Antarctic Seals

Research Methods and Techniques

Edited by RM Laws

Despite its remote and seemingly rigorous environment, the Antarctic is the world's most important habitat for seals, currently supporting more seals than all other parts of the ....

Australian Bats

Sue Churchill

A completely revised and redesigned edition of the best book on Australian bats with an excellent colour photograph for every species, distribution maps, identification keys ....

British Cattle

Val Porter

Since the eighteenth century British cattle breeds have spread worldwide and have made the names of several counties famous in distant lands. Yet some of those breeds have ....

British Pigs

Val Porter

Not so long ago there were local British pigs of every size, colour and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should ....

Capybaras

A Natural History of the World's Largest Rodent

Rexford D Lord

Capybaras - the largest rodents in the world - show little resemblance to their guinea pig relatives. Robust and agile, they reach the size of a small pig and weigh upward of ....

Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals

Edited by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Liana Bolis and Charles Richard Taylor

Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals attempts to dispel the widely held notion that 'primitive' animals are less advanced or less complex than the 'non-primitive'. The term ....

The Elephant Whisperer

Learning about Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula Thula, his commonsense told him to refuse. But ....

Elephants on the Edge

What Animals Teach Us About Humanity

G A Bradshaw

Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, ....

The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins and Michael Grayson

Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to ....

The Jaguar's Shadow

Searching for a Mythic Cat

Richard Mahler

When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined ....

Knowing, Studying and Conserving the Bats of Ireland

An interactive guide on how to identify, study, appreciate and care for Irish bats

Conor Kelleher and Jim Wilson

This innovative DVD introduces the viewer to the world of bats in Ireland. The initial documentary on these much maligned mammals outlines the worldwide usefulness of these ....

Mammal Detective

Rob Strachan

Whose track is it? Whose dropping? Which animal left this tuft of hair? and what did I just glimpse? Rob's advice on fieldcraft is distilled from his vast experience (he has ....

Mammals of North America

Roland Kays and Don E Wilson

The best-selling field guide that "sets new standards" (New Scientist) and "makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States... and Canada obsolete" (Journal of ....

Middle and Late Pleistocene Felidae and Hyaenidae of Poland

Ewa Barycka

A revision of middle and late Pleistocene feliform carnivoran remains from the caves in the vicinity of Cracow proved the presence of Crocuta crocuta spelaea, Felis silvestris ....

On Thin Ice

The Changing World of the Polar Bear

Richard Ellis

The polar bear - the magnificent and mythic inhabitant of the Arctic - has captivated our imagination for centuries. Now, with this amazing creature symbolizing the perils of ....

Part of the Pride

My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa

Kevin Richardson

About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The film showed ....

Protecting Marine Mammals

Edited by de Vries

This book summarises legal and political events related to active sonar and marine mammals. While strandings and mortality of marine mammals, primarily ....

Small Mammals

Their Productivity and Population Dynamics

Edited by FB Golley, K Petrusewicz and L Ryszowski

The ability of small mammals to exploit environmental resources, based upon a rapid adaptation to short-term changes in population and/or the environment, as well as to a ....

The State of Britain's Mammals 2008

David Macdonald and Dawn Burnham

This seventh update is a comprehensive overview of research carried out by wildlife and conservation experts across the country. The report reviews the new UK Biodiversity ....

Watching Giants

The Secret Lives of Whales

Elin Kelsey and Doc White

Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, "Watching Giants" opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that ....

"Reader's Digest" Book of British Birds

This authoritative and comprehensive guide provides clear identification and details on lifestyle and habitat for all 216 species of bird commonly found in Britain, plus a ....

The Arctic Skua

A Study of the Ecology and Evolution of a Seabird

Peter O'Donald and Robert Gillmor

This book describes the results of a long-term study of the ecology, evolutionary genetics and sociobiology of a seabird, the Arctic Skua. This species is polymorphic: ....

Bird

Andrew Zuckerman

This is the sequel to photographer Andrew Zuckerman's run-away success "Creature", a book full of astonishing studio portraits of animals. In this new book, Zuckerman turns ....

Bird Life of Coasts and Estuaries

Peter N Ferns

Bird Life of Coasts and Estuaries describes the bird life of the British coastline and adjacent off-shore waters from an ecological point of view, using information from ....

A Bird-Finding Guide to Costa Rica

Barrett Lawson

Marked by its superb natural beauty, Costa Rica has the greatest percentage of preserved land of any nation worldwide; nearly a third of the country is protected in national ....

Birds

Jeffrey Fisher

Birds are some of the world's most intriguing creatures. In the simply titled "Birds", internationally renowned artist Jeffrey Fisher captures their timeless elegance and ....

Birds

Robert Bateman and Peter Matthiessen

An acclaimed wildlife artist presents an intimate portrayal of beautiful and fascinating winged creatures in this incredible avian guide. Traveling the globe - from the ....

The Birds of Cambridgeshire

PMM Bircham

David Lack produced the first Birds of Cambridgeshire in 1934 for the Cambridge Bird Club. Since then the avifauna of the county has changed dramatically and the body of the ....

The Birds of Eastern Ecuador, Volume II: The Lowlands

John V Moore

This latest publication presents sound recordings of 564 bird species. ....

Birds of Eastern North America

A Photographic Guide

Paul Sterry and Brian E Small

Combining informative and accessible text, up-to-date maps, and - above all - stunning color photographs, this is the best and most lavishly illustrated photographic guide to ....

Birds of Interior BC and the Rockies

Richard Cannings, Harry Nehls, Mike Denny and Dave Trochlell

Birdwatching is one of Canada's most popular activities, but many field guides are so comprehensive or advanced that they intimidate novice birders. Covering the region north ....

Birds of North America for Windows (Gold Edition DVD)

Thayer Birding

The ultimate North American PC DVD, featuring 957 species, including 2,850 photos, 551 videos, 708 songs and calls (for MP3 player too), range maps etc. ....

Birds of Western North America

A Photographic Guide

Paul Sterry and Brian E Small

Combining informative and accessible text, up-to-date maps, and - above all - stunning colour photographs, this is the best and most lavishly ....

Birds of the Seychelles

Ian Bullock, Adrian Skerrett and Tony Disley

This is the first comprehensive guide to the birds of the Seychelles, a spectacular archipelago of 115 islands north of Madagascar. It describes and illustrates every ....

Birdsong by the Seasons

A Year of Listening to Birds

Donald Kroodsma and Nancy Haver

Birdsong by the Seasons is a celebration of birdsong from January through December. The stories begin with a pileated woodpecker on New Year's Day; they unfold through the ....

A Birdwatchers' Guide to Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Caymans

Guy Kirwan, Arturo Kirkconnell and Mike Flieg

This guide covers the Greater Antilles, which comprises five groups of islands and six countries. From Cuba, with about 360 species, to the Cayman Islands with just over 220 ....

British Birds Video Guide iPhone and iPod Touch Edition

BirdGuides

The new Apple iPhone and iPod Touch share a stunning large touch-sensitive display that provides bright and vivid video playback in the field. Plus the latest Touch includes a ....

Coastal Birds

A guide to the sounds of birds of the British Coast

British Library Sound Archive

Learn how to identify the voices of 50 coastal birds with this new audio guide from the British Library Sound Archive. Species that are regularly found along the shores of the ....

Corvus

A Life with Birds

Esther Woolfson

Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies and ravens, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixteen years ....

Crow Planet

Finding Our Place in the Zoopolis

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. Crow Planet ....

The DVD Video Guide to British Birds iPod Edition

Dave Gosney

This version of the iPod Video Guide to British Birds is optimised for the smaller displays of the iPod Video, iPod Classic and New Nano. Watch crystal clear videos and ....

Ducks, Geese and Swans of India

Their Status and Distribution

Asad R Rahmani and Zafar-ul M Islam

Ducks, Geese and Swans of India describes 42 species of ducks, geese, and swans found in India. Written by experts in the field, this book discusses the distribution, population ....

La Enciclopedia de las Aves de Espana

A joint initiative of the BBVA Foundation and SEO/BirdLife, this book is intended as an introduction for the general reader into the fascinating world of birds. This ....

Face to Face with Penguins

Y Momatuik

The lives, diversity, and sheer mass of penguins are fascinating, and the remote, cold and beautiful areas in which they live are places to be treasured on Earth. ....

A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil

Ber van Perlo

Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and elusive avifauna. Until now. The ....

Flights of Fancy

Birds in Myth, Legend and Superstition

Peter Tate

Did you know that Barnacle geese were once classified as fish? That both the Cherokees and the ancient Greeks were convinced that cranes regularly fought battles with pygmies? ....

Handbook of Oregon Birds

A Field Companion to Birds of Oregon

Hendrik G Herlyn, Alan L Contreras and Ramiel Papish

Portable, field-friendly guide to the seasonal status and distribution of Oregon birds. A condensation of the status and distribution material from Birds of Oregon: A General ....

The History of British Birds

Derek Yalden and Umberto Albarella

The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European context. The authors, ....

The Illustrated Practical Guide to Birds in the Garden

The Complete Book of Bird Feeders, Bird Tables, Birdbaths, Nest Boxes and Backyard Birdwatching

Jen Green

Wherever you live, you can easily give nature a helping hand by providing feeders, tables and birdbaths and by erecting nesting boxes and birdhouses. In attracting birds ....

Indian Bird Sounds, The Indian Peninsula

C Chappuis et al

This CD publication covers the sounds of the birds of the Indian Peninsula except the Northern mountains and the North East corner. ....

Indian Birds in Focus

Birds of the Indian Subcontinent and Their Habitats

Amano Samarpan

This title shows you Indian birds as you may never have seen them before! In these pages, you can see the details of creatures that otherwise, one might be able to afford ....

Maine Birding Trail

The Official Guide to More Than 260 Accessible Sites

Bob Duchesne

This is the authorized guide to the Maine Birding Trail, which opens in 2009. The book features more than 260 sites in Maine and includes bonus material on Campobello and ....

Mexico Birds

An Introduction to Over 140 Familiar Species

James Kavanagh and Raymond Leung

Mexico Birds is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for the bird lover and travelling nature enthusiast. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 164 ....

National Geographic Illustrated Birds of North America

John L Dunn

This folio edition is the fifth edition field guide re-packaged as both desk reference and art book. Following in the Audubon tradition, this large-format work will give ....

Nightjars of the World

Frogmouths, Potoos, Oilbird and Owlet-nightjars

Nigel Cleere

This long awaited photographic guide covers the world's 136 species of nightjar, pootoos, frogmouths, oilbirds and owlet-nightjars and features many ....

Oriole Book

N Flood

The brilliant flash of an oriole's orange or yellow plumage against a black background is a welcome sign of spring for birders and backyard bird-watchers alike. Learn more ....

Owl

Desmond Morris

'The owls are not what they seem'. From ancient Babylon, to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh, to David ....

Peregrine Falcon Populations

Status and Perspectives in the 21st Century

Edited by J Sielicki and T Mizera

This book is the biggest collection of papers related to Peregrine studies in Europe. ....

Perspectives in Ornithology

Essays Presented for the Centennial of the American Ornitholgists' Union

Edited by Alan H Brush and George A Clark

First published in 1983 to celebrate the centennial of the American Ornithologists' Union, Perspectives in Ornithology collects together a series of essays and commentaries ....

Pigeon

Barbara Allen

An exploration of the natural and cultural history of the pigeon, and the evolution of its relationship with humanity through the ages. Written out of love and fascination ....

Pocket Guide to Birds of Southern Africa

Burger Cillie and Ulrich Oberprieler

Field guide to Southern African birds, illustrated throughout in full-colour photos. Features over 400 bird species, all logically grouped with concise biological ....

Profiles of Seabirds and Waterbirds of the German North and Baltic Seas

Distribution, Ecology and Sensitivities to Human Activities Within the Marine Environment

B Mendel, N Sonntag, J Wahl et al

In 2005, protected areas for moulting and wintering offshore seabirds were designated in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (i.e. marine waters 12 to 200 nautical miles from ....

RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe

Rob Hume

This definitive guide uses the highest quality close-up photography to bring over 500 species vividly to life on the page, capturing the individual beauty and detail of every ....

Rare Birds Where and When

An Analysis of Status and Distribution in Britain and Ireland

Russell Slack and Ian Wallace

This work is an essential reference for anyone seeking a book about the status, distribution and vagrancy patterns of rare species within the UK and Ireland, together ....

Reluctant Twitcher

A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year

Richard Pope

The human side of birding comes to the fore in this serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, had ....

The Seasons of the Robin

Don Grussing

In a small nest in a large oak tree, the drama begins. A young American Robin breaks open his shell and emerges into a world that will provide the warmth of sunny days and ....

The Secret Life of Birds

Who They are and What They Do

Colin Tudge

All animals are equal - but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first ....

Shorebirds of Ireland

In Words and Pictures

Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody

Sandpipers and plovers are among the many shorebirds that live between the tides in Ireland, on mudflats and shingle, in estuaries and lagoons, on beaches and bays. Jim ....

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior

David Allen Sibley

Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, this landmark book combines more than 795 of Sibley's full-color ....

Studies of Mascarene Island Birds

Edited by Anthony William Diamond

First published in 1987, this volume presents the scientific results of an expedition, promoted by the British Ornithologists' Union, to study the endangered birds of the ....

Thrushes

Peter Clement, Ren Hathway, Clive Byers and Jan Wilczur

This is the first book in nearly one hundred years that is solely devoted to thrushes, one of the most widespread and well-known families of birds in the ....

Trogons

A Natural History of the Trogonidae

Joseph M Forshaw

This is a definitive natural history of the spectacularly beautiful tropical birds known as the trogons, a family that includes the legendary Resplendent Quetzal, the sacred ....

Die Vogelwelt Venezuelas und ihre Oekologischen Bedingungen, Volume 4

Ernst Schafer

Voices of the Brazilian Amazon / Vozes da Amazonia Brasileira

Luciano Nicolas Naka, Philip Stouffer, Mario Cohn-Haft and Curtis Marantz

This 4 CD-set is the first in a series of CDs about the voices of the Amazon birds (and some mammals). It includes 340 bird species and 7 species of primates. (English, ....

Vögel Beobachten in Ostdeutschland

Die Besten Beobachtungsgebiete Zwischen Rügen und Thüringer Wald

Christian Wagner and Christoph Moning

Site guide to 103 bird watching sites in Eastern Germany. Includes 180 detailed maps, and where to find more than 200 species. ....

Waterbirds

Theodore Cross

Brushing aside rattlesnakes on Green Island, Texas, or enduring the bitter cold of an Alaskan winter, Theodore Cross has pursued waterbirds with passion. On four continents, ....

Where to Watch Birds in Ireland

Paul Milne

This new edition covers the best birdwatching sites in Ireland. In a format familiar to readers of this popular series, each site is considered in terms of 'Habitat', Access' ....

Wildfowl in Great Britain

Myrfyn Owen, G L Atkinson-Willes and DG Salmon

The Wildfowl Trust (founded by Sir Peter Scott in 1946) has worked actively to promote wildfowl conservation over many years and this volume will surely be recognised as one ....

World of Hummingbirds

Eric Hanson

Engaging natural history information for a general audience on one of the most beloved groups of birds, including tips on attracting and watching hummingbirds. This book ....

Britain's Reptiles and Amphibians

A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands

Howard Inns

This photographic guide covers the 20 native and naturalised reptile and amphibian species of Britain and the Channel Islands, 8 commonly encountered introductions and 5 ....

Common Kingsnakes

A Natural History of Lampropeltis getula

Brian Hubbs

All subspecies covered 'goini', 'sticticeps', 'meansi' (new subspecies), and 'catalinensis'. ....

A Complete Guide to the Frogs of Southern Africa

Louis du Preez and Vincent Carruthers

Following in the format and style of Complete Guide to Snakes of SA and Guide to Reptiles of SA, this guide offers the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of ....

A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia

Indraneil Das

South-East Asia is one of the richest parts of the world in terms of reptiles. ....

A Guide to the Rattlesnakes of the United States

Brian Hubbs and Brendan O'Connor

This is the first guide of its type, covering all species of rattlesnakes native to the United States. This 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch guide will be informative and intriguing for ....

Herpetofauna of Vietnam

Nguyen Van Sang, Ho Thu Cuc and Nguyen Quang Truongis

Although Vietnam has one of the richest herpetofaunas in the world, study of its amphibians and reptiles was long overshadowed by interest in India, China and the East ....

Lizards of Sri Lanka

A Colour Guide with Field Keys

N Somaweera and R Somaweera

A modern checklist of species is included, as is an illustrated key (a first for the region), showing thumbnail images for the benefit of non-technical users of the guide. ....

Advances in Fish Research, Volume 4

Edited by JS Datta Munshi and HR Singh

Includes research articles on several subfields of fish biology, including feeding ecology, neurobiology, population dynamics, air breathing organs, prostaglandins and ....

Biology and Management of Dogfish Sharks

Edited by VF Gallucci, GA McFarlane and GG Bargmann

The book's 34 chapters compile current knowledge of dogfish, their ecology, and their management worldwide. It reviews historical fisheries, evaluates past and current ....

Challenges for Diadromous Fishes in a Dynamic Global Environment

Edited by A Haro, KL Smith, RA Rulifson, CM Moffitt et al

Based on a 2007 international symposium, this book reviews the biology, ecology, human importance, and management and conservation of diadromous fishes with the goal of ....

Eels at the Edge

Science, Status, and Conservation

John M Casselman and David Cairns

There is a catastrophic worldwide decline of anguillid (freshwater eel) species. World authorities on the three species consider mechanisms for addressing this concern and ....

Ichthyology of Nepal

A Study of Fishes of the Himalayan Waters

Tej Kumar Shrestha

This book presents information regarding species, number, composition, and status of fish species in the waterfronts of Nepal. ....

Ant Ecology

Edited by Lori Lach, Catherine Parr and Kirsti Abbott

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to ....

Assemblages of Soil Collembola in Wetlands in the Floodplains of some Polish Rivers

Maria Sterzynska

Study sites were set up in the valleys of the Biebrza, Narew, Warta and Wisia rivers, whose floodplains differ in morphology, intensity of fluvial and biogenic processes, ....

Britain's Dragonflies

Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash

Excellent and comprehensive photographic guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Ireland, covering 44 breeding, 3 extinct, 10 vagrant and 6 potential vagrant ....

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6

Cerambycidae, Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Bruchidae and Chrysomelidae

Edited by I Löbl and A Smetana

Common Spiders & Other Arachnids of the Gambia, West Africa

David Penney

The spiders and other arachnids of West Africa are very poorly known and this is particularly true of the Gambian fauna. At least nine different arachnid orders occur in ....

Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths

BC Schmidt and JD Lafontaine

Contains ten papers on the systematics of New World noctuid moths, marking the first issue in a planned series on New World macro-moth systematics. 12 new species of ....

Ecology of Butterflies in Europe

Edited by Josef Settele, Tim Shreeve, Martin Konvicka and Hans van Dyck

Due to the attractiveness of butterflies, and their usefulness as model systems for biological questions, there has been a considerable amount of material written on ....

Fauna of Poland: Characteristics and Checklist of Species, Volume III

Edited by W Bogdanowicz, E Chudzicka, I Pilipiuk and E Skibinska

The monograph, "Fauna of Poland - characteristics and checklist of species", aims to be a source of comprehensive information on Polish faunal biodiversity, its value, and the ....

Faune des Carabus de Sibérie et d'Extreme Orient Russe I

Dmitri Obydov

This book deals with Trachycarabus and Morphocarabus. ....

Field Guide to the Squids and Octopods of the Eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea

EM Jorgensen

This guide helps identify squids and octopods from the high eastern North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. These regions have been difficult to sample due to rough seas, leaving ....

Fireflies, Honey, and Silk

Gilbert Waldbauer

The beauty of butterflies, the cheerful chirp of crickets, the ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This ....

Freshwater Prawns

Biology and Farming

Edited by Michael Bernard New, Wagner Cotroni Valenti and James H Tidwell

Covering every aspect of farming this species, from current research to development and commercial practice, this new edition expands and updates upon the previous edition, now ....

Keys to the Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates

Supplementary Volume

LM Gibbons

The Supplementary volume includes revised and redescribed taxa and draws attention to new taxa, to the generic level, published by many authors after the original 'Keys' were ....

The Living Ovulidae

F Lorenz and D Fehse

A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae ....

Microlepidoptera of Europe, Volume 6

Gelechiidae II

P Huemer and O Karsholt

Morphology of Baridinae and Related Groups (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Steven R Davis

Contains the first comprehensive review of baridine morphology to date and attempts to present this morphological diversity in a comparative framework by including comparisons ....

Moths of Europe, Volume 2: Geometrid Moths

Patrice Leraut

This guide book deals with more than 1000 species of Lepidoptera traditionally grouped together as geometers and classified in the Geometridae family (plus a single species ....

Noctuidae Europaeae, Volume 11

Nolinae (sl), Heliothinae, Metoponinae, Eustrothiinae, Bagisarinae, Pantheinae, Raphainae, Dilobinae, Acronyctinae, Bryophilinae

M Fibiger, L Ronjay, A Steiner and A Zilli

Noctuidae Sibiricae, Volume 2: Rivulinae to Catocalinae

VS Kononenko

Includes male and female genitalia of all species, distribution maps and text about distribution and differences to closely related species. ....

One Hundred Butterflies

The Butterfly Photographs of Harold Feinstein

Harold Feinstein

Photographer Harold Feinstein has an unusual gift for finding exquisite details in nature and turning them into mesmerizing works of art. After years of devoting himself ....

A Pocket Guide to the Shieldbugs and Leatherbugs of Britain and Ireland

Bryan J Pinchen

Illustrations of adults of all 36 species of shieldbug and 10 species of leatherbug currently native or recently colonised in Britain and Ireland. ....

A Practical Handbook of British Beetles, Vols I & II

Norman H Joy

Norman Joy's 2-volume work was first published by H. F. & G. Witherby in January 1932, and remains a standard work on the identification of British beetles into the 21st ....

Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Poland

Wojciech Niedbaia

A monograph of the ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Poland, typical xylophagous soil mites, has been prepared on the basis of 22 654 individuals found in 869 samples. A ....

Root-knot Nematodes

Edited by R Perry, Maurice Moens and JL Starr

Root-knot nematodes are the most economically important group of plant-parasitic nematodes worldwide, and their control presents a major global challenge. Advances are ....

The Symphytognathoid Spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea) Systematics and Diversity of Micro-Orbweavers

J Miller, C Griswold and C Min Yin

Over a period of 10 years, scientists from a coalition of international institutions surveyed the biota of the Gaoligong mountains in western Yunnan, China. Focal taxa ....

Yorkshire Butterflies and Moths

An Assessment of the Status and Distribution of Yorkshire's Butterflies and Moths in 2008

Edited by Howard M Frost

Aquatic Insects in Baltic Amber / Wasserinsekten im Baltischen Bernstein

W Wichard et al

Approximately 25% of all animal specimens enclosed in Baltic amber belong to the group of aquatic insects. Most of these insects are amphibious and inhabit aquatic ecosystems ....

Atlas of the Pleistocene Vascular Plant Macrofossils of Central and Eastern Europe - Part 2: Herbaceous Dicotyledones

W Szafer

After the first part of the Atlas of the Pleistocene vascular plant macrofossils of Central and Eastern Europe (Velichkevich & Zastawniak 2006) covering pteridophytes and ....

Fossils at a Glance

Clare Milsom and Sue Rigby

Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly four-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data ....

New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs

The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium

Edited by Michael J Ryan, Brenda J Chinnery-Allgeier and David A Eberth

Ceratopsids, or horned dinosaurs, are a group of large-bodied, quadruped herbivores, which lived roughly 65-70 million years ago. Part of a larger group of dinosaurs that ....

Paleoclimates

Understanding Climate Change Past and Present

Professor Thomas M Cronin

The field of paleoclimatology draws on extensive empirical observations obtained from physical, chemical, and biological proxies preserved in natural archives. These include ....

Triassic Life on Land

The Great Transition

Professor Nicholas C Fraser and Professor Hans-Dieter Sues

The Triassic Period is generally regarded as the beginning of the Age of the Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, the Triassic is a time when the ....

Atlas of African Freshwater Sponges

Renata Manconi and Roberto Pronzato

The present atlas provides the first complete overview of the freshwater sponges found from Algeria to the Cape and is therefore a historical document. It not only summarizes ....

Amazing Rare Things

The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton and Rea Alexandratos

Accompanies the exhibition "Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery", at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, 2 March - 16 September ....

Art of Nature

Three Centuries of Natural History Art from Around the World

Judith Magee

An astonishing visual record of the exploration of parts of the natural world that had never previously been documented. It features many of the greatest natural history ....

Empty Quarter

A Photographic Journey to the Heart of the Arabian Desert

George Steinmetz

This title features striking, unique aerial photography of the largest truly-deserted expanses of land on Earth. Aerial photographer George Steinmetz, shooting from a ....

First Fleet Artist: George Raper's Birds and Plants of Australia

Linda Groom

In George Raper, midshipman on the Sirius of the First Fleet, talent and opportunity magnificently coalesced to produce what is now one of the National Library of ....

Great Plains

America's Lingering Wild

Michael Forsberg, Ted Kooser, David Wishart and Dan O'Brien

The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, ....

Home

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

From the author of "Earth From the Air" comes a moving and beautifully photographed new book. "Home", scheduled to release in conjunction with a film of the same name, is a ....

Humans, Nature, and Birds

Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens

Darryl Wheye, Donald Kennedy and Professor 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 ....

In Search of Harriers

(Over The Hills and Far Away)

Donald Watson

This book covers over fifty years of Donald's work, and includes a stunning collection of Harrier paintings, individual studies and sketches, along with related informative ....

The Incredible Human Journey

Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that ....

Museum Through a Lens

Photographs from the Natural History Museum 1880 to 1950

Polly Parry and Susan Snell

Visit the Natural History Museum - 100 years ago. Featuring a wealth of stunning black-and-white photographs from the Museum's archives, this book offers a real flavour ....

The Natural History Museum Diary 2010

Winning and Commended Images from Past Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competitions

NHM

The prestigious annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition attracts the very best wildlife images, taken by the world's top professional and amateur photographers. ....

Natural History Painting with the Eden Project

M Thurstan and R Martin

This title features stunning natural history painting from dinosaur fossils to feathers, fish and butterflies. It provides techniques for drawing and painting with step-by-step ....

Nature's Clocks

How Scientist's Measure the Age of Almost Everything

Doug Macdougall

"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." ....

Pecked and Painted

Rock Art, from Long Meg to Giant Wallaroo

Tony Hopkins

Charging bison and dancing horses, swirling spirals and shamans in the spirit world: trance images, pecked and painted onto living rock by generations of hunter-gatherers, ....

Picturing Plants

An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration

Gill Saunders

Drawing on the rarely seen archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum, "Picturing Plants" begins with some pressing questions: Throughout history, who has drawn plants, ....

Quantum

Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

Manjit Kumar

For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives ....

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers

And Other Unusual Relationships

Marty Crump and Alan Crump

Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory ....

A Shadow Falls

Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt's portraits of some of the last surviving large mammals of East and Southern Africa reveal soulful beings who bear the individualized imprint of a life in nature. ....

The Underwater Photographer

Digital and Traditional Techniques

Martin Edge

Practical examples take you step-by-step through the basic techniques from photographing shipwrecks, divers, marine life and abstract images to taking photographs at night. ....

Visualizing the Structure of Science

Benjamin Vargas-Quesada and Felix de Moya-Anegon

Constructing a great map of the sciences has been a persistent dream since the Middle Ages. In modern times this need has become even more urgent because of the requirement ....

A Voyage round the World

Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections in the University of Cambridge

Alison M Pearn

This highly illustrated collection of short essays provides a critical assessment of Darwin both as a person and a scientist, and provides a factual and engaging account of ....

Yorkshire Landscapes Past and Present

Edited by Margaret Atherden and Tim Milsom

Contains chapters on maps of North Yorkshire landscapes; the habitat network in forests; woodland history in the Yorkshire Dales; interdisciplinary approach to landscape ....

Changing Paths in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness

Bill Sherwonit

"Changing Paths in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness" is an autobiographical exploration of author Bill Sherwonit's relationship to the Alaska wilderness. Written in three parts, ....

Dangerous Creatures of Africa

Understand-Identify-Avoid-Survive

Chris Stuart and Mathilde Stuart

Dangerous Creatures of Africa documents the range of dangerous and threatening aspects of nature-animals that can wound, venomous creatures, those that are poisonous to eat ....

The Dawn of Green

Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

Harriet Ritvo

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, Thirlmere, with its placid sheen, surrounding evergreens, and apparent lack of pollution or development, seems to ....

The Dictionary of Falklands Biography: Including South Georgia

D Tatham

Contains essays on the lives of 480 people, including Falkland Islanders; visitors to the Islands, from Captain Cook and Bougainville to Charles Darwin and Ernest Shackleton; ....

The Most Amazing Places to Walk in Britain

Reader's Digest

Transform your country walks into journeys to remember. This practical touring guide features 200 walks through the best of Britain's countryside, each one specially devised ....

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose

Natural History in Early America

Lee Alan Dugatkin

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledging republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief ....

The National Trust Book of the Countryside

National Trust, Adrian Phillips and Nick Baker

Explore the British countryside with the experts. No organisation knows more about the British countryside than the National Trust, the custodians of some of our most ....

A Year In the Life of Yorkshire's Three Peaks

Andy Stansfield

The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a showcase for some of the finest limestone scenery in Europe. Covering 683 square miles, it can be divided naturally into a number of ....

A Year in the Life of Snowdonia

Bill Birkett

This is the seventh of Bill Birkett's prize-winning and widely praised photographic essays which portray, throughout the seasons, his love affair with the wildest and most ....

A Year in the Life of Westonbirt

Sarah Howard

A celebration of the beauty and longevity of one of the greatest tree collections in the world - Westonbirt Arboretum - this is the first illustrated book on Westonbirt for ....

A Year in the Life of the Cotswolds

Beata Moore

Set in the heart of England's countryside, the Cotswolds occupies the area between Gloucester, Bath, Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon. This area is a perfect blend of gentle ....

Zoologia Neocaledonica Volume 7

Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia

Edited by Philippe Grandcolas

The Memoirs du Museum publish the seventh volume of the series Zoologia Neocaledonica, dealing with the study of the fauna of New Caledonia, one of the "hot spots" of ....

50 Video Clips of Fungal Diseases of Cereals

Edited by Joseph-Alexander Verreet, Holger Klink and Christian Albrechts

Many of the intriguing ways that fungal parasites interact with their plant hosts are artistically magnified and brought to life in these 50 video clips. The ingenious ....

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 50

Edited by Jean-Claude Kader and Michel Delseny

This series contains in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 50th volume, the series features a wide range of reviews by ....

American Herbal Pharmacopoeia

Edited by Roy Upton

Compiled by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, this volume addresses the lack of authoritative microscopic descriptions of those medicinal plant species currently in ....

Atlas des Cortinaires, Pars 18

A Bidaud et al

Between Earth and Sky

Our Intimate Connections to Trees

Nalini M Nadkarni

World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, ....

Calatogus Hasslerianus, parte 1

L Ramella

Compléments au prodrome de la flore corse : vol. 12 Orobanchaceae

C Habashi and D Jeanmonod

Compléments au prodrome de la flore corse : vol. 13 Cucurbitaceae

D Jeanmonod

Defence Mechanisms of Plants

Brian J Deverall

First published in 1977, this volume is a short and integrated account of the dynamic mechanisms involved in the defence of plant cells against attack by parasitic bacteria ....

Faszinierende Wildpflanzen

Ein Herbarium in Fotos

Pierre Vignes and Delia Vignes

275 plants from Europe are described and illustrated. ....

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 12, Part 2: Dioscoreaceae, Taccaceae, Burmanniaceae, Pandanaceae, Velloziaceae, Colchicaceae, Liliaceae, Smilacaceae

Edited by Jonathan Timberlake and ES Martins

The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, ....

Flora of Korea, Volume 1: Pteridophytes & Gymnosperms

Edited by Chong-Wook Park

Fruit Development and Seed Dispersal

Lars Ostergaard

Fruit development and seed dispersal are major topics within plant and crop sciences research with important developments in research being reported regularly. Drawing ....

Great Gardens of America

Tim Richardson and Andrea Jones

An authoritative and superbly illustrated celebration of the great gardens of the United States and Canada. The gardens chosen for this book range from eighteenth-century ....

A Guide to Flowers and Plants of Tasmania

Edited by Marion Simmons et al

Now in its fourth edition, this beautifully illustrated guide has been extensively revised, with updated text and many new photographs. For ease of identification each of ....

Guide to the Succulents of Southern Africa

Gideon F Smith and Neil R Crouch

Twenty-five per cent of southern African flora is succulent in nature, and a remarkable forty per cent of the world's succulent plants occur in South Africa. The book will ....

Handbook of Chinese Medicinal Plants

Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology

G Eisenbrand and W Tang

Synergizing herbal medicine with clinical science, this two-volume guide combines the medicinal applications of a comprehensive range of herbs from traditional Chinese ....

Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Noel Kingsbury

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of ....

Ninfa

The Most Romantic Garden in the World

Charles Quest-Ritson

The garden at Ninfa has a unique setting: the ruins of a medieval town near Rome. The site is one of sublime romantic beauty, where time seems to stand still. The garden has ....

Nitric Oxide in Plant Physiology

Edited by Shamsul Hayat, Masaki Mori, John Pichtel and Iqbal Ahmad

Written by a truly global team of researchers from Europe, Asia and the Americas with strong ties to agricultural research centers and the agrochemical industry, this ready ....

Pitcher Plants of the Old World, Volume 1

Stewart McPherson, Alastair Robinson and Andreas Fleischmann

Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly ....

Pitcher Plants of the Old World, Volume 2

Stewart McPherson, Alastair Robinson and Andreas Fleischmann

Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly specialised foliage that takes the form of hollow, ....

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 33

Jules Janick

Plant Cell Culture

Edited by Michael R Davey and Paul Anthony

The ability to culture cells is fundamental for mass propagation and as a baseline for the genetic manipulation of plant nuclei and organelles. The introduction to "Plant Cell ....

Plant Stress Biology

From Genomics to Systems Biology

Heribert Hirt

This is the first book to present a comprehensive and advanced discussion on the latest insights into plant stress biology. Starting with general aspects of biotic as well as ....

Saxicolous Lichen and Bryophyte Communities in Upland Britain

A Orange

Phytosociological data were collected to describe the terrestrial lichen and bryophyte vegetation of rock or saxicolous habitats within 14 Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) ....

Taxonomical Revision of the Caloplaca Saxicola Group (Teloschistaceae, lichen-forming Ascomycota)

Ester Gaya

This volume presents a revision of the Caloplaca saxicola group (Teloschistaceae, Ascomycetes) of the northern Hemisphere. The revision is based on the study of ....

Tropical African Flowering Plants: Ecology and Distribution, Volume 9b Mimosaceae - Fabaceae (incl. Derris)

Tropical African Flowering Plants: Ecology and Distribution, Volume 9c Fabaceae (Desmodium-Zornia)

Weedy and Invasive Plant Genomics

C Neal Stewart

Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date reference on genetic and genomics research in weedy and invasive plants. Forward-looking in its approach, the work also assesses the areas ....

Where Our Food Comes From

Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

Gary Paul Nabhan

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay ....

Advances in Parasitology, Volume 68

Natural History of Host-Parasite Interactions

Edited by Joanne P Webster

This volume brings together a range of articles from scientists from different fields of research and/or disease control, but with a common interest in studying the biology of a ....

Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals

R Frandson

The seventh edition of "Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals" is a thoroughly updated and revised version of this classic text. Drawing on current science and terminology ....

Aquatic Animal Disease Epidemiology

Edited by E Peeler and S St-Hilaire

The application of epidemiology in fish health management has some what lagged behind its application in terrestrial livestock in the past. In recent years, however, there ....

An Ecological Approach to Acanthocephalan Physiology

DWT Crompton

Acanthocephalan worms are parasitic throughout their life cycles and the environments they experience are to be found in the bodies of vertebrates, in which they achieve ....

The Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases

Models and Applications

Lisa Sattenspiel

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed more than fifty million people worldwide. The SARS epidemic of 2002-3, by comparison, killed fewer than a thousand. The success in ....

Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds

Steven Vogel

"Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds" offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These ....

Handbook of Mammalian Vocalisation

Edited by Stefan M Brudzynski

This well-illustrated handbook includes studies of many species but rodents dominate, as most of the brain investigations were done on these species. The leading idea of the ....

Introduction to Veterinary Genetics

Frank W Nicholas

The concepts of veterinary genetics are crucial to understanding and controlling many diseases and disorders in animals. They are also crucial to enhancing animal production. ....

Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals

Part 1, Part 2 (Mammals, Birds and Bees)

The purpose of the Terrestrial Manual is to contribute to the international harmonisation of methods for the surveillance and control of the most important animal ....

Marine Toxins as Research Tools

Edited by Nobuhiro Fusetani and William Kem

Marine organisms produce a wide array of toxins, many of which are not only structurally unusual, but also show potent and interesting modes of action. Since the discovery of ....

The Naturalized Animals of Britain and Ireland

C Lever

This authoritative and eminently readable book relates how the alien vertebrate animals now living in the wild in Britain and Ireland were introduced and naturalized, their ....

Nutrients and Epigenetics

Edited by Sang-Woon Choi and Simonetta Friso

Presenting up-to-date research on the relationship between nutrition and the evolving field of epigenetics, this work takes a close look at current findings and the potential ....

Science and Music

James Jeans

Sir James Jeans has used his remarkable gifts of exposition to set out all that is relevant in the science of acoustics to the art of music. He offers a simple but precise ....

Small Animal Medical Diagnosis

Second Edition

Lorenz and Cornelius

'Small Animal Medical Diagnosis', Third Edition takes a problem-oriented approach to clinical diagnosis, and outlines core information necessary to effectively evaluate the ....

Small Animal Surgery

Theresa Welch Fossum et al

The 3rd edition of this classic textbook continues to serve as a one-stop resource for authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery. Coverage includes ....

Third European Bioenergetics Conference

Edited by Günter Schäfer

This third volume of Short Reports from the International Council of Scientific Unions comprises the proceedings of the conference on bioenergetics held ....

Darwin Studies

A Theorist and His Theories in Their Contexts

MJS Hodge

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run ....

Darwin in Galapagos

Footsteps to a New World

K Thalia Grant and Gregory B Estes

In 1835, during his voyage on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin spent several weeks in Galapagos exploring the islands and making extensive notes on their natural history. ....

Darwin's Dogs

How Darwin's Pets Helped Form a World-changing Theory of Evolution

Emma Townshend

If you have ever looked at a dog waiting to go for a walk and thought there was something age-old and almost human about his sad expression, you're not alone; Charles ....

Evidence of Evolution

Mary Ellen Hannibal and Susan Middleton

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species", this celebration of evolutionary development combines beautiful photographs of plants and ....

Evolution

The History of an Idea

Peter J Bowler

Since its original publication in 1989, "Evolution: The History of an Idea" has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of ....

Evolution vs. Creationism

An Introduction

Eugenie C Scott

More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over teaching evolution continues in spite of the emptiness of the creationist positions. This accessible ....

Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials

C Stanford

Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology, incorporating the evolutionary biology of ....

The Link

Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

Colin Tudge

The astonishing new discovery that could change everything ...Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history ....

More Than Darwin

The People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy

Randy Moore and Mark D Decker

Heated debates over evolution versus creationism have occurred almost nonstop - in courts, schools, churches, and elsewhere - from the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's ....

The Origin Then and Now

An Interpretive Guide to the "Origin of Species"

David N Reznick and Michael Ruse

Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers ....

Sex Allocation

Stuart West

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and ....

Bayesian Inference

With Ecological Applications

William A Link and Richard J Barker

Statistical theory is primarily a product of the twentieth century. The prevailing school of thought builds on the frequentist philosophy developed by R.A. Fisher, the ....

Cognitive Ecology II

Edited by Reuven Dukas and John M Ratcliffe

Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive ecology investigates how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints ....

Experimental Evolution

Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments

Edited by Theodore Garland Jr and Michael R Rose

Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. Experimental evolution deliberately duplicates ....

Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes

William L Baker

In recent years, some scientists have argued that current patterns of fire are significantly different from historical patterns, and that landscapes should be managed ....

Integral Ecology

Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World

Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael E Zimmerman

Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than a hundred ecological schools of thought and methodologies - and ....

Multiplicity in Unity

Plant Subindividual Variation and Interactions with Animals

Carlos M Herrera

Plants produce a considerable number of structures of one kind, like leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds, and this reiteration is a quintessential feature of the body plan of ....

Not by Design

Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker

John Reiss

More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the ....

Scale, Heterogeneity, and the Structure and Diversity of Ecological Communities

Mark E Ritchie

Understanding and predicting species diversity in ecological communities is one of the great challenges in community ecology. Popular recent theory contends that the traits of ....

The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

Edited by Jonathan B Losos and Robert E Ricklefs

Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's "The Theory of Island Biogeography", first published by Princeton in 1967, is one of the most influential books on ecology and ....

Beach Management

Principles and Practice

Allan Williams and Anton Micallef

Beaches are one of the most widely loved and heavily used and abused areas in the world. Competing social or recreational, economic and conservation needs make beach management ....

Coral Disease Handbook

Guidelines for Assessment, Monitoring & Management

Edited by LJ Raymundo, CS Couch, AW Bruckner, CD Harvell et al

Designed for reef managers by international experts on coral disease, the Handbook outlines procedures for describing indicators, measuring impacts, monitoring outbreaks, ....

Deserts

A Very Short Introduction

Nick Middleton

Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life forms? ....

The Ecology of the Hyporheic Zone of Running Waters

Patterns, Processes and Bottleneck Functions

Edited by D Borchardt and M Pusch

Volume 61 of Advances in Limnology contains 12 peer reviewed, original papers focusing on the hyporheic zone of running waters (the transient zone in fluvial sediments between ....

Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

Edited by Laura A German, Alain Karsenty and Tiani Anne-Marie

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to ....

Life Along the Inner Coast

A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West

Robert L Lippson and Alice Jane Lippson

This title features more than 800 species from these fresh, brackish, and salty waters. For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the Inner ....

Low Impact Development

Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside

Simon Fairlie

Examines Britain's rural planning system from the bottom up, from the point of view of the planned rather than the planner. |`A much-needed addition to a vital debate by ....

Marine Macroecology

Edited by Jon D Witman and Kaustuv Roy

Pioneered in the late 1980s, the concept of macroecology - a framework for studying ecological communities with a focus on patterns and processes - revolutionized the ....

The Mekong

Biophysical Environment of an International River Basin

Ian Charles Campbell

The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, ....

Mirror Lake

Interactions Among Air, Land, and Water

Thomas C Winter and Gene E Likens

Lakes change constantly in response to their surrounding landscape, and their airshed. Mirror Lake, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, has been carefully ....

The Nile

Edited by Henri J Dumont

The book discusses the Nile basin from a holistic point of view, giving due attention to its geological history, hydrology, climate, and the full diversity of subsystems like ....

The River Scene

Ecology and Cultural Heritage

Sylvia M Haslam

The River Scene is a uniquely stimulating guide to the appreciation and preservation of rivers. In this highly illustrated account, Sylvia Haslam presents a new scheme for the ....

Soil Biochemistry

K Haider and A Schaffer

Soils play a central role in the conservation of organic matter and element fluxes because of the large number of microorganisms present in the soil. In this book the more ....

Soil Ecology and Management

JK Whalen and L Sampedro

Soil Ecology and Management describes the organisms inhabiting the soil, their functions and interactions and the dimensions of human impact on the activity of soil organisms ....

Soil Science

Edited by Alfred E Hartemink, Alex B McBratney and Robert E White

This four-volume set, edited by leading experts in soil science, brings together in one collection a series of papers that have been fundamental to the development of soil ....

Thomson's Wildlife on Site Handbook

A Practical Guide for Civil Engineers and Developers

Edited by Richard Arnold

Designed for civil engineers, developers and anyone else interested in wildlife, development and the law - this is the third edition of this practical handbook. It ....

Vital Forest Graphics 2009

UNEP

Forests are not only important for the 1.6 billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods, but for the world's population at large. Forests play a critical role in ....

A Walk in the Woods

Exploring Britain's Greatest Woodland

Archie Miles

An illustrated tour of fifty of Britain's greatest woodland walks with specialist tree photographer and writer Archie Miles, published in association with ....

Biodiversity and the Law

Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge

Edited by Charles R McManis

How do we promote global economic development, while simultaneously preserving local biological and cultural diversity? This authoritative volume, written by leading legal ....

Conservation Biology for All

Edited by Navjot S Sodhi and Paul R Ehrlich

Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names ....

Cougar

Ecology and Conservation

Edited by Maurice Hornocker, Sharon Negri and Alan Rabinowitz

The cougar is one of the most beautiful, enigmatic, and majestic animals in the Americas. Eliciting reverence for its grace and independent nature, it also triggers ....

Wildlife in a Changing World

An analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Edited by IUCN

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of the world's plant and animal species. It is based on ....

Advances in Urban Ecology

Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems

Marina Alberti

The greatest challenge for urban ecologists in the next few decades is to understand the role that humans play in urban ecosystems. So far, research on the dynamics of urban ....

Atmospheric Thermodynamics

Elementary Physics and Chemistry

Gerald R North and Tatiana L Erukhimova

This textbook presents a uniquely integrated approach in linking both physics and chemistry to the study of atmospheric thermodynamics. ....

Climate Change

A Reference Handbook

David L Downie and Kate Brash

Presents an introduction to climate change that outlines key scientific, economic, and political issues. This book reviews how the global community has addressed the issue, ....

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity

The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development

Edited by Felix Dodds, Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman

This wide-ranging book brings together leading thinkers from academia, government and civil society to examine and address the global insecurity and development challenges ....

Debating Climate Change

Pathways through Argument to Agreement

Elizabeth L Malone

Climate change may have begun as a scientific issue, but it is also a political issue, a manifestation of the problems associated with modernization, industrialism, capitalism ....

Environment

Peter H Raven, Linda R Berg and David M Hassenzahl

Offering a more concise resource for environmental scientists, the seventh edition explores important environmental issues and shows how to apply this information on the ....

Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application

LP Pojman

The most comprehensive introduction to environmental ethics available, Environmental Ethics offers students a current look at the issues and topics that dominate the field ....

Environmental Science: A Global Concern

Mary Ann Cunningham, William P Cunningham and Barbara Saigo

The new edition of this market-leading Environmental Science text, with two new chapters added, offers a wealth of new technology for you and your students. Each text will be ....

The Ethics of Climate Change

Right and Wrong in a Warming World

James Garvey

The debate about the existence of climate change seems finally at an end. We now have to decide what to do about it. Here, James Garvey argues that the ultimate rationale for ....

Extraordinary Clouds

Skies of the Unexpected from Bizarre to Beautiful

Richard Hamblyn

Discover the amazing and unexpected world of clouds with this inspiring collection of images. Richard Hamblyn offers a selection of some of the most startling and unusual ....

Green Intelligence

Creating Environments That Protect Human Health

John Wargo

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand ....

Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate

Everyone--government agencies, private organizations, and individuals--is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines ....

An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy

Felix R FitzRoy and Elissaios Papyrakis

Interest in climate change has generated a mountain of literature leaving many floundering in the sheer flood of information, commentary, claims and ....

Linking Emissions Trading Schemes

Edited by Andreas Tuerk

A growing number of countries are implementing GHG emissions trading schemes from the regional and national to the local level. However even as the number of different ....

Physical Chemistry

PW Atkins

This book remains the benchmark of achievement for a chemistry degree throughout the world. The judicious choice of topics, the clear writing style of both authors, and the ....

Quaternary Coral Reef Systems

History, Development Processes and Controlling Factors

Lucien F Montaggioni and Colin JR Braithwaite

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, ....

Transboundary Risk Governance

Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla

Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society. ....

Transition to Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economies in Asia

Challenges and Opportunities

Edited by Ancha Srinivasan, Frank Ling, Shuzo Nishioka and Hideyuki Mori

The future of China, India and Asia's other emerging economies and their ability to take a 'low-carbon' and 'climate-resilient' development path will determine the future of ....

Twenty Years of Ozone Decline

Proceedings of the Symposium for the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol

Edited by Christos Zerefos, Georgios Contopoulos and Gregory Skalkeas

This book includes articles presented by leading scientists in the ozone field at the Symposium for the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, jointly organized by the ....

Waste Input-Output Analysis

Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology

Shinichiro Nakamura and Yasushi Kondo

The increasing use of input-output analysis (IOA) in Industrial Ecology (IE) for life-cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA), and life-cycle costing (LCC) ....

Waste Management

A Reference Handbook

Jacqueline Vaughn

This is an authoritative review of issues in waste management both in the United States and globally that measures the scope of the problem and examines the latest scientific ....

Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution

A Look at the Past

Carina Hoorn

This book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. We explore the different driving ....

Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps

East Asia 1500 BC-AD 1900

M A Houlden and F R Stephenson

This book presents a series of computer-drawn maps and tables for all total and annular eclipses of the Sun calculated to have been observable in East Asia in the 3400 years ....

Donald Michie

Machine Intelligence, Biology and more

Edited by Ashwin Srinivasan

Donald Michie was an extraordinary character. In a scientific career that spanned nearly 65 years, he was the pioneer in several fields including computing, mouse embryology, ....

The Earth Through Time

Harold L Levin

This best-selling historical geology text provides geologists with an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. The ninth edition presents rich, authoritative ....

The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context (IAU S254)

Edited by Johannes Andersen, Birgitta Nordström and Joss Bland-Hawthorn

The paradigm of a dark energy- and dark matter-dominated Universe, with the hierarchical merger scenario for the formation of galaxies, has scored impressive successes in ....

Galileo's New Universe

The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos

Stephen P Maran and Laurence Marschall

The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instrument's modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account. When Galileo ....

Gems and Gemstones

Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World

Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn

Gems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. Given as tokens of love and affection, they also come in a kaleidoscopic array of hues ....

Geological Excursion Guide to Rum

The Paleocene Igneous Rocks of the Isle of Rum, Inner Hebrides

CH Emeleus and V R Troll

Rum is justly renowned for the ultrabasic cumulate magmas of its Eastern and Western Layered Intrusions of Paleocene age. Less well-known are the equally spectacular ....

The Geology of Central Europe, Volume 1

Edited by T McCann

Volume 1 focuses on the evolution of Central Europe from the Precambrian to the Permian, a dynamic period which traces the formation of Central Europe from a series of ....

Geomorphosites

Edited by E Reynard, P Coratza and G Regolini-Bissig

Geoheritage is the geological and geomorphological elements of nature worthy of being conserved. In most cases, it constitutes the skeleton of the landscape. The new interest ....

Glacier Science and Environmental Change

Edited by Peter Knight

Authoritative and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and environmental change, in the past, ....

Handbook of Catchment Management

Edited by Robert Ferrier and Alan Jenkins

This book addresses the fundamental requirement for an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources that crucially includes an ....

Heaven's Touch

From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe

James B Kaler

Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you? As you gaze into the starry sky, you might feel isolated ....

Igneous Rocks and Processes

A Practical Handbook

Robin Gill

This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, and helps them develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying ....

Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology

Edited by Richard M Busch

Introductory level textbook, possibly the most user-friendly and state-of-the-art textbook for teaching introductory geology and geoscience. ....

The Magellanic System (IAU S256)

Stars, Gas, and Galaxies

Edited by Jaco Th Van Loon and Joana M Oliveira

This volume presents the most complete and up-to-date accounts of our understanding of the Magellanic Clouds and the astrophysical processes within them. Observations of these ....

Mathematical Methods in Biology

J David Logan and William Wolesensky

The last several years has witnessed a revolution in the connections between mathematics and biology, and this book differs from most others on the topic in that it covers both ....

Primordial Cosmology

Patrick Peter and Jean-Philippe Uzan

This book aims at giving the basis of primordial cosmology. The book is self-contained in the sense that all the elements for the derivations of the presented results are ....

Rainbows of Rock, Tables of Stone

The Natural Arches and Pillars of Ohio

Timothy A Snyder

This is an exploration of the natural arches and pillars of Ohio. The heart of the book is the identification, description, and interpretation of some 83 arches and 18 pillars ....

Relativity

A Graphic Guide

Bruce Bassett and Ralph Edney

It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of ....

Space Conquest

The Complete History of Manned Spaceflight

Francis Dreer

The greatest-ever feat of science and technology in the history of mankind occurred when the USA's Apollo 11 landed men on the surface of the moon. The great ideological ....

Transiting Planets (IAU S253)

Edited by Frédéric Pont, Dimitar Sasselov and Matthew J Holman

The discovery of planets around stars other than the Sun within the past 15 years has opened up one of the largest and most exciting new fields in modern astronomy. The ....

Advances in Building Energy Research

Edited by Mat Santamouris

"Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER)" offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and ....

Advances in Building Energy Research

Edited by Mat Santamouris

Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER) offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and ....

Advances in Building Energy Research

Edited by Mat Santamouris

Advances in Building Energy Research offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and ....

African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban Agriculture

Edited by Charlie M Shackleton, Margaret W Pasquini and Axel W Drescher

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and livelihood ....

Balancing Fisheries Management and Water Uses for Impounded River Systems

Edited by MS Allen, S Sammons and MJ Maceina

Describes how water allocation issues can present economic and legal constraints to fisheries management and influence fishery quality. Reviews unique ways to approach ....

Basic Water Treatment

C Binnie, M Kimber and G Smethurst

Fully revised and extensively updated by two of the world's leading experts in the field, taking into account current UK, EU, and USA water-quality standards and treatment ....

Building Prosperity

Housing and Economic Development

Anna Tibaijuka

Rapid urbanization, as well as being an enormous challenge, also offers great opportunity as investment in housing and the provision of shelter is potentially one of ....

Building for a Changing Climate

The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy

Peter F Smith

There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we ....

Design Activism

Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where ....

Design Management for Sustainability

Edited by Stephen Emmitt

Building on the special edition Aspects of Design Management (Volume 3:1, 2007), this publication brings together the rapidly developing field of design management with that ....

Designing for Re-Use

The Life of Consumer Packaging

T Fisher and J Shipton

The re-use of packaging could have a significant effect on the quantity of material that enters the waste stream and the energy and consequently carbon that is expended in its ....

Domestic Tourism in Asia

Diversity and Divergence

Edited by Salini Singh

While much research has focused on international tourism, comparatively little academic work has been done on native holiday travels. Yet many countries have a rich tradition ....

The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters

Assessing the Costs of Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation

Edited by Debarati Guha-Sapir and Indhira Santos

Research on the economics of natural disasters has not kept up with the tremendous impacts of these phenomena on people's lives. However, large scale events such as ....

The Economical Environmentalist

My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Costs

Prashant Vaze

The economy is imploding: it's impossible for first time buyers to get on the housing ladder, jobs are vanishing faster than high street banks and the price of home heating ....

Energy From the Desert: Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems: Socio- economic, Financial, Technical and Environmental Aspects

K Kurokawa, K Komoto, P van der Vleuten and D Faiman

The world's deserts are sufficiently large that, in theory, covering a fraction of their landmass with PV systems could generate many times the current primary global energy ....

Energy from the Desert, 3 Volume Set

K Kurokawa et al

Volume 1: Feasibility of Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems ....

Energy in Brazil

Towards a Renewable Energy Dominated System

Antonio Dias Leite

Rapidly developing countries such as China and India are the real main players in the climate debate, with the potential for massive increases in their carbon emissions in ....

Energy, Environment and Development

Jose Goldemberg and Oswaldo Lucon

Much has been written recently on the relationship between energy and the environment, as well as between energy and development. Yet to study these ....

Environmental Ethics

What Really Matters, What Really Works

David Schmidtz, Elizabeth Willott, David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott

Featuring sixty-two accessible selections-from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research-Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really ....

Environmental Justice

A Reference Handbook

David E Newton

"Environmental Justice: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition" offers a current overview of the environmental inequities faced by poor and minority communities and the ....

Ethical Futures

Bioscience and food horizons

Edited by Kate Millar, Pru Hobson West and Brigitte Nerlich

In an ever changing interconnected world, the agriculture and food system faces constant challenges in many forms, such as the impacts of climate change, uncertainty surrounding ....

Factor Five

Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity

Edited by E von Weizsacker, K Hargroves, MH Smith, C Desha and P Stasinopoulos

When first published in 1997, "Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use" by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins and L. ....

Fisheries Management

Pandemic Failure, Workable Solutions

Giulio Pontecorvo and William Schrank

This book is the culmination of 45 years of research in fisheries economics by Dr Pontecorvo, and 25 years of similar work by Dr Shrank. The authors are prominent and ....

Fishweirs

World Perspective with Emphasis on the Fishweirs of Mississippi

John Connaway

Fishweirs is the first book ever devoted entirely to the long established, globally significant practice of harvesting masses of freshwater and coastal saltwater fishes by ....

The Food Economy

Global issues and challenges

Edited by Frank Bunte and Hans Dagevos

The food economy is increasingly shaped by such new issues as sustainability, safety and quality standards, consumer health, and industry concentration. Cultural and ethical ....

Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

Edited by G Lawrence et al

Contemporary agriculture and food systems face a number of serious social and environmental challenges. Food insecurity is of particular concern, and the world faces ....

Genetically Modified Plants

Assessing Safety and Managing Risk

Edited by Roger Hull, George T Tzotzos and Graham Head

A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can ....

Handbook of Bioenergy Crops

A Complete Reference to Species, Development and Applications

N El Bassam

Biomass currently accounts for about 15 per cent of global primary energy consumption and is playing an increasingly important role in the face of climate change, energy and ....

Handbook of Water Purity and Quality

Edited by Satinder Ahuja

This work provides those involved in water purification research and administration with a comprehensive resource of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from ....

International Support for Domestic Climate Policies in Developing Countries

Edited by Karsten Neuhoff

This volume examines how international cooperation can support implementation of domestic climate policies in developing countries. Six case studies explore the domestic ....

Keeping the Lights On

Towards Sustainable Electricity

Walt Patterson

Walt Patterson starts from a simple premise: that we are making a mess of energy, and this is endangering the planet. Using accessible, everyday language Patterson describes ....

Low Carbon Transport in Asia

Strategies for Optimizing Co-benefits

Edited by Eric Zusman, Ancha Srinivasan and Shobhakar Dhakal

Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain. Within developing Asia, the key to averting such a crisis lies in low carbon transport. ....

Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries

M Haddon

Revised and restructured, Modeling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries, Second Edition provides an accessible introduction to quantitative methods in fisheries. This book ....

Nature's Edge

Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice

Edited by Charles S Brown and Ted Toadvine

Nature's Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of ....

Nature's Ghosts

Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

Mark V Barrow

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the ....

The New Peasantries

Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

This book explores the position, role and significance of the peasantry in an era of globalization, particularly of the agrarian markets and food industries. It argues that ....

Notes from the Ground

Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside

Benjamin R Cohen

"Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, ....

Ozonation of Water and Waste Water

A Practical Guide to Understanding Ozone and Its Applications

Christiane Gottschalk, Judy Ann Libra and Adrian Saupe

The leading resource on ozone technology, this book contains everything from chemical basics to technical and economic concerns. The text has been updated to include the ....

Person, Polis, Planet

Essays in Applied Philosophy

David Schmidtz

This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtzs essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world. Part One defends ....

Planning Sustainable Cities

Global Report on Human Settlements 2009

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the 21st century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and ....

Planning and Installing Micro Hydro Systems

A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

Gavin D J Harper

Micro-hydro refers to hydro power systems with a power rating of 100kW or less, which are becoming increasingly popular due to new technology, less stringent regulation of ....

Planning and Installing Solar Thermal Systems

A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

German Solar Energy Society (DGS)

Solar thermal systems available today offer efficiency and reliability. They can be applied in different conditions to meet various requirements in the residential, ....

The Polycentric Metropolis

Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe

Peter Hall and Kathy Pain

A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a ....

Powering the Green Economy

The Feed-in Tariff Handbook

Miguel Mendonca, David Jacobs and Benjamin Sovacool

As the world looks to the greening of economies to create new industries and jobs, protect the climate and environment and secure domestic energy supplies, we need ....

Principles of Water Resources

History, Development, Management and Policy

Thomas Cech

With all new and updated material, the third edition provides civil engineers with a complete history of water availability. It also delves into government development, ....

Prosperity without Growth

Economics for a Finite Planet

Tim Jackson

"Prosperity without Growth" challenges the assumption of continued economic expansion in rich countries, providing a radical re-think of embedded, unquestioned assumptions and ....

Rainwater Harvesting: A Lifeline for Human well-being

UNEP

This publication highlights the link between rain-water harvesting, ecosystems and human well-being and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects ....

Reforming International Institutions

Another World is Possible

Edited by UBUNTU Forum Secretariat

There is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the ....

Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources

A Reference Handbook

Zachary A Smith and Katrina D Taylor

This volume provides an insightful overview of renewable and alternative energy technologies and policies in the United States and around the world. Around 14 percent ....

Seed Trade in Rural Markets

Implications for Crop Diversity and Agricultural Development

Edited by Leslie Lipper, Leigh Anderson and Timothy J Dalton

Improving the performance of agricultural markets is a keystone of current agricultural development policy. A major thrust of this effort is to increase the returns to ....

Stellwagen

The Making and Unmaking of a National Marine Sanctuary

Peter Borrelli and Susan E Farady

This book takes an in insider's look at the sanctuary that isn't. The Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary was founded in 1992 and is New England's only ....

Struggling for Sustainability in Rural China

Environmental Values and Civil Society

Professor Bryan Tilt

Bryan Tilt follows the dramatic economic transition and environmental degradation of contemporary rural China. Though it is believed that China's economy will become the ....

A Theory of Intergenerational Justice

Joerg Chet Tremmel

The appeal to 'our obligations to future generations' is one of the most forceful, emotional and effective arguments available to politicians and citizens and is the ....

The Three Secrets of Green Business

Unlocking Competitive Advantage in a Low Carbon Economy

Gareth Kane

We all want to be green, but how do you run a successful business, make a profit and help save the planet all without taking time out to earn a Ph.D. in sustainability? ....

The Tolerability of Risk

A New Framework for Risk Management

Edited by Frederic Bouder, David Slavin and Ragnar E Lofstedt

There is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. As a result, academics, ....

Transport Revolutions

Moving People and Freight Without Oil

Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl

First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will ....

Uncertainty and Risk

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Gabrielle Bammer and Michael Smithson

Uncertainty governs our lives. From the unknowns of living with the risks of terrorism to developing policies on genetically modified foods, or disaster planning for ....

Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy

Berkeley Hill and Sophia Davidova

Most of the recent written material on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is about the details of the day - for example, the views of interested parties on the way milk quotas ....

Urban Wind Energy

Sinisa Stankovic, Neil Campbell and Alan Harries

This book explores the enormous potential of wind power in urban areas. It provides design guidance as well as addressing aesthetic, aerodynamic, architectural, ....

Vegetable Seed Production

RAT George

Providing broad expert coverage of the horticultural production of vegetables grown from seed, this new edition also explores the production of genetically modified crops, ....

Water in a Changing World

The United Nations World Water Development Report 3

United Nations

The news media are full of talk of crises - in climate change, energy and food and troubled financial markets. These crises are linked to each other and to water resources ....

Bayesian Computation with R

Jim Albert

There has been a dramatic growth in the development and application of Bayesian inferential methods. Some of this growth is due to the availability of powerful ....

A Beginner's Guide to R

Alain F Zuur, Elena N Ieno and Erik HWG Meesters

Based on their extensive experience with teaching R and statistics to applied scientists, the authors provide a beginner's guide to R. To avoid the difficulty of ....

Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Edited by Ion Mandoiu, Giri Narasimhan and Yanqing Zhang

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2009, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, ....

Biological Systematics

Principles and Applications

Randall T Schuh and Andrew V.Z Brower

Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. ....

Mathematical Biology

Edited by MAJ Chaplain, JP Keener, MA Lewis and PK Maini

Each summer the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute Graduate Summer School gathers some of the best researchers and educators in a particular field to present lectures on a ....

General and Applied Toxicology

Bryan Ballantyne, Timothy Marrs and Tore Syversen

This new edition builds on the critical and commercial success of the first edition, published in 1993, and the second edition, published in 1999. With approximately 150 ....