June 2021 Monthly Catalogue
Welcome to the June 2021 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month.
We have another excellent selection of bird books this month, including several field guides. Bloomsbury is publishing Feathers: An Identification Guide to the Feathers of Western European Birds in November, Oxford University Press will publish the second edition of Guide to the Birds of China in August, and in October John Beaufoy will publish A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Middle East and the second edition of A Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of Canberra and the High Country. Two privately published books are Estrildid Finches of the World: A Photographic, Descriptive and Factual Guide to All 34 Genera of Estrildidae, coming in October, and Birding in Murcia: Where & What to See, which is now in stock. Other ornithology titles of interest are Hummingbirds: A Celebration of Nature's Jewels, coming from WILDGuides in October, and the paperback of Thinking Like a Parrot: Perspectives from the Wild, due November from the University of Chicago Press.
For other vertebrate groups, there are a few books each. Lynx has just published Mammals of Madagascar: with the Comoros, the Seychelles, Réunion and Mauritius, while Oxford University Press will publish How Giraffes Work in August. October will be a busy month with one title from Princeton University Press, Turtles of the World: A Guide to Every Family, and three titles from John Beaufoy: the second edition of A Naturalist’s Guide to the Mammals of Australia, A Photographic Field Guide to the Amphibians of Sri Lanka, and the third edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Asia.
Two noteworthy titles on invertebrates are Conservation Assessment of Scarabaeine Dung Beetles in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia: IUCN Red List Categories, Atlas and Ecological Notes, just published by SANBI, and Crabs: A Global Natural History, due October from Princeton University Press.
For botanists, there is the new BSBI Handbook Broomrapes of Britain & Ireland that is available now, while Wildflowers of the Sefton Coast will be published by the Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society in June. Tree-top scientist Meg Lowman chronicles her research in The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us, due August from Allen & Unwin. Mycologists, meanwhile, can look out for Corticoid Fungi of Europe, Volume 1: Acanthobasidium – Gyrodontium, which is available now and is the first of three planned books. If you would like to set up a standing order for this series, please get in touch with our customer services team.
Then there are a number of general field guides and natural history guides. In September we have Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago from WILDGuides and Wild Mull: A Natural History of the Island and its People from Pelagic Publishing, and in October we have Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists from Princeton University Press and A Photographic Field Guide to Wildlife of India from John Beaufoy.
On the topic of wildlife conservation, look out for The Last Lions of Africa: Stories from the Frontline in the Battle to Save a Species, due August from Allen & Unwin, the paperback of Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways, due September from Chelsea Green, and the third edition of Conservation and the Genomics of Populations, due October from Oxford University Press. Readers interested in climate change and other environmental issues will want to take a look at Jane Goodall's The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet, due November from Viking, the paperback of Sir Martin Rees's On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, due October from Princeton University Press, and Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers, due December from Oxford University Press.
For ecologists, we have Predator Ecology: Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response in September from Oxford University Press and Ocean Ecology: Marine Life in the Age of Humans in August from Princeton University Press. For evolutionary biologists we have How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives and Diversity, due November from Princeton University Press, and the paperback of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, due August from Bloomsbury.
Finally, good reading comes in the shape of two environmental history titles from Princeton University Press that are due November: Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History and When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be, and two nature writing titles: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape from Harper Collins, available now, and the paperback of Magdalena: River of Dreams – A Story of Colombia, due August from Vintage.
As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. In the meantime, stay safe and keep well.
Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor
Insects & other Invertebrates
Mosquitoes 570 pages | 350 colour & 100 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Identification, Ecology and Control Hardback #253730 2020 9783030116224 £109.99 Norbert Becker(Author), Dušan Petrić(Author), Marija Zgomba(Author), Clive Boase(Author), Minoo B Madon(Author), Christine Dahl(Author), Achim Kaiser(Author) Mosquitoes: Identification, Ecology and Control (which was previously published as Mosquitoes and their Control in its second edition) presents a wealth of information on the bionomics, systematics, ecology, research techniques and control of...
Faune de France, Volume 102: Hyménoptères Sphéciformes d’Europe, Volume 2: 440 pages | 30 colour photos, 487 b/w line drawings | Faune de France Systématique (2ème Partie): Crabroninae, Dinetinae, Eremiaspheciinae et Mellininae Paperback #253715 2021 9782903052423 £99.99 [Sphecoid Hymenoptera of Europe, Volume 2] Jacques Bitsch(Author), Alexander V Antropov(Contributor), Yvan Barbier(Contributor), Severiano Fernández Gayubo(Contributor), Hans-Joachim Jacobs(Contributor), Jean Leclercq(Contributor), Christian Schmid-Egger(Contributor), Konrad Schmidt(Contributor), Jakub Straka(Contributor) After the two volumes in this series dealing with the Sphecoid Hymenoptera of France and Western Europe, Jacques Bitsch has collaborated on this masterful new work with the best specialists – Alexander V. Antropov, Yvan Barbier, Severino-F...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Phylogenetics of Bees 290 pages | 12 colour & 55 b/w illustrations | CRC Press Rustem Abuzarovich Ilyasov(Author), Hyung Wook Kwon(Author) Paperback #253417 Aug-2021 9781032081816 £42.99 Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants. The Hardback #249213 2019 9781138504233 £150.00 ancestors of bees are assumed to be predatory wasps, which switched to pollen consumption. Further, bees co-evolved with flowering plants and divided into several...
Butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent 272 pages | no illustrations | Tshikolovets Publications Distributional Checklist Hardback #253408 2021 9788090708945 £69.99 Paul Van Gasse(Author) Butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent: Distributional Checklist includes all known Rhopalocera species found in what is now Pakistan, India (including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A total of 1450 species...
Crabs 224 pages | 160 colour photos and illustrations | Princeton University A Global Natural History Press Peter JF Davie(Author) Hardback #253495 Oct-2021 9780691201719 £19.99 This lavishly illustrated book offers a remarkable look at the world's crabs. More than 7,000 crab species, in 100 different families, are known today. Their unique physiology and complex behaviours have made them one of the most diverse and...
Iconotypes 688 pages | 1600 colour illustrations | Thames & Hudson A Compendium of Butterflies & Moths: Jones's Icones Complete Hardback #253519 Oct-2021 9780500024324 £64.99 Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OMNH)(Editor), Paul Smith(Foreword By), Richard I Vane-Wright(Introduction By) Jones's Icones contains finely delineated paintings of more than 760 species of Lepidoptera, many of which it described for the first time, marking a critical moment in the study of natural history. With Iconotypes Jones's seminal work is...
Conchophilia 224 pages | 85 colour illustrations | Princeton University Press Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe Hardback #253540 Jul-2021 9780691215761 £41.99 Marisa Anne Bass(Author), Anne Goldgar(Author), Hanneke Grootenboer(Author), Claudia Swan(Author), Stephanie S Dickey(Contributor), Anna Grasskamp(Contributor), Róisín Watson(Contributor) Among nature's most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of artisans, artists, collectors, and thinkers. Conchophilia delves into the intimate relationship between shells and people, offering an unprecedented...
Mexico: Butterflies 14 pages | colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications Jannah Brown(Illustrator), Enrique Leal C(Illustrator) Unbound #253546 2014 9781888538106 £9.99 Mexico has ten per cent of the world butterfly species or about 1,800 species. This full-colour, beautifully illustrated fold-out field guide slips easily into your pocket but accordions out to give you a spread of over 120 detailed, scientifically...
Pacific-Atlantic Mollusc Migration 882 pages | 205 colour & 43 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Pliocene Inter-Ocean Gateway Archives on Tjörnes, North Iceland Hardback #253566 2021 9783030596620 £109.99 Jón Eiríksson(Editor), Leifur A Símonarson(Editor) This volume sheds new light on the marine fauna and geological setting of the Tjörnes Sequence, North Iceland, which is a classic site for the Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the North Atlantic region. Readers will discover descriptions...
A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine 188 pages | colour photos, illustrations | North Country Press Dana Wilde(Author) Paperback #253626 2020 9781943424528 £29.99 A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine covers the fascinating facts of the spider families found in Maine and the Northeast, and is richly illustrated with photos, drawings, and graphics. Amateur and professional naturalists alike will find here a...
Conservation Assessment of Scarabaeine Dung Beetles in South Africa, Botswana and 808 pages | colour photos | South African National Biodiversity Institute Namibia (SANBI Publishing) IUCN Red List Categories, Atlas and Ecological Notes Hardback #253633 2021 9781928224396 £89.99 Adrian LV Davis(Author), Christian M Deschodt(Author), Clarke H Scholtz(Author) Accounts and photographs are provided for over 500 scarabaeine dung beetle species recorded in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. This amounts to an estimated 80% of the regional fauna with the missing species primarily belonging to a single tribe...
How to Read an Insect 224 pages | colour photos, illustrations | The History Press A Smart Guide to What Insects Do and Why Hardback #253690 Jun-2021 9780750997102 £19.99 Fred Piper(Author) How to Read an Insect takes you on an unforgettable tour of the insect world, presenting these amazing creatures as you have never seen them before.This stunningly illustrated guide puts a wealth of fascinating behaviours under the microscope –...
Ecological Illustrated of Common Ant Species from China [Chinese] 321 pages | colour photos | Henan Science and Technology Publishing Zhou Shanyi(Author) House Ants are very common on Earth, belonging to Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae. They are Paperback #253757 2020 9787534996979 £49.99 typical social insects with many species and large groups. A small ant colony has only a few dozen individuals, while a large ant colony can reach hundreds of...
Ground Beetles of Africa 208 pages | colour photos | Insect Books Vladimír Štrunc(Author) Hardback #253825 Jun-2021 9788090798014 £150.00 This guide helps you orient yourself among more than 800 representatives from about 160 genera of ground beetles from Africa structured according to tribes from Lorenz, W. (2005). Systematic List of Extant Ground Beetles of the World (Insecta...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 2 Habitats & Ecosystems
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology 1176 pages | 318 b/w illustrations | Routledge Ian Douglas(Editor), PML Anderson(Editor), David Goode(Editor), Michael C Houck(Editor), Hardback #253615 2020 9781138581357 £190.00 David Maddox(Editor), Harini Nagendra(Editor), Tan Puay Yok(Editor) This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbook's scope by including ecological design; consideration of cultural dimensions of the use and conservation of...
Urban Wildlife Management 569 pages | 214 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations, 84 Clark E Adams(Author) tables | CRC Press Continuing the tradition of the first two editions, Urban Wildlife Management, Third Edition, Paperback #253428 Jun-2021 9781032097961 £42.99 provides a comprehensive examination of the issues that have led to an increasing need for Hardback #227487 2016 9781498702010 £110.00 urban wildlife management. Urban Wildlife Management focuses not...
Wetlands 322 pages | 80 colour photos and illustrations, 24 b/w illustrations, tables Ecosystem Services, Restoration and Wise Use | Springer Nature Shuqing An(Editor), Jos TA Verhoeven(Editor) Paperback #253579 2020 9783030148638 £99.99 This volume explores major wetland ecosystem services, such as climate cooling and water Hardback #247076 2019 9783030148607 £129.99 quality improvement, and discusses the recent wetland conservation and restoration activities in China and neighboring countries. The role of wetlands in either...
Mangrove Forests in India 430 pages | 260 colour & 16 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Exploring Ecosystem Services Paperback #253558 2020 9783030205973 £49.99 Abhijit Mitra(Author) Hardback #247306 2019 9783030205942 £69.99 This is the first comprehensive science-based primer to highlight the unique ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests, and discuss how these services preserve the livelihoods of coastal populations. Mangrove Forests in India presents three...
Habitats of the World 560 pages | 650+ colour photos, 200 illustrations, 150 colour distribution A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists maps | Princeton University Press Iain D Campbell(Author), Ken Behrens(Author), Charley Hesse(Author), Phil Chaon(Author) Paperback #253467 Oct-2021 9780691197562 £24.99 Accurately identifying and understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder, naturalist, outdoors enthusiast, or ecologist who wants to get the most out of their experiences in the field. Habitats of the World is the first field guide to...
Écologie des Zones Humides: Concepts, Méthodes et Démarches [Wetland Ecology: 264 pages | illustrations | Editions Tec & Doc (Lavoisier) Concepts, Methods and Approaches] Paperback #253532 2014 9782743015503 £64.99 Jan-Bernard Bouzillé(Author) Écologie des Zones Humides offers a broad overview of scientific approaches and procedures useful for conducting monitoring and studies. The applied approach adopted here is based on concepts and notions of population biology and community...
Les Tourbières et la Tourbe: Géographie, Hydro-Écologie, Usages et Gestion 472 pages | illustrations | Editions Tec & Doc (Lavoisier) Conservatoire [Peatlands and Peat: Geography, Hydro-Ecology, Uses and Paperback #253533 2019 £110.00 Conservatory Management] Hervé Cubizolle(Author) Peatlands have been present on Earth for about 400 million years. Global distributed, these ecosystems have contributed to the evolution of the first terrestrial flora and fauna and offer palaeo-ecologists, soil scientists and geographers a valuable...
Indicateurs et Tableaux de Bord: Guide Pratique pour l'Évaluation Environnementale 32 pages | Editions Tec & Doc (Lavoisier) [Indicators and Dashboards: Practical Guide for Environmental Assessment] Paperback #253536 2005 9782743008079 £48.99 Philippe Girardin(Author), Laurence Guichard(Author), Christian Bockstaller(Author) This didactic guide presents the concepts and tools useful for evaluating the impact of human activities on the environment. The process of developing simple indicators as well as the different ways to aggregate them are described either in the form...
Paysage, Biodiversité Fonctionnelle et Santé des Plantes [Landscape, Functional 240 pages | b/w illustrations | Editions Quae Biodiversity and Plant Health] Paperback #253537 2019 9782759230136 £57.99 Sandrine Petit(Editor), Claire Lavigne(Editor) Agricultural environments, artificial though they are, are home to complex biodiversity. They host both species that affect the health of crops (weeds, insect pests, pathogens, etc.) and others, called auxiliaries, which regulate these pests, as well...
Caves and Karst of the Upper Midwest, USA 314 pages | 206 colour & 43 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin Nature Greg Brick(Editor), E Calvin Alexander, Jr.(Editor) Hardback #253686 2020 9783030546328 £109.99 This book discusses the karst and pseudokarst of the Upper Midwest, USA, consisting of the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois – the first regional synthesis in 40 years. Starting with an overview of the regional geology of what...
Big Karst Chambers 201 pages | 100 colour & 130 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Examples, Genesis, Stability Hardback #253770 2020 9783030587314 £119.99 Eric Gilli(Author) Big Karst Chambers documents and describes 32 natural caves from France and around the globe that have a width larger than 50 m, including data on the largest underground chamber in the world: Sarawak Chamber. Artificial caves are not able to be...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 3 The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe 364 pages | 114 colour & 20 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature A Nature Conservation Review Hardback #253780 2021 9783030598747 £119.99 Clive Hurford(Editor), Phil Wilson(Editor), Jonathan Storkey(Editor) This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status of arable habitats in Europe. Arable farming systems have evolved in the European landscape over more than ten thousand years and now occupy nearly 30% of the European land area....
Natural History
The Art of Botanical Illustration 360 pages | 126 plates with colour illustrations; 67+ b/w illustrations | Wilfrid Blunt(Author), William T Stearn(Author), Martyn Rix(Foreword By) Antique Collectors Club This major work, first published in 1950, is still considered the classic book on the subject. It Hardback #253752 2021 9781788841085 £34.99 provides a comprehensive, critical and well-illustrated survey of the portrayal of plants across over three thousand years, at a more compact size.Of...
Land of Wondrous Cold 287 pages | 24 b/w illustrations, 12 b/w maps | Princeton University The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice Press Gillen D'Arcy Wood(Author) Paperback #253043 Oct-2021 9780691229041 £14.99 Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The Hardback #248657 2020 9780691172200 £21.99 secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of...
The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction 152 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press Klaus Dodds(Author), Jamie Woodward(Author) Paperback #251164 Nov-2021 9780198819288 £8.99 The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities that call the Arctic 'home' this is unwelcome. A warming Arctic brings with it the spectre of...
Magdalena 417 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; 1 b/w map | Vintage River of Dreams – A Story of Colombia Paperback #253747 Aug-2021 9781529112214 £10.99 Wade Davis(Author) Hardback #251459 2020 9781847926104 £24.99 A captivating new book – from the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence – that illuminates Colombia's complex past, present, and future through the story of the great Río Magdalena.Travellers often become...
Inspire 272 pages | William Collins (HarperCollins imprint) Life Lessons from the Wilderness Paperback #253411 2021 9780008374075 £7.99 Ben Fogle(Author) Hardback #251584 2020 9780008374037 £19.99 The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more...
A Photographic Field Guide to Wildlife of India 400 pages | ~950 colour photos | John Beaufoy Publishing Bikram Grewal(Author) Paperback #253204 Oct-2021 9781913679019 £19.99 The Indian region is exceptionally rich in wildlife due to its wide variety of habitats and climates. This diversity supports a huge range of charismatic species from the iconic Bengal Tiger to Clouded Leopards, crocodiles to King Cobras, hornbills...
The Immeasurable Wilds 224 pages | 8 plates with colour illustrations; 200 b/w illustrations | Travellers to the Far North of Scotland, 1600 – 1900 Whittles Publishing Alastair Mitchell(Author) Paperback #253398 Nov-2021 9781849954921 £18.99 Towards the end of the 18th century the attention of mapmakers, explorers and travellers turned to the north of Scotland. The mountains that rise north of Stirling formed a formidable barrier for anyone wanting to visit the Highlands, and travellers...
Japan 336 pages | 600+ colour photos, colour illustrations, and colour The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago distribution maps | WILDGuides Mark Brazil(Author) Flexibound #253496 Sep-2021 9780691175065 £23.99 This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago. It explains how Japan's geology, geography, climate, seas and currents have forged conditions...
The World As It Once Was 288 pages | colour photos | George Dian Balan Wildlife Has Never Been More Gloriously Shown Before Hardback #253512 2021 9782805205903 £59.99 George Dian Balan(Author) All profits will be donated to save the very animals depicted, starting with assigning 24/7 armed guards to the last elephants with tusks-to-the-ground.Have you ever seen a rhinoceros with horns so long they pierced the skies? Have you ever seen an...
Wild Mull 304 pages | colour photos | Pelagic Publishing A Natural History of the Island and its People Paperback #253544 Sep-2021 9781784272760 £19.99 Stephen Littlewood(Author), Martin Jones(Photographer) High above the mountaintops on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, a huge bird is soaring. Its all- encompassing gaze records people in its Hebridean territory far below, but they are of no interest. The eagle is about its business: concentrating on the deer...
Moorland Wildlife of the North York Moors 8 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Field Studies Council (FSC) Tanya Eyre(Author), Lizzie Harper(Illustrator), Christina Hart-Davies(Illustrator), Mike Unbound #253547 2021 9781908819598 £3.30 Langman(Illustrator), Chris Shield(Illustrator) Established in 1952, the North York Moors National Park covers over 550 square miles of upland, coast, forest and dale, including the largest expanse of heather moorland in the UK.This guide covers features the characteristic moorland wildlife of...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 4 Features of the Gwent Levels 12 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, 1 colour map | Field Studies Kathy Barclay(Author), Chris Harris(Author), Mark Lewis(Author), Kate Rodgers(Author), Lizzie Council (FSC) Harper(Illustrator), Mike Langman(Illustrator), Chris Shields(Illustrator) Unbound #253548 2021 9781908819567 £3.99 Features of the Gwent Levels covers the characteristic wildlife of this special place, including birds, butterflies, moths, dragonflies and wildflowers. The Gwent Levels in South Wales form an iconic landscape of international significance. Reclaimed...
Atlas der Brutvögel Oberösterreichs 2013-2018 [Atlas of Breeding Birds in Upper 598 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Austria 2013-2018] Biologiezentrum Biologiezentrum des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums (BOL)(Editor), Wilhelm Hardback #253618 2020 £79.99 Firbas(Foreword By) The Atlas der Brutvögel Oberösterreichs 2013-2018 is the third publication that illustrates the actual situation of the breeding birds of the state of Upper Austria on the basis of distribution maps. This latest project was developed in...
The Arbornaut 368 pages | Allen & Unwin A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us Hardback #253644 Aug-2021 9781911630494 £16.99 Meg Lowman(Author) One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is both a pioneer in her field – she invented one of the first treetop walkways – and a tireless advocate for the planet. In a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as in its...
Scenes from Prehistoric Life 320 pages | Apollo (Head of Zeus imprint) From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans Hardback #253650 Aug-2021 9781789544145 £24.99 Francis Pryor(Author) In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of Britain's prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43, in a sequence of fifteen...
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica 384 pages | Victoria University Press Rebecca Priestley(Author) Paperback #253651 2019 9781776562244 £25.50 Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visits the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincides with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's...
Amazônia 528 pages | b/w photos | Taschen Sebastião Salgado(Photographer), Lélia Wanick Salgado(Editor) Hardback #253674 2021 9783836585101 £99.99 Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there – an irreplaceable treasure of...
Into the Arctic Ice 288 pages | 250 colour photos | Prestel The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time Hardback #253678 2020 9783791386706 £44.99 Esther Horvath(Photographer), Sebastian Grote(Author), Katharina Weiss-Tuider(Author), Markus Rex(Foreword By) Follow the expedition of the Polarstern, an Arctic icebreaker that is making exploration history and taking climate research to the next level, through this photographic journey.Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have...
The North Western Fells 312 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | Frances Lincoln Ltd Wainwright's Illustrated Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells, Book 6 Paperback #253706 2019 9780711236592 £14.99 Alfred Wainwright(Author), Clive Hutchby(Author) One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: A. Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955–66, has become the definitive guidebook. Wainwright’s...
The Western Fells 352 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | Frances Lincoln Ltd Wainwright's Illustrated Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells, Book 7 Flexibound #253707 2020 9780711236608 £13.99 Alfred Wainwright(Author), Clive Hutchby(Author) One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: A. Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955–66, has become the definitive guidebook. Wainwright’s...
An Autumn Walk in Wychwood Sounds Natural WD Campbell(Narrator), Ken Jackson(Narrator) Compact Disc #253724 2020 CD SN877 £13.00 Goin renowned ornithologist, WD Campbell, a previous regular contributor to the Guardian’s Country Diary, as he walks along the footpaths in Oxfordshire's Wychwood Forest, an area he knew intimately for over 80 years. Share in its history,...
Dive into Taiwan 276 pages | colour photos | Sandsmedia Simon Pridmore(Author), Kyo Liu(Photographer) Paperback #253738 2020 9781705574768 £35.99 Taiwan is a Pacific island – actually several islands: a big one and some smaller satellites – surrounded by warm tropical seas. It is easily accessible, has excellent transportation and is a first-world society with out-going, friendly,...
Zackenberg 232 pages | 128 colour photos, 31 b/w illustrations, 3 maps | Rhodos An Arctic Pearl in the North East Greenland National Park Hardback #253740 2008 £120.00 Thomas Bjørneboe Berg(Author) A thousand kilometres south of Greenland's northernmost coastal stretch lies the last great Arctic tundra. A last stop before the great northern expanses is transformed into Arctic desert. Zackenberg is the name of this Arctic pearl, and in 1992...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 5 Rag and Bone 240 pages | John Murray A History of What We've Thrown Away Paperback #253748 2021 9781473663985 £10.99 Lisa Woollett(Author) Hardback #253749 2020 9781473663961 £19.99 From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged- out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history...
What to Look For in Summer 48 pages | colour illustrations | Ladybird Books Elizabeth Jenner(Author), Natasha Durley(Illustrator) Hardback #253762 2021 9780241416204 £5.99 Explore the beauty of summer in this new edition of What to Look For in Summer.The increased warmth and long sunny days of summertime in the UK helps crops to grow, insects to thrive and animals to hunt. This book takes a closer look at ripening...
What to Look For in Autumn 48 pages | colour illustrations | Ladybird Books Elizabeth Jenner(Author), Natasha Durley(Illustrator) Hardback #253763 2021 9780241416167 £5.99 Explore the beauty of autumn in this new edition of What to Look For in Autumn.In the UK, autumn is a season of change and preparation. The air temperature starts to drop, trees change colour and the days get shorter. This book takes a closer look at...
What to Look For in Winter 48 pages | colour illustrations | Ladybird Books Elizabeth Jenner(Author), Natasha Durley(Illustrator) Hardback #253764 2021 9780241416228 £5.99 Explore the beauty of winter in this new edition of What to Look For in Winter.Despite the bare branches and long, dark nights, winter in the UK is a season full of life. The clear winter skies are filled with birds and the early morning frost...
Going Forward by Looking Back 458 pages | 80 illustrations, 21 maps, 11 tables | Berghahn Books Ltd Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse Hardback #253767 2020 9781789208641 £115.00 Felix Riede(Editor), Payson D Sheets(Editor) Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of...
Madhouse at the End of the Earth 368 pages | WH Allen The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night Hardback #253817 2021 9780753553442 £19.99 Julian Sancton(Author) The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter.August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first...
We Have a Dream 64 pages | Magic Cat Publishing Meet 30 Young Indigenous People and People of Colour Protecting the Planet Hardback #253819 Aug-2021 9781913520205 £12.99 Mya-Rose Craig(Author), Sabrena Khadija(Illustrator) Indigenous people and people of colour are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet often aren't heard in global conversations. In We Have a Dream, British-Bangladeshi environmentalist and race activist 'Birdgirl' Mya-Rose Craig...
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Animal Movement 306 pages | 107 b/w illustrations, 13 tables | CRC Press Statistical Models for Telemetry Data Paperback #253431 Jun-2021 9781032097183 £48.99 Mevin B Hooten(Author), Devin S Johnson(Author), Brett T McClintock(Author), Juan M Hardback #232882 2017 9781466582149 £150.00 Morales(Author) The study of animal movement has always been a key element in ecological science, because it is inherently linked to critical processes that scale from individuals to populations and communities to ecosystems. Rapid improvements in biotelemetry data...
The Crowd & the Cosmos 288 pages | 40 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press Adventures in the Zooniverse Paperback #253657 2021 9780198842231 £9.99 Chris Lintott(Author) Hardback #246216 2019 9780198842224 £19.99 The world of science has been transformed. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they...
Capture-Recapture 663 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Parameter Estimation for Open Animal Populations Paperback #253702 2020 9783030181895 £79.99 George AF Seber(Author), Matthew R Schofield(Author) Hardback #246730 2019 9783030181864 £99.99 This comprehensive book, rich with applications, offers a quantitative framework for the analysis of the various capture-recapture models for open animal populations, while also addressing associated computational methods.The state of our wildlife...
Einstein’s Fridge 320 pages | William Collins (HarperCollins imprint) The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe Hardback #253409 2020 9780008262792 £16.99 Paul Sen(Author) A compulsively readable account of the extraordinary people, battling internal demons and external adversaries, who discovered the laws of thermodynamics and the science of heat, and brought about a scientific revolution.Einstein's Fridge tells...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 6 Terra Incognita 480 pages | colour maps | Century Books 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years Hardback #253442 2020 9781529124194 £29.99 Ian Goldin(Author), Robert Muggah(Author) From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over...
Spark 336 pages | 26 b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life Hardback #253487 Nov-2021 9780691197838 £24.99 Timothy J Jorgensen(Author) When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices – or perhaps we envision the lightning- streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more than an external...
Thermal Ice Drilling Technology 278 pages | 176 colour & 172 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Pavel G Talalay(Author) Paperback #253527 2020 9789811388507 £99.99 This book provides a review of thermal ice drilling technologies, including the design, Hardback #253528 2019 9789811388477 £129.99 parameters, and performance of various tools and drills for making holes in ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice. In recent years,...
Connaissance de la Biodiversité Végétale: Démarches et Outils Technologiques 304 pages | illustrations | Editions Tec & Doc (Lavoisier) [Knowledge of Plant Biodiversity: Technological Approaches and Tools] Paperback #253534 2014 9782743015374 £79.99 Jan-Bernard Bouzillé(Author) The mapping of habitats is undertaken in many countries. In France it is done as part of the CarHAB program set up by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, with the aim of improving knowledge on biodiversity and monitoring the...
Theoretical Foundations of Functional Data Analysis, with an Introduction to Linear 384 pages | John Wiley & Sons Operators Hardback #253562 2015 9780470016916 £62.50 Tailen Hsing(Author), Randall Eubank(Author) Theoretical Foundations of Functional Data Analysis, with an Introduction to Linear Operators provides a uniquely broad compendium of the key mathematical concepts and results that are relevant for the theoretical development of functional data...
Ball Lightning 205 pages | 49 colour & 8 b/w illustrations, 15 tables | Springer Nature A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity Paperback #253604 2020 9783030207854 £27.99 Herbert Boerner(Author), Earle Williams(Foreword By) Hardback #253603 2019 9783030207823 £27.99 Ball lightning is an enigma. These luminous objects that appear occasionally during thunderstorms and can reach several meters in diameter have been a mystery to science for about 200 years. Despite several thousands of reported observations, their...
Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science 250 pages | Cambridge University Press Tara Ivanochko(Author), Ralph Keeling(Foreword By) Paperback #253654 2021 9781108437578 £29.99 Many students find it daunting to move from studying environmental science, to designing and Hardback #253655 2021 9781108423458 £59.99 implementing their own research proposals. Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science provides a practical introduction to help develop scientific...
Smellosophy 384 pages | 8 photos, 9 illustrations, 1 table | Harvard University Press What the Nose Tells the Mind Hardback #253744 2020 9780674983694 £28.95 AS Barwich(Author) A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli "spark" neural patterns in particular regions of the brain....
Conservation & Biodiversity
Conservation and the Genomics of Populations 624 pages | 321 colour illustrations, 43 tables | Oxford University Press Fred W Allendorf(Author), W Chris Funk(Author), Sally N Aitken(Author), Margaret Paperback #253713 Oct-2021 9780198856573 £44.99 Byrne(Author), Gordon H Luikart(Author), Helen R Taylor(Contributor) Paperback #199076 2012 9780470671450 £34.99 The relentless loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. The Hardback #253714 Oct-2021 9780198856566 £89.99 third edition of this established textbook provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools required to...
Policing Wildlife 248 pages | 1 table | Palgrave Perspectives on the Enforcement of Wildlife Legislation Paperback #253826 2015 9781349486021 £89.99 Angus Nurse(Author) Hardback #223473 2015 9781137400000 £119.99 Wildlife crime is a fringe area of criminal justice, despite its importance as one of the highest value areas of global crime and its long term effects on ecosystems. Policing Wildlife examines the enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest...
Wildlife Habitat Management 385 pages | 183 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 22 tables | CRC Press Concepts and Applications in Forestry Paperback #253427 Jun-2021 9781032098388 £42.99 Brenda C McComb(Author) Hardback #223651 2015 9781439878569 £99.99 Balancing species-specific management with biodiversity conservation concerns, Wildlife Habitat Management integrates silvicultural and forest planning techniques with principles of habitat ecology and conservation biology. The updated edition...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 7 Conservation 230 pages | Springer Nature Integrating Social and Ecological Justice Paperback #253688 2020 9783030139070 £79.99 Helen Kopnina(Author), Haydn Washington(Author) Hardback #246183 2019 9783030139049 £109.99 This book provides keys to decrypt current political debates on the environment in light of the theories that support them, and provides tools to better understand and manage environmental conflicts and promote environmentally friendly behaviour.As...
Participatory Biodiversity Conservation 237 pages | 23 colour & 4 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Concepts, Experiences, and Perspectives Paperback #253746 2021 9783030416881 £89.99 Cristina Baldauf(Editor) Hardback #251005 2020 9783030416850 £119.99 It has long been claimed that addressing biodiversity loss and other environmental problems demands a better understanding of the social dimensions of conservation; nevertheless, the active participation of indigenous peoples and local communities...
Reef Making 186 pages | Walter Marine Transforming Oceans One Artificial Reef at a Time Paperback #253436 2019 9781948638432 £42.99 David Walter(Author) David Walter is one of the few people alive who participated in the birth of Alabama's artificial reef program in the mid-1980s. Information gleaned from this inaugural effort played an important part in the development of the nation's...
China's Red List of Biodiversity: Vertebrates, Volume 1: Mammals (3-Volume Set) Science Press Jiang Zhigang(Editor) Hardback #253499 2021 9787030656643 £460.00 This red data book assesses 700 Chinese mammals, with each entry giving classification status, assessment information, geographic distribution, population status, habitat and ecosystem, threat factors, protection levels and protection actions, and...
China's Red List of Biodiversity: Vertebrates, Volume 2: Birds 458 pages | Science Press Zhang Yanyun(Editor) Hardback #253500 2021 9787030674913 £210.00 In order to comprehensively assess the threatened status of Chinese birds, the authors used the IUCN Red List classification standard to evaluate the 1,445 species of birds included in the "Chinese Bird Classification and Distribution List"...
China's Red List of Biodiversity: Vertebrates, Volume 3: Reptiles (2-Volume Set) 1021 pages | Science Press Wang Yuezhao(Editor) Hardback #253501 2021 9787030683991 £395.00 These books combine the results of red list evaluations of recent years and adjust and improve the Chinese reptile classification system based on recent taxonomic research results. The red data book covers 475 species of reptiles in China and...
Mieux Intégrer la Biodiversité dans la Gestion Forestière [Better Integrating Biodiversity 160 pages | Editions Quae in Forest Management] Paperback #253535 2017 9782759226702 £47.99 Marion Gosselin(Author), Yoan Paillet(Author) Forests in Metropolitan France are subject to the rapid changes in climate and silvicultural practices. To help foresters maintain the forest biodiversity and ensure they can adapt to these changes, this guide offers a set of practices based on...
Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild 316 pages | 5 b/w illustrations | Routledge Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence Hardback #253614 2020 9780367279851 £120.00 Robyn Bartel(Editor), Marty Branagan(Editor), Fiona Utley(Editor), Stephen Harris(Editor) Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called 'fortress...
Low Intensity Breeding of Native Forest Trees in Argentina 515 pages | Springer Nature Genetic Basis for their Domestication and Conservation Hardback #253694 2020 9783030564612 £119.99 Mario J Pastorino(Editor), Paula Marchelli(Editor) Global climate change requires the development of programs that consider the active restoration of degraded forests and the use of native trees in afforestation to preserve the natural environment. International commitments like the UN REDD program,...
Bhutan 353 pages | 155 colour & 26 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Conservation and Environmental Protection in the Himalayas Hardback #253696 2021 9783030578237 £129.99 Ugyen Tshewang(Author), Michael Charles Tobias(Author), Jane Gray Morrison(Author), Lotay Tshering(Foreword By), Lyonpo Yeshey Penjore(Preface By) Located in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness ("GNH") that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals....
America's Marine Sanctuaries 224 pages | 175 colour photos | Smithsonian Books A Photographic Exploration Hardback #253703 2020 9781588346667 £30.99 National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NMSF)(Author), Sigourney Weaver(Foreword By) An extraordinary illustrated overview of the National Marine Sanctuary System and a guide to its fourteen protected underwater locationsAmerica's Marine Sanctuaries tells the story of fourteen underwater places so important they are under special...
Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms 462 pages | Palgrave Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist? Hardback #253813 2020 9783030559434 £79.99 Mark CJ Stoddart(Author), Alice Mattoni(Author), John McLevey(Author) This book examines the "oil-tourism interface", the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism are pursued as development...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 8 Defending the Arctic Refuge 344 pages | 35 colour illustrations, 1 map | University of North Carolina A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice Press Finis Dunaway(Author) Hardback #253816 2021 9781469661100 £30.50 Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists,...
Ornithology
Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight 384 pages | 44 b/w illus, 60 maps | Helm Keith Betton(Author) Paperback #252600 Oct-2021 9781472985408 £24.99 Whether you're seeking Firecrests or Hawfinch in the New Forest, Osprey in Dorset or eagles on the Isle of Wight, this book tells you where to go, what you'll see and when to see it. Keith Betton's fully revised and updated fifth edition...
Guide to the Birds of China 528 pages | 164 plates with colour illustrations; colour distribution maps | John MacKinnon(Author), Karen Phillipps(Illustrator), Yang Xiao Nong(Illustrator), Liu Li Oxford University Press Hua(Illustrator), Xiao Yao(Illustrator), Gao Zhi(Illustrator), Gao Chang(Illustrator), Lan Jian Paperback #253459 Aug-2021 9780192893673 £37.99 Jun(Illustrator), Annie MacKinnon(Illustrator) Hardback #253460 Aug-2021 9780192893666 £74.99 China covers about 7% of the earth's land surface and encompasses a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result, it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the...
Living as a Bird 180 pages | Polity Press Vinciane Despret(Author), Helen Morrison(Translated by) Paperback #253635 Oct-2021 9781509547272 £14.99 In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of Hardback #253636 Oct-2021 9781509547265 £49.99 migration and peaceful co-existence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel....
Thinking Like a Parrot 283 pages | 16 plates with 16 colour photos and colour illustrations; 35 Perspectives from the Wild b/w photos, 6 b/w illustrations | University of Chicago Press Alan B Bond(Author), Judy Diamond(Author) Paperback #253389 Nov-2021 9780226815206 £21.99 People form enduring emotional bonds with other animal species, such as dogs, cats, and Hardback #245938 2019 9780226248783 £26.99 horses. For the most part, these are domesticated animals, with one notable exception: Many people form close and supportive relationships with parrots, even...
Feathers 400 pages | colour photos | Helm An Identification Guide to the Feathers of Western European Birds Hardback #253017 Nov-2021 9781472971722 £44.99 Cloé Fraigneau(Author) This guide to the feathers of Europe's birds covers more than 400 species, with an innovative key allowing for exceptionally precise identification by colour as well as feather structure and shape. Collection and conservation methods, locations...
Hummingbirds 288 pages | 400+ colour photos, colour illustrations, and colour A Celebration of Nature's Jewels distribution maps | WILDGuides Glenn Bartley(Author), Andy Swash(Author) Hardback #253049 Oct-2021 9780691182124 £24.99 With their dazzling colours, glittering iridescent feathers, fantastic adornments, astonishing powers of flight, and many other unique characteristics, hummingbirds are among the world's most extraordinary birds – true jewels of nature....
A Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of Canberra and the High Country 360 pages | ~650 colour photos, 322 colour distribution maps | John Neil Hermes(Author) Beaufoy Publishing A fully comprehensive field guide to the 322 bird species of Canberra and the Australian High Paperback #253206 Oct-2021 9781913679170 £24.99 Country including all common, rare and vagrant species. With thumbnail distribution maps.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Middle East 176 pages | colour photos | John Beaufoy Publishing Including Egypt, the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula Paperback #253213 Oct-2021 9781913679026 £12.99 Richard Hoath(Author) A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Middle East is a compact, incisive photographic identification guide to 280 bird species found in the Middle East, including Egypt, and the countries of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula. The book shows...
Birding in Murcia 200 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Martin O'Hanlon (privately Where & What to See published) Martin O'Hanlon(Author) Paperback #253513 2021 9781527289642 £17.99 This book is a guide for birdwatchers who are visiting or residing in the Spanish Region of Murcia, an area which is probably better known as the “Costa Cálida”. This compact corner of Spain isn’t particularly well known by...
Why Peacocks? 272 pages | Simon & Schuster An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird Hardback #253545 Jul-2021 9781982101077 £19.99 Sean Flynn(Author) An acclaimed journalist seeks to understand the mysterious allure of peacocks – and in the process discovers unexpected and valuable life lessons.When Sean Flynn's neighbor in North Carolina texted "Any chance you guys want a peacock?...
Birdsong at Dawn runtime: ~60 min | Sounds Natural Sounds Natural(Author), Cliff Christie(Contributor), Ken Jackson(Contributor) Compact Disc #253695 2021 CD SN869 £12.98 Cliff Christie joins Ken Jackson very early one May morning to listen to, and identify, 23 species, among which are heron, little grebe, goldcrest, treecreeper, blackcap, stock dove, tawny owl, great tit, wren, blackbird, robin, chaffinch and song...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 9 Estrildid Finches of the World 396 pages | 1052 colour photos, 146 colour distribution maps | Jelmer A Photographic, Descriptive and Factual Guide to All 34 Genera of Estrildidae Huisman (privately published) G Jelmer Huisman(Author), Nigel J Collar(Foreword By), Gabriel Jamie(Foreword By), Claire Hardback #253734 Oct-2021 £89.99 Spottiswoode(Foreword By) Estrildid Finches of the World was written over a period of nine years and is intended for a wide audience, not only bird lovers and bird watchers, but also ornithologists and other scientists. Estrildid finches are among the most fascinating bird...
Love Lives of Birds 152 pages | colour illustrations | Storey Publishing Courting and Mating Rituals Hardback #253827 2020 9781635862751 £15.99 Laura Erickson(Author), Veronica Lilja(Illustrator) From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle's dazzling aerial display to the male ruby-throated hummingbird's reputation as a "deadbeat dad" – courtship,...
Botany
Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 10: Magnoliophyta: Proteaceae to 488 pages | Oxford University Press USA Elaegnaceae Hardback #32828 Jul-2021 9780197576076 £61.99 Flora of North America Editorial Committee(Editor) Flora of North America North of Mexico Volume 10: Magnoliophyta: Proteaceae to Elaeagnaceae includes treatments prepared by 24 authors covering 454 species in 66 genera classified in 12 families. Onagraceae, the largest family in the volume, with 277...
Plants of Haida Gwaii 272 pages | 200 photos | Harbour Publishing Nancy J Turner(Author) Paperback #253292 Nov-2021 9781550179149 £28.99 For many thousands of years the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago located off the northern Pacific coast of Canada, have been home to the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of Haida...
A-Z of Tree Terms 217 pages | no illustrations | Philip Wilson A Companion to British Arboriculture Paperback #253632 2021 9780957178427 £49.99 Philip John Wilson(Author) This book is for everyone in Britain with a serious interest in trees.If you work with trees the book will be a good companion, if you own trees your responsibilities will be made easier to understand, and if you simply like trees the book will...
Färberpflanzen: Anleitung zum Färben – Verwendung in Kultur und Medizin [Dye Plants: 322 pages | 164 colour illustrations, 23 tables | Schweizerbart Science Instructions for Dyeing – Use in Culture and Medicine] Publishers Eberhard Prinz(Author) Hardback #253607 2020 9783510655205 £45.99 Even in antiquity and during medieval times textiles and leather were stained with natural dyes from plants. The profession of dyer had a high social standing. Due to the advent of synthetic dyes in the 20th century, the knowledge on dye plants was...
Grundkurs Pflanzenbestimmung: Eine Praxisanleitung für Anfänger und 552 pages | 3000+ colour photos and colour illustrations | Quelle & Fortgeschrittene [Basic Plant Identification Course: A Practical Guide for Beginners and Meyer Verlag Experts] Hardback #253723 2020 9783494018447 £44.99 Rita Lüder(Author) Within a few years this "basic course" has obtained a leading position in popularity among the botanically inclined. Because with the help of this book it is not only possible to quickly and easily identify the 700 most common plant species...
CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, 2753 pages | CRC Press Synonyms, and Etymology (2-Volume Set) Paperback #253425 Jun-2021 9781032097060 £290.00 Umberto Quattrocchi(Author), Sir Ghillean T Prance(Foreword By) Hardback #239551 2017 9781498782791 £750.00 Following the same format as Umberto Quattrocchi’s highly praised and well-used previous works, The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology brings together the vast and scattered...
The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands 286 pages | 22 colour photos, 7 b/w illustrations, tables | Springer Nature Salvatore Brullo(Author), Cristian Brullo(Author), Salvatore Cambria(Author), Gianpietro Giusso Paperback #253837 2021 9783030345273 £89.99 del Galdo(Author) Hardback #248860 2020 9783030345242 £119.99 This book discusses the remarkable plant diversity of the Maltese Archipelago. Despite its relatively small area and long-term human exploitation, many different plant communities occur in this territory. The book presents phytosociological...
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of the Bible 160 pages | 80 colour illustrations, 3 maps | John Beaufoy Publishing A Guide for Bible Readers and Naturalists Paperback #253203 Oct-2021 9781912081363 £12.99 Peter Goodfellow(Author), Marianne Taylor(Author) Trees, Fruits and Flowers of the Bible is an engaging and informative study of all the most important trees, fruits and flowers mentioned in the Bible, identifying the specific species and explaining the message or symbolism behind the texts. The...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 32: Loranthacea 33 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Khairul Alam(Author) Herbarium Volume 32 of this flora treats the family Loranthaceae. Paperback #253443 1986 £19.99
Broomrapes of Britain & Ireland 150 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour distribution maps | Chris Thorogood(Author), Fred J Rumsey(Author) Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Broomrapes and their close relatives, the Toothworts, (family Orobanchaceae) are among our Paperback #253444 2021 9780901158598 £17.50 most curiously attractive and least understood plants. Renowned for being taxonomically challenging, these unusual parasitic genera include several of Britain...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 10 Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 38: Burmanniaceae 8 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium M Khairul Alam(Author) Paperback #253449 1988 £19.99 Volume 38 of this flora treats the family Burmanniaceae.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 36: Burseraceae 7 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author), Habibul Hasan(Author) Paperback #253452 1987 £19.99 Volume 36 of this flora treats the family Burseraceae.
Connaître et Reconnaître les Cyperacées des Ardennes [Knowing and Recognizing the 380 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings, distribution maps | Société Cyperaceae of the Ardennes] Botanique du Centre Ouest Aurélien Labroche(Author), Flore Labroche(Illustrator) Paperback #253457 2020 £74.99 No matter where you are, a Cyperacea is never far away. They are found in all types of natural environments. This family discourages most novice botanists. Yet, with the exception of a few more difficult to access groups, plants in this family...
Monographie des Leguminosae de France, Tome 2: Robinieae, Sesbanieae, Galegeae, 520 pages | Société Botanique du Centre Ouest Glycyrrhizeae, Coluteae, Astragaleae, Caraganeae, Hedysareae et Thermopsideae Hardback #253463 2020 £110.00 [Monograph on the Leguminosae of France, Volume 2] Pierre Coulot(Author), Philippe Rabaute(Author) After the publication at the end of 2013 of the third and then at the end of 2016 of the fourth volume of the Monographie des Leguminosae de France, this second volume is devoted to the tribe Galegeae (sensu lato) and Hedysareae, supplemented by the...
Lathyrus 496 pages | 95 colour photos | Royal Horticultural Society The Complete Guide Hardback #253464 2021 9781911666127 £39.99 Gregory J Kenicer(Author), Roger Parsons(Author) The fifth in the acclaimed series of RHS Horticultural Monographs, Lathyrus: The Complete Guide reveals the fascinating horticulture, botany and history of the sweet pea and its many attractive relatives. Lathyrus is a genus for all gardeners, from...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 44: Hydrocotylaceae 7 pages | b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author), Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman(Author) Paperback #253473 1990 £19.99 Volume 44 of this flora treats the family Hydrocotylaceae.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 41: Stemonaceae 3 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author), MM Mirza(Author) Paperback #253480 1989 £19.99 Volume 41 of this flora treats the family Stemonaceae.
Quick Flora Mallorca 328 pages | 200+ colour photos | Tredition Your Small Wildflower Guide for Your Holidays Paperback #253541 2021 9783347289550 £24.99 Horst Mehlhorn(Author) Hardback #253542 2021 9783347289567 £33.99 This book enables plant lovers to easily and quickly identify over 1,400 wildflowers and many other plants present on Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza, as well as smaller islands of the Balearic Islands. Using a newly developed key, a simple table...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 37: Peperomiaceae 3 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Bushra Khan(Author) Paperback #253554 1988 £19.99 Volume 37 covers the family Peperomiaceae.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 43: Cassythaceae 3 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium MS Khan(Author), Hosne Ara(Author) Paperback #253560 1989 £19.99 Volume 43 covers the family Cassythaceae.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 30: Convolvulaceae 59 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National MS Khan(Author) Herbarium Volume 30 covers the family Convolvulaceae. Paperback #253571 1985 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 25: Dipterocarpaceae 15 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National MS Khan(Author) Herbarium Volume 25 covers tthe family Dipterocarpaceae. Paperback #253582 1984 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 39: Elatinaceae 8 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium MS Khan(Author), Mahbuba Halim(Author) Paperback #253590 1987 £19.99 Volume 39 covers the family Elatinaceae.
Antarctic Seaweeds 397 pages | 63 colour & 5 b/w illustrations, 65 tables | Springer Nature Diversity, Adaptation and Ecosystem Services Paperback #253598 2021 9783030394509 £99.99 Iván Gómez(Editor), Pirjo Huovinen(Editor) Hardback #253597 2021 9783030394479 £129.99 Seaweeds (macroalgae) represent the most striking living components in the Antarctic's near- shore ecosystems, especially across the West Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent islands. Due to their abundance, their central roles as primary producers...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 28: Hydrocharitaceae 15 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National MS Khan(Author), Mahbuba Halim(Author) Herbarium Volume 28 deals with the family Hydrocharitaceae. Paperback #253605 1985 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 42: Plumbaginaceae 8 pages | b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium MS Khan(Author), Bushra Khan(Author) Paperback #253609 1989 £19.99 Volume 42 covers the family Plumbaginaceae.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 40: Potamogetonaceae 9 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium MS Khan(Author), Mahbuba Halim(Author) Paperback #253616 1989 £19.99 Volume 40 covers the family Potamogetonaceae.
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 11 Algal Diversity of Chhattisgarh 101 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | A&V Publications Satya Shila Singh(Author) Hardback #253621 2016 9789385525193 £34.99 The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has many unexplored regions that are very rich in natural resources. This book deals with the description of the characteristic features of the algal strains, collected and isolated from the different ecological...
Kew Pocketbooks: Honzō Zufu 96 pages | 40 colour illustrations | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew(Author) Hardback #253623 2020 9781842467213 £8.99 This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Each book lavishly showcases choice examples from individual plant groups or collections, and in this pocketbook, a selection of plants are...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 27: Trapaceae 5 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium MS Khan(Author), Mahbuba Halim(Author) Paperback #253624 1984 £19.99 This volume covers the family Trapaceae.
Kew Pocketbooks: Japanese Plants 96 pages | 40 colour illustrations | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful Hardback #253625 2020 9781842467206 £8.99 world of plants. Each book lavishly showcases choice examples from individual plant groups or collections, and this new title showcases Japanese plants,...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 55: Cuscutaceae 11 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Salar Khan(Author), Mahbuba Khanam(Author) Herbarium Volume 55 covers the family Cuscutaceae. Paperback #253628 2003 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 54: Malvaceae 79 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Salar Khan(Author), Sakhawat Hossain(Author) Herbarium Volume 54 deals with the family Malvaceae. Paperback #253656 2003 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 4: Commelinaceae 42 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Salar Khan(Author), M Khairul Alam(Author) Herbarium Volume 4 covers the family Commelinaceae. Paperback #253660 1977 £21.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 3: Ochnaceae, Turneraceae, Fumariaceae, Tropaeolaceae 16 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National and Flagellariaceae Herbarium M Salar Khan(Author), Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author) Paperback #253661 1975 £19.99 Volume 3 covers the families Ochnaceae, Turneraceae, Fumariaceae, Tropaeolaceae, and Flagellariaceae.
Wildflowers of the Sefton Coast 110 pages | colour photos | Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society Philip H Smith(Author) Paperback #253662 Jun-2021 9781916903401 £12.99 This book is about one of the richest areas for vascular or ‘higher’ plants (owering plants, conifers and ferns) in Northwest England, namely the Sefton Coast, north of Liverpool. A low- lying ‘soft’ coast dominated by...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 6: Onagraceae 14 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Salar Khan(Author), Shamshunnahar(Author) Herbarium Volume 6 covers the family Onagraceae. Paperback #253679 1977 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 7: Rhizophoraceae 16 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Salar Khan(Author) Herbarium Volume 7 deals with the family Rhizophoraceae. Paperback #253687 1978 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 53: Solanaceae 48 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National M Salar Khan(Author), Chand Mia(Author) Herbarium Volume 53 covers the family Solanaceae. Paperback #253693 2002 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 5: Sphenocleacea 6 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium M Salar Khan(Author), Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author) Paperback #253699 1977 £19.99 Volume 5 covers the family Sphenocleacea.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 52: Annonaceae 53 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Mahbuba Khanam(Author), M Matiur Rahman(Author) Herbarium Volume 52 covers the family Annonaceae. Paperback #253705 2002 £19.99
Urban Lichens 168 pages | 121 colour photos and illustrations | Yale University Press A Field Guide for Northeastern North America Flexibound #253717 Sep-2021 9780300252996 £24.99 Jessica L Allen(Author), James Colin Lendemer(Author), Jordan R Hoffman(Illustrator) A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New York City, Toronto, Boston/New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., and as far west as ChicagoLichens are dynamic, symbiotic organisms...
Traces of Common Xylophagous Insects in Wood 200 pages | 288 colour & 176 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Atlas of Identification – Western Europe Nature Magali Toriti(Author), Aline Durand(Author), Fabien Fohrer(Author) Hardback #253719 Jun-2021 9783030663902 £139.99 This atlas presents a concrete tool to identify xylophagous or wood-boring activity by the remains left in wooded areas in Western Europe. Xylophagous insects are among the largest predators of woody tissues. They leave discriminating traces,...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 49: Menyanthaceae 8 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Mahbuba Khanam(Author) Paperback #253725 1995 £19.99 Volume 49 covers the family Menyanthaceae.
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 12 Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 50: Combretaceae 48 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Md Manzur-ul-Kadir Mia(Author) Herbarium Volume 50 covers the family Combretaceae. Paperback #253731 1996 £19.99
Fern Flora of Madan Kamdev Hill Region 144 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | EBH Publishers Kamrup District of Assam, India Hardback #253732 2020 9789388881425 £54.99 Paresh Ch Kalita(Author), Dipak Konwar(Author) The Madan Kamdev Hill region comprises an area of 450 km2 that is situated on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra in the Kamrup district of Assam. Geographically it is located in between latitude 26°10 – 26°20'N and longitude...
Floristic Diversity in North East India 180 pages | b/w illustrations | MIttal Book Agency Gauging the New Dimensions Hardback #253733 2020 9788183249812 £32.99 Guptajit Pathak(Editor), Sangita Patra(Editor) The northeast region of India is the richest storehouse of plant diversity in the country and supports about 50% of India’s mega-diversity. The region exhibits the largest diversity of orchids, zingibers, yams, oranges, grapes, bamboos, canes...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 29: Juncaceae 3 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Md Manzur-ul-Kadir Mia(Author), Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author) Paperback #253739 1985 £19.99 This volume covers the family Juncaceae.
Common Grasses of Florida & The Southeast 186 pages | 96 colour photos | Great Outdoors Publishing Company Lewis L Yarlett(Author) Paperback #253741 1996 9781885258052 £13.95 If you've travelled the Deep South's highways in the fall, you know how gorgeous its grasses can be. This book describes over 100 species of native and naturalized grasses. It discusses grasses in history, the origin of grass names,...
The Klingenberg Garden Day-Book 1659-1722 292 pages | 30 plates with colour illustrations; 20 b/w illustrations | Annie Christensen(Author) Rhodos Paul Klingenberg was the trusted confidant of King Frederik III of Denmark, whom he served Hardback #253742 1997 £99.99 both as Postmaster general and by laying out the maze in the royal garden at Rosenborg.He had begun his working career with a trading company in Hamburg, where...
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 26: Linaceae 6 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Herbarium Md Manzur-ul-Kadir Mia(Author), Ahmed Mozaharul Huq(Author) Paperback #253743 1984 £19.99 Volume 26 covers the family Linaceae.
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 51: Menispermaceae 44 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National Md Manzur-ul-Kadir Mia(Author) Herbarium Volume 51 covers the family Menispermaceae. Paperback #253751 1996 £19.99
Flora of Bangladesh, Volume 47: Periplocaceae 16 pages | b/w line drawings, 1 b/w map | Bangladesh National MA Rahman(Author), CC Wilcock(Author) Herbarium Volume 47 covers the family Periplocaceae. Paperback #253758 1991 £19.99
Native Trees, Shrubs and Vines of Prince Edward Island 346 pages | colour photos | Tellwell Talent A Pictorial Library Paperback #253774 2020 9780228827023 £72.50 David D Carmichael(Author) Hardback #253775 2020 9780228827030 £81.99 A comprehensive visual library for the identification of native tree, shrub and vines of Prince Edward Island in Eastern Canada, including, but not limited to, mature height, culture, ornamental characteristics, provincial distribution, propagation,...
A Tree A Day 368 pages | 365 colour photos and colour illustrations | B T Batsford Amy-Jane Beer(Author) Hardback #253785 Sep-2021 9781849946520 £19.99 Discover the life of trees through science, folklore, history and art – every day of the year.Immerse yourself in the world of trees with A Tree A Day – packed with tree facts and richly illustrated throughout with photographs and art....
Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree 192 pages | Aster Getting to Know Trees through the Language of Scent Hardback #253786 Sep-2021 9781783254286 £9.99 David George Haskell(Author) Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories. Thirteen essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees, from the smell of a book just printed as...
A Monograph of Paris (Melanthiaceae) 203 pages | 110 colour & 24 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Morphology, Biology, Systematics and Taxonomy Hardback #253809 2020 9789811579028 £119.99 Yunheng Ji(Author) This book provides essential information on the morphology, biology, phytochemistry, pharmaceutical prospects, evolution, phylogeny, biogeography, and taxonomy of Paris (Melanthiaceae), a morphologically distinctive plant genus with great economic...
Mammals
Giants of the Monsoon Forest 288 pages | 32 plates with photos, 4 maps | W.W. Norton & Co. Living and Working with Elephants Paperback #253831 2020 9780393358445 £13.99 Jacob Shell(Author) Hardback #245703 2019 9780393247763 £18.99 A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders.From the kings of the Indus Valley to Hannibal and his famous Alpine cavalry, humans have been living and working with elephants for millennia. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest,...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 13 A Naturalist’s Guide to the Mammals of Australia 176 pages | ~300 colour photos, 1 colour map | John Beaufoy Publishing Peter Rowland(Author), Chris Farrell(Author) Paperback #253208 Oct-2021 9781913679071 £12.99 This fully updated second edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of Australia is an introductory identification guide to the 300 mammal species most commonly seen in Australia, perfect for resident and visitor alike. High-quality...
Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees 190 pages | 125 colour & 25 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Skeletal Analysis as an Insight into Life History Paperback #253589 2020 9783030183578 £89.99 Claire A Kirchhoff(Author) Hardback #246738 2019 9783030183547 £119.99 This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behaviour by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life histories whenever possible, and analyzing demographic patterns in the sample. This is of particular...
Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Odontocetes 504 pages | 82 colour & 7 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Nature Bernd Würsig(Author) Paperback #253700 2020 9783030166656 £99.99 This book concentrates on the marine mammalian group of Odontocetes the toothed whales Hardback #246987 2019 9783030166625 £129.99 and dolphins. In 23 chapters, a total of 40 authors describe general patterns of ethological concepts of odontocetes in their natural environments, with a strong...
Bringing Back the Beaver 189 pages | Chelsea Green The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways Paperback #253697 Sep-2021 9781645021230 £10.99 Derek Gow(Author), Isabella Tree(Foreword By) Hardback #250499 2020 9781603589963 £19.99 Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature...
Mammals of Madagascar 160 pages | colour illustrations, colour distribution maps | Lynx Edicions with the Comoros, the Seychelles, Réunion and Mauritius Paperback #253050 May-2021 9788416728480 £22.99 Russell A Mittermeier(Author), Olivier M Langrand(Author), Don E Wilson(Author), Anthony B Rylands(Author), Jonah Ratsimbazafy(Author), Kim E Reuter(Author), Tiana Andriamanana(Author), Edward E Louis, Jr.(Author), Christoph Schwitzer(Author), Wes Sechrest(Author) The first book to describe and illustrate every mammal species found in Madagascar. Also includes those of the nearby islands of the Comoros, the Seychelles, Réunion and Mauritius.This illustrated checklist covers Madagascar, one of the...
Remembering African Wild Dogs 144 pages | colour photos | Envisage Books Margot Raggett(Author) Hardback #253102 Nov-2021 9781999643355 £44.99 Remembering African Wild Dogs is the sixth book in the Remembering Wildlife fundraising series, which has so far raised more than USD $1 million for conservation. The aim of the creators is to make the most beautiful book ever seen on a species and...
The Redemption of Wolf 302 288 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; 3 b/w maps | Greystone Books From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male Hardback #253294 Dec-2021 9781771645270 £18.99 Rick McIntyre(Author) From the renowned wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8 and The Reign of Wolf 21 comes a stunning account of an unconventional alpha male.A lover, not a fighter. That was wolf 302. A renegade with an eye for the ladies, 302 was anything...
The Last Lions of Africa 360 pages | 24 plates with colour photos | Allen & Unwin Stories from the Frontline in the Battle to Save a Species Paperback #253451 Aug-2021 9781760875756 £14.99 Anthony Ham(Author) An incredible and moving account of one man's journey into the world of lions, why they are fast disappearing and what can be done to save them from extinction and thus save Africa, whose delicate ecosystem depends on these apex predators to keep...
Albert and the Whale 304 pages | Pegasus Books Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World Hardback #253462 2021 9781643137261 £27.99 Philip Hoare(Author) An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award- winning author of Leviathan: Or, The Whale.In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A...
A Dog's World 208 pages | 17 b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans Hardback #253488 Oct-2021 9780691196183 £18.99 Jessica Pierce(Author), Marc Bekoff(Author) What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog's World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive – and possibly even thrive – and...
Land of Giants 224 pages | b/w photos | Burrard-Lucas Books William Burrard-Lucas(Author) Hardback #253516 2019 9781912751006 £39.99 Deep in the heart of a vast wilderness, some of the rarest creatures on Earth still roam; living relics from a bygone era, they are the last of Africa's great tuskers. For the first time these elusive elephants have been subject to an in-depth...
Neglected Diseases in Monkeys 386 pages | 31 colour & 10 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature From the Monkey-Human Interface to One Health Hardback #253599 2020 9783030522827 £119.99 Sascha Knauf(Editor), Lisa Jones-Engel(Editor) Neglected Diseases in Monkeys offers a valuable resource, reviewing the current state of knowledge concerning the pathology and epidemiology of infectious diseases in both captive and wild monkeys. The One Health concept forms the framework of all...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 14 Dogs 284 pages | 30 b/w illustrations, 12 tables | University Press of Florida Archaeology beyond Domestication Hardback #253627 2020 9780813066363 £82.95 Brandi Bethke(Editor), Amanda Burtt(Editor) Case studies from North and South America, the Arctic, Australia, and Eurasia present evidence for dogs in roles including pets, guards, hunters, and herders. In these chapters, faunal analysis from the Ancient Near East suggests that dogs...
Ripples on the River 176 pages | 200 colour photos | Bloomsbury Publishing Celebrating the Return of the Otter Hardback #253645 Aug-2021 9781472989154 £19.99 Laurie Campbell(Photographer), Anna Levin(Author) Ripples of excitement are spreading through Europe's rivers and wetlands. A generation ago, otter watching was a wildlife highlight restricted to remote coastal areas – otter populations had been decimated over the previous century by...
The Secret Life of the Otter 232 pages | colour photos | Sandstone Press Ltd Andy Howard(Author), Gordon Buchanan(Foreword By) Hardback #253680 2021 9781913207410 £24.99 Among the most popular and endearing of Britain's wild creatures, otters inhabit not only the full length of the British and Irish coasts but also many river systems and lochs. Formerly hunted almost to extinction, they are one of...
The Bears of Brooks Falls 288 pages | colour photos | Countryman Press Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River Hardback #253681 2021 9781682685105 £14.99 Michael Fitz(Author) On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far beyond its scale. Each year, from summer to early fall, brown bears and salmon gather at Brooks River to create one of North America's...
Running with the Fox Sounds Natural David Macdonald(Narrator), Ken Jackson(Narrator) Compact Disc #253701 Jul-2021 CD SN856 £12.98 David Macdonald and Ken Jackson follow the issues of David’s book of the same title as they observe and discuss fox behaviour in the wild. They visit a house near Oxford where foxes come regularly to food just outside the windows, with a...
Orca 192 pages | colour photos | Mountaineers Books Shared Waters, Shared Home Hardback #253708 2021 9781680513264 £32.99 Lynda V Mapes(Author), Steve Ringman(Photographer) Orca whale J35, also known as Tahlequah, gave birth in July of 2018 in the waters off British Columbia, but her calf died soon after, leading its mother to carry her for 17 days across 1000 miles before finally releasing the calf and rejoining her...
In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France 200 pages | 48 b/w illustrations, 3 tables | Rowman & Littlefield A Chronicle of Giraffomania, 1826–1845 Paperback #253721 2020 9781538142240 £21.95 Olivier Lebleu(Author), Cynthia T Hahn(Translated by), Bruce D Patterson(Foreword By) Hardback #253722 2020 9781538142233 £67.99 This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France's first giraffe, a diplomatic gift from Egyptian Pasha Muhammed-Ali to King Charles X in 1826. "Zarafa," taken by boat from Egypt to Marseilles and walked all the way to...
How Giraffes Work 608 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; 213 illustrations | Oxford Graham Mitchell(Author) University Press USA There are few creatures more beautiful, aloof, and fascinating than giraffes. Their social and Hardback #253736 Aug-2021 9780197571194 £80.99 ecological impact has been documented by many researchers. However, the inner workings of extant giraffes are less well known. That is why Graham Mitchell...
Reptiles & Amphibians
A Guide to the Rattlesnakes and Other Venomous Serpents of the United States 132 pages | 170 colour photos, colour distribution maps | Tricolor Books Brian Hubbs(Author), Brendan O'Connor(Author) Paperback #253781 2012 9780975464137 £29.99 This book was originally published under the name, A Guide to the Rattlesnakes of the United States. Very soon after publication, the authors realized something. In order to really make this book useful to everyone, they needed to include ALL the...
A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Asia 176 pages | ~300 colour photos, 2 colour maps | John Beaufoy Indraneil Das(Author) Publishing This fully revised and updated 3rd edition of A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Paperback #253207 Oct-2021 9781913679095 £12.99 Asia is an easy-to-use identification guide to 264 snake species most commonly found in Paperback #240460 2018 9781912081929 £11.99 Southeast Asia (covering Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar,...
A Photographic Field Guide to the Amphibians of Sri Lanka 304 pages | ~400 colour photos, colour distribution maps | John Beaufoy Anslem de Silva(Author), Kanishka Ukuwela(Author), Dilan Chathuranga(Author) Publishing A fully comprehensive guide to the 120 species of frog, toad and caecilian found in Sri Lanka. Paperback #253205 Oct-2021 9781913679118 £19.99 With multiple photographs and thumbnail distribution maps.
Turtles of the World 240 pages | 230 colour photos, colour distribution maps | Princeton A Guide to Every Family University Press Jeffrey E Lovich(Author), J Whitfield Gibbons(Author) Hardback #253416 Oct-2021 9780691223223 £24.99 Turtles of the World reveals the extraordinary diversity of these amazing reptiles. Characterized by the bony shell that acts as a shield to protect the softer body within, turtles are survivors from the time of the dinosaurs and are even more...
Marine & Freshwater Biology
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 15 Marine Biology 592 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | Function, Biodiversity, Ecology Oxford University Press USA Jeffrey S Levinton(Author) Paperback #253634 Aug-2021 9780197543504 £122.99 Levinton's Marine Biology is highly acclaimed and regarded by many as the best, most authoritative text for the sophomore/junior/senior marine biology course. The text is characterized by its exceptionally clear and conversational writing style,...
The Mar Chiquita Salt Lake (Córdoba, Argentina) 42 colour & 45 b/w illustrations, tables | Springer Nature Ecology and Conservation of the Largest Salt Lake in South America Paperback #253580 2020 9783030158149 £89.99 Enrique H Bucher(Author) Hardback #246327 2019 9783030158118 £119.99 This book provides a comprehensive, updated syntheses of all the information available on Mar Chiquita, covering various aspects of the geography, geological history, biology and ecology of the site, as well as a detailed analysis of the current...
The Histology of Fishes 448 pages | 50 plates with colour photos; b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Frank Kirschbaum(Editor), Krzysztof Formicki(Editor) Productivity Press The Histology of Fishes is a multi-authored book of 18 chapters by 28 authors from ten Paperback #253418 Jun-2021 9781032088235 £42.99 countries, reflecting the state of the art of modern fish histology. The topics include Introduction Hardback #249521 2019 9781498784474 £170.00 to Histological Techniques, Integument, Fish Skeletal Tissues,...
Mexico: Marine Guide: Pacific Coast, Sea of Cortez 14 pages | colour illustrations | Rainforest Publications Uko Gorter(Illustrator), Mark Wainright(Illustrator), Alina Suárez(Illustrator) Unbound #253458 2014 9781888538076 £9.99 A perfect pocket guide to take along while exploring Mexico's Pacific Coast and Sea of Cortez. It accordions out to give you detailed, full colour, scientifically accurate illustrations of the marine mammals, reef fish, sport fish, and sea...
The Adriatic Sea Encyclopedia 400 pages | 291 colour & 9 b/w illustrations, 300 tables | Springer Nature Igor S Zonn(Author), Andrey G Kostianoy(Author), Alexander Semenov(Author), Aleksandar Hardback #253470 2020 9783030500313 £249.99 Joksimović(Author), Mirko Durović(Author) The Adriatic Sea Encyclopedia focuses on the Adriatic Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean. It includes 700 articles on the hydrographic and geographic objects, hydrological features and biological resources, as well as the...
Fish and Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon 420 pages | Springer Nature People, Ecology and Conservation in Black and Clear Water Rivers Hardback #253476 2020 9783030491451 £179.99 Renato Silvano(Author) This book provides comparative data on fish ecology and small-scale fisheries between Tapajos (clear water) and Negro (black water) rivers, in the Brazilian Amazon. These rivers are less studied than white water rivers and few books on Amazon fishes...
The Rivers of Montenegro 301 pages | 82 colour & 9 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Vladimir Pešić(Editor), Momir Paunović(Editor), Andrey G Kostianoy(Editor) Hardback #253559 2020 9783030557119 £249.99 This book reviews the current state of knowledge on, recent advances in, and future prospects of Montenegrin river basins in the context of anthropogenic activities. Edited by three respected experts in the field, The Rivers of Montenegro begins with...
The Ultimate Guide to Hawaiian Reef Fishes, Sea Turtles, Dolphins, Whales, and Seals 388 pages | 965 colour photos | Mutual Publishing John P Hoover(Author) Paperback #253592 2008 9781566478878 £26.99 The Ultimate Guide to Hawaiian Reef Fishes, Sea Turtles, Dolphins, Whales and Seals features more pictures, more stories, and more species than any other softcover field guide. Clear underwater photos and scientifically up-to-date descriptions make...
Below the Edge of Darkness 384 pages | Virago Press Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea Hardback #253642 Aug-2021 9780349011233 £19.99 Edith Widder(Author) A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence, the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness, and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth.Edith Widder grew up determined...
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers 1324 pages | 317 colour & 70 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth Hardback #253691 Aug-2021 9783030575694 £119.99 Laith A Jawad(Editor) The system of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers is one of the great river systems of southwestern Asia. It comprises the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of the Middle East. The lower portion of the...
Evolutionary Biology
Kindred 408 pages | 8 plates with colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations; 8 Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art b/w illustrations | Bloomsbury Sigma (Bloomsbury imprint) Rebecca Wragg Sykes(Author), Alison Atkin(Illustrator), Marc Dando(Illustrator) Paperback #253818 Aug-2021 9781472937476 £10.99 Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 Hardback #238661 2020 9781472937490 £19.99 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Spanning scientific curiosity and popular cultural fascination means that there is a...
The Deep History of Ourselves 256 pages | Penguin Books (US) The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains Paperback #253404 2020 9780735223851 £14.99 Joseph LeDoux(Author) Hardback #245052 2019 9780735223837 £25.99 Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings todayRenowned neuroscientist Joseph...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 16 Biological Innovations that Built the World 380 pages | 37 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature A Four-Billion-Year Journey through Life and Earth History Paperback #253472 2020 9783030160593 £109.99 Roberto Ligrone(Author) Hardback #246382 2019 9783030160562 £149.99 The book is a detailed account of major biological events that contributed to create the present world and our species, with emphasis on cause-effect interrelationships and environmental impact. Its main goal is to guide the reader toward an...
The Fear of Snakes 187 pages | 45 colour & 12 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Nature Evolutionary and Psychobiological Perspectives on Our Innate Fear Paperback #253810 2020 9789811375323 £89.99 Nobuyuki Kawai(Author) Hardback #246489 2019 9789811375293 £119.99 The Fear of Snakes provides a series of compelling evidence that shows that humans have an innate fear of snakes. Building on the previous studies on the Snake Detection Theory (SDT), the author presents a summary of psychological and...
Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution 259 pages | 11 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature The Origin of Species and the Static Worldview Paperback #253584 2020 9783030172053 £99.99 Richard G Delisle(Author) Hardback #246864 2019 9783030172022 £139.99 This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation...
Skin Deep 384 pages | Oneworld Publications Dispelling the Science of Race Paperback #253754 2020 9781786078117 £10.99 Gavin Evans(Author) Hardback #247139 2019 9781786076229 £18.99 Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That's certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologists and pundits would have you believe. Portraying themselves as brave defenders of the inconvenient truth, this group...
On the Origin of Evolution 288 pages | no illustrations | HarperCollins Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA Paperback #253092 Oct-2021 9780008333409 £9.99 John Gribbin(Author), Mary Gribbin(Author) Hardback #249719 2020 9780008333362 £19.99 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years.This lively history traces the...
DNA Barcoding and Molecular Phylogeny 267 pages | 23 colour & 18 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Subrata Trivedi(Editor), Hasibur Rehman(Editor), Shalini Saggu(Editor), Chellasamy Hardback #253477 2020 9783030500740 £129.99 Panneerselvam(Editor), Sankar K Ghosh(Editor) This book presents a comprehensive overview of DNA barcoding and molecular phylogeny, along with a number of case studies.It discusses a number of areas where DNA barcoding can be applied, such as clinical microbiology, especially in relation to...
My Thoughts on Biological Evolution 152 pages | 2 colour & 22 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Motoo Kimura(Author), K Aoki(Translated by), Y Tateno(Translated by) Hardback #253481 2020 9789811561641 £79.99 This book, written by Motoo Kimura (1924–94), is a classic in evolutionary biology. In 1968, Kimura proposed the “neutral theory of molecular evolution”, which became the theoretical basis of modern evolutionary studies. After...
How Birds Evolve 248 pages | 48 colour & 67 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Princeton What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives & Diversity University Press Douglas J Futuyma(Author) Hardback #253492 Nov-2021 9780691182629 £19.99 How Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviours we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma describes how evolutionary science illuminates the wonders of birds, ranging over topics such as the meaning...
What Is Health? 225 pages | 62 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | MIT Press Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design Hardback #253520 2020 9780262043304 £24.99 Peter Sterling(Author) An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.Medical education centers on the venerable "no-fault" concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors,...
The Major Metaphors of Evolution 273 pages | 33 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Darwinism Then and Now Hardback #253578 2020 9783030520854 £149.99 Salvatore J Agosta(Author), Daniel R Brooks(Author) This book presents a unified evolutionary framework based on three sets of metaphors that will help to consolidate discussions on evolutionary transitions.Evolution is the unifying principle of life, making identifying ways to apply evolutionary...
How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life 248 pages | 21 b/w illustrations | MIT Press The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells Hardback #253729 2021 9780262045575 £51.99 Jan Spitzer(Author) A reconceptualization of origins research that exploits a modern understanding of non-covalent molecular forces that stabilize living prokaryotic cells.Scientific research into the origins of life remains exploratory and speculative. Science has no...
A Story of Us 336 pages | Oxford University Press USA A New Look at Human Evolution Hardback #253766 2021 9780190883201 £19.99 Lesley Newson(Author), Peter J Richerson(Author) It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "ape-men" and talks about what women and children were doing.In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 17 Ecology
The Australian Soil Classification 192 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | CSIRO RF Isbell(Author), The National Committee on Soil and Terrain (NCST)(Author) Paperback #253441 2021 9781486314775 £43.95 The Australian Soil Classification provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed as the official...
Introduction to Fire in California 248 pages | 111 colour illustrations, 13 maps, 1 table | University of David Carle(Author) California Press The essential guide to California's long relationship with fire, updated for the climate-change Paperback #253517 Sep-2021 9780520379145 £20.99 generation.What is fire? How are wildfires ignited? How do California's weather and Hardback #253518 Sep-2021 9780520379138 £69.99 topography influence fire? How did Indigenous people use fire...
The Soils of Georgia 179 pages | 145 colour & 8 b/w illustrations, 100 tables | Springer Nature Lia Matchavariani(Editor) Paperback #253556 2020 9783030185114 £89.99 This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia in the Caucasus. It Hardback #246733 2019 9783030185084 £119.99 highlights the soil-forming environment (climate, geology, geomorphology), the characterization of the physical, chemical and morphological (macro-,...
Ecosystem Services and Tropical Soils of India 116 pages | 23 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Dilip K Pal(Author) Paperback #253811 2020 9783030227135 £99.99 This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties. Soils Hardback #247853 2019 9783030227104 £139.99 are complex and important biomaterials and have an outstanding role in providing ecosystem services to mankind. The tropical soils have been...
Individual-Based Methods in Forest Ecology and Management 411 pages | 60 colour & 126 b/w illustrations, tables | Springer Nature Arne Pommerening(Author), Pavel Grabarnik(Author), Dan Binkley(Foreword By) Paperback #253812 2020 9783030245306 £54.99 Model-driven individual-based forest ecology and individual-based methods in forest Hardback #247855 2019 9783030245276 £74.99 management are of increasing importance in many parts of the world. For the first time this book integrates three main fields of forest ecology and management, i.e....
Neotropical Diversification 821 pages | 126 colour colour photos and colour illustrations, 24 b/w Patterns and Processes illustrations, tables | Springer Nature Valentí A Rull(Editor), Ana Carolina Carnaval(Editor) Paperback #253593 2021 9783030311698 £78.99 Neotropical Diversification provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of biodiversity in Hardback #248525 2020 9783030311667 £109.99 various neotropical ecosystems, as well as a discussion on their historical biogeographies and underlying diversification processes. All chapters were...
The Evolutionary Ecology of Invasive Species 316 pages | Academic Press Johannes Le Roux(Author) Paperback #253426 2021 9780128183786 £91.95 The Evolutionary Ecology of Invasive Species offers new insights into the mechanisms that may underlie evolution of these species, including hologenomic and epigenetic variation. A comprehensive overview of achievements in the field during the boom...
Ecology and Management of Terrestrial Vertebrate Invasive Species in the United 415 pages | 27 colour & 34 b/w illustrations | CRC Press States Paperback #253430 Jun-2021 9781032096162 £42.99 William C Pitt(Editor), James C Beasley(Editor), Gary W Witmer(Editor) Hardback #253429 2017 9781498704823 £150.00 Vertebrate invasive species are important ecologically, socially, and scientifically throughout much of the globe. However, the interdiction and options for management of invasive species are driven by localized regulation at the country or even...
An Introduction to Quantitative Ecology 304 pages | 87 colour illustrations, 32 tables | Oxford University Press Mathematical and Statistical Modelling for Beginners Paperback #253432 Sep-2021 9780192843487 £34.99 Timothy E Essington(Author) Hardback #253433 Sep-2021 9780192843470 £69.99 Environmental science (ecology, conservation, and resource management) is an increasingly quantitative field. A well-trained ecologist now needs to evaluate evidence generated from complex quantitative methods and to apply these methods in their own...
Predator Ecology 176 pages | 39 colour illustrations | Oxford University Press Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response Paperback #253469 Sep-2021 9780192895516 £34.99 John P DeLong(Author) Hardback #253468 Sep-2021 9780192895509 £69.99 Predator-prey interactions are ubiquitous, govern the flow of energy up trophic levels, and strongly influence the structure of ecological systems. They are typically quantified using the functional response – the relationship between a...
Ocean Ecology 464 pages | 100 colour & 100 b/w illustrations, 7 tables | Princeton Marine Life in the Age of Humans University Press J Emmett Duffy(Author) Hardback #253483 Aug-2021 9780691161556 £52.99 Marine ecology is more interdisciplinary, broader in scope, and more intimately linked to human activities than ever before. Ocean Ecology provides advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners with an integrated approach to marine...
A Place Like No Other 232 pages | 47 b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti Hardback #253486 Nov-2021 9780691222332 £24.99 Anthony RE Sinclair(Author) With its rich biodiversity, astounding wildlife, and breathtaking animal migrations, Serengeti is like no other ecosystem on the planet. A Place Like No Other is Anthony Sinclair's firsthand account of how he and other scientists discovered the...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 18 Saline and Alkaline Soils in Latin America 463 pages | 106 colour & 32 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Natural Resources, Management and Productive Alternatives Hardback #253561 2020 9783030525910 £109.99 Edith Taleisnik(Editor), Raúl S Lavado(Editor) This book provides the first comprehensive overview of saline and alkaline soils in Latin America, known for having one of the most extensive surface of salt-affected soils in the world. It is organized along two main axes: soils and vegetation....
Biogeology 286 pages | 22 b/w illustrations | CRC Press Evolution in a Changing Landscape Paperback #253587 2019 9780367147235 £120.00 Bernard Michaux(Author) Hardback #253586 2019 9780367147938 £290.00 This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing...
Biological Invasions in the South American Anthropocene 346 pages | 7 colour & 62 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Global Causes and Local Impacts Hardback #253689 2021 9783030563783 £119.99 Fabián M Jaksic(Author), Sergio A Castro(Author) This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale. Most advances toward that aim have been provided from North American and European researchers, with fewer...
Diversity of Functional Traits and Interactions 213 pages | 35 colour & 37 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Perspectives on Community Dynamics Hardback #253692 2020 9789811579523 £109.99 Akihiko Mougi(Editor) This book presents new theoretical perspectives on ecological community dynamics and in so doing casts fresh light on the enduring complexity–stability debate. Real ecological communities do not simply comprise diverse species and interactions,...
Earth System Sciences
Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 700 pages | 500+ colour & b/w photos, tables | Cambridge University Anthony R Philpotts(Author), Jay J Ague(Author) Press Building upon the award-winning second edition, this comprehensive textbook provides a Hardback #253653 Oct-2021 9781108492881 £64.99 fundamental understanding of the formative processes of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Encouraging a deeper comprehension of the subject by explaining the...
The Climate Demon 350 pages | Cambridge University Press Past, Present, and Future of Climate Prediction Paperback #253672 Nov-2021 9781009018043 £24.99 R Saravanan(Author) Hardback #253673 Nov-2021 9781316510766 £59.99 Climate predictions – and the computer models behind them – play a key role in shaping public opinion and our response to the climate crisis. Some people interpret these predictions as 'prophecies of doom' and some others dismiss...
Natural Decadal Climate Variability 374 pages | 32 colour & 76 b/w illustrations | CRC Press Phenomena, Mechanisms, and Predictability Hardback #253613 2020 9781138484146 £120.00 Vikram M Mehta(Author) Natural decadal climate variability and its interactions with anthropogenic climate change are vitally important to understand to predict the future of the Earth's climate. Natural Decadal Climate Variability, after familiarizing readers with the...
Mysterious Ocean 199 pages | 27 colour & 4 b/w illustrations, 20 tables | Springer Nature Physical Processes and Geological Evolution Paperback #253478 2020 9783030156343 £34.99 Peter Townsend Harris(Author) Hardback #246726 2019 9783030156312 £34.99 This book provides an introduction to ocean sciences that is engaging, evocative and accessible to non-experts interested in marine geoscience, while sparking readers' interest in important unsolved mysteries in marine science. The scope of...
Palaeohydrology 230 pages | 93 colour & 17 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Nature Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events Paperback #253577 2020 9783030233174 £99.99 Jürgen Herget(Editor), Alessandro Fontana(Editor) Hardback #247307 2019 9783030233143 £129.99 This book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts. Reviews written by leading experts of their fields are combined with...
Meltdown 296 pages | Oxford University Press The Earth Without Glaciers Hardback #252899 Dec-2021 9780190080327 £19.99 Jorge Daniel Taillant(Author) We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives?...
Application of Thallium Isotopes 30 pages | Cambridge University Press Tracking Marine Oxygenation through Manganese Oxide Burial Paperback #253405 2020 9781108723398 £19.99 Jeremy D Owens(Author) Tracking initial ocean (de)oxygenation is critical to better constrain the coevolution of life and environment. The development of thallium isotopes has provided evidence to track the global manganese oxide burial which responds to early...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 19 The Geology of the Egyptian Nubian Shield 700 pages | 354 colour & 42 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Zakaria Hamimi(Editor), Shoji Arai(Editor), Thomas James Abdel-Rahman Fowler(Editor), Nature Mohammad Z El-Bialy(Editor) Hardback #253437 2020 9783030497705 £129.99 This richly illustrated book provides an overview of the Neoproterozoic Pan-African Belt of Egypt (PABE), which represents the northwestern continuation of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) and the East African Orogen (EAO). The first chapter offers an...
Selenium Isotope Paleobiogeochemistry 30 pages | Cambridge University Press Eva E Stüeken(Author), Michael A Kipp(Author) Paperback #253446 2020 9781108749169 £14.99 The attraction of selenium isotopes as a paleoenvironmental tracer lies in the high redox potential of selenium oxyanions (SeIV and SeVI), the dominant species in the modern ocean. The largest isotopic fractionations occur during oxyanion reduction,...
Earth History of Oxygen and the iprOxy 32 pages | Cambridge University Press Zunli Lu(Author), Wanyi Lu(Author), Rosalind EM Rickaby(Author), Ellen Thomas(Author) Paperback #253450 2020 9781108723381 £14.99 How oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere and oceans evolved has always been a central question in Earth System Science. Researchers have developed numerous tracers to tackle this question, utilizing geochemical characteristics of different...
Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems 914 pages | 335 colour & 62 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Daqing Yang(Editor), Douglas L Kane(Editor) Nature Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems provides a comprehensive, up-to-date Hardback #253453 2020 9783030509286 £159.99 assessment of the key terrestrial components of the Arctic system, i.e., its hydrology, permafrost, and ecology, drawing on the latest research results from across the...
The Pyrite Trace Element Paleo-Ocean Chemistry Proxy 75 pages | 3 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Press Daniel D Gregory(Author) Paperback #253465 2020 9781108810524 £14.99 The use of the trace element content of sedimentary pyrite as a proxy for the trace element composition of past oceans has recently emerged. The pyrite proxy has several potential advantages over bulk sample analysis: preservation through...
Calcium Isotopes 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Elizabeth M Griffith(Author), Matthew S Fantle(Author) Paperback #253474 2021 9781108810760 £14.99 Precise measurements of the calcium (Ca) isotopes have provided constraints on Ca cycling at global and local scales, and quantified rates of carbonate diagenesis in marine sedimentary systems. Key to applying Ca isotopes as a geochemical tracer of...
Vanadium Isotopes 75 pages | Cambridge University Press A Proxy for Ocean Oxygen Variations Paperback #253479 2021 9781108797948 £14.99 Sune G Nielsen(Author) Vanadium isotope ratios (51V/50V) have potential to provide information about changes in past ocean oxygen contents. In particular, V isotopes may find utility in tracing variations at non-zero oxygen concentrations because the redox couple that...
Pelagic Barite 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Tracer of Ocean Productivity and a Recorder of Isotopic Compositions of Seawater S, O, Sr, Ca Paperback #253526 2021 9781108810692 £14.99 and Ba Weiqi Yao(Author), Elizabeth Griffith(Author), Adina Paytan(Author) Reconstruction of ocean palaeoproductivity and palaeochemistry is paramount to understanding global biogeochemical cycles such as the carbon, oxygen and sulfur cycles and the responses of these cycles to changes in climate and tectonics....
Nitrogen Isotopes in Deep Time 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Colin Mettam(Author), Aubrey L Zerkle(Author) Paperback #253557 2021 9781108810708 £14.99 Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for life, and its sources and cycling have varied over earth history. Stable isotope ratios of nitrogen compounds (expressed as 15N, in ‰) are preserved in the sedimentary record and track these changes,...
The Chromium Isotope System as a Tracer of Ocean and Atmosphere Redox 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Kohen W Bauer(Author), Noah J Planavsky(Author), Christopher T Reinhard(Author), Devon B Paperback #253564 2021 9781108792578 £14.99 Cole(Author) The stable chromium (Cr) isotope system has emerged over the past decade as a new tool to track changes in the amount of oxygen in earth's ocean-atmosphere system. Much of the initial foundation for using Cr isotopes (δ53Cr) as a...
Landscapes and Landforms of Norway 288 pages | 129 colour & 45 b/w photos, illustrations, and maps | Achim A Beylich(Editor) Springer Nature This book discusses the striking geomorphological landscapes of mainland Norway. As part of Hardback #253570 2020 9783030525620 £89.99 the Springer book series on World Geomorphological Landscapes, it outlines the nature and diversity of Norway's geomorphological landscapes and examines...
Islands of Abandonment 392 pages | 16 plates with colour & b/w photos | William Collins Life in the Post-Human Landscape (HarperCollins imprint) Cal Flyn(Author) Hardback #253573 2021 9780008329761 £16.99 This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands – and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.In Chernobyl, following the nuclear disaster, only a handful of...
Cerium Anomalies and Paleoredox 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Rosalie Tostevin(Author) Paperback #253575 2021 9781108810739 £14.99 Ce anomalies track changes in oxygen availability due to the anomalous redox sensitivity of Ce compared with the other rare earth elements. The proxy systematics have been calibrated experimentally as well as in modern anoxic water bodies. Ce...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 20 The Iron Speciation Paleoredox Proxy 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Simon W Poulton(Author) Paperback #253581 2021 9781108810685 £14.99 In one form or another, iron speciation has had a long history as a palaeoredox proxy. The technique has been refined considerably over the years, and the most recent scheme is unique in its potential to distinguish three major oceanic redox states...
Biotectonics 67 pages | 5 colour & 11 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Tectonics as the Driver of Bioregionalisation Paperback #253585 2020 9783030517724 £44.99 Malte Christian Ebach(Author), Bernard Michaux(Author) Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the...
Reconstructing Precambrian pCO2 and pO2 Using Paleosols 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Nathan D Sheldon(Author), Ria L Mitchell(Author), Rebecca M Dzombak(Author) Paperback #253588 2021 9781108819008 £14.99 Paleosols formed in direct contact with the Earth's atmosphere, so they can record the composition of the atmosphere through weathering processes and products. Herein we critically review a variety of different approaches for reconstructing...
Emerging Patterns in Proterozoic Lipid Biomarker Records 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Gordon D Love(Author), J Alex Zumberge(Author) Paperback #253601 2021 9781108810678 £14.99 Diverse and abundant lipid biomarker assemblages have been reported from a variety of Proterozoic marine environments from the careful analysis of well-preserved rocks and oils. These molecular biosignatures have provided unique insights into the...
Barium Isotopes 75 pages | Cambridge University Press Drivers, Dependencies, and Distributions through Space and Time Paperback #253606 2021 9781108791113 £14.99 Tristan J Horner(Author), Peter W Crockford(Author) In the modern marine environment, barium isotope (δ138Ba) variations are primarily driven by barite cycling – barite incorporates 'light' Ba isotopes from solution, rendering the residual Ba reservoir enriched in 'heavy'...
Tsunami 248 pages | Oxford University Press The World's Greatest Waves Hardback #253682 Jun-2021 9780197546123 £22.99 James Goff(Author), Walter Dudley(Author) Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that much closer to our next one. What can we do to ensure we're prepared when the next catastrophic tsunami strikes?The ferocious waves of a tsunami can travel across oceans at...
Small Gases, Big Effect 128 pages | colour illustrations | Particular Books This Is Climate Change Hardback #253759 2021 9780241461884 £7.99 David Nelles(Author), Christian Serrer(Author) The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate change. When students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book that explained the nuts and bolts of climate change in a way that was comprehensive, concise and...
A Slice through America 128 pages | 50 colour illustrations | Princeton Architectural Press A Geological Atlas Hardback #253829 2020 9781616898311 £44.99 David Kassel(Author) Historic stratigraphic illustrations depict the earth beneath our feet in captivating hand-drawn diagrams. Each drawing tells a unique geologic story, exquisitely rendered in colours from pastel palettes to brilliant bolds that show evolving...
Environmental & Social Studies
Global Issues 400 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables | Wiley- An Introduction Blackwell John L Seitz(Author), Kristen A Hite(Author) Paperback #253726 2021 9781119538509 £32.99 An introduction to the most important issues facing an increasingly globalized world with this thoroughly updated and revised sixth edition.Global Issues: An Introduction is an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to the major environmental and...
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity 261 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Earthscan Lessons from Cuba Paperback #253768 2012 9780415507349 £46.99 Julia Wright(Author) Hardback #178249 2008 9781844075720 £99.99 When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and – up till now...
Race for Tomorrow 336 pages | HarperCollins The Scramble for Riches and Survival on a Changing Planet Hardback #253091 Oct-2021 9780008394295 £19.99 Simon Mundy(Author) Climate change isn't just changing our physical environment – it's irrevocably transforming the global landscape of industry, economics, innovation, science and agriculture.As temperatures rise at a pace not seen for millions of years...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 21 Agriculture et Développement Durable: Guide pour l'Évaluation Multicritère [Agriculture 232 pages | b/w illustrations | Editions Quae and Sustainable Development: Guide for Multicriteria Assessment] Paperback #253538 2015 9782759224395 £47.99 Juliette Lairez(Editor), Pauline Feschet(Editor), Joël Aubin(Editor), Christian Bockstaller(Editor), Isabelle Bouvarel(Editor) In an uncertain economic context and in the face of increasingly pressing societal demands, animal and plant production systems must offer new productive models that are economically viable, respectful of the environment, socially acceptable and...
Microplastics in Terrestrial Environments 471 pages | 1 colour & 1 b/w illustration, 30 tables | Springer Nature Emerging Contaminants and Major Challenges Hardback #253555 2020 9783030562700 £249.99 Defu He(Editor), Yongming Luo(Editor) This book focuses on microplastics as emerging persistent contaminants in terrestrial environments. Scientists from around the globe review recent advances in multi-disciplinary research on micro(nano)plastics, including analytical methods; the...
Sunscreens in Coastal Ecosystems 207 pages | 1 b/w illustrations, 30 tables | Springer Nature Occurrence, Behavior, Effect and Risk Hardback #253565 2020 9783030560768 £249.99 Antonio Tovar-Sánchez(Editor), David Sánchez-Quiles(Editor), Julián Blasco(Editor) Sunscreens in Coastal Ecosystems provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the chemical analysis of UV filters in coastal waters and their impact on the marine environment. The sun care is today the most important sector within the...
Are SDGs a Myth? 238 pages | 60 b/w illustrations | Routledge Industrial Development and Water Pollution in India Paperback #253611 2020 9780367560416 £36.99 Neeru Bansal(Author), R Parthasarathy(Author) Hardback #253610 2020 9780367030438 £120.00 This book discusses the continued emphasis on development gains in India's national policies and its quest to meet sustainable development goals. It offers an analysis of the laws and infrastructure for environmental protection in the country and...
The Star Builders 304 pages | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Nuclear Fusion & the Race to Power the Planet Hardback #253638 Aug-2021 9781474611589 £19.99 Arthur Turrell(Author) Is it possible to build a star on earth?When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the end of the century, Professor Stephen Hawking replied 'I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an...
Incandescent 320 pages | Saraband (Scotland) We Need to Talk About Light Paperback #253649 2019 9781912235315 £9.99 Anna Levin(Author) Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter you can see it from space. But is brighter always better?Artificial light is voracious and spreading. Vanquishing precious darkness across the planet, when we are supposed to be using...
Planet Crunch 146 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | The Brock Initiative The Life (or Death?) of Planet Earth Paperback #253652 2021 9781838396305 £9.99 Richard Brock(Author) All the proceeds from this book will be donated by the author to the Avon Wildlife Trust.Accompanying an ambitious project of three 25-minute films released online, this book is an attempt to draw attention to the challenges we all face; especially...
The Book of Hope 240 pages | Viking Books A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet Hardback #253665 Nov-2021 9780241478578 £14.99 Dame Jane Goodall(Author), Douglas Abrams(Co-Author) A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope.The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous...
Climate Change 296 pages | illustrations | Pen and Sword Books Ltd An Archaeological Study: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Responded to Global Warming Hardback #253704 2020 9781526786548 £24.99 John D Grainger(Author) Global warming is among the most urgent problems facing the world today. Yet many commentators, and even some scientists, discuss it with reference only to the changing climate of the last century or so. John Grainger takes a longer view and draws on...
Who Cares Wins 448 pages | Penguin Books Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World Paperback #253815 Aug-2021 9780241309148 £9.99 Lily Cole(Author) Hardback #253814 2020 9780241309124 £19.99 Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible.Many people perceive this to be a moment of despair. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the...
Dead Epidemiologists 296 pages | Monthly Review Press On the Origins of COVID-19 Paperback #253820 2020 9781583679029 £14.99 Robert G Wallace(Author) Hardback #253821 2020 9781583679036 £69.99 The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have. Since this century's turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 22 Clear-Cutting Disease Control 68 pages | 5 colour & 9 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection Paperback #253823 2019 9783030102777 £59.99 Rodrick Wallace(Author), Luis Fernando Chaves(Author), Luke F Bergmann(Author), Hardback #253824 2018 9783319728490 £59.99 Constância F Junqueira Ayres Iopes(Author), Lenny Hogerwerf(Author), Richard Kock(Author), Robert G Wallace(Author) The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, Clear-Cutting Disease Control proposes two key causes...
History & Other Humanities
Human Impact On The Environment 230 pages | Routledge Ancient Roots, Current Challenges Paperback #253777 0200 9780367157760 £36.99 Judith E Jacobsen(Editor), John Firor(Editor) Hardback #253778 2019 9780367007898 £120.00 Human Impact On The Environment explores the way in which human culture and technology have altered the environment through time. The contributors, drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, history, physics and...
Where There Are Mountains 364 pages | 24 b/w photos | University of Georgia Press An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians Paperback #138686 2003 9780820324944 £24.95 Donald Edward Davis(Author) Paperback #253676 2020 9780820358383 £23.95 Reissued in paperback in 2020 as a 20th-anniversary edition.A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment....
The Evolution of Charles Darwin 300 pages | no illustrations | Routledge George A Dorsey(Author) Paperback #253771 2017 9781138124073 £32.99 Charles Darwin is well-known throughout the world for his revolutionary work from 1859; On Hardback #231557 2015 9781138124066 £125.00 the Origin of Species, the foundational study of evolution which greatly challenged the near- universal belief in the Christian world, at that time, of...
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic 212 pages | 12 colour & 51 b/w illustrations | University of Pennsylvania Peter C Mancall(Author) Press In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce Paperback #253684 2020 9780812224726 £18.99 fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted Hardback #235907 2017 9780812249668 £22.99 parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and...
On the Future 136 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press Prospects for Humanity Paperback #253039 Oct-2021 9780691231068 £10.99 Sir Martin J Rees(Author) Hardback #241691 2018 9780691180441 £14.99 Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various prospects for the future – good and bad – are possible. Yet our approach to the future is...
Plagues upon the Earth 696 pages | 45 b/w illustrations, 20 b/w maps | Princeton University Disease and the Course of Human History Press Kyle Harper(Author) Hardback #253491 Nov-2021 9780691192123 £29.99 Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted...
Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia 350 pages | Cambridge University Press Peter D Clift(Author), Jade d'Alpoim Guedes(Author) Hardback #253620 2021 9781107030084 £74.99 The Asian monsoon and associated river systems supply the water that sustains a large portion of humanity, and has enabled Asia to become home to some of the oldest and most productive farming systems on Earth. This book uses climate data and...
Nature's Evil 300 pages | Polity Press A Cultural History of Natural Resources Hardback #253637 Sep-2021 9781509547586 £24.99 Alexander Etkind(Author), Sara Jolly(Translated by) This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters and in this story the leading actors...
Worlds in Shadow 352 pages | Bloomsbury Sigma (Bloomsbury imprint) Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth Hardback #253639 Aug-2021 9781472983473 £16.99 Patrick D Nunn(Author) Discover ancient civilization that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence adds to our knowledge of human history.The traces of much of human history – and that which preceded it – lie...
Shoddy 272 pages | 4 plates with colour illustrations; 65 b/w illustrations | From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags University of Chicago Press Hanna Rose Shell(Author) Hardback #253677 2020 9780226377759 £19.99 The history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 23 Illuminating Natural History 384 pages | colour illustrations | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British The Art and Science of Mark Catesby Art Henrietta McBurney(Author), Mark Catesby(Illustrator) Hardback #253716 Jun-2021 9781913107192 £39.99 The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detailIlluminating Natural History explores the life and work of the celebrated...
The Ghost in the Garden 336 pages | Scribe Publications In Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden Hardback #253720 2021 9781913348052 £19.99 Jude Piesse(Author) The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius.Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury,...
Science under Fire 368 pages | Harvard University Press Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America Hardback #253750 2021 9780674987913 £31.95 Andrew Jewett(Author) Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture.Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives...
Model Organisms 100 pages | Cambridge University Press Rachel A Ankeny(Author), Sabina Leonelli(Author) Paperback #253755 2021 9781108742320 £14.99 This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the 'model organism' in contemporary biology. Thinking about model organisms enables us to examine how living organisms have been brought into the laboratory and used to gain...
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World 88 pages | House of Anansi Press Ailton Krenak(Author), Anthony Doyle(Translated by) Paperback #253772 2020 9781487008512 £10.99 Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes Ailton...
The Tyranny of Science 180 pages | Polity Press Paul K Feyerabend(Author) Paperback #253790 2011 9780745651903 £12.99 Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his Hardback #253791 2011 9780745651897 £44.99 book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book, he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping...
Neural Theories of Mind 304 pages | Psychology Press Ltd Why the Mind-Brain Problem May Never Be Solved Paperback #253806 2014 9781138004207 £46.99 William R Uttal(Author) Hardback #253807 2005 9780805854848 £120.00 In this fascinating book, William R. Uttal raises the possibility that, however much we learn about the anatomy and physiology of the brain and psychology, we may never be able to cross the final bridge explaining how the mind is produced by the...
Organismal to Molecular Biology
Vertebrate Endocrinology 656 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour tables | David O Norris(Author), James A Carr(Author) Academic Press Vertebrate Endocrinology, sixth edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the Hardback #253658 2021 9780128200933 £103.00 endocrine system for college and university students as well as researchers. This book is logically arranged, easily comprehended, and well-illustrated. It...
Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication 222 pages | 22 colour & 46 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Berthold Hedwig(Editor) Paperback #253779 2016 9783662509296 £109.99 Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication provides a comprehensive selection of recent Hardback #208500 2013 9783642404610 £159.99 studies addressing insect hearing and acoustic communication. The variety of signalling behaviours and hearing organs makes insects highly suitable animals for...
Livewired 320 pages | Canongate The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain Paperback #253728 Jul-2021 9781838851002 £9.99 David Eagleman(Author) Hardback #253727 2020 9781838850968 £19.99 What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time, but other memories? How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? Why did many people in the 1980s...
Avian Genomics in Ecology and Evolution 348 pages | 42 colour photos and illustrations, 8 b/w illustrations | From the Lab into the Wild Springer Nature Robert HS Kraus(Editor) Paperback #253600 2020 9783030164799 £99.99 Birds catch the public imagination like no other group of animals; in addition, birders are Hardback #246863 2019 9783030164768 £129.99 perhaps the largest non-professional naturalist community. Genomics and associated bioinformatics have revolutionised daily life in just a few decades. At the...
Horizontal Gene Transfer 425 pages | 31 colour & 16 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Breaking Borders between Living Kingdoms Paperback #253698 2020 9783030218645 £99.99 Tomás G Villa(Editor), Miguel Viñas(Editor) Hardback #247656 2019 9783030218614 £139.99 This book focuses on the evolutionary impact of horizontal gene transfer processes on pathogenicity, environmental adaptation and biological speciation. Newly acquired genetic material has been considered as a driving force in evolution for...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 24 What is Life? 214 pages | no illustrations | Penguin and David Fickling Books Understand Biology in Five Steps Paperback #253522 Jul-2021 9781788451420 £8.99 Paul Nurse(Author), Ben Martynoga(Editor) Hardback #250730 2020 9781788451406 £9.99 Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it is extraordinary. But what does it actually mean to be alive? Nobel prize-winner Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What is Life?, he takes up the challenge of defining...
Mammalian Teeth 248 pages | 115 colour & 20 photos and b/w illustrations, 34 tables | Form and Function Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil Thomas Martin(Editor), Wighart von Koenigswald(Editor) Hardback #253549 2021 9783899372663 £74.99 Teeth are the hardest and most durable parts of the mammalian body. Even after millions of years they provide a wealth of palaeobiologic information. Teeth reflect the interaction of mammals with the environment, as evident from their shape and...
GMOs 667 pages | 20 colour & 13 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Implications for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Processes Hardback #253583 2020 9783030531829 £129.99 Anurag Chaurasia(Editor), David L Hawksworth(Editor), Manoela Pessoa de Miranda(Editor) This book covers a broad spectrum of topics related to GMOs and allied new gene-based technologies, biodiversity, and ecosystem processes, bringing together the contributions of researchers and regulators from around the world. The aim is to offer a...
Human Physiology: A Very Short Introduction 168 pages | 47 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press Jamie A Davies(Author) Paperback #253737 2021 9780198869887 £8.99 Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what makes them distinct from the non-living. It considers how our bodies are supplied with energy, how they maintain their internal parameters, the ways in...
Palaeontology
When the Sahara Was Green 240 pages | 36 colour & 48 b/w illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables | Princeton How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be University Press Martin Williams(Author) Hardback #253490 Nov-2021 9780691201627 £16.99 The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile...
Actualistic Taphonomy in South America 272 pages | 48 colour & 21 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Sergio Martínez(Editor), Alejandra Rojas(Editor), Fernanda Cabrera(Editor) Paperback #253524 2020 9783030206277 £89.99 Highlighting the latest research on Actualistic Taphonomy (AT), this book presents the Hardback #253523 2019 9783030206246 £109.99 outcomes of a meeting that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, in October 2017. Its respective chapters offer valuable insights into South American archaeology,...
Life in Ireland 280 pages | 16 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations | Merrion A Short History of a Long Time Press Conor W O'Brien(Author) Paperback #253525 2021 9781785373848 £14.99 This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years...
Extinct: Tyrannosaurus Rex 128 pages | 50 colour illustrations | Zephyr Ben Garrod(Author), Gabriel Ugueto(Illustrator) Hardback #253553 Oct-2021 9781838935382 £14.99 TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique...
Amino Acids and Proteins in Fossil Biominerals 144 pages | Wiley-Blackwell An Introduction for Archaeologists and Palaeontologists Hardback #253608 2020 9781119089445 £74.99 Beatrice Demarchi(Author) Amino Acids and Proteins in Fossil Biominerals is an authoritative guide to the patterns of survival and degradation of ancient biomolecules in the fossil record. The author brings together new research in biomineralization and ancient proteins to...
Mass Extinctions, Volcanism, and Impacts 245 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Geological Society of America Thierry Adatte(Editor), David PG Bond(Editor), Gerta Keller(Editor) Hardback #253756 2020 9780813725444 £120.00 Mass Extinctions, Volcanism, and Impacts covers new developments and research on mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts. It addresses the following topics: the Central Iapetus magmatic province; thermogenic degassing in large igneous provinces;...
Mycology
The Fungal Community 629 pages | 32 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem photos, b/w illustrations, tables | CRC Press John Dighton(Editor), James F White, Jr.(Editor) Paperback #253420 Jun-2021 9781032097176 £42.99 In all subjects in science, new findings and the use of new technologies allow us to develop an Hardback #232885 2017 9781498706650 £150.00 ever-greater understanding of our world. Expanded and updated coverage in the fourth edition includes:- new sections on Integrating Genomics and...
02-06-2021 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 25 The Mycota, Volume 2: Genetics and Biotechnology 452 pages | 42 colour & 17 b/w illustrations, 25 tables | Springer Nature J Philipp Benz(Editor), Kerstin Schipper(Editor) Hardback #253471 2020 9783030499235 £139.99 This fully revised third edition includes up-to-date topics and developments in the field, which has made tremendous strides since the publication of the second edition in 2004. Many novel techniques based on Next Generation Sequencing have sped up...
Fungi in Ecosystem Processes 382 pages | 4 plates with 5 colour photos & colour illustrations; 105 b/w John Dighton(Author) photos & b/w illustrations, 100 tables | Apple Academic Press This new edition of Fungi in Ecosystem Processes continues the unique approach of Paperback #253419 Jun-2021 9781032098036 £42.99 examining the roles of fungi from the perspective of ecosystem functions. It explores how fungi Hardback #232327 2016 9781482249057 £150.00 have adapted to survive within particular constraints, how they help to...
Mycorrhizal Fungi in South America 340 pages | 5 colour & 20 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Marcela Claudia Pagano(Editor), Mónica Alejandra Lugo(Editor) Paperback #253475 2020 9783030152307 £99.99 This new book shows the work done by researchers dedicated to the study of different Hardback #246260 2019 9783030152277 £129.99 mycorrhizas types, the fungal species associated and their distribution influenced by geographical and environmental factors among the different South American...
Fungi of Antarctica 345 pages | 51 colour photos and illustration, 10 b/w illustrations, 51 Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnological Applications tables | Springer Nature Luiz Henrique Rosa(Editor) Paperback #253602 2020 9783030183691 £89.99 This book focuses on the fungi found in one of the most pristine regions on Earth: Antarctica. It Hardback #246727 2019 9783030183660 £119.99 discusses the fungal occurrence in all substrates of the region, including soil, seawater, lake and marine sediments, rocks, ice, and snow. It also...
Synopsis Fungorum, Volume 43: Corticoid Fungi of Europe, Volume 1: colour photos, b/w line drawings | Fungiflora A/S Acanthobasidium – Gyrodontium Hardback #253753 2021 £59.99 Karl-Henrik Larsson(Author), Leif Ryvarden(Author) Volume 1 of Corticoid Fungi of Europe is the first of three volumes. The book includes an introduction, key to genera, and descriptions of genera (and species) from A to G. Almost all species are illustrated with black and white drawings of...
Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America 392 pages | 309 colour photos, 4 b/w illustrations, 2 colour maps | Alan E Bessette(Author), Dianna G Smith(Author), Arleen Rainis Bessette(Author) University of Texas Press This the first colour-illustrated reference to polypores and similar fungi specific to the eastern Hardback #253787 Sep-2021 9781477322727 £51.99 and central regions of the United States and Canada to be published since Gilbertson & Ryvarden’s 1987 North American Polypores. Welcoming...
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