February 2019 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the February 2019 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. This month I will start with botany, as we have some excellent titles lined up. First off is the fourth edition of Clive Stace's well known New Flora of the British Isles. There are two notable field guides in the works, both due March: Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the second edition of Field Guide to Wild Flowers of South Africa from Struik Nature. A number of books will be released in paperback, particularly The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats, due February from Dutton Books, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, due July from Liveright Publishing Corporation, and Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: Darwin's Botany Today, due July from Profile Books. For ornithologists and birdwatchers we have two new titles from Bloomsbury to announce, RSPB Spotlight Sparrows and A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven, in paperback, both due in July. In addition we have several more obscure titles, including two books from Norway, Birding the Islands: A Birwatchers’ Guide to Lofoten and Vesterålen and Birding Varanger: The Biotope Guide to the Best Bird Sites in Arctic Norway, and a raptor book from Birdlife Hungary, The Blue Vesper: Ecology and Conservation of the Red-Footed Falcon. For other animal groups, we have a smattering of titles. WILDGuides will publish Europe's Sea Mammals Including the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde: A Field Guide to the Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises and Seals in July. Herpetologists can look forward to Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 5: Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere: Northern Europe, due April from Pelagic Publishing, and RSPB Spotlight Frogs and Toads, due July from Bloomsbury. Those interested in invertebrates have a choice from, amongst others, Caddisfly Adults (Trichoptera) of Britain and Ireland, which has just been published by the Freshwater Biological Association, Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing World, due April from Wits University Press, and the second edition of Scorpions of Southern Africa, due March from Struik Nature. More of a nature narrative is Peter Marren's forthcoming book Emperors, Admirals & Chimney Sweepers: The Naming of Butterflies and Moths, due May from Little Toller Books. Conservation biologists should take note of The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature from Princeton University Press and Bloomsbury's The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals, both due July. A number of notable conservation titles are being reissued in paperback, including The End of the Wild from MIT Press, Wilding: The Return of Nature to an English Farm, due March from Picador, and Our Place: Can We Save British Nature Before it is Too Late?, due April from Vintage. Then there are three major titles dealing with environmental issues more generally. Renowned marine biologist Daniel Pauly, who coined the term "shifting baselines", is writing Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries, due June from Greystone Books. Famous geographer and historian Jared Diamond is writing Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change, due May from Allen Lane. Lastly, there is Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals: Global and Regional 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios with Non-Energy GHG Pathways for +1.5°C and +2°C, due February from Springer. On the topic of evolution there are a number of excellent new titles in the making, including Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society, due June from Harvard University Press, and Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity, due July from Oneworld Publications (I personally really enjoyed Wagner's previous book Arrival of the Fittest). There are also paperback reissues of A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction, due July from Princeton University Press, and The Ascent of Birds: How Modern Science is Revealing their Story, due March from Pelagic Publishing. Ecologists will be interested in Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation, due April from Hodder & Stoughton, and the third edition of The Ecology of Tropical East Asia, due June from Oxford University Press. Those who would rather curl up with a good book can look out for Simon Barnes's On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet, due June from Simon & Schuster, or the paperbacks of Attenborough's Life on Earth (40 Anniversary Edition): The Greatest Story Ever Told, due May from Harper Collins, or A Wood of One's Own, due April from Duckworth Overlook. A particularly peculiar title is A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins, due June from Pegasus Books. Finally, a bit more cerebral is the fourth edition of The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, due July from Rowman & Littlefield. As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor Insects & other Invertebrates A Guide to the Caterpillars of the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland 8 pages | colour illustrations | Field Studies Council (FSC) John Bebbington(Author), Richard Lewington(Illustrator) Unbound #245263 2019 9781908819468 £3.50 Illustrates the caterpillars of 57 of Britain's butterfly species. The butterflies themselves are illustrated in Lewington's and Bebbington's Guide to the Butterflies of Britain, also in this series. This guide concentrates on the... Scorpions of Southern Africa 104 pages | 120 colour photos, illustrations, colour distribution maps | Jonathan Leeming(Author) Random House Struik Scorpions, often misunderstood and persecuted, have captured the imagination of humans Paperback #245661 Mar-2019 9781775846529 £11.99 from early times, but only recently have we begun to understand their complex behaviour and biology. Some 60 southern African species are discussed here (up from... Praying Mantises of the United States and Canada 297 pages | 120 colour photos, b/w line drawings, colour distribution Kris Anderson(Author) maps | Kris Anderson (privately published) This peer-reviewed text includes a dichotomous key to all 16 genera of Mantodea found in the Paperback #245682 2019 9781793025081 £74.99 U.S. and Canada. Extremely detailed descriptions are provided for each of the 28 species found within this region. One newly listed invasive species is... The Last Butterflies 216 pages | 16 colour & 7 b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature Hardback #244905 Jul-2019 9780691165004 £16.99 Nick Haddad(Author) Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr? Because of their extreme rarity, these butterflies are not well-known, yet they are remarkable... 01-02-2019 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Caddisfly Adults (Trichoptera) of Britain and Ireland 98 pages | 35 colour photos and b/w line drawings | Freshwater Family Level Keys and Introductory Guide Biological Association Stuart M Crofts(Author) Paperback #245652 2019 9780900386831 £32.50 The British caddisflies (Trichoptera) are often viewed as a difficult group. While the larvae can be found in most freshwater habitats, the adults are a different matter, with some species only on the wing of a few weeks of the year, and many active... QueenSpotting 128 pages | colour photos | Storey Publishing Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive Hardback #245702 2019 9781635860375 £14.99 Hilary Kearney(Author) At the heart of every bee hive is a queen bee. Since her well-being is linked to the well-being of the entire colony, the ability to find her among the residents of the hive is an essential beekeeping skill. In QueenSpotting, experienced beekeeper... Extraordinary Insects 320 pages | colour photos | William Collins (Harper Collins imprint) Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. How They Run the World Hardback #245706 Apr-2019 9780008316358 £14.99 Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson(Author) A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning.When Charles Darwin declared that the brain of an ant was perhaps more marvellous than the brain of man he had only scratched... Practical Forensic Entomology 424 pages | CRC Press Time of Death, Decomposition, and the Insects Used in Death Investigation Hardback #245710 Feb-2019 9781439878552 £63.99 Neal H Haskell(Author) This book examines the theory and procedures of forensic entomology and provides an array of taxonomic insect identification keys for commonly encountered carrion insect species. Each chapter begins with a case study taken from the author's own... Australian Land Snails, Volume 2 551 pages | 2000+ colour photos, distribution maps | Bioculture Press for A Field Guide to Southern, Central and Western Species the Australian Museum John Stanisic(Author), Michael Shea(Author), Darryl G Potter(Author), O Griffiths(Author), Paperback #245751 2017 9789994903832 £94.99 Timothy Flannery(Foreword By) Australian Land Snails, Volume 2 covers 756 species in 39 families from an area that extends from western Queensland and New South Wales to Victoria and Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory; several species from... Dance of the Dung Beetles 240 pages | Wits University Press Their Role in Our Changing World Paperback #245771 Apr-2019 9781776142347 £35.95 Marcus Byrne(Author), Helen Lunn(Author) In this sweeping history of more than 3000 years, beginning with Ancient Egypt, scientist Marcus Byrne and writer, Helen Lunn capture the diversity of dung beetles and their unique behaviour patterns.