December 2020 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the December 2020 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. We are starting this month with books on vertebrates, birds and mammals in particular. May next year we expect William Collins to publish Birds of the World, a combination of identification guide and the complete collection of Norman Arlott's bird paintings, while Jonathan Ball is publishing The Complete Photographic Guide to Southern African Birds: With App and Calls. Author Tessa Boase, who first wrote about the history of the RSPB when profiling Emmeline Pankhurst, returns to this topic with Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds, due June from Aurum Press. On the subject of mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press announced Opossums: An Adaptive Radiation of New World Marsupials for May. For entomologists, we have a great list. Bloomsbury will publish Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe in April and the third edition of British Moths: A Photographic Guide to the Moths of Britain and Ireland in May. We have stock of a very nice popular science book on flies, Diptera: An Introduction to Flies, privately published by the author Nikita Vikhrev. Another title to look forward to is the May paperback rerelease of The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature from Princeton University Press. The Dutch publisher Brill is releasing two noteworthy books in December: The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book and the second edition of Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6/1: Chrysomeloidea I (Vesperidae, Disteniidae, Cerambycidae). Not insects, but of interest to arachnologists is A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India, due later this month. We have three major botany books this month: A Field Guide to the (Wetter) Zambian Miombo Woodland, published by the authors and in stock, Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southern Africa, due March from Briza Publications, and European Bryaceae: A Guide to the Species of the Moss Family Bryaceae in Western & Central Europe and Macaronesia, due February from NatureBureau. On the topics of wildlife conservation and environmental issues, there are a large number of interesting books forthcoming. Leaping Hare Press has announced Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World's Lost Creatures for April, while Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, due May from Jonathan Cape, covers the topic of endangered food plants. Famous novelist Jonathan Franzen is working on What If We Stopped Pretending?, due January from Fourth Estate. The controversial topic of palm oil gets a long-overdue examination in Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World, due May from C. Hurst & Co Publishers. Then there is a slew of paperback rereleases: The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet (February, Scribe Publications), Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back (March, Granta), Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (April, Fourth Estate), and Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease (May, University of California Press). Two important forthcoming books dealing with ecosystems are the New Naturalist Ponds, Pools and Puddles, due March from Harper Collins, and the paperback of Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, due January from Oxford University Press. On a related subject is the paperback rerelease of Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand, which was published earlier this year by I.B. Tauris. For evolutionary biologists and palaeontologists two books due in April worth mentioning are Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals from Johns Hopkins University Press and the paperback rerelease of Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA from Oneworld Publications. Good reads and nature writing this month comes in the form of Melissa Harrison's just published The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary from Faber & Faber and paperback rereleases of Patrick Barkham's Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature (April, Granta), and Marianne Taylor's Tracking the Highland Tiger: In Search of Scottish Wildcats (May, Bloomsbury). Furthermore, Indiana University Press earlier this year published a translation of Steller's classic work Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition. We see this month out with a small miscellany of titles. Breakwater Books will publish Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador in May. A major book for field biologists of all stripes will be Understanding Animal Behaviour: What to Measure and Why, due April from Cambridge University Press. And, finally, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil has just published the 2-volume Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas which is a most remarkable reference work for geologists and astronomers. 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 Australian Weevils, Volume 4: Curculionidae: Entiminae Part I 664 pages | 198 plates with colour illustrations | CSIRO Rolf G Oberprieler(Author), Elwood C Zimmerman(Author) Hardback #19238 Dec-2020 9780643051485 £140.00 Re-announcing: after the main author Elwood Zimmerman passed away in 2004, this volume has been in limbo but has now been published in 2020 under the authorship of Rolf Oberprieler.Australian Weevils, Volume 4 covers the 11 smaller... The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 506 pages | 138 plates with colour photos, 25 plates with b/w photos | A Steven Corbet(Author), HM Pendlebury(Author), George Michael van der Poorten(Editor), Southdene Sdn Bhd Nancy E van der Poorten(Editor) Hardback #251991 2020 9789834488635 £135.00 For the fifth edition, the text has been updated with new information on distributions, life histories and larval food plants. The taxonomy of each species has been reviewed, and the text and relevant keys have been revised with newly published... British Moths 448 pages | 3200+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Bloomsbury A Photographic Guide to the Moths of Britain and Ireland Publishing Chris Manley(Author) Hardback #250567 Jun-2021 9781472975201 £39.99 British Moths is the most comprehensive collection of photographs of British moths ever published. It covers both macro and microspecies, and the images are all of living insects, taken in natural conditions. Concise text descriptions cover wingspan,... 05-12-2020 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6/1 924 pages | 1 b/w illustration, 3 b/w maps | E J Brill Chrysomeloidea I (Vesperidae, Disteniidae, Cerambycidae) Hardback #251926 Dec-2020 9789004429161 £165.00 Mikhail L Danilevsky(Author) Volume 6 in this series covers the Chrysomelidae. For the second edition the coverage is now divided over two volumes. Part 1 of volume 6 now covers the Vesperidae, Disteniidae, and Cerambycidae.Structured knowledge of life, as it evolved and is... Latridiidae und Merophysiidae der West-Paläarktis [Latridiidae and Merophysiidae of 748 pages | 156 colour photos, 35 colour & 1370 b/w illustrations, 12 the Western Palearctic] colour distribution maps | Wolfgang H. Rücker (privately published) Wolfgang H Rücker(Author) Hardback #252096 2020 £190.00 This work provides a foundation Western Palearctic members of the minute brown scavenger beetles of the family Latridiidae and the beetles of the family Merophysiidae that mostly live in the company of ants. The book provides a... The Last Butterflies 266 pages | 16 plates with 16 colour photos; 7 b/w illustrations | A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature Princeton University Press Nick Haddad(Author) Paperback #251837 May-2021 9780691217178 £15.99 Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what Hardback #244905 2019 9780691165004 £19.99 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... Grasshoppers of Britain and Western Europe 304 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps; includes audio CD | Éric Sardet(Author), Christian Roesti(Author), Yoan Braud(Author) Bloomsbury Publishing This is the first guide to the 261 species of orthopterans – the grasshoppers, crickets and Paperback #250543 May-2021 9781472954862 £27.99 katydids – of Britain and western Europe ever published. Set out in a clear and accessible format and featuring a combination of photographs and... Diptera 160 pages | colour photos | Nikita Vikhrev (privately published) An Introduction to Flies Hardback #252005 2020 9785906811851 £14.99 Nikita Vikhrev(Author) Diptera is an order of animals that have achieved phenomenal success: we meet flies and mosquitoes more often than any other insects. Usually meeting them does not please us: Dipterans are intrusive, and some of their representatives become a real... Hétérocères Diurnes: France, Belgique, Suisse, Luxembourg [Diurnal Moths: France, 312 pages | 30 plates with colour illustrations; 400 colour photos | Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg] Delachaux et Niestle Rainer Ulrich(Author), Odile Koenig(Translated by) Paperback