August 2018 Monthly Catalogue Welcome to the August 2018 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month. We are really excited to announce that we will be distributing the two-volume Handbook of the Bees of the British Isles, which will be published by the Ray Society in September. This massive and authoritative work is set to be a once-in-a-generation account. In other insect news, the FSC has just published Atlas of the Hydrophiloid Beetles of Britain and Ireland, which is in stock now. In other invertebrate news, if you are interested in spiders, we now have stock of Web Watching: A Guide to Webs & the Spiders That Make Them, which is a unique guide dedicated to spider webs. And the French Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle will publish Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 30: Chirostylidae of the Western and Central Pacific: Uroptychus and a New Genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) in September. For the other major animal groupings we also have several interesting books to mention. Starting off with mammals, Oregon State University Press will publish Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates in October, which highlights that we are getting to a point that enough data are being gathered through wildlife telemetry and tracking devices that we can start drawing up distribution atlases for some species. The University of Chicago Press has announced A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals" for January 2019, presenting a long-overdue revision of Lawlor's 1979 identification guide. We are expecting stock of Primates of East Africa: Pocket Identification Guide, a new fold-out guide from Conservation International. Cambridge University Press has announced a hefty, 800-page tome with Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation, due December. After the success of Harper Collin's Curlew Moon, birdwatchers can also look out for The Eastern Curlew: The Extraordinary Life of a Migratory Bird, which presents the perspective from a nature writer on the other side of the globe on this migratory species. Next year January will also see the publication of New Naturalist 139: Garden Birds, which will be written by none other than the BTO's Mike Toms. Once we have the upcoming New Naturalist on The Burren out of the building, we will process standing orders for this volume. We furthermore have stock of two slightly updated versions of Dave Gosney's privately produced birdwatching guides to Morocco, one for the coastal and mountainous regions, one for the desert region. For herpetologists we have two big titles coming up. Bloomsbury will publish Amphibians of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: A Photographic Guide in January, while CSIRO will publish a revised 7th edition of Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia in October. On the subject of botany, we currently have stock of Wild Flowers of the Algarve, Volume 2: Herbaceous Plants and The Palms of Cuba, both of which have been published privately by their respective authors. Noteworthy, especially for librarians is the recent publication by Jak Kaw Press of the massive 7-volume set The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada, which is the result of 30 years of research and editing. We have a large number of excellent titles dealing with conservation and biodiversity to mention this month. Oxford University Press has just published Social Science Theory for Environmental Sustainability: A Practical Guide in their Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series. We also have received stock for the latest addition to the Excellence in Ecology series published by the International Ecology Institute: Freshwater Acidification: Natural History, Ecology and Environmental Policy, as well as stock of Practical Management of Invasive Non-Native Weeds in Britain and Ireland, published by Packard Publishing. Yale University Press has announced Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere, while Cambridge University Press has released details for Plant Conservation: The Role of Habitat Restoration, and a new volume in their Ecological Reviews series, simply called Rewilding – all three of these are due for January. Island Press will publish Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez in September, which promises to be an excellent piece of investigative journalism on this threatened marine mammal. Lastly, the Marine Conservation Society has co-authored How to Live Plastic Free: A Day in the Life of a Plastic Detox, published by Headline, which is now available. Finally, two excellent environmental history titles worth mentioning are the paperback reissue of Energy and Civilization: A History in October by MIT Press, and Tropical Forests in Human Prehistory, History, and Modernity, due January 2019 from Oxford University Press. 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 Palaeontology & Geology Ancient Forests 456 pages | 1600 colour photos and colour illustrations | Western A Closer Look at Fossil Wood Colorado Publishing Company Frank J Daniels(Author), Richard D Dayvault(Author) Hardback #160038 2006 9780966293814 £185.00Add to Basket Frank Daniels and geologist Dick Dayvault (Rocks & Minerals editor for 30 years) team up to explore the intricacies of fossil wood by leading the reader on an expedition into the micro world of fossil wood mineralization and cell structures. 1600... Lithospheric Discontinuities 256 pages | American Geophysical Union Huaiyu Yuan(Editor), Barbara Romanowicz(Editor), Alan G Jones(Editor) Hardback #235359 Dec-2018 9781119249719 £136.00Add to Basket Understanding the origin and evolution of the continental crust continues to challenge Earth scientists. Lithospheric Discontinuities offers a multidisciplinary review of fine scale layering within the continental lithosphere to aid the... The Geology of Jersey, Channel Islands 53 pages | 22 colour photos & b/w illustrations | Geologists' Association A Clive Bishop(Author), David H Keen(Author), Stan Salmon(Author), John T Renouf(Author) Paperback #243198 2003 9780900717949 £16.99 Add to Basket The rocks of the island are well displayed in coastal exposures, and the clean, wave polished surfaces are ideal for studying rock relationships and textures. The 9 itineraries cover most of the island’s geology – metamorphic and igneous... Iceland from the West to the South 197 pages | 243 colour illustrations, 70 tables | Springer-Verlag Wolfgang Fraedrich(Author), Neli Heidari(Author) Paperback #243286 Sep-2018 9783319908625 £19.99 Add to Basket Iceland from the West to the South thoroughly describes Iceland's geological development and its current geological processes, taking into account both geographic and geo-ecological aspects. Furthermore, it includes suggested excursions... 01-08-2018 https://www.nhbs.com/monthly-catalogue Page 1 The Geology of Germany 242 pages | 270 illustrations | Springer-Verlag A Process-Oriented Approach Hardback #243287 Sep-2018 9783319761015 £69.99 Add to Basket Martin Meschede(Author), Laurence Warr(Author) This richly illustrated book presents Germany's geological evolution in the context of the Earth's dynamic history. It starts with an introduction to Geology and explains the plate tectonic development, as well as the formation of both... Digital Technology for Forensic Footwear Analysis and Vertebrate Ichnology 177 pages | 61 colour & 38 b/w illustrations, 30 tables | Springer-Verlag Matthew R Bennett(Author), Marcin Budka(Author) Hardback #243288 Sep-2018 9783319936888 £54.99 Add to Basket "There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps. Happily, I have always laid great stress upon it, and much practice has made it second nature to me."– Sherlock... The EPICA-DML Deep Ice Core 305 pages | 31 colour & 8 b/w illustrations, 300 colour tables | Springer- A Visual Record Verlag Sérgio Henrique Faria(Author), Sepp Kipfstuhl(Author), Anja Lambrecht(Author) Hardback #243462 2017 9783662553060 £129.99Add to Basket The line-scan images collected in The EPICA-DML Deep Ice Core represent the most accurate optical record of Antarctic ice cores ever presented, providing an invaluable resource for glaciologists and climate modellers, as well as a fascinating... Collectors Guide to Silicates 240 pages | 450 colour & 17 b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour tables Orthosilicates | Schiffer Robert J Lauf(Author) Hardback #243463 2017 9780764352867 £39.99 Add to Basket The definitive resource for mineral collectors, this comprehensive book describes the structural relationships among orthosilicateminerals, known for their hardness and brilliant colours, and the geological conditions that create prized specimens. It... Rockhounding Virginia 224 pages | 100 b/w photos, 20 b/w maps | Falcon Guides A Guide to the State's Best Rockhounding Sites Paperback #243464 2017 9781493028528 £15.95 Add to Basket Robert D Beard(Author) Explore the mineral-rich region of Virginia with veteran rockhound Robert Beard's Rockhounding Virginia and unearth the state's best rockhounding sites, ranging from popular and commercial sites to numerous lesser-known areas. Featuring an... History of Terrestrial Mammals in South America 350 pages | Springer-Verlag How South American Mammalian Fauna Changed from the Mesozoic to Recent