nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2013/11 November 2013 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913

Welcome to the November 2013 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This : monthly update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to Mammals nhbs.com in the last month. Birds

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

● A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species (2-Volume Set) Invertebrates ● Birds of the Mascarene Islands / Les Oiseaux des Mascareignes Palaeontology ● Facing Extinction: The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (2nd edition) General Natural History ● Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Turkey, Volume 1: Bulbous Plants Regional & Travel ● Plant Biographies: Plant's Eye View of the Planet and Man ● The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms Botany & Plant Science ● The Birdwatcher's Yearbook 2014 Animal & General Biology ● The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland ● The Dark Side of the Kalahari Ecology ● The Ornaments of Life: Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics Habitats & Ecosystems ● Owls of the World: A Photographic Guide (2nd Edition) Conservation & Biodiversity ● Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 23 Environmental Science Physical Sciences

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Mammals

Animali di Sardegna: I Mammiferi 324 pages | 47 photos & 159 Franco Puddu and Maria Viarengo illustrations | Guide to the mammals of Sardinia. Hardback | 01/1990 | 9788871380674 | #209619A | £54.99 Add to basket

Atlas of the Distribution and Relative Abundance of Marine Mammals in 58 pages | colour photos, colour Irish Offshore Waters: 2005 - 2011 illustrations, colour distribution maps | Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780954055271 Dave Wall, Clare Murray, Joanne O'Brien, Laura Kavanagh, Chris Wilson, Conor Ryan and Brian | #209385A | £21.99 Add to basket Glanville The Atlas of the Distribution and Relative Abundance of Marine Mammals in Irish Offshore Waters: 2005 – 2011 presents data collected during the Irish Whale & Dolphin Group (IWDG) ISCOPE I and II projects ...

Cattle: History, Myth, Art 192 pages | 200 colour illustrations | Catherine Johns Hardback | 11/2011 | 9780714150840 | Although human communities have depended heavily on them, cattle are less studied and #209388A | £24.99 Add to basket admired than they deserve to be. Beautiful, varied and with individual personalities, cattle feature far more extensively than one might at first think ......

Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words 272 pages | Jr.,John W Pilley and Hilary Hinzmann Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780544102576 | Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them – more than any other #209395A | £21.99 Add to basket animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball, and tree, she has memorized the names of more than one thousand ......

Criollo: El Caballo Del País 208 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Los Caminos de la Seleccion Integral - De 1981 a 2010 illustrations | Carlos Dowdall Paperback | 12/2012 | 9789879132357 This book completes a look at the evolution and consolidation of the horse. With lots of | #209781A | £48.50 Add to basket photographs, documents and articles of the time. The author, an honorary member of the Criollo Horse Breeders Association, reviews the year of ......

Flying Foxes 192 pages | 200 colour photos | Australian Night Foresters Hardback | 09/2013 | 9781922013552 | Vivien Jones #209573A | £22.99 Add to basket The Grey-headed Flying-fox, or Pteropus poliocephalus is an Australian native mammal that plays a vital part in maintaining the health of forests along Australia's eastern coast. The species is crucial to the regeneration of ......

High Altitude Primates 400 pages | 2 colour & 59 b/w Nanda B Grow, Sharon Gursky-Doyen and Ali Krzton illustrations, 46 tables | The basic goal of High Altitude Primates is to compile the most up to date research on how high Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781461481744 | altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially #209445A | £117.00 Add to basket in comparison to lowland populations ......

How Dogs Love Us 272 pages | A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780544114517 | Gregory Berns #209391A | £21.99 Add to basket The powerful bond between humans and dogs is one that's uniquely cherished. Loyal, obedient, and affectionate, they are truly "man's best friend." But do dogs love us the way we love them? Emory University neuroscientist ......

Javelinas and Other Peccaries 325 pages | 36 b/w photos, 32 b/w Their Biology, Management, and Use illustrations, 43 tables | Lyle K Sowls Hardback | 06/2006 | 9780890967171 | Javelinas and Other Peccaries is certain to be regarded as the definitive source on this family of #058842A | £44.50 Add to basket piglike creatures consisting of three species. Best known in the United States is the javelina, or Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781623490089 collared peccary, but the first ...... | #209362A | £25.95 Add to basket

Lista Comentada de Especies de Mamíferos de la Provincia de Entre Ríos 96 pages | no illustrations | Norberto Muzzachiodi Paperback | 01/2007 | 9789872354503 An annotated list of mammal species in the Argentine province of Entre Rios. | #209552A | £34.99 Add to basket

Mamíferos Marinos de Patagonia y Antartida 208 pages | colour illustrations, maps | Ricardo Bastida and Diego Rodríguez Paperback | 01/2010 | 9789879132203 Comprehensive, highly illustrated guide to marine mammals found in the waters of Patagonia | #209553A | £77.50 Add to basket and the Antarctic.

Marine Mammals - Patagonia and Antarctica 208 pages | colour photos, colour Ricardo Bastida and Diego Rodríguez illustrations, colour distribution maps | This area of Argentine coast south of the Rio Negro is famous for the spring residency of the Paperback | 12/2012 | 9789879132210 southern right whale and the occurrence of orcas. Washed by the north cold currents which | #209780A | £77.50 Add to basket emanate from Antarctic waters, the coast is host to ......

Veldgids Europese Zoogdieren 368 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Peter Twisk, Annemarie van Diepenbeek and Jan Piet Bekker colour distribution maps | Veldgids Europese Zoogdieren is a practical field guide to all the mammals of Europe and their Hardback | 01/2010 | 9789050112604 | traces. Included are species new for Europe. The guide features an ideal combination of species #210086A | £28.50 Add to basket descriptions, detailed illustrations ......

Whales' Bones of the Nordic Countries, Central and Eastern Europe 319 pages | 300 colour & 100 b/w Nicholas Redman illustrations, 14 maps | Whales' Bones of the Nordic Countries, Central and Eastern Europe is part of a project that aims Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780954580056 | to record all the practical and decorative uses to which the huge skulls, jawbones, shoulder #210059A | £57.50 Add to basket blades, vertebrae and ribs of the ......

What the Dog Knows 352 pages | The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781451667318 | Cat Warren #209356A | £23.99 Add to basket Cat Warren is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started as a way to harness ......

Birds

100 Oiseaux de l'Hiver 128 pages | colour illustrations | Frederic Jiguet Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782603018613 100 Oiseaux de l'Hiver shows identifying characteristics of 100 bird species commonly present | #209453A | £20.99 Add to basket throughout winter in Western Europe. Giving details such as preferred habitat, potential presence at bird feeders, and whether the ......

A Feathered River Across the Sky 304 pages | 16 plates with colour The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction illustrations | Joel Greenberg Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger 9781620405345 | #209435A | £18.99 pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down Add to basket beats of their wings would chill the air beneath ......

Attirer et Nourrir les Oiseaux au Jardin 256 pages | 760+ colour photos and Observez les Oiseaux et Realisez vos Mangeoires, Baignoires et Nichoirs colour illustrations, colour distribution Jen Green maps | This is a French translation of A Practical Illustrated Guide to Attracting & Feeding Garden Birds. Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782603019740 | #209614A | £32.50 Add to basket

Aves de Patagonia y Antartida 144 pages | colour illustrations | Tito Narosky and Dario Yzurieta Paperback | 01/2007 | 9789879132098 Identification guide covering the southern third of Argentina, the Falkland Islands, and some of | #209550A | £44.99 Add to basket the Antarctic islands. 333 species illustrated.

Birds and Climate Change 475 pages | 154 b/w illustrations, 21 Impacts and Conservation Responses tables | James Pearce-Higgins, Rhys E Green and Michael B Usher Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide 9780521114288 | #208969A | £74.99 us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems. They are Add to basket among the best studied and monitored of organisms ...... Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9780521132190 | #208970A | £34.99 Add to basket

Birds of the Mascarene Islands / Les Oiseaux des Mascareignes 360 pages | colour photos, 3 colour A Comprehensive Collection of Endemic, Oceanic, Migratory and Exotic Birds of maps | Mauritius, Rodrigues and Reunion Hardback | 12/2012 | 9789994900091 | B Narainsamy Ramen and the President of the Republic of Mauritius His Excellency #209755A | £44.50 Add to basket The Birds of the Mascarene is a fully illustrated identification guide with over 300 photos covering all the rare and endangered species, including endemic, oceanic, migratory and exotic birds of the Mascarene Islands, a group of ......

British Birds Report on Rare Birds in Great Britain in 2012 71 pages | colour photos, colour Nigel Hudson and British Birds Rarities Committee illustrations | The 55th annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee presents details of rare birds 10/2013 | #209346A | £14.39 Add to recorded in Britain in 2012. In general, the crop of rarities in 2012 fell below the exceptional basket year of 2011, but there was still much to enjoy ......

Der Baumfalke (Falco subbuteo) in Kaernten 256 pages | 81 illustrations, 24 tables | Eine Inneralpine Studie zur Oekologie des Kleinfalken Paperback | 10/2013 | 9783853280638 Remo Probst | #209628A | £29.99 Add to basket The Hobby is a small falcon known for its impressive flying and fascinating hunting skills. Its most striking physical feature is its rust-red leg plumage, which make it seem that the Hobby is wearing red trousers.

Hong Kong Bird Report 1998 169 pages | 44 plates with colour photos Hong Kong Birdwatching Society (HKBWS) | The main body of Hong Kong Bird Report 1998 is taken up with the Systematic List 1998 which Paperback | 01/2002 | #209759A | covers the 362 species recorded in Hong Kong during the period. No new species were recorded £6.50 Add to basket during the year.

Hong Kong Bird Report 1999/00 286 pages | 67 plates with colour photos Hong Kong Birdwatching Society (HKBWS) | The main body of Hong Kong Bird Report 1999/00 is taken up with the Systematic Lists 1999 Paperback | 01/2004 | #209760A | and 2000 which covers the 342 species recorded in Hong Kong during the period. The list £6.50 Add to basket includes the following new records for Hong Kong ......

Hong Kong Bird Report 2005/06 247 pages | 35 colour plates | Hong Kong Birdwatching Society (HKBWS) Paperback | 01/2010 | #209693A | The main body of Hong Kong Bird Report 2005/06 is taken up with the Systematic List 2005-06 £23.99 Add to basket which covers the 402 Category A species recorded in Hong Kong during the period. The list includes the following new records for Hong Kong ......

Hong Kong Bird Report 2007/08 382 pages | 88 colour plates | Hong Kong Birdwatching Society (HKBWS) Paperback | 01/2011 | #209699A | About half Hong Kong Bird Report 2007/08 is taken up with the Systematic List 2007-08 which £28.50 Add to basket covers the 425 Category I & II species recorded in Hong Kong during the period with updated taxonomy where necessary.

Hong Kong Bird Report 2007/11 CD-ROM plates with colour photos, b/w Hong Kong Birdwatching Society (HKBWS) illustrations, tables | This CD-ROM bundles the last three reports covering the years 2007 to 2011. CD | 10/2013 | #209600A | £34.00 Add to basket

Hong Kong Bird Report 2011 295 pages | 74 plates with colour Hong Kong Birdwatching Society (HKBWS) photos, b/w illustrations, tables | The Hong Kong Birdwatching Society has now caught up with report production. This important Paperback | 10/2013 | #209596A | report covers an average year and as usual includes species counts for the year. It is again £27.99 Add to basket larger than usual but the excellent standards are ......

Peregrine Falcons of the World 384 pages | plates with colour Clayton M White, Tom J Cade, James H Enderson and Andrew Ellis illustrations; 170 colour photos and Peregrine Falcons of the World draws on four sources of information. First is the voluminous colour maps | primary literature of scientific publications, unpublished reports and thousands of articles which Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | include every region where Peregrine ...... 9788496553927 | #209264A | £22.50 Add to basket

Raptors: A Field Guide for Surveys and Monitoring 388 pages | colour photos, includes CD- Jon Hardey, Humphrey Crick, Chris Wernham, Helen Riley, Brian Etheridge and Des Thompson ROM | This is the Third Edition of the extremely popular and bestselling field guide to surveys and Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | monitoring of raptors. Raptors: A Field Guide for Surveys and Monitoring aims to promote best 9780114973605 | #209822A | £18.99 practice for fieldwork, drawing on the ...... Add to basket

Studies in Bird Migration, Volume 1 376 pages | 2 b/w illustrations, 7 b/w William Eagle Clarke maps | A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Having trained as a civil Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | engineer and surveyor, the ornithologist William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938) established himself 9781108066976 | #209765A | £24.99 in his field by preparing ... Add to basket

Studies in Bird Migration, Volume 2 390 pages | 16 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w William Eagle Clarke map | A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. Having trained as a civil Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | engineer and surveyor, the ornithologist William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938) established himself 9781108066983 | #209766A | £24.99 in his field by preparing ... Add to basket

Sub-Antarctic Magellanic Ornithology 400 pages | colour photos, distribution Ricardo Rozzi and Jaime E Jimenez maps | The first synthesis of current knowledge of forest and wetland birds in the world's southernmost Hardback | 11/2013 | 9781574415315 | forests, Sub-Antarctic Magellanic Ornithology contains both original work by Rozzi and Jimenez #209352A | £66.95 Add to basket and the results of a decade of ......

The Marsh Keepers Journey 272 pages | colour illustrations | The Story of Ducks Unlimited Canada Hardback | 12/2012 | 9780981230306 | Bruce Batt #209534A | £62.50 Add to basket Amid the vast landscapes and full skies that make Canada famous, there is a fascinating story of wetland conservation at work. It's the story of Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) – and it's been 75 historic years in the making. ....

Reptiles & Amphibians

Manual Practico Sobre Serpientes 64 pages | colour photos | Raul Leonardo Carman Paperback | 12/2004 | 9789879132104 Practical manual on snakes covering myths and truths about snakes, how to prevent being | #209554A | £36.99 Add to basket bitten, and what to do in case of snakebite.

New Mexico's Reptiles and Amphibians 360 pages | colour photos, b/w A Field Guide illustrations, distribution maps | Richard D Bartlett and Patricia Bartlett Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780826352071 New Mexico is home to 165 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, toads, and | #209364A | £21.95 Add to basket salamanders. Some are ubiquitous and others are localized. If you want basic and reliable information on the lizard in your backyard or the ......

The Amphibians of the Former Soviet Union 384 pages | plates with colour photos; b/ Sergius L Kuzmin w photos, b/w line drawings, includes The Amphibians of the Former Soviet Union is a comprehensive synopsis of the systematics, CD-ROM | morphology, , distribution, ecology, population trends, history of studies, and Paperback | 08/2013 | 9789546426932 conservation of amphibians inhabiting the territories ...... | #209653A | £92.50 Add to basket

The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas 496 pages | Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation Hardback | NYP 12/2013 | Peter V Lindeman 9780806144061 | #209354A | £49.99 Covering all facets of the biology of a little-known genus, Peter V. Lindeman's lavishly Add to basket illustrated Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas is both a scientific treatise and an engaging introduction to a striking group of turtles. ....

Venomous Snakebite in the Western United States 172 pages | colour photos, distribution Manny Rubio and Daniel E Keyler maps | Rattlesnake expert Manny Rubio and top snake envenomation expert Daniel Keyler team up to Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780983278993 bring us this singularly unique book which covers all western species information from locations | #210002A | £34.99 Add to basket to toxicity.

Fishes

Atlas of the Gobies (Gobiidae) in Bulgaria 112 pages | colour photos, illustrations | Milen Vassilev Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789549746297 Includes species accounts (three new species described plus two thought extinct), biology, | #209763A | £29.99 Add to basket ecology, distribution and conservation status. The book is illustrated with original underwater photographs and species-specific drawings of the ......

Biology and Management of Inland Striped Bass and Hybrid Striped 588 pages | Bass Hardback | 05/2013 | 9781934874363 | #209436A | £92.50 Add to basket James S Bulak, Charles C Coutant and James A Rice Biology and Management of Inland Striped Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass provides a first-ever, comprehensive overview of the biology and management of striped bass and hybrid striped bass in the inland waters of the United States. ....

Cave Fishes of Guangxi, China [Chinese] 284 pages | colour photos, b/w Lan Jiahu distribution maps | Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the richest Province of cave fishes in China. A review of Hardback | 08/2013 | 9787030376589 | cave fishes in Guangxi is provided in Cave Fishes of Guangxi, China based on 20 years of field #209378A | £64.99 Add to basket work. A total of 61 species (including ......

Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the US, Canada and 243 pages | no illustrations | Mexico Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781934874318 | #209437A | £66.99 Add to basket Lawrence M Page, Hector Espinosa-Perez, Lloyd T Findley, Carter R Gilbert, Robert N Lea and Mand This authoritative reference provides an accurate, up-to-date checklist of common and scientific names for all described and taxonomically valid fish species living in fresh and marine waters of North America. This edition reflects numerous ......

Guide to the Marine Fishes of the Gulf of California 105 pages | 38 plates with 200+ colour Michele L Buckhorn photos; illustrations | The Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, is a sub-tropical sea located between Paperback | 01/2012 | 9781934874325 the Baja Peninsula and the Mexican mainland states of Sonora and Sinaloa. There are 17 | #209438A | £57.99 Add to basket families and 67 species of chondrichthian fish, 115 families ......

Labridae Fishes: Wrasses 400 pages | colour photos | Rudie H Kuiter Paperback | 01/2012 | #209996A | Covers over 500 species of wrasses including rarities such as Cirrhilabrus nahackyi, Cirrhilabrus £199.00 Add to basket squirei, Cirrhilabrus claire, Cirrhilabrus humanni, Halichoeres hilomeni and H. erdmanni ....

Native Fishes of Idaho 213 pages | colour illustrations, Richard L Wallace and Donald W Zaroban distribution maps | Native Fishes of Idaho provides accounts of 44 taxa (species, subspecies, and morphotypes) of Paperback | 04/2013 | 9781934874356 fish native to Idaho. Of these, 25 have no defined studies of their distribution or ecological | #209439A | £57.99 Add to basket attributes in Idaho. The account for each ......

Research Progress in Fisheries Science 348 pages | illustrations | William Hunter III Hardback | 04/2011 | 9781926692654 | A multidisciplinary subject, the study of fisheries science includes the biological study of life, #209334A | £94.99 Add to basket habits, and breeding of various species of fish. It also involves farming and husbandry of important fishes and aquatic organisms in fresh ......

Running Silver 304 pages | Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780762780594 | John Waldman #209398A | £22.50 Add to basket That one could "walk drishod on the backs" of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of ......

Salmon, People, and Place 272 pages | A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780870717246 Jim Lichatowich | #209361A | £20.50 Add to basket Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmon's annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest, with immense ecological, economic ......

The Billfish Story 232 pages | illustrations | Swordfish, Sailfish, Marlin, and Other Gladiators of the Sea Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780820341910 | Stan Ulanski #210008A | £23.50 Add to basket The billfish is fixed at the apex of the oceanic food chain. Composed of sailfish, marlin, spearfish, and swordfish, they roam the pelagic waters of the Atlantic and are easily recognized by their long, spear-like beaks. Noted for their ......

The Cichlid Diversity of Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa 360 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Identification, Distribution and Taxonomy & b/w illustrations, b/w distribution Jos Snoeks maps, tables | Lake Malawi is a large, beautiful African Rift Valley lake, bordered by Malawi, Tanzania and Hardback | 11/2004 | 9780966825589 | Mozambique. Its biodiversity is simply extraordinary by any standard – it has the greatest #209537A | £55.99 Add to basket wealth of fish species of all the lakes in the ......

The Red Sea Sharks 241 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology illustrations | Albert Baranes Paperback | 06/2013 | 9789546426864 Since the early seventies, intensive collecting in the northern Red Sea resulted in an increase of | #209651A | £67.99 Add to basket the number of recorded shark species and of additional knowledge of their biology and physiology. The present book presents data ......

Invertebrates

Bee-sieged 104 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | Bees in Warfare Paperback | 07/2008 | 9781906542030 Ray Jones | #209452A | £9.99 Add to basket In a way, it seems sad that the bees' only weapon, the sting, intended for use in colony defence, is utilised by man for the same purpose. Bees as weapons; wax used in the making of weapons and in taking notes; honey and ...

Butterflies of the World, Supplement 22 [French] 27 pages | Les Acraeinae Fabricius, 1807 de l'Ancien Monde. Le Genre Acraea Fabricius, 1807, Paperback | 08/2013 | #209345A | Sous-Genre Acraea £24.99 Add to basket More complete, supplementary text to volume 39 from the main series.

COLOSS BEEBOOK (2-Volume Set) Hardback | 01/2013 | #209472A | Vincent Dietemann, James D Ellis and Peter Neumann £99.99 Add to basket Volume I: Standard Methods for Apis mellifera Research Volume II: Standard Methods for Apis mellifera Pest and Pathogen Research Volume I includes approximately 1100 separate protocols dealing with the ...

COLOSS BEEBOOK Volume 1: Standard Methods for Apis mellifera 636 pages | Research Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780860982746 | #209468A | £59.99 Add to basket Vincent Dietemann, James D Ellis and Peter Neumann In recent years, declines of honey bee populations have received massive media attention worldwide, yet attempts to understand the causes have been hampered by a lack of standardisation of laboratory techniques. Published as a response to ......

COLOSS BEEBOOK Volume 2: Standard Methods for Apis mellifera Pest Hardback | 01/2013 | 9780860982753 | and Pathogen Research #209470A | £59.99 Add to basket Vincent Dietemann, James D Ellis and Peter Neumann In recent years, declines of honey bee populations have received massive media attention worldwide, yet attempts to understand the causes have been hampered by a lack of standardisation of laboratory techniques. Published as a response to ......

Catalogo de los Moluscos Continentales de Colombia 360 pages | tables | Edgar L Linares and Monica L Vera Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789587611687 Catalogue of the continental molluscs of Colombia covering 659 species in 156 genera and 59 | #209622A | £36.99 Add to basket families, including 28 exotic species.

Dagvlinders van Europa 416 pages | 1400+ colour photos, 400+ Tristan Lafranchis and Albert Vliegenthart colour distribution maps, includes DVD | Dagvlinders van Europa is a Dutch translation of Butterflies of Europe. Paperback | 10/2009 | 9789050113021 | #210087A | £21.50 Add to basket

Einheimische Schnecken 96 pages | colour photos, b/w In der Natur, im Garten und zu Hause illustrations | Robert Nordsieck and Micaela Brugsch Paperback | 07/2012 | 9783866591912 Snails are interesting survivors that have developed remarkable characteristics and behaviours | #209397A | £24.99 Add to basket – their shells, eyes on rectractable stalks and mating habits being just a few examples. Discover the fascinating life of land snails ......

Fiddler Crabs & Fiddler Crab Care 124 pages | b/w illustrations | The Complete Pet Guide Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780957697843 Alex Halton | #209768A | £12.97 Add to basket Do fiddler crabs need air? What do fiddler crabs eat? Why does the fiddler crab have a big claw? How can I catch a fiddler crab? What is the difference between a male and female fiddler crab? Can you breed fiddler crabs? Where do I buy ......

Fotogids Larvenhuidjes van Libellen 320 pages | 2000+ colour photos | Christophe Brochard, Chris Groenendijk, Ewoud van der Ploeg and Tim Termaat Hardback | 07/2012 | 9789050114097 | Fotogids Larvenhuidjes van Libellen is the first Dutch field guide allowing identification of all #210022A | £42.99 Add to basket northwest European dragonfly exuviae. It describes the exuviae of 84 species of dragonfly and damselfly and is illustrated with over ......

Guide to the Aquatic Insects of New Zealand 108 pages | b/w illustrations | Michael J Winterbourn, Katharine LD Gregson and Craig H Dolphin Paperback | 01/2006 | 9780959766370 This book provides keys to enable insects to be identified to the family or genus level. Notes on | #209836A | £39.99 Add to basket distribution, habitat, and problems likely to be encountered with identification are included, along with full references, glossary of terms ......

Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Nymphalidae Part 6 86 pages | colour photos, b/w line Subfamily Limenitidae, Tribes Limentidini and Chalingini drawings, colour distribution maps | E Gallo and C Della Bruna Paperback | 10/2013 | #209789A | This volume treats Nymphalid subfamily Limenitidae, covering two tribes. £28.50 Add to basket

Honingbijen 272 pages | colour photos | Juergen Tautz, Helga R Heilmann and Bart Voorzanger Paperback | 10/2013 | 9789050114738 Honingbijen presents current knowledge and poineering insights into the biology of honey bees. | #210009A | £25.99 Add to basket The numerous colour photos give a fascinating picture of this evolutionary successful group of insects. They have always fascinated ......

Identification Guide to Lepidoptera Larvae Intercepted on Trade 105 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Pathways illustrations | Spiralbound | 09/2012 | Franz-Rudolf Schnitzler, James Maxwell Haw, Lalith Kumarasinghe and Sherly George 9780473221713 | #209834A | £52.99 This Lepidoptera larval identification guide was prepared using invertebrate interception data Add to basket collected from fresh produce imported into New Zealand covering pre- and post-border interceptions from 1990–2008. Imports into New Zealand ......

Interactions Insectes-Plantes 784 pages | photos, illustrations | Nicolas Sauvion, Paul-Andre Calatayud, Denis Thiery and Frederic Marion-Poll Paperback | / | 9782759220182 | This book is the first reference work in French synthesizing knowledge on plant-insect #209626A | £82.99 Add to basket interactions. With 44 contributed chapters in 8 parts, it provides an overview of the current findings, methods, and thoughts in palaeoentomology ......

Les Nouveaux Cahiers Magellanes, No. 12 116 pages | 40 colour plates | Alain Drumont, Carolus Holzschuh, P Juhel and Eduard Vives Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782353871032 Volume 12 contains 11 contributions on longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) of Asia, Africa, and | #209589A | £47.50 Add to basket South America.

Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States 188 pages | 557 colour & b/w Nathan D Burkett-Cadena illustrations, maps | A full-colour, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven Hardback | 04/2013 | 9780817317812 | genera that populate the US South – from the Gulf Coastal states to the Carolinas. In addition #209363A | £47.95 Add to basket to detailed and fully illustrated ......

New Beekeeping Construction Information for Dartington Hives 60 pages | 3 colour & 61 b/w Robin Dartington illustrations | New Beekeeping Construction Information for Dartington Hives provides full details for making Paperback | 11/2011 | 9780905652689 the Dartington Long Deep Hive for your own use. | #209400A | £23.50 Add to basket

Pillbugs and Other Isopods 104 pages | colour photos | Cultivating Vivarium Clean-Up Crews and Feeders for Dart Frogs, Arachnids, and Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781616462079 Insects | #209767A | £29.99 Add to basket Orin McMonigle The pillbug and its relatives are beloved the world over by children-in this text they get their due for adults. Spectacular cultivars and amazing species represent an often forgotten group of backyard arthropods. In recent years the ......

Research on Chrysomelidae, Volume 2 300 pages | Pierre Jolivet, Jorge A Santiago-Blay and Michael Schmitt Hardback | 12/2009 | 9789004169470 | There are an estimated 40,000 species of chrysomelids, or leaf beetles, worldwide. These #209630A | £149.00 Add to basket biologically interesting and often colorful organisms, such as the tortoise beetles, have a broad range of life histories and fascinating adaptations ......

Shell Energy 320 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781842177655 | Geoff N Bailey , Karen Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara #209359A | £49.99 Add to basket Shell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world that have been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation of ......

The Carabus of Japan 368 pages | colour photos | Yuki Imura and Kiyoyuki Mizusawa Hardback | 09/2013 | 9784902649147 | This is an iconographical work on the genus Carabus of Japan, essentially identical to a #209466A | £310.00 Add to basket monograph. All the known taxa of this genus from Japan described up to the spring of 2013 (39 species and 193 subspecies) are illustrated ......

The Jewel Beetles of Romania (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) plates with colour photos; b/w Adrian Ruicanescu illustrations, b/w distribution maps | The Jewel Beetles of Romania (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is the first Buprestidae catalogue in Paperback | 08/2013 | 9789546426925 Romania and includes all data recorded until now. The contents of this catalogue is based on | #209654A | £61.50 Add to basket information collected for about 20 years ......

The Observation Hive 90 pages | b/w photos | Karl Showler Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780905652092 The Observation Hive is ideal for those who operate or wish to construct an observation hive for | #209399A | £13.99 Add to basket bees.

Palaeontology

Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands 216 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | The Hidden Landscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern England Hardback | NYP 12/2013 | Henry P Chapman and Benjamin R Gearey 9781782971740 | #209358A | £29.99 The measurement and analysis of space is central to archaeological study, such as through the Add to basket recording of site plans and sections and the interpretation of spatial relationships between artefacts and features.

Reconstructing Quaternary Environments 520 pages | colour illustrations | John Lowe and Mike Walker Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | Examines the various forms of evidence used to establish the history and scale of environmenal 9780131274686 | #209316A | £28.99 changes during the Quaternary. Reconstructing Quaternary Environments examines a wide Add to basket range palaeological indicators, and synthesises ...... Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | 9780415740753 | #209317A | £89.99 Add to basket

Research Papers of Dinosaurs in China 181 pages | illustrations | China Scientific Book Services (CSBS) Paperback | 08/2012 | #209382A | This book is a compilation of 24 articles on dinosaurs in China published in various Chinese £52.50 Add to basket Journals. See table of contents for more details.

Marine & Freshwater Biology

101 Animals of the Great Barrier Reef 38 pages | colour illustrations | A Field Guide Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780977543939 Martin Cohen, Julia Cooper and Julia Cooper | #209754A | £20.50 Add to basket 101 Animals of the Great Barrier Reef is designed to showcase wildlife that visitors or locals are likely to encounter while snorkelling or diving on the reef. It has been wholly created, written and printed in North Queensland. ....

The Extreme Life of the Sea 256 pages | 30 b/w photos, 16 colour & Stephen R Palumbi and Anthony R Palumbi 6 b/w illustrations | The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Hardback | NYP 02/2014 | Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the aquatic world – the fastest 9780691149561 | #209989A | £19.95 and deepest, the hottest and ...... Add to basket

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 27 501 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Shane T Ahyong, Tin-Yam Chan, Laure Corbari and Peter KL Ng line drawings, includes CD-ROM | Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos is a series dedicated to the inventory of the world's deep-sea fauna, Hardback | 10/2013 | 9782856536926 | especially those found in the little-explored Indo-West Pacific. Growing out of the French #209516A | £79.50 Add to basket National Museum of Natural History and ......

General Natural History

Birds: The Art of Ornithology 336 pages | 200+ colour illustrations | Jonathan Elphick Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | This historical survey tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the 9780565093327 | #208146A | £19.99 centuries. From the early, skilfully executed and decorative but often fanciful images of birds, to Add to basket scientific illustrations produced during the ......

Blumenwiesen-Alb 72 pages | 42 colour illustrations | Bilder - Gedichte - Fotos Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783897357914 | Blumenwiesen-Alb e.V., Rainer Oppermann, Gebhard Aierstock, Julia Bernecker and Rolan #209932A | £16.99 Add to basket Herdtfelder Floral meadows are captivating sites of beauty. Blumenwiesen-Alb is a compliation of art, photos and poems submitted for a competition aimed at raising public awareness of flower meadows.

Cosmic Menagerie 144 pages | colour illustrations | Mark A Garlick Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | An out-of-this-world experience at your fingertips. Up above the world, stars twinkle and our 9781783420049 | #208596A | £24.99 Sun shines brightly. Prepare for the journey of a lifetime as you’re launched into the universe Add to basket for a unique, up-close look at the stars. ....

Curious Beasts 112 pages | 80 colour & b/w illustrations Animal Prints from the British Museum | Alison E Wright Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780714126883 The Camelopard, The Monstrous Pig, The Famous Porcupine, Durers Rhinoceros: these are but | #209389A | £9.99 Add to basket a few of the beautiful and bizarre creatures that feature in this delightful book. In the visual arts of the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century ......

EarthArt 224 pages | 160 | Colours of the Earth Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780714865768 | Bernhard Edmaier and Angelika Jung-Huttl #209925A | £39.95 Add to basket EarthArt: Colours of the Earth is a spectacular large-format collection of breathtaking aerial photographs by world-renowned photographer Bernhard Edmaier. Travelling all over the globe, from the Bahamas to Iceland, New Zealand ......

Ecology or Catastrophe 336 pages | 35 b/w photos | The Life of Murray Bookchin Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Janet Biehl 9780199342488 | #209050A | £22.99 The biography of Murray Bookchin, one of the most influential environmental thinkers of the Add to basket twentieth century, written by Bookchin's personal collaborator and copyeditor.

Edward Gerrard & Sons 128 pages | 350 b/w illustrations | A Taxidermy Memoir Paperback | 10/2013 | #209347A | Pat A Morris £24.99 Add to basket First published in 2004, this book has now been reprinted. Gerrards were the second biggest London taxidermists. famous for their models and preparations of skeletons. but they also did a wide range of taxidermy. This varied from excellent ......

Genera of Birds 128 pages | Thomas Pennant Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. The naturalist and traveller 9781108067782 | #209633A | £14.99 Thomas Pennant (1726-98) helped popularise British ornithology by meticulously compiling and Add to basket arranging existing research.

Genesis 520 pages | b/w photos | Sebastiao Salgado and Lella Salgado Hardback | 04/2013 | 9783836538725 | Human (and) nature. Epic journeys to the ends of the earth: Salgado's opus on our planet in its #209924A | £44.99 Add to basket natural state. On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through ......

How Animals Live 9 pages | colour illustrations | Christiane Dorion and Beverley Young Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781848777392 | Animals have cleverly adapted to life all over the planet, from the freezing poles to the hottest, #209929A | £14.99 Add to basket driest deserts. How Animals Live explores the extraordinary diversity in animal life, and readers are encouraged to reflect on ......

Mr. Selden's Map of China 240 pages | illustrations | Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781620401439 | Timothy Brook #210017A | £21.99 Add to basket Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world.

Our Beautiful, Fragile World 124 pages | colour photos | The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | Peter Essick and Jean-Michel Cousteau 9781937538347 | #209775A | £26.99 Our Beautiful, Fragile World features a career-spanning look at the images of photojournalist Add to basket Peter Essick while on assignment for National Geographic magazine. In this book, Essick showcases photographs from the most beautiful ......

Place the Whale on Its Left Hand Side 112 pages | 25 photos, b/w illustrations The Experiences of an R.S.P.C.A. Inspector | Tom Couling Paperback | 06/2005 | 9781903172551 From waterlogged deer to a monkey hell-bent on causing mayhem, a RSPCA Inspector's life is | #209454A | £7.99 Add to basket filled with situations requiring nerves of steel, a commitment to getting the job done and, more often than not, a second change of clothes. ....

Scientific Americans 272 pages | 8 b/w illustrations | The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-twentieth-century U.S. Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | Literature and Culture 9781783160174 | #209696A | £94.99 John Bruni Add to basket Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, Scientific Americans shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the ......

Shackleton's Epic 272 pages | Recreating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Tim Jarvis 9780007549528 | #209404A | £24.99 "Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour" - Sir Ernest Shackleton April Add to basket 1916: After his ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice and now trapped on a small inhospitable island, cut off from ...

Shocking Frogs 400 pages | Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Marco Piccolino 9780199782161 | #209625A | £49.99 Shocking Frogs offers a completely new perspective on a fundamental episode of eighteenth- Add to basket century science – leading, on one hand, to the discovery of the electric nature of nervous signals, and, on the other, to the invention ......

Shrewdunnit 300 pages | The Nature Files Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Conor Mark Jameson 9781907807763 | #209807A | £14.99 Conor Mark Jameson has spent most of his life exploring the natural environment and Add to basket communicating his enthusiasm for it to family, friends and, more recently, readers of a range of newspapers and magazines. Shrewdunnit brings to ......

Southern Utah 104 pages | photos | A Portrait and a Meditation Hardback | 01/1994 | 9780940666535 | TH Watkins #209526A | £29.50 Add to basket Renowned wilderness writer T.H. Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyonlands of Utah. He gives us a panorama of majestic mountains, buttes, and mesas; forest views of pinon an djuniper and tall ....

Starvation in a Land of Plenty 250 pages | Wills' Diary of the Fateful Burke and Wills Expedition Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780642277909 Michael Cathcart | #209576A | £49.99 Add to basket Between 23 April and 28 June 1861, Wills documented the torments and disappointments that led to his and Burke's destruction. Surprising to many, though, Wills was not the second-in- command but, rather, the party's 'surveyor ......

Taxidermy: With the Biography of Zoologists 406 pages | 6 b/w illustrations | William Swainson Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection. First published in 1840 as a 9781108067775 | #209636A | £25.99 volume in the Cabinet Cyclopaedia – a series published between 1830 and 1844, intended for Add to basket the self-educated ......

The Art of Science 194 pages | colour illustrations | Remarkable Natural History Illustrations from Museum Victoria Paperback | 03/2013 | 9781921833250 John Kean | #209575A | £165.00 Add to basket The Art of Science presents the best of Museum Victoria's remarkable collection of natural history artworks. The Art of Science opens with the 'paper museums' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, stunning ......

The Breathless Zoo 272 pages | colour & b/w photos, b/w Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing illustrations | Rachel Poliquin Hardback | 10/2012 | 9780271053721 | From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: #203223A | £27.95 Add to basket Taxidermy and the Culture of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | animals in lively postures. But why would any ...... 9780271053738 | #210012A | £23.50 Add to basket

The King's Choice 40 pages | colour photos | Pat A Morris and Rob Chinnery Paperback | 10/2013 | #209348A | This small book of 40 pages was first issued in 2005 and has now been been reprinted. The £17.99 Add to basket book describes the life and work of George Quatremain and includes full colour images of some of his rare and exquisite cases of bird taxidermy. ....

The Last Viking 400 pages | b/w illustrations | The Life of Roald Amundsen Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781845138448 | Stephen Bown #199978A | £24.99 Add to basket The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries – the 9780306822667 | #209698A | £11.99 Northwest Passage, the Northeast ...... Add to basket

The Sea Inside 350 pages | Philip Hoare Hardback | / | 9780007412112 | The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. #205230A | £18.99 Add to basket It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up Paperback | / | 9780007412136 | in our everyday lives, we barely notice it. .... #209944A | £9.99 Add to basket

Theodore Thomson Flynn 210 pages | b/w photos | Not Just Errol's Father Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780646594781 Tony Harrison and Vicki Harrison | #209386A | £48.99 Add to basket Errol Flynn was an Australian actor who made his name in Hollywood for his romantic swashbuckler roles and his playboy lifestyle. His father Theodore Thomson Flynn or T.T. Flynn had a rough background but became an eminent professor at ......

Travels in Alaska 148 pages | b/w illustrations | John Muir Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781618951236 Travels in Alaska, which John Muir was working on at the time of his death, is based on journals | #209773A | £17.50 Add to basket Muir wrote during his visits to Alaska in 1879, 1880, 1881, 1890, and 1899. From the moment Hardback | 11/2010 | 9781617430381 | he embarked from San Francisco in May ...... #209774A | £17.99 Add to basket

Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro 264 pages | illustrations, 1 map | J. Stokely Ligon and New Mexico's First Breeding Bird Survey Paperback | 01/2012 | 9780816528615 Harley G Shaw and Mara E Weisenberger | #209387A | £23.50 Add to basket J. Stokley Ligon's work in bird conservation, habitat protection, and wildlife legislation during the mid-twentieth century is well-documented in his own writing and the writing of others. But hovering in the background of Ligon's ......

Undersea Life to Colour 32 pages | colour illustrations | Susan Meredith and Jenny Cooper Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781409564997 Undersea Life to Colour is part of a collectable series of art colouring books for older children | #209930A | £4.99 Add to basket and adults. Gorgeous watercolour illustrations provide inspiration and guidance for colouring in a black line drawing of the same ......

Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy 122 pages | 300 colour & b/w photos Pat A Morris, Joanna Ebenstein and Peter Blake and colour illustrations | Enter Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter's fantasy world of rabbit schoolchildren, cigar-smoking Hardback | 09/2013 | 9781472109507 | squirrels and exemplary feline etiquette at the kittens' tea party... #209349A | £19.99 Add to basket

Winter: Five Windows on the Season 272 pages | Adam Gopnik Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781780874470 Winter: Five Windows on the Season takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, | #209926A | £9.99 Add to basket composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea Hardback | 10/2012 | 9781780874449 | of winter. We learn how literature heralds the ...... #209980A | £18.99 Add to basket

With Strange Device 104 pages | 84 colour & 20 b/w A History of the Discovery of Tropical Australia's Orchids illustrations | The family Orchidaceae is one of the most numerous in terms of species in the plant world. The Paperback | 10/2013 | #209931A | majority are small and not particularly attractive, but a few are just the opposite. There are £54.99 Add to basket upwards of 260 species in the Australian ......

Regional & Travel

A History of Antarctica 304 pages | 100 b/w photos, maps | Stephen Martin Hardback | 02/2013 | 9781921719578 | During fifty years of involvement with 'the great south land', thousands of Australians have #209985A | £32.50 Add to basket shared the experience of the grandeur and deprivations of this forbidding continent with their counterparts from many nations. This history ......

Antartida: Descubriendo el Ultimo Continente 192 pages | 200 colour & b/w photos Sebastian Arrebola, Shoshanah Jacobs and Pierre Yves Cousteau and illustrations, 50 colour & b/w maps | Describes and illustrates the geography, environments and wildlife of Antarctica, as well as the Paperback | 01/2012 | 9789879132395 history of its exploration. | #209548A | £68.99 Add to basket

Antarctica: Discovering the Last Continent 192 pages | 200 colour & b/w photos Sebastian Arrebola, Shoshanah Jacobs and Pierre Yves Cousteau and illustrations, 50 colour & b/w maps | Describes and illustrates the geography, environments and wildlife of Antarctica, as well as the Paperback | 08/2013 | 9789879132388 history of its exploration. | #209779A | £68.99 Add to basket

Beat about the Bush: Mammals and Birds Made Easy 376 pages | Trevor Carnaby Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781431408535 In 2005, when the first Beat about the Bush was published, it was an instant success and | #209508A | £19.99 Add to basket everyone wanted more. Instead of simply reprinting Beat about the Bush, Trevor Carnaby decided to expand the content ...

Field Notes From a Hidden City 357 pages | no illustrations | An Urban Nature Diary Hardback | 03/2013 | 9781847082756 | Esther Woolfson #203468A | £16.14 Add to basket Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful Paperback | NYP 02/2014 | northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elements – 9781847082763 | #209943A | £8.99 geographic, atmospheric and environmental ...... Add to basket

Missie Natuur 224 pages | colour photos, colour maps Natuur en Landschap op Defensieterreinen | Niels Gilissen Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | The Netherlands has approximately 61000 acres of military sites. Unbeknownst to many people 9789050114653 | #210067A | £16.99 is that these sites boast a rich fauna and flora. Missie Natuur offers a glimpse into this natural Add to basket richness, its history, and the ......

Mopokes & Mirages Paperback | 05/2013 | 9781922109644 Rex Ellis | #209377A | £39.99 Add to basket Mopokes and Mirages – both part of the great Australian Folklore, but neither having much substance. No such bird as a mopoke (see the Introduction to Mopokes & Mirages) and a bit hard to get your hand or mind around ......

The Dark Side of the Kalahari 200 pages | colour photos | Hannes Lochner and Ian McCallum Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780620562591 | The Dark Side of the Kalahari is the latest addition to photographer Hannes Lochner's book #209221A | £49.99 Add to basket collection. He has recently returned from a two year, 100,000 km journey in the Kalahari (Kgalagadi) Desert, capturing the life of a ......

The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor 204 pages | colour illustrations | Phil Newman Paperback | 06/2011 | 9781848020337 The modern visitor to Devon, travelling west into the region, is greeted by a panorama of the | #210023A | £29.99 Add to basket high ground and rocky outcrops of Dartmoor. In a county renowned for its 'rolling hills', Dartmoor's high moors, topped by granite ......

The Galapagos 256 pages | illustrations | Henry Nicholls Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | This book deals with the extraordinary islands that gave the world Darwin's theory of evolution. 9781781250532 | #201302A | £15.99 The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Add to basket Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to marvellous ......

The Great Barrier Reef 430 pages | 1300+ colour photos and A Queensland Museum Discovery Guide colour maps | Greg Czechura Paperback | 01/2013 | 9780975111659 The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's last great wilderness areas. Its unique environment | #209574A | £61.50 Add to basket supports an astonishing and almost unequalled biodiversity, from microscopic plankton to whales. The human history of the Reef is no less ......

Wild Arabia - DVD (Region 2 & 4) 1 disc, runtime: 174 min, aspect ratio: A Natural History of a Mysterious Land 16:9, rating: PG | Alexander Siddig DVD | 03/2013 | #209880A | £16.33 The first major TV series to reveal the wildlife, wild places and extraordinary people of the vast Add to basket Arabian peninsula, Wild Arabia takes a surprising and beguiling journey into a fascinating region.

Wildlife of the Concho Valley 292 pages | 7 colour 7 5 b/w photos, 35 Terry C Maxwell b/w illustrations, 3 maps, tables | The Concho Valley in Texas, named from the abundant mussel shells found in its principal river Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | by seventeenth-century Spanish explorers, occupies a transitional position between the 9781603449656 | #209769A | £25.95 Chihuahuan Desert to the west and the Balcones Canyonlands ...... Add to basket

Botany & Plant Science

500 Plantes Comestibles 360 pages | 500+ colour photos | Histoire - Botanique - Alimentation Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782603019337 Although plants constitute the majority of our food, how much do we really know about them? | #209616A | £39.99 Add to basket 500 Plantes Comestibles explores the origins, history, botany and culinary use of hundreds of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, oilseed plants, sugar ......

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species (2-Volume Set) 1140 pages | 1800+ colour photos | Ron Parsons, Mary E Gerritsen, Alastair S Robinson and Isobyl la Croix Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | #208302A | Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned £69.99 Add to basket the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur in all manner of size Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | #209911A | and shape, and orchid flowers range from ...... £79.99 Add to basket

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species, Volume 1 520 pages | 800+ colour photos | Ron Parsons, Mary E Gerritsen, Alastair S Robinson and Isobyl la Croix Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned 9781908787194 | #209912A | £34.99 the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur in all manner of size Add to basket and shape, and orchid flowers range from ...... Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781908787194 | #209913A | £39.99 Add to basket

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species, Volume 2 520 pages | 800+ colour photos | Ron Parsons, Mary E Gerritsen and Alastair S Robinson Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Orchids represent probably the largest of all flowering plant families on Earth and are renowned 9781908787200 | #209914A | £34.99 the world over for their exquisite flowers. Their remarkable blooms occur in all manner of size Add to basket and shape, and orchid flowers range from ...... Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | 9781908787200 | #209915A | £39.99 Add to basket

A Cultural History of Gardens (6-Volume Set) 1600 pages | 300 b/w illustrations | Michael Leslie and John Dixon Hunt Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781847882653 | A Cultural History of Gardens presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the #209671A | £350.00 Add to basket present. This set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces.

A Guide to Wild Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar 368 pages | colour photos | Clive Finlayson, Geraldine Finlayson and Stewart Finlayson Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788489954977 A Guide to Wild Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar is a unique book that brings together the history | #209870A | £32.50 Add to basket of exploration of the Iberian Peninsula in the 19th Century with the current state of its wild places and wildlife. The authors ......

A Manual for the Identification of Plant Seeds and Fruits 273 pages | 460 colour photos, colour RTJ Cappers and RM Bekker tables | The taxonomic identification of individual seeds and fruits of wild and cultivated plants is not Paperback | 11/2013 | 9789491431265 always straightforward. The specialist literature and botanical reference collections can be | #209376A | £37.99 Add to basket helpful, and knowing where to begin reading and ......

Alberi e Arbusti Spontanei della Sardegna 480 pages | colour photos, distribution Ignazio Camarda and Franca Valsecchi maps | Describes the trees and shrubs of Sardinia, a region that has preserved a plant heritage that is Hardback | 01/2008 | 9788871384894 | in many ways unique. Each species is analyzed with a detailed description, synonymy, #209618A | £90.50 Add to basket comprehensive review of the local names ...

Algae of India, Volume 1 160 pages | 6 colour plates | A Checklist of Cyanoprokaryota (Cyanophyceae) Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788181770448 Pratibha Gupta | #209976A | £34.50 Add to basket This checklist contains exhaustive information on cyanoprokaryota pertaining to 5 orders 18 families 90 genera 939 species, 207 varieties and 86 forms along with their details including nomenclature and distribution. In totality genus ......

Algae of India, Volume 2 428 pages | colour illustrations | A Checklist of Chlorophyceae Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae and Euglenophyceae Paperback | 01/2012 | #209977A | RK Gupta £66.99 Add to basket Algae of India, Volume 2 deals with 3745 taxa belonging to 328 genera, 62 families of chlorophyceae, 71 taxa belonging to 25 genera, 15 families of xanthophyceae, 93 taxa belonging to 25 genera 17 families of Chrysophyceae and ......

Aphyllophorales of Himalaya 590 pages | 75 colour plates, 145 b/w Auriscalpiaceae: Tremellodendropsis illustrations | JR Sharma Paperback | 01/2012 | 9788181770530 Aphyllophorales of Himalaya provides a taxonomic account of this interesting group based on | #210072A | £81.99 Add to basket authors own field observations and supplemented with the study of numerous types and other authentic specimens. It gives a historical ......

Atlas des Cortinaires, Pars 21 46 plates with colour illustrations | A Bidaud, Xavier Carteret, Patrick Reumaux and P Moenne-Loccoz Unbound | NYP 12/2013 | #209746A | Cover the genus Hydrocybe subsect. Jubarini, Renidentes, Balaustini. Includes an index to Parts £119.00 Add to basket 1-21.

Bluetenoekologie, Band 1 245 pages | illustrations | Die Partner der Blumen Paperback | 08/2013 | 9783894325329 Hans-Joachim Fluegel | #209694A | £35.50 Add to basket Floral ecology is an independent branch of science that studies relationships between flowers and pollinators. After being neglected in the late 20th century, floral ecology has become increasingly the focus of attention for not only ......

Braiding Sweetgrass 320 pages | Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781571313355 | Robin Wall Kimmerer #209392A | £17.99 Add to basket An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book ...

Desert Truffles 300 pages | 47 colour & 50 b/w Phylogeny, Physiology, Distribution and Domestication illustrations | Varda Kagan-Zur, Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Yaron Sitrit and Asuncion Morte Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783642400957 | Desert truffles are found in every known desert, irrespective of the habitat – cool or hot, loamy #209447A | £126.00 Add to basket or acidic, sandy or heavy soil – the only common condition seems to be a limited supply of water. In contrast to ...

Diatoms of Europe, Volume 7 687 pages | 203 photos with photos | Luticola and Luticolopsis Hardback | 11/2013 | 9783874294393 | Z Levkov, D Metzeltin and A Pavlov #209747A | £186.00 Add to basket This volume presents the synopsis and revision of Luticola D. Mann, and contains taxa that possess a single stigma, uniseriate striae, round to elliptical areolae and marginal channel along the valve face/mantle junction, internal ......

Die Gattung Sansevieria 144 pages | Alle Arten und ihre Pflege Paperback | 02/2013 | 9783848251421 Peter A Mansfield | #209803A | £33.50 Add to basket Lately Sansevieria plants are referred to as students, because they are so easy to clean. This popular plant is an indispensable part of our living and working spaces. The reader is given a comprehensive overview of the origin ...

Digital Atlas of Economic Plants in Archaeology 760 pages | col. Illustrations, col. maps R Neef, RTJ Cappers and RM Bekker | The third atlas of the Digital Plant Atlas Project presents illustrations of subfossil remains of Hardback | 06/2012 | 9789491431029 | plants with economic value. These plant remains mainly derive from excavations in the Old #172946A | £189.00 Add to basket World (Europe, Western Asia and North Africa) that ......

Ecology of Plant-Derived Smoke 320 pages | Its Use in Seed Germination Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Lara Jefferson 9780199755936 | #208296A | £39.99 Discusses how plant-derived smoke functions as a tool for promoting seed germination and Add to basket growth, with 1355 species accounts.

Euonymus: Een Kleurrijk Geslacht 144 pages | colour photos | Piet de Jong and Henny Kolster Hardback | 08/2013 | 9789050119993 | This book treats the diverse genus of Euonymus and includes chapters on morphology, #210019A | £25.99 Add to basket taxonomy, ecology, propagation, diseases and pests, its history as cultured plant, cultivars, and important collections of Euonymus. ....

Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa 732 pages | colour photos, colour Braam van Wyk and Piet van Wyk distribution maps | This authoritative southern African tree guide is written and photographed by leading tree Paperback | 10/2012 | 9781770079113 experts. Newly updated and expanded, it covers some 900 species, as well as subspecies and | #207019A | £35.99 Add to basket variations.Arranged in groups based on easy-to-observe ......

Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Turkey, Volume 1 480 pages | 263 plates with 553 colour Bulbous Plants photos; b/w photos, b/w line drawings | L Yasemin Konuralp Paperback | 04/2013 | 9786058961067 Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Turkey, Volume 1: Bulbous Plants presents 553 bulbous plants | #209791A | £34.99 Add to basket from 37 families, 179 of them being endemic to Turkey. There are 860 photographs, illustrations and text descriptions of all 553 plants ......

Flora Algarum Marinarum Sinicarum, Tomus 4 [Chinese] 204 pages | 66 plates with colour Chlorophyta (No. 1 ) photos; 102 b/w line drawings | Ding Lanping Hardback | 01/2013 | 9787030365088 | Flora Algaurm Marinarum Sinicarum, Tomus 4: Chlorophyta No.1 deals with 102 species #209660A | £31.99 Add to basket belonging to 22 genera, 12 families, 7 orders, among of them 9 new to China, their morphological characteristics, Chinese name, Latin name ......

Flora Kunlunica, Volume 4 [Chinese] 652 pages | 8 plates with colour Wu Yuhu illustrations, 80 plates with b/w line This is the first book to systematically record plants in the Karakorum and Kunlun mountains. drawings | Flora Kunlunica will be divided into four volumes. It records over 2600 species vascular bundle Hardback | 03/2013 | 9787229062538 | plants in the area. #209379A | £94.99 Add to basket

Flora and Ethnobotany of West Dinajpur District, West Bengal 804 pages | 47 colour photos, 56 b/w Sunit Mitra and Sobhan K Mukherjee illustrations, maps, tables | Flora and Ethnobotany of West Dinajpur District, West Bengal (at present Uttar Dinajpur and Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788121107389 | Dakshin Dinajpur districts) district deals with 877 angiospoermic plant species under 536 #209979A | £133.00 Add to basket genera belonging to 140 families along with a ......

Flora del Paraguay: Rhamnaceae 58 pages | b/w line drawings, b/w Leonor I Cusato and Roberto D Tortosa distribution maps | Volume 44 deals with the Rhamnaceae. Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782827705467 | #209355A | £15.99 Add to basket

Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Volume 1 280 pages | Pier Virgilio Arrigoni Paperback | 01/2007 | 9788871384146 This first volume in a six-volume flora of Sardinia presents morphological and biological | #209580A | £84.99 Add to basket characteristics, nomenclature and essential information on the ecology and phytogeography of each species.

Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Volume 2 624 pages | Pier Virgilio Arrigoni Hardback | 01/2010 | 9788871385150 | The flora of Sardinia is characterized by its diversity compared to other regions of Italy and the #209581A | £95.99 Add to basket Mediterranean. It is an ancient flora, which evolved on the spot, in part distinct and the rest common to that of the neighboring island of Corsica. ....

Flora dell'Isola di Sardegna, Volume 3 552 pages | Pier Virgilio Arrigoni Hardback | 01/2010 | 9788871385259 | The flora of Sardinia is characterized by its diversity compared to other regions of Italy and the #209617A | £90.50 Add to basket Mediterranean. It is an ancient flora, which evolved on the spot, in part distinct and the rest common to that of the neighboring island of Corsica. ....

Flore et Vegetation du Massif Armoricain, Tome 1 1440 pages | b/w line drawings | Henry des Abbayes, G Claustres, R Corillion and Pierre Dupont Hardback | 01/2012 | #209869A | New expanded edition of a work published on 1971 on the flora of this area in the NW corner of £86.99 Add to basket France.

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 12(1) 79 pages | 78 colour illustrations, b/w A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat illustrations | Papers included in this volume: - I.M. Turner, A. Ibrahim & C.K. Lim: Remembering Ivan 01/2011 | #209561A | £52.20 Add to Vladimirovitch Polunin (1920- 2010) - ... basket

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 13(1) 84 pages | 114 colour illustrations, b/w A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat illustrations | Papers included in this volume: - C.K.Lim: Alpinia asmy (Zingiberaceae), a new species from 01/2012 | #209562A | £52.20 Add to Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. - K.H. Lau & C.K.Lim: Revision of the Genus Geostachys basket (Zingiberaceae) in Peninsular ......

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 13(2) 90 pages | b/w illustrations | A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat 01/2012 | #209564A | £52.20 Add to Papers included in this volume: - M.Hakkinen, H. Vare & M.J.M Christenhusz: Identity of a basket Pisang - historical concepts of Musa (Musaceae) and the reinstatement of Musa troglodytarum - R.E. Holttum: ...

Folia Malaysiana, Volume 14(1) 76 pages | 91 colour illustrations, b/w A Latiff and Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat illustrations | Papers included in this volume: - C.K.Lim: A new Zingiberaceae species: Alpinia adana 01/2013 | #209567A | £52.20 Add to (Zingiberacea), from Kelantan - C.K Lim: Alpinia nobilis Ridl. and the confusion over A. basket malaccensis- ...

Het Leven van Paddenstoelen en Schimmels 268 pages | 800+ colour photos, colour Jens H Petersen illustrations | This richly illustrated book shows the amazing appearances, way of life and use of mushrooms Hardback | 03/2013 | 9789050114530 | and fungi. They teem all around us, worldwide, and this book splendidly illustrates this "hidden #210018A | £25.99 Add to basket kingdom", from Galactomyces to bolete ......

Higher Plants of China: Volume 14 - Index [Chinese] 721 pages | 12 plates with colour Wu Pengchen illustrations | This is the last volume of the series. It consists of two parts: The first part is index to Chinese Hardback | 01/2013 | #209748A | names and Scientific names for all Vol.1- 14. The second part is supplement to angiospermae £122.00 Add to basket for volume 3 and volume 8.

Important Plants of Northern Limba County, Liberia 460 pages | colour photos, b/w A Guide to Most Useful, Rare or Ecologically Important Species, with Mano Names and illustrations, colour distribution maps | Uses Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780850742282 Cicely AM Marshall and William D Hawthorne | #209517A | £19.99 Add to basket Important Plants of Northern Limba County, Liberia is an illustrated guide to the most useful, rare and ecologically important plant species found around the Liberian section of the Nimba and adjacent mountains, a world-famous ......

Monographie des Leguminosae de France, Tome 3 760 pages | 1100 illustrations | Tribu des Trifolieae Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | #209613A | Pierre Coulot and Philippe Rabaute £149.00 Add to basket The first volume in a 4-part French series of monographs dedicated to the Leguminosae in France. This volume deals with the tribe Trifolieae. The entry for each taxon gives a complete synonymy, distribution in France including a map ......

Operculate Discomycetes (Pezizales, Ascomycota) of Israel 240 pages | 11 colour plates, 11 colour Gayane S Barseghyan and Solomon P Wasser illustrations | Deals with 121 species belonging to 9 families, 40 genera. Ten species and one genus Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783874294423 | (Pseudoplectania) are new records for Israel. Operculate Discomycetes (Pezizales, Ascomycota) #209984A | £120.00 Add to basket of Israel is arranged in two parts.

Oranges: A Global History 128 pages | 40 colour & 20 b/w Clarissa Hyman illustrations | The tangy, juicy sweetness of oranges has made them a popular feature on our breakfast tables Hardback | 04/2013 | 9781780230993 | in the form of fresh fruit, juice and marmalade. Indeed, oranges and orange juices are so #210024A | £9.99 Add to basket ubiquitous nowadays that we take them for granted ......

Orchid Pollinators of Victoria 118 pages | 550 colour photos | Rudie H Kuiter Paperback | / | #209995A | £67.99 Greatly enlarged from the first edition and illustrated with more than 500 colour photographs, Add to basket this book covers the pollinators of each species of orchid found in Victoria.

Orchids in the Life and Work of Auguste R. Endres (2-Volume Set) 890 pages | 399 colour & b/w Carlos Ossenbach, Franco Pupulin and Rudolf Jenny illustrations | The disclosure of Costa Rican orchid diversity during the second half of the Nineteenth century Hardback | 01/2013 | 9783902421777 | is profoundly indebted with the exploratory and botanical work by Auguste R. Endrés. Heinrich #209777A | £399.00 Add to basket Gustav Reichenbach, George Nicholson ......

Orchids of the Department of Valle del Cauca (Colombia), Volume 1 410 pages | 176 colour photos, 286 b/w Cypripediaceae, Orchidaceae (Orchidoideae, Spiranthoideae, Vanilloideae, line drawings and b/w distribution maps Epidendroideae (Malaxideae, Elleantheae)) | Marta Kolanowska and Dariusz L Szlachetko Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783874294379 | This is the first volume of a scheduled 4-volume set. The Department of Valle del Cauca is one #209749A | £149.00 Add to basket of the floristically most poorly explored regions of Colombia. Dichotomous keys to families, subfamilies, genera and species. All taxa are listed ......

Plant Biology (International Edition) 680 pages | colour photos, illustrations, Linda E Graham, Jim M Graham and Lee W Wilcox tables | For non-majors and mixed-majors introductory botany (plant biology) courses. Plant Biology Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781292042497 focuses students on the function of plants and the role they play in our world. With evolved | #210007A | £122.00 Add to basket content and a new organization, the authors ......

Plants and the Human Brain 368 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | David O Kennedy Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Discusses how plant-based chemicals affect and interact with the human brain and its evolution. 9780199914012 | #208298A | £39.99 Add to basket

Plants of China 488 pages | A Companion to the Flora of China Hardback | 09/2013 | 9787030385741 | Hong De-Yuan and Stephen Blackmore #209381A | £129.00 Add to basket Plants of China is a introductory volume of Flora of China, summarizing in an accessible way the state of knowledge of plants of China considered in many dimensions. It has been written mostly by Chinese authors, all of whom are leaders in ......

Potentielle Natuerliche Vegetation von Baden-Wuerttemberg 344 pages | 70 colour illustrations, 140 Konrad Reidl, Reiner Suck, Michael Bushart, Wolfgang Herter, Michael Koltzenburg and Hans colour maps | Michiels Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783897356092 | Baden-Württemberg has an extremely diverse and rich natural environment. This results from #209933A | £39.99 Add to basket varied surface forms, varying climatic conditions and the presence of numerous geological formations. It is also the result of ......

Reproductive Physiology in Plants 324 pages | illustrations | Philip Stewart and Sabine Globig Hardback | 04/2011 | 9781926692647 | In horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants' reproductive physiology is an important #209333A | £94.99 Add to basket topic relating to fruits and vegetables, the main consumable parts of plants. All aspects of plant physiology, including plants' ......

Seeds of Hope 320 pages | 16 plates with colour photos Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants | Jane Goodall Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her 9781455554492 | #208161A | £19.99 enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around us. Long Add to basket before her work with chimpanzees, Goodall's passion for ......

Syllabus der Boden-, Luft- und Flechtenalgen 754 pages | 231 illustrations | Hanus Ettl and Georg Gaertner Paperback | 10/2013 | 9783642394614 Algae play in addition to the bacteria and fungi play an important role in soil life. To deepen the | #209974A | £58.99 Add to basket knowledge of soil-eukaryotic algae so far lacked a working definition, which is the world scattered data summarized. Over 1000 species of ......

The Outer Spores: Mushrooms of Haida Gwaii 200 pages | 300 colour photos, Paul Kroeger, Bryce Kendrick, Oluna Ceska and Christine Roberts distribution maps | This is the first comprehensive study of the macrofungi of Haida Gwaii, carried out over 5 years, Paperback | 01/2012 | 9780969223733 and recording over 600 fungi. The Outer Spores: Mushrooms of Haida Gwaii has 300 | #210070A | £45.99 Add to basket illustrations, almost all in colour; many distribution ......

The Physiology of Characean Cells 200 pages | 8 colour & 72 b/w Mary J Beilby and Michelle T Casanova illustrations | The Physiology of Characean Cells describes the unique characean experimental system, which Hardback | 10/2013 | 9783642402876 | provides a simplified model for many aspects of the physiology, transport and electrophysiology #209973A | £126.00 Add to basket of higher plants. The first chapter offers ......

The Sphagnum Mosses of Estonia / Eesti Turbasamblad 136 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Kai Vellak, Nele Ingerpuu and Edgar Karofeld distribution maps | Sphagnum mosses are widely distributed and common throughout most of the world. These Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789949323098 mosses play a leading role in peat formation and can even alter landscapes by acting in mire | #209674A | £30.50 Add to basket formation and development. People have long used Sphagnum ......

Uncrowned Monarch of the Namib 298 pages | 430 photos, 49 illustrations Welwitschia mirabilis | Ernst van Jaarsveld and Uschi Pond Hardback | 07/2013 | #210073A | With the family, genus and species all rolled into one, Welwitschia mirabilis is truly one of a £140.00 Add to basket kind. A rarity among rarities, it is found only in the Namib Desert extending from Namibia to Angola. Throughout the biological world ......

Veldgids Korstmossen 424 pages | colour photos, b/w Kok van Herk and Andre Aptroot distribution maps | The first lichen flora for the Netherlands and Flanders covering all species, over 400. Packed Hardback | 07/2013 | 9789050114707 | with colour photos and information on distribution and ecology, it contains clear species #210020A | £34.50 Add to basket descriptions and handy determination keys, making ......

Veldgids Plantengemeenschappen 440 pages | illustrations | Joop Schaminee, Karle Sykora, Nina Smits and Marcel Horsthuis Hardback | 09/2010 | 9789050113090 | Veldgids Plantengemeenschappen is the standard work on wild plants and their environment. #210088A | £34.50 Add to basket This is the first practical and concise guide to Dutch plant communities and their species. Never before has so much information about Dutch ......

Victoria's Greenhoods & Rustyhoods 185 pages | colour photos | Rudie H Kuiter Paperback | 01/2013 | #209994A | Features over 70 species of greenhoods and rustyhoods found in Victoria. Each species is £84.99 Add to basket lavishly illustrated by multiple full colour photographs, along with information on where and when to find them.

Victoria's Orchids 36 pages | colour photos | Quick-guide to: Sun Orchids, Greenhoods, Greencombs, Diuris, Mountain Spider- Paperback | 01/2012 | #209992A | orchids, Hyacinths, Potato Orchids £38.50 Add to basket Rudie H Kuiter This mainly photographic guide contains many of the commonly found, or hard to identify, species of orchid found in Victoria.

Victoria's Small Caladenias 36 pages | colour photos | Rudie H Kuiter Paperback | 01/2012 | #209991A | This mainly photographic guide covers many of the commonly overlooked, small species of £38.50 Add to basket orchid found in Victoria.

Victoria's Spider Orchids 230 pages | colour photos | Rudie H Kuiter Paperback | 01/2013 | #209993A | Features over 50 species of spider-orchids found in Victoria. Each species is lavishly illustrated £94.99 Add to basket by multiple full colour photographs, along with information on where and when to find them.

Winter Trees 48 pages | colour photos | A Photographic Guide to Common Trees and Shrubs Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781908819116 Dominic Price and Leif Bersweden | #209999A | £9.99 Add to basket Identifying trees in winter without their familiar leaves can apear a daunting challenge, but a closer look will reveal a multitude of slowly swelling buds. A quick glance at the bud summary photos in Winter Trees instantly reveals ......

Animal & General Biology

Animal Law and Welfare 256 pages | Foundational Concepts Hardback | 06/2013 | 9780415535625 | Ian Robertson #202550A | £89.99 Add to basket In this objective, practical and authoritative introduction to animal law, the author examines the Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | foundational concepts of the human-animal relationship and how those principles have, or have 9780415535632 | #202551A | £24.99 not, been translated into contemporary animal ...... Add to basket

Biology: A Guide to the Natural World (International Edition) 822 pages | illustrations | David Krogh Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781292040509 David Krogh's Biology: A Guide to the Natural World leads readers on a memorable journey | #210005A | £64.99 Add to basket through the world of biology, using relevant examples, clearly-developed illustrations, and helpful insights that resonate with today's ......

Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Practice Management Consult 808 pages | illustrations | Lowell J Ackerman Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781118529249 | Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Practice Management Consult, Second Edition has been #209612A | £64.99 Add to basket extensively updated and expanded, with 55 new topics covering subjects such as online technologies, hospice care, mobile practices ......

Cranes: 300 Specimens de la Collection Dudley 256 pages | 500 colour photos, colour Simon Winchester and Nick Mann illustrations | This is a French translation of Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection. Hardback | 10/2013 | 9782603019412 | #209368A | £37.99 Add to basket

Fish Vaccination 400 pages | Roar Gudding, Atle Lillehaug and Oystein Evensen Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Fish farming, in seawater and in freshwater, in cages, tanks or ponds, makes an ever- 9780470674550 | #209648A | £130.00 increasing and significant contribution to the production of aquatic food in many regions of the Add to basket world. During the last few decades there has been significant ......

Handbook of Toxinology 5400 pages | 150 colour & 150 b/w Biological Toxins and Bioterrorism illustrations, 50 tables | P Gopalakrishnakone Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | In recent years, the field of Toxinology has expanded substantially. On the one hand it studies 9789400758681 | #202718A | venomous animals, plants and micro organisms in detail to understand their mode of action on £2430.00 Add to basket targets. While on the other, it explores the ......

Human Biology 618 pages | colour photos, colour Daniel D Chiras illustrations, colour tales | Designed for the undergraduate, non-science major, the thoroughly updated eighth edition of Paperback | NYP 01/2014 | Human Biology, continues to present the latest information on the structure, function, health, 9781284031812 | #209908A | £55.99 and disease of the human body, while ...... Add to basket

Human Biology 618 pages | colour photos, colour Daniel D Chiras illustrations, colour tales | Designed for the undergraduate, non-science major, the thoroughly updated eighth edition of Paperback | NYP 01/2014 | Human Biology, continues to present the latest information on the structure, function, health, 9781284031812 | #209907A | £55.99 and disease of the human body, while ...... Add to basket

Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones 192 pages | A Manual Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | April M Beisaw 9781623490263 | #209920A | £30.50 Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful Add to basket references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual ......

Lewin's Cells 886 pages | illustrations | George Plopper, Eric Sikorski and David Sharp Paperback | NYP 01/2014 | The ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate cell biology courses, the Third Edition 9781284029390 | #209124A | £55.99 of Lewin's Cells continues to offer current coverage of the structure, organization, growth, Add to basket regulation, movements, and interactive ......

Population Genetics 452 pages | illustrations | Matthew B Hamilton Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Now updated for its second edition, Population Genetics is the classic, accessible introduction to 9781118436943 | #209627A | £66.95 the concepts of population genetics. Combining traditional conceptual approaches with classical Add to basket hypotheses and debates ...

Principles of Life 940 pages | colour photos, colour David M Hillis, David E Sadava, Richard W Hill and Mary V Price illustrations, colour tables | Principles of Life returns in a thoroughly updated new edition that exemplifies the reform that is Hardback | NYP 12/2013 | remaking the modern biology classroom. With the recommendations proposed in the NSF/AAAS 9781464109478 | #209259A | £48.99 mandate ... Add to basket

Quantitative Genetics in the Wild 288 pages | Anne Charmantier, Dany Garant and Loeske EB Kruuk Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | Although the field of quantitative genetics – the study of the genetic basis of variation in 9780199674237 | #209927A | £74.99 quantitative characteristics such as body size, or reproductive success – is almost 100 years Add to basket old, its application to the study of ...... Paperback | NYP 03/2014 | 9780199674244 | #209928A | £37.50 Add to basket

The Secret Language of Animals 352 pages | 171 | A Guide to Remarkable Behavior Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | Janine M Benyus 9781579129682 | #209695A | £13.99 Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures – from the Add to basket Adélie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant panda – in this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.

Welcome to the Genome 240 pages | A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future Paperback | NYP 03/2014 | Rob DeSalle, Michael Yudell, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Mary Jeanne 9781118107652 | #209647A | £26.95 Kreek Add to basket Welcome to the Genome offers readers an opportunity to learn about how genomes are sequenced, what discoveries have so far come out of this scientific revolution, and about the ethical dimensions of this advancing technology. ....

Evolutionary Biology

40 Years of Evolution 464 pages | 44 colour & 129 b/w Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major illustrations, 21 tables | Peter R Grant and B Rosemary Grant Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies 9780691160467 | #209987A | £34.95 of the Galápagos finches first made famous by . Add to basket

Food, Genes, and Culture 244 pages | 13 b/w illustrations | Eating Right for Your Origins Paperback | 09/2013 | 9781610914925 Gary Paul Nabhan | #208832A | £12.99 Add to basket Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat. In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist ......

Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation 488 pages | 25 b/w photos, 105 b/w Guenter P Wagner illustrations, 4 tables | Homology – a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | as a seal's fin and a bird's wing – is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in 9780691156460 | #209988A | £41.95 evolutionary biology. Add to basket

Hunting in Northern Europe until 1500 AD 631 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour Old Traditions and Regional Developments, Continental Sources and Continental & b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables | Influences Paperback | 01/2013 | 9783529018770 Oliver Grimm and Ulrich Schmoelcke | #209380A | £60.99 Add to basket The basis of Hunting in Northern Europe until 1500 AD consists of the proceedings of a workshop initially dedicated to Hunting in Northern Europe AD 500–1500. Old Traditions, Regional Developments and Foreign Influences. ....

Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect 384 pages | b/w illustrations | Matthew D Lieberman Hardback | 10/2013 | 9780307889096 | In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in #209776A | £22.99 Add to basket social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter ......

Vida en Evolucion 384 pages | b/w photos, b/w La Historia Natural Vista desde Sudamerica illustrations | Sebastian Apesteguía and Roberto Ares Paperback | 11/2011 | 9789879132258 Study of evolution from a South American perspective. | #209555A | £68.99 Add to basket

Wild Cultures 276 pages | 68 b/w photos and A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures illustrations, 11 tables | Christophe Boesch Hardback | 09/2012 | 9781107025370 | How do chimpanzees say, 'I want to have sex with you?' By clipping a leaf or knocking on a tree #197418A | £63.99 Add to basket trunk? How do they eat live aggressive ants? By using a short stick with one hand or long stick Paperback | NYP 02/2014 | with both? Ivorian and Tanzanian chimpanzees ...... 9781107689152 | #209188A | £29.99 Add to basket

Ecology

Animals as Neighbors 184 pages | The Past and Present of Commensal Species Hardback | 09/2013 | 9781611860955 | Terry O'Connor #209919A | £35.99 Add to basket In this fascinating book Animals as Neighbors, Terry O'Connor explores a distinction that is deeply ingrained in much of the language that we use in zoology, human-animal studies, and archaeology – the difference between ......

Elements of Ecology (International Edition) 688 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Thomas M Smith and Robert Leo Smith tables | Known for its evolution theme and strong coverage of the relevance of ecology to everyday life Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781292027593 and the human impact on ecosystems, the thoroughly revised Eighth Edition features refined | #210011A | £49.99 Add to basket quantitative exercises, a restructured chapter on ......

The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity 800 pages | 127 colour & 27 b/w Principles and Practices for the Identification, Containment and Control of Organisms illustrations, 1 colour table | that Threaten Agriculture and the Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Gordon Gordh and Simon McKirdy 9789400773646 | #209975A | £180.00 The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity is arranged in 23 chapters written by 85 world experts who Add to basket systematically explain the substance of Plant Protection (Biosecurity). The Handbook is the first comprehensive treatment of regulation ......

Habitats & Ecosystems

Alaska's Changing Arctic 368 pages | 13 colour plates, 150 b/w Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Streams, and Lakes illustrations | John E Hobbie Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | The latest volume in the LTER series, this book presents the results and finding of the Long- 9780199860401 | #209265A | £58.99 Term Ecological Research site in the Alaskan Arctic, discussing Arctic ecology from a variety of Add to basket perspectives and disciplines.

Amerikaanse Vogelkers 160 pages | colour photos, colour tables Van Bospest tot Bosboom | Bart Nyssen, Jan den Ouden and Kris Verheyen Hardback | 05/2013 | 9789050114523 | Prunus serotina, commonly called the black cherry, is the scourge of foresters and naturalists. #210021A | £21.50 Add to basket This exotic tree species is being actively fought in the Netherlands and Belgium. But the story behind this tree is surprising, as ......

Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st 600 pages | 100 colour & 22 b/w Century illustrations | Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Trevor Fenning and Yvo de Boer 9789400770751 | #209444A | £153.00 Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century addresses the Add to basket challenges and opportunities faced by the world's forests posed by climate change, conservation objectives, and sustainable development ......

Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain 288 pages | Philip Walling Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Sheep are the thread that runs through the history of the English countryside. Our fortunes 9781846685040 | #208995A | £14.99 were once founded on sheep, and Counting Sheep tells a story of wool and money and history, Add to basket of merchants and farmers and shepherds ......

Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment 416 pages | 200 colour illustrations, 73 John Glasson, Riki Therivel and Andrew Chadwick colour tables | Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a Paperback | 12/2011 | 9780415664707 clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further | #209335A | £34.99 Add to basket studies. Written by three authors with ...... Hardback | 01/2012 | 9780415664684 | #209336A | £105.00 Add to basket

Plant Litter 320 pages | 92 b/w illustrations, 58 Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration tables | Bjorn Berg and Charles McClaugherty Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Since the publication of the 2nd edition, there have been substantial developments in the field 9783642388200 | #209443A | £135.00 of litter decomposition. This fully revised and updated 3rd edition of Plant Litter reflects and Add to basket discusses new findings and re-evaluates ......

Restoration and Development of the Degraded Loess Plateau, China 280 pages | 52 colour & 51 b/w Atsushi Tsunekawa, Guobin Liu, Norikazu Yamanaka and Sheng Du illustrations, 37 tables | Restoration and Development of the Degraded Loess Plateau, China presents state-of-the-art Hardback | 08/2013 | 9784431544807 | scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, #209442A | £89.99 Add to basket known worldwide for its serious land ......

Soil Science 550 pages | 160 colour & 100 b/w Hans-Peter Blume, GW Bruemmer, R Horn, E Kandeler, I Koegel-Knabner, R Kretzschmar, P illustrations | Schad and Stah Hardback | NYP 01/2014 | The soils are fundamental to our existence, delivering water and nutrients to plants, that feed 9783642309410 | #209448A | £53.99 us. But they are in many ways in danger and their conservation is therefore a most important Add to basket focus for science, governments and society as a ......

The Herbaceous Layer in Forests of Eastern North America 688 pages | Frank Gilliam Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | The most comprehensive existing volume of multidisciplinary research by top ecologists on the 9780199837656 | #209051A | £63.99 herbaceous layer of forests. Add to basket

The Soil Underfoot 400 pages | b/w illustrations | Infinite Possibilities for a Finite Resource Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Gordon John Churchman and Edward R Landa 9781466571563 | #209322A | £57.99 The Soil Underfoot provides an expert analysis of challenges faced by humankind and their Add to basket implications for the availability and sustainability of soils worldwide. It emphasizes cultural, historical, philosophical, and ethical ......

Conservation & Biodiversity

Coastal Conservation 400 pages | 16 colour & 45 b/w Brooke Maslo and Julie L Lockwood illustrations, 15 tables | Coastal ecosystems are centres of high biological productivity, but their conservation is often Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | threatened by numerous and complex environmental factors. Citing examples from the major 9781107022799 | #209006A | £64.99 littoral habitats worldwide, such as sandy beaches ...... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9781107606746 | #209007A | £34.99 Add to basket

Nourrir et Abriter les Petits Animaux en Hiver 128 pages | 100+ colour photos and Claudia Rosen colour illustrations | This practical book shows how you can provide care and shelter for small animals throughout Paperback | 10/2013 | 9782603019634 the winter in France. Whether you wish to help out birds, hedgehogs, squirrels, dormice, bats, | #209615A | £16.99 Add to basket frogs, lizards, or insects, this book provides help ......

Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks 264 pages | The Archaeology of Animal Disease Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Erika Gal 9781782971894 | #209360A | £37.99 The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data Add to basket concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology ......

The Once and Future World 232 pages | Finding Wilderness in the Nature We've Made Hardback | 09/2013 | 9780544103054 | JB MacKinnon #209390A | £21.99 Add to basket Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the ......

Environmental Science

An Introduction to Ocean Remote Sensing 575 pages | Martin Seelye Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Fully updated, with significant new coverage of advances in satellite oceanography and results 9781107019386 | #208802A | £49.99 from new satellite missions, the second edition of this popular textbook introduces students to Add to basket how remote sensing works, how to understand ......

Chemical Toxicity Prediction 288 pages | illustrations | Category Formation and Read-Across Hardback | 09/2013 | 9781849733847 | Mark Cronin, Judith Madden, Steven Enoch and David Roberts #209556A | £114.99 Add to basket The aim of Chemical Toxicity Prediction is to provide the scientific background to using the formation of chemical categories, or groups, of molecules to allow for read-across i.e. the prediction of toxicity from chemical structure ......

Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions 512 pages | 27 colour & 109 b/w Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen and Diana Liverman illustrations, 9 tables | Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, Hardback | 03/2011 | 9780521198363 | Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions ranges from the basic science #188188A | £63.99 Add to basket documenting the need for policy action to the technology ...... Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781107641235 | #209872A | £0.00 Add to basket

Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation 360 pages | 22 b/w illustrations, 75 Theory, Practice and Implications for the European Union tables | Joyeeta Gupta and Nicolien van der Grijp Hardback | 04/2010 | 9780521197618 | Climate change, development and development cooperation are, individually and jointly, three #184348A | £70.99 Add to basket politically sensitive, complex issues, especially in the context of relations between developed Paperback | 06/2014 | 9781107696389 and developing countries. | #209873A | £0.00 Add to basket

Natural Hazards (International Edition) 582 pages | Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781292042282 Edward A Keller and Duane E DeVecchio | #210013A | £49.99 Add to basket Ideal for courses on natural hazards or on earthquakes and volcanoes, Natural Hazards uses real-life examples of hazards and disasters to explore how and why they happen-and what we can do to limit their effects.

Reason in a Dark Time 304 pages | 10 illustrations | Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed - and What It Means for Our Future Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Dale Jamieson 9780199337668 | #209148A | £19.99 From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a Add to basket concerted international effort to stop climate change. Reason in a Dark Time is about what climate change is, why we failed to stop it, and why ......

Sea-Level Science 525 pages | Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis and Mean Sea-Level Changes Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | David Pugh and Philip Woodworth 9781107028197 | #208708A | £54.99 Understanding sea-level processes, such as ocean tides, storm surges, tsunamis, El Niño and Add to basket rises caused by climate change, is key to planning effective coastal defence. Building on David Pugh's classic book Tides, Surges and ......

The Atmosphere (International Edition) 434 pages | colour photos, illustrations, An Introduction to Meteorology tables | Frederick K Lutgens, Edward J Tarbuck and Dennis G Tasa Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781292042299 Thanks to a mounting interest in climate change and severe weather phenomena, meteorology | #210003A | £77.99 Add to basket courses are increasingly popular among today's students – particularly in general education versions of the course, where rapid advances ......

Physical Sciences

An Amateur's Guide to Observing and Imaging the Heavens 350 pages | 12 colour & 105 b/w Ian Morison illustrations, 2 tables | An Amateur's Guide to Observing and Imaging the Heavens is a highly comprehensive Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | guidebook that bridges the gap between the beginners' and hobbyists' books and the many 9781107619609 | #208028A | £24.99 specialised and subject-specific texts for ...... Add to basket

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth 336 pages | Chris Hadfield Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781447257103 | Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 #209923A | £18.99 Add to basket hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane ......

Astrophysics of Planet Formation 296 pages | 75 b/w illustrations | Philip J Armitage Hardback | 11/2009 | 9780521887458 | The study of planet formation has been revolutionized by recent observational breakthroughs, #182756A | £44.99 Add to basket which have allowed the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, the imaging of Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781107653085 protoplanetary disks, and the discovery of the Solar ...... | #209367A | £27.99 Add to basket

Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications 464 pages | 25 colour & 144 b/w Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Andrzej Kijko, Kuniyoshu Takeuchi and Ilya illustrations, 30 tables | Zaliapin Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications presents a unique, 9781107033863 | #209008A | £89.99 interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and Add to basket social science methodologies. Bringing together ......

Five Billion Years of Solitude 294 pages | The Search for Life Among the Stars Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781617230066 | Lee Billings #209357A | £22.99 Add to basket For 4.6 billion years our living planet has been alone in a vast and silent universe. But soon, Earth's isolation could come to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars. ....

Geodynamics 560 pages | 23 colour & 456 b/w Donald L Turcotte and Gerald Schubert illustrations, 28 tables | Essential reading for any Earth scientist, this classic textbook has been providing advanced Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | undergraduate and graduate students with the fundamentals needed to develop a quantitative 9781107006539 | #209383A | £79.99 understanding of the physical processes of the solid ...... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9780521186230 | #209384A | £44.99 Add to basket

Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts 656 pages | colour illustrations, maps, HJ de Blij, Peter O Muller and Jan Nijman colour tables | Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts helps readers build and develop their "mental map" Paperback | 10/2013 | 9781118673959 of the world around them. Topics covered in this text are diverse and the skills, concepts, ideas, | #210016A | £175.00 Add to basket and terms that students are ......

Geophysics for the Mineral Exploration Geologist 450 pages | colour illustrations | Mike C Dentith and Stephen Mudge Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Providing a balance between principles and practice, this introduction to geophysical surveying 9780521809511 | #208306A | £44.99 takes readers from the basic physical phenomena, through the acquisition and processing of Add to basket geophysical data, to the creation of subsurface ......

Intraplate Earthquakes 350 pages | illustrations | Pradeep Talwani Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Intraplate earthquakes occur away from tectonic plate boundaries: their locations are difficult to 9781107040380 | #208978A | £79.99 predict, risking huge damage and loss of life. The 2001 Bhuj earthquake (featured in Intraplate Add to basket Earthquakes) was the largest ......

Introduction to the Rock-forming Minerals 510 pages | colour illustrations | WA Deer, RA Howie and J Zussman Paperback | 05/2013 | 9780903056274 In this edition, most of the commonly occurring minerals of igneous, metamorphic and | #209631A | £82.50 Add to basket sedimentary rocks are discussed in terms of structure, chemistry, optical and other physical properties, distinguishing features and paragenesis.

La Costa d'Italia 472 pages | 600 colour photos, Sergio Ginesu illustrations, 100 maps, tables | Highly illustrated guide to the coast of Italy. Researchers who contributed to the realization of Hardback | 01/2011 | 9788871385815 | this work come largely from the disciplines of Earth Sciences. The work contains information ... #209621A | £169.00 Add to basket

Living Earth 408 pages | colour photos, colour maps, Outline of the Geology of Iceland colour illustrations, tables | Ari Trausti Gudmundsson, Halldor Kjartsansson and George Douglas Paperback | 01/2013 | 9789979333609 A reader's journey through the geological history of Iceland. A tale of the creation of Iceland | #209788A | £54.99 Add to basket and how it became what it is today. A venture into the natural wonders; into a variety of volcanic phenomena and the geothermal wonderland ......

Minerals and their Localities - Supplement 104 pages | 138 colour photos | Minerals Described since 2004 Paperback | 10/2013 | 9788072960903 Jan H Bernard and Jaroslav Hyrsl | #209875A | £25.50 Add to basket Minerals and their Localities - Supplement represents a continuation of the book Minerals and their Localities, published in 2004.

Physical Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction 144 pages | 26 b/w illustrations | Peter Atkins Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | With the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational 9780199689095 | #208726A | £7.99 chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and applications of the recently discovered graphene, Add to basket there can be no doubt that physical chemistry is a ......

Protoplanetary Dust 396 pages | 72 b/w illustrations | Astrophysical and Cosmochemical Perspectives Hardback | 01/2010 | 9780521517720 | Daniel Apai and Dante S Lauretta #194321A | £73.80 Add to basket Planet formation studies uniquely benefit from three disciplines: astronomical observations of Paperback | NYP 02/2014 | extrasolar planet-forming disks, analysis of material from the early Solar System, and 9781107629424 | #209187A | £39.99 laboratory astrophysics experiments. Add to basket

Quantum Effects in Biology 480 pages | 69 colour & 26 b/w Masoud Mohseni, Yasser Omar, Gregory S Engel and Martin B Plenio illustrations | Quantum mechanics provides the most accurate microscopic description of the world around us, Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | yet the interface between quantum mechanics and biology is only now being explored. 9781107010802 | #209047A | £64.99 Quantum Effects in Biology uses a combination of ...... Add to basket

Seismic Amplitude 340 pages | 303 colour & 45 b/w An Interpreter's Handbook illustrations, 4 tables | Rob Simm and Mike Bacon Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Seismic amplitudes yield key information on lithology and fluid fill, enabling interpretation of 9781107011502 | #208971A | £44.99 reservoir quality and likelihood of hydrocarbon presence. The modern seismic interpreter must Add to basket be able to deploy a range of sophisticated ......

Sonic Wonderland 320 pages | A Scientific Odyssey of Sound Hardback | NYP 01/2014 | Trevor Cox 9781847922106 | #209825A | £19.99 An original and compelling tour of the world's most amazing acoustic phenomena and a Add to basket passionate plea for a deeper appreciation of and respect for our shared sonic landscapes. Creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs ......

Source Mechanisms of Earthquakes 325 pages | 154 b/w illustrations, 10 Theory and Practice tables | Agustín Udías, Raul Madariaga and Elisa Buforn Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | This rigorous yet accessible text introduces the key physical and biochemical processes involved 9781107040274 | #209343A | £44.99 in plant interactions with the aerial environment. It is designed to make the more numerical Add to basket aspects of the subject accessible to plant and ......

Symmetry of Crystals and Molecules 464 pages | 4 colour plates, 273 b/w Mark Ladd illustrations | Symmetry of Crystals and Molecules provides a comprehensive study of the symmetry and Hardback | NYP 02/2014 | geometry of crystals and molecules, starting from first principles. The pre-knowledge assumed 9780199670888 | #209623A | £54.99 is mathematics and physical science to about ...... Add to basket

The Amoeba in the Room 224 pages | Lives of the Microbes Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Nicholas P Money 9780199665938 | #209149A | £16.99 Exploring the variety of the microbial world, Nicholas P. Money argues for a radical change of Add to basket perspective. As molecular methods discover vast numbers of new viruses and bacteria, it is becoming clear that microbial life dominates and ......

The Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook 250 pages | colour illustrations | Garrett Romaine Paperback | 10/2013 | 9780762784707 The Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook gives you the basic tools to transition | #210015A | £19.99 Add to basket from "pebble pup" to expert rockhound and explains everything from geology basics, identification tips, tools of the trade, how to ......

The Rocks of Anglesey's Coast 192 pages | colour photos | Jack E Treagus and Susan H Treagus Paperback | 06/2013 | 9781845242091 Anglesey is a geologist's paradise. The Rocks of Anglesey's Coast takes you on a journey round | #209764A | £10.50 Add to basket the coast of Anglesey by way of 25 excursions of different complexity and easy access. For each, the colourful rocks and their ......

Sustainable Development

Animals Make Us Human 340 pages | Creating the Best Life for Animals Paperback | 01/2010 | 9780547248233 Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson | #209396A | £14.99 Add to basket In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think ......

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures 544 pages | 155 b/w illustrations, 3 Tim Deveaux tables | Environmental health law is a wide ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK. Hardback | NYP 01/2014 | Environmental Health Procedures is an established and essential reference source which 9780415639712 | #209337A | £94.99 provides an accessible entry into enforcement and ...... Add to basket

Cultivating Biodiversity to Transform Agriculture 264 pages | 50 colour illustrations | Etienne Hainzelin Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | Agriculture is the primary human activity: it involves 1.3 billion people, nearly a quarter of the 9789400779839 | #210010A | £126.00 world's population and half of its labour force. The cultivated area, i.e., the area where humans Add to basket plan and directly control the vegetation ......

Ecotourism 344 pages | 20 b/w photos, 68 b/w David A Fennell illustrations, 27 tables | Ecotourism continues to be embraced as the antithesis of mass tourism because of its promise Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | of achieving sustainability through conservation mindedness, community development, 9780415829649 | #209313A | £89.99 education and learning, and the promotion of nature based ...... Add to basket Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9780415829656 | #209314A | £28.99 Add to basket

El Agua en el Norte de la Península Antartica 164 pages | b/w photos, b/w Adrian Angel Silva Busso illustrations, b/w maps | Results of Argentinian investigations into water resources in Antarctica. Paperback | 01/2007 | 9789872212186 | #209551A | £41.99 Add to basket

Environment and Development Economics 384 pages | Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Scott Barrett, Karl-Goran Maler and Eric S Maskin 9780199677856 | #208838A | £54.99 Environment and Development Economics honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped Add to basket establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems (to include families, local communities ......

Essentials of Environmental Public Health Science 224 pages | A Handbook for Field Professionals Paperback | NYP 03/2014 | Naima Bradley, Henrietta Harrison, Greg Hodgson, Robie Kamanyire, Andrew Kibble and 9780199682881 | #209375A | £29.99 Virginia Murray Add to basket Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing. Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical ......

Fisheries Management and Conservation 328 pages | William Hunter III Hardback | 04/2011 | 9781926692661 | Fisheries management and conservation draws on science in order to find ways to protect #209331A | £94.99 Add to basket fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is possible. Modern fisheries management often involves regulating when, where, how, and how much fisheries ......

Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability 224 pages | Molly E Brown Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population 9780415663113 | #209307A | £89.99 expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, Add to basket dairy and processed foods. Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9780415663120 | #209308A | £29.99 Add to basket

Green Capitalism 224 pages | Why it Can't Work Paperback | 09/2013 | 9780850366464 Daniel Tanuro and Jane Ennis | #208470A | £13.95 Add to basket What should be done to resolve the climate crisis? Tanuro argues that government measures – eco-taxes, commodification of natural resources, and carbon trading – do not tackle the drive for profit. Evidence from the Intergovernmental ......

Groundwater Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas 158 pages | 16 colour & 58 b/w Howard S Wheater, Simon A Mathias and Xin Li illustrations, 12 tables | Arid and semi-arid regions face major challenges in the management of scarce freshwater Hardback | 09/2010 | 9780521111294 | resources under pressures of population, economic development, climate change, pollution and #186816A | £70.99 Add to basket over-abstraction. Groundwater is commonly the most important ...... Paperback | NYP 02/2014 | 9781107690110 | #209186A | £24.99 Add to basket

Handbook of Global Environmental Politics 560 pages | illustrations | Peter Dauvergne Hardback | 05/2012 | 9781849809405 | The second edition of the Handbook of Global Environmental Politics contains more than 30 new #197813A | £131.75 Add to basket and original articles as well as six essential updates by leading scholars of global environmental Paperback | NYP 11/2013 | politics. This landmark book maps the ...... 9781781005446 | #209922A | £44.99 Add to basket

Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi 250 pages | 12 colour & 39 b/w Susan L Cutter, Christopher T Emrich, Jerry T Mitchell, Walter W Piegorsch, Mark M Smith and illustrations, 14 maps, 18 tables | Weber Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. 9781107023949 | #208629A | £74.99 Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Add to basket Orleans.

Is the Planet Full? 264 pages | 21 illustrations, 10 tables | Ian Goldin Hardback | NYP 05/2014 | What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten 9780199677771 | #210075A | £29.99 billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is Add to basket common to hear about the problems ...

Legumes in the Omic Era 348 pages | 21 colour & 3 b/w Sanjeev Gupta, Nagasamy Nadarajan and Debjyoti Sen Gupta illustrations | Provides a timely review of recent advances in legume genomics research and application. In Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | this post-genomic era, enormous amounts of biological information is available that could be of 9781461483694 | #209978A | £135.00 huge potential use for crop improvement applications ...... Add to basket

Managing the Unknown 212 pages | Essays on Environmental Ignorance Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | Frank Uekotter and Uwe Lubken 9781782382522 | #209903A | £42.99 Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is Add to basket incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty?

Managing the Unknown 212 pages | 1 illustration | Essays on Environmental Ignorance Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | Frank Uekotter and Uwe Lubken 9781782382522 | #209826A | £42.99 Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is Add to basket incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty?

Natural Resource Conservation (International Edition) 662 pages | Management for a Sustainable Future Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781292040981 Daniel D Chiras and John P Reganold | #210004A | £86.99 Add to basket For introductory-level, undergraduate courses in natural resource conservation, natural resource management, environmental science, and environmental conservation. This comprehensive text describes the ecological principles ...

Pure and Modern Milk 256 pages | illustrations | An Environmental History Since 1900 Hardback | NYP 12/2013 | Kendra Smith-Howard 9780199899128 | #209916A | £22.99 In the dairy aisle of the supermarket, one milk carton features cows grazing on a verdant Add to basket pasture, backed by a forest and undulating hillside. On another, a cow's wide-eyed face beckons the thirsty drinker. To the casual shopper ......

Small Impoundment Management in North America 451 pages | J Wesley Neal and David W Willis Hardback | 11/2012 | 9781934874349 | Small Impoundment Management in North America is an in-depth overview of biota, habitat, #209440A | £92.50 Add to basket and human management in small water bodies up to approximately 40 ha in surface area. Authors were selected to cover the wide geographic ......

Sustainable Buildings (4-Volume Set) 1600 pages | Rohinton Emmanuel Hardback | NYP 02/2014 | The 'fit for purpose' of the built environment has been a focus of attention since classical times, 9780415637091 | #209339A | £850.00 both in the West and in the East. However, an explicit focus on 'sustainable buildings' is Add to basket relatively new.

The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism 256 pages | Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound Hardback | NYP 11/2013 | Niamh Moore 9780774826273 | #209921A | £74.50 Twenty years after activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area Add to basket of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound, that summer of protest still holds a prominent place in Canadian environmental discourse.

Towards Human Development 328 pages | 12 illustrations, 32 tables | New Approaches to Macroeconomics and Inequality Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Frances Stewart 9780198706083 | #208839A | £54.99 Human Development is widely recognised as the overriding goal of development, yet its Add to basket realization is challenged by growing inequality, macro-economic fluctuations, and recurrent financial crises. This edited collection reflects on the ......

Toxic Aid 232 pages | 6 illustrations, 17 tables | Economic Collapse and Recovery in Tanzania Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Sebastian Edwards 9780198704423 | #208841A | £34.99 For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies. During the 1970s it Add to basket received more assistance per capita than any other nation in the world. And yet, the economy performed dismally: growth was negative, exports collapsed ......

Data Analysis

Aquatic Organic Matter Fluorescence 400 pages | Paula Coble, Jaimie R Lead, Andy Baker, Darren Reynolds and Robert GM Spencer Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | This is the first comprehensive text on the theory and practice of aquatic organic matter 9780521764612 | #208026A | £74.99 fluorescence analysis, written by the experts who pioneered the research area. Aquatic Organic Add to basket Matter Fluorescence covers the topic in the ...... Paperback | 04/2014 | 9780521152594 | #208027A | £0.00 Add to basket

Biomeasurement 408 pages | 150 b/w photos and b/w A Student's Guide to Biostatistics illustrations | Dawn Hawkins Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | Statistical analysis allows us to attach meaning to data that we have collected; it helps us to 9780199650446 | #207903A | £27.99 understand what experimental results really mean, and to assess whether we can trust what Add to basket experiments seem to be telling us. Yet, despite being ......

Introduction to Ecological Sampling 200 pages | b/w illustrations | Bryan FJ Manly and Jorge A Navarro Alberto Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Accessible to ecological researchers, Introduction to Ecological Sampling is the first to introduce 9781466555143 | #209299A | £57.99 ecological sampling methods from a statistical viewpoint. It starts with classic random sampling Add to basket methods and then covers more ......

Mathematical Models in Biology 480 pages | Deterministic and Stochastic Approaches Hardback | 06/2013 | 9783642272509 | Johannes Mueller and Christina Kuttler #209672A | £40.99 Add to basket Mathematical Models in Biology is developed from classes in mathematical biology taught by the authors over several years at the Technische Universitat Munchen. The main themes are modeling principles, mathematical principles ......

Methods of Molecular Analysis in the Life Sciences 250 pages | Andreas Hofmann, Anne Simon, Tanja Grkovic, Malcom Jones and Robert Huber Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Delivering fundamental insights into the most popular methods of molecular analysis, this text 9781107044708 | #208637A | £74.99 is an invaluable resource for students and researchers. It encompasses an extensive range of Add to basket spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques used ...... Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | 9781107622760 | #208638A | £29.99 Add to basket

Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5 300 pages | Jan Leps and Petr Smilauer Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | This revised and updated edition focuses on constrained ordination (RDA, CCA), variation 9781107694408 | #209009A | £34.99 partitioning and the use of permutation tests of statistical hypotheses about multivariate data. Add to basket Both classification and modern regression methods ......

Reference

Collections in Context 296 pages | Proceedings of the 5th International Meeting of European Bird Curators, Natural Paperback | 01/2010 | 9783902421364 History Museum Vienna, August 29th-31st | #209778A | £58.50 Add to basket Ernst Bauernfeind, Anita Gamauf, Hans-Martin Berg and Yoko Muraoka Publication of the Proceedings of the 5th International Meeting of European Bird Curators is not only intended as a documentation of contributions delivered to an international audience – the present volume should likewise be under ......

Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Volume 8: Faberia 954 pages | to Fussia Hardback | 01/2013 | 9788121108430 | #210071A | £115.00 Add to basket Sudhir Chandra Volume 8 of the projected 20 volumes aimed for completion by 2014-2016. It is hoped to cover 15 000 to 18 000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. This will be of interest to both amateur and professional ......