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Monthly Catalogue April 2017 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. For those interested in insects, there is a lot to look forward to. First off, beetles: New Naturalist Volume 136 (due November) will be on beetles – standing orders for this will be processed nearer the time. Meanwhile, NHP Borneo has just published A Guide to Beetles of Borneo, while the Czech publisher Academia has published another volume in its Zoological Keys series dealing with beetle families of Central Europe. NatureBureau has announced A Photographic Guide to Insects of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean for August, to be written by Paul Brock, who also authored their wildly successful Comprehensive Guide to Insects of Britain & Ireland. Lastly, Siri Scientific Press will publish a Field Guide to Butterflies of The Philippines in May. But it doesn't stop there where invertebrates are concerned. Cambridge University Press has announced the second edition of Cephalopod Behaviour for September. With the help of a customer, we also discovered the existence of a large, bilingual photographic guide to Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico, published last August, which we will stock. Birdwatchers can look out for Shorebirds in Action (due July), written by Richard Chandler, which will introduce waders and their behaviour and the Guide to Seabirds of Southern Africa (due June). New Holland has announced Great British Birding Experiences (due July) which will compile a top 40 list of the best opportunities our Isles have to offer. But if you'd rather stay indoors, there are webcams trained on breeding peregrines in Exeter, and in August you can marvel at the winners of the second Bird Photographer of the Year competition. For botanists, there will be several field guides to look out for: Field Guide to Trees of Britain and Europe (due August), London's Street Trees (due May), and another photographic guide to Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean (due April). Harper Collins has announced Orchids for May, which promises to be a combination of a field guide and an art book. From Germany comes a popular edition of the Greek Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana, presenting 250 drawings of the most common plants from the original 5- volume work. More scholarly in tone is the monograph The World of Crocuses. Practising conservationists have several important works to consider adding to their bookshelves: Applied Wildlife Habitat Management, Mapping Ecosystem Services, and Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation, the latter describing the challenges of conserving biodiversity across different spatial scales. Island Press has announced Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice for May, which will be a collection of case studies and success stories. Chicago University Press has just published an incredibly interesting and revealing interdisciplinary history of overfishing with All the Boats on the Ocean, in which author Carmel Finley continues on earlier work. She shows how government subsidies instituted during the Cold War created a global fishing industry that has swept the oceans clean. Palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists have some very exciting books lined up. Indiana University Press just published another volume in their Life of the Past series: Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution. Columbia University Press has announced Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century (due September). Building on the work of the Alvarez team (who hypothesised a link between dinosaur extinction and an asteroid impact), this book further develops the geological school of thought of neocatastrophism, which places a greater emphasis on the role of cataclysms from above and below in Earth's geologic evolution. Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution (due August), by stalwart Jonathan B. Losos, discusses the latest developments in evolutionary biology, looking at the relative importance of both convergence and chance events in evolution. Ethologists will be interested in Mixed-Species Groups of Animals, due May, which offers the first book-length synthesis of the literature on the behaviour and community structure of these groups. Understanding Animal Behaviour (due August) will be more aimed at naturalists out in the field. As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor Mammals Wild Pigs in the United States 313 pages | 6 b/w plates, illustrations, maps | University of Georgia Press Their History, Comparative Morphology, and Current Status Paperback #235118 2008 9780820331379 £31.95 John J Mayer (Author), I Lehr Brisbin, Jr. (Author) Paperback reprint, originally published in 1991.With an estimated population of at least 500,000 distributed across nineteen states, the wild-living pig (Sus scrofa) is the most abundant free-ranging introduced ungulate in the United States. Until... Hunters of the Dunes 168 pages | colour photographs and illustrations | Protea Book House The Story of the Kalahari Lion Paperback #234949 2016 9781485306009 £24.99 Fritz Eloff (Author) Written in an accessible style, Eloff imparts information about the physical characteristics of the Kalahari lion, its habitat, role in the ecosystem and interaction with humans. The book concludes with the stories of a number of legendary male and... Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation 547 pages | 68 colour & 58 b/w photos and illustrations, 20 tables | Rick A Adams (Editor), Scott C Pedersen (Editor) Springer-Verlag Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this elusive group Paperback #234909 2016 9781493942282 £155.50 of mammals. Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation consists of 25 chapters and 57 authors Hardback #206961 2013 9781461473961 £155.50 from around the globe all writing on the most recent findingS on... 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The wolf was driven to brink of extinction through conscious government policy. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 provided the... Mammals: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press Tom S Kemp (Author) Paperback #234197 Sep-2017 9780198766940 £7.99 From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that lived 200 million years ago, mammals evolved into the huge variety of different kinds of animals we see today. Many species are still small, and follow... Keys for Identifying Mexican Mammals [English / Spanish] 528 pages | 233 b/w photos, 4 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda (Author), Ticul Álvarez (Author), Noé González-Ruiz (Author) University Press A remarkable achievement that took over 30 years to construct, Keys for Identifying Mexican Paperback #234835 2017 9781421422107 £28.99 Mammals is the only complete identification guide to Mexico's mammalian fauna. This unique book follows a bilingual arrangement, with identical... Fossil Horses of South America 127 pages | 23 colour & 21 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag Phylogeny, Systemics and Ecology Hardback #234841 May-2017 9783319558769 £59.99 José Luis Prado (Author), María Teresa Alberdi (Author) Fossil Horses of South America provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades. The contemporary South American mammalian communities were shaped by the... Guide Découverte des Mammifères des Alpes [Field Guide to the Mammals of the Alps] 272 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Laura Canalis (Author) BIOTOPE A complete and accessible guide to on one of the richest territories of France in number of wild Paperback #234870 2017 9782366621808 £46.99 mammal species. 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