with Special Reference to 326 pages | colour illustrations, colour Chinkara and Desert Cat maps | Paperback | 10/2014 | 9788181713919 PL Kankane, Gaurav Sharma and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman | #227268A | £54.50 Add to basket The Indian state of Gujarat features distinctive geomorphological features, including the convergence of four mountain ranges, four major river systems, and the longest sea coast in India with two sheltered gulfs. This has given rise to ...

Surveying for Bats in Trees And Woodland: Guide (BS 8596:2015) 66 pages | British Standards Institution (BSI) Paperback | 10/2015 | 9780580809507 All UK bats and their roosts are protected by the law – If you manage trees or woodland you | #227321A | £212.00 Add to basket must meet the legal requirements to follow best practice in avoiding killing, injuring or disturbing bats or damaging or destroying their ...

Tempo da Lupi [Time for Wolves] 208 pages | 130 colour photos | Bruno D'Amicis and Jim Brandenburg Hardback | 10/2015 | 9788867101429 | Tempo da Lupi is the result of six years of work and of hundreds of days spent in the mountains #227400A | £49.99 Add to basket of Central Italy. It features 130 ground-breaking and evocative pictures that document the life of wolves up-close. These blend with ...

Time for Wolves 208 pages | 130 colour photos | Bruno D'Amicis and Jim Brandenburg Hardback | 10/2015 | 9788867101436 | Time for Wolves is the result of six years of work and of hundreds of days spent in the #227399A | £49.99 Add to basket mountains of Central Italy. It features 130 ground-breaking and evocative pictures that document the life of wolves up-close. These blend with ...

Birds

An Amateur's Guide to Birds of Assam 129 pages | colour photos, colour maps Jayaditya Purkayastha | An Amateur's Guide to Birds of Assam contains photos along with distribution maps and short Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789383252695 descriptions for 200 species of birds. To make it handy for field use, symbols are used. The | #227322A | £41.50 Add to basket book also contains information on basic biology ...

Bird Droppings 128 pages | illustrations | Writings about Watching Birds & Bird Watchers Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780811717250 Pete Dunne and David Gothard | #227306A | £17.50 Add to basket Pete Dunne, one of the foremost birding writers in the country, shares 33 funny, poignant, whimsical, and informative tales about birders and birding in his first collection of birding essays in more than ten years. Dunne is an expert ...

Birds of Kruger National Park 224 pages | 400+ colour photos | Keith Barnes and Ken Behrens Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | South Africa's Kruger National Park is one of the largest and most iconic conservation areas in 9780691161266 | #227282A | £19.95 Africa. Habitats range from wide-open savannah and rugged thornveld to broadleaved mopani Add to basket woodland. This microhabitat variation gives Kruger ...

Birds of Western Ecuador 464 pages | 1500 colour photos, 946 A Photographic Guide colour distribution maps | Nick Athanas, Paul J Greenfield, Iain Campbell, Pablo Cervantes Daza and Sam Woods Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Western Ecuador is famed for its astonishingly diverse birdlife, from colorful hummingbirds and 9780691157801 | #227302A | £27.95 outrageous toucans to more difficult groups like raptors, flycatchers, and ovenbirds. Here is the Add to basket ultimate photographic guide to the spectacular ...

Birds of the Canary Islands 924 pages | 431 colour photos, colour Eduardo Garcia-del-Rey distribution maps | The Birds of the Canary Islands is a Macaronesian archipelago avifauna that fills an important Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788460695288 gap in the ornithological literature. Full colour throughout it begins with authoritative | #227450A | £160.00 Add to basket introductory chapters covering subjects as ...

Britain's Birds 528 pages | 2700+ colour photos, An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland distribution maps | Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop and David Tipling Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Britain's Birds will be enjoyed and valued by everyone, from beginner to experienced birder. 9780691158891 | #227304A | £13.99 One of the most comprehensive, up-to-date and practical bird books of modern times, it Add to basket features an unrivalled selection of photographs ...

Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 1: Allgemeiner Teil [The 864 pages | colour photos, colour Avifauna of Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 1: General Par illustrations, colour distribution maps, tables | Christian Dietzen Hardback | 01/2015 | 9783980766999 | This is the first volume of what is planned to be a four-volume opus – the most comprehensive #227407A | £65.99 Add to basket work on the bird life in this German state that has ever been published. It is also a milestone regional avifauna in Germany.

Die Vogelwelt von Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 2: Entenvoegel bis 642 pages | 225 colour photos, 391 Storchenvoegel (Anseriformes-Ciconiiformes) colour illustrations and colour distribution maps, 26 colour tables | Christian Dietzen Hardback | 07/2015 | 9783946121008 | This is the first volume of what is planned to be a four-volume opus – the most comprehensive #227408A | £55.99 Add to basket work on the bird life in this German state that has ever been published. It is also a milestone regional avifauna in Germany.

Finding Birds in Hungary - The DVD (All Regions) runtime: 73 min | Dave Gosney DVD | 12/2015 | 9781907316548 | This DVD introduces you to the best birding sites in Hungary and shows you many of the #227395A | £19.14 Add to basket country's most exciting birds. British birder Dave Gosney takes you to areas of plains such as The Hortobágy, several of Hungary's ...

Habitat, Population Dynamics, and Metal Levels in Colonial Waterbirds 544 pages | 9 colour & 332 b/w A Food Chain Approach illustrations, 82 tables | Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Based on longitudinal studies-some into their fifth decade-of colonial waterbirds, this book 9781482251128 | #223659A | £88.99 provides a clear picture of the corrosive effects of heavy metals in the aquatic environment Add to basket today. Colonial-nesting birds can serve as excellent ...

Hummingbirds of North America 256 pages | 24 colour plates, 27 b/w Paul A Johnsgard illustrations, 40 maps | First published in hardback in 1997, this second edition of Hummingbirds of North America is Paperback | NYP 02/2016 | now available in paperback. The first edition was published in 1983, and this well illustrated and 9781935623885 | #227421A | £37.99 acclaimed volume was been ... Add to basket

Identifying Birds of Prey 64 pages | colour photos, illustrations, Quick Reference Guide for Eastern North America distribution maps | Laura Erickson Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | An engaging quick-reference guide to the basics of identifying hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures, 9780811716185 | #227299A | £12.50 and kites in flight. Includes color photos and simplified outlines showing key features of each Add to basket species, as well as range maps and comparisons ...

Magical Birds of Bolivia / Aves Magicas de Bolivia 220 pages | colour photos, colour Daniel Alarcon Arias distribution maps | With 1,430 species of which 17 are endemic, Bolivia is the country with the sixth highest Hardback | 10/2015 | 9789997447951 | number of bird species in the world. Magical Birds of Bolivia / Aves Mágicas de Bolivia contains #227314A | £41.50 Add to basket photographs, maps and general information ...

Orkney Bird Report 2012 colour photos | Orkney Bird Report Committee Paperback | 01/2014 | #227312A | The 2012 edition of the Orkney Bird Report includes full colour photographs and a vast array of £17.50 Add to basket information on species, sightings, nesting habitats and locations. 2012 was full of the variety that is expected from Orkney's birds.

Orkney Bird Report 2013 colour photos | Orkney Bird Report Committee Paperback | 11/2014 | #227313A | The 2013 edition of the bird report, with full colour photographs. Includes a wealth of £17.99 Add to basket information on rarities and ringing, along with the usual records of sightings. Reported, again, is the poor breeding season for the seabirds and waders ...

Orkney Bird Report 2014 colour photos | Orkney Bird Report Committee Paperback | 11/2015 | #227311A | The 2014 edition of The Orkney Bird Report, with full colour photographs, includes information £17.99 Add to basket on species, sightings, nesting habitats and locations. A very exciting year with 254 species recorded and for the first time in 15 years a ...

RSPB Spotlight: Eagles 128 pages | 200 colour photos | Mike Unwin Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Eagles are among the most impressive hunters of the animal world. Their predatory prowess 9781472921833 | #226294A | £9.99 and flying skills have imbued them with a romance and mystique that runs deep in our culture Add to basket and has elevated them to emblems of freedom and power ...

Reintroduction of Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in Kresna Gorge, 112 pages | colour photos, colour Southwest Bulgaria 2010-2015 [English / Bulgarian] illustrations, colour maps, colour tables | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789549150537 Hristo Peshev, Emilian Stoynov, Atanas Grozdanov and Nadya Vangelova | #227398A | £14.99 Add to basket This book describes details about the reintroduction of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in Kresna Gorge, Southwestern Bulgaria in the period 2010-2015. Data about releases, breeding attempts, seasonal dynamics, dispersal, mortality ...

The Genius of Birds 352 pages | Jennifer Ackerman Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, 9781594205217 | #227305A | £23.99 some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like Add to basket humans, many birds have enormous brains relative ...

Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil, Volume 2: The Atlantic 424 pages | colour photos, ~ 1300 Forest of Southeast Brazil, including Sao Paulo colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Robert S Ridgely, John A Gwynne, Guy Tudor and Martha Argel Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | The second volume in this series covers the avifauna of The Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil, 9781501704536 | #227168A | £23.50 including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and covers some 927 species. Add to basket

Reptiles & Amphibians

A Field Guide to the Lizards and Amphibians of Western Maharashtra 131 pages | colour photos | [English / Marathi] Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788187945628 | #227401A | £30.99 Add to basket Vivek Gour Broome and Sanjay Sondhi This field guide has been designed for quick and easy field identification of some of the common species of lizards and amphibians in Western Maharashtra.The pictorial layout, specially designed symbols, and bilingual text are meant for ...

Reptiles & Amphibians of Britain and Europe 320 pages | colour illustrations, colour Wouter Beukema, Jeroen Speybroeck, Jan van der Voort, Bobby Bok and Ilian Velikov distribution maps | The taxonomy and systematics of European reptiles and amphibians have changed a lot in Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | recent years, yet there is no modern, up-to-date field guide available that covers all the 9781408154595 | #218433A | £16.99 species. This new book addresses this deficiency. Add to basket

The Origin of Snakes 250 pages | 16 colour & 40 b/w Insights from Morphology and the Fossil Record illustrations | Michael Wayne Caldwell Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | The Origin of Snakes presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding 9781482251340 | #223655A | £49.99 of snake origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology Add to basket (herpetology), as well as ideas from morphology ...

Fishes

Tanganyika Cichlids in their Natural Habitat 400 pages | 1200+ colour photos | Ad Konings Hardback | 03/2015 | #227397A | The 400+ pages of this long-awaited revision of the definitive work on the cichlids of Lake £62.99 Add to basket Tanganyika contain a wealth of new information, with more than 1200 photos, most taken in the lake, showing all the currently known species.

The Sharks of Sri Lanka 216 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Rex Ian de Silva, Jayantha Jinasena and Marie Levine illustrations, 1 table | Sri Lanka boasts 61 species of sharks in its seas. The Sharks of Sri Lanka is the first publication Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789558576359 | to deal comprehensively with this group of fascinating and amazing creatures. This book is #227418A | £34.99 Add to basket written by Rex I. De Silva, a diver ...

Invertebrates

Fauna Iberica, Volume 41: Annelida: Polychaeta IV 413 pages | plates with b/w line Julio Parapar drawings | Fauna Ibérica, Volume 41: Annelida: Polychaeta IV advances knowledge of the polychaete Hardback | 12/2015 | 9788400100063 | annelids of the coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. This volume includes a #227423A | £59.99 Add to basket detailed study of families Glyceridae ...

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of New Guinea 120 pages | 36 colour photos, ~250 Albert G Orr, Vincent J Kalkman and Stephen Richards colour illustrations, 300+ b/w This book is a companion to the Field Guide to the Damselflies of New Guinea published in 2013 illustrations | by the same authors and covers the 'true' dragonflies, or Anisoptera. With it the reader can Paperback | NYP 12/2015 | #227464A | identify the approximately 175 species presently known from ... £17.99 Add to basket

Gorgonians (Octocorallia) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands 118 pages | colour illustrations, b/w JS Yogesh Kumar, C Raghunathan, R Raghuraman and Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman maps | Gorgonians are marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, which include sea fan, sea whips, Paperback | 05/2014 | 9788181713728 corals, sea anemones and other related species. Based on structural differences in their | #227267A | £36.50 Add to basket symmetry, the Anthozoans are divided into three subclasses ...

Handbook of Zoology, Volume 4/38: Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 1 567 pages | figures and tables | Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga Hardback | 12/2005 | 9783110171303 | partim) #160749A | £328.00 Add to basket Rolf G Beutel and Richard AB Leschen Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | This book is a revised edition of the first of three volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series 9783110249064 | #227453A | £276.00 which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With over 380,000 described species, Add to basket Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich ...

Handbook on Major Hemipteran Predators of India 43 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Animesh Bal and B Biswas Paperback | 11/2013 | 9788181713599 Predatory nature is found in some of the insect orders, as it is seen in the Hemipteran bugs. | #227266A | £23.50 Add to basket Among Hemiptera some species which belong to different farnilies are predators, such as Assassin-bugs (Reduviidae), Pirate-bugs (Anthocoidae) ...

Living Terebras of Western Atlantic (In Addition Fossil Terebras of 346 pages | 64 plates with colour photos Caribbean Area) (2-Volume Set) | Paperback | 11/2015 | #227350A | Umberto Aubry, Rosa Gargiulo and Salvatore Russo £99.99 Add to basket Study and revision of the Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, a group or family of small to large predatory marine gastropods. This book deals with living Terebridae of the Western Atlantic and includes fossils ...

Lycaenidae Part 4 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region) 130 pages | colour photos, colour Subfamily Polyommatinae, Tribe Polyommatini, Genus Polyommatus, Subgenus illustrations, b/w line drawings, colour Agrodiaetus distribution maps | Gian Cristoforo Bozano and Wolfgang Eckweiler Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | #227317A | The fourth part to deal with members of the Lycaenidae. This part focuses on butterflies of the £29.99 Add to basket subgenus Agrodiaetus, genus Polyommatus.

On the Fauna of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of South 63 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; Western Ghats tables | Paperback | 11/2015 | 9788181714213 PM Sureshan | #227286A | £29.99 Add to basket Parasitic Hymenoptera play a vital role in terrestrial ecosystems in the control of insect pests attacking crops. The family Pteromalidae is one of the largest and taxonomically difficult families of the super family Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) ...

Scorpion 208 pages | 70 colour photos and Louise M Pryke illustrations & 30 b/w photos and b/w From the dawn of civilization scorpions have captured the human imagination. Yet the scorpion illustrations | is a misunderstood animal with a bad reputation that overshadows its many exceptional Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | qualities. Older than dinosaurs, these small arthropods ... 9781780235929 | #226662A | £9.99 Add to basket

Sperm Competition in Butterflies 140 pages | 33 colour & 52 b/w Mamoru Watanabe illustrations, 31 colour tables | Sperm Competition in Butterflies describes about 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | experimental work on butterfly sperm competition. It considers the reproductive morphology 9784431559436 | #227356A | £74.50 and sperm utilization interests of males and females ... Add to basket

ZooKeys 535: Annotated Check List of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of 136 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | America North of Mexico Paperback | 11/2015 | 9789546427915 | #227144A | £36.99 Add to basket Brian G Scholtens and MA Solis This is the first complete update to the check list of Pyraloidea in America north of Mexico in over thirty years. The authors list 861 species of Crambidae and 681 species of Pyralidae for a total of 1542 species, an increase of 10% since ...

Palaeontology

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany 335 pages | b/w photos, b/w A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases illustrations, tables | Amber M VanDerwarker and Tanya M Peres Hardback | 01/2010 | 9781441909343 | In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and #184084A | £81.00 Add to basket collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. Paperback | 12/2014 | 9781489984753 However, there are relatively few attempts to ... | #227325A | £80.99 Add to basket

Prehistoric Mammals of Nepal 114 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Ramesh Shrestha Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789937296724 In Nepal some 26 different types of prehistoric mammals are known to have existed, as | #227451A | £28.99 Add to basket evidenced by the discovery of fossilized body parts in different parts of the country by various palaeontologists. The area of present-day Nepal used ...

Marine & Freshwater Biology

Iconographia Diatomologica, Volume 26: Lake Baikal: Hotspot of 656 pages | 249 plates with b/w photos Endemic Diatoms II | Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Maxim S Kulikovskiy, Horst Lange-Bertalot and Irina V Kuznetsova 9783874294904 | #227425A | £187.00 A provisional inventory of achnanthoid, fragilariod, canal-raphe diatoms and the genus Add to basket Diploneis in Lake Baikal. This volume includes revisions of ditoms from the following genera: Cymatopleura, Nitzschia ...

General Natural History

A Brief History of Creation 336 pages | 15 illustrations | Science and the Search for the Origin of Life Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Bill Mesler and H James Cleaves II 9780393083552 | #227285A | £18.99 How did life begin? It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the Add to basket centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's most revolutionary advances including ...

Beyond the Bear 224 pages | 16 b/w photos | How I Learned to Live and Love Again After Being Blinded by a Bear Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780762784554 | Dan Bigley and Deborah McKinney #206109A | £21.99 Add to basket A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a 9781493016426 | #227456A | £17.99 stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's ... Add to basket

Birders of Africa 360 pages | 16 colour & 49 b/w History of a Network illustrations | Nancy J Jacobs Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs 9780300209617 | #226994A | £54.99 the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, Add to basket and taxidermists who assisted them.

Birdman: The Art of William T. Cooper (All Regions, PAL) 1 disc, runtime: 28 min, PAL, rating: E | Sarah Scragg DVD | 01/2014 | #227347A | £28.86 A 28 minute documentary following the development of Bill Cooper as an artist. The DVD Add to basket includes 9 additional video clips including tips on techniques and time-lapses of his paintings evolving. This intimate documentary follows ...

D'une Foret l'Autre [English / French] 104 pages | 67 b/w photos | Bae Bien-U, Yannick Mercoyrol, Jean d'Haussonville, Lorand Hegyi and Robert Fleck Hardback | 09/2015 | 9782757210130 | Bae Bien-U is undoubtedly the greatest living photographer in Korea today. For over forty years #226430A | £19.50 Add to basket he has been a tireless photographer of landscapes, particularly forests, in which the human form never figures. His images are spectacularly ...

John Chapman Frye, University of Kansas 59 pages | 27 colour & b/w photos and Geologist, Researcher, Teacher, Administrator b/w illustrations | Daniel F Merriam and James D Merriam Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780983359968 John Chapman Frye arrived in Kansas in 1938, leaving in 1954. In the 16 years at the | #213150A | £26.99 Add to basket University of Kansas he essentially founded the basics for geology of the Plio-Pleistocene deposits in the state. He published two books on the subject ...

Life in the Dark 312 pages | 222 colour photos | Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Dante Fenolio 9781421418636 | #227420A | £25.99 Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed Add to basket habitats are absent of sunlight. This strange and fascinating world of complete darkness is not a solitary place – it is inhabited by millions ...

Rethinking Ancient Woodland 288 pages | 73 b/w illustrations | The Archaeology and History of Woods in Norfolk Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781909291577 | Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson #227320A | £34.99 Add to basket 'Ancient woodland' is a term widely used in England for long-established semi-natural woods, shaped by centuries of traditional management. As an official designation, it describes woods which have existed since the early seventeenth ...

The Burren & the Aran Islands 122 pages | colour photos, b/w A Walking Guide illustrations, colour maps | Tony Kirby Paperback | 08/2014 | 9781848892002 The Burren and the Aran Islands, with their unique combination of flora, fauna and landscape, | #227275A | £12.99 Add to basket are explored by large numbers of walkers annually. This revised guide to the best walking routes in the region has clear descriptions and additions ...

Virtuoso by Nature 445 pages | The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672) Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | Tim Birkhead and Michael Willoughby 9789004285316 | #227458A | £128.00 Francis Willughby, together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. Together Add to basket they were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived ...

Witmer Stone 424 pages | b/w illustrations | The Fascination of Nature Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780692229385 Scott McConnell | #227392A | £21.50 Add to basket Witmer Stone (1866-1939) was one of the preeminent ornithologists of his day, and has been called one of the last of the "great naturalists". In addition to his involvement in the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), including ...

Regional & Travel

Animals of Kruger National Park 176 pages | 200+ colour photos | Keith Barnes Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | This compact and stunningly illustrated field guide is an essential companion for any safari in 9780691161785 | #227281A | £19.95 South Africa's Kruger National Park – one of the largest, most iconic, and most visited Add to basket conservation areas in Africa. Featuring a ...

Australian Wildlife After Dark 160 pages | colour photos | Martyn Robinson and Bruce Thomson Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Australia is a land of many unique animals, some of which are active only during the cooler 9781486300723 | #227452A | £31.82 evening and night-time and so are rarely seen. These are the after dark animals so widespread Add to basket yet so little noticed by humans, whether in our ...

Beyond the Fell Wall 96 pages | b/w illustrations | Richard Skelton and Michael Kirkman Hardback | 11/2015 | 9781908213297 | Richard Skelton has spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley, high in the Furness hills #227288A | £11.99 Add to basket of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days are spent beating the valley's bounds, exploring ...

Collins Traveller's Guide - Wildlife of the Galapagos 288 pages | 650+ colour photos, Julian Fitter, Daniel Fitter and David Hosking illustrations and maps | Since its first publication more than a decade ago, Wildlife of the Galápagos has become the Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | definitive, classic field guide to the natural splendors of this amazing part of the world. Now 9780008156732 | #227300A | £16.99 fully updated, this essential ... Add to basket

Gods of the Morning 294 pages | no illustrations | A Bird's Eye View of a Highland Year Hardback | 03/2015 | 9781782114154 | Sir John Lister-Kaye #220742A | £14.99 Add to basket For more than three decades, John Lister-Kaye has been enraptured by the spectacular Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | seasonal metamorphosis at Aigas, the world-renowned Highlands field centre. Over the years, 9781782114178 | #227409A | £9.99 the glen's wildlife has come to infiltrate his soul ... Add to basket

In Pursuit of Spring 200 pages | 50+ b/w photos | Edward Thomas and Alexandra Harris Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | In March 1913, as the storm clouds of the Great War gathered, Edward Thomas took a bicycle 9781908213433 | #227289A | £11.99 ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills in Somerset. The great poet recorded his journey with Add to basket photographs and in notebooks, later publishing ...

Loe Bar and the Sandhill Rustic Moth 346 pages | 47 colour & b/w photos and The Biogeography, Ecology and History of a Coastal Shingle Bar colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Adrian Spalding and Jeremy A Thomas Hardback | 08/2015 | 9789004270299 | In Loe Bar and the Sandhill Rustic Moth, Adrian Spalding examines the survival of plants and #222846A | £62.50 Add to basket animals on Loe Bar, a shingle beach on the coast of Cornwall, in the context of its history, geomorphology and exposure to the Atlantic ...

Rhayader by Nature 260 pages | 275 colour photos, colour The Wildlife of a Small Welsh Town and its Surrounding Countryside maps, 4 tables | Bob Dennison, Steve Jones, Richard Knight, Sorcha Lewis, Phil Ward, Ray Woods and Jennifer Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780993423314 Holland | #227415A | £19.99 Add to basket Rhayader is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, in the county of Radnorshire. Rhayader by Nature tells you all you need to know about the wildlife, geology and landscape of Rhayader and the surrounding area. The authors ...

Southwest USA and Four Corners 36 pages | colour photos | Jason Sargerson Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780957504844 This book is an introduction to the South West United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico | #227348A | £11.99 Add to basket and Utah). It covers key places of interest in the Four Corners region including National Parks and National Monuments along with other attractions ...

Suizokukan Pia Zenkoku-Ban [Pia's Nationwide Aquaria] 130 pages | colour photos, colour maps MOOK | This is the most recent version of Pia's aquarium guide for Japan, with information from the last Paperback | 03/2015 | 9784835624563 two years. From Hokkaido to Okinawa, it lists the 115 aquaria across the country. This is a | #227334A | £21.99 Add to basket thorough guide with behind-the-scenes information ...

Wildlife of Madagascar 272 pages | 500+ colour photos | Ken Behrens and Keith Barnes Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the world's great natural treasures and 9780691161716 | #227283A | £19.95 ecotourism destinations. Like Galápagos, it is a laboratory of evolution, but on a much larger Add to basket scale, since it is home to nearly an entire ...

Botany & Plant Science

Britain's Green Allies 144 pages | Medicinal Plants in Wartime Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781784623364 Peter G Ayres | #227382A | £12.50 Add to basket In 1914, and again in 1939, Britain's supply of vital drugs and antiseptics needed by both its armies and its civilian population was cut off because German pharmaceutical companies dominated world markets. The drugs most difficult ...

Champion Trees of Washington State 120 pages | 90 b/w photos, 11 b/w Robert Van Pelt illustrations, maps | Documents the largest known examples of trees in the state, 1,350 in all, belonging to 869 Hardback | 08/2015 | 9780295997452 | species or cultivated varieties. Of these, 45 are the biggest in the nation. #227366A | £60.99 Add to basket

Diatom Monographs, Volume 18: Diatoms from Ship Ballast Sediments 234 plates with b/w photos | (With Consideration of a Few Additional Species of Spe Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9783874294911 | #227196A | £76.99 Maria C lia Villac, Irena Kaczmarska and Fames Ehrman Add to basket When ships need to take in water from the environment to serve as ballast, organisms and suspended inorganic materials are also picked up. During the voyage, some of the living and non-living particulate matter tends to settle to the bottom ...

Flora de la Republica de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fasciculo 480 pages | 60 plates with colour photos 21 (2-Volume Set) | Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783874294867 | Poaceae II: Pharoideae a Chloridoideae #227424A | £169.00 Add to basket Luis Catasus Guerra This volume completes the treatment of Poaceae within the Flora de la República de Cuba series. It covers Pharoiodeae, Bambusoideae, Oryzoideae, Pooideae, Arundinoideae, Micrairoideae, Aristoideae, Chloridoideae.

Flora of Glamorgan 492 pages | b/w illustrations | Arthur E Wade, Quentin ON Kay and R Gwynn Ellis Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | Glamorgan has a rich and diverse flora with over 80% of the vascular plant flora of Wales being 9781784270797 | #227410A | £64.99 recorded in the county. This is the first account for 86 years of the flora of the old county of Add to basket Glamorgan and the first to treat fully its ...

Flore Nordique du Quebec et du Labrador, Volume 2 [Nordic Flora of 711 pages | colour photos, b/w line Quebec and Labrador, Volume 2] drawings, distribution maps | Hardback | 08/2015 | 9782763722771 | Serge Payette #227276A | £87.99 Add to basket This book is the second of four volumes on the flora of vascular plants of northern Quebec and Labrador, from the 54th parallel north to Hudson Strait, from James Bay and Hudson Bay in the west, to Labrador Sea in the east. Here is a book ...

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Asphodelaceae 43 pages | 8 b/w line drawings, 1 b/w Daniel JL Geerinck map | The Asphodelaceae family is represented in Central Africa by four genera with 28 species, plus Paperback | 12/2015 | #227428A | 5 exotic ones escaping from cultivation. The family comprises amongst others the showy £15.99 Add to basket cultivated species from the genera Aloe and ...

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Hydrocharitaceae 47 pages | 14 b/w line drawings, 1 b/w JJ Symoens and Marc SM Sosef map | The Hydrocharitaceae form a small family of water plants and is represented in Central Africa Paperback | 12/2015 | #227429A | by 6 genera with 15 species. £15.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Hydroleaceae 10 pages | 1 b/w line drawing, 1 b/w E Fischer map | The small herbaceous family Hydroleaceae is represented in Central Africa by a single species: Paperback | 12/2015 | #227430A | Hydrolea palustris. £11.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Ixonanthaceae 14 pages | 1 b/w line drawing, 1 b/w James W Byng map | The small tropical family Ixonanthaceae comprises shrubs and trees and is represented in Paperback | 12/2015 | #227431A | Central Africa by a single genus with 3 species. £12.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Picrodendraceae 11 pages | 1 b/w line drawing, 1 b/w James W Byng map | The small tropical family Picrodendraceae comprises dioecious shrubs and trees and is Paperback | 12/2015 | #227432A | represented in Central Africa by a single genus with 2 species. £11.99 Add to basket

Flore d'Afrique Centrale: Spermatophytes, Plumbaginaceae 14 pages | 3 b/w line drawings, 1 b/w S Ntore map | The family Plumbaginaceae is represented in Central Africa by 2 genera and 5 species, 2 of Paperback | 12/2015 | #227433A | which are planted in gardens from where they occasionally escape. £12.99 Add to basket

Geraniums 64 pages | Margaret Stone Paperback | 05/2015 | 9780901687296 Not to be confused with the tender bedding plants often called geraniums, but which are | #227383A | £13.50 Add to basket botanically Pelargonium, this booklet is concerned with the true Geranium or Cranesbill which are hardy perennials. The booklet describes ...

Kiwifruit: The Genus Actinidia 308 pages | illustrations | Hongwen Huang Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | Kiwifruit: The Genus Actinidia includes extensive and full coverage of scientific and applied 9780128030660 | #227280A | £125.00 information ranging from basic taxonomy, population genetics, and natural resources/ Add to basket distribution to domestication history and breeding ...

Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Systematics 294 pages | 9 plates with colour Elvira Horandl and Marc S Appelhans illustrations | The rapid development of technologies targeting at the analysis of genomic resources (next- Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783874294928 | generation sequencing) has revolutionized biological sciences. For biological systematics and #227427A | £67.99 Add to basket biodiversity research, the application of molecular ...

Orchids of Brazil / Orquideas do Brasil, Volume 1: Oncidiinae 1 224 pages | colour photos | Dalton Holland Baptista, Patricia A Harding and Americo Docha Neto Hardback | 01/2011 | 9780983674702 | This is the first volume of a series intended to encompass every Brazilian orchid species. In this #227287A | £63.99 Add to basket volume, the authors describe all known species of contained 16 genera, most of which were once known as Oncidium and are closely ...

Plantes Utiles du Bas-Congo, Republique Democratique du Congo 407 pages | colour photos | [Useful Plants of Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo Paperback | 01/2014 | 9780992898601 | #227419A | £48.99 Add to basket Paul Latham and Augustin Konda ku Mbuta Plantes Utiles du Bas-Congo, Republique Democratique du Congo is designed to encourage the planting and conservation of useful plants. It is translated from the original English edition and rich in illustrations. Each species ...

Plants and People 227 pages | 50 b/w photos and b/w Origin and Development of Human-Plant Science Relationships illustrations | Christopher Cumo Paperback | 10/2015 | 9781498707084 An exploration of the relationship between plants and people from early agriculture to modern- | #227294A | £49.99 Add to basket day applications of biotechnology in crop production, Plants and People: Origin and Development of Human–Plant Science Relationships ...

Plants and the Plague 233 pages | b/w line drawings | The Herbal Frontline Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780954415891 Marcus Harrison | #227381A | £9.99 Add to basket Plague has gone down in history as one of the terrors of humanity, and if there was perhaps but one word that conjured fear in the minds of people centuries ago it would have been that of 'plague'. Without any understanding of ...

Plants of Central Queensland 600 pages | colour photos, colour Identification and Uses of Native and Introduced Species distribution maps | Eric Anderson Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Conservation and sustainable productivity are vital issues for Australia. In order to manage 9781486302253 | #227449A | £145.45 vegetation well from an agricultural, recreational or conservation point of view, an Add to basket understanding of individual plant species is important.

Remarkable Plants of Vanuatu / Plantes Remarquables du Vanuatu 256 pages | colour photos, colour Laurence Ramon, Chanel Sam and Hanington Tate illustrations, 1 colour map | This guide on the flora of Vanuatu is intended for the general public, and is a co-publication Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782366621570 between New York Botanical Garden Press and Biotope. The 236 plants described in the guide | #227422A | £32.99 Add to basket have been included for their remarkable ...

The Algae World 606 pages | 121 colour & 57 b/w Dinabandhu Sahoo and Joseph Seckbach illustrations | The Algae World has been carefully written and edited with an interdisciplinary appeal and aims Hardback | 12/2015 | 9789401773201 | to bring all aspects of Algae together in one volume. The 22 chapters are divided into two #227279A | £135.00 Add to basket different parts which have been authored ...

The Mycota, Volume 3: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 414 pages | 21 colour & 29 b/w Dirk Hoffmeister illustrations | This new edition provides a comprehensive look at the molecular genetics and biochemical basis Hardback | 12/2004 | 9783540426301 | of fungal biology, covering important model organisms such as Aspergilli while also integrating #124419A | £278.50 Add to basket advances made with zygomycetes and basidiomycetes ... Hardback | NYP 02/2016 | 9783319277882 | #227352A | £180.00 Add to basket

Animal & General Biology

Biocode: The New Age of Genomics 196 pages | 9 b/w photos and b/w Dawn Field and Neil Davies illustrations | The living world runs on genomic software – what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780199687756 | – the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific #216642A | £16.99 Add to basket discovery: the growing ... Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780199687763 | #227333A | £9.99 Add to basket

Chicken Nutrition 355 pages | A Guide for Nutritionists and Poultry Professionals Paperback | 01/2013 | 9781899043422 Rick Kleyn | #227353A | £74.99 Add to basket This is the most up to date, complete and practical guide to chicken nutrition that you can buy. It covers the underlying theory of poultry nutrition making it easier to recognise problems in the field. As the most important ...

Diseases of Coral 600 pages | 40 illustrations | Cheryl M Woodley, Craig A Downs, Andrew W Bruckner, James W Porter and Sylvia B Galloway Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world's coral 9780813824116 | #227345A | £117.00 reefs. There is a great interest from many in preserving coral reefs. Unfortunately, the field of Add to basket epizootiology is disorganized and lacks ...

Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates (6-Volume Set) 1363 pages | colour & b/w photos, Andreas Wanninger colour & b/w illustrations | This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental Hardback | 11/2015 | 9783709118979 | biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, #227354A | £252.50 Add to basket organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an ...

Not So Different 352 pages | Finding Human Nature in Animals Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Nathan H Lents 9780231178327 | #227284A | £23.99 Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold Add to basket "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get ...

Evolutionary Biology

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 176 pages | 8 b/w illustrations | James Lovelock Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | In this classic work that continues to inspire many readers, Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea 9780198784883 | #227362A | £8.99 that the Earth functions as a single organism. Written for non-scientists, Gaia is a journey Add to basket through time and space in search of evidence ...

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 328 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Nick Bostrom Hardback | 07/2014 | 9780199678112 | The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these #209905A | £18.99 Add to basket distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer ... 9780198739838 | #227277A | £9.99 Add to basket

Ecology

Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems 330 pages | 28 colour illustrations, 18 Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions tables | Joao Canning-Clode Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | When organisms are deliberately or accidentally introduced into a new ecosystem a biological 9783110438659 | #227454A | £159.00 invasion may take place. These so-called 'invasive species' may establish, spread and Add to basket ecologically alter the invaded community.

Habitats & Ecosystems

Atlas of Protected Areas in Rio de Janeiro State / Atlas das Unidades de 172 pages | colour photos, colour maps Conservacao do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | Hardback | 06/2015 | 9788582200087 | Patricia Figueiredo de Castro #227315A | £92.50 Add to basket This book is the new revised, expanded and practical format edition of the Atlas das Unidades de Conservação da Natureza do Estado do Rio de Janeiro released in 2001. The authors hope that this work, in a bilingual ...

Historic Acadia National Park 224 pages | 50 b/w illustrations | Catherine Schmitt Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | If parks could speak, what would they say? Historic Acadia National Park is a vibrant collection 9781493018130 | #225715A | £10.95 of true stories that share different aspects of Acadia National Park's history. From its glacial Add to basket origins, to its rising peaks ...

Leben in Gezeiten: Die Nordseekueste Entdecken [Life amongst the 216 pages | 41 colour photos, 44 Tides: Discovering the North Sea Coast] illustrations | Paperback | NYP 01/2016 | Jorge Gross, Hansjoerg Kuester, Manfred Thies and Klaus Waechtler 9783894324353 | #227448A | £29.99 The tidal flats in the Wadden Sea, the intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea, Add to basket are not just a recreational area with increasing visitor numbers, but is also an ecologically very sensitive and exciting habitat, which is ...

Lebensraume der Elbe und ihrer Auen [Habitats of the Elbe and its 380 pages | 96 illustrations, 31 tables | Floodplains] Hardback | NYP 12/2015 | 9783510653010 | #226821A | £49.99 Mathias Scholz, Sabine Stab, Frank Dziock and Klaus Henle Add to basket Hardly any other river in recent years has been at the center of such public interest as the Elbe, one of the major rivers of Central Europe. If it initially was a symbol for the division between East and West, it has now become a symbol ...

Savanna: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 32 b/w illustrations | Peter A Furley Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Savannas form one of the largest and most important of the world's ecological zones. Covering 9780198717225 | #225789A | £7.99 one fifth of the Earth's land surface, they are home to some of the world's most iconic animals Add to basket and form an extremely important ...

Soil Science Simplified 272 pages | illustrations | Neal S Eash, Thomas J Sauer, Deb O'Dell, Evah Odoi, Aga Razvi, Forbes Walker and Mary C Hardback | 12/2015 | 9781118540695 | Bratz #227455A | £40.50 Add to basket Already renowned as a user-friendly beginners guide to soil science, Soil Science Simplified, 6th Edition is an updated version of the beloved textbook that includes even more thorough applications of soil science to interdisciplinary ...

The Forests of Michigan 344 pages | 154 photos, 24 illustrations, Donald I Dickmann and Larry A Leefers 22 maps, 24 tables | Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Forests of Michigan takes a Hardback | 10/2003 | 9780472098163 | comprehensive look at the natural history, ecology, management, economic importance, and #142418A | £60.50 Add to basket use of the rich and varied forests that cover about half ... Paperback | 10/2003 | 9780472068166 | #142419A | £32.50 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780472036530 | #227357A | £46.50 Add to basket

The Soils of Poland 250 pages | 20 colour & 20 b/w photos, Renata Maria Bednarek, Michal Jankowski and Marcin Switoniak illustrations and maps | The Soils of Poland gives an extensive characterisation of the soils of Poland, as well as Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | information about soil-forming environment, soil cover description, soil classification and land 9789401786331 | #225823A | £89.99 use. Add to basket

Veld Management 256 pages | 380 colour photos and Principles and Practices illustrations | Frits van Oudtshoorn Paperback | 11/2015 | 9781920217297 Veld is a natural resource vital to our survival on earth. About 80% of our beautiful country | #227404A | £19.95 Add to basket consists of veld. Most of this area is used for livestock and game ranching as well as for biodiversity conservation and recreation. Good veld ...

Wetlands Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Wetlands Structure and Function 800 pages | 60 colour illustrations | C Max Finlayson, Glenn R Guntenspergen and Beth A Middleton Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | In discussion with Ramsar’s Max Finlayson and Nick Davidson, and several members of the 9789048134939 | #187630A | £449.50 Society of Wetland Scientists, Springer is proposing the development of a new Encyclopedia of Add to basket Wetlands, a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting ...

Conservation & Biodiversity

An Introduction to Primate Conservation 368 pages | Serge A Wich and Andrew J Marshall Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and 9780198703389 | #227241A | £74.99 applied management practices for primate conservation. Add to basket Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780198703396 | #227242A | £37.50 Add to basket

CITES and Timber 92 pages | A Guide to CITES-Listed Tree Species Paperback | NYP 03/2016 | Madeleine Groves and Catherine Rutherford 9781842465929 | #227457A | £39.99 CITES and Timber covers the main timber species regulated by the Convention on International Add to basket Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). It provides information on the key issues regarding the implementation of the Convention for this ...

Livre Rouge des Especes Menacees en Alsace [Red Book of Endangered 512 pages | 320 colour photos | Species in Alsace] Hardback | 11/2015 | 9782952004817 | #227344A | £29.99 Add to basket Vadim Heuacker, Stephanie Kaempf, Raynald Moratin and Yves Muller The French region of Alsace lies in the east of the country and borders Germany and Switzerland. More than 10 years after the first edition of the Red Book of endangered nature in Alsace, this updated version is the reference awaited ...

Physical Sciences

A Photographic Guide to Shetland's Geology 108 pages | colour photos | David Malcolm and Robina R Barton Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781904746973 This book is the first photographic guide to the geology of the Shetland Island's. Shetland's | #227330A | £20.99 Add to basket landscape, its hills and beaches, cliffs and stacks, are not only places of extraordinary beauty but have locked up within them secrets ...

Building Stones & Stone Buildings of Staffordshire 352 pages | 231 colour illustrations | PA Floyd Paperback | 10/2015 | 9780722345436 The UK is rich in the use of local natural stone for many buildings, and this book describes the | #227440A | £18.99 Add to basket building stones and stone building of Staffordshire. - Historical and geological background to the wealth of stone utilized throughout ...

Contributions to the Geology of Kansas by University of Kansas 163 pages | 63 colour & b/w photos and Geologists b/w illustrations | Paperback | 02/2014 | 9780983359951 With Emphasis on 1866-1966 | #213149A | £31.99 Add to basket Daniel F Merriam and James D Merriam This is a story about the geology of Kansas and the geologists at the University of Kansas, both geology department faculty and Survey scientists. KU was founded in 1866 and from that time on geology or earth science has been taught, and ...

Dreams of Other Worlds 450 pages | 8 plates with 24 colour The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration photos and colour illustrations; 41 b/w Chris Impey and Holly Henry photos, 13 b/w illustratio | Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780691147536 | windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and #207513A | £14.99 Add to basket planetary science, Dreams of Other Worlds tells the ... Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780691169224 | #227468A | £16.95 Add to basket

South West Stone Quarries 216 pages | 241 colour illustrations | Building Stone Quarries in the West of England Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780906294833 Peter Stanier | #227441A | £17.99 Add to basket The South West of England has provided quality building stone for many of Britain's finest buildings over many centuries, and continues to do so. Locally the stone contributes to the distinctive character of many of the region's ...

The Cosmic Cocktail 250 pages | 8 plates with colour photos Three Parts Dark Matter and colour illustrations; 42 b/w photos, Katherine Freese 31 b/w illustrations | The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe – from our bodies and the air we breathe Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780691153353 | to the planets and stars – constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The #211374A | £19.95 Add to basket rest is known as dark matter and ... Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780691169187 | #227469A | £13.95 Add to basket

Sustainable Development

Organisms and Personal Identity 256 pages | Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins Hardback | NYP 03/2016 | AM Ferner 9781848935730 | #219537A | £84.99 David Wiggins's contribution to metaphysics, logic and ethics has been widely recognized, but Add to basket the connections between his work and recent issues in the philosophy of biology have been overlooked. This study demonstrates how Wiggins' ...

Data Analysis

Arduino for Biologists 304 pages | Ed Baker Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Technology has become crucial to biological science, from sensor networks to drones. These 9781784270421 | #223948A | £29.99 technologies are often expensive and difficult to modify, even if they do suit your specific Add to basket needs. Arduino is a hugely popular, low-cost platform ... Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9781784270438 | #223949A | £59.99 Add to basket

Experimental Design for the Life Sciences 208 pages | 35 b/w illustrations | Graeme D Ruxton and Nick Colegrave Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | The careful design of experiments lies at the core of good research. Experimental Design for the 9780198717355 | #227077A | £22.99 Life Sciences equips you with the skills you need to effectively design experiments, making this Add to basket essential aspect of the research ...

Semantic Web for the Life Sciences 356 pages | 50 b/w illustrations | Andrea Splendiani and Paolo Romano Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Offering a practical introduction for bioinformaticians, computational biologist, and other life 9781439873601 | #216625A | £49.99 scientists, Semantic Web for the Life Sciences explains the basic principles behind the semantic Add to basket web and explains how to build data ...

Reference

Exhibiting the Empire 304 pages | Cultures of Display and the British Empire Hardback | 10/2015 | 9780719091094 | John McAleer and John M MacKenzie #227384A | £74.99 Add to basket Exhibiting the Empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions ...

The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World 544 pages | colour photos, colour The Times illustrations, 320 colour maps | The latest edition of the world's most prestigious and authoritative world atlas, containing up-to- Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780007551408 | date world maps and thematic information curated by experts in geography and cartography. #227346A | £150.00 Add to basket The 14th edition contains over ...

Trusting Judgements 214 pages | 56 b/w illustrations, 4 How to Get the Best Out of Experts tables | Mark A Burgman Paperback | 10/2015 | 9781107531024 Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions | #227393A | £19.99 Add to basket without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781107112087 | scientific knowledge gaps. There are unprecedented ... #227394A | £54.99 Add to basket