nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2016/04 April 2016 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913
Welcome to the April 2016 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly Zoology: update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in Mammals the last month. Birds
Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes
● Atlas of the Predeaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland Invertebrates ● Bovids of the World: Antelopes, Gazelles, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Relatives Palaeontology ● Ecology in Action Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland General Natural History ● Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Western Mediterranean Regional & Travel ● How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature ● A Naturalists' Guide to the Birds of Hong Kong Botany & Plant Science ● Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo Animal & General Biology ● Protected Areas: Are They Safeguarding Biodiversity? Evolutionary Biology ● The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters Ecology ● A Summer of British Wildlife: 100 Great Days Out Watching Wildlife Habitats & Ecosystems ● Struik Pocket Guide: Insects of South Africa Conservation & Biodiversity ● Struik Pocket Guide: Snakes and Reptiles of Southern Africa ● Terra Papagalli / Land of Parrots Environmental Science ● The Water Vole: The Story of One of Britain's Most Endangered Mammals Physical Sciences Sustainable Development Stock titles Data Analysis Reference
● The Birds of Exmoor and the Quantocks ● The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka ● Crossbill Guides: Lesbos ● Guests of Summer: A House Martin Love Story ● Marine Wildlife King George Island Antarctica: Identification Guide ● Pinguicula of the Temperate North ● Pinguicula of Latin America ● The Mystery of the Pink Dolphin / Le MystŠre du Dauphin Rose (DVD) ● Wild Escapades Around Central India: A Collection of Travel Stories through the Wooded Valleys of Madhya Pradesh ● World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 14: Coleoptera: Elmidae and Protelmidae
New editions
● Birds of Borneo (Helm Field Guide, 2nd edition) ● Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles: A Field Guide to the Bird- dropping Mimics (2nd edition) ● Ecological Methods (4th edition) ● The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook (2nd edition) ● A Naturalists' Guide to the Birds of Singapore (2nd edition)
New in paperback
● Cuckoo: Cheating By Nature
Reissues
● A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand ● Flora of Madeira ● Pocket Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica ● Pocket Photo Guide to Birds of Peru ● Pocket Photo Guide to the Mammals of North Africa and the Middle East
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Mammals
A Brief History of South American Metatherians 237 pages | 35 colour & 22 b/w Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals illustrations, 13 colour tables | Francisco J Goin, Michael O Woodburne, Ana Natalia Zimicz, Gabriel M Martin and Laur Hardback | 10/2015 | 9789401774185 | Chornogubsky #228611A | £74.50 Add to basket A Brief History of South American Metatherians summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians (one of two major mammalian clades), including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal ...
Among the Bears 289 pages | no illustrations | Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild Paperback | 03/2015 | 9780692401552 Benjamin Kilham and Ed Gray | #228161A | £26.99 Add to basket A first-person account of wild bear behavior that is both a thrilling animal story and a groundbreaking work of science. In the spring of 1993, Ben Kilham, a naturalist who lives in the woodlands of New Hampshire, began raising a pair of ...
Beneath the Surface 272 pages | 8 plates with colour photos Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish | John Hargrove and Howard Chua-Eoan Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781137280107 | Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two #221703A | £17.99 Add to basket continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience ... 9781250081407 | #228642A | £10.99 Add to basket
Bighorn Sheep 85 pages | colour photos | Jack Ballard Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780762784912 Falcon Pocket Guide: Bighorn Sheep presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible | #228240A | £8.95 Add to basket information on this majestic animal. Where do they live? What enemies do they have? How do they communicate? Bighorn Sheep contains ...
Das Europa der Wolfe [A Europe Ruled by Wolves] 227 pages | 144 colour photos, Kaj Granlund illustrations, and maps | This book is a competent but also critical view about the return of the wolf to Central Europe Paperback | 01/2016 | #228502A | and contributes to an objective discussion on the progressive return of the wolf in its natural £29.99 Add to basket habitat. For 2000 years man defended himself ...
Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition 400 pages | Adam Miklosi Hardback | 12/2014 | 9780199646661 | This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature #215325A | £64.99 Add to basket on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating ... 9780198787778 | #228493A | £34.99 Add to basket
Dynamics of Tiger Management in Priority Landscapes 332 pages | 16 plates with colour Evaluating and Developing a Mitigation Strategy for Maintaining Metapopulation photos; b/w illustrations, colour maps | Structure Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181582478 Rajesh Gopal | #228191A | £23.50 Add to basket Tigers have an inherent habit to move across landscapes. To facilitate such movement, corridors are essential. Lack of corridors connecting landscapes results in fatal human–tiger conflict, where, in most cases, it is the tiger which ...
Echoes of Camusfearna 96 pages | 4 plates with colour photos; Paul Yoxon and Grace M Yoxon b/w line drawings | In this touching and amusing book Grace and Paul Yoxon, founders of the International Otter Paperback | 05/1997 | 9781899171767 Survival Fund, share their adventures over the first 12 years ... from the creation of a Field | #228465A | £15.99 Add to basket Centre on the Isle of Skye through its evolution ...
Echoes of Camusfearna DVD (All Regions) 1 disc, runtime: 27 min, aspect ratio: Virginia McKenna 16:9, rating: E, NTSC | This fascinating and haunting wildlife programme is narrated by Virginia McKenna and centres DVD | 01/2007 | 5020609007052 | on the West of Scotland not far from the Isle of Mull. This is the last stronghold of the wild sea #228466A | £17.80 Add to basket otter in Britain, made famous by Gavin Maxwell ...
Elephant Dawn 360 pages | The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Wilderness 9781760290337 | #228309A | £27.50 Sharon Pincott Add to basket In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new life with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of ...
Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men 200 pages | illustrations | A Tribute to Those Who Fought to Save the Great Bear Paperback | 05/2006 | 9780762736539 Mike Lapinski | #228498A | £9.95 Add to basket Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men is a tribute to the core of men who were largely responsible for saving the grizzly bear from extinction by questioning public opinion and policies of their day, a time before professional biologists ...
Growing Up Grizzly 48 pages | colour illustrations | The True Story of Baylee and Her Cubs Paperback | 09/2011 | 9780762779796 Amy Shapira and Douglas H Chadwick | #228366A | £8.95 Add to basket The True Story of a Big-Hearted Bear is a factual story of a mother grizzly bear named Baylee, her three cubs, and a two-year-old grizzly who Baylee adopts into their family. Grizzly bears are extremely protective of their young and ...
Heart of a Lion 256 pages | A Lone Cat's Walk Across America Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | William Stolzenburg 9781620405529 | #228724A | £18.99 Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut Add to basket parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.
In the Presence of Grizzlies 256 pages | colour illustrations | The Ancient Bond Between Men and Bears Paperback | 03/2009 | 9781599214900 Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock | #228442A | £10.95 Add to basket The most comprehensive and compelling chronicle of human-grizzly-bear interactions ever written, In the Presence of Grizzlies (formerly published as The Essential Grizzly) examines the fragile bond between ourselves and the quintessential ...
Le Cheval de Guerre en Grece Ancienne [The War Horse in Ancient 352 pages | b/w illustrations | Greece] Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782753541368 | #228564A | £24.99 Add to basket Alexandre Blaineau and Pierre Brule This book is a contribution to the history of equestrian culture of the Greek world. By adopting the angle of the war horse, it aims to study the perks of military horseback riding and the actions of cavalry on the battlefield.
Le Renard [The Fox] 184 pages | colour photos | Jean-Steve Meia Hardback | 03/2016 | 9782603024515 | This book is more than just a monograph. It presents a synthesis of knowledge about the fox, #228306A | £24.99 Add to basket but also the original results of the author, excerpts from field notes and tips for observation. The book seeks to place information about the ...
Lonesome for Bears 144 pages | b/w illustrations | A Woman's Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness Paperback | 04/2008 | 9781599212104 Linda Jo Hunter and Amy Shapira | #228464A | £12.95 Add to basket Linda Hunter was terrified of bears, but she yearned for the solitude of the wilderness. Setting aside her fears, she became an expert tracker and guide and grew to miss the company of the very animals that once kept her from her love of ...
Mamiferos: Nao Voadores do Pantanal e Entorno [Mammals: An 224 pages | colour photos | Overview of the Pantanal and Environs] Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788565872072 | #228269A | £52.99 Add to basket Wellington Hannibal, Leonardo Avelino Duarte and Cyntia Cavalcante Santos Mamíferos: Não Voadores do Pantanal e Entorno, in its introduction, provides an overview of the wetlands with the mosaic of environments in the Pantanal region in Brazil, including a brief characterization of the ...
Man-Elephant Conflict 140 pages | 88 colour & 2 b/w A Case Study from Forests in West Bengal, India illustrations, 88 colour tables | Nilanjana Das Chatterjee Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Man-Elephant Conflict sheds new light on the causes and consequences of elephant migration in 9783319311616 | #228224A | £66.99 the Panchet Forest Division of Bankura District in West Bengal, India – an area characterized by Add to basket fragmented forested landscapes ...
Reproductive Decisions 276 pages | b/w illustrations | An Economic Analysis of Gelada Baboon Social Strategies Paperback | 07/2014 | 9780691612003 Robin Dunbar | #228236A | £34.95 Add to basket A reprint of a classical work in the Princeton Legacy Library, originally published in 1985. Robin Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon 9780691639949 | #228237A | £84.99 (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species ... Add to basket
Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia 352 pages | Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham 9780199467228 | #228731A | £34.99 The interconnected lives of humans and elephants have shaped landscapes, determined the Add to basket destinies of empires, and stimulated new kinds of knowledge, skill, and practices. Their encounters have also produced intimate forms of companionship ...
Running with Rhinos 232 pages | Stories from a Radical Conservationist Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781626342279 | Edward M Warner #228422A | £17.50 Add to basket Running with rhinos is not a euphemism, not when you're ground support for the International Rhino Foundation's Rhino Conservancy Project. Edward M. Warner, a self-proclaimed radical conservationist, presents his outrage ...
Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates 180 pages | 10 colour & 5 b/w The Biology of the Gradient illustrations | Carol Shively and Mark E Wilson Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates provides a comprehensive look at 9783319308708 | #228235A | £100.50 nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for differences in social status and Add to basket socioeconomic in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed ...
Stories of a Golden Wolf / Historias de um Lobo 268 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Rogerio Cunha de Paula and Adriano Gambarini illustrations | This book is of great importance for generating awareness and admiration for the maned wolf Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788560120284 | (Chrysocyon brachyurus), a species that unjustly remains little known, even as a savanna icon #228283A | £49.99 Add to basket and a national treasure of Brazil.
Taken by Bear in Yellowstone 352 pages | 25 b/w photos | More Than a Century of Harrowing Encounters Between Grizzlies and Humans Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Kathleen Snow 9781493017713 | #228167A | £12.95 Humans and grizzly bears have been coming into contact in Yellowstone National Park ever Add to basket since it was founded in 1872. Most of these encounters have ended peacefully, but many have not. In order to most accurately tell the stories of ...
The Barbastelle Bat Conservation Handbook 350 pages | Ian Davidson-Watts, Matt Zeale and Chris Packham Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | The Barbastelle Bat Conservation Handbook is a long-awaited guide to barbastelle bat ecology, 9781784270551 | #223952A | £59.99 behaviour, conservation management and threats, the first publication of its kind to draw Add to basket together all of the scientific research on ... Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9781784270544 | #223953A | £34.99 Add to basket
The Bear Almanac 352 pages | colour photos, b/w A Comprehensive Guide to the Bears of the World illustrations | Gary P Brown Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780762788064 Here in a single volume, The Bear Almanac collects what is known about the world's bears, | #228382A | £13.95 Add to basket presenting in words and gorgeous photographs, a complete factual compendium of bear knowledge for the amateur naturalist and the bear ...
The Beast That Walks Like Man 360 pages | 20 b/w photos, 6 b/w The Story of the Grizzly Bear illustrations | Harold McCracken Paperback | 06/2003 | 9781570983948 If you're hoping to someday catch a glimpse of the imposing and powerful grizzly bear, you'll | #228616A | £12.95 Add to basket have to take a trek through the Northern Rockies, Canada, or Alaska. Having once roamed the entire continent of North America, the population ...
The Complete Tracker 384 pages | 150 b/w illustrations | Tracks, Signs, and Habits of North American Wildlife Paperback | 04/2012 | 9781599218588 Len McDougall | #228322A | £13.95 Add to basket The Complete Tracker is a concise, thorough guide to the tracks, signs, and habits of North America's most popular species of wildlife. Readers learn the secrets of a master tracker, assembling a clear picture from tracks ...
The Hare Book 160 pages | 52 colour photos | The Hare Preservation Trust and Jane Russ Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781909823686 | Elusive, ethereal, evocative – the hare permeates our consciousness like no other creature. #228729A | £9.99 Add to basket Despite facing ever increasing environmental pressures, it still retains its ability to both delight and confound in equal measure.
The Little Red Thief 143 pages | 31 plates with colour photos The True Story of Foxyloxy, an Orphaned Fox Cub | Louise Wren Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781861511812 Louise Wren was closing her bedroom curtains one night when she spotted a fox cub sitting | #228406A | £12.99 Add to basket alone and forlorn on her lawn in the dark. Realising it had been orphaned, she began to feed it, soon recruiting her grandchildren to help. So began ...
The Red Kangaroo in Central Australia 176 pages | colour plates; photos, An Early Account by A. E. Newsome illustrations | Alan Newsome and Thomas Newsome Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia's ecological identity. It is Australia's largest 9781486301553 | #228666A | £29.50 terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Add to basket Australia's arid interior.
The Soul of the Rhino 256 pages | black & white illustrations | A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Paperback | 09/2009 | 9781599218007 Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian | #228416A | £10.95 Add to basket Hemanta R Mishra, Jr.,Jim Ottaway, Bruce Babbitt and Jim Fowler In early 2006, National Public Radio reported that "A promising conservation effort to save one of Nepal's signature endangered species is now in serious trouble, due primarily to poachers taking advantage of fighting between ...
Tiger Reserves of India 154 pages | b/w illustrations | ...and the Saga of Wildlife Conservation Paperback | 04/2014 | #228250A | Puneet Sood £24.99 Add to basket A study of six Indian tiger reserves.
Vargens Europa [A Europe Ruled by Wolves] 227 pages | 144 colour photos, Kaj Granlund illustrations, and maps | This book is a competent but also critical view about the return of the wolf to Central Europe Paperback | 01/2016 | #228501A | and contributes to an objective discussion on the progressive return of the wolf in its natural £25.99 Add to basket habitat. For 2000 years man defended himself ...
Whalers No More 220 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps William A Hagelund | Like most of us, William Hagelund sees whales through compassionate eyes now, and marvels Paperback | 12/2015 | 9781550177602 at the boom times of BC's whaling industry when he and a host of legendary old harpooners | #228204A | £13.95 Add to basket hunted down the great sperm and humpback herds off ...
Where the Grizzly Walks 274 pages | The Future of the Great Bear Hardback | 12/2003 | 9780762726028 | Bill Schneider and Stephen Herrero #228603A | £13.95 Add to basket Admired for its majesty and often feared for its strength, speed, and supposed aggressiveness, the grizzly bear was once unchallenged as the great apex predator of the American West. By the 1970s, however, hunting and habitat loss had ...
Wild Equids 248 pages | 31 b/w illustrations, 8 maps Ecology, Management, and Conservation | Jason I Ransom and Petra Kaczensky Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures 9781421419091 | #228195A | £37.99 that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence Add to basket conservation and management efforts.
Wilderness Predators of the Rockies 208 pages | illustrations | The Bond Between Predator and Prey Paperback | 04/2006 | 9780762735372 Mike Lapinski | #228514A | £11.95 Add to basket Wilderness Predators of the Rockies takes readers on an in-depth journey into the secluded backcountry where legendary predators such as the mighty grizzly, taciturn wolverine, stately wolf, awesome jaguar, and other wild animals ...
Wolf Land 258 pages | Carter Niemeyer Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780984811328 Carter Niemeyer has followed wolves – and captured many – since he helped reintroduce them | #228723A | £19.99 Add to basket in the Northern Rockies in the mid-1990s. In his second memoir, Wolf Land, he takes us across the rugged West as he tracks ...
Birds
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica 176 pages | colour photos | Steve Bird Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | Written by an expert with extensive local knowledge, this volume features all species that the 9781909612648 | #222726A | £9.99 amateur naturalist might expect to see in the field, with high quality photographs accompanied Add to basket by detailed species descriptions that include ...
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Chitwan (Nepal) 216 pages | colour photos, colour maps Including 13 Orders, 51 Families and Sub-Families and 284 Species of Birds | Suresh Shakya and Bhima Shakya Hardback | 11/2015 | 9789937002271 | Nepal is a very small country but it has more than 865 species of birds. This book is an #228391A | £67.99 Add to basket excellent photographic guide to the birds of Chitwan and other national parks, wildlife reserves and conservation areas of lowland Nepal. This book ...
Asiatic Parrots and Their Mutations 560 pages | 440 colour photos | T Bastiaan and GJJ Bastiaan Hardback | 11/2004 | 9789090173269 | The successor of Ringnecked Parakeets and their Mutations. The book describes the Ringnecked #228342A | £77.99 Add to basket Parrots and the other species and subspecies of the Psittacula family (Asiatic parrots) as well. The information is meant for the ...
Beautiful Songbirds 64 pages | And the Joy They Inspire Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781416245490 | Ashley Halsey #228682A | £6.99 Add to basket Beautiful Songbirds celebrates the beauty of 30 of the most melodious backyard birds found in North America and abroad. Artist Ashley Halsey has created original watercolors of each bird in their natural landscape. Accompanying ...
Being a Bird in North America, North of Mexico, Volume 1 256 pages | colour photos, colour Waterfowl to Shorebirds illustrations, colour distribution maps | Robert Alvo Hardback | 09/2015 | 9780987773302 | Each of North America's species is given a full page description of its natural history and #228707A | £38.99 Add to basket conservation in an informal style, including names and classification, conservation status, a color photo, and global distribution map.
Berichte zum Vogelschutz, Heft 51 144 pages | colour photos, colour Deutscher Rat fur Vogelschutz (DRV) and Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) illustrations | Volume 51 of the German journal Berichte zum Vogelschutz, published by the Deutscher Rat für 01/2014 | #228651A | £38.39 Add to Vogelschutz (DRV) and the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), provides detailed information basket on various topical issues of bird protection ...
Bird Brain 192 pages | An Exploration of Avian Intelligence Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Nathan Emery 9781782403142 | #228352A | £19.99 An absorbing study of how birds think, revealing how science is exploding the myth of our Add to basket feathered friends being 'bird brained', and how recent discoveries may call for us to re-evaluate how we identify and classify intelligence ...
Birding for Beginners 208 pages | colour illustrations | A Comprehensive Introduction to the Art of Birdwatching Paperback | 05/2010 | 9781599219141 Sheila Buff and Richard Day | #228392A | £13.95 Add to basket This updated edition includes a new chapter on birding online and features detailed chapters on equipment, identification techniques, birding "by ear", where to view birds, field guides, optics, and other essentials to get the ...
Birds in My Indian Garden 260 pages | Malcolm MacDonald and Bulbul Sharma Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789384067403 First published in 1960 by Jonathan Cape. "One of my favourite birds is the white-eye. It is a | #228531A | £18.99 Add to basket dapper little creature measuring only four inches long from the tip of its beak to the end of its tail, and its colouring is ...
Birds of Fernando de Noronha / Aves de Fernando de Noronha 239 pages | 250+ colour photos | Robson Silva e Silva Hardback | 01/2008 | 9788560120062 | Through this book the author shows the birds that are part of the fauna of Fernando de #228285A | £43.99 Add to basket Noronha, a volcanic archipelago about 350 kilometers off Brazil's northeast coast. Featuring stunning images and beautiful landscapes, the ...
Birds of Libya / Oiseaux de Libye 400 pages | colour photos | Paul Isenmann, Jens Hering, Stefan Brehme, Mohamed Essghaier, Khaled Etayeb, Essam Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Bourass and Azaf 9782916802046 | #228375A | £44.99 Birds of Libya / Oiseaux de Libye is written in English and French and is an annotated checklist Add to basket of the 350 bird species (of which 100 are currently breeding) recorded in Libya. This North African country is mostly a Saharan ...
Birds of Nepal 336 pages | plates with colour Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp and Hem Sagar Baral illustrations; colour distribution maps | Nepal has long been one of the world's most popular birding and trekking destinations. This Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | new field guide covers all 800 species of bird found in this tiny, mountainous kingdom. Based 9781472905710 | #219790A | £34.99 on the revised edition of ... Add to basket
Birds of West Virginia 104 pages | colour illustrations | Todd Telander Paperback | 12/2012 | 9780762781003 Birds of West Virginia is a field guide to the 180 most common and sought-after species in the | #228298A | £6.95 Add to basket state. Falcon Field Guides are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning ...
Birds to Watch in Namibia 320 pages | colour photos, colour Red, Rare and Endemic Species distribution maps | Rob E Simmons, Christopher J Brown and Jessica Kemper Paperback | 06/2015 | 9789994500826 Birds to Watch in Namibia is Namibia’s Red Data Book on birds. Seventy one of the 687 bird | #228663A | £29.99 Add to basket species recorded in Namibia to date have been found to be either Threatened (48 species) or Near-threatened (23 species), according to IUCN ...
Birds: Myth, Lore & Legend 304 pages | colour illustrations | Rachel Warren-Chadd and Marianne Taylor Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful 9781472922861 | #226323A | £24.99 belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird Add to basket with paradise? The answers are here in this new ...
Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island 320 pages | 50+ colour photos, 39 Deborah Rivel and Kellye Rosenheim maps | This easy-to-use guide gives seasonal information for both popular birding sites and those off Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | the beaten path. Precise directions to the best viewing locations within the region's diverse 9781611686784 | #228203A | £18.99 habitats enable birdwatchers to efficiently ... Add to basket
Brazil Birds 12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species map | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung Unbound | 03/2016 | 9781583559895 | Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world, with a total of 1,901 species, 270 of #228162A | £5.99 Add to basket which are endemic. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map featuring prominent ...
Charles Darwin's Life with Birds 512 pages | 66 illustrations | His Complete Ornithology Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Clifford B Frith 9780190240233 | #227887A | £45.99 Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his Add to basket study of birds. It is universally acknowledged that Darwin's observation of bird groups and species like the Galapagos finches, mockingbirds ...
Colorado Birds colour illustrations | A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species Unbound | 02/2014 | 9781583550687 | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung #228559A | £6.99 Add to basket Colorado Birds is a pocket-sized, folding naturalist guide. Distinctive colorful illustrations highlight the most commonly seen birds in Colorado. Printed on laminated material for durability, these handy guides are a great source ...
Connecticut Birds colour illustrations | A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species Unbound | 03/2002 | 9781583551394 | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung #228626A | £6.99 Add to basket Connecticut is the permanent or migratory home of 431 species of birds, including the state bird – the American robin. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a featuring prominent ...
Corbeaux et Corneilles [Ravens and Crows] 192 pages | colour illustrations | Georges Olioso Hardback | 03/2016 | 9782603024553 | Is it because they are mostly black? Because their cries are inharmonious? Because they are #228299A | £24.99 Add to basket sometimes perceived as harmful? Whatever it is, most corvids still have a bad reputation. Sometimes they are accused of stealing, sometimes of ...
Crow Country 256 pages | 1 map | Mark Cocker Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the 9781784871123 | #228635A | £9.99 Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are Add to basket beautifully designed reissues of the finest British ...
Cuba Birds 12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species map | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung Unbound | 03/2016 | 9781583559819 | One of the world's top birding destinations, this Caribbean island is home to 354 recorded #228172A | £5.99 Add to basket species including 21 endemics; the charming Cuban tody, the elegant Cuban trogon and the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird.
Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage 176 pages | 70 colour photos | Robert Clark and Carl Zimmer Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | These beautiful photographs from award-winning National Geographic photographer Robert 9781452139890 | #228264A | £19.99 Clark offer a fascinating new view of bird feathers. Each detailed close-up image is paired with Add to basket informative text about the function and evolution of ...
Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona 372 pages | colour photos, b/w David Stejskal, Gary H Rosenberg and Kenn Kaufman illustrations, colour & b/w maps | Tucson Audubon's updated edition of Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona, the Revised Eighth, Spiralbound | 01/2015 | #228388A | brings together all the latest information on finding birds in southeast Arizona. This is your best £49.99 Add to basket source of detailed information ...
Flyways: A Celebration of Waterfowl and Wetlands 136 pages | colour photos | Gary Kramer Paperback | 06/2006 | 9781932052282 Flying south in the fall and north in the spring, waterfowl have followed travel routes in the sky | #228489A | £14.95 Add to basket for centuries. These migrations are repeated year after year as ducks and geese pass from one region or climate to another for feeding ...
Faeroernes Fugle: Fakta og Tal [Birds of the Faroe Islands: Facts and 363 pages | colour photos | Numbers] Hardback | 11/2015 | 9789991877068 | #228480A | £47.50 Add to basket Jens-Kjeld Jensen and Soren Sorensen Færøernes Fugle: Fakta og Tal deals with a total of 312 bird species and more than 30 subspecies, which have been observed in the Faroe Islands until 31 December 2014. Species that escaped from captivity or have ...
Guests of Summer 117 pages | 1 b/w map | A House Martin Love Story Paperback | 03/2016 | 9789085815709 Theunis Piersma and Ian Newton | #228632A | £9.99 Add to basket Guests of Summer tells the story of the House Martins of a small Dutch village, and the historic and contemporary connectedness of lives, both of birds and people. The journey begins from the comfort of a chair in ...
Guia de les Aus de Menorca [Guide to the Birds of Menorca] 120 pages | colour photos | Felix de Pablo Pons Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788415291114 This book introduces the reader to the birds of Menorca. The book is illustrated with photos, | #228487A | £21.99 Add to basket and provides comments on the species, and the habitats they occupy. It is an introduction to ornithology, providing information on which species ...
Guia de las Aves de Menorca [Guide to the Birds of Menorca] 120 pages | colour photos | Felix de Pablo Pons Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788415291121 This book introduces the reader to the birds of Menorca. The book is illustrated with photos, | #228488A | £21.99 Add to basket and provides comments on the species, and the habitats they occupy. It is an introduction to ornithology, providing information on which species ...
H is for Hawk 352 pages | no illustrations | Helen Macdonald Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the 9781784871109 | #228633A | £9.99 Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are Add to basket beautifully designed reissues of the fine ...
Le Petit Guide Ornitho: Observer et Identifier les Oiseaux [The Small 224 pages | 170+ colour photos, 200+ Ornithological Guide: Observing and Identifying Bi colour illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9782603024157 Marc Duquet and Jean Chevalier | #228521A | £23.99 Add to basket Le Petit Guide Ornithos gives practical tips on watching and identifying birds. It covers 142 bird species (up from 116 in the previous edition) found in western Europe.
New England Bird-Lover's Garden 224 pages | 146 colour photos, 1 map | Attracting Birds with Plants and Flowers Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Randi Minetor and Nic Minetor 9781493022342 | #228168A | £8.95 New England Bird-Lover's Garden helps you maximize your home birding experiences and Add to basket attract a wider variety of birds. With 100 plus full-color photos and concise, informative text, it provides indispensable details on what ...
Parrots of the World 160 pages | 120 colour photos | Steve Brookes Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Parrots have always captured the imagination of humans thanks to their bright plumage and 9781921517716 | #228320A | £21.99 ability to mimic speech. This beautifully illustrated book on the world's parrots explores all Add to basket aspects of their lives, as well as the various ...
Plumage Across the Pir Panjal 295 pages | ~750 colour photos | The Poonch and Rajouri Districts - A Photographic Guide Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788187583288 Rajendra Singh | #228281A | £43.99 Add to basket The author is a mountaineer, an amateur photographer, naturalist and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Despite being a serving officer, he could find time to study 310 species of birds, 260 species from the Poonch and Rajouri ...
Portraits d'Oiseaux Guyanais [Portraits of Guyanese Birds] 480 pages | colour illustrations | Association GEPOG Hardback | 03/2003 | 9782844501844 | Guyanese birds are beautiful, but often overlooked. For the first time in French, a work allows a #228586A | £51.99 Add to basket great public to discover nearly 150 species, amongst them the most beautiful, the most symbolic, or simply the most common in ...
Queen of the Sky 64 pages | 80 colour photos, 12 Jackie Morris illustrations | This is the amazing story of a peregrine falcon rescued from the sea off the remote coast of Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781909823716 | west Wales. Jackie Morris tells the story of how her friend Ffion Rees nursed the Falcon back to #228728A | £14.99 Add to basket life and back to the wild – it's about ...
Scarlet Ibis in Brazil: The Preservation's Vibrant Colors / Guarís 240 pages | colour illustrations | Vermelhos no Brasil: As Cores Vibrantes da Preserva Hardback | 01/2007 | 9788560120024 | #228286A | £32.50 Add to basket Robson Silva e Silva Contents: - The scarlet ibis and its life in the mangroves - Taxonomy and other names - Species Distribution - Other members of the family - The day-to-day business of the scarlet ibis - Movements - Population ...
South Africa Birds 12 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species map | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung Unbound | 03/2016 | 9781583559864 | One of the world's top birding hotspots, South Africa's diverse habitats harbor more than 950 #228163A | £5.99 Add to basket species. This beautifully illustrated guide covers over 140 familiar and unique species found in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia ...
Terra Papagalli / Land of Parrots 375 pages | colour photos, colour Eduardo Parentoni Brettas, Luis Fíbio Silveira and Neiva Maria Robaldo Guedes illustrations, colour distribution maps | Terra Papagalli brings the most artistic and scientific survey ever conducted, containing all 91 Hardback | 12/2015 | 9788569827009 | species of Brazilian parrots. All species are finely painted by Eduardo Parentoni Breitas, one of #228330A | £145.00 Add to basket the most gifted painters of birds ...
The Running Sky 304 pages | no illustrations | A Bird-Watching Life Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Tim Dee 9781784871147 | #228636A | £9.99 The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Add to basket Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are beautifully designed reissues of the fine ...
Vinterfoglar [Winter Birds] 343 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/ Lars Jonsson w distribution maps | Bird seeds, fat balls and feeders. Many of us feed birds in winter, and it is a more widespread Hardback | 12/2015 | 9789174244489 | employment than you might at first think. It is estimated that half a million Swedish households #228555A | £40.99 Add to basket somehow feed birds during the winter months.
Vogels Buiten Beleven [Experiencing Birds Outdoors] 304 pages | colour photos, colour maps Jip Louwe Kooijmans | Birds are everywhere, and they are fascinating to watch. If you make your garden attractive to Hardback | 06/2016 | 9789050115766 | birds, you can enjoy the sight of them daily. Go for a walk on your day off to watch and listen #228405A | £13.99 Add to basket to their lives. In the spring they are singing ...
Vogel in Deutschland 2014 [Birds in Germany 2014] 72 pages | colour photos, colour Johannes Wahl, Rainer Droschmeister, Bettina Gerlach, Christoph Gruneberg and Torste illustrations, colour distribution maps | Langgemach Paperback | 02/2016 | 9783981554359 Vögel in Deutschland 2014 is based on data collection, carried out largely by volunteers as part | #228374A | £17.99 Add to basket of nationwide bird monitoring efforts. For the study, comprehensive data from the national report by the European Birds ...
Waterbirds of Australia 96 pages | colour photos | Don Hadden Hardback | 11/2010 | 9781877069826 | Australia supports a fascinating variety of waterbirds, such as the Jabiru, Ibis, Heron and many #228444A | £36.50 Add to basket more. This book showcases over 85 birds that frequent the wetlands, shores and coastal waters. All have been captured in their natural environment ...
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? 324 pages | no illustrations | The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780715649978 | Andrew Lawler #220240A | £16.99 Add to basket From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across 9780715650691 | #228678A | £9.99 the globe – the chicken. Queen Victoria ... Add to basket
Wings of Dwarka: Birds of GGS Indraprastha University Campus and 91 pages | colour photos | Surrounding Areas - A Field Guide Paperback | 01/2014 | #228245A | £21.99 Add to basket Ranjana Pal, Srishti Solanki and Aman Malik The Wings of Dwarka offers a concise description of the birds which frequent GGSIP University campus and its surroundings. The book is enriched with beautiful photographs and entertaining knowledge. This book aims to encourage ...
Oekologie der Wasservoegel [Ecology of Waterfowl] 412 pages | 107 colour & 51 b/w Lothar Kalbe illustrations | Due to the massive destruction of wetlands, their preservation or recovery as a habitat for Paperback | 03/2016 | 9783894322748 waterfowl is an important task for nature and environmental protection organisations. An | #228479A | £49.99 Add to basket essential tool, especially for protection of waterfowl ...
Reptiles & Amphibians
A Photographic Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the 319 pages | 320 colour photos and Lowland Monsoon Forests of Southern Vietnam colour distribution maps | Hardback | 03/2016 | 9783899734652 | Anna B Vassilieva, Eduard A Galoyan, Nikolay A Poyarkov and Peter Geissler #166837A | £57.99 Add to basket This richly illustrated photographic field guide describes to the amphibians and reptiles of the lowland monsoon forests of southern Vietnam.
Amphibien und Reptilien des Paraguayischen Chaco [Amphibians and 398 pages | 400+ colour photos | Reptiles of the Paraguayan Chaco] Hardback | 03/2016 | 9783899734546 | #228357A | £79.50 Add to basket Ludwig Trutnau, Markus Monzel and Albia Consul Over the course of 30 years Ludwig Trutnau has regularly visited and done herpetological fieldwork in Chaco, a historical department in Paraguay. With his typical meticulousness he has kept a field diary, where he has accurately recorded ...
Behavioral Ecology of the Eastern Red-Backed Salamander 248 pages | 13 illustrations | Robert G Jaeger, Birgit Gollmann, Caitlin R Gabor, Nancy R Kohn and Carl D Anthony Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Behavioral Ecology of the Eastern Red-Backed Salamander features over 50 years of research 9780190605506 | #228474A | £38.99 findings straight from the lab of the primary researcher of the red-backed salamander. The Add to basket structure of the book allows for it to be used ...
Discovering Amphibians 208 pages | illustrations | Frogs and Salamanders of the Northeast Paperback | 01/2006 | 9780892727032 John Himmelman | #228519A | £12.95 Add to basket As author Himmelman can attest, people of all ages are actively learning more about frogs, toads, and salamanders. Discovering Amphibians covers everything from amphibians' physiology to their place in folklore and literature ...
Green Guide to Crocodiles of Australia 96 pages | colour photos | Grahame Webb and Charlie Manolis Paperback | 03/2009 | 9781741108484 How dangerous are crocodiles to humans? How do crocodiles hunt their prey? How can I avoid | #228439A | £9.99 Add to basket being taken by a crocodile? Answers to these and many more commonly asked questions about crocodiles can be found inside this useful guide.
Les Reptiles et Amphibiens de France [The Reptiles and Amphibians of 64 pages | colour photos | France] Paperback | 01/2016 | 9782755805666 | #228145A | £8.99 Add to basket Dominique Martire and Franck Merlier Just like insects and spiders, reptiles and amphibians play an essential role in nature. Man certainly has more benefits from their existence than inconveniences. This richly illustrated field guide allow everyone to discover these sometimes ...
Reptiles of the Federated States of Micronesia 311 pages | 224 colour photos, colour Donald W Buden and Danko Taborosi distribution maps | This book offers a comprehensive look at the turtles, lizards, and snakes of the Federated Hardback | 03/2016 | 9789829123947 | States of Micronesia. It includes identification keys, detailed species accounts, and hundreds of #228638A | £26.95 Add to basket high quality illustrations. In addition to rich ...
Serpentes do Cerrado: Guia Ilustrado [Snakes of the Cerrado: 248 pages | colour photos | Illustrated Guide] Paperback | 02/2016 | 9788586699832 | #228404A | £44.99 Add to basket Otavio AV Marques, Andre Eterovic, Cristiano C Nogueira and Ivan Sazima Knowing the fauna of an ecosystem threatened by human activities is one of the important steps for their conservation. This guide aims to assist in the identification of the snakes that occur in the Brazilian Cerrado and present information ...
Snake: The Essential Visual Guide 200 pages | colour photos, colour Chris Mattison illustrations, colour distribution maps, Snake: The Essential Visual Guide is the essential visual guide to the world of serpents, colour tables | featuring more than 3,000 species. With a fresh new look, updated classifications, stunning Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780241226247 photography and amazing artworks, Snake ... | #228257A | £9.99 Add to basket
The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of our British Indian Dominions 173 pages | b/w illustrations | (Including Ceylon) and How to Recognize Them with Sympt Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789381942154 | #228184A | £27.50 Add to basket Major F Wall Originally published in 1913, this book deals with the snakes found in India and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and clearly describes how to identify and recognize the different kinds of poisonous terrestrial snakes. The snakes have been classified ...
Fishes
A Catalogue of Pisces in the Collection of the Arunachal Pradesh 108 pages | 4 plates with colour photos Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Itanagar, | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181714220 B Sinha and L Tamang | #228390A | £34.99 Add to basket The Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre (APRC) based at Itanagar, India, is one among the sixteen renowned Regional Centres of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and is engaged in survey and documentation of the fauna of Arunachal Pradesh ...
Herring Tales 272 pages | plates with colour photos, b/ How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History w maps | Donald S Murray Hardback | 09/2015 | 9781472912169 | Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they #226353A | £16.99 Add to basket open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within. Jamaicans prefer them with a Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English enjoy ... 9781472912176 | #228734A | £9.99 Add to basket
Know Your New Zealand Fishes 176 pages | 100 colour photos | Tony Enderby and Jenny Enderby Paperback | 02/2012 | 9781869663230 New Zealand boasts beautiful and unique coastlines, lakes and rivers, brimming with more than | #228445A | £14.99 Add to basket 1100 different fish species. In Know Your New Zealand Fishes, Jenny and Tony Enderby identify more than 80 of the country's best-known ...
Malawi Cichlids in Their Natural Habitat 424 pages | 1760 colour photos | Ad Konings Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | No lake in the world contains such a diversified and distinctive community of cichlid fishes as 9781932892239 | #228215A | £79.99 Lake Malaŵi. The total number of cichlid species in the lake is now estimated at about 1000, Add to basket which is about 200 more than all the freshwater ...
Marine Fishes of Florida 392 pages | 495 colour photos | David B Snyder and George H Burgess Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | The most comprehensive book about Florida's marine fishes ever produced, Marine Fishes of 9781421418728 | #228196A | £25.99 Florida includes hundreds of photographs and descriptions of species you'll encounter – plus Add to basket many that are rare – when ...
Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species 160 pages | colour photos | Sara A Lourie Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Seahorses are extraordinary creatures. They swim upright and spend days in dancing courtship. 9781782403210 | #228505A | £13.99 They are small, shy and have heads shaped like miniature ponies. And the male carries the Add to basket female's eggs in his pouch and 'births' ...
Sharks of the Mediterranean 207 pages | 16 plates with colour An Illustrated Study of All Species photos; 170 b/w photos and b/w Alessandro De Maddalena, Harald Bansch and Walter Heim illustrations | This is the most complete, beautiful and up-to-date book on sharks of the Mediterranean Sea Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781476663579 ever written. Sharks of the Mediterranean opens with an exhaustive general part on the biology | #228346A | £35.50 Add to basket and ecology of sharks of the Mediterranean ...
The Billfish Story 232 pages | illustrations | Swordfish, Sailfish, Marlin, and Other Gladiators of the Sea Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780820341910 | Stan L Ulanski #210008A | £24.95 Add to basket The billfish is fixed at the apex of the oceanic food chain. Composed of sailfish, marlin, Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | spearfish, and swordfish, they roam the pelagic waters of the Atlantic and are easily recognized 9780820349756 | #228725A | £21.50 by their long, spear-like beaks. Noted for their ... Add to basket
The U.K. Great White Shark Enigma colour illustrations | Richard Peirce Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Human-wildlife conflicts are a daily occurrence all over the world, and often result in humans 9780955869471 | #228670A | £4.99 being killed or injured. The Great White Shark is among the predators most feared by humans, Add to basket but in terms of the actual annual number of deaths ...
Young Reed A-Z of Sharks and Rays 48 pages | colour photos | From the Great White to the Wobbegong, We Cover All the Basics Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781921580307 | Nigel Marsh #228319A | £9.99 Add to basket Sharks are the kings of the ocean, sometimes feared, occasionally loved, and always a subject of intrigue for children and adults alike. A-Z of Sharks and Rays, the latest addition to the popular Young Reed series, addresses ...
Invertebrates
A Pictorial Guide of Australian Fossil Cowries and their Allies 87 pages | colour photos | CJ Goudey Hardback | 01/2015 | #228735A | In this book, an attempt has been made to record all the known fossil cowries and their allies £96.99 Add to basket found in Australia. This book is not a taxonomic treatise of the Cypraeidae, but a handbook for the serious collector of fossils, in particular ...
A Spring Without Bees 304 pages | tables | How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply Paperback | 05/2009 | 9781599216003 Michael Schacker and Bill McKibben | #228430A | £10.95 Add to basket More than a century after the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide ...
A Sting in the Tale 320 pages | no illustrations | Dave Goulson Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the 9781784871116 | #228634A | £9.99 Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Books in this series are Add to basket beautifully designed reissues of the fine ...
Abeilles Sauvages: Les Conna tre, les Accueillir, les Prot ger [Wild Bees: 128 pages | colour photos | Recognizing, Welcoming and Protecting Them] Paperback | 02/2016 | 9782603019931 | #228297A | £19.99 Add to basket Vincent Albouy While the honeybee, highly regarded for its honey production, is widely publicized, we know less of a wild species that exists, unique to Europe, and that also produces honey. Still, it faces the same problems as its breeding sisters ...
Ants of Africa and Madagascar 512 pages | 36 plates with colour A Guide to the Genera photos; 433 b/w illustrations | Brian L Fisher and Barry Bolton Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Across the Afrotopical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and 9780520278660 | #227482A | £64.99 ecologically dominant animal groups. From driver ants to weaver ants, there are over 2,000 Add to basket species in Africa alone and over 600 in Madagascar. Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780520290891 | #227483A | £37.95 Add to basket
Atlas of Butterflies in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire 76 pages | 105 colour photos, 100 Jim Asher, Nick Bowles, Jan Haseler, Grahame Hawker, Peter Ogden, David Roy, Richard colour distribution maps | Soulsby and Wil Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781874357735 Copiously illustrated with photographs and other graphics, the trends of all local species are | #228704A | £9.95 Add to basket individually described, with discussion of factors driving change and threats, pressures and opportunities for butterfly species in our local ...
Atlas of the Predaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and 370 pages | 33 colour photos, 154 b/w Ireland distribution maps | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781906698560 Garth N Foster, David T Bilton and BH Nelson | #228350A | £22.50 Add to basket This atlas concerns the predaceous water beetles, or Hydradephaga – the whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae), the crawling water beetles (Haliplidae), one species of squeak beetle (Paelobiidae), the burrowing water beetles (Noteridae) ...
Australian Insects 288 pages | colour photos | A Natural History Hardback | 07/2010 | 9781877069710 | Bert Brunet #228455A | £19.99 Add to basket Insects are survivors. Since their evolution some 365 million years ago, they have penetrated almost every habitat on Earth. Today in Australia there are over 100,000 species crawling, flying, hopping and hurrying across the continent.
Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4 623 pages | 59 plates with 348 colour Cerambycidae to Curculionidae photos; b/w line drawings | Andrew G Duff and Michael Cox Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Volume 4 covers the phytophagous (plant-feeding) beetles in the superfamilies Chrysomeloidea 9780957334731 | #200648A | £97.99 and Curculionoidea, including the familiar and popular longhorn beetles, seed and leaf beetles, Add to basket weevils and bark beetles. Chapters on the seed ...
Bienen: 104 Besondere Arten aus Aller Welt in Faszinierenden 160 pages | colour photos | Nahaufnahmen [Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | 9783702015893 | #228617A | £32.50 Sam Droege, Laurence Packer and Tanja Bruxmeier Add to basket Get the buzz on bees with up-close and personal, stunning photographs of more than a hundred species. If a bee flies near you or if it lands on your arm, you might want to run away as fast as you can. Or maybe you freeze and hope the bee ...
Butterflies and Wildflowers of Tollygunge Club 111 pages | colour photos, b/w A Pictorial Field Guide illustrations | Arjan Basu Roy Paperback | 01/2011 | #228397A | This field guide compiles the butterfly fauna and wildflowers around Tollygunge Club, a country £33.99 Add to basket club located in Tollygunge in south Kolkata, India. It took more than a year to capture the richness of butterfly fauna of this area. Seventy ...
Call of Nature 280 pages | b/w illustrations | The Secret Life of Dung Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Richard Jones 9781784271053 | #228701A | £16.99 Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of Add to basket nature's ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against ...
Catalogue des Coleopteres de France, Supplement 1: Index, Errata, 184 pages | Donnees Nouvelles [Catalogue of Coleoptera of France Paperback | 01/2015 | #228477A | £14.99 Add to basket Marc Tronquet The first supplement to this beetle catalogue. Its publications was necessary for three reasons: 1) Feedback from readers, 2) correction of a fairly large number of textual or typographical errors, mostly minor, 3) errors in the automatic ...
Catalogue et Atlas des Coleopteres d'Alsace, Tome 17 108 pages | 250 distribution maps | Nitidulidae, Cryptophagidae, Latridiidae, Ciidae, Kateretidae, Cybocephalidae, Paperback | 01/2008 | 9782908980172 Phloeostichidae, Languriidae, Merophysiid | #228398A | £17.99 Add to basket HJ Callot The penultimate volume covers the beetle families Nitidulidae, Cryptophagidae, Latridiidae, Ciidae, Kateretidae, Cybocephalidae, Phloeostichidae, Languriidae, and Merophysiidae. New records for the region are described below.
Catalogue et Atlas des Coleopteres d'Alsace, Tome 18 125 pages | 289 distribution maps | HJ Callot Paperback | 01/2011 | 9782908980189 This is the last volume in this series, covering the following families: Scirtidae, Cantharidae, | #228399A | £20.99 Add to basket Cleridae, Dasytidae, Malachiidae, Dermestidae, Anobiidae, Byrrhidae, Eucinetidae, Clambidae, Dascillidae, Drilidae, Lycidae, Homalisidae ...
Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories 512 pages | colour illustrations | Amanda Reid Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | Australian waters contain the highest diversity of cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopus) 9781486303939 | #228639A | £205.00 found anywhere in the world. They are highly significant ecologically, both as top-level Add to basket predators and as prey for numerous vertebrates, including ...
Chinese Leaf Beetles 590 pages | 83 plates with b/w line Yang Xingke, Ge Siqin, Nie Ruie, Ruan Yongying and Li Wenzhu drawings | There are 260 genera and 2,304 species and subspecies of leaf beetles recorded in China, that Paperback | 03/2016 | 9787030468840 belong to three subfamilies under consideration. Among them, 397 species and 36 genera | #228426A | £105.00 Add to basket belong to the Chrysomelinae, 1,054 species and 124 genera ...
Coleoptera Poloniae: Tenebrionoidea (Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, 470 pages | 209 illustrations, maps | Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pyt Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788393510795 | #228529A | £110.00 Add to basket Daniel Kubisz, Dariusz Iwan and Piotr Tykarski The book catalogues distribution data on occurrence of families of Tenebrionoidea. Having reviewed available distribution data, the authors consider 84 species to be present in Poland, belonging to the following families: Aderidae ...
Colorado Butterflies & Moths colour illustrations | A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species Unbound | 05/2008 | 9781583554258 | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung #228580A | £6.99 Add to basket Butterfly fossils discovered near Colorado Springs place butterflies in the area over 40 million years ago. The state insect, the stunningly blue Colorado hairstreak is one of over 600 species of butterflies and moths found in the diverse ...
Dangerous World of Butterflies 288 pages | The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists Paperback | 05/2010 | 9781599219271 Peter Laufer | #228386A | £10.95 Add to basket This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer's adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the ...
Der Neue Kosmos-Schmetterlingsfuhrer: Schmetterlinge, Raupen und 448 pages | 1165 colour photos, 7 Futterpflanzen [The New Kosmos Butterfly Guide: Butter colour illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9783440146187 Heiko Bellmann and Rainer Ulrich | #228528A | £29.99 Add to basket Which caterpillar turns into which butterfly? Why do you always find the same caterpillars on a plant? What do the pupae look like? These questions can be clearly answered year round with this butterfly guide, at all life stages of the ...
Diversity and Evolution of the Southeast-Asian Planthopper Taxon 296 pages | 174 colour illustrations | Bennini (Hemiptera, Cixiidae) Paperback | 01/2013 | #228516A | £190.00 Add to basket Hannekore Hoch The present work is the first comprehensive treatment of the cixiid tribe Bennini. An overview on the state of knowledge of cixiid morphology and a first synopsis of the morphological configuration of Bennini is presented. Bennini have ...
Ephemeroptera (with Wibu Key) 5000+ colour photos | Key to Larvae from Central Europe 01/2014 | 9783950183962 | #228588A Ernst Bauernfeind and Wolfgang Lechthaler | £765.00 Add to basket Please note: this product includes the Wibu copy protection key and is intended for first-time buyers. If you are purchasing several products only one has to include a Wibu key. If you already have a Wibu key, please purchase ...
Ephemeroptera (without Wibu Key) 5000+ colour photos | Key to Larvae from Central Europe 01/2014 | 9783950183962 | #228587A Ernst Bauernfeind and Wolfgang Lechthaler | £672.20 Add to basket This DVD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region.
Esperiana Memoir, Volume 7: The Afrotropical Scythrididae 365 pages | colour & b/w photos | Bengt Ake Bengtsson Hardback | 06/2014 | 9783938249055 | This work embraces all known taxa of the family Scythrididae in the Afrotropical Region. Seven #228376A | £111.00 Add to basket genera are recognized from the area and 307 species are descried or re-described. Most species are illustrated in colour (imagines) and in black ...
Esperiana, Volume 20 (2-Volume Set) 1174 pages | plates with colour & b/w Hermann H Hacker photos | Published in two books, volume 1 containing the text, volume 2 containing the plates. The Hardback | 02/2016 | 9783938249079 | books includes descriptions of 2 genera, 149 species and 17 subspecies and the following #228377A | £240.00 Add to basket taxonomic reviews: - Review of the genera ...
Gardening for Butterflies 288 pages | 277 colour photos, 11 How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects colour illustrations | The Xerces Society and Robert Michael Pyle Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Can gardening change the world? It certainly can when it comes to butterflies. Butterflies are in 9781604695984 | #228429A | £17.99 danger, but everyone who has a garden can do their part to make a difference. Gardening for Add to basket Butterflies is an optimistic call to ...
Gossamer Days 184 pages | Spiders, Humans and Their Threads Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Eleanor Morgan 9781907222351 | #228643A | £14.99 What happens when one making animal meets another? Gossamer Days explores the strange Add to basket web of spider-human relationships. Artist and writer Eleanor Morgan has spent a decade working with spiders and their silk. Her explorations ...
Guide des Mollusques Terrestres: Escargots et Limaces [Guide to 240 pages | colour illustrations | Terrestrial Molluscs: Snails and Slugs] Paperback | 03/2015 | 9782701151649 | #228482A | £28.99 Add to basket Cedric Audibert and Alain Bertrand Here is a complete guide on to the terrestrial molluscs (snails and slugs) of France. With this guide, the reader can easily, reliably and intuitively identify these animals. The guide features an original system of tabs for with character ...
Ika no Fushigi Kisetsu no Tabibito: Surumeika Tankobon 208 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Yasunori Sakurai & b/w illustrations | Along with tuna, squid, every year account for the second or third place of most consumed Paperback | 08/2015 | 9784894537934 seafood in Japan. On the other hand, the squid is difficult to breed in the aquarium, and many | #228349A | £29.99 Add to basket questions surrounding the egg masses and larvae in ...
Insects and Diseases of Mediterranean Forest Systems 892 pages | 32 colour & 155 b/w Timothy D Paine and Francois Lieutier illustrations | Insect and disease issues are often specific to the Mediterranean forest systems rather than Hardback | 01/2016 | 9783319247427 | shared with the temperate forests. In addition to the specific native insects and diseases, the #228174A | £112.00 Add to basket forests are subject to the invasion of exotic species ...
Jellyfish: A Natural History 224 pages | colour illustrations | Lisa-ann Gershwin Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Jellyfish are mysterious creatures, luminously beautiful with remarkably varied life cycles. 9781782403227 | #228353A | £19.99 These simple, ancient animals are found in every ocean at every depth, and have lived on Earth Add to basket for at least the last 500 million years. Ominously ...
Libellen in Drenthe [Dragonflies of Drenthe] 208 pages | ~500 colour photos and Rene Manger, Gerard Abbingh, Hans Schinkel and Jan Joost Mekkes distribution maps | This book is the result of ten years of research conducted by volunteers into the dragonfly Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789081302968 | fauna of the Dutch province of Drenthe. The result is this richly illustrated book containing a #228667A | £30.99 Add to basket large amount of data on the province of Drenthe.
Lycaenidae Part 2 (Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region) 106 pages | colour photos, colour Subfamily Theclinae, Tribe Eumaeini (partim): Satyrium, Superflua, Armenia, illustrations, b/w line drawings, colour Neolycaena, Rhymnaria distribution maps | Z Weidenhoffer, Gian Cristoforo Bozano, Alexander B Zhdanko and Sergei V Churkin Paperback | 12/2004 | 9788887989069 This volume covers the butterfly subfamily Theclinae, Tribe Eumaeini, genera Satyrium, | #138739A | £33.00 Add to basket Superflua, Armenia, Neolycaena, and Rhymnaria. This new edition has 12 pages more than the Paperback | 03/2016 | #228705A | first one, including ... £29.99 Add to basket
Moths of Victoria, Part 6: Ghost Moths - Hepialidae and Allies 36 pages | colour photos, includes CD- Axel Kallies, Peter Marriott and Marilyn Hewish ROM | Part six in a series of ten to twelve which will cover the 2,000 species of Victorian moths. This Paperback | 01/2015 | 9780980580242 part covers the Ghost moths and allies. A CD-ROM provides over additional pages which contain | #228372A | £22.99 Add to basket biology and distributions for each species ..
Neritidae of the World, Volume 1 694 pages | 199 plates with colour Thomas E Eichhorst photos; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/ Nerites inhabit marine, brackish, freshwater, and arboreal environments worldwide in tropical to w distribution maps | temperate climes. Neritidae of the World is a two-volume set of books that provides an in-depth Hardback | 03/2016 | 9783939767701 | examination of the almost 300 nerites ... #228515A | £155.00 Add to basket
Perhoskompassi, Osa 1: Kaakkois-Aasia [Butterfly Compass, Volume 1: 308 pages | colour photos | Southeast Asia] Paperback | 12/2015 | 9789526754475 | #228472A | £51.99 Add to basket Tari Haahtela Perhoskompassi is a handy field guide for naturalists is interested in butterflies. Volume 1 treats about 770 speceis, mainly from South-East Asia, but also wider-ranging Indo-Australian species of the region have been photographed ...
Pheromone Communication in Moths 413 pages | 101 illustrations, 10 tables | Evolution, Behavior, and Application Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Jeremy D Allison and Ring T Carde 9780520278561 | #227484A | £51.99 Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone, which Add to basket induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume. Following the chemical identification of the pheromone of the domesticated silk moth in 1959, the ...
Pictorial of Insect Type Specimens Deposited in Guizhou University 303 pages | colour photos | Li Zizhong, Li Hu Xing and Ji Chun Hardback | 05/2015 | 9787507747683 | Pictorial of Insect Type Specimens Deposited in Guizhou University deals with the type #228518A | £64.99 Add to basket specimens of 734 insect species of Mantodea (Thespidae), Phasmatodae (Phasmatidae), Homoptera (Cicadellidae, Cicadellin, Delphacidae, Ricanii ...
Slugs and Snails 432 pages | colour photos, colour Robert Cameron illustrations | Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | different as the fast-moving squid of the oceans and the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. 9780007113002 | #127506A | £47.99 The largest group, however, are the gastropods ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9780007113019 | #127507A | £27.99 Add to basket
Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders 176 pages | 200 colour photos, colour Bert Brunet illustrations | An easy-to-use and practical field manual. More than 100 of the most frequently encountered Paperback | 11/2000 | 9781876334499 Australian spiders are shown, with information on toxicity, habitat and prey capture. Gives | #228454A | £39.99 Add to basket advice on first aid for treating bites from Australian ...
Spinnen: Die Erfolgreichen Jaeger [Spiders: The Ultimate Predators] 208 pages | 250 colour photos, 13 b/w Stephen Dalton and Jorunn Wissmann illustrations | Spiders are the most successful terrestrial predators on earth and we are privileged to share Hardback | 04/2009 | 9783258074450 | the planet with about 40,000 known species of these remarkable animals. Wherever we are, #228606A | £32.99 Add to basket from mountain tops to seashores and from ponds to desert ...
Swiss Butterflies Site Guide 34 pages | 250 colour photos, 1 colour Jason Sargerson map | This is a pioneering, original, site guide to Swiss Butterflies. Easily accessible butterfly sites Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780957504851 across Switzerland are described. The full range of habitat is visited including Woodland, | #228293A | £11.99 Add to basket Wetland, Rocky Steppe, Mountain and High Mountain ...
The Bee Book 224 pages | colour photos, colour Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come illustrations | Emma Tennant and Fergus Chadwick Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781465443830 | The Bee Book shows you step-by-step how to create a bee-friendly garden, get started in #228316A | £24.99 Add to basket beekeeping, and harness the power of honey for well-being. Fully illustrated with full-color photographs throughout, this beautiful ...
The Behaviour and Social Life of Honeybees 376 pages | b/w illustrations | Ronald Ribbands, Thomas D Seeley and Norman L Carreck Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781908904874 A fantastic and comprehensive review, designed to meet the needs of scientists, beekeepers, | #228692A | £24.99 Add to basket and all readers who are interested in the natural history of insects. It is written in everyday English, without scientific jargon. Re-printed with ...
The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka 418 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour George Michael van der Poorten and Nancy E van der Poorten & b/w illustrations | This comprehensive work describes and discusses the lives of all 247 species of butterflies in Sri Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781771361897 | Lanka and illustrates the adults of both sexes with colour photographs taken in the field. #228476A | £44.99 Add to basket Additionally, the egg, larva and pupa of each ...
The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future 650 pages | 150 colour & 129 b/w The World of Medusa and Her Sisters illustrations | Stefano Goffredo and Zvy Dubinsky Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future presents a broad panorama of the current status of 9783319313030 | #228223A | £153.00 research of invertebrate animals considered belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, such as hydra, Add to basket jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. In this book ...
The Genus Mesodorylaimus Andr íssy, 1959 (Nematoda: Dorylaimida) 372 pages | b/w illustrations | A Monographic Study Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181714022 Uzma Tauheed and Wasim Ahmad | #228159A | £27.50 Add to basket The dorylaim nematodes constitute a very large group among terrestrial forms and occur more frequently than any other group. They are found the world over, in all types of soil and freshwater, in every conceivable habitat and usually ...
The Lives of Lepidopterists 273 pages | 98 colour & 18 b/w Lee A Dyer and Matthew L Forister illustrations | Inchworms, tiger moths, underwings, owlet moths, silkworms, sphinx moths, grass moths, and Hardback | 10/2015 | 9783319204567 | butterflies. Collectively, these and many others are the Lepidoptera, one of the most diverse #228371A | £16.99 Add to basket groups of animals on the planet.
The Soul of an Octopus 271 pages | 8 plates with colour photos A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness | Sy Montgomery Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781471149382 | In 2011 Sy Montgomery wrote a feature for Orion magazine entitled 'Deep Intellect' about her #220979A | £12.99 Add to basket friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | death. It went viral, indicating ... 9781471146756 | #228300A | £8.99 Add to basket
Trichoptera Families 650 colour photos | Key to Larvae from Central Europe CD | 01/2007 | 9783950183948 | Wolfgang Lechthaler #228547A | £34.20 Add to basket This CD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region.
Vlinders & Libellen Buiten Beleven [Experiencing Butterflies and 208 pages | colour photos | Dragonflies Outdoors] Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | 9789050115773 | #228407A | £13.99 Barbara Rijpkema Add to basket Butterflies can be enjoyed when they visit your garden on a sunny day, searching for nectar, or you can go out at night to search for months. Can you tell the difference between dragonflies and damselflies? This guide allows the reader ...
ZooKeys 567: The Genus Litophyton Forskal, 1775 (Octocorallia, 128 pages | b/w photos, b/w line Alcyonacea, Nephtheidae) in the Red Sea and the western drawings | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9789546428110 LP van Ofwegen | #228385A | £44.99 Add to basket The Octocorallia (Cnidaria) are a poorly understood group of marine animals and most genera are badly in need of revision. This article represents the second revision of genera of the family Nephtheidae, that occurs throughout the world's ...
ZooKeys 570: Catalogue of Texas spiders 704 pages | tables | David Allan Dean Paperback | 03/2016 | 9789546428127 Texas is the second largest state and includes range-limits of many species of spiders and also | #228400A | £140.00 Add to basket has part of its border adjoining Mexico. The climate varies from subtropical in South Texas, to temperate conditions in the panhandle ...
Palaeontology
A Field Guide to the Dinosaurs of North America 224 pages | 129 colour illustrations | And Prehistoric Megafauna Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781493009251 Bob Strauss and Sergey Krosovskiy | #228185A | £15.95 Add to basket A field guide to 60 dinosaurs and prehistoric animals that once lived in what is now North America. Featuring stunning illustrations of each animal by world-famous artist Sergey Krosovskiy and based on the latest paleontogical research ...
Amber Palaeobiology 128 pages | 62 colour photos and colour Research Trends and Perspectives for the 21st Century illustrations | David Penney Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Fossils in amber provide a unique insight into the evolutionary history of arthropods (insects, 9780992997977 | #228702A | £20.99 spiders and their relatives), the most diverse and ecologically important group of animals on Add to basket the planet today. The fossils provide direct evidence ...
Arthur Smith Woodward 362 pages | His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Palaeontology Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781862397415 | Z Johanson, Paul M Barrett, M Richter and M Smith #228151A | £146.00 Add to basket Arthur Smith Woodward was the Natural History Museum's longest-serving Keeper of Geology and the world's leading expert on fossil fish. He was also an unwitting victim of the Piltdown fraud, which overshadowed his important scientific ...
Bring Back the King Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | The Science of De-Extinction 9781472912251 | #218997A | £16.99 Helen Pilcher Add to basket If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you Paperback | / | 9781472912275 | choose? In Bring Back the King, comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher explains #218998A | £0.00 Add to basket the cutting-edge science that makes ... Paperback | / | 9781472912268 | #218999A | £0.00 Add to basket
Cetacean Paleobiology 336 pages | photos, illustrations | Felix G Marx, Olivier Lambert and Mark D Uhen Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans 9781118561270 | #228368A | £84.99 throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which Add to basket group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently ... Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9781118561539 | #228369A | £37.99 Add to basket
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs 412 pages | 38 b/w photos and b/w The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe illustrations | Lisa Randall Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781847923066 | Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city crashed into Earth, killing off the #223311A | £24.99 Add to basket dinosaurs and three-quarters of other species on the planet. Lisa Randall proposes it was a Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | comet dislodged from its orbit as the solar system ... 9780062328502 | #228418A | £17.99 Add to basket
Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour 352 pages | colour illustrations | Everything Worth Knowing about Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781615192120 | Keiron Pim and Jack Horner #218120A | £21.99 Add to basket We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery – the perfect time to dig in to the Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between 9781615192748 | #228558A | £19.99 two- and four-legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratops ... Add to basket
Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History 432 pages | 366 colour illustrations, 3 David E Fastovsky, David B Weishampel and John Sibbick tables | The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages Paperback | 10/2012 | 9780521282376 students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the | #196338A | £49.99 Add to basket success of the previous editions, Dinosaurs has been ... Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781107135376 | #227461A | £99.99 Add to basket Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | 9781316501153 | #227462A | £44.99 Add to basket
Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats 320 pages | 74 illustrations, 55 maps | Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Donald K Grayson 9781607814696 | #228243A | £24.50 As the Ice Age came to an end, North America lost a stunning variety of animals. Add to basket Mammothmastodons, ground-dwelling sloths the size of elephants, beavers the size of bears, pronghorn antelope the size of poodles, llamas, and carnivores ...
Giants of the Lost World 192 pages | colour illustrations | Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Donald R Prothero 9781588345738 | #228348A | £26.99 More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World Add to basket with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were ...
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys 304 pages | 197 colour photos and The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America colour illustrations | Darin A Croft and Velizar Simeonovski Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth giant armadillos, tiny 9780253020840 | #227757A | £37.99 anteaters, the world s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a Add to basket variety of other equally intriguing mammals ...
Neogene Fossils from Kathiawar, Gujarat, India with Special Emphasis 470 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | on Taxonomic Description of Molluscs and Corals Paperback | 01/2014 | #228717A | £35.99 Add to basket RL Jain and SK Wdhawan From the foreword: "The present work is restricted to the western-most part of Kathiawar (Saurashtra), covering Okha Mandal and Kalyanpur Talukas of Iamnagar district of Gujarat, India. The author came across several ...
Upper Vendian Macrofossils of Eastern Europe: Middle Dniester Area 146 pages | 10 plates with b/w photos; and Volhynia / Makrofossilii Verkhnego Venda Vostochn 25 b/w photos and b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9785903825325 A Yu Ivantsov, VP Gritsenko, VM Paliy, VA Velikanov, LI Konstantinenko, A Sh Menasova and | #228420A | £79.99 Add to basket Fedonkin This publication presents a report of the main data on all species of Vendian and Early Cambrian macrofossils, that were ever discovered on Middle Dniester area (Podolia) and Volhynia, two historic regions in Europe that straddle contemporary ...
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Atlantic Seashore Field Guide 336 pages | 702 colour illustrations | Florida to Canada Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | J Duane Sept 9780811714211 | #228326A | £15.95 A photographic guide to the common plants and animals that inhabit the intertidal zone – the Add to basket area covered by water at high tide and exposed during low tide – on the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Cape Breton ...
Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific 931 pages | 231 colour & 53 b/w Persistence and Loss in a Dynamic Environment illustrations, 141 colour tables | Peter W Glynn, Derek P Manzello and Ian C Enochs Hardback | 03/2016 | 9789401774987 | This book documents and examines the state of health of coral reefs in the eastern tropical #228648A | £126.50 Add to basket Pacific region. It touches on the occurrence of coral reefs in the waters of surrounding countries, and it explores their biogeography, biodiversity ...
Green Guide to Seashore Life Of Britain And Europe 112 pages | colour photos | Bob Gibbons and Denys W Ovenden Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | Our coastlines are home to a wide range of animals and plants; some that are iconic sights on 9781472927170 | #226064A | £6.99 beaches and others that we only see when we look more closely. The Green Guide to Seashore Add to basket Life makes identifying them easy for beginners and amateur ...
Macrozoobenthos (with Wibu Key) ~14000 colour photos | Key to Families of Macroinvertebrates in European Freshwaters 01/2009 | 9783950183955 | #228567A Wolfgang Lechthaler | £765.91 Add to basket This DVD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region. Eutaxa offers ...
Macrozoobenthos (without Wibu Key) ~14000 colour photos | Key to Families of Macroinvertebrates in European Freshwaters 01/2009 | 9783950183955 | #228566A Wolfgang Lechthaler | £669.24 Add to basket This DVD-ROM is part of the range of Eutaxa Electronic Key & Reference Collection; specialist taxonomic software for biological scientists that provides precise documentation of most species known from a certain geographic region. Eutaxa offers ...
Opredelitel' Zooplanktona i Zoobentosa Presnykh Vod Evropeiskoi 494 pages | illustrations | Rossii, Tom 1: Zooplanktona [Identification Keys to Zoop Hardback | 01/2010 | 9785873176847 | #228211A | £79.99 Add to basket VR Alekseev This illustrated Manual to the zooplankton and zoobenthos of the inland waters of European Russia can be used for aquatic ecosystems research. It can also be used for training and self- learning by students of biological disciplines.
Opredelitel' Zooplanktona i Zoobentosa Presnykh vod Evropeiskoi 457 pages | 18 colour illustrations | Rossii, Tom 2: Zoobentosa [Identification Keys to Zoopla Hardback | 01/2016 | 9785990757240 | #228205A | £71.50 Add to basket VR Alekseev This illustrated Manual to the zooplankton and zoobenthos of the inland waters of European Russia can be used for aquatic ecosystems research. It can also be used for training and self- learning by students of biological disciplines.
General Natural History
African Animal Lore 300 pages | 14 colour & 22 b/w plates, Clive Alfred Spinage 37 b/w illustrations | With historical facts and anecdotes from Ancient Egypt, Roman times, through recent historical Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780993407307 | times to present, this is not a biology book nor a guidebook to African animals, but a miscellany #228703A | £26.99 Add to basket of information from the bizarre to the ...
Allotments 144 pages | David Crouch Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | The allotment is a British institution. Working a small plot of land in a village, town or city is for 9781908213396 | #228673A | £14.99 many a way of life. It can also be an assertion of independence or self-sufficiency and a political Add to basket and ecological statement.
America's Great National Forests,Wildernesses & Grasslands 256 pages | 200 colour photos | White River, Angeles, Gifford Pinchot, Tongass, Superior, Mt. Hood, Bitterroot, Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780847849154 | Wasatch-Cache, Francis Marion, Monongahe #228468A | £34.99 Add to basket Char Miller, Tim Palmer, Bill McKibben and Scott J Tilden For more than a century, America's national forests have proved an environmental gift and cultural treasure, our spectacular backyard. Under the management of the U.S. Forest Service, this system of public lands encompasses 193 million ...
Animals Are Delicious 48 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | 3 Foldout Food Chain Books Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Meagan Bennett, Dave Ladd and Stephanie Anderson 9780714871233 | #228183A | £11.95 Animals eat animals in this informative expose of three animal food chains. Three of the longest Add to basket food chains of the animal kingdom are depicted in three accordion-foldout volumes, complete with stunning dimensional art and sparse ...
Au Fil des Songes 224 pages | colour photos | Michel Munier, Vincent Munier and CharlElie Couture Hardback | 01/2010 | 9782953738902 | Amazing pictures and subtle words take the reader to a journey into a secret, fragile and #228544A | £56.99 Add to basket ignored nature. An unreal world, however, that stands on our doorstep. All the photographs were shot in Lorraine, on the ponds, in the peat bogs ...
Backpacker Magazine's Bear Country Behavior 104 pages | illustrations | Essential Skills and Safety Tips for Hikers Paperback | 02/2012 | 9780762772940 Bill Schneider | #228333A | £8.95 Add to basket Backpacker Magazine's Bear Country Behavior informs readers about how to hike and backpack safely in grizzly bear and black bear country throughout the United States. Topics covered include hiking and camping in bear country ...
Basic Illustrated Animal Tracks 112 pages | 65 colour & 34 b/w Jonathan Hanson and Roseann Hanson illustrations, 34 maps, 1 table | For a generation, the Basic Illustrated series has been as much a part of the US outdoors Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy 9781493017171 | #228328A | £8.95 references for the veteran, these volumes ... Add to basket
Basic Illustrated Guide to Frogs, Snakes, Bugs, and Slugs 104 pages | colour illustrations | John Himmelman Paperback | 06/2013 | 9780762782598 A surefire hit with young backyard diggers and bug-watchers, Basic Illustrated Guide to Frogs, | #228277A | £7.95 Add to basket Snakes, Bugs, and Slugs combines detailed illustrations of bugs, slugs, snakes, toads, and other creepy crawlies with clear and ...
Basic Illustrated Weather Forecasting 80 pages | colour photos, illustrations | Michael Hodgson and Lon Levin Paperback | 03/2008 | 9780762747634 Michael Hodgson gives detailed lessons in recognizing shifts in weather patterns, understanding | #228469A | £6.95 Add to basket why they occur, identifying cloud formations, and mastering basic meteorological concepts.
Bear Aware 104 pages | The Quick Reference Bear Country Survival Guide Paperback | 03/2012 | 9780762779635 Bill Schneider | #228327A | £6.95 Add to basket Heading into bear country can seem frightening ...but it doesn't have to be. This handy, packable guide will show you preventive measures that can reduce your chances of coming across a bear and techniques that can minimize your risk ...
Being Happy When You See the Crappy 64 pages | b/w illustrations | The Incomplete Hikers Guide to Knowing What Lurks in the Woods Based on That Pile Paperback | 01/2015 | 9781495151705 Near the Trail | #228343A | £5.99 Add to basket Hubbert Family This US-centric pocket guide, with hand-drawn pictures by members of the Hubbert family of all ages, is a tongue-in-cheek field guide to scats left by common mammals and birds. Ideal for family hikes, this helpful guide will allow you to ...
Beneath the Ice 118 pages | 8 plates with colour photos In Search of the Sami | Kenneth Steven Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781910192276 Beneath the Ice tells the fascinating, often troubling, story of the Sami – the indigenous people | #228471A | £9.99 Add to basket of the Scandinavian Arctic. A proud and resilient people in an unforgiving yet stunningly beautiful northern wildscape, the ...
Best Wildflower Hikes Western Washington 256 pages | 40 colour illustrations, 41 Year-Round Opportunities Including Mt. Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades maps | National Parks Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Peter Stekel 9781493018680 | #228337A | £15.95 Best Wildflower Hikes Western Washington combines the best aspects of hiking and wildflowers Add to basket into one guide. The Best Wildflower Hikes series features 40 hikes with honorable mentions throughout that focus on the best ...
Black Apples of Gower 176 pages | photos | Iain Sinclair Hardback | 07/2015 | 9781908213280 | Iain Sinclair walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in #228674A | £14.99 Add to basket south Wales, rediscovering the Gower Peninsula, a place first explored in his youth. Provoked Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings ... 9781908213457 | #228675A | £9.99 Add to basket
Black and White in the Wild 150 b/w photos | John Feltwell and Nick Baker Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781910453124 | Black and White in the Wild is a photographic celebration and investigation into the anomaly #228434A | £14.99 Add to basket that is black and white colouration in wild animals. In this beautiful book Dr John Feltwell explores the nature of black and ...
British Urban Trees 400 pages | A Social and Cultural History 1800-1914 Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Paul A Elliott 9781874267904 | #228711A | £64.99 Whether we consider the great London Planes which are now the largest trees in many British Add to basket urban streets, the exotic ornamentals from across the globe flourishing in numerous private gardens, the stately trees of public parks and squares ...
Bugling Elk and Sleeping Grizzlies 44 pages | colour illustrations | The Who, What, and When of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Paperback | 05/2004 | 9780762728640 Shirley A Craighead and John Craighed George | #228562A | £6.95 Add to basket Discover the secrets of the seasons in Yellowstone and Grand Teton! Bugling Elk and Sleeping Grizzlies reveals the patterns of life in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Colorful photos and easy-to-follow text help you ...
Causeway Coast Way 64 pages | 70 colour photos, colour With Moyle Way maps | Eoin Reilly Spiralbound | 06/2010 | The unspoiled Causeway Coast of Antrim is one of Ireland's best-kept secrets. The World 9781898481379 | #228601A | £10.99 Heritage Site of the Giant's Causeway is the jewel in its crown, and its amazing geology is best Add to basket enjoyed on foot. The Causeway Coast Way offers ...
Chasing Alaska 288 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780762778461 CB Bernard | #228282A | £12.95 Add to basket Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a ...
Cleveland Way 64 pages | colour photos, colour maps | Gordon Simm and Jacquetta Megarry Spiralbound | 05/2012 | The Cleveland Way is one of England's oldest and best-loved National Trails. It runs for 110 9781898481553 | #228614A | £10.99 miles (177 km) around the North York Moors National Park, starting inland at Helmsley, offering Add to basket panoramic views over the vales of York and ...
Coast to Coast 112 pages | 115 colour photos, 16 The Wainwright Route colour illustrations, 28 colour maps | Sandra Bardwell Spiralbound | 03/2010 | This challenging walk of 184 miles (296 km) crosses the north of England from St Bees on the 9781898481348 | #228627A | £12.50 Irish Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on the North Sea. It passes through three National Parks – the Add to basket Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North ...
Crimea and the Black Sea 224 pages | 40 b/w illustrations | An Environmental History Hardback | 11/2015 | 9781784530013 | Carlos Cordova #228533A | £68.99 Add to basket The Crimean Peninsula has a rich and complex environmental history. The Black Sea in particular has had a major impact on nearly all aspects of Crimea's natural and cultural history. Carlos Cordova explains the making of Crimea's ...
Defining Species 238 pages | A Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today Hardback | 08/2009 | 9781433102165 | John S Wilkins #228417A | £68.99 Add to basket Defining Species: A Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today provides excerpts and commentary on the definition of species from source material ranging from the Greeks, through the middle ages, to the modern era. It demonstrates that ...
Fine Lines 336 pages | 75 colour & 94 b/w Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art illustrations | Stephen H Blackwell and Kurt Johnson Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions 9780300194555 | #228270A | £29.99 as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific Add to basket discoveries were ignored or dismissed by ...
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar 320 pages | A Memoir Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Chris Packham 9781785033483 | #228312A | £19.99 "Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do Add to basket was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I ...
Flakes, Jugs and Splitters 224 pages | Illustrations | A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology Paperback | 04/2009 | 9780762748372 Sarah Garlick | #228436A | £11.95 Add to basket With an informal Q-and-A format and fun, informative language, Flakes, Jugs and Splitters brings the science of geology into the hands of rock climbers. It covers topics that range from how to use a geologic map to find new ...
Inherit the Dust 128 pages | b/w photos | Nick Brandt Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780692520543 | Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy (On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the #228158A | £44.99 Add to basket Ravaged Land), Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world. In a series of epic panoramas ...
Instant Weather Forecasting 64 pages | colour photos | You Can Predict the Weather Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Alan Watts 9781472929730 | #228325A | £9.99 Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly Add to basket 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying ...
Into the Mysterium 80 pages | colour photos | Michele Oka Doner Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | With the oceans covering over 70 percent of the Earth's surface, our planet can be called a 9781942872993 | #228259A | £14.99 marine planet. Beneath the waves are millions of remarkable creatures – beautiful big whales, Add to basket dangerous jellyfish, legions of phytoplankton ...
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire 264 pages | 21 b/w photos | How A Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America Hardback | 04/2014 | 9780762792429 | Kim Heacox #217944A | £17.95 Add to basket John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781493009329 (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish | #228201A | £12.95 Add to basket Enlightenment – both in temperament and ...
Land and Forest Governance in Swat 613 pages | Transition from Tribal System to State to Pakistan Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Sultan-i-Rome 9780199066902 | #228716A | £25.99 Land and Forest Governance in Swat covers in detail and shows how forests have been Add to basket managed and used in the Swat State areas and Kalam from the sixteenth century CE until 2007. As forestry issues and the related complexities ...
Landscape Photographer of the Year, Collection 9 224 pages | colour photos | AA (Automobile Association) Hardback | 10/2015 | 9780749577261 | Now in its ninth year, the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award was devised by Charlie #228569A | £24.99 Add to basket Waite, one of Britain's foremost landscape photographers and created in association with AA Publishing.
Let My People Go Surfing 260 pages | b/w photos | The Education of a Reluctant Businessman Paperback | 09/2006 | 9780143037835 Yvon Chouinard | #228500A | £15.99 Add to basket In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard – legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc. – shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected ...
Living Things We Love to Hate 218 pages | b/w photos, b/w Facts, Fantasies & Fallacies illustrations | Des Kennedy and David Takayoshi Suzuki Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Flora and fauna that have historically been given a bum rap are examined in these fascinating 9781770502062 | #228413A | £10.99 anecdotes about life on a small island. Living Things We Love to Hate's ecological importance is Add to basket reinforced in the foreword by ...
Lonely Planet's Beautiful World 224 pages | colour photos | Sublime Photography of the World's Most Magnificent Spectacles Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781743217177 | Lonely Planet Publications #206887A | £29.99 Add to basket Forty years of passion and experience has been poured into Lonely Planet's Beautiful World. We Paperback | 11/2015 | 9781743607879 witness fiery volcanic eruptions; wind-sculpted icebergs in the Antarctic; mind-blowing | #228576A | £19.99 Add to basket migrations of wildlife large and small ...
Marianne North 112 pages | 190 colour & b/w A Very Intrepid Painter illustrations | Michelle Payne Paperback | 03/2011 | 9781842464304 This is the story of Marianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable | #186375A | £11.99 Add to basket means, set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781842466087 | exotic plants of the world. Marianne produced more ... #228522A | £14.99 Add to basket
Night of the Deer / La Nuit du Cerf 80 pages | colour photos, includes audio Vincent Munier, Marc Namblard and Yves Paccalet CD | In the deep of the autumnal night, the deer shows up. Dark shadows and pale moonlight, Hardback | 01/2014 | 9782953738957 | unreal atmospheres and surprising fuzziness bring to light the admired silhouette of the animal. #228393A | £63.99 Add to basket Like in mysterious tales, the subtle and original ...
Photographs of Environmental Phenomena 256 pages | 5 colour & 24 b/w photos | Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s Paperback | 10/2015 | 9783837630855 Gisela Parak | #228620A | £42.50 Add to basket Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public. Moreover, most of these images have ...
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather 128 pages | Melissa Harrison Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780571328932 | This is an evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed #228258A | £12.99 Add to basket novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the ....
Robert Bateman: Life Sketches 320 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | A Memoir Hardback | 11/2015 | 9781476782973 | Robert Bateman #228738A | £29.99 Add to basket Internationally acclaimed artist Robert Bateman has brought the natural world to vivid life with his unique perspective. His vast body of work spanning species as large as the buffalo and as small as the mouse has touched millions of ...
Sea of Storms 512 pages | A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Hardback | 01/2015 | 9780691157566 | Stuart B Schwartz #215388A | £24.95 Add to basket The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, 9780691173603 | #228507A | £19.95 Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies ... Add to basket
Secrets of the Seas 240 pages | 200+ colour photos | A Journey into the Heart of the Oceans Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Callum M Roberts and Alex Mustard 9781472927613 | #227654A | £24.99 Our seas are host to an extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, but much of it remains Add to basket mysterious and great imagery is surprisingly hard to find. Alex Mustard is one of the world's leading underwater photographers and his images ...
Shark Tracker 240 pages | 16 illustations | Confessions of an Underwater Cameraman Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Richard Fitzpatrick 9781742234939 | #228688A | £30.50 Killer tales from an award-winning cinematographer and marine biologist. Marine biologist and Add to basket underwater cameraman Richard "Shark Tracker" Fitzpatrick wrangles sharks and other deadly marine creatures for a living.
Spare the Birds! 352 pages | 24 colour & 24 b/w George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society illustrations | Carolyn Merchant Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird 9780300215458 | #228311A | £29.99 Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to Add to basket preserve bird species decimated by the ...
Strange Case of the Mad Professor 288 pages | b/w illustrations | A True Tale of Endangered Species, Illegal Drugs, and Attempted Murder Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780762773770 | Peter Kobel #228272A | £17.95 Add to basket It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner- Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were ...
Sustainability: A History 352 pages | 5 b/w illustrations | Jeremy L Caradonna Hardback | 09/2014 | 9780199372409 | The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were #213803A | £17.99 Add to basket produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | city and state governments to ... 9780190614478 | #228318A | £12.99 Add to basket
Tancho [French] 52 pages | colour photos | Vincent Munier and Zeno Bianu Hardback | 01/2004 | 9782912756886 | Tancho is now a collectible book that invites us to an encounter with the rare and elegant Red- #228545A | £46.99 Add to basket crowned Crane, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. This spectacular bird, known as Tancho, is a symbol of long life, happiness and ...
The Arran Coastal Way 64 pages | 75 colour photos, colour Jacquetta Megarry maps | The Arran Coastal Way is one of Scotland's newest long-distance walks, running around the Spiralbound | 04/2008 | coast of the Isle of Arran for 65 miles. Arran is easily reached from Glasgow by frequent ferry 9781898481287 | #228560A | £10.99 from nearby Ardrossan. Famous as Scotland's .. Add to basket
The Art of Botanical Painting 144 pages | 200 colour illustrations | Margaret Stevens Paperback | 11/2015 | 9780008163556 This is the definitive instructional guide to the art of botanical illustration, published in | #228354A | £14.99 Add to basket association with The Society of Botanical Artists and featuring detailed step-by-step demonstrations by members of the Society. Botanical illustration ...
The Art of Flight 560 pages | Fredrik Sjoberg Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | "Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is 9781846147999 | #228537A | £14.99 certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of Add to basket experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years ...
The Boiling River 144 pages | Andres Ruzo Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781471151583 | This fantastical tale – which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the #228265A | £7.99 Add to basket great age of discovery – paints an intoxicating image of shamans and spells, forest-dwelling creatures and a river so hot it can ...
The Ethical Carnivore 320 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | My Year Killing to Eat Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Louise Gray 9781472938398 | #228733A | £16.99 Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in agony. But the Add to basket experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently finds the extraordinary 'rabbit with a white blaze', she vows to ...
The Gathering Tide 224 pages | A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781910192191 Karen Lloyd | #228470A | £12.99 Add to basket Karen Lloyd takes us on a deeply personal journey around the 60 miles of coastline that make up 'nature's amphitheatre'. Embarking on a series of walks that take in beguiling landscapes and ever-changing seascapes, Karen tells ...
The Great Wonders of Nature 304 pages | 300 colour photos | The Most Amazing Superlatives on Earth Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Monaco Books 9783955042622 | #228263A | £21.99 The highest mountains, the longest rivers and the deepest lakes, the strongest and fastest land Add to basket animals or the oldest plants on Earth – Nature is the greatest and also the most fascinating record-holder on our planet. From the icy ...
The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts 120 pages | illustrations | Maja Safstrom Hardback | 03/2016 | 9781607748328 | An artfully playful collection of unexpected and remarkable facts about animals, illustrated by #228721A | £10.99 Add to basket Swedish artist Maja Säfström. Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can’t walk backwards ...
The Invention of Nature 481 pages | 8 plates with colour The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science illustrations; b/w photos, b/w Andrea Wulf illustrations | Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781848548985 | him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs #222392A | £24.99 Add to basket along the South American coast, there's a penguin ... Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781848549005 | #228641A | £9.99 Add to basket
The Joy of Nature Photography 176 pages | 50 colour photos | 101 Tips to Improve Your Outdoor Photos Paperback | 07/2015 | 9781632206916 Steve Price | #228578A | £11.99 Add to basket Nature and the outdoors provide us with exceptional beauty year-round. Now, author and professional photographer Steve Price has put together a collection of tips, tricks, and pointers for any photographer – amateur or pro – ...
The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs 26 pages | colour photos, sound module Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington | Birds can be hard to spot at the best of times and never more so than in the woods, so let The Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781908489289 | Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs and your ears do the work instead. Listen to the wonderfully #228650A | £12.99 Add to basket varied songs and calls of woodland birds ...
The Lord Treasurer of Botany 416 pages | 63 ccolour & b/w Sir James Edward Smith and the Linnaean Collections illustrations | Tom Kennett, Leonie Berwick and Helen Cowdy Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Written by Archivist Tom Kennett, this is the definitive biography of the founder of The Linnean 9780993551000 | #228698A | £46.99 Society of London, Sir James Edward Smith. This new and honest work details Smith’s life, from Add to basket his beginnings as the son of a Norwich ...
The Perfect Pond 30 pages | colour illustrations | Rebecca Neal and Vanessa Barber Paperback | 01/2016 | #228720A | A newt went down to the pond one night...... What did he find?.....Who did he meet?.....Join £9.50 Add to basket our fearless friend on an exciting adventure through the countryside to find the perfect pond. The Perfect Pond is a children's ...
The Pocket Naturalist 160 pages | b/w illustrations | Felicity Hart Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." – John Muir Packed with 9781849538039 | #228681A | £9.99 absorbing countryside facts and tips on everything from birdwatching to identifying flora and Add to basket fauna, this miscellany ...
The Story of Beatrix Potter 176 pages | illustrations | Sarah Gristwood Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | This highly illustrated biography looks at the iconic work and fascinating life of one of our 9781909881808 | #228534A | £16.99 national treasures – Beatrix Potter. Bestselling historian Sarah Gristwood follows Potter from Add to basket her constricted Victorian childhood to the ...
The Weather Experiment 403 pages | 8 plates with b/w photos The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future and colour illustrations; b/w illustrations Peter Moore | In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780701187996 | His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning #222418A | £19.99 Add to basket system and 'forecasts' would return ... Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | 9780099581673 | #228301A | £9.99 Add to basket
The Woods of Ireland 352 pages | colour illustrations | A History, 700-1800 Paperback | 05/2015 | 9781846825910 Nigel Everett | #228252A | £24.95 Add to basket The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this interpretation is inadequate regarding the actual management of Irish forests ...
Tracks and Trailcraft 392 pages | b/w illustrations | A Fully Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Animal Tracks in Forest and Field, Paperback | 10/2009 | 9781599218045 Barnyard and Backyard | #228409A | £9.95 Add to basket Ellsworth Jaeger From dinosaurs to birds and mammals to insects, here are hundreds of tracks typically encountered in the USA described and illustrated.
Transporting Visions 240 pages | 25 colour & 50 b/w The Movement of Images in Early America illustrations | Jennifer L Roberts Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780520251847 | Transporting Visions follows pictures as they traveled through and over the swamps, forests, #228428A | £41.95 Add to basket towns, oceans, and rivers of British America and the United States between 1760 and 1860. Taking seriously the complications involved in ...
Underwater Photography Masterclass 192 pages | 275 colour photos | Alex Mustard Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | There is an astonishing world just waiting to be photographed underwater. With marine 9781781452226 | #228295A | £19.99 biologist Dr Alexander Mustard as your guide you can learn all you need to know to explore the Add to basket amazing creatures and landscapes that lie beneath the surface ...
Upin: A Bornean Banteng colour photos | Jaswinder Kaur Kler, Penny Gardner and Benoit Goossens Paperback | 03/2016 | #228345A | This is a story about Upin, a four-year old Bornean Banteng (a species of wild cattle found in £16.50 Add to basket Southeast Asia), who lives in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Through his journey of discovery, Upin learns from his mother and relatives a number of ...
Visions of Science 312 pages | 8 colour plates, b/w Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age illustrations | Jim Secord Hardback | 03/2014 | 9780199675265 | The first half of the nineteenth century saw new scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while #208835A | £18.99 Add to basket new concepts of the natural world and its processes - concepts of evolution and the vastness of Paperback | NYP 11/2016 | geological time - began to spread. 9780199675272 | #228344A | £10.99 Add to basket
Walking Through Spring 336 pages | 16 plates with colour photos An English Journey | Graham Hoyland Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Walking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland's journey as he creates a new national trail, 9780008156121 | #228290A | £12.99 walking with the Spring from the south coast in March up to the border with Scotland, which he Add to basket reaches on the longest day ...
Wild About Botswana 380 pages | colour photos | Michael C Brook Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789996803192 | This large coffee table book, with almost 400 full colour pages, over 25,000 words and 650 #228433A | £76.99 Add to basket images, describes Botswana's principal tourist attractions – world heritage sites, game reserves, national parks, wildlife and bird sanctuaries ...
Wild Animals of the North 144 pages | colour illustrations | Dieter Braun Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | The first in a series of illustrated books covering animals of the world, Wild Animals of the North 9781909263963 | #228291A | £19.99 features Dieter Braun's beautiful drawings of northern animals accompanied by fun facts and Add to basket clever descriptions that children ...
Wildlife Australia 96 pages | colour photos | Murray Unkovich Hardback | 07/2007 | 9781741105858 | Australia is blessed with a wonderful assortment of birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and other #228446A | £19.99 Add to basket animals. They are all around you, in cities and urban areas, regional and national parks and of course in the vast outback. This book brings ...
Winged Fire 510 pages | colour photos | A Celebration of Indian Birds Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789383064694 | Valmik Thapar #228186A | £99.99 Add to basket India has more than 1,200 species of birds. The richness and diversity of the country's birdlife has been celebrated by thousands of ornithologists, birders and amateur naturalists for hundreds of years. Winged Fire brings the ...
ZooKeys 550: Anchoring Biodiversity Information 298 pages | colour & b/w photos, tables From Sherborn to the 21st Century and Beyond | Ellinor Michel Paperback | 01/2016 | 9789546428066 Names are our primary framework for organizing information on the living world. But how do | #228481A | £61.50 Add to basket we tie scientific names to a foundation so they provide stability and repeatability to otherwise fluid conceptual topics such as taxonomies?
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A Glimpse of Biodiversity in India 127 pages | b/w illustrations | Dipak Konwar and Pankaj Kalita Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789383158645 | This edited collection contains the following chapters dealing with biodiversity in India: 1 #228383A | £49.99 Add to basket Concept in Biodiversity 2 Emergence in Mapping Microbial diversity in tea soil in Assam ...
A Guide to Some Urban Fauna of India 347 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Preston Ahimaz Paperback | 01/2014 | 9789383242085 A Guide to Some Urban Fauna of India has been prepared to provide an understanding and | #228154A | £48.99 Add to basket consequently appreciation of nature, which could lead to its conservation, a dire need today. The book has been designed to suit the beginner ...
A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country 240 pages | colour illustrations, maps | David B Williams and Gloria Brown Paperback | 03/2013 | 9780762780716 Published in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural History Association, this comprehensive and | #228292A | £15.95 Add to basket beautifully illustrated trailside reference describes more than 270 plants and animals plus geology of an area that includes nine national parks ...
Australian Alps 320 pages | 158 colour photos | Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks Paperback | 12/2015 | 9781486301713 Deirdre Slattery | #228590A | £36.50 Add to basket Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. It introduces the reader to Australia's highest mountains, their climate, geology and soils, plants and animals and their human history ...
Beat About the Bush: Family Edition 376 pages | 900 photos | Trevor Carnaby Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | Following the other popular books in the Beat About the Bush series, Beat About the Bush: 9781431420759 | #227508A | £19.99 Family Edition is a collection of common everyday questions about animals prompted by visits Add to basket to the bush. However, the contents ...
Brazil Wildlife 12 pages | colour illustrations | A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species Unbound | 03/2016 | 9781583559901 | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung #228164A | £5.99 Add to basket One of the world's richest ecosystems, Brazil is home to the most species of plants (55,000), fishes (3,000) and mammals (600+) anywhere on earth. A naturalist's paradise, it also harbors 744 reptiles, 517 amphibians, 1,901 birds ...
Colorado Wildlife colour illustrations, 1 colour map | A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals Unbound | 08/2003 | 9781583552124 | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung #228613A | £6.99 Add to basket Colorado Wildlife is an excellent guide to popular species of mammals, birds, and reptiles found in Colorado. Laminated for durability, and richly illustrated with impeccable detail, these handy guides are a great source of ...
Crocodile Pools Botswana 97 pages | History & Biodiversity Hardback | 01/2011 | 9789991293431 | Michael C Brook and Kitso Mokaila #228432A | £44.99 Add to basket Notwane (Ngotwane) and Crocodile Pools are located adjacent to one another in the South East District, some 15 km south of Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. Despite their close proximity to the capital, the areas are steeped in ...
Crossbill Guide: Cevennes and Grand Causses, France 254 pages | colour photos, colour maps Dirk Hilbers and Paul Knapp | The Cévennes National Park, together with its twin the Parc Naturel des Grands Causses, are Paperback | 05/2009 | 9789050112796 among the richest natural areas in France. Against a stunning background of steep cliffs, | #180201A | £22.95 Add to basket extensive forests and open, steppe-like plateaux ... Paperback | 12/2015 | 9789491648052 | #228410A | £23.95 Add to basket
Crossbill Guide: Spanish Pyrenees and Steppes of Huesca, Spain 255 pages | colour photos, colour Dirk Hilbers and Kees Woutersen illustrations, colour maps | This guide covers the central part of the Spanish Pyrenees plus the dry, desert-like Ebro basin Paperback | 12/2011 | 9789050113823 beneath it. It covers the northern part of Aragón, roughly coinciding with the province of | #195639A | £23.95 Add to basket Huesca. This guide covers the famous Pyrenean ... Paperback | 03/2016 | 9789491648076 | #228411A | £23.95 Add to basket
Fatal Revolutions 320 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; Natural History, West Indian Slavery and the Routes of American Literature 17 b/w photos | Christopher P Iannini Hardback | 02/2012 | 9780807835562 | Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini #228427A | £50.50 Add to basket connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world – the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system ...
Field Guide to Acadia National Park, Maine 248 pages | illustrations | Russell D Butcher Paperback | 03/2005 | 9781589791848 The 42,000 acres that comprise Acadia National Park include glacier-worn granite mountains, | #228543A | £13.95 Add to basket rocky cliffs, crystal blue ponds and lakes, and a dramatic coastline where waves collide spectacularly with dramatic headlands.
Glorious Gulf of Mexico 156 pages | 194 colour photos, 5 maps Life Below the Blue | Jesse Cancelmo and Jr.,John W Tunnell Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781623493745 Stunned by widespread ignorance about the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Macondo oil spill, | #228347A | £30.50 Add to basket underwater photographer Jesse Cancelmo decided to turn his camera on the marine life of this 600,000 square mile international sea that connects ...
Greater Mekong Subregion 216 pages | colour photos, illustrations, Atlas of the Environment maps, tables | Asian Development Bank (ADB) Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789290928645 The Atlas celebrates the peoples of the Greater Mekong Subregion, and presents the | #228424A | £135.00 Add to basket environmental and development challenges they face and their responses. In 1992, Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, the Lao People's ...
Historic Redwood National & State Parks 208 pages | 62 b/w photos | The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | Gail L Fiorini-Jenner 9781493018093 | #228332A | £10.95 If redwood trees could share their stories, what would they say? Some of these giants are Add to basket thousands of years old, but all have witnessed some truly unique moments in history. Historic Redwood National and State is a vibrant collection of ...
Historic Yosemite National Park 224 pages | 52 b/w photos | The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | Tracy Salcedo-Chourre 9781493018116 | #228334A | £10.95 The view from Yosemite National Park is so vast and wide, but what hikers see from its peak Add to basket today is different from the view Native Americans and Spanish colonialists looked upon. Historic Yosemite National Park is a vibrant collection ...
Knowing Yellowstone 184 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Science in America's First National Park Paperback | 06/2010 | 9781589795228 Jerry Johnson | #228373A | £13.95 Add to basket Presently in Yellowstone there are almost 200 active research permits that involve over 500 investigators, but only a small fraction of this scientific work is reported in the popular press. Furthermore, the results are mixed and frequently ...
Landmarks 387 pages | no illustrations | Robert MacFarlane Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780241146538 | Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship #220743A | £16.99 Add to basket between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | words. Landmarks is about the ... 9780241967874 | #228640A | £9.99 Add to basket
Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem 190 pages | 17 colour & 42 b/w Cultural Adaptation in the Solomon Islands illustrations, 42 colour tables | Takuro Furusawa Hardback | 02/2016 | 9789812879028 | Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem presents a detailed case study of ecological and #228609A | £74.50 Add to basket cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity ...
Mightier Hudson 264 pages | illustrations | The Spirited Revival of a Treasured Landscape Hardback | 06/2012 | 9780762763955 | Roger D Stone #228317A | £15.95 Add to basket Against the odds, the Hudson Valley has cleaned up its act and rediscovered its soul. In this well researched and passionate treatise on the much celebrated but long abused Hudson River, author Roger Stone describes how protecting New York ...
Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians (20th 336 pages | b/w photos, illustrations, Anniversary Edition) maps | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781938486883 Scott Weidensaul | #228181A | £14.99 Add to basket Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains. Stretching almost unbroken from Alabama to Belle Isle, Newfoundland, the Appalachians are one ...
National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States 496 pages | 300 colour photos, National Geographic and Phil Schermeister illustrations, 80 colour illustrations and For all national parks lovers, and anyone with a sense of history, this 100% updated, colour maps | completely redesigned edition of the best-selling National Parks guide in North America will Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781426216510 continue to impress travelers with all-new descriptions ... | #228197A | £18.99 Add to basket
Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World 144 pages | colour photos, colour maps Newsday Inc. and Lisa Davila | For more than two years, a team of Newsday reporters and photographers explored the woods Paperback | 06/2005 | 9780762737482 and waters of a world most visitors to Long Island never see. As they waded through bogs, | #228532A | £10.95 Add to basket kayaked on the island's four rivers, hiked through ...
On Silbury Hill 232 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Adam Thorpe Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Artists and poets 9781908213365 | #228676A | £9.99 have fathomed their deepest thoughts searching for the hill's hidden meanings, archaeologists Add to basket have tunneled through earth for fragments ... Hardback | 06/2014 | 9781908213242 | #228677A | £14.99 Add to basket
Scats and Tracks of the Great Lakes 192 pages | 431 b/w illustrations, 70 A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species maps | James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander Paperback | 09/2015 | 9781493009923 See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of | #228149A | £8.95 Add to basket droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Great Lakes will help you determine which mammals ...
Scats and Tracks of the Northeast 192 pages | 365 b/w illustrations, 70 A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species maps | James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander Paperback | 05/2001 | 9781585921058 See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of | #197958A | £9.99 Add to basket droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Northeast will Paperback | 09/2015 | 9781493009947 help you determine which mammals, birds ... | #228155A | £8.95 Add to basket
Scats and Tracks of the Pacific Coast 192 pages | 60 b/w illustrations | A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species Paperback | 09/2015 | 9781493009954 James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander | #228160A | £8.95 Add to basket See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Pacific Coast will help you determine which mammals ...
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains 192 pages | 390 b/w illustrations | A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species Paperback | 09/2015 | 9781493009961 James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander | #228166A | £8.95 Add to basket See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains will help you determine which mammals ...
Scats and Tracks of the Southeast 192 pages | 423 b/w illustrations | A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species Paperback | 11/2001 | 9780762711406 James C Halfpenny and Todd Telander | #197954A | £9.99 Add to basket See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of Paperback | 11/2015 | 9781493009978 droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Southeast will | #228171A | £8.95 Add to basket help you determine which mammals, birds ...
Seen and Unseen 106 pages | colour photos | Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone Paperback | 07/2005 | 9780762730933 Kathy B Sheehan, David J Patterson, Brett Leigh Dicks and Joan M Henson | #228538A | £13.95 Add to basket Yellowstone National Park is one of the world's truly extraordinary places. Its landscape, dominated by a great volcanic crater and sculpted over millennia by water and glacial ice, is host to a dramatically complex and diverse environments ...
Sixty Degrees North 208 pages | 16 plates with colour Around the World in Search of Home photos; maps | Malachy Tallack Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781846973369 | The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping #226564A | £12.99 Add to basket itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the ... 9781846973420 | #228722A | £8.99 Add to basket
The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland 222 pages | colour photos, maps | A Companion Guide Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781908737250 | Clifton Bain, Darren Rees, Vanessa Collinrgidge and Aubrey Manning #204828A | £24.99 Add to basket Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the last surviving remnants of the Caledonian forest Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | which have survived, naturally seeding and growing since the last ice age. Visiting these ancient 9781910124925 | #228683A | £11.99 woods provides an emotional connection to ... Add to basket
The Natural History of the Amami Islands [Japanese] 402 pages | Taku Mizuta Paperback | 02/2016 | 9784486020882 The Amami archipelago, a group of subtropical islands in Japan, are a biological frontier, and a | #228414A | £54.99 Add to basket "promised land" for biologists due to its high degree of biodiversity. This book describes the area's natural history, showing ...
The Sonoran Desert 64 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Wayne Lynch Hardback | 08/2009 | 9781589793897 | Once again, author/photographer Wayne Lynch takes readers on a personal journey through a #228421A | £10.95 Add to basket treasured North American ecosystem. Amazing photography, first-person anecdotes, and tons of factual information on the animals, plants, climate and ...
When Man Becomes Prey 224 pages | colour illustrations | Fatal Encounters with North America's Most Feared Predators Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780762791293 Cat Urbigkit | #228246A | £10.95 Add to basket Sam Ives's family set up camp in a Utah campground, cooked dinner, cleaned up and packed their gear away, and climbed into their multi-chambered tent to sleep. It was a great end to Father's Day. Eleven-year-old Sam crawled into ...
Wild Maine 96 pages | 95 colour photos | Discoveries of a Wildlife Photographer Paperback | 08/2015 | 9781608934560 Jr.,Bill Silliker | #228179A | £11.95 Add to basket Blessed with varied topography and a mix of climate zones, Maine is home to a rich variety of Hardback | 01/2004 | 9780892726301 | wildlife. In Wild Maine, renowned wildlife photographer Bill Silliker, Jr. (he died in 2003, just #228180A | £15.95 Add to basket before Wild Maine was published ...
Wild in the Willamette 384 pages | 100 illustrations, 2 colour Exploring the Mid-Valley's Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas maps | Lorraine Anderson, Abby Phillips Metzger and Monica Drost Paperback | 10/2015 | 9780870717802 Located between the population centers of Portland and Eugene, Oregon's Willamette Valley | #228553A | £23.50 Add to basket boasts rich opportunities for outdoor recreation that are too often overlooked. Wild in the Willamette is a guidebook to the natural ...
Botany & Plant Science
1001 Garden Plants In Singapore 810 pages | 3200+ colour photos | Lily Chen, Ang Wee Foong and Arthur Ng Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789810959135 1001 Garden Plants in Singapore presents a quick pictorial reference to the great selection of | #228718A | £91.99 Add to basket plants found in Singapore. More than 2,000 plants have been selected for the enjoyment of all, including novice gardeners, students ...
A Field Guide to Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac 112 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Prevention and Remedies maps | Susan Carol Hauser and William Epstein Paperback | 04/2008 | 9780762747412 The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide on the market. A Field Guide to Poison Ivy, | #228453A | £9.95 Add to basket Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac takes the mystery out of identifying these common US weeds and provides useful antidotes for treating their ...
A Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Outback Australia 144 pages | colour photos, b/w line Denise Greig drawings, maps | Approximately 250 native flowering plants are featured with authoritative text describing key Paperback | 07/2002 | 9781864368055 identification features. Also included are line drawings, full-colour photographs, thumbnail | #228441A | £10.99 Add to basket symbols for family groups and a map showing area ...
A Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of South-Eastern Australia 144 pages | colour photos, b/w Denise Greig illustrations, maps | Covers around 250 species of those wildflowers you are most likely to encounter growing in the Paperback | 07/2002 | 9781864368062 more accessible or regularly visited parts of south-eastern Australia. Some species are | #228440A | £10.99 Add to basket widespread and common in all states, while others may ...
Atlas of the Aegean Flora (2-Volume Set) 1578 pages | 48 plates with colour Arne Strid photos; 3362 colour distribution maps | The Aegean archipelago of Greece is floristically rich and of great biogeographical interest, with Hardback | 02/2016 | 9783921800973 | a high degree of endemism. It provides a model area for studies of evolution and speciation. #228665A | £129.00 Add to basket For the first time in more than ...
Australian Native Plants 720 pages | 500 colour photos, 170 b/w Cultivation, Use in Landscaping and Propagation illustrations | John W Wrigley and Murray Fagg Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781921517150 | Now in its sixth edition, Australian Native Plants provides a wealth of information for over 3,500 #228463A | £99.99 Add to basket native plants, their properties, cultivation and propagation. The introductory chapters provide sound practical advice on the ...
Australian Native Plants (Concise Edition) 352 pages | colour photos | Cultivation, Use in Landscaping and Propagation Paperback | 08/2007 | 9781877069406 John W Wrigley and Murray Fagg | #228462A | £39.99 Add to basket This concise edition of the phenomenally successful Australian Native Plants makes it even easier to choose Australian native plants for your garden. Which includes more than 1500 species and cultivars that are easy to obtain and grow, many ...
Autoecology and Ecophysiology of Woody Shrubs and Trees 352 pages | Fundamental Concepts and Their Applications Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Ratikanta Maiti, Humbero Gonzalez Rodriguez and Natalya Sergeevna Ivanova 9781119104445 | #228510A | £84.99 Autoecology and Ecophysiology of Woody Shrubs and Trees unites the two very relevant fields Add to basket of autoecology and ecophysiology of trees. It provides information on practical field knowledge and recent advances in scientific research ...
Bamboos of Meghalaya 302 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/ Pushpa Kumari and Paramjit Singh w maps | Bamboos of Meghalaya provides an account of indigenous and cultivated bamboos reported Hardback | 01/2014 | 9788181770561 | from Meghalaya. It includes the current accepted name of species with basionym and #228213A | £50.99 Add to basket synonyms, if any, detailed morphological descriptions along with ...
Basic Illustrated Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs 144 pages | colour illustrations | Jim Meuninck Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780762784691 An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran to the contiguous | #228287A | £9.95 Add to basket United States. Distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable book. With this updated guide, you'll discover how to identify ...
Basic Illustrated Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms 112 pages | 60 colour & 1 b/w Jim Meuninck illustrations | For a generation, the Basic Illustrated series, which is US-focused, has been as much a part of Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781493008032 the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice | #228234A | £8.95 Add to basket or handy references for the veteran ...
Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants 96 pages | colour illustrations | Jim Meuninck Paperback | 12/2014 | 9780762791910 An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran. Distills years of | #228226A | £8.95 Add to basket knowledge into an affordable and portable book. With Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants, you'll discover how to identify medicinal ...
Basic Illustrated Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants 104 pages | colour illustrations | Jim Meuninck Paperback | 05/2014 | 9780762791903 A richly photographed and information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the | #228262A | £8.95 Add to basket veteran, Basic Illustrated Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants distills years of knowledge into an affordable visual guide. Whether planning ...
Big Leaf Rhododendrons 184 pages | 200+ colour photos | Growing the Giants of the Genus Hardback | 11/2015 | 9781869539122 | Glyn Church, Graham Smith and Pat Greenfield #228691A | £58.99 Add to basket Rhododendrons are a most versatile garden plant, large and evergreen, with glorious flowers and wonderful foliage, and the big-leaf species (Falconera and Grandia) take these attributes to a whole new level. All of the big-leaf rhododendrons ...
Boundary Layer 240 pages | 36 b/w illustrations | Exploring the Genius Between Worlds Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Kem Luther 9780870718441 | #228241A | £18.95 In atmospheric science, a boundary layer is the band of air nearest the ground. In the Pacific Add to basket Northwest, the boundary layer teems with lichens, mosses, ferns, fungi, and diminutive plants. It's an alternate, overlooked universe whose ...
Cactus: Identification, Soins, Reproduction [Cacti: Identification, Care, 224 pages | colour photos | Proliferation] Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9782603024485 | #228652A | £32.50 Markus Berger and Denis-Armand Canal Add to basket The world of cacti is at once rich in varieties, exotic and full of fascinating beauty! This book is a serious introduction to cactus science: it clearly explains all aspects of maintenance and proliferation, and to this end contains ...
Carnivorous Plants 224 pages | 276 colour photos | Gardening with Extraordinary Botanicals Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781604695793 | Nigel Hewitt-Cooper #228597A | £17.99 Add to basket Carnivorous plants used to be considered something of a niche, fawned over mainly by collectors and maybe some horror-film fans. But these plants that eat bugs and small rodents are poised to be the next big trend. Now commonly sold ...
Central Florida Wildflowers 256 pages | 368 colour photos, 1 map | A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Lake Wales Ridge, Ocala National Forest, Disney Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Wilderness Preserve, and More Than 6 9781493022151 | #228335A | £15.95 Roger L Hammer Add to basket Central Florida Wildflowers features stunning color photographs of 300 common wildflowers from Ocala National Forest, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, the Disney Wilderness Preserve ...
Colorado Trees & Wildflowers colour illustrations | An Introduction to Familiar Species Unbound | 07/2000 | 9781583551080 | James R Kavanagh and Raymond Leung #228600A | £6.99 Add to basket Colorado Trees & Wildflowers is a pocket-sized, folding nature guide highlighting the most commonly seen trees and wildflowers in Colorado. Laminated for durability, these handy guides are a great source of portable information ...
Common Mangroves of Sundarbans 38 pages | colour illustrations, 1 colour Arjan Basu Roy, Devsena Roychaudhury, Lipika Ray and Ujjwal Bhattacharya map | From the foreword: "The most common inhabitants of the Sundarbans are its mangroves. There Paperback | 09/2014 | #228395A | are very few books on these unique plants in a simple language. A large number of people visit £17.99 Add to basket the Sundarbans and many of them do ...
Compendium of Corn Diseases 165 pages | 312 colour photos | Gary P Munkvold and Donald G White Paperback | 01/2016 | 9780890544921 The Compendium of Corn Diseases is one of our all-time bestselling titles. Old editions of this | #228492A | £149.00 Add to basket vital field guide can be found in trucks, farms, extension offices, and diagnostic labs wherever corn is grown. Copies of ...
Desmids of Eastern Himalaya 260 pages | 30 plates with photos; 10 b/ Debjyoti Das and Jai Prakash Keshri w illustrations, 2 tables | The authors present an exhaustive catalogue of desmids of the Eastern Himalaya, including Paperback | 03/2016 | 9783443600464 most parts of Sikkim and the northern regions of West Bengal (Kalimpong, Lava, Lolegaon | #228331A | £105.00 Add to basket etc.). In spite of an enormous range of biodiversity ...
Diatoms and the Continuing Relevance of Morphology to Studies on 228 pages | 560 illustrations, 5 tables | Taxonomy, Systematics and Biogeography Paperback | 01/2015 | 9783443510664 | #228568A | £118.00 Add to basket Celebrating the Work and Impact of Patricia A. Sims on the Occasion of Her 80th Birthday Jakub Witkowski, David Williams and John Patrick Kociolek The collection of 13 papers in this volume of Nova Hedwigia Beihefte all focus on aspects of diatom taxonomy and systematics. Amongst these contributions are papers describing new species, both fossil and recent, marine and freshwater ...
Die Flora der Voralpen: Zwischen Thuner- und Genfersee [The Flora of 222 pages | ~560 colour photos and 40 the Swiss Alps: Between Lake Thun and Lake Geneva] b/w illustrations | Hardback | 06/2010 | 9783258076072 | Emanuel Gerber, Gregor Kozlowski and Anne-Sylvie Mariethoz #228280A | £32.99 Add to basket Die Flora der Voralpen takes you on a journey of discovery in the plant world of the mountains between Lake Thun and Lake Geneva, revealing the richness and uniqueness of this natural heritage. The flora of this region ...
Dipterocarp Biology, Ecology, and Conservation 320 pages | Jaboury Ghazoul Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the 9780199639656 | #228146A | £54.99 fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other Add to basket families contribute to Asia's natural diversity ..
Distribution Atlas of Vascular Plants of Hungary / Magyarorszag 330 pages | 2231 b/w distribution maps Edenyes Novenyfajainak Elterjedesi Atlasza | Paperback | 01/2015 | #228605A | Bartha Denes and Kiríly Gergely £61.99 Add to basket The atlas contains 2231 distribution maps of vascular plants of Hungary. The taxa are visualized according to the Central European Grid Unit which area is nearly 6,25 km × 5,55 km. The sources of the data mostly originate from ...
Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada 448 pages | 800+ colour photos and Andy MacKinnon, Linda J Kershaw and Patrick Owen colour illustrations | Throughout human history plants have provided us with food, clothing, medicine and shelter. Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781772130027 Canada is a huge country with diverse habitats that are home to an incredible diversity of plant | #228726A | £21.50 Add to basket species that have helped native peoples and early ...
Edible Mushrooms 304 pages | colour photos | A Forager's Guide to the Wild Fungi of Britain and Europe Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Geoff Dann 9780857843975 | #228419A | £29.99 An up-to-date, comprehensive and brilliantly illustrated book on fungi foraging in Britain and Add to basket Europe. It covers every known edible species, and all the poisonous groups, as well as a few other extremely common ones and a handful that are ...
Edible Plants of North West Himalaya (Uttarakhand) 545 pages | 620 colour photos | Rakesh Shah Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788121109253 | The Himalayas have always been considered a storehouse of biological diversity. There occur 21 #228314A | £91.99 Add to basket forest types in the Himalayas, which itself is an indicator of the presence of a vast biodiversity. Uttarakhand State, which is a part of the ...
Edible Seaweeds of the World 463 pages | 35 colour & 64 b/w Leonel Pereira illustrations | Seaweed is used in many countries for very different purposes – directly as food, especially in Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781498730471 | sushi, as a source of phycocolloids, extraction of compounds with antiviral, antibacterial or #228737A | £127.00 Add to basket antitumor activity and as biofertilizers.
Ethnoveterinary Plants of Central Himalaya 237 pages | 276 colour photos | PC Pande and Lalit Tiwari Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788121108980 | Plants have been used by man for a variety of purposes. The use of medicinal plants in #228266A | £49.99 Add to basket maintaining the health of animals and human beings has been recognised since the Vedic period. The importance of drug resources has also been recognised ...
Evening-Primroses (Oenothera) of Britain and Ireland 100 pages | 4 plates with 7 colour Rosaline J Murphy and Robin Walls photos; b/w illustrations, b/w The 18 species and hybrid accounts include a description, with notes on any infraspecific taxa, distribution maps | together with details on habitats and distribution. Line drawings and distribution maps are given Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780901158499 for the most important taxa with some colour ... | #228631A | £12.50 Add to basket
Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 8, Part 6: Acanthaceae: Barleria to Hypoestes 314 pages | 38 plates with b/w line Jonathan R Timberlake and ES Martins drawings | The Flora Zambesiaca series, published in over 200 parts, provides comprehensive descriptive Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781842464137 accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalized in Zambia, Malawi, | #228475A | £44.99 Add to basket Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi ...
Flora of Guntur City, Andhra Pradesh 289 pages | 1 b/w maps | PR Mohana Rao, SM Khasim and Bi Bi Aasiya Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788121108645 | The Flora of Guntur City is the brain child of Professor P.R. Mohana Rao, whose association with #228274A | £49.99 Add to basket the Professor Olov Hedberg at Uppsala University inspired him to take up flora work which eventually culminated into a most valuable ...
Flora of Telangana: The 29th State of India (3-Volume Set) 1306 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w T Pullaiah maps | The Indian state of Telangana has been intensively explored by the author and his scholars for Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788189233983 | plant wealth during the last 30 years. For the purpose of this work, all the herbaria in India #228148A | £150.00 Add to basket have been consulted for specimens of Telangana.
Flore du Luberon [Flora of Luberon] 144 pages | colour photos | Georges Guende Paperback | 01/2015 | #228563A | Field guide to flowers of Luberon, a mountainous area of Provence, France, which has preserved £23.99 Add to basket a unique ecological balance.
Flowers of Bangladesh [English / Bengali] 208 pages | colour photos | MA Taher, Kabir Chowdhury and Dwijen Sharma Paperback | 01/2012 | #228732A | This book, enriched by magnificent photographs, provides both interesting and useful £69.99 Add to basket information about the flowers of Bangladesh.
Fungus Among Us 56 pages | colour illustrations | An Exploration of Fungi in the Anamalai Hills Paperback | 01/2012 | #228693A | Ranjini Murali, P Jeganathan, TR Shankar Raman and Divya Mudappa £24.99 Add to basket The rainforests of the Anamalai hills in the Western Ghats India provide ideal conditions for the occurence of a wide diversity of remarkable fungi. This booklet presents a brief introduction to the rich diversity of fungi in the Anamalai ...
Green Guide to Trees of Australia 96 pages | colour photos | Peter Krish Paperback | 12/2015 | 9781921517525 This new title in New Holland's award-winning Green Guides series investigates the ever- | #228321A | £9.99 Add to basket popular subject of Australia's trees and shrubs, celebrating the beauty, great diversity and unique evolution of the country's ...
Growing Windowsill Orchids 64 pages | colour photos, illustrations | Phillip Seaton Paperback | 02/2010 | 9781842464274 From elegant warmth-loving moth orchids to exquisite slipper orchid, Growing Windowsill | #183844A | £5.99 Add to basket Orchids tells you everything you need to know about successful orchid growing in the home. Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781842466094 Written in non-technical language and copiously ... | #228645A | £7.99 Add to basket
Guide des Characees de France Mediterraneenne [Guide to Characeae 211 pages | colour photos | of Mediterranean France] Spiralbound | 01/2015 | 9782856920206 | #228486A | £16.99 Jean-Baptiste Mouronval Add to basket This guide describes and illustrates, via photographic images, the 42 stonewort species, varieties and forms currently recorded for Mediterranean, continental France. This guide also provides information relative to the biology, ecology ...
Guide des Orchidees d'Europe d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient 544 pages | colour photos | [Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Hardback | 04/2016 | 9782603024072 | #228653A | £40.99 Add to basket Pierre Delforge More than 600 species and many varieties of orchids are described and illustrated. After a presentation of the morphology of orchids, accompanied by an identification key down to genus level, each species is presented following a fixed outline ...
Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi 153 pages | 10 colour & 2 b/w Tancredo Souza illustrations, 1 colour table | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate root symbionts that impact plant growth, Hardback | 01/2016 | 9783319248486 | productivity and competitiveness. Handbook of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi integrates key #228608A | £74.50 Add to basket information about AMF concepts, structures and ...
Higher Plants of the Indian Subcontinent, Volume 11 230 pages | b/w illustrations | AN Purohit Hardback | 01/2015 | 9788121109086 | This is the 11th Volume of Higher Plants of the Indian Sub-Continent brought out under the #228271A | £37.99 Add to basket Additional Series of the Indian Journal of Forestry. The articles included in this volume had been originally submitted to the ...
Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe e Cuphophyllus del Friuli Venezia Giulia 182 pages | colour photos, colour [Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe and Cuphophyllus of Friuli-Venez illustrations, colour distribution maps | Hardback | 01/2015 | #228473A | Emanuele Campo £44.99 Add to basket This book covers the mycoflora in the three genera Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe and Cuphophyllus in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, an Italian region bordering Austria, Slovenia and the Adriatic. It treats 83 species, with ...
Identification Book of Trees and Shrubs in Bulgaria [Bulgarian] 268 pages | 44 b/w line drawings | D Gramatikov Paperback | 01/1992 | #228216A | This identification guide covers the entire Bulgarian dendroflora. It includes all wild and £69.99 Add to basket cultivated trees and shrubs in Bulgaria as studied by the author. A total of 726 species of plant are described systematically, and most descriptions ...
Images of Singapore Botanic Gardens 144 pages | 250+ colour photos | Alvin Loh Paperback | 11/2015 | 9789814677196 With more than 150 years of history, the 74-hectare Singapore Botanic Gardens holds a unique | #228713A | £29.50 Add to basket and significant place in the history of Singapore and the region. It was responsible in its early days for the introduction, experimentation and ...
In Praise of Poison Ivy 208 pages | 24 colour illustrations | The Secret Virtues, Astonishing History, and Dangerous Lore of the World's Most Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Hated Plant 9781630761318 | #228329A | £15.95 Anita Sanchez Add to basket For centuries, poison ivy has bedeviled, inconvenienced, and downright tortured the human race. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the question of why this plant is apparently on a mission to give us humans grief, from itchy ankles ...
Invasive Alien Plants of Jharkhand 110 pages | colour illustrations | Rameshwar Das, BN Divakara and Santosh Prasad Paperback | 01/2013 | #228384A | This is a guide to invasive alien plants of Jharkhand, a state in eastern India. It contains below £27.99 Add to basket six chapters: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Documentation of Invasive Plant Species ...
Kew Gardens 40 pages | illustrations | Virginia Woolf and Livi Mills Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781842466100 | This charming short story by one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Virginia #228646A | £7.99 Add to basket Woolf, is set on a hot July day in Kew Gardens. Woolf creates an impressionistic world with snippets of conversation, wondering thoughts and ...
Lady's Slipper Orchids of India 164 pages | 100 plates with colour HJ Chowdhery illustrations; b/w line drawings | Lady's Slipper or Slipper Orchids are an extremely well known group of orchids. They are Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788121108683 popularly called Lady's slippers because of the presence of a highly modified pouch-like lip or | #228513A | £66.99 Add to basket labellum, which looks similar to a lady's ...
Les Bromeliacees [The Bromeliads] 656 pages | ~1200 illustrations | Albert Roguenant, Marcel Lecoufle, Aline Raynal-Roques and Jason Ryan Grant Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Les Broméliacées covers the whole Bromeliad family. These tropical plants count more than 9782701164731 | #228575A | £120.00 3300 species, including Ananas, and play an important role in worldwide horticulture. A large Add to basket introductory chapter, in French ...
Medicinal Plants of Northeast India 340 pages | colour illustrations, colour Sachin Kumar Borthakur, M Ahmed, P Gogoi, DN Dutta and GU Ahmed maps | During the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest on medicinal and aromatic Paperback | 01/2010 | #228233A | plants across the globe owing to their demands, either for use in different health-care systems £39.99 Add to basket or for manufacture of various health-care products ...
Mushrooms for Health 112 pages | colour illustrations | Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi Paperback | 11/2009 | 9780892728084 Greg A Marley | #228402A | £10.95 Add to basket There is a burgeoning interest in natural medicines in the United States. Among these natural health powerhouses are mushrooms, and here mycologist Greg Marley introduces ten species found in New England – and elsewhere, too, in ...
Mushrooms of Northeast North America 336 pages | Midwest to New England Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781772130003 George Barron | #228523A | £21.50 Add to basket An authoritative and full-color photographic field guide to mushrooms and fungi of the northern United States, from the Midwest to New England. Featured in USA Today, this must-have reference has 700 spectacular photos and excellent ...
Mushrooms of the Northeast 288 pages | colour photos | A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781591935919 Teresa Marrone and Walter E Sturgeon | #228539A | £17.99 Add to basket Hundreds of full-colour photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast of the USA. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms ...
North American Mushrooms 592 pages | colour photos | A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi Paperback | 04/2006 | 9780762731091 Jr.,Orson K Miller and Hope H Miller | #228508A | £17.95 Add to basket North American Mushrooms is a field guide to more than 600 edible and inedible mushrooms that can be found across the United States and Canada. Filled with full colour photographs, detailed identification information, and illustrated ...
Pflanzen Einfach Bestimmen: Schritt fur Schritt Einheimische Arten 416 pages | 874 colour photos, 85 Kennenlernen [Easily Identifying Plants: Learning to illustrations | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9783258079530 Peter M Kammer and Stefan Eggenberg | #228278A | £41.99 Add to basket Identifying plants is a skill that can be considered to have been learned when it's not just the flower colour that serves as a guide. This entry-level identification key introduces the reader to identifying 674 of the most common ...
Protea: A Guide to Cultivated Species and Varieties 296 pages | 369 colour illustrations | Lewis J Matthews Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | The proteas (Proteaceae) are a large and ancient plant family of Gondwana origins with an 9780824856700 | #228423A | £45.50 impressive diversity of flower and form, and an intriguing distribution pattern throughout Add to basket mainly the Southern Hemisphere. In his spectacular photographs ...
Southern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers 168 pages | 150 colour illustrations | A Guide to Common Wildflowers, Shrubs, and Trees Paperback | 03/2015 | 9780762784783 Leigh Robertson and Christine Kassar | #228217A | £13.95 Add to basket Published in cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Nature Association. This book describes 200 wildflowers common to the Rocky Mountains.
Stirling Macoboy's What Tree is That? 368 pages | colour photos | Stirling Macoboy Paperback | 05/2006 | 9781877069314 Now in its third edition, this classic reference book for Australian gardeners, by the late, best- | #228443A | £35.99 Add to basket selling author Stirling Macoboy, has been in print for almost 30 years. The completely revised edition, with existing entries updated and ...
Strombomonas (Euglenophyta) Taxonomical Review 201 pages | 77 plates with b/w photos | Takaaki Yamagishi Hardback | 01/2016 | 9788121109178 | The genus Strombomonas Deflandre is well known alga genus for a group of interesting and #228176A | £74.99 Add to basket widely distributed Euglenoid Flagellata. The genus was proposed firstly by Deflandre (1930) and many taxa, 33 species and 28 varieties ...
The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa 650 pages | colour photos, colour Graham Duncan, Barbara Jeppe and Leigh Voigt illustrations, colour distribution maps | Barbara Jeppe, botanical artist extraordinaire, began work on the paintings in July 1971 and for Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | #228495A | the next 28 years she collected and painted over 200 species of Amaryllidaceae. After her death £87.99 Add to basket in 1999, her daughter, Leigh Voigt, a versatile ...
The Bee-Friendly Garden 224 pages | 200 colour photos | Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard That Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781607747635 Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhn | #228182A | £14.99 Add to basket For every gardener who cares about the planet, The Bee-Friendly Garden to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.
The Book About the Book - The Search for the Inferior Ovary photos, illustrations | The Story of the Making of The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | #228496A | Leigh Voigt £51.99 Add to basket This book documents the passion and the pain, and the trials and tribulations inherent in a collaboration of the magnitude of the main work, The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa. Many personalities, both past and present, were involved in the ...
The British Oak 304 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Archie Miles & b/w illustrations | The British Oak is a comprehensive overview of everything that the iconic oak tree signifies to Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Britain and its people. Archie Miles explores the rise of oak woods since the last Ice Age, placing 9781472123756 | #227073A | £29.99 the tree in its biological, cultural ... Add to basket
The Hidden Life of Trees 240 pages | What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | Peter Wohlleben 9781771642484 | #228041A | £24.50 In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and Add to basket explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind ...
The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook 232 pages | 2500 colour photos, b/w Timothy Utteridge and Gemma Bramley line drawings, 100 colour distribution The tropics with their lush rainforests are extremely rich in plant life but are still comparatively maps | unknown. Botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have a long tradition of exploring and Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781842466025 plant collecting in the tropics, accumulating ... | #228425A | £19.99 Add to basket
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees 240 pages | colour photos | Robert Penn Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781846148422 | Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash #228157A | £16.99 Add to basket is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland ...
The Secrets of Wildflowers 320 pages | colour illustrations | A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History Paperback | 05/2014 | 9781493006168 Jack Sanders | #228267A | £13.95 Add to basket The Secrets of Wildflowers is a colourful tribute filled with odd, little-known facts and wonderful superstitions about some of North America's most beautiful and common plants. The Secrets of Wildflowers includes ...
The Wild Plants of the Burren and the Aran Islands 160 pages | colour photos | A Field Guide Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781848892668 Charles Nelson | #228542A | £7.99 Add to basket The Burren and the Aran Islands, southwest Ireland, are renowned worldwide for their beautiful wild flowers and plants. Charles Nelson has selected 136 of the most widely occurring plus a number of special plants. By illustrating each ...
The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany 284 pages | 27 b/w illustrations | Medicine and Botany Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781472466228 | Cristina Bellorini #228610A | £94.99 Add to basket In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown ...
Trees of Chandigarh 203 pages | ~ 200 colour photos, b/w Chhatar Singh, Rajnish Wattas and Harjit Singh Dhillon Singh Dhillon illustrations | Originally published in 1998. Chandigarh, one of the greatest experiments in urban planning in Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789350502471 | India of the 20th century, is today as much famous for its landscaping, as it is for its #228276A | £43.99 Add to basket architecture. An important feature of its planning was ...
Trees: A Handbook of Forest Botany 271 pages | b/w illustrations | H Marshall Ward Hardback | 01/2014 | 9789381942147 | The purpose of this book is to provide students of forest botany with a guide to the study of #228178A | £27.50 Add to basket trees and shrubs from the point of view of the outdoor naturalist. At the same time, the purpose is to interest them in certain methods of ...
Tuindieren Buiten Beleven [Experiencing Garden Animals Outdoors] 240 pages | colour photos | Tialda Hoogeveen Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | A diverse garden will be overflowing with animal life, not just above, but also below ground. 9789050115858 | #228408A | £13.99 This nature guide explores your garden: which garden animals live here, what do they need, Add to basket and what can you do for them? Birds, butterflies ...
Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 1: 553 pages | colour photos | Pteridophyta (1) [English / Chinese] Hardback | 01/2016 | 9787534968594 | #228599A | £220.00 Add to basket Lin Qi This book is a very important work for researching and identifying Chinese plants. It couuld also be used as a reference by plant taxonomists and people from botanic research institutions, educational institutions and production departments ...
Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 3: 487 pages | colour photos | Pteridophyta (3): Gymnospermae [English / Chinese] Paperback | 10/2015 | 9787534975080 | #228625A | £220.00 Add to basket Lin Qi Voulume 3 of Type Specimens In China Herbarium (PE) includes 432 type specimens from Dryopteridaceae (2) to Cyatheaceae, and Gymnospermae, comprising 342 holotypes, 50 isotypes, 15 lectotypes, 6 isosyntypes, 15 paratypes ...
Type Specimens in China National Herbarium (PE), Volume 6: 596 pages | colour photos | Angiospermae (3) [English / Chinese] Paperback | 01/2016 | 9787534979446 | #228554A | £220.00 Add to basket Lin Qi Volume 6 of Type specimens in China National Herbarium (PE) includes 565 type specimens from Juglandaceae to Urticaceae, comprising 367 holotypes, 141 isotypes, 29 lectotypes, 1 syntype, 3 isosyntypes, 24 paratypes, 2 isoparatypes ...
Waldgraeser: Der Bestimmungsfuehrer [Wild Herbs: The Identification 260 pages | ~200 colour photos | Guide] Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | 9783258079578 | #228275A | £49.99 Christine Rapp and Norbert Bartsch Add to basket Compared to meadow grasses, wild herbs lead a shadowy existence in the truest sense of the word. While some characterize grassland and steppe landscapes and serve as important food and feed crops worldwide, others are hardly noticed.
Welche Alpenblume ist das?: 168 Alpenblumen Einfach Bestimmen 128 pages | 170 colour photos | [Which Alpine Flower Is That? Easily Identifying 168 Alpin Paperback | 02/2016 | 9783440150474 | #228630A | £12.99 Add to basket Manuel Werner Welche Alpenblume ist das? is a practical nature guide on 168 different species of alpine flowers.
Welcher Baum ist das?: 170 Baume Einfach Bestimmen [Which Tree Is 128 pages | 174 colour photos, 21 That? Easily Identifying 170 Trees] colour illustrations | Paperback | 02/2016 | 9783440149874 Joachim Mayer | #228618A | £12.99 Add to basket The practical and expert nature guide in your pocket – recommended by NABU. Detailed in Welcher Baum ist das? are 170 known native trees.
Wildflowers of Tennessee 496 pages | 800 colour photos, 96 b/w The Ohio Valley and the Southern Appalachians line drawings, 3 colour maps | Dennis Horn and Tavia Cathcart Paperback | 06/2013 | 9781551059020 This is the revised, second edition of the most complete, comprehensive and informative field | #228506A | £19.99 Add to basket guide ever published on the flora of this region. Sponsored by the Tennessee Native Plant Society, this labor of love has been fourteen years in ...
Wonderful Weeds 240 pages | colour photos | An Extensive & Fully Illustrated Guide from Seedlings to Fruit Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Madeline Harley 9781906506605 | #228268A | £24.99 Botanist Madeline Harley pairs clear, informative descriptions with exquisite photographs to Add to basket provide unsurpassed coverage of almost 200 British weedy species. Now, for the first time, enthusiasts and non-specialists alike will be able to ...
Woodland Flora 286 pages | colour photos, map | A Field Guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW and ACT) Spiralbound | 01/2015 | Sarah Sharp, Rainer Rehwinkel, Dave Mallinson and David Eddy 9780994495808 | #228412A | £36.50 This field guide covers over 440 plant species found in woodlands in the Southern Tablelands Add to basket region, Australia. Provides images and details of the most common species that are likely to be encountered in the area, as well as some of the ...
Animal & General Biology
10% Human 400 pages | How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780007584031 | Alanna Collen #220747A | £19.99 Add to basket There's more to being human than you think. 10% Human explores the extraordinary world of Paperback | 04/2015 | 9780007584024 the powerful microbes that make up 90% of the human body. You are more 'them' than you | #220748A | £14.99 Add to basket are 'you'. You are just 10% human ... Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780007584055 | #228686A | £8.99 Add to basket
Animal Laws of India 1649 pages | b/w illustrations | Maneka Gandhi, Ozair Husain and Raj Panjwani Hardback | 01/2016 | 9789351437710 | The law, effectively harnessed, can become the most potent weapon in the fight against animal #228530A | £65.99 Add to basket abuse and exploitation. Interpreted with courage and compassion, it can extend the maximum protection to living beings that cannot speak or ...
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, 384 pages | and Environmental Science Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | 9780062296054 | #228520A | £9.99 John Brockman Add to basket The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists – including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig ...
Mammal Societies 760 pages | Tim Clutton-Brock Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Mammal Societies aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel 9781119095323 | #228370A | £39.99 synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a Add to basket coherent structure that deals initially ...
Systems Biology 544 pages | A Textbook Paperback | 06/2009 | 9783527318742 Edda Klipp, Wolfram Liebermeister, Christoph Wierling, Axel Kowald and Ralf Herwig | #177581A | £54.99 Add to basket This advanced textbook is tailored for an introductory course in Systems Biology and is well- Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | suited for biologists as well as engineers and computer scientists. It comes with student-friendly 9783527336364 | #228156A | £54.99 reading lists and a companion website ... Add to basket
The Diet Myth 336 pages | The Real Science Behind What We Eat Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Tim Spector 9781780229003 | #228431A | £8.99 Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another Add to basket eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more ...
The Gene 560 pages | An Intimate History Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Siddhartha Mukherjee 9781847922632 | #228540A | £24.99 Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the Add to basket master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian ...
The Systems View of Life 512 pages | 81 b/w illustrations | A Unifying Vision Hardback | 04/2014 | 9781107011366 | Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi #208025A | £27.99 Add to basket Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation 9781316616437 | #228228A | £18.99 leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking ... Add to basket
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? 288 pages | Vinciane Despret, Brett Buchanan and Bruno Latour Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Is it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces 9780816692378 | #228189A | £78.50 at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex relations? Are they the Add to basket new celebrities of the twenty-first century? Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9780816692392 | #228190A | £22.50 Add to basket
Evolutionary Biology
100 Million Years of Food 320 pages | What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today Hardback | 02/2016 | 9781250050410 | Stephen Le #228153A | £17.99 Add to basket There are few areas of modern life that offer as much information and advice, often contradictory, as diet and health: eat a lot of meat, don't eat meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a disaster; and on it goes. Biological ...
Homo sapiens 130 pages | An Unauthorized Biography Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | Claudio Tuniz and Patrizia Tiberi Vipraio 9783319310190 | #228248A | £26.99 Based on the latest scientific discoveries, this "unauthorized biography" of Homo sapiens Add to basket recounts the story of our distant ancestors during the past 6 million years, since the line of our extended family separated from ...
People and Nature 218 pages | b/w photos | An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations Hardback | 12/2005 | 9781405105712 | Emilio F Moran #155080A | £76.50 Add to basket This book provides a lively and thoughtful introduction to ecological anthropology by examining Paperback | 12/2005 | 9781405105729 the evolving relations between human communities and nature. - Written by a noted | #155081A | £26.99 Add to basket anthropologist, geographer, and environmental ... Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9781118877470 | #228512A | £30.50 Add to basket
Restless Creatures 368 pages | The Story of Life in Ten Movements Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Matt Wilkinson 9781785780455 | #226799A | £19.99 Despite the overwhelming diversity of life on earth, one theme has dominated its evolution: the Add to basket apparently simple act of moving from one place to another. Restless Creatures is the first book Paperback | NYP 10/2016 | for a general audience telling the ... 9781785781155 | #228363A | £9.99 Add to basket
The Evolution of the Primate Hand 824 pages | 64 colour illustrations, 27 Anatomical, Developmental, Functional, and Paleontological Evidence tables | Tracy L Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G Richmond and Daniel Schmitt Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | The Evolution of the Primate Hand demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive 9781493936441 | #228649A | £117.00 and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree Add to basket of diversity within some clades and yet ...
The Extended Phenotype 440 pages | The Long Reach of the Gene Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | Richard Dawkins and Daniel C Dennett 9780198788911 | #228206A | £9.99 In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by Add to basket W.D. Hamilton and others. The Extended Phenotype provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a ...
The Extended Selfish Gene 560 pages | 9 b/w illustrations | Richard Dawkins and Robert Trivers Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins 9780198788782 | #228207A | £19.99 articulates a gene's eye view of evolution – a view giving centre stage to these persistent units Add to basket of information, and in which ...
The Illusion of God's Presence 445 pages | The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781633880740 | John C Wathey #228177A | £22.50 Add to basket An essential feature of religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in ...
Ecology
Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western 475 pages | 42 colour & 44 b/w US illustrations, 42 colour tables | Hardback | 01/2016 | 9783319249285 | Causes, Consequences, and Management Implications #228607A | £96.99 Add to basket Matthew J Germino, Jeanne C Chambers and Cynthia S Brown Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to the transformation of the earth's surface. The problem is particularly notable with a suite of exotic ...
Invasion Genetics 408 pages | The Baker and Stebbins Legacy Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Invasion Genetics: The Baker & Stebbins Legacy provides a state-of-the-art treatment of the 9781118922163 | #228238A | £54.95 evolutionary biology of invasive species, whilst also revisiting the historical legacy of one of the Add to basket most important books in evolutionary ...
Learning and Behavior 500 pages | 207 illustrations | A Contemporary Synthesis Paperback | 02/2007 | 9780878930630 Mark E Bouton | #195025A | £53.99 Add to basket The considerable progress that has been made researching fundamental learning processes tells Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | an important and interesting story. In this new book – written for undergraduates, graduate 9780878933853 | #228212A | £56.99 students, and curious professionals – ... Add to basket
Long-Term Ecological Research 448 pages | 55 illustrations | Changing the Nature of Scientists Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | Michael R Willig and Lawrence R Walker 9780199380213 | #228730A | £45.99 The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform Add to basket the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative ...
Theory-Based Ecology 352 pages | A Darwinian Approach Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | Liz Pasztor, Zoltan Botta-Dukat, Gabriella Magyar, Tamas Czaran and Geza Meszena 9780199577859 | #228147A | £74.99 Ecology is in a challenging state as a scientific discipline. While some theoretical ecologists are Add to basket attempting to build a definition of ecology from first principles, many others are questioning Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | even the feasibility of a general and universal ... 9780199577866 | #228150A | £37.50 Add to basket
Unheimliche Eroberer: Invasive Pflanzen und Tiere in Europa [Alien 251 pages | ~220 colour photos, 24 Invaders: Invasive Plants and Animals in Europe] maps | Hardback | 04/2011 | 9783258076607 | Wolfgang Nentwig #228279A | £49.99 Add to basket Unbeknownst to most, animal and plant species from other continents immigrate with us. Some of them like it so well here that they multiply rapidly and suddenly cause considerable damage: They harry, indeed displace, the native flora and ...
Habitats & Ecosystems
Araucaria: The Meridional Brazil Forest / A Floresta do Brasil Meridional 168 pages | Zig Koch and Maria Celeste Corr Hardback | 01/2010 | 9788589166072 | This work deals with the formation of pine forests since the emergence of the first ancestor of #228284A | £60.99 Add to basket the Araucaria, 250 million years ago. It reveals the richness of the flora and fauna, shows the way of life of the first inhabitants of the ...
Big, Bold and Blue 432 pages | colour photos, illustrations, Lessons from Australia's Marine Protected Areas maps | James Fitzsimons, Geoff Wescott, Tim Winton and Inger Andersen Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | The world's oceans cover about 70% of our planet. To safeguard the delicate ecological and 9781486301942 | #228687A | £64.50 environmental functions of the oceans and their remarkable biodiversity, networks of marine Add to basket protected areas are being created. In some of these ...
Collaborative Governance of Forestry 464 pages | Motomu Tanaka and Makoto Inoue Hardback | 03/2016 | 9784130770118 | This extensive reference writes a modern history of forestry in Japan, Indonesia, the Solomon #221192A | £58.50 Add to basket Islands, and other Asian countries, reflecting industrial and colonial exploitation, periods of Paperback | 03/2016 | 9789971698621 excessive deforestation, and the alienation of ... | #228714A | £40.50 Add to basket
Community Participation in Conservation of Great Himalayan National 305 pages | b/w illustrations, colour & b/ Park, India w maps | Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789352060030 Suman Bhanoo | #228165A | £45.99 Add to basket Conservation of protected areas usually suffers from two problems. First, local people are disallowed access to natural resources on which they depended for ages. Second, when people are displaced they rarely get compensation, and if the ...
Ekosistema Gipergalinnykh Vodoemov Kalmykii [Ecosystems of 142 pages | Hypersaline Waters of Kalmykia] Paperback | 01/2015 | 9785914581739 | #228517A | £63.99 Add to basket Nadezhda Matsakovna Baktasheva This book contains the results of long-term scientific research on the biota of hypersaline waters of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. The studies were conducted in different climatic indicator years. Particular attention is paid to the ...
India's Notified Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) 108 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps The Story So Far... | Meenakshi Kapoor, Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon Paperback | 01/2009 | #228598A | This is the first comprehensive compilation of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) and the range £21.99 Add to basket of experiences associated with them. It traces the chronology of the notifications declaring ESAs in India using the Environment Protection ...
Indian Estuaries 247 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Utpal Bhaumik, MK Mukhopadhyay, NP Shrivastava and AP Sharma colour & b/w maps, tables | Starting from the definition of an estuary, and the process of formation and classification of Hardback | 11/2015 | 9788170750901 | estuaries on the basis of salinity and climatic conditions, Indian Estuaries goes on to cover more #228315A | £29.99 Add to basket complex aspects such as circulation ...
National Parks 336 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, The American Experience maps | Alfred Runte Paperback | 03/2010 | 9781589794757 In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent | #228396A | £10.95 Add to basket figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly Hardback | 03/2010 | 9781589794733 | engaging story of the development ... #228401A | £23.95 Add to basket
Rechnye Sistemy Dal'nego Vostoka Rossii: Chetvert' veka Issledovanii 489 pages | [River Systems of Pacific Russia: A Quarter Century Hardback | 01/2015 | 9785804415403 | #228584A | £84.99 Add to basket Boris Il'ich Gartsman This book contains the most important results of published studies conducted during the last 25 years in the development of the Far Eastern Scientific Hydrological school. It sequentially sets out a holistic concept of the surface of the ...
Stepi Tuvy i IUgo-Vostochnogo Altaia [The Steppes of Tuva and South- 292 pages | East Altai] Paperback | 01/2015 | #228273A | £85.99 Add to basket Bimba-TSyren Batomunkuevich Namzalov This monograph contains a comprehensive analysis of the steppe vegetation of the southern face of the Altai-Sayan mountain region of Tuva and Southeast Altai, Russia. The regularities of vegetation distribution in the various sectors of ...
The Governance of the Countryside 392 pages | 75 b/w illustrations, 32 Property, Planning and Policy tables | Ian Hodge Hardback | 02/2016 | 9780521623964 | Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity, changing patterns in land use, pollution, climate #228644A | £64.99 Add to basket change, public access and increasing demands for food and energy security lead to the creation of policies designed to reconcile interests ...
Urban Forests 316 pages | Ecosystem Services & Management Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | J Blum 9781771884259 | #228524A | £88.99 This new research compendium focuses on urban forestry research and management, while Add to basket also considering the sociological and community aspects. The book looks at the benefits of urban forests with respect to urban sustainability and human ...
Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge 352 pages | 41 b/w illustrations, 5 maps Communities on Nature's Edge | Lincoln Bramwell and William Cronon Hardback | 10/2014 | 9780295994123 | Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls #216348A | £26.99 Add to basket "wilderburbs" have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature Paperback | 02/2016 | 9780295995632 comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities ... | #228628A | £18.99 Add to basket
Conservation & Biodiversity
Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Sites and Systems in India 466 pages | b/w illustrations | Anurudh K Singh and SN Nigam Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788190396349 The author has documented the agricultural biodiversity associated with 21 heritage sites and | #228695A | £66.50 Add to basket component systems in India. These chapters provide valuable lessons on how to achieve sustainable agriculture based on local resources.
Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services 110 pages | 31 colour & 5 b/w Shin-ichi Nakano, Tetsukazu Yahara and Tohru Nakashizuka illustrations | Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services examines the topic of local Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | biodiversity conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in 9789811007781 | #228231A | £81.99 the world. With a focus on aquatic systems ... Add to basket
Biodiversity Conservation, Research and Management 194 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps HK Sahu, Janmejay Sethy and Rabindra Kumar Mishra | India is an identified megadiverse country, rich in biodiversity and associated traditional Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789352029143 knowledge. The country has a tradition of conservation and sustainable use of its biodiversity, | #228647A | £24.50 Add to basket which has now come under wider pressure on account ...
Biodiversity: Nature Conservation In The Greening Of Singapore 72 pages | Singapore (CLC) The Centre for Liveable Cities and Singapore (NParks) National Parks Board Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789814609692 In a small city-state where land is considered a scarce resource, the tension between urban | #228719A | £87.99 Add to basket development and biodiversity conservation, which often involves protecting areas of forest from being cleared for development, has always been ...
Bringing Back the Birdsong 208 pages | 300 colour photos | Two Dedicated Conservationists Work to Restore the Natural Balance to Their Slice of Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781869664015 Coastal New Zealand | #228450A | £44.50 Add to basket Wade Doak and Jan Doak Diver, undersea explorer and passionate conservationist Wade Doak has lived near the Tutukaka coast with wife Jan since 1968. Well known for his pioneering dives at the Poor Knights Islands off the coast of Whangarei, Wade has gradually ...
Conservation and Environmental Management in Madagascar 320 pages | 50 b/w illustrations | Ivan Scales and Barry Ferguson Hardback | 03/2014 | 9780415528771 | Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million #204202A | £84.99 Add to basket years of isolation from the African mainland. More than 80% of its species are not found Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780415528764 anywhere else on Earth. However, this highly diverse ... | #228699A | £34.99 Add to basket
Earth's Legacy: Natural World Heritage / Legado de la Tierra: 287 pages | colour photos | Patrimonio Natural Mundial Hardback | 12/2015 | 9780994787200 | #228668A | £36.99 Add to basket Cyril F Kormos, Tim Badman, Russell A Mittermeier, Bastian Bertzky and Cristina Goett Mittermeier At the time when the global biodiversity crisis and climate change persist increase, the World Heritage Sites represent an international model that incessantly reminds us about the wonder and uniqueness of our living planet and our obligation ...
Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums 344 pages | Essays and Reflections for a Changing World Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | John A Wiens 9781118895108 | #228509A | £54.95 This book is a compendium of the authors' writing over the last 30-plus years. Although the Add to basket individual essays address a variety of issues in ecology and conservation, collectively they share a common theme which describes the challenges ...
Essentials of Wildlife Management (2-Volume Set) 781 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/ N Anil Kumar w maps | Wildlife management is a very interesting subject and very few books are available on this topic Hardback | 01/2015 | 9789380012711 | for the Indian market. The books available are dealing with specific areas of wildlife #228170A | £115.00 Add to basket management as per the expertise of the author and ...
Forbidden Creatures 288 pages | Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets Paperback | 09/2011 | 9780762771806 Peter Laufer | #228356A | £10.95 Add to basket Forbidden Creatures chronicles Laufer's worldwide quest to penetrate the underworld network of hunters, traders, and customers who constitute the nefarious business of animal smuggling.
From Soup to Superstar 368 pages | 8 plates with colour photos; The Story of Sea Turtle Conservation along the Indian Coast colour illustrations | Kartik Shanker Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789351772323 Tigers, elephants, lions and other large mammals have so far been central to India's | #228260A | £24.99 Add to basket conservation story. In spite of the country's vast coastline and millions being dependent on marine resources for their livelihoods, such species ...
How to Clone a Mammoth 234 pages | 14 plates with 16 colour The Science of De-Extinction photos; 11 b/w photos and b/w Beth Shapiro illustrations | Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The Hardback | 03/2015 | 9780691157054 | science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer #218117A | £16.95 Add to basket in "ancient DNA" research, walks ... Paperback | NYP 08/2016 | 9780691173115 | #228362A | £10.95 Add to basket
Manual d'Identificacio dels Habitats Protegits a la Comunitat 116 pages | colour photos, colour maps Valenciana (Decret 70/2009) [Manual of identification of | Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788448260583 Carles Fabregat Llueca and Javier Ranz Ayuso | #228689A | £39.50 Add to basket The Manual d’identificació dels Hàbitats Protegits a la Comunitat Valenciana (Decret 70/2009) constitutes a tool that is intended to facilitate the identification and understanding of habitats listed in Annexe ...
No More Endlings 430 pages | colour illustrations | Saving Species One Story at a Time Hardback | 08/2015 | 9781628651980 | Allison Hegan and Wade Davis #228173A | £39.95 Add to basket A blend of story-telling, science, and imagery, No More Endlings features adventurous, endearing, and sometimes disheartening tales that arise from working to protect endangered species. Chapter authors, ranging from National ...
Protecting Paradise 250 pages | Saving New Zealand's Native Wildlife - The Case for 1080 Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Dave Hansford 9780947503000 | #228490A | £29.99 New Zealand's native wildlife is in crisis. It's being slaughtered by pests and we need to Add to basket intervene more frequently, more comprehensively, and across a broader front than we currently are if we are to protect our mainland population ...
Rainforest Restoration 41 pages | colour photos | A Guide to Principles and Practice Paperback | 01/2010 | #228694A | Divya Mudappa and TR Shankar Raman £24.99 Add to basket This is a practical guide to rainforest restoration, with several chapters dedicated practical experiences gained in the Western Ghats in India.
Saving Wild India 145 pages | A Blueprint for Change Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789384067373 Valmik Thapar | #228225A | £19.99 Add to basket In his new book, naturalist and conservationist Valmik Thapar gives us a bold yet considered plan to preserve and protect our dwindling forests, wildlife and wilderness areas. Saving wild India (whether we realize it or not) is of critical ...
The Geo Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks 33 colour & 11 b/w illustrations, 4 colour Michele Walters and Robert J Scholes & 16 b/w tables | Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the 9783319272863 | #228222A | £44.99 modern era, there is a strong, worldwide ... Add to basket
The IUCN Red List: 50 Years of Conservation / La Lista Roja de la UICN: 291 pages | colour photos | 50 Anos de Conservacion Hardback | 12/2014 | 9781495115257 | #228669A | £36.99 Add to basket Jane Smart, Craig Hilton Taylor, Russell A Mittermeier and Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier The message put forward this book is a simple one: conservation works and the extinction of species can be prevented. Informative essays by experts, and captivating photographs made by talented photographers, strive to inspire people around ...
Threatened Animals of Sunderbans: Vertebrates 112 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Varadaraju Paperback | 07/2015 | 9789382258193 Threatened Animals of Sunderbans: Vertebrates is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive | #228200A | £24.99 Add to basket list of threatened animals of Sunderbans from fishes to mammals. The book deals with taxonomic features and ecology of each species ...
Environmental Science
A Farewell to Ice 208 pages | 16 plates with colour photos Peter Wadhams | A captivating guide to the past, present and future of 'the amazing crystal' that plays a vital Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | role in regulating our planet. Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge 9780241009413 | #228503A | £19.99 University and the world's leading expert ... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 09/2017 | 9780241009437 | #228696A | £9.99 Add to basket
China National Assessment Report on Risk Management and Adaptation 123 pages | of Climate Extremes and Disasters Paperback | 11/2015 | 9787030434852 | #228612A | £110.00 Add to basket Dahe Qin This report analyzes the characteristics of extreme weather and climate events and disasters in China, and assesses their impact on disaster risk management and adaptation-related issues. It also reports on the latest research progress ...
Freegans: Diving Into the Wealth of Food Waste in America 280 pages | 14 b/w illustrations | Alex V Barnard Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to 9780816698134 | #228187A | £18.50 waste – while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred Add to basket increasing interest and action of late ... Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780816698110 | #228188A | £65.50 Add to basket
Los Bosques y La Biodiversidad Frente al Cambio Clim ítico: Impactos, 610 pages | colour illustrations | Vulnerabilidad y Adaptacion En Espana Paperback | 12/2015 | 9788449100383 | #228485A | £42.50 Add to basket Mendez A Herrero Spain has a huge natural heritage and rich biodiversity, and is highly vulnerable to climate change. To address and reduce this vulnerability the PNACC (Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático, a National Plan for ...
Militarizing the Environment 320 pages | 16 b/w photos | Climate Change and the Security State Paperback | 12/2015 | 9780816697236 Robert P Marzec | #228193A | £19.99 Add to basket As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are Hardback | 12/2015 | 9780816697229 | responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in #228194A | £70.50 Add to basket "climate change war games", and preparing ...
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History 320 pages | Cynthia Barnett Hardback | 04/2015 | 9780804137096 | It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and #223842A | £19.99 Add to basket paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | book to tell the story of rain. 9780804137119 | #228294A | £12.99 Add to basket
Reading Weather 128 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps The Field Guide to Forecasting the Weather | Jim Woodmencey Paperback | 09/2012 | 9780762782369 Reading Weather provides a quick and simple way to understand how the atmosphere works, | #228310A | £6.95 Add to basket how to interpret and use weather forecasts before venturing outdoors, and also how to make your own forecast in the field by observing the ...
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth 384 pages | Hugh Aldersey-Williams Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | From Cnut to D-Day: the history and science of the ever-powerful tide explored for the first 9780241003367 | #228535A | £18.99 time. Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. On our Add to basket little island, we live surrounded by water ... Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | 9780241003374 | #228536A | £12.99 Add to basket
Physical Sciences
30-Second Biology 160 pages | illustrations | The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories of Life, Each Explained in Half a Minute Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | Nicholas Battey and Mark Fellowes 9781782403890 | #228232A | £14.99 The 50 most thought-provoking theories of life, each explained in half a minute. 30-Second Add to basket Biology tackles the vital science of life, dissecting the 50 most thought-provoking theories of our ecosystem and ourselves. At a time when ...
Annals of the Deep Sky - A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects, 356 pages | 199 b/w photos and b/w Volume 3 illustrations | Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781942675044 Cameloparadalis, Cancer, Canes Venatici, Canis Major | #228351A | £68.50 Add to basket Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb Annals of the Deep Sky – A Survey of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects is by far the most up- to-date and comprehensive observing guide available today, featuring in-depth astrophysical profiles of the major stars and ...
Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor 772 pages | 67 colour & 107 b/w Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo, Tania King, Levon Yepiskoposyan and Peter Andrews illustrations, 67 colour tables | This edited volume describes the geology, stratigraphy, anthropology, archaeology, dating, Hardback | NYP 09/2016 | taphonomy, palaeobotany, palaeontology and palaeoecology of Azokh caves. The chapters 9783319249223 | #228619A | £74.50 review exhaustively the key recent research on this limestone ... Add to basket
Botswana's Diamonds 297 pages | colour photos | Prospecting to Jewellery Hardback | 12/2012 | 9789991294186 | Michael C Brook and P Kedikilwe #228305A | £59.99 Add to basket Botswana's Diamonds covers all aspects of the diamond industry in Botswana, starting with early prospecting, evaluation, mining, sorting, valuation, polishing, cutting and Botswana diamond jewellery. In fact the complete ...
Earth's Evolving Systems 720 pages | colour photos, colour The History of Planet Earth illustrations | Ronald E Martin Hardback | 03/2012 | 9781449648909 | Earth's Evolving Systems: The History of Planet Earth, Second Edition is an introductory text #222674A | £49.99 Add to basket designed for popular courses in undergraduate Earth history. Written from a "systems Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | perspective", it provides coverage ... 9781284108293 | #228615A | £52.99 Add to basket
Exploring the Limestone Landscapes of the Cumbrian Ring 68 pages | 41 colour photos, 17 Phillip Murphy illustrations and maps | The Cumbrian Ring is a limestone outcrop surrounding the Lake District. Twelve short walks are Paperback | 06/2015 | 9780900265495 described, which show the features of this landscape and its industrial heritage. This area, less | #228548A | £9.99 Add to basket well-known than the Lake District, contains ...
Failure: Why Science is So Successful 304 pages | illustrations | Stuart Firestein Hardback | 11/2015 | 9780199390106 | The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to #228591A | £14.99 Add to basket the perception of science by the general public. It is not the rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts that dominates the public ...
Introducing Stratigraphy 160 pages | David Bond Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | Stratigraphy is that branch of geology which studies rock layers (strata) and layering 9781780460222 | #228045A | £14.99 (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Add to basket Stratigraphy and the relationship of rock layers and the ...
Krizna Jama: Palaeontology, Zoology and Geology of Krizna Jama in 136 pages | 9 plates with colour Slovenia illustrations; illustrations | Hardback | 01/2014 | 9783700176725 | M Pacher, Vida Pohar and Gernot Rabeder #228577A | £56.99 Add to basket In order to establish modern research on caves faunas from Slovenia, a co-operation for several years between the University of Vienna, the University of Ljubljana and the Austrian Academy of Sciences was established in 1996.
Philip's Astronomy Starter Pack 80 pages | includes poster, glow-in-the- Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion dark planisphere, 200+ colour photos | A new edition of the exciting Philip's Astronomy Starter Pack, suitable for use in the Northern Paperback | NYP 07/2016 | Hemisphere, containing three essential items to introduce the beginner to the fascinating hobby 9781849074247 | #228361A | £16.99 of astronomy ... Add to basket
Rockhounding Alaska 232 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | A Guide to 75 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites Paperback | 06/2010 | 9780762750849 Montana Hodges | #228380A | £10.95 Add to basket Rockhounding Alaska will be an in-depth guide to the rocks, minerals and fossils legally found and collected within the state. Rockhounding Alaska will contain a light, informative overview of the geologic history of ...
Rockhounding Colorado 243 pages | illustrations | Cora Kappele and William A Kappele Paperback | 01/2004 | 9780762728503 A fascinating treasure hunt awaits you in the Centennial State. Rockhounding Colorado takes | #228583A | £10.95 Add to basket you to nearly one hundred of the best rockhounding sites in the state. Search for amethyst and quartz at the Crystal Hill Mine.
Rockhounding Delaware, Maryland, and the Washington, DC Metro Area 288 pages | 163 colour illustrations, 23 A Guide to the Areas' Best Rockhounding Sites maps | Robert D Beard Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781493003365 With this informative guide, you can explore the mineral-rich areas' of Delaware, Maryland, and | #228192A | £14.95 Add to basket Washington D.C., from the beaches to the mountains. It describes the areas' best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial ...
Rockhounding New Mexico 272 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | A Guide to 140 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites Paperback | 10/2008 | 9780762743766 Martin Freed and Ruta Vaskys | #228447A | £10.95 Add to basket More than a third of New Mexico is public land that holds untold quantities of mineralogical treasure. With Rockhounding New Mexico anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, petrified ...
Solar System 224 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour A Visual Exploration of the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit our & b/w illustrations | Sun Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780571277711 | Marcus Chown #196083A | £24.99 Add to basket In Solar System, bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft that surround the Sun 9780316268059 | #228727A | £19.99 in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insight ... Add to basket
The Deep Earth 312 pages | illustrations | Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Hidenori Terasaki and Rebecca A Fischer 9781118992470 | #228552A | £114.00 The Deep Earth: Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core highlights recent Add to basket advances and the latest views of the deep Earth from theoretical, experimental, and observational approaches and offers insight into future ...
The Earth and I 168 pages | colour illustrations | James Lovelock, Lisa Randall, Sir Martin J Rees, Edward O Wilson, Eric Kandel and Jack Hudson Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Human beings are extraordinary creatures. Intelligent, agile, and curious, we have adapted and 9783836551113 | #228684A | £24.99 invented our way to becoming the most important species on the planet. So great is the extent Add to basket of our influence, that many speak of a new geological ...
The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains 160 pages | illustrations | Wallace R Hansen, Jean Kostak, John R Stacy and Clint McKnight Paperback | 06/2005 | 9780762738106 Other than the Brooks Range in Alaska, the Uintas are the most prominent east/west range in | #228527A | £6.95 Add to basket the United States. They also contain the highest mountains in Utah, many of which exceed 13,000 feet, including Kings Peak at 13,528 feet ...
The Great Acceleration 400 pages | How the World is Getting Faster, Faster Hardback | NYP 04/2016 | Robert Colvile 9781408840078 | #228324A | £16.99 Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we Add to basket lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead?
The Little Book of Big History 256 pages | The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | Ian Crofton and Jeremy Black 9781782434290 | #228541A | £12.99 From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into Add to basket manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the ...
The Water Book 352 pages | The Extraordinary Story of our Most Ordinary Substance Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781472209542 | Alok Jha #222050A | £19.99 Add to basket Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very 9781472209535 | #228303A | £9.99 strange substance (it is one of only a ... Add to basket
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry 256 pages | Christie Wilcox Hardback | NYP 08/2016 | In Venomous the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that 9780374283377 | #228679A | £24.99 use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can Add to basket revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today.
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes 272 pages | colour photos, colour Marilyn Roossinck illustrations | Viruses are the last frontier of undiscovered life on our planet. The most abundant type of Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | organism on Earth, they infect all types of cellular life, and, as micro-organisms that cause 9781782403265 | #228242A | £24.99 disease in their hosts, they are highly opportunistic ... Add to basket
Volcano Discoveries 240 pages | colour photos | A Photographic Journey Around the World Hardback | 10/2015 | 9781921517358 | Tom Pfeiffer and Ingrid Smet #228323A | £16.99 Add to basket One of the most eye-catching guides to the world's volcanoes ever published, packed with stunning photography. Introductory chapters include clear and concise information on plate tectonics, different types of volcanoes, different ...
Sustainable Development
Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction 152 pages | 9 b/w photos | Paul Brassley and Richard Soffe Paperback | NYP 04/2016 | Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using 9780198725961 | #228589A | £7.99 techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without Add to basket it we would starve. Yet how many of us understand why ...
Climate Change and the Future of Sustainability 357 pages | 32 colour tables | The Impact on Renewable Resources Hardback | NYP 07/2016 | Muyiwa Adaramola 9781771884310 | #228355A | £98.99 Renewable resources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are often perceived as being the Add to basket answer to the fossil fuel crisis. Ironically, however, climate change may also negatively impact on these energy sources. All forms of renewable energy ...
Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia 264 pages | Haruka Yanagisawa Paperback | 08/2015 | 9789971698539 In many traditional societies, certain resources are held in common, with their use and | #228715A | £36.50 Add to basket disposition controlled by the community collectively. Such common-pool resources have come to play a significant element in programs of environmental ...
Faith Versus Fact 320 pages | Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible Hardback | 06/2015 | 9780670026531 | Jerry A Coyne #218575A | £19.99 Add to basket In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, 9780143108269 | #228169A | £17.99 while that of religion – including faith, dogma ... Add to basket
Natural Capital 277 pages | no illustrations | Valuing the Planet Hardback | 05/2015 | 9780300210989 | Dieter Helm #221196A | £19.99 Add to basket Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables – like species – keep on Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables – like oil and gas – 9780300219371 | #228304A | £12.99 can only be used once. Add to basket
No Animals Were Harmed 272 pages | The Controversial Line Between Entertainment and Abuse Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780762763856 | Peter Laufer #228338A | £15.95 Add to basket Investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way we humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at Sea World by a killer whale in February 2010 is the catalyst for this examination ...
Respecting Truth 162 pages | Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age Hardback | 06/2015 | 9781138888807 | Lee McIntyre #228623A | £84.99 Add to basket Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly Paperback | 06/2015 | 9781138888814 wrong-headed beliefs. But in his newest book, philosopher Lee McIntyre shows how we've now | #228624A | £20.99 Add to basket reached a watershed moment for ignorance in the ...
The Fourth Revolution 256 pages | ~22 b/w illustrations | How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality Hardback | 06/2014 | 9780199606726 | Luciano Floridi #208834A | £16.99 Add to basket Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in Paperback | 03/2016 | 9780198743934 contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and | #228602A | £10.99 Add to basket Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to ...
The Ocean Wise Cookbook 321 pages | colour illustrations | Seafood Recipes That Are Good for the Planet Paperback | 09/2010 | 9781770500167 Jane Mundy | #228308A | £32.50 Add to basket Ocean Wise is a nation-wide conservation program designed to educate restaurants and consumers about the issues surrounding sustainable seafood. Created by the renowned Vancouver Aquarium, Ocean Wise has an affiliation with restaurants ...
The Ocean Wise Cookbook 2 208 pages | illustrations | More Seafood Recipes That are Good for the Planet Paperback | 02/2016 | 9781770502383 Jane Mundy | #228307A | £19.99 Add to basket In a sequel to the best-selling The Ocean Wise Cookbook, The Ocean Wise Cookbook 2 offers an all-new collection of recipes for sustainable seafood. Made with the help of the world-renowned Vancouver Aquarium this book contains updated ...
The Responsible Company 158 pages | no illustrations | What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years Paperback | 05/2012 | 9780980122787 Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley | #228499A | £13.99 Add to basket The Responsible Company, by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years' experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of ...
The Ultimate Wildlife Destinations 240 pages | colour photos | Samantha Wilson Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | The Ultimate Wildlife Destinations combines the desire for ever more adventurous activities with 9781921517662 | #228210A | £14.99 our long-standing passion for wildlife, all the while infused with responsible travel themes and Add to basket conservation topics. From tracking ...
Wildlife Tourism in India 332 pages | b/w illustrations | Anil Sharma Paperback | 01/2016 | 9788185708591 The wildlife in India comprises a mix of species of different types of organisms. Apart from a | #228387A | £55.50 Add to basket handful of the major farm animals such as cows, buffaloes, goats, poultry, pigs and sheep, India has an amazingly wide variety of animals native ...
Data Analysis
A First Course in Statistical Programming with R 210 pages | 5 colour & 40 b/w W John Braun and Duncan J Murdoch illustrations | This new, colour edition of Braun and Murdoch's bestselling textbook integrates use of the Paperback | 12/2007 | 9780521694247 RStudio platform and adds discussion of newer graphics systems, extensive exploration of | #169264A | £29.99 Add to basket Markov chain Monte Carlo, expert advice on common errors ... Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | 9781107576469 | #228497A | £24.99 Add to basket
Biological Data Analysis with R 350 pages | Csaba Ortutay and Zsuzsanna Ortutay Paperback | NYP 09/2016 | Biological Data Analysis with R addresses the difficulties experienced by wet lab researchers 9781119165026 | #227668A | £66.95 with the statistical analysis of molecular biology related data. The authors explain how to use R Add to basket and Bioconductor for the analysis of ...
Discovering Statistics 784 pages | colour illustrations | The Reality Enigma Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Andy Field and James Iles 9781446210451 | #228296A | £32.99 Once again, bestselling author and award-winning teacher Andy Field hasn't just broken the Add to basket traditional textbook mould with his new novel/textbook, he has forged in the fire of his imagination the only statistics book on the market with ...
Environmental Data Analysis with MATLAB 342 pages | b/w illustrations | William Menke and Joshua Menke Hardback | 10/2011 | 9780123918864 | Since publication of the bestselling Environmental Data Analysis with MATLAB, many advances #192741A | £48.99 Add to basket have been made in environmental data analysis. This new edition expands fundamentally on Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780128044889 | the original with an expanded tutorial approach ... #228561A | £60.99 Add to basket
Reference
Bibliography of Atlases, Floras and Faunas of European Cities 1650 to 150 pages | 2013 Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | 9783319311180 | #228230A | £85.99 John G Kelcey Add to basket The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe. It will be of considerable interest to and should be used by a wide range of people including academics, research ...
Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively 284 pages | Gregory Patience, Daria Boffito and Paul Patience Paperback | 08/2015 | 9780128015001 Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively is a guidebook on science | #228621A | £30.99 Add to basket writing and communication that professors, students, and professionals in the STEM fields can use in a practical way. This book advocates ...
Managing Scientific Information and Research Data 162 pages | Svetla Baykoucheva Paperback | 07/2015 | 9780081001950 Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and | #228622A | £47.99 Add to basket communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the ...
Practical Skills in Chemistry 592 pages | Illustrations | John R Dean, Alan M Jones, David Holmes, Rob Reed, Allan Jones and Jonathan Weyers Paperback | 02/2011 | 9780273731184 If you are studying chemistry, or a related course such as forensic chemistry or biochemistry, | #228208A | £50.99 Add to basket then Practical Skills in Chemistry will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This 'one-stop' ...
Science Blogging 288 pages | 3 b/w illustrations | The Essential Guide Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | Christie Wilcox, Bethany Brookshire and Jason G Goldman 9780300197556 | #228249A | £16.99 Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, Add to basket ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience ...
Student Research and Report Writing 288 pages | From Topic Selection to the Complete Paper Hardback | 01/2016 | 9781118963906 | Gabe T Wang and Keumjae Park #228549A | £49.99 Add to basket This is an invaluable, concise, all-in-one guide for carrying out student research and writing a Paperback | 01/2016 | 9781118963913 paper, adaptable to course use and suitable for use by students independently, it successfully | #228550A | £17.99 Add to basket guides students along every step of the way.
The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia 323 pages | 100 colour & 60 b/w Igor S Zonn, Andrey G Kostianoy and Aleksandr Semenov illustrations, 100 colour tables | This Encyclopedia is designed to accumulate and systematize our knowledge about the unique Hardback | NYP 05/2016 | natural water areas – the Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi seas, their wealth, the events that 9783319242361 | #228593A | £185.50 took place on its waters and shores, and the ... Add to basket