nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2016/04 April 2016 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Welcome to the April 2016 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 ● Atlas of the Predeaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland Invertebrates ● Bovids of the World: Antelopes, Gazelles, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Relatives Palaeontology ● Ecology in Action Marine & Freshwater Biology ● Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland General Natural History ● Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Western Mediterranean Regional & Travel ● How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature ● A Naturalists' Guide to the Birds of Hong Kong Botany & Plant Science ● Phillipps' Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo Animal & General Biology ● Protected Areas: Are They Safeguarding Biodiversity? Evolutionary Biology ● The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters Ecology ● A Summer of British Wildlife: 100 Great Days Out Watching Wildlife Habitats & Ecosystems ● Struik Pocket Guide: Insects of South Africa Conservation & Biodiversity ● Struik Pocket Guide: Snakes and Reptiles of Southern Africa ● Terra Papagalli / Land of Parrots Environmental Science ● The Water Vole: The Story of One of Britain's Most Endangered Mammals Physical Sciences Sustainable Development Stock titles Data Analysis Reference ● The Birds of Exmoor and the Quantocks ● The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka ● Crossbill Guides: Lesbos ● Guests of Summer: A House Martin Love Story ● Marine Wildlife King George Island Antarctica: Identification Guide ● Pinguicula of the Temperate North ● Pinguicula of Latin America ● The Mystery of the Pink Dolphin / Le MystŠre du Dauphin Rose (DVD) ● Wild Escapades Around Central India: A Collection of Travel Stories through the Wooded Valleys of Madhya Pradesh ● World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 14: Coleoptera: Elmidae and Protelmidae New editions ● Birds of Borneo (Helm Field Guide, 2nd edition) ● Bird-Dropping Tortrix Moths of the British Isles: A Field Guide to the Bird- dropping Mimics (2nd edition) ● Ecological Methods (4th edition) ● The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook (2nd edition) ● A Naturalists' Guide to the Birds of Singapore (2nd edition) New in paperback ● Cuckoo: Cheating By Nature Reissues ● A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand ● Flora of Madeira ● Pocket Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica ● Pocket Photo Guide to Birds of Peru ● Pocket Photo Guide to the Mammals of North Africa and the Middle East Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS LibraryPro Best wishes, -The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Mammals A Brief History of South American Metatherians 237 pages | 35 colour & 22 b/w Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals illustrations, 13 colour tables | Francisco J Goin, Michael O Woodburne, Ana Natalia Zimicz, Gabriel M Martin and Laur Hardback | 10/2015 | 9789401774185 | Chornogubsky #228611A | £74.50 Add to basket A Brief History of South American Metatherians summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians (one of two major mammalian clades), including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal ... Among the Bears 289 pages | no illustrations | Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild Paperback | 03/2015 | 9780692401552 Benjamin Kilham and Ed Gray | #228161A | £26.99 Add to basket A first-person account of wild bear behavior that is both a thrilling animal story and a groundbreaking work of science. In the spring of 1993, Ben Kilham, a naturalist who lives in the woodlands of New Hampshire, began raising a pair of ... Beneath the Surface 272 pages | 8 plates with colour photos Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish | John Hargrove and Howard Chua-Eoan Hardback | 05/2015 | 9781137280107 | Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two #221703A | £17.99 Add to basket continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer Paperback | NYP 05/2016 | fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience ... 9781250081407 | #228642A | £10.99 Add to basket Bighorn Sheep 85 pages | colour photos | Jack Ballard Paperback | 10/2014 | 9780762784912 Falcon Pocket Guide: Bighorn Sheep presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible | #228240A | £8.95 Add to basket information on this majestic animal. Where do they live? What enemies do they have? How do they communicate? Bighorn Sheep contains ... Das Europa der Wolfe [A Europe Ruled by Wolves] 227 pages | 144 colour photos, Kaj Granlund illustrations, and maps | This book is a competent but also critical view about the return of the wolf to Central Europe Paperback | 01/2016 | #228502A | and contributes to an objective discussion on the progressive return of the wolf in its natural £29.99 Add to basket habitat. For 2000 years man defended himself ... Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition 400 pages | Adam Miklosi Hardback | 12/2014 | 9780199646661 | This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature #215325A | £64.99 Add to basket on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating ... 9780198787778 | #228493A | £34.99 Add to basket Dynamics of Tiger Management in Priority Landscapes 332 pages | 16 plates with colour Evaluating and Developing a Mitigation Strategy for Maintaining Metapopulation photos; b/w illustrations, colour maps | Structure Paperback | 01/2015 | 9788181582478 Rajesh Gopal | #228191A | £23.50 Add to basket Tigers have an inherent habit to move across landscapes. To facilitate such movement, corridors are essential. Lack of corridors connecting landscapes results in fatal human–tiger conflict, where, in most cases, it is the tiger which ... Echoes of Camusfearna 96 pages | 4 plates with colour photos; Paul Yoxon and Grace M Yoxon b/w line drawings | In this touching and amusing book Grace and Paul Yoxon, founders of the International Otter Paperback | 05/1997 | 9781899171767 Survival Fund, share their adventures over the first 12 years ... from the creation of a Field | #228465A | £15.99 Add to basket Centre on the Isle of Skye through its evolution ... Echoes of Camusfearna DVD (All Regions) 1 disc, runtime: 27 min, aspect ratio: Virginia McKenna 16:9, rating: E, NTSC | This fascinating and haunting wildlife programme is narrated by Virginia McKenna and centres DVD | 01/2007 | 5020609007052 | on the West of Scotland not far from the Isle of Mull. This is the last stronghold of the wild sea #228466A | £17.80 Add to basket otter in Britain, made famous by Gavin Maxwell ... Elephant Dawn 360 pages | The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Paperback | NYP 06/2016 | Wilderness 9781760290337 | #228309A | £27.50 Sharon Pincott Add to basket In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new life with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of ... Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men 200 pages | illustrations | A Tribute to Those Who Fought to Save the Great Bear Paperback | 05/2006 | 9780762736539 Mike Lapinski | #228498A | £9.95 Add to basket Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men is a tribute to the core of men who were largely responsible for saving the grizzly bear from extinction by questioning public opinion and policies of their day, a time before professional biologists ... Growing Up Grizzly 48 pages | colour illustrations | The True Story of Baylee and Her Cubs Paperback | 09/2011 | 9780762779796 Amy Shapira and Douglas H Chadwick | #228366A | £8.95 Add to basket The True Story of a Big-Hearted Bear is a factual story of a mother grizzly bear named Baylee, her three cubs, and a two-year-old grizzly who Baylee adopts into their family. Grizzly bears are extremely protective of their young and ... Heart of a Lion 256 pages | A Lone Cat's Walk Across America Hardback | NYP 06/2016 | William Stolzenburg 9781620405529 | #228724A | £18.99 Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut Add to basket parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. In the Presence of Grizzlies 256 pages | colour illustrations | The Ancient Bond Between Men and Bears Paperback | 03/2009 | 9781599214900 Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock | #228442A | £10.95 Add to basket The most comprehensive and compelling chronicle of human-grizzly-bear interactions ever written, In the Presence of Grizzlies (formerly published as The Essential Grizzly) examines the fragile bond between ourselves and the quintessential ... Le Cheval de Guerre en Grece Ancienne [The War Horse in Ancient 352 pages | b/w illustrations | Greece] Paperback | 12/2015 | 9782753541368 | #228564A | £24.99 Add to basket Alexandre Blaineau and Pierre Brule This book is a contribution to the history of equestrian culture of the Greek world. By adopting the angle of the war horse, it aims to study the perks of military horseback riding and the actions of cavalry on the battlefield. Le Renard [The Fox] 184 pages | colour photos | Jean-Steve Meia Hardback | 03/2016 | 9782603024515 | This book is more than just a monograph. It presents a synthesis of knowledge about the fox, #228306A | £24.99 Add to basket but also the original results of the author, excerpts from field notes and tips for observation. The book seeks to place information about the ... Lonesome for Bears 144 pages | b/w illustrations | A Woman's Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness Paperback | 04/2008 | 9781599212104 Linda Jo Hunter and Amy Shapira | #228464A | £12.95 Add to basket Linda Hunter was terrified of bears, but she yearned for the solitude of the wilderness.