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nhbs annual new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2007 complete January 2008 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Zoology: The NHBS Monthly Catalogue in a complete yearly edition Mammals Birds Welcome to the Complete 2007 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, the ultimate Reptiles & Amphibians buyer's guide to new and forthcoming titles in natural history, conservation and the Fishes environment. With 300-400 new titles sourced every month from publishers and Invertebrates research organisations around the world, the catalogue provides key bibliographic data Palaeontology plus convenient hyperlinks to more complete information and nhbs.com online shopping - an invaluable resource. Each month's catalogue is sent out as an HTML Marine & Freshwater Biology email to registered subscribers (a plain text version is available on request). It is also General Natural History available online, and offered as a PDF download. Regional & Travel Botany & Plant Science Please see our info page for more details, also our standard terms and conditions. Animal & General Biology Prices are correct at the time of publication, please check www.nhbs.com for the latest prices. Evolutionary Biology Ecology Habitats & Ecosystems Conservation & Biodiversity Environmental Science Physical Sciences Sustainable Development Data Analysis Reference Mammals Go to subject web page Anatomy of the Woodchuck 180 pages | diagrams | ASM (Marmota monax) Pbk | 2005 | 1891276433 | #171784A | AJ Bezuidenhout and HE Evans £75.00 Add to basket The first anatomical account for the woodchuck (also known as groundhog, land beaver or whistlepig), a species of increasing interest to mammalogists and scientists concerned .... Animals the Ancestors Hunted 452 pages | 20 photos, 18 illus, 3 maps An Account of the Wild Mammals of the Kalam Area, Papua New Guinea | Crawford House Publishing Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer Pbk | 2007 | 1863332987 | #170495A | This is a very special kind of animal book. The first author, Ian Saem Majnep, grew up on the £67.00 Add to basket edge of the cool upper montane forest, hunting, foraging and gardening and .... Apes of the Impenetrable Forest 140 pages | b&w photos, diagrams | The Behavioral Ecology of Sympatric Chimpanzees and Gorillas Prentice Hall Craig Stanford Pbk | 2007 | 0132432609 | #169944A | An account of a nine year project on the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain £11.99 Add to basket gorillas living in the same African forest. .... Australian Mammals 524 pages | Illus | CSIRO Biology and Captive Management Pbk | 2007 | 0643095071 | #170363A | Stephen Jackson £98.50 Add to basket Comprehensive guide to the husbandry of Australian marsupials and other mammals, with a chapter on each group, including the platypus, the echidna, carnivorous marsupials, .... Bat Surveys 82 pages | Tabs, figs | Bat Conservation Good Practice Guidelines Trust Bat Conservation Trust Pbk | 2007 | 1872745997 | #169330A | To conserve bats effectively, and to meet national and international statutory obligations and £19.99 Add to basket agreements, there is a clear need for quality controls and appropriate .... Bats 128 pages | 75 line illus | Whittet Phil Richardson Hbk | 1985 | 0905483413 | #000050A | Highly recommended introduction. Illustrated by Guy Troughton. .... £9.99 Add to basket Bats of Florida 176 pages | B/w figs, tabs, illus, col Cynthia S Marks and George E Marks plates, distribution maps | Florida Florida is home to 20 of the more than 1,000 bat species worldwide. Cynthia and George Marks University Presses have created an informative guide that captures both the mystique - and the true .... Pbk | 2006 | 0813029856 | #168406A | £23.50 Add to basket Bears 176 pages | 125 colour photos | A & C A Year in the Life Black Matthias Breiter Pbk | 2007 | 0713687126 | #169804A | A fascinating journey through an entire year in the life of North America's great bears - the Normally £14.99 black bear, the brown bear and the polar bear. Beginning in February when the .... NHBS OFFER PRICE: £14.24 The Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern 172 pages | b&w photos, diagrams | Bolivia Prentice Hall Pbk | 2007 | 0131914707 | #169943A | Leila M Porter £12.99 Add to basket Results of a long-term study of these elusive small monkeys. .... Behaviour and Ecology of Riparian Mammals 391 pages | 90 line illus, figs, 68 tabs, Edited by Nigel Dunstone and Martyn L Gorman maps | CUP The first book to provide an overview of freshwater amphibious mammals. It examines a range Hbk | 1998 | 0521631017 | #076945A | of species (otters, mink, watershrews, hippopotami, etc) and looks at their .... £85.00 Add to basket Pbk | 2007 | 0521038073 | #170438A | £40.00 Add to basket The Behavioural Biology of Dogs 288 pages | illus | CABI (Consignment) Edited by P Jensen Pbk | 2007 | 1845931874 | #165183A | The long-established connection between dogs and humans has given rise to behavioural £34.99 Add to basket adaptations typical of mutualism, which ties our own evolutionary and historical paths .... Bettongs, Potoroos and the Musky Rat-kangaroo 182 pages | Figs, b/w & col photos, tabs Andrew Claridge, John Seebeck and Randy Rose | CSIRO The rat-kangaroo was one of the first Australian marsupials to be seen alive in Europe. Pbk | 2007 | 0643093419 | #165697A | Collected close to the settlement at Sydney Cove, a pair of them were exhibited in .... £28.50 Add to basket Black Bears 188 pages | colour photos | Fitzhenry & A Natural History Whiteside Dave Taylor Pbk | 2006 | 1550418491 | #167058A | Lavishly illustrated throughout with more than 100 full-colour photographs, maps and charts, £25.50 Add to basket Black Bears introduces the reader to this shy, reclusive and largely .... The Bonobos 327 pages | Figs, tabs, map | Springer Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Hbk | 2008 | 0387747850 | #170142A | Edited by Takeshi Furuichi and Jo Thompson £103.50 Add to basket Among all great ape species, the bonobo is still the least studied in both captivity and the wild. Nevertheless we have observed a considerable increase in knowledge across .... Breeds of Empire 272 pages | 8 maps, 5 illus | NIAS Press The Invention of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950 Hbk | 2007 | 8776940144 | #168313A | Greg Bankoff £34.99 Add to basket This book explores the 'invention' of specific breeds of horse in the context of imperial design Pbk | 2007 | 8776940217 | #168314A | and colonial trade routes. Ships of empire carried not just merchandise, .... £14.99 Add to basket Chimpanzee Politics 276 pages | 22 col photos, b/w photos, Power and Sex among Apes 147 illus | Johns Hopkins UP Frans de Waal Pbk | 2007 | 0801886562 | #168538A | The first edition of Frans de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics" was acclaimed not only by £16.50 Add to basket primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, .... Colugo 80 pages | colour photos | Draco The Flying Lemur of South-East Asia Publishing Norman Lim Pbk | 2007 | 9810564546 | #170323A | Colugos are members of the Dermoptera order of mammals, there are two species living in the £36.00 Add to basket rainforests of Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and parts of the Philippines .... Conservation in the 21st Century 375 pages | 40 illus | Springer Gorillas as a Case Study Hbk | 2007 | 0387707204 | #165850A | Edited by TS Stoinski, HD Steklis and PT Mehlman £87.50 Add to basket Like other fields of science, wildlife conservation is a changing field. Threats facing wild populations of apes and other species, say 20 years ago, are likely not the same .... Cooperative Breeding in Mammals 390 pages | Figs, 29 tabs | CUP Edited by Nancy G Solomon and Jeffrey A French Hbk | 1997 | 0521454913 | #051671A | Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents £90.00 Add to basket provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in .... Pbk | 2007 | 0521038286 | #170439A | £40.00 Add to basket Cow 208 pages | 30 col illus, 70 b/w illus | Hannah Velten Reaktion Books Cows, bulls, and oxen are everywhere, physically and figuratively: references, images and Pbk | 2007 | 1861893264 | #165418A | symbolism abound in myth, folklore, religion, art, literature, film and the media; .... £9.95 Add to basket Darwin's Fox and My Coyote 182 pages | - | Virginia UP Holly Menino Hbk | 2008 | 0813926750 | #172449A | A rare fox in the South American cordillera. A disappearing fox on an island off California. A £23.99 Add to basket common coyote in the Albany suburbs. How do these wild carnivores live? .... Deer Watch 169 pages | B/w illus, colour photos, A Field Guide maps | Swan Hill Press Richard Prior Pbk | 2007 | 1846890136 | #166851A | Today deer are all around us. No English or Scottish county is without one or other of our six £16.95 Add to basket resident species and they are rapidly colonising large areas of Wales. Deer are .... Dictionary of Australian and New Guinean Mammals 184 pages | B/w illus | CSIRO Ronald Strahan and Pamela Conder Hbk | 2007 | 064309167X | #168048A | Here for the first time is a unified guide to the mammals of both Australia and Melanesia. Based £31.95 Add to basket on Ronald Strahan's first dictionary of Australian mammals, published .... Dolphins and Whales 168 pages | 490 col photos, illus | White Maurizio Wurtz and Nadia Repetto Star Ediz A convenient, portable companion for whale watchers, serious oceanographers, and marine Pbk | 2007 | 8854403059 | #168428A | mammal lovers,