August 2020 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the August 2020 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. Some excellent bird titles surfaced this month. Lynx has announced All the Birds of the World for August that distils the Handbook of the Bird of the World series down to its essence. With over 20,000 illustrations and 11,000 distribution maps, it will still be a substantial book. Sergei Toropov has just published The Birds of Pamirs, Hissar, Alai and Tien Shan. Volume 1: Non-Passerines, Part 2, which is the second volume in this series. Birdwatchers are served this month with A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of New Zealand, due October from John Beaufoy, and Where to Watch Birds Eilat & Southern Arava, which is in stock now. Notable good reads this month are How to Read a Bird: A Smart Guide to What Birds Do and Why, due September from The History Press, and The Swallow: A Biography, due October from Square Peg. There are two noteworthy books on mammals to announce this month: Guide to the Felidae of the Indomalayan Realm, which is in stock now, and A Naturalist's Guide to the Mammals of Sri Lanka, which is due October from John Beaufoy. Moving on to insects and other invertebrates, the Field Studies Council has just published Atlas of Water Beetles of Britain and Ireland – Smaller Families of Polyphaga, the third part of this series. Two further Naturalist's Guides from John Beaufoy are due in October and will cover the butterflies of Peninsular Malaysia and Australia. CSIRO has announced The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests, due later this month, while Head of Zeus will publish The Book of the Earthworm in January 2021. On the subjects of botany and mycology there are three books to mention. Timber Press will publish Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants in December, a book authored by the director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden. We have stock of the privately published The Wild Food Plants of Ireland: The Complete Guide to Their Recognition, Foraging, Cooking, History and Conservation. And Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish the second edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America in January 2021. There is an excellent selection of ecology titles this month. Oxford University Press will publish Game Theory in Biology: Concepts and Frontiers in September, part of their Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution, while Wiley-Blackwell has just published the second edition of Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide. Cambridge University Press will release Salt Marshes: Function, Dynamics, and Stresses in October. Regional titles come in the form of Irish Rivers, just published by the University College Dublin Press, and The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas, due September from Heyday Books. Conservation biologists, meanwhile, can look out for Conservation Physiology: Applications for Wildlife Conservation and Management, due November from Oxford University Press, the third edition of Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications, just published by Springer, and We Alone: How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It, due January 2021 from Yale University Press. More specific topics are covered in Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans, due October from the University of Chicago Press, and The Chimpanzee & Me, now available in paperback. Harder to pigeonhole, but no less interesting is Framing Nature: Conservation and Culture, due October from Gritstone Publishing. On the topic of environmental issues there are three notable paperback reissues: The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future is due September from Icon Books, while Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds (Pelagic Publishing) and The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier (Vintage Books) are available now. A brand new title is The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, written by noted climate scientist Michael E. Mann, which will be published by Public Affairs Press in January 2021. To see out this month's selection there are a number of titles on a range of different topics. The University of Chicago Press brings us evolutionary biology and palaeontology with, respectively, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, due December, and Vanished Giants: The Lost World of the Ice Age, due November. MIT Press will publish the paperback of Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities in December, and there is nature writing in the form of The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus, due October from Hodder & Stoughton. As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch. In the meantime, stay safe and keep well. Leon Vlieger Catalogue Editor Insects & other Invertebrates A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malaysia 176 pages | 300 colour photos, 2 colour maps | John Beaufoy Publishing Singapore and Thailand Paperback #250985 Oct-2020 9781912081264 £11.99 Laurence G Kirton(Author) This photographic identification guide to the 280 butterfly species most commonly seen in Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High- quality photographs from the area's top nature photographers are... Registry of World Record Size Shells (2-Volume Set) 749 pages | no illustrations | Registry of World Record Size Shells Over 10,000 Changes since the last Edition Spiralbound #251007 2019 £135.00 Registry of World Record Size Shells(Author) This continuously updated registry lists world record shell sizes (given in mm). The 16th edition contains over 10,000 changes since the last edition, for a total of over 23,500 records. The publication has now grown so large that start with this... The Book of the Earthworm 208 pages | illustrations | Head of Zeus Sally Coulthard Hardback #250623 Jan-2021 9781789544756 £14.99 For Charles Darwin – who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms – the humble earthworm was the most important creature on the planet. And yet, most people know almost nothing about these little engineers of the earth. We... Spiders of Tasmania 171 pages | colour photos | Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery John C Douglas(Author) Paperback #250789 2019 9780975802694 £39.99 A comprehensive guide to the native spiders of Tasmania. Author and photographer, John Douglas, takes a close up view of these often maligned creatures and discovers their beauty and fascinating behaviour, cataloguing the common, the rare and the... 03-08-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Neotropical Social Wasps 280 pages | 25 colour & 30 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature Basic and applied aspects Hardback #250818 Oct-2020 9783030535094 £109.99 Fabio Prezoto(Editor), Fabio Santos do Nascimento(Editor), Bruno Corrêa Barbosa(Editor), Alexandre Somavilla(Editor) This book provides updated information on this intriguing and exciting group of insects: Neotropical Social Wasps. These insects have a particular biology and their colonies are formed by a few cooperative females living in either small or massive,... Atlas of Water Beetles of Britain and Ireland – Smaller Families of Polyphaga 296 pages | 45 colour photos and colour illustrations, 86 b/w distribution GN Foster(Author), David T Bilton(Author), M Hammond(Author), BH Nelson(Author), R maps | Field Studies Council (FSC) Chadd(Contributor), JS Denton(Contributor) Paperback #250830 2020 9781906698690 £24.99 This atlas covers 85 species of water beetles in five main families (Hydraenidae: minute moss beetles; Elmidae: riffle beetles; Heteroceridae: variegated mud-loving beetles; Scirtidae: marsh beetles; Dryopidae; plus a small number of other wetland... A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies 186 pages | colour photos | Merlin Unwin Books A Celebration of Britain's 59 Species Hardback #250835 2020 9781910723999 £16.99 Jonathan Bradley(Author), Yealand Kalfayan(Illustrator), Julie Williams(Foreword By) There are 59 species of British butterfly and each one deserves a couple of stunning photographs, some interesting facts about its life cycle and a poem dedicated to it.Lifelong butterfly lover and poet Jonathan Bradley and photographer Yealand... The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests 392 pages | plates with colour photos; maps | CSIRO Geoff Williams(Author) Hardback #250836 Aug-2020 9781486312917 £146.00 The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests is a comprehensive review of Australia's Gondwanan rainforest invertebrate fauna, covering its taxonomy, distribution, biogeography, fossil history, plant community and... Butterfly Fauna of Taiwan, Volume 4: Lycaenidae [English / Chinese] 667 pages | plates with colour photos | Forestry Bureau Council of Yu-Feng Hsu(Author), Jia-Yuan Liang(Author), Chih-Wei Huang(Author) Agriculture, Taiwan Fourth of a series of volumes on the butterfly fauna of Taiwan; the series is planned in five Hardback #250873 2019 9789865440985 £135.00 volumes, to be published over the next six or seven years. Includes an introduction to each species with Chinese names and synonyms, description, adult... Handbook of Zoology: Phylum Bryozoa 408 pages | 208 colour illustrations, 104 colour & 68 b/w tables | De Thomas Schwaha(Editor) Gruyter With over 6,000 recent and 15,000 fossil species, the phylum Bryozoa represents a quite large Hardback #250901 Nov-2020 9783110585407 £300.00 and important phylum of colonial filter feeders. This volume of the series Handbook of Zoology contains new findings on phylogeny, morphology and evolution... Measuring Arthropod Biodiversity 490 pages | 210 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature A Handbook of Sampling Methods Hardback #250915 Nov-2020 9783030532253 £135.19 Jean Carlos Santos(Editor), Geraldo Wilson Fernandes(Editor) This book brings together a wide range of sampling methods for investigating different arthropod groups.