new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2008/01
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Mammals
 

The Baboon in Biomedical Research

Edited by John L VandeBerg, Sarah Williams-Blangero and Suzette D Tardif

The present volume was written to provide an overview of many diverse areas of biomedical research to which the baboon has made and continues to make important ....

Springer

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0387759905 | #172240A | £76.50 Add to basket

 

Bear Attacks in Canada

Erin McCloskey

The frequency and severity of bear attacks have significantly increased in Canada in recent years, a result of increasing human development in bear country and a growing ....

240 pages | illustrations | Lone Pine

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1551055627 | #173332A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Elephants and Ethics

Toward a Morality of Coexistence

Christen Wemmer, Catherine A Christen and John Seidensticker

In "Elephants and Ethics", Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen assemble an international cohort of experts to review the history of human-elephant relations, ....

464 pages | 30 b&w photos, 1 map | Johns Hopkins UP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0801888182 | #173425A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

Fifty Years of Flukes and Flippers

A Little History and Personal Adventures With Dolphins, Whales and Sea Lions - 1958-2007

William Evans

This book is a combination history of some aspects of Marine Mammal Science and a narrative of a special voyage by the author into the world of marine mammals. Although ....

250 pages | 37 colour photos, 51 b&w photos | Pensoft

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | #173256A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

A Guide to the Mammals of China

Edited by Andrew T Smith and Yan Xie

China's stunning diversity of natural habitats - from parched deserts to lush tropical forests - is home to more than 10 percent of the world's mammal species. "A Guide to the ....

576 pages | 83 colour illus., 572 maps | Princeton UP

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0691099847 | #173426A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Krallenaffen und Springtamarine

Affenzwerge in Mittel- und Südamerika

Gerhard Hoffmann

Monograph about the small South American primates Callitrichinae and Goeldi's Marmoset. ....

102 pages | illus | Filander

Pbk | 2005 | 3930831600 | #173266A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

Mamiferos de Guara

Juan Herrero, Carlos Prada, Alicia Garcia-Serrano et al

165 pages | Figs, col photos, tabs | Consejo de Proteccion Aragon

Pbk | 2006 | 8489862532 | #171167A | £21.95 Add to basket

 

Panda

An Intimate Portrait of One of the World's Most Elusive Creatures

Heather Angel

This is a charming portfolio of panda images from multi-award winning photographer and former president of the Royal Photographic Society, Heather Angel. ....

144 pages | 200 colour illustrations | David & Charles

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0715328522 | #173326A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Rhinoceros

Kelly Enright

On Disneyland's 'Jungle Cruise', three men are forever chased up a palm tree by a rhinoceros whose sharp horn moves endlessly just out of reach of the lowest man's ....

224 pages | illus | Reaktion Books

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 1861893744 | #172937A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Die Tapire

Edited by Sheryl Todd and Udo Ganslo er

Monograph on the biology, ecology and status of the four species of tapir. ....

216 pages | illus, diagrams | Filander

Pbk | 2005 | 3930831414 | #173267A | £37.00 Add to basket

 

Thousand Mile Song

Whale Music in a Sea of Sound

David Rothenberg

This book is from the bestselling author of "Why Birds Sing", a fascinating exploration of an alien intelligence in our midst: whales and their profoundly mystical music. ....

272 pages | 60 illustrations, photographs | Basic Books

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0465071287 | #173281A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

The Wild Mammals of Wisconsin

Charles A Long

A comprehensive treatise on mammals found in Wisconsin, updating information on classification, identification, geography and other concepts of their biology. These ....

544 pages | Illus, drawings, maps and tables, plate with color photos | Pensoft

Hbk | 2008 | 9546423130 | #168896A | £77.99 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 9546423033 | #173255A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Wilde Hunde

Edited by Udo Ganslosser and Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

Contributed volume about wild dogs and the evolution of domesticated dogs. ....

402 pages | illus | Filander

Pbk | 2006 | 3930831635 | #173265A | £48.00 Add to basket

 
Birds
 

Aigle de Bonelli

Mediterraneen Meconnu

Rozen Morvan

This chronicle reveals the everyday life of eagles and eaglets studied in Herault in France during 22 years. It is the result of a scientist, 2 photographers and an ....

304 pages | 110 photos, 120 water colours | BIOTOPE Parth‚nope

Pbk | 2007 | 2952996903 | #172877A | £44.99 Add to basket

 

Albatrosses

Terence Lindsay

This work outlines the life histories of these birds, and explores some of the main strategies and tactics that have evolved to enable them to achieve mastery of one of the ....

144 pages | CSIRO

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0643094210 | #169083A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Birds of Argyll

Edited by Clive Craik, Paul Daw, Bob Furness, Steve Petty and David Wood

This avifauna deals with the history, status and distribution of birds in Argyll. The core of the book is made up of individual accounts describing the status of the 327 bird ....

Argyll Bird Club

Hbk | 2007 | 0955777704 | #173329A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Birds of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

David Chapman

More than 250 species of birds are recorded in Cornwall every year. This book includes them all, with colour photographs of all the common ones, most of the uncommon ones, and ....

96 pages | 162 col photos | Alison Hodge

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0906720559 | #173422A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds of Lancashire and North Merseyside

Edited by Steve White, Barry McCarthy and Maurice Jones

The Birds of Lancashire & North Merseyside is the first avifauna of this region to be published since 1953. It records in great detail the state of the county's birds at ....

460 pages | 311 photos, over 100 line drawings, distribution maps, diagrams | Hobby Publications

Hbk | NYP 02/2008 | #171621A | £46.50 Add to basket

 

Birds of Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas and Sabah

R Thomas and S Thomas

Home recording. Covers over 50 species. ....

- | Frogmouth Publications

CD | 2007 | #156570A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds of Zambia

An Atlas and Handbook

Robert J Dowsett, Dylan R Aspinwall and Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire

This book presents detailed accounts of the more than 750 species known (among which there are 100 migrants from the northern hemisphere) in Zambia. Extensive fieldwork by ....

606 pages | 16 colour plates, 720 distribution maps | Tauraco Press

Pbk | NYP 02/2008 | 2872250050 | #172927A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Cape May Birds

An Introduction to Familiar Species

James Kavanagh

This laminated fold out guide is a great source of portable information about the most commonly seen birds in Cape May County, New Jersey. Cape May is one of the top birding ....

12 pages | Illus | Waterford Press

Pbk | 2007 | 1583553347 | #173053A | £5.50 Add to basket

 

The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

Bob Gress and Pete Janzen

Kansas is a bird-watcher's paradise, with its key location at the hub of the hemisphere's migration corridors and exceptional habitat diversity; 470 avian species ....

368 pages | 351 colour photographs, 1 colour map | Kansas UP

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0700615652 | #173398A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

A Guide to the Birds of Anguilla

Steve H Holliday, Karim VD Hodge and Damian E Hughes

Essential guide to finding and identifying the common birds of Anguilla. Great Colour images of over 60 species of bird. Maps and directions to 16 of the best sites for ....

Anguilla National Trust

| 1905601107 | #173164A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

A Life of Ospreys

Roy Dennis

Ospreys are one of our best known and best loved birds and the name Roy Dennis is not only synonymous with the successful return of the osprey to Scotland, but is also ....

224 pages | colour illus | Whittles

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1904445268 | #173262A | £18.99 Add to basket

 

Limitierende Faktoren für Alpine Raufusshuhn-Populationen

Helmut Steiner, Alois Schmalzer and Norbert Pühringer

Limiting factors for pheasant populations in the alps. ....

148 pages | Biologiezentrum

2007 | #173406A | £23.50 Add to basket

 

Die Namen der Vögel Europas

Bedeutung der deutschen und wissenschaftlichen Namen

Viktor Wember

Etymology of German and Scientific names of bird species. ....

256 pages | Illus | Aula

Pbk | 2007 | 3891047096 | #173036A | £24.50 Add to basket

 

The Numbers of Inshore Waterbirds Using Tay Bay During the Non-Breeding Season, and an Assessment of the Area's Potential for Qualification as a Marine SPA.

Ilka Sohle, Claire McSorley, Ben Dean, Andy Webb and James B Reid

Tay Bay is known to support large numbers of inshore waterbirds over the winter period. The intertidal areas of the Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary are included within an ....

60 pages | Tabs, figs | JNCC

Pbk | 2007 | #173219A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Les Oiseaux de Suisse

Lionel Maumary, Laurent Vallotton and Peter Knaus

Handbook on the birds of Switzerland. Covers 419 species, including migrants. Each species account shows several colour photos, distribution map, graphs of seasonal ....

848 pages | colour photos, distribution maps | Station Ornithologique

Hbk | 2007 | 3952300616 | #173108A | £129.99 Add to basket

 

Les Oiseaux de la Réunion

Armand Barau, Christian H Jouanin and Nicolas Barre

Well-illustrated guide to the region's birds. ....

207 pages | 4 col illus | Orphie

Pbk | 2005 | 2877632636 | #173278A | £33.50 Add to basket

 

Penguin

Stephen Martin

From the Linux logo to "The March of the Penguins", a certain tuxedo-wearing member of the animal kingdom has long captured our hearts and imaginations. Stephen Martin regales ....

224 pages | illus | Reaktion Books

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 1861893760 | #172936A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

The Prime Origins Guide to Best Birding in Kruger

Brett Hilton-Barber and Lou Arthur

A comprehensive, entertaining and informative guide to the rich birdlife of the Kruger National Park. With over 300 photographs and 100 illustrations, it is the ideal Kruger ....

354 pages | colour photos | Prime Origins Publishers

| #173325A | £36.00 Add to basket

 

Die Stimmen der Vögel Europas

Beschreibung - Sonagramme - Tonaufnahmen

Hans-Heiner Bergmann, Hans-Wolfgang Helb and Sabine Baumann

Describes the songs and calls of all 474 European birds species in detail with sonograms, and explains their meaning. A DVD with examples of calls and songs in mp3 ....

520 pages | 400 colour illus | Aula

Hbk | 2007 | 389104710X | #173035A | £39.50 Add to basket

 

Waterbirds in the UK 2005/06

Andy Musgrove, Mark Collier, Alex Banks, Neil Calbrade and Richard Hearn

This report presents the results of WeBS in 2005/06 and includes data from other national and local waterbird monitoring schemes. It provides a single, comprehensive ....

207 pages | Figs, graphs, maps | BTO

Pbk | 2007 | 1906204276 | #173261A |

Normally £29.99

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iDentify British Birds

250 Species for your MP3 or Digital Audio Player

Birdguides

A complete library of bird songs and calls in your pocket, plus expert commentaries from Dave Gosney to help you identify species in your garden or in the field. ....

- | BirdGuides

CD | 2006 | #172386A | £24.95 Add to basket

 
Reptiles & Amphibians
 

Atlas des Reptiles du Cameroun

Laurent Chirio and Matthew LeBreton

The atlas covers 285 species of reptiles; each species account includes information on identification, biology, conservation, and distribution. ....

600 pages | Paris MNHN

2007 | 2856536034 | #172841A | £62.00 Add to basket

 

Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Amphibians

Stan Hillman, Philip C Withers, Robert Drewes and Stanley D Hillyard

Amphibians are the extant descendants of the first vertebrate class to successfully colonize terrestrial environments; hence they occupy a unique position between fish and ....

464 pages | illus | OUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0198570317 | #173055A | £65.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0198570325 | #156236A | £27.50 Add to basket

 

Guide des Cameleons de Madagascar / A Guide to the Chameleons of Madagascar

Gilles Moynot and Aurelia Moynot

Discover the fabulous diversity of chameleons in Madagascar. This guide presents 42 species illustrated with over 70 pictures, 42 charts of distribution and a list of the ....

57 pages | Water colours | BIOTOPE Parth‚nope

Pbk | 2007 | 2952505004 | #172878A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Monitor Lizards

Natural History, Captive Care and Breeding

Bernd Eidenmüller

176 pages | Chimaira

Hbk | 2007 | 3899734718 | #173000A | £39.00 Add to basket

 

The Natural History and Management of the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus Polyphemus Daudin)

Ray E Ashton and Patricia S Ashton

This handbook is the first book on tortoise management and research techniques that can be applied to any species. It is designed to be the manual that can serve for ....

Krieger

Hbk | NYP 02/2008 | 1575241625 | #123035A | £43.50 Add to basket

 

Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in our Understanding

Committee on Standard English and Scientfic Names

This is the official name list of American Society of Ichythologists and Herpetologists, Herpetologists League, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. The ....

92 pages | SSAR

Pbk | 2008 | 0916984745 | #172999A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

A fifty Year History: 1958 to 2007

John J Moriarty and Breck Bartholomew

The SSAR History provides highlights of the first 50 years of the Society's existence. This publication includes complete listing of 50-year, 40+ year, and 25+ year members, ....

60 pages | Col & b/w photos, figs | SSAR

Pbk | 2007 | 0916984729 | #172998A | £7.50 Add to basket

 

The Tortoises and Turtles of Madagascar

Miguel Pedrono

Madagascar has a rich and diverse reptile fauna including several species of chelonians that are found nowhere else. It is home to such spectacular species as the Radiated ....

147 pages | 118 colour photos | Natural History Publications

Hbk | NYP 02/2008 | 983812124X | #172102A | £39.99 Add to basket

 
Fishes
 

Fish Behaviour

Edited by Carin Magnhagen, Victoria A Braithwaite, Elisabet Forsgren and BG Kapoor

The diversity of fish species is striking, and the behavioural specialisations that have been documented are truly amazing. In many cases, researchers have used different fish ....

660 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 1578084350 | #164852A | £77.00 Add to basket

 

Fish Larval Physiology

Edited by Roderick Nigel Finn and BG Kapoor

To study physiology is to examine how organisms have evolved solutions to the business of living in an inanimate world. Our world is and has always been dominated by physical ....

420 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1578083885 | #164843A | £77.80 Add to basket

 

The Freshwater and Brackish Water Fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa, Volume 1

Guy G Teugels and Carl D Hopkins

The current bilingual fauna provides a summary of the taxonomy and distribution of the fresh and brackish water fishes of the Lower Guinean ichthyofaunal province of ....

800 pages | b/w photos, 2 col plates | MRAC

| 9074752209 | #173245A | £33.50 Add to basket

 

Guide des Poissons de Tahiti et ses les

Philippe Bacchet, Thierry Zysman and Yves Lefevre

Photo identification guide to all fish species of Tahiti that can be encountered in depths up to 90m. ....

607 pages | colour photos | Tethys Editions

Hbk | 2007 | 2915654093 | #171522A | £54.50 Add to basket

 

Indian Ocean Reef Guide

Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, East Africa, Seychelles

Helmut Debelius

With 1000 photographs. Includes the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, East Africa and Seychelles. ....

321 pages | Col photos | IKAN

Hbk | 2006 | #172857A | £26.98 Add to basket

 

Multilingual Dictionary of Fish and Fish Products

OECD

*Essential Reference book, first published in 1968 *Fully updated with new languages including Korean ....

404 pages | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 1405157607 | #173140A | £65.00 Add to basket

 

Poissons de l'Ile de la Reunion

James Caratini and Thierry Soriano

A photo identification guide to the most common species of fish. Covers 115 species with 162 photos. ....

123 pages | Orphie

Pbk | 2007 | 2877633985 | #173322A | £21.50 Add to basket

 

World Atlas of Marine Fishes

Rudie H Kuiter and Helmut Debelius

This World Atlas shows more than 6000 photos of 4200 species of fish found in the oceans worldwide. Presented here are the fishes one is likely to see when diving or ....

728 pages | 6,000 photos | IKAN

Hbk | 2007 | 3925919775 | #172859A | £56.50 Add to basket

 
Invertebrates
 

Die Ameisen Mittel- und Nordeuropas

Bernhard Seifert

Covers 121 species of European ants; a general introduction to biology and ecology of ants; identification keys, bibliography. Each species account has colour photos and text ....

368 pages | colour photos, drawings | Lutra

Hbk | 2007 | 3936412030 | #172980A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Butterflies and Moths of Hong Kong

Portraits With Flowers

Paul Lau Kwok-Leung

Presents 150 intimate portraits of live butterflies and moths fluttering from flower to flower in the wild or gardens. Common names and scientific names of the butterflies, ....

160 pages | Col photos | Spoonbill Books

Hbk | 2007 | 9889849097 | #172762A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Butterfly

A Photographic Portrait

Thomas Marent

This is an extraordinary photographic portrait of the world's butterflies and moths from Swiss photographer Thomas Marent. From a butterfly's first struggle to free itself from ....

280 pages | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1405325402 | #173020A |

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The Complete Guide to Rearing the Eastern Hercules Beetle and Other Rhinoceros Beetles

Orin McMonigle

Detailed information on egg laying, larval care, feeding, pupation, etc. B/W photos throughout. Expanded sections including pictures and rearing information for ....

40 pages | 2 colour plates | Elytra and Antenna

Pbk | 2008 | 0980240107 | #173394A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Dragonflies

Philip Corbet and Stephen Brooks

Dragonflies are among the most ancient of living creatures - few insect groups fascinate as much or are more immediately recognisable. ....

448 pages | Harper Collins

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0007151683 | #137637A |

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Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0007151691 | #137638A |

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NHBS OFFER PRICE: £17.99

 

Esperiana Memoir, Volume 3: Lepidoptera Africana 3

Edited by Hermann Hacker

Review of the genus Zamarada Moore, 1887 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in Tanzania, with description of new species (Leif Aarvik & Anders Bjornstad) ....

495 pages | plates | Hermann H. Hacker - Esperiana

Hbk | 2007 | 3938249056 | #161571A | £149.99 Add to basket

 

European Strategy for the Conservation on Invertebrates

Edited by John R Haslett

Invertebrate animals make up the greater part of the world's biological diversity and are present in all habitats, where they perform essential ecological functions. Their ....

91 pages | Council of Europe

Pbk | 2008 | 9287163596 | #173396A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

A Field Guide to Molluscs of Northern Chile

Tom Ashton

This photographic field guide features colour images of many of the gastropods and bivalves of the Antofagasta area in the Atacama desert of Northern Chile. ....

112 pages | Col photos, illus, 1 map | Native Marine

Pbk | 2007 | #173334A | £33.99 Add to basket

 

Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects

Edited by William O Lamp, Richard C Berberet, Leon G Higley and Craig R Baird

Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects is a comprehensive text that examines agricultural pest management from all angles - magnifying practical field strategies for ....

188 pages | 254 photos and maps | APS

Pbk | 2007 | 0977620905 | #172824A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

Insect Immunology

Edited by Nancy Beckage

Given the critical importance of insect immunology in insect vector-parasite interactions and vector control, biological control of agricultural insect pests, and ....

360 pages | Academic Press

Hbk | 2008 | 0123739764 | #170554A | £51.99 Add to basket

 

Invertebrate Neurobiology

Geoffrey North and Ralph J Greenspan

With an emphasis on evolutionary aspects of neurobiology in model and non-model invertebrates, this forward-looking volume includes chapters on eye evolution, higher ....

800 pages | Illustrations | Scion Publishing Ltd

Hbk | 2007 | 0879698195 | #173023A | £75.00 Add to basket

 

Die Land und Susswassermollusken Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns

ML Zettler, U Jueg, H Menzel-Harloff, U Gollnitz and S Petrick

320 pages | Obotritendruck GmbH

Hbk | 2006 | 3933781523 | #169601A | £57.50 Add to basket

 

The Millet Stem Fly

Gan Yaojin Dong Zhiping. et al

The millet stem fly is the principal pest that does great harm to the millet. The authors carry out a thorough and systematic study in different ecotopes, which describes ....

125 pages | CSBS

Hbk | 2007 | 703019263X | #173340A | £32.99 Add to basket

 

Les Papillons de Jour d'Ile-de-France et de l'Oise

Yves Doux and Christian Gibeaux

Identification guide to the 121 butterfly species found in the Paris region. Each species account a colour drawing, a description, notes on ecology, distribution and ....

288 pages | colour illus | BIOTOPE Parth‚nope

Hbk | 2007 | 2914817207 | #166011A | £40.50 Add to basket

 

Shellfish Safety and Quality

Edited by S Shumway

Shellfish remain a very popular and nutritious food, but consumption may present a particularly high risk to consumers. Edited by leading authorities in the field, this ....

384 pages | Woodhead

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1845691520 | #171776A | £199.00 Add to basket

 

World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera)

Yang Ding and Zhu Yajun

The long-legged flies or Dolichopodidae are one of the largest groups in Brachycera. Now 226 genera and 6870 species are known from the world. They are easily identified by the ....

704 pages | Plates | CSBS

Hbk | 2006 | 7811171023 | #173339A | £82.99 Add to basket

 

World Catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera)

Yang Ding and Zhang Kuiyan

The dance flies or Empididae are one of the largest groups in Brachycera (Diptera), and belong to the superfamily Empidoidea. Now 179 genera and 4969 species are known from the ....

599 pages | Plates | CSBS

Hbk | 2007 | 7811174235 | #173338A | £68.99 Add to basket

 
Palaeontology
 

Biostratigraphy

Microfossils and Geological Time

Brian McGowran

In modern geochronology - timescale-building and making correlations between oceans, continents and hemispheres - the microfossil record of speciations and extinctions is ....

459 pages | 210 illus | CUP

Pbk | NYP 02/2008 | 0521048176 | #173418A | £27.99 Add to basket

 

Graptolites from the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Jordan

David K Loydell

This issue investigates the forty-two graptoloid graptolite species which are described from the upper Hirnantian persculptus Biozone, lower Rhuddanian ascensus-acuminatus and ....

68 pages | 2 plates, 22 figs | Blackwell

Pbk | 2007 | 1405179783 | #173158A | £41.99 Add to basket

 

The Legacy of the Mastodon

The Golden Age of Fossils in America

Keith Thomson

The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up ....

320 pages | 28 b&w illustrations + 6 maps | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0300117043 | #173386A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Mass Extinction

Ashraf MT Elewa

The present book combines three main aspects: five major mass extinctions; contributions on some other minor extinctions; and more importantly contributions on the current mass ....

266 pages | 56 illus. | Springer

Hbk | 2008 | 3540759158 | #173314A | £100.00 Add to basket

 
Marine & Freshwater Biology
 

Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs

Edited by Tim McClanahan and George Branch

Biologists have made significant advances in our understanding of the Earth's shallow subtidal marine ecosystems, but the findings on these disparate regions have never ....

256 pages | OUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0195319958 | #173052A | £46.99 Add to basket

 

Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment

Edited by Estelle V Balian, Christian Leveque, Hendrik Segers and K Martens

The Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment gives a state of the art assessment of the diversity and distribution of Metazoa in the continental waters of the world. The ....

636 pages | Springer

Hbk | NYP 02/2008 | 1402082584 | #173319A | £115.50 Add to basket

 

The Human, the Orchid and the Octopus

Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World

Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein

Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader ....

305 pages | - | Bloomsbury

Hbk | 2007 | 1596914173 | #173214A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Ocean

The World's Last Wilderness Revealed

Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Eales, Fabien Cousteau et al

Explore the last wilderness left on Earth. From mangrove swamp to ocean floor, mollusc to manatee, Atlantic Conveyer to Hurricane Katrina, unravel the mysteries of the sea. ....

512 pages | Col illus | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | 2006 | 1405312920 | #161515A | £29.99 Add to basket

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 1405330929 | #173102A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Status of Coral Reefs in the Southwest Pacific: 2004

Edited by Reuben Sulu

Coral reefs, one of the most diverse and biologically productive ecosystems in the world, play an integral part in the lives of the people of the South Pacific and in the ....

274 pages | IPS

2007 | 9820203864 | #173024A | £37.99 Add to basket

 
General Natural History
 

Alexander von Humboldt

A Metabiography

Nicolaas A Rupke

Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science. In Germany, his renown has generated continuous biographical interest from late-Prussian ....

320 pages | illus | Peter Lang

Hbk | 2005 | 3631539320 | #163911A | £42.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0226731499 | #173196A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Architecture by Birds and Insects

A Natural Art

Peggy MacNamara and David Quammen

Influential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, "All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or ....

128 pages | 56 col plates | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0226500977 | #173181A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Art of Flower and Garden Photography

Clive Nichols

Lavishly illustrated with Clive Nicols' own award-winning work, this is an inspirational book as well as a practical one. Aimed at the many photographers who find their greatest ....

160 pages | Full Colour throughout | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 190253848X | #172800A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

The Art of Natural History

Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850

Edited by Therese O'Malley and Amy RW Meyers

'Making knowledge visible' is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by ....

280 pages | 170 b&w illustrations + 50 colour images | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 030012158X | #173383A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Birds, the Bees and the Platypuses

Crazy, Sexy and Cool Stories from Science

Michael Gross

Breathtaking scientific innovations and findings are wrapped in a big portion of humour by an excellent science journalist. ....

270 pages | VCH

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 3527322876 | #173141A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Chasing the Light

David Noton

Chasing the Light is a film exploring the essentials of location photography; location finding, pervisualisation, understanding natural light, composition and colour. The film ....

David Noton Photography

DVD | NYP 03/2008 | #173244A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Concepts of Nature

A Wildlife Photographer's Journey

Andy Rouse

Following the success of "Joe Cornish's First Light: A Landscape Photographer's Art," Argentum is proud to present a companion volume by another photographer who is also a ....

160 pages | Col photos | Aurum Press

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1902538528 | #173287A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Cosmic Anger

Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

Gordon Fraser

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in ....

304 pages | 16 page colour plate section and 2 b/w line drawings | OUP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0199208468 | #172847A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Downright Epicure: Essays on Edward Ashdown Bunyard (1878-1939)

Edward Wilson

Edward Ashdown Bunyard (1878-1939) was England's foremost pomologist (student of apples) and a significant gastronome and epicure in the 1920s and 30s. He wrote four books of ....

400 pages | illus | Prospect Books

Hbk | 2007 | 190301848X | #172947A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

The Frog Who Croaked Blue

Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

Jamie Ward

As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was ....

168 pages | Psychology Press

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0415430135 | #173125A | £17.99 Add to basket

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Garden Photographer of the Year

Collection 01

This beautiful book showcases the shortlisted and winning photographs from the eighth Garden Photographer of the Year competition. ....

Col photos | AA

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0749557117 | #173366A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Humans, Nature, and Birds

Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens

Darryl Wheye, Donald Kennedy and Paul R Ehrlich

This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual 'gallery' where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These ....

256 pages | 75 colour illustrations | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0300123884 | #173385A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Imperial Nature

Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science

Jim Endersby

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first-and most ....

400 pages | 49 halftones, 1 line drawing | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0226207919 | #173184A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

It's a Jungle Up There

More Tales from the Treetops

Margaret D Lowman, Edward Burgess and James Burgess

Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while raising her two sons, ....

291 pages | 35 b/w illus | Yale UP

Hbk | 2006 | 030010863X | #157666A | £19.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0300129238 | #173392A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy

Edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker

Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ....

352 pages | 19 line illus, 30 halftones, 1 colour halftone | OUP

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0199231257 | #172845A | £55.00 Add to basket

 

The Kiwi's Egg

Charles Darwin and Natural Selection

David Quammen

Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for how evolution occurs. ....

304 pages | - | Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0753823500 | #173275A | £7.99 Add to basket

 

The Ladyslipper and I

G Ledyard Stebbins

The Ladyslipper and I is the autobiography of G.Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000), widely regarded as one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of the twentieth ....

173 pages | B/w plates | Missouri BG

Hbk | 2007 | 091527986X | #111246A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Landscape Beyond

Insights and Inspiration for Photographers

David Ward

In David Ward's critically acclaimed first book, "Landscape Within", he asked questions about human perception and the creative process and why photographers make images. David ....

128 pages | Full colour throughout | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 190253851X | #173288A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Life in Cold Blood - DVD

David Attenborough

The last in David Attenborough's pioneering Life series, in which he explores the fascinating lives of reptiles and amphibians that have roamed the planet for millions of ....

2 DVD set | BBC Video

DVD | NYP 02/2008 | BBCDVD2553 | #172094A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Mastering Digital Exposure and HDR Imaging

Understanding the Next-Generation of Digital Cameras

Chris Weston

Mastering Digital Exposure will take the "pro and aspiring pro" remit of the Mastering photography series into the little-understood realm of digital exposure. Of all the ....

192 pages | 300 images | RotoVision

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 2940378290 | #172832A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Les Oiseaux de Buffon

Paul-Marie Grinevald

More than 40 colour plates are presented in honour of Buffon's tercentenary. ....

112 pages | Col illus | E&C Editions

Pbk | 2007 | 2911722132 | #168763A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Photography Essentials: Waiting for the Light

David Noton

"Waiting for the Light" is a breathtaking visual celebration of David Noton's work to date as one of the world's finest landscape photographers.It is a long-awaited ....

160 pages | David & Charles

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0715327410 | #173057A | £22.50 Add to basket

 

Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology

Edited by Jean Beagle Ristaino

Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology is a biographical book on the early women scientists who led the way for others in the field of plant pathology. These untold stories about ....

352 pages | 133 b/w figs | APS

Hbk | 2007 | 0890543593 | #172821A | £69.00 Add to basket

 

Pomegranate Roads

A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden

Gregory M Levin

For more than forty years, Dr. Gregory Levin trekked across Central Asia and the Trans-Caucasus in search of rare, endangered and mysterious wild pomegranates. His home ....

Floreant

Pbk | 2006 | 0964949768 | #173026A | £10.99 Add to basket

 

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

Oren Solomon Harman and Michael R Dietrich

This book is the first devoted to modern biology's innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of ....

352 pages | 32 b&w illustrations | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 030011639X | #173390A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

The Science of Describing

Natural History in Renaissance Europe

Brian W Ogilvie

Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and ....

431 pages | 14 halftones, 21 line drawings | Chicago UP

Hbk | 2006 | 0226620875 | #157504A | £28.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0226620883 | #173197A | £13.99 Add to basket

 

Tides of History

Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy

Michael S Reidy

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the ....

352 pages | 61 halftones | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0226709329 | #173190A | £20.99 Add to basket

 

Time

A User's Guide

Stefan Klein

Why are there morning people and night people? How come time flies when you're having fun and three minutes can sometimes seem an eternity? Would time exist if we didn't ....

288 pages | Penguin

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0141034637 | #173109A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Time

Andy Goldsworthy

Celebrates the many ways in which Goldsworthy's art evokes the passage of time, offering an insight into his working methods as well as images of his most recent work. ....

204 pages | 400 col illus | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | 2000 | 0500510261 | #113273A | £34.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0500287503 | #173246A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

The Tragic Sense of Life

Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought

Robert J Richards

Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel ....

512 pages | 8 col plates, 122 halftones | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0226712141 | #173183A | £20.50 Add to basket

 

Wild

An Elemental Journey

Jay Griffiths

Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender ....

384 pages | - | Tarcher

Hbk | 2006 | 158542403X | #165624A | £16.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0141006447 | #173112A | £8.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife Diaries Boxset - DVD

Taking you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions from the life and death struggle to save Orangutan orphans on Borneo; to the extraordinary life-stories of Masai Mara big cast. ....

4 DVD set | BBC Video

DVD | 2008 | BBCDVD2403 | #172942A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Worlds Before Adam

The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Martin J S Rudwick

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The ....

800 pages | 125 halftones, 40 line drawings | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0226731286 | #173182A | £25.50 Add to basket

 

Zero Time Space

How Quantum Tunneling Broke the Light Speed Barrier

Gunter Nimtz, Astrid Haibel and Ulrich Walter

This English edition of a successful, proven title provides a sound scientific background, while allowing a popular presentation of the physics behind the strange and ....

110 pages | VCH Verlag

Pbk | 2008 | 3527407359 | #173145A | £16.99 Add to basket

 
Regional & Travel
 

Birds Eye View

Richard du Toit

Birds Eye View is a collection of aerial images featuring wildlife, landscapes and indigenous people of southern and east Africa. It explores the southern African ....

208 pages | Art Publishers Pty Ltd

2007 | 191968848X | #170172A | £42.99 Add to basket

 

Ensuring Greater Yellowstone's Future

Choices for Leaders and Citizens

Susan G Clark

How can difficult environmental problems be solved when the issues cross jurisdictional boundaries and involve diverse constituencies? What kind of leadership behaviour and ....

304 pages | 2 b&w illustrations | Yale UP

Hbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0300124228 | #173391A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Exploring the Cornish Coast

David Chapman

Cornwall is almost surrounded by sea. Some 300 miles of coast includes majestic cliffs, sheltered harbours, creeks and estuaries, and magnificent beaches. This book focuses on ....

128 pages | 204 col photos | Alison Hodge

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0906720567 | #173423A | £6.99 Add to basket

 

Fauna Vertebrada del Parc Natural de la Serra de Montsant

Joan Barrull and Isabel Mate

275 pages | colour photos | Diputacio de Tarragona

Pbk | 2007 | 8495835584 | #171166A | £16.50 Add to basket

 

Great Rift Valley

A Shah

A picture-driven book that focuses on the East African segment of the Great Rift Valley, the book covers seven ecosystems that fall within this region and presents the following ....

144 pages | Struik

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1770074503 | #172175A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Mammoth Cave National Park

Reflections

Raymond Klass

Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park is home to the world's longest cave system. Nature photographer Raymond Klass was awarded an artist-in-residence position at the park and ....

144 pages | 117 colour photos | Kentucky UP

Hbk | 2005 | 0813123534 | #155513A | £16.95 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0813191939 | #173397A | £16.50 Add to basket

 

National Geographic's Guide to the State Parks of the United States

National Geographic Society

The new edition of this popular guide is ideal for the 700 million vacationers who visit state parks each year. From the white water at Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania, to the ....

384 pages | 250 col photos, 32 col maps | National Geographic

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1426202512 | #172969A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

National Trail Guides: Offa's Dyke Path North

E Kay, K Kay and M Richards

Offa's Dyke Path is the 177-mile (283-km) National Trail that follows the course of the earthwork that gives it its name. This volume, now fully updated, features the northern ....

144 pages | Illus | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1845133129 | #173283A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

National Trail Guides: Pembrokeshire Coast Path

Brian John

The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is one of the most popular of the fifteen National Trails in England and Wales. Running for 186 miles (299 km), it follows the spectacular coast ....

168 pages | Illus | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1845133102 | #173285A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

National Trail Guides: South Downs Way

Paul Millmore

The South Downs Way runs for 100 miles (160 km) over the chalk downland of Sussex and Hampshire, from Eastbourne to Winchester. It is one of only two National Trails that can ....

168 pages | Illus | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1845133110 | #173286A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

National Trail Guides: South West Coast Path - Falmouth to Exmouth

Brian Le Messurier

The South West Coast Path is the spectacular 630-mile (1008-km) National Trail around the westmost tip of Britain. This volume features the 172-mile (277-km) section of the ....

168 pages | Illus | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1845133137 | #173284A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

National Trail Guides: The Ridgeway

Anthony Burton

The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe. It runs for 87 miles (140 km) from Overton Hill in the west, across the Marlborough Downs and the Vale of the ....

144 pages | Illus | Aurum Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1845133099 | #173282A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

The Nature Guide to the Hortobagy and Tisza River Floodplain, Hungary

Dirk Hilbers

Guide to the wildlife, birds and flowers; includes observation tips and trail information. ....

173 pages | colour illus | KNNV

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 9050112765 | #173095A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Nature Sounds from Eastern Part of Turkey

Tero Linjama

An audio report of a birding trip to Turkey, May/June 2007. ....

20 pages | running time: 72 minutes | Sounds from Nature

CD | 2007 | #173335A | £30.54 Add to basket

 

Of Prairie, Woods, and Water

Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing

Joel Greenberg and Joel Greenberg

In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago's landscape ....

424 pages | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0226306607 | #173180A | £23.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0226306615 | #173178A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Ontario Nature Guide

Krista Kagume

Learning to identify the species and their various roles in our ecosystem makes outdoor experiences, from walking about your neighborhood to a visit to a national park, much ....

224 pages | Lone Pine

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1551055643 | #173333A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

Pocket Guides to the Flora and Fauna of Israel

Noam Kirshenbaum

A box that contains four guides: Mammal Pocket Guide, Bird Pocket Guide, Wildflower Pocket Guide and Trees & Shrubs of Israel. Each guide includes detailed illustrations ....

- | Noam Kirshenbaum

Unbound | 2007 | #171424A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

RSPB Wildlife of Britain

The Definitive Visual Guide

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

From golden eagles in the Scottish Highlands to Portuguese Man 'o' War jellyfish off the coast of Cornwall, Britain boasts an astonishing array of wildlife and habitat. ....

512 pages | colour photos | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1405329327 | #173094A |

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Sudan Post-Conflict Environment Assessment

UNEP

The Sudan Post Conflict Environmental Assessment provides an overview of environmental status and issues for Sudan and its territorial waters of the Red Sea. ....

354 pages | UNEP

Pbk | 2007 | 9280727028 | #173236A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Tree of Rivers

The Story of tthe Amazon

John Hemming

Describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. ....

368 pages | 70 illus, maps | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0500514011 | #173248A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

Wildlife and Wilderness in the Waterfall Country

Roger Fryer

A detailed guide to the New South Wales Mid North Coast and the Great Escarpment - the Waterfall Country east of the Dividing Range. Within easy reach of Sydney and Brisbane, ....

144 pages | CSIRO

Pbk | 2007 | 0646468693 | #172215A | £14.50 Add to basket

 

The Wildlife of Dartmoor

Norman Baldock and John Walters

This book is about the fantastic variety of wildlife to be found in Dartmoor National Park, from lichens and ferns to buzzards and otters. ....

136 pages | colour photos | John Walters

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0954025636 | #172554A | £19.99 Add to basket

 
Botany & Plant Science
 

Acanthaceae to Myricaceae

Water Willows to Wax Myrtles

Robert H Mohlenbrock

Veteran botanist, scientific author, and professor Robert H. Mohlenbrock brings the full depth of his expertise and scholarship to his latest book, "Acanthaceae to Myricaceae: ....

416 pages | 327 illus | Southern Illinois UP

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0809327902 | #169293A | £43.95 Add to basket

 

Aspergillus Systematics in the Genomic Era

Edited by RA Samson and J Varga

Proceedings of a workshop entitled "Aspergillus systematics in the genomics era", held at the CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands on 12-14 April 2007. ....

206 pages | Centraalbureau Schimmelcultur

Pbk | 2007 | 9070351692 | #172949A | £79.00 Add to basket

 

Aspergillus in the Genomic Era

Edited by RA Samson and J Varga

Aspergillus is among the economically most important fungal genera. Aspergillus species are used in the fermentation industry for the production of various enzymes, organic ....

334 pages | Wageningen Academic

Hbk | 2008 | 9086860656 | #173227A | £116.00 Add to basket

 

Atlas de la Flore Remarquable du Val de Loire entre le Bec d'Allier et le Bec de Vienne

Ludovic Boudin, Jordane Cordier and Jacques Moret

464 pages | Paris MNHN

2007 | 2856536026 | #172079A | £36.50 Add to basket

 

Atlas de la Flore Sauvage du Départment du Loiret

Damien Pujol

This atlas covers 1400 species of plants, with status, colour photo and distribution map for each species. ....

480 pages | BIOTOPE Parth‚nope

Hbk | 2008 | 2914817193 | #172976A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Australian Succulent Plants

Attila Kapitany

This book present a fresh approach to conventional attitudes and ideas about the diversity and beauty of Australian flora. With Australia's natural flora of well over ....

240 pages | RBGS

Hbk | 2007 | 0646463810 | #172688A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

Avant Gardeners

Fifty Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape

Tim Richardson

Profiles fifty contemporary landscape practices from around the world. With between four and six case studies for each designer, this title presents an encyclopaedic look at the ....

352 pages | 490 illus | Thames & Hudson

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0500513937 | #173247A | £24.95 Add to basket

 

Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes

Edited by Thomas Ranker and Christopher Haufler

With their team of contemporary scholars, the editors present a thorough coverage of fundamental topics necessary for obtaining an up-to-date understanding of the biology of ....

520 pages | CUP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521874114 | #170341A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0521696895 | #170342A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

Biology of Citrus

P Spiegel-Roy and EE Goldschmidt

Biology of Citrus provides a concise and comprehensive discussion of all major developmental, genetic and horticultural aspects of citriculture in an easily readable ....

230 pages | 34 b/w photos, 22 line illus, 20 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1996 | 0521333210 | #054315A | £50.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 02/2008 | 0521054249 | #173336A | £15.99 Add to basket

 

Biology of the Grapevine

MG Mullins, A Bouquet and LE Williams

Information on the evolution, taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, physiology and genetics of grapevines has been scarce and thinly spread in the literature on horticulture and the ....

239 pages | B\w photos, illus, figs, tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1992 | 0521305071 | #017405A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2007 | 0521038677 | #173337A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Bloom

The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel

Amy M King

Starting from the botanical craze inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned - natural history, landscape architecture, polemical ....

288 pages | OUP

Pbk | 2007 | 0195339096 | #173207A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Botanikkens Historie i Norge

Edited by Per M Jorgensen

The history of botany in Norway. ....

396 pages | Illus | Fagbokforlaget

Hbk | 2007 | 8245004995 | #171708A | £85.00 Add to basket

 

British Orchids

A Site Guide

Roger Bowmer

A handy reference to the locations of that most beautiful of native plants, the wild orchid. There are 51 species of wild orchid native to the British Isles and each one is ....

128 pages | 116 colour photographs, 4 diagrams | Crowood Press

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1847970028 | #173349A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Chasing the Rain

My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most Beautiful Mushrooms

Taylor F Lockwood

"A very special blend of travelogue and horticultural study, Chasing the Rain: My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most Beautiful Mushrooms by Taylor F. Lockwood is ....

128 pages | 500 colour photos | Taylor F Lockwood

Hbk | 2007 | #172926A | £39.99 Add to basket

 

Chicago Gardens

The Early History

Cathy Jean Maloney

Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart ....

464 pages | 11 col plates, 166 halftones | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0226502341 | #173177A | £17.99 Add to basket

 

Compendium of Brassica Diseases

Edited by S.Roger Rimmer, Vernon, I Shattuck and Lone Buchwaldt

A thorough, authoritative, and practical reference for anyone who needs to diagnose and manage disease problems in brassica cops destined for vegetable markets, seeds, oil, and ....

117 pages | 191 col illus, 26 b/w illus | APS

Pbk | 2007 | 0890543445 | #172819A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

Compendium of Rose Diseases

Kenneth Horst and Raymond Cloyd

The Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests, Second Edition has been thoroughly updated, expanded, and given a new format with colour throughout to provide the reader with the ....

96 pages | 151 col photos, 19 b/w illus | APS

Pbk | 2007 | 0890543550 | #172818A | £45.50 Add to basket

 

The Complete Planting Design Course

Plans and Styles for Every Location

Hilary Thomas and Steven Wooster

The book takes a comprehensive approach to the complex process of Planting Design. It shows how to choose and combine plants for specific effects: for year-round colour and ....

192 pages | 500 col photos | Mitchell Beazley

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1845334124 | #173317A | £16.99 Add to basket

 

Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Guinea, West Africa

Dariusz L Szlachetko and Agnieszka Kowalkowska

This is a full standard flora of the country and treats 54 genera and 153 species based on the examination of 1258 herbarium specimens. After a short introduction and key to ....

259 pages | 198 b/w line illus, 120 distrib maps | Polish Botany Institute

Pbk | | 8389648458 | #173070A | £53.50 Add to basket

 

Cycads of Vietnam

Roy Osborn, Ken D Hill, Hiep T Nguyen and Loc Phan Ke

Only fairly recently has Vietnam become recognised as a country of enormous biological diversity. This is true not only in its fauna but also in its flora. New discoveries ....

116 pages | Illus, col photos, tabs, maps | Satooz

Hbk | 2007 | 0646464450 | #172687A | £49.99 Add to basket

 

Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity

Jonathan Silvertown

At the heart of evolution lies a bewildering paradox. Natural selection favors above all the individual that leaves the most offspring-a superorganism of sorts that Jonathan ....

169 pages | 8 col plates | Chicago UP

Hbk | 2005 | 0226757714 | #154297A | £15.99 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 05/2008 | 0226757722 | #173195A | £8.50 Add to basket

 

The Elements of Organic Gardening

HRH The Prince of Wales

Stephanie Donaldson

In The Garden At Highgrove, HRH The Prince of Wales gave an overview of how the garden had developed over 20 years. In this more practical book he describes the organic ....

176 pages | Photos | Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0297844989 | #172803A | £14.99 Add to basket

 

Endemic Plants of the Altai Mountain Country

AI Pyak et al

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), under its 'Living Planet Campaign', has identified 200 of the Earth's most biologically outstanding habitats. One of these is the Altai-Sayan ....

368 pages | colour photos | Wild Guides

Pbk | 2008 | 1903657229 | #172941A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Evolution and Speciation of Island Plants

Edited by Tod F Stuessy and Mikio Ono

Oceanic islands offer special opportunities for investigating evolutionary phenomena in vascular plants. This volume brings together contributions covering a range of important ....

358 pages | 16 b/w photos, 26 line illus, 42 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1998 | 0521496535 | #076980A | £75.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 052104832X | #173410A | £31.99 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges

An Introduction to the Genus Carex (Cyperaceae)

Andrew Hipp and Rachel D Davis

A full-colour introduction to an important genus of wetland plants that make up about 7 percent of the flora of the Upper Midwest. Sedges are among the world's most diverse and ....

280 pages | 62 colour illustrations, 157 maps | Wisconsin UP

Hbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0299225909 | #173399A | £42.50 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 0299225941 | #173400A | £18.50 Add to basket

 

Field Guide to the Common Mangroves, Seagrasses and Algae of the Philippines

Hilconida P Calumpong and Ernani G Meñez

Covers 26 genera with 39 species. Includes a thorough treatment of the 7 genera and 13 species of seagrasses. The algal treatments are incomplete however, depicting for green ....

197 pages | Col photos | Bookmark

Pbk | 1997 | 9715691978 | #082649A | £19.50 Add to basket

 

Flora de la República de Cuba, Series A: Plantas Vasculares, Fasicúlo 14 Lythraceae, Oleaceae, Rutaceae, Salicaceae

2520 pages | Gantner

Pbk | NYP 02/2008 | 390616666X | #173037A | £60.00 Add to basket

 

Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 147: Moraceae

Instituto de Ecologia

Pbk | 2007 | #173313A | £13.50 Add to basket

 

Flora of China Illustrations, Volume 22

Poaceae

Edited by Flora of China Editorial Commitee

Both volumes are devoted to just one plant family, the grasses (Poaceae or Gramineae), and no group of plants is of greater economic importance. The Poaceae range from the ....

937 pages | illus | Missouri BG

Hbk | 2007 | 193072361X | #173264A | £98.00 Add to basket

 

Flora of Thailand, Volume 8 Part 2: Euphorbiaceae (Genera G-Z)

300 pages | 16 colour plates | Forest Herbarium

Pbk | 2007 | #173316A | £69.99 Add to basket

 

The Fungal Colony

Symposium of the British Mycological Society Held at the Scientific Societies' Lecture Theatre, London September 1997

Edited by NAR Gow, GM Gadd and GD Robson

Focuses on the analysis of the filamentous life style, particularly on the hyphae which constitute the fungal mycelial colony. It provides the most recent insights into the ....

332 pages | 13 b/w photos, 53 line illus, 16 tabs | CUP

Hbk | 1999 | 0521621178 | #085726A | £80.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521048060 | #173408A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Fungal Conservation

Issues and Solutions

Edited by David Moore, Marijke M Nauta, Shelly Evans and Maurice Rotheroe

The threat to fungal diversity throughout the world prompts debate about whether and how fungi can be conserved. Should it be the site, or the habitat, or the host that is ....

262 pages | Tabs | CUP

Hbk | 2001 | 0521803632 | #120037A | £80.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2008 | 0521048184 | #173412A | £23.99 Add to basket

 

Garden Tourism

Richard W Benfield

More people visit gardens than go to Disneyland and Disneyworld combined, and more than visit Las Vegas annually, making it one of the largest retail sectors in the tourism ....

248 pages | Illus | Butterworth Heinemann

Pbk | NYP 04/2008 | 0750684623 | #173204A | £22.99 Add to basket

 

Gardens

An Essay on the Human Condition

Robert Pogue Harrison

Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality ....

256 pages | 2 halftones | Chicago UP

Hbk | NYP 06/2008 | 0266317898 | #173170A | £12.50 Add to basket

 

Gehölzflora

Mit Knospen und Fruchteschlussel

Jost Fitschen

Identification guide to the trees and shrubs of Europe, with more than 1200 illustrations. The original edition of this classic title was published in 1920, and it ....

928 pages | photos, keys | Quelle & Meyer Verlag

Hbk | 2007 | 3494014221 | #173034A | £36.00 Add to basket

 

The Genus Cladosporium and Similar Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes

Edited by Pedro W Crous, Uwe Braun, Konstanze Schubert and Johannes Z Groenewald

Species of Cladosporium are common and widespread, and interact with humans in every phase of life, from producing allergens in the indoor environment, to causing fruit ....

253 pages | Centraalbureau Schimmelcultur

Pbk | 2007 | 9070351617 | #172950A | £79.00 Add to basket

 

The Genus Cypripedium

Phillip Cribb

Important monograph on the temperate slipper orchids by distinguished author, Phillip Cribb. The text covers their history, biology, evolution, conservation, cultivation and ....

301 pages | 96 col photos, 26 watercolour paintings, 51 line drawings, 22 maps | Kew RBG

Hbk | 1997 | 0881924032 | #064990A | £29.99 Add to basket

 

Green Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland

Edited by J Brodie, CA Maggs and DM John

Written and assembled by an international team of specialists, this book incorporates all the latest information on the green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland (families ....

250 pages | British Phycological Society

Pbk | 2008 | 0952711532 | #173260A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

Herbes et Plantes de Guyane

Utilisation medicinale et cosmetologique

Anne Guglielmone

Covers 100 plants of economic importance with more than 800 colour photos. The hardcover version is published in 2 volumes. ....

552 pages | colour photos | Orphie

Hbk | 2005 | 2877633047 | #173324A | £99.00 Add to basket

Pbk | 2006 | 2877633349 | #173323A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

Illustrated Checklist: Orchids of Chios, Inouses and Psara

Mike Taylor

This book gives a summary of information currently available on the known or suspected orchid taxa from Chios, and indicates the extent to which information is accurate or ....

99 pages | colour photos | Pelineo Editions

Pbk | 2005 | 9608820227 | #170146A | £35.00 Add to basket

 

In Celebration of Fynbos

Paul Godard and Petra Vandecasteele

This is a treasure trove of practical information and exquisite photography. It showcases 50 plants from the Fynbos kingdom, focusing on how to use them in gardening, ....

224 pages | Over 200 photos | Struik

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 1770074902 | #172176A | £12.99 Add to basket

 

Index Holmiensis: Volume X (Dicotyledoneae Q-S)

A World Index of Plant Distribution Maps

Edited by Jim Lundqvist and Eckehart J Jäger

Index Holmiensis is a world-covering index to distribution maps of vascular plants that was founded in 1969 by Hans Tralau at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Scientific ....

693 pages | Swedish MNH

Hbk | 2007 | 9186510584 | #172678A | £99.00 Add to basket

 

Jekka's Complete Herb Book

J MacVicar

This is all-time classic gardening bestseller with over 350 varieties of herb to grow and over 200 delicious and inventive recipes. It is a spread-by-spread reference work ....

304 pages | Col photos | Kyle Cathie

Hbk | 2007 | 1856267415 | #172814A | £24.99 Add to basket

 

A Journey to Nine Islands

Chicago Botanic Garden

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of Journey to Nine Islands invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden - ....

96 pages | Col illus | Chicago UP

Pbk | 2008 | 0939914093 | #173199A | £11.50 Add to basket

 

Kalmias: American Beauties

Alan Pullen

Kalmia were introduced to Britain in 1734 from specimens sent by American botanist John Bartram to Peter Collinson in London, who distributed many north American plants amongst ....

36 pages | Col photos | NCCPG

Pbk | 2007 | 095445796X | #173090A | £9.99 Add to basket

 

Ladies'-tresses in Your Pocket

A Guide to the Native Ladies'-tresses Orchids, Spiranthes, of the United States and Canada

Paul Martin Brown

Native orchids are increasingly threatened by pressure from population growth and development but, nonetheless, still present a welcome surprise to observant hikers in ....

30 colour photos | Iowa UP

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 158729656X | #173402A | £6.50 Add to basket

 

Lady's-slippers in Your Pocket

A Guide to the Native Lady's-slipper Orchids, Cypripedium, of the United States and Canada

Paul Martin Brown

Native orchids are increasingly threatened by pressure from population growth and development but, nonetheless, still present a welcome surprise to observant hikers in ....

34 colour photos | Iowa UP

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1587296551 | #173401A | £6.50 Add to basket

 

Lichen Biology

Edited by Thomas H Nash III

Lichens are symbiotic organisms in which fungi and algae and/or cyanobacteria form an intimate biological union. This diverse group is found in almost all terrestrial ....

303 pages | Figs, tabs | CUP

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 052187162X | #170339A | £70.00 Add to basket

Pbk | NYP 07/2008 | 0521692164 | #170340A | £34.99 Add to basket

 

La Lista "Top 50" de Especies Vegetales Amenazadas de las Islas del Mediterràneo

50 Especies Silvestres al Borde de la Extinction, y Las Acciones para Salvarlas.

IUCN

The flora of the Mediterranean islands includes many rare and localised species unique to the islands. Some of these are particularly threatened with extinction due to various ....

Illus, maps | IUCN

Pbk | 2007 | #173237A | £7.50 Add to basket

 

Methods to Study Litter Decomposition

A Practical Guide

Manuel A S Graca, Felix Barlocher and Mark O Gessner

Decomposition of organic matter is a major ecosystem process involving an array of different organisms, including bacteria, fungi and invertebrates. The main objective of ....

340 pages | illustrations | Springer

Pbk | 2007 | 140206568X | #173363A | £50.00 Add to basket

 

Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance

Edited by Jane Parker

In recent years, our understanding of the mechanisms involved in a plant's resistance to attack by disease, has seen major advances. ....

352 pages | 110 illus | Blackwell

Hbk | NYP 07/2008 | 140517532X | #170309A | £99.50 Add to basket

 

Das Moller-Florilegium

Dietrich Roth

326 pages | 182 plates | Hirmer Verlag GmbH

Hbk | 2007 | 3777434256 | #173072A | £109.00 Add to basket

 

Mushrooms and other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States

DM Huffman, LH Tiffany and G Knaphus

This completely revised second edition provides all the information necessary to identify mushrooms in the field in the midcontinental region of Iowa, Illinois, ....

334 pages | Illus in colour. | Iowa UP

Pbk | NYP 03/2008 | 1587296276 | #173403A | £26.50 Add to basket

 

Mycology Volume 1 (DVD ROM)

Lower Fungi and Fungus-Like Organisms

Edited by John Webster and Roland W.S Weber

Mycology Vol. 1 shows representative examples of the 'Lower Fungi' (Chytridio- and Zygomycota). Also included are several intriguing groups of organisms such as slime ....

APS

DVD | 2006 | 3882220856 | #172833A | £125.73 Add to basket

 

Mycology Volume 2 (DVD ROM)

Higher Fungi

Edited by John Webster and Roland W.S Weber

Mycology Vol. 2 includes typical representatives of the two Divisons of "Higher Fungi" - the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. Both are very large groups with many examples of ....

APS

DVD | 2007 | 3882220864 | #172836A | £125.73 Add to basket

 

The New Self-sufficient Gardener

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Planning, Growing, Storing and Preserving your own Garden Produce

John Seymour

John Seymour's classic guide gives you the knowledge and expertise to create your own self-sufficient garden and produce what you need. ....

256 pages | Dorling Kindersley

Hbk | NYP 04/2008 | 1405321334 | #173103A | £19.99 Add to basket

 

New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 6: The Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae

Edited by MD Guiry, DM John, F Rindi and TK McCarthy

Clare Island has an exceptionally high terrestrial algal diversity of around 800 species and for its size is one of the most biodiverse locations of its kind around the world. ....

254 pages | colour photos, diagrams | Royal Irish Academy

Pbk | 2007 | 1904890318 | #163915A | £31.50 Add to basket

 

Les Orchidées de Poitou-Charentes et de Vendée

Jean-Claude Guerin, Jean-Michel Mathe and Andre Merlet

60 species of orchids are covered, each with colour photos and distribution maps. Identification key and a section detailing suggested walks are also included. ....

288 pages | BIOTOPE Parth‚nope

Pbk | 2007 | 2914817231 | #172975A | £29.50 Add to basket

 

Pilzkompendium, Band 2: Illustration volume

Erhard Ludwig

This is the illustration volume of volume 2. It covers the larger genera of the Agaricales with coloured spore dust (with exception of the Cortinariaceae). These are: ....

Fungicon

Hbk | 2007 | #173328A | £139.99 Add to basket

 

Pilzkompendium, Band 2: Text Volume

Erhard Ludwig

This is the text-volume of volume 2 in this series. It covers the larger genera of the Agaricales with coloured spore dust (with exception of the Cortinariaceae). These are: ....

Fungicon

Hbk | 2007 | #061368A | £74.99 Add to basket

 

Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution, Volume 1, Part E: Phanerogam-Angiosperm

Edited by AK Sharma and A Sharma

420 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield

Hbk | NYP 02/2008 | 1578085071 | #173029A | £71.10 Add to basket

 

Plant Microtubules

Development and Flexibility

Edited by Peter Nick

Plant microtubules are key elements of cell growth, division and morphogenesis. In addition to their role in plant development and architecture, they have emerged as ....