nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2014/01 January 2014 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Welcome to the January 2014 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 ● Peregrine Falcons of the World Invertebrates ● Birds of Portugal: An Annotated Checklist Palaeontology ● The Birds of Berkshire: Atlas and Avifauna Marine & Freshwater Biology ● RES Handbook: Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles General Natural History ● The Evolution of Plants (2nd edition) Regional & Travel ● How to Find and Identify Mammals (Revised Edition) ● Illustrated Catalog of Scorpions: Part 1 Botany & Plant Science ● Illustrated Catalog of Scorpions: Part 2 Animal & General Biology ● Landscape Plants of Arabia Evolutionary Biology ● Sea Anemones and Corals of Britain and Ireland Ecology ● Sea Slugs of the Algarve: Opisthobranch Guide for the Southern Coast of Habitats & Ecosystems Portugal Conservation & Biodiversity ● Zookeeping: An Introduction to the Science and Technology Environmental Science Physical Sciences Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS LibraryPro Sustainable Development Data Analysis Best wishes, Reference -The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Mammals A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Tanzania 320 pages | 300 colour illustrations, 140 Charles Foley, Lara Foley, Alex Lobora, Daniela De Luca, Maurus Msuha, Tim R. B. Davenport maps | and Dura Paperback | NYP 06/2014 | Home to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 9780691161174 | #211301A | £19.95 offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to Add to basket chimpanzees and lions. Arabian Leopards of Oman 160 pages | colour illustrations | Andrew Spalton Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | This illustrated volume brings together scientific data and camera trap photography to capture 9781909022348 | #211249A | £29.99 the secret life of the wild animals of the remote and inaccessible Dhofar Mountains Chain. It Add to basket tells the story of Oman's vital conservation ... .... Baleias, Botos e Golfinhos do Brasil 480 pages | 345 colour photos, 105 Guia de identificacao colour & 80 b/w illustrations, 48 colour Liliane Lodi, Monica Borobia and Pieter A Folkens maps | Identification guide to whales and dolphins of Brazil. Paperback | 01/2013 | 9788561368326 | #210703A | £140.00 Add to basket Bat Conservation 120 pages | Evidence for the Effects of Interventions Paperback | NYP 04/2014 | Anna Berthinussen, Olivia C Richardson and John D Altringham 9781907807893 | #211090A | £19.99 This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical Add to basket conservation of bats. The authors worked with an international group of bat experts and Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that ... .... 9781907807909 | #211091A | £49.99 Add to basket Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques 308 pages | 9 colour & 43 b/w photos Macaca mulatta of Cayo Santiago and Beyond and illustrations, 37 tables | Qian Wang Hardback | 12/2011 | 9781461410454 | The introduction of rhesus macaques to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the #194542A | £117.00 Add to basket subsequent development of the CPRC for biomedical research, continues its long history of Paperback | NYP 03/2014 | stimulating studies in physical anthropology. The CPRC monkey ... .... 9781489985330 | #211116A | £117.00 Add to basket 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, Paperback | 01/2014 | 9781922247315 and affectionate, they are truly "man's best friend." But do dogs love us the way we love them? | #211247A | £12.99 Add to basket Emory University neuroscientist ... .... Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation 304 pages | 60 b/w illustrations | John Sutherland Hardback | 02/2014 | 9781908526274 | The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our #208079A | £14.99 Add to basket favourite words. Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Hardback | NYP 02/2014 | Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London .. .... 9781781312445 | #211340A | £14.99 Add to basket Marmot Biology Hardback | NYP 06/2014 | Sociality, Individual Fitness and Population Dynamics 9781107053946 | #210168A | £64.99 Kenneth B Armitage Add to basket Focusing on the physiological and behavioral factors that enable a species to live in a harsh seasonal environment, Marmot Biology places the social biology of marmots in an environmental context. It draws on the results of a 40-year ... .... Raubtiere der Welt 400 colour & 310 b/w illustrations | Ein Feldfuehrer Hardback | 09/2012 | 9783258077277 | Prisiclla Barrett and Luke Hunter #210862A | £49.99 Add to basket This is a German translation of A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World. The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba 465 pages | 4 colour plates, b/w photos, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Tatyana Humle and Yukimaru Sugiyama b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables | The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which displays an Hardback | 01/2011 | 9784431539209 | exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to coexistence with humans. #189218A | £130.05 Add to basket This community of Pan troglodytes verus ... .... Paperback | 12/2013 | 9784431547723 | #211332A | £40.99 Add to basket The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 192 pages | An Investigation into the Scapegoating of Canada's Grey Seal Paperback | 11/2013 | 9781552665862 Linda Pannozzo | #210727A | £15.95 Add to basket In the early 1990s the collapse of the Atlantic groundfish stocks signaled the destruction of life in the seas, but it also threw 40 000 people out of work, unraveling the very fabric of rural life throughout Atlantic Canada. The Domestic Dog 350 pages | illustrations | Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People Hardback | NYP 06/2014 | James Serpell 9781107024144 | #208934A | £79.99 A comprehensive look at biology and behaviour, this new edition explores all aspects of the Add to basket domestic dog, from evolutionary origins to its changing roles in modern society. The revised Paperback | NYP 06/2014 | text, updated with the most recent scientific ... .... 9781107699342 | #208935A | £27.99 Add to basket The Ethiopian Wolf 152 pages | colour photos | Hope at the Edge of Extinction Hardback | 07/2013 | 9780981581316 | Will Burrard-Lucas, Rebecca R Jackrel and Jaymi Heimbuch #210759A | £54.99 Add to basket The Ethiopian wolf hangs precariously close to extinction with fewer than 450 individuals left on the planet. However, the little-known species also offers us one of the greatest stories of hope for successful conservation today. The Gnu's World 368 pages | Serengeti Wildebeest Ecology and Life History Hardback | 05/2014 | 9780520273184 | Richard D Estes #211297A | £0.00 Add to basket The Gnu's World is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominate the savanna Paperback | NYP 05/2014 | ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa. It presents a synthesis of research conducted over 9780520273191 | #211298A | £19.95 a span of fifty years, mainly on the wildebeest ... .... Add to basket Veldgids Europese Zoogdieren 368 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w Peter Twisk, Annemarie van Diepenbeek and Jan Piet Bekker illustrations, colour distribution maps | This practical mammal guide is intended both as a field guide and a reference work at home. It Hardback | 12/2013 | 9789050114745 | brings together all the mammals of Europe and their tracks in a beautifully edited guide, #211071A | £27.50 Add to basket including new species such as the Steppe Whiskered Bat. .... Von Elefanten und Menschen 320 pages | Fred Kurt Hardback | NYP 04/2014 | Von Elefanten und Menschen is renowed biologist Fred Kurt's report on the biology, behaviour 9783258078090 | #210851A | £42.99 and history of the Asian elephant. More than a scientific study, this is a touching and personal Add to basket book about an extraordinary ... .... Wild Again: The Struggle to Save the Black-Footed Ferret 256 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | David S Jachowski Hardback | NYP 03/2014 | This engaging personal account of one of America's most contested wildlife conservation 9780520281653 | #211294A | £24.95 campaigns has as its central character the black-footed ferret. Once feared extinct, and still one Add to basket of North America's rarest mammals ... .... Winged Leviathan 192 pages | 140+ colour photos | The Story of the Humpback Whale Hardback | 10/2013 | 9781841075778 | Phil Clapham and Colin Baxter #210588A | £19.99 Add to basket Few animals inspire such wonder as the great whales, and the humpback whale can stake a fair claim to being the most beloved of all. Known for its spectacular breaching displays, ingenious feeding methods and its haunting song, the humpback ... .... Birds A Birdwatchers' Guide to Portugal, the Azores & Madeira Archipelagos 152 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps Colm Moore, Goncalo Elias and Helder