nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2015/02 February 2015 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This monthly Zoology: update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to nhbs.com in Mammals the last month. Birds Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes ● Brachychitons: Flame Trees, Kurrajongs and Bottle Trees Invertebrates ● The Common Eider (Poyser Monograph) Palaeontology ● Crossbill Guides: Iceland Marine & Freshwater Biology ● The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins General Natural History ● Descriptive Taxonomy: The Foundation of Biodiversity Research Regional & Travel ● The Eurasian Beaver ● Identifying Wildflower Families Botany & Plant Science ● Identification Guide to the Inshore Fish of the British Isles Animal & General Biology ● The Merlin Evolutionary Biology ● Orchids of Tropical America: An Introduction and Guide Ecology ● Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary Habitats & Ecosystems Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS Conservation & Biodiversity LibraryPro Environmental Science Physical Sciences Best wishes, -The NHBS Team Sustainable Development Data Analysis View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Reference Mammals Acoustic Ecology of European Bats 300 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Species Identification, Study of their Habitats and Foraging Behaviour illustrations, includes DVD-ROM | Michel Barataud and Yves Tupinier Paperback | NYP 04/2015 | Acoustic Ecology of European Bats covers the findings of 25 years of research over more than 9782366621440 | #215856A | £44.99 300 pages. The introduction summarizes the physical bases of the biological sonar and gives an Add to basket overview of the technologies ... Bats and Viruses 400 pages | Lin-fa Wang and Christopher Cowled Hardback | 10/2014 | 9781118818732 | Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses. The rate of emergence of #221258A | £99.99 Add to basket zoonotic viruses appears to be increasing and/or our ability to detect new viruses is improving. Bats are being increasingly recognised as an important ... .... Beneath the Surface 288 pages | 8 pages with colour photos Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish | John Hargrove and Howard Chua-Eoan Hardback | NYP 06/2015 | Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two 9781137280107 | #221703A | £17.99 continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer Add to basket fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience ... .... Blood of the Tiger 272 pages | A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species Hardback | NYP 02/2015 | JA Mills 9780807074961 | #221263A | £21.99 Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than Add to basket ever – from a menace few experts saw coming. There may be only three thousand wild tigers Paperback | NYP 09/2015 | left in the entire world. 9780807030646 | #221264A | £11.50 Add to basket Buffalo Ballad 224 pages | 1 colour & 106 b/w photos | On the Trail of an American Icon Hardback | 10/2014 | 9783901753732 | Heidi Koch and Hans-Juergen Koch #221401A | £79.99 Add to basket Thunder rolled across the prairie – and then there was silence... It was probably more than 30 million American bison roaming the plains of the Midwest. Nothing was more powerful in the prairie, neither physically nor spiritually. .... Coordination in Human and Primate Groups 288 pages | 18 tables | Margarete Boos, Michaela Kolbe, Peter M Kappeler and Thomas Ellwart Hardback | 01/2011 | 9783642153549 | Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different #221465A | £144.00 Add to basket approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by Paperback | 10/2014 | 9783642422690 psychologists and primatologists ... | #221466A | £144.00 Add to basket Dispersing Primate Females 290 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, Life History and Social Strategies in Male-Philopatric Species tables | Takeshi Furuichi, Juichi Yamagiwa and Filippo Aureli Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history 9784431554790 | #221289A | £126.00 strategies than males in female-philopatric species? Why did females in human societies come Add to basket to show enormous variation in the patterns of ... .... Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis 192 pages | 7 b/w photos, 14 b/w Strategic Metabolic Retreats illustrations | Robert Elsner Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising 9780226246710 | #221542A | £22.99 pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light Add to basket on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through ... .... Elephant Don 256 pages | 44 b/w photos | The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Caitlin O'Connell 9780226106113 | #221524A | £17.99 Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been the intimidating yet sociable Add to basket don of his posse of friends – including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to ... .... Elephants and Kings 304 pages | 4 colour plates, 40 b/w An Environmental History photos, 1 table | Thomas R Trautman Hardback | NYP 05/2015 | Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of 9780226264226 | #221547A | £61.99 their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and Add to basket China – kings used elephants for ... .... Paperback | NYP 05/2015 | 9780226264363 | #221548A | £20.99 Add to basket For the Love of Lemurs 288 pages | colour & b/w plates, b/w My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar illustrations, maps | Patricia Chapple Wright Hardback | 09/2014 | 9781590564455 | In 1986, primatologist, Patricia Chapple Wright, was given a seemingly impossible task:to #221087A | £25.99 Add to basket travel to the rainforests of Madagascar and find the greater bamboo lemur, a species that hadn't been seen in the wild for thirty years. Gardiens des Cimes 176 pages | colour photos | Les Bouquetins Du Creux-du-Van Paperback | 11/2014 | 9782884193320 Patrice Raydelet | #221137A | £36.99 Add to basket Lover and ardent defender of the Franco-Swiss Jura mountains and its wildlife, Patrice Raydelet invites us to discover a flagship species: the ibex. This herbivore with impressive horns is one of the most illustrious representatives of ... .... Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology 768 pages | 235 b/w photos, 371 b/w George A Feldhamer, Lee C Drickamer, Stephen H Vessey, Joseph F Merritt and Carey Krajewski illustrations | Reflecting the expertise and perspective of five leading mammalogists, the fourth edition of Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology significantly updates taxonomy, includes a new 9781421415888 | #221337A | £65.99 chapter on mammalian molecular phylogenetics ... .... Add to basket Mammals of South America, Volume 2 1384 pages | 548 b/w photos, 1 b/w Rodents illustration, 1 table | James L Patton, Ulyses FJ Pardinas and Guillermo D'Elía Hardback | NYP 03/2015 | The second installment in a planned three-volume series, Mammals of South America, Volume 2 9780226169576 | #221081A | £66.50 provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Add to basket Increases in the reach of field research ... .... Mammals of South Asia, Volume 2 739 pages | plates with colour photos; b/ AJT Johnsingh, Nima Manjrekar, George B Schaller and Maya Ramaswamy w photos, b/w distribution maps, tables The second half of this encyclopedic work on the mammals of South Asia, with the remaining 34 | chapters, covering the orders Cetacea, Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Rodentia, Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788173715891 as well as a checklist of the mammals of South Asia ... .... | #221494A | £41.99 Add to basket Marsupial Genetics and Genomics 519 pages | Paul D Waters, Janine E Deakin and Jennifer A Marshall Graves Hardback | 07/2010 | 9789048190225 | Marsupials belong to the Class Mammalia, sharing some features with other mammals, yet they #221440A | £153.00 Add to basket also possess many unique features. It is their differences from the more traditionally studied Paperback | 09/2014 | 9789400797406 mammals, such as mice and humans, that is of great ... .... | #221441A | £153.00 Add to basket Micromammals and Macroparasites 647 pages | 79 illustrations | From Evolutionary Ecology to Management Hardback | 12/2006 | 9784431360247 | Serge Morand, Boris R Krasnov and Robert Poulin #166353A | £251.00 Add to basket Small mammals are among the most ubiquitous and important components of terrestrial Paperback | 10/2014 | 9784431546924 ecosystems. They have coevolved, and now coexist, with a diverse array of parasites, such that | #221676A | £251.00 Add to basket not only are all aspects of their biology influenced by ... .... New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates 600 pages | 165 illustrations | Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation Hardback | 12/2006 | 9780387258546 | Alejandro Estrada, Paul A Garber, Mary Pavelka and Leandra Luecke #154922A | £104.99 Add to basket The purpose