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Welcome to the August Monthly Catalogue, the most comprehensive buyer's
guide to new and forthcoming titles in natural history, conservation and the
environment.
Summer Clearance Sale We have reduced prices by up to 80% on well over 1000 titles across our subject range. In many cases, there is only one copy left - to secure the best bargain books, order now online by email, phone, fax or post. View the full NHBS Summer Clearance catalogue here. Summer conferences After selling books at several conferences in the past two months, we are now settling in for a busy autumn. We enjoyed meeting many old and new customers all over Europe. Our conference booklists are still available online. Current catalogues Summer Clearance Catalogue - Reductions of up to 80% per title The JNCC Price reductions catalogue features over 80 key Joint Nature Conservation Committee publications. The NHBS Spring-Summer Catalogue is still available. It features 3500 of the best new and forthcoming titles, plus the best of the backlist, in natural history, wildlife, science and conservation. The NHBS Botany Catalogue 2006 contains over 3000 botany titles published since 2001. Discounts for libraries, organisations and large orders Are you a librarian or responsible for book purchasing within your organisation, or are thinking of placing a large order? NHBS provides a specialised supply service for libraries, organisations and bulk purchasers - handling everything from researching hard to obtain titles to arranging documentation and shipment. We are usually able to offer competitive packages - please contact customer.services@nhbs.co.uk to discuss what we can offer. The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. |
Zoology:
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| Mammals | Go to subject web page |
David Smith Ursus americanus, the American black bear, can be found from Canada to Mexico. More and more, bears are becoming a familiar sight, not only where human development encroaches .... | 288 pages | Col illus | Lyons Press Hbk | 2006 | 1592289231 | #161502A | £17.99 BUY |
Master of Survival Kevin Hansen Bobcat: Master of Survival tells the story of the most adaptable and resilient wild feline in the world. While half the wild cat species worldwide are in danger, the .... | 272 pages | 5 maps, 16 b/w photos, 16 color photos, 15 line illus | OUP Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0195183037 | #161026A | £17.99 BUY |
Katharine M Rogers Part of the Reaktion's animal series, Cat traces the relationship between humans and the cat from its original domestication in ancient Egypt c. 2000 BC, where it .... | 224 pages | 100 illustrations, 25 in colour | Reaktion Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1861892926 | #161032A | £12.95 BUY |
Deer & Deer Parks of Lincolnshire
Chris Manning Current and historic details of Lincolnshire's deer, focusing on their landscape impact, particularly the creation and maintenance of parks. It includes a Gazetteer of the .... | Lincs NU Pbk | 2006 | #160957A | £24.50 BUY |
Stephanie Nowacek and Douglas Nowacek Provides a fresh introduction to dolphins around the world. This book tells how they eat, communicate and survive in their different marine environments. It includes .... | 48 pages | 43 colour photos | Colin Baxter Pbk | 2006 | 1841072885 | #161006A | £5.00 BUY |
Jonathan Bird Dolphins, perhaps like no other sea creatures, captivate and delight us. They are highly evolved and social animals, communicating with each other through their own language of .... | 96 pages | Col photos | Evans Mitchell Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1901268179 | #161494A | £9.99 BUY |
Field Guide to Antelope of Southern Africa
N Zaloumis and R Cross This book has been designed to slip into a pocket and, in addition to detailed descriptions of each species, carries information on distribution, preferred habitat, .... | 124 pages | A5 size | WESSA KZN Pbk | 2005 | 1874975108 | #158715A | £19.50 BUY |
Martin Wallen Foxes live throughout the world in widely different habitats from forest to desert to the Arctic. What is surprising, though, is that scientists admit that very little is .... | 224 pages | 100 illustrations, 25 in colour | Reaktion Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1861892977 | #161034A | £12.95 BUY |
Travels in Tigerland Prerna Singh Bindra A travelogue celebrating the big cats in India. .... | 256 pages | colour photos | Rupa & Co Pbk | 2006 | 812910797X | #159971A | £23.95 BUY |
Ecology and Adaptation Edited by Lisa Gould and ML Sauther Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation brings together information from recent research, and provides new insight into the study of lemur origins, and the ecology and adaptation .... | 460 pages | 78 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 038734585X | #160637A | £88.50 BUY |
Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
Edited by Sharon/Nekaris, Anna Gursky This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. Anti-predator strategies exhibited by nocturnal prosimians include: crypsis, alarm .... | 750 pages | 78 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0387348077 | #160638A | £77.00 BUY |
Joanna Skipwith Rhinos have inspired artists for many centuries, but as the images multiply, the real animals are dying out. These books combine information about the real animals as well as .... | 48 pages | col illus | Silver Jungle Hbk | 2006 | 0955265215 | #161261A | £9.99 BUY |
Eugene Marais This is a new edition of this important work which was first published in 1969, 33 years after Marais's death. Although he worked on this book during the last years of his life .... | 192 pages | Human & Rousseau Pbk | 2006 | 0798145927 | #035996A | £13.95 BUY |
Art Wolfe There are probably more myths and legends about wolves than any other living creature. In fiction, they are most often portrayed as evil but in this book the authors set out, .... | 96 pages | Col photos | Evans Mitchell Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1901268187 | #161495A | £9.99 BUY |
Behavior, Ecology and Conservation Edited by L David Mech and Luigi Boitani The first systematic, comprehensive overview of wolf biology since 1970. Many of the world's leading experts provide up-to-date coverage of topics including: wolf social .... | 448 pages | 32 col plates, illus, 73 tabs | Chicago UP Hbk | 2003 | 0226516962 | #142372A | £31.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226516970 | #161055A | £19.00 BUY |
| Birds | Go to subject web page |
Aves Acuaticas en los Humedales de Cuba
L Magica, D Denis, M Acosta, A Jimenez and A Rodriguez Este libro, informativo y ameno, con hermosas ilustraciones, fotografias y pinturas, introduce al publico en el maravilloso mundo de las aves acuaticas y sus habitat, asi .... | 178 pages | Col photos, maps | BirdLife International Hbk | 2006 | 9590504078 | #161540A | £14.99 BUY |
Bird Song in the Antarctic, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands
23 Songs / calls of Birds plus Southern Elephant Seals and a colony of King Penguins. These recordings were made in December 2004 and represent just some of the birds that .... | Mandarin Productions CD | 2006 | #161465A | £7.65 BUY |
Gerard Gorman This guide covers the best birding sites in eleven eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia .... | 288 pages | illus | WildSounds Pbk | 2006 | #161040A | £19.99 BUY |
Simon Wood "The County Avifaunas" are a growing series giving full details of the status and range of every species recorded in the county in question. Each title covers all species on .... | 512 pages | Line drawings, maps, tabs, 32 col plates | A & C Black Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 071366939X | #161080A | £40.00 BUY |
Jeffery Wheatley A comprehensive account of the status, distribution and history of birds in Surrey, based on many years of research and fieldwork. This is a County Avifauna which is .... | Surrey BC Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | #160569A | £35.00 BUY |
Compact Guide to Colorado Birds
Michael Roedel and Gregory Kennedy | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 9768200227 | #161285A | £8.50 BUY |
Compact Guide to Indiana Birds
Gregory Kennedy and Ken Brock | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 9768200278 | #161286A | £8.50 BUY |
Ted Cable and Gregory Kennedy | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 9768200251 | #161288A | £8.50 BUY |
Compact Guide to New Jersey Birds
Paul Lehman and Kennedy Gregory | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 9768200243 | #161289A | £8.50 BUY |
Compact Guide to Oklahoma Birds
Ted Cable and Gregory Kennedy | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 9768200235 | #161290A | £8.50 BUY |
Compact Guide to South Carolina Birds
Curtis Smalling and Gregory Kennedy | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 976820026X | #161291A | £8.50 BUY |
Ecology and Behavior of Chickadees and Titmice An integrated approach Edited by Ken A Otter Chickadees and titmice are among the most popular birds in North America, due in large part to their readiness to use bird feeders, to nest in urban gardens, and even to be .... | 352 pages | 79 illus | OUP Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0198569998 | #160985A | £55.00 BUY |
Clive Roots Covers the loss of flight in birds, both permanently after years of evolution, and temporarily as a result of unusual moulting behaviour, and those species that are in .... | 264 pages | 16 col photos, b/w illus | Greenwood Press Hbk | 2006 | 0313335451 | #161497A | £36.99 BUY |
Conserving Fiji's Natural Heritage Edited by Vilikesa T Masibalavu and Guy Dutson This book describes the 14 sites in Fiji which are of global importance for bird conservation. These Important Bird Areas (IBAs) are priorities for conserving the .... | 66 pages | 50 Col photos, 14 tabs, 17 maps | BirdLife International Pbk | 2006 | 9829101013 | #161537A | £15.00 BUY |
Important Bird Areas of the Falkland Islands
Falklands Conservation The book describes 22 sites in the Falklands, which are of global importance for bird conservation. These Important Bird Areas are priorities for conserving the natural .... | 160 pages | colour photos, distribution maps, tables | Falklands Conservation Pbk | 2006 | 0953837165 | #161008A | £10.00 BUY |
Chris Sharpe The Manx Bird Atlas project was established to undertake the first comprehensive survey of all bird species to be found on the Island of Man during both the winter and .... | 416 pages | 20 colour plates, 158 line drawings, 555 maps | Liverpool UP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 1846310393 | #161068A | £60.00 BUY |
Migrating Raptors of the World Their Ecology and Conservation Keith L Bildstein Many raptors, the hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world, migrate over long distances, often in impressively large numbers. Many avoid crossing wide expanses of water and .... | 344 pages | 16 color plates, 10 halftones, 19 tables, 10 charts/graphs, 12 maps | Comstock Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 080144179X | #161081A | £19.95 BUY |
Christine E Jackson People in most countries are familiar with the blue peacock. It is one of the very few bird species that will tolerate a person standing within a few feet of it, and appears .... | 224 pages | 100 illustrations, 45 in colour | Reaktion Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1861892934 | #161035A | £12.95 BUY |
Philip's Photographic Guide to Birds of the World
Edited by Andrew Gosler "Philip's Photographic Guide to Birds of the World" features 1,300 individual bird species, making it the most comprehensive single-volume photographic collection of birds .... | 384 pages | 1300 photos, 150 artworks and maps | Philip's Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0540089680 | #160969A | £25.00 BUY |
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and East Asia
Tadao Shimba Despite its rich avifauna and popularity with tourists, Japan has long been lacking a good English-language field guide. This new photographic guide will be the first book to .... | 512 pages | 800 col photos | A & C Black Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0713674393 | #161077A | £24.99 BUY |
The Pocket Guide to Scilly Birds
Nigel Hudson and Danni Borrett A photographic guide to the birds of the Scilly Isles, which boast the largest list of species for any location in Europe. This book covers 104 of the most common species, .... | 128 pages | colour photos | Post Box Publications Hbk | 2006 | 0955343003 | #161004A | £7.99 BUY |
Polish Bird Festival: May 2006
This CD is a representative of some of the 220 plus birds which can be seen and heard during the Polish Bird Festival. It is held annually in May and for many years .... | Mandarin Productions CD | 2006 | #161551A | £7.65 BUY |
Sixth European Woodcock and Snipe Workshop 25-27 November 2003, Nantes, France Proceedings of an International Symposium of the WI Woodcock and Snipe Specialist Group, Edited by Y Ferrand This volume contains 16 papers covering topics such as breeding biology, ecology, behaviour, population dynamics, monitoring and hunting bags.The papers focus on Woodcock .... | 114 pages | Figs, tabs | Wetlands International Pbk | 2006 | 9058820270 | #158202A | £15.00 BUY |
The Complete Guide to Attracting Birds and Other Wildlife to Your Garden Tony Soper All-new edition of this classic work, with completely revised text and brand new illustrations. This book covers everything you need to know about attracting wild birds .... | 192 pages | B/w illus | David & Charles Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0715324136 | #161491A | £16.99 BUY |
| Reptiles & Amphibians | Go to subject web page |
Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union, Volume 10: The Amphibians of Belarus
SM Drobenkov, RV Novitsky, LV Kosova, KK Ryzhevich and MM Pikulik This book summarizes the results of a long-term investigation of amphibian distribution, ecology and morphology in the Republic of Belarus. For all amphibian species, Triturus .... | 168 pages | Graphs, tables, 14 colour plates | Pensoft Pbk | 2006 | 9546422614 | #160547A | £39.95 BUY |
From Structures to Strategies of Life Edited by Jeanette Wyneken, Vincent Bels and Matthew H Godfrey Presents the morphology, physiology, and behavior of both freshwater and marine turtles. It explores life histories along with ecological strategies of adaptation, examines .... | 448 pages | 200 illus | CRC Press Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0849333393 | #159406A | £85.00 BUY |
Fauna Sinica: Amphibia, Volume 1: General Account of Amphibia: Gymnophiona and Urodela
Fei Liang | 479 pages | Science Press Hbk | 2006 | #158152A | £37.50 BUY |
Paul Starosta and Teddy Moncuit Features colour photographs of frogs and amphibians of various shapes, sizes and colours. .... | 192 pages | 120 col illus | Antique Collectors Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1905377053 | #161507A | £27.50 BUY |
Reptiles and Amphibians of Canada
Chris C Fisher | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 1551052792 | #161300A | £9.50 BUY |
Franck Bonin, Bernard Devaux and Alain Dupré From the familiar painted turtle basking on a log to the majestic long-lived giant tortoises, turtles are among the most fascinating animals on the planet. For many years .... | 416 pages | 300 color photographs, 320 color maps | Christopher Helm Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0713682353 | #160133A | £35.00 BUY |
| Fishes | Go to subject web page |
Action Plan for the Conservation of Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) in the Danube River Basin
J Bloesch et al Six species of sturgeons are native to the Danube River Basin. The need for conservation action is urgent, given that recent observations in the Lower Danube indicate that all .... | 121 pages | Council of Europe 2006 | 9287159920 | #160988A | £12.95 BUY |
Jeffrey C Carrier Sharks are greatly misunderstood creatures. Yet, the lifestyles of these supreme predators at the top of the ocean food chain is an amazing success story. This work .... | 48 pages | 43 colour photos | Colin Baxter Pbk | 2006 | 1841072893 | #161007A | £5.00 BUY |
Peter Coates Every year, wild salmon travel hundreds of miles upstream. They fight fierce river currents, leap over rocks and small waterfalls, and die by the thousands of starvation, .... | 224 pages | 100 illustrations, 25 in colour | Reaktion Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1861892950 | #161036A | £12.95 BUY |
| Invertebrates | Go to subject web page |
Allpet Roaches: Care and Identification Handbook for the Pet and Feeder Cockroaches
R Willis and Orin McMonigle | 44 pages | Col & b/w illus | Elytra and Antenna Pbk | 2000 | 0971912912 | #160584A | £10.95 BUY |
Edited by C Souty-Grosset, DM Holdich, Noel. PY, JD Reynolds and P Haffner Crayfish are important as part of our natural heritage and represent key elements in freshwater ecosystems. Their conservation favours the protection of the aquatic .... | Paris MNHN Pbk | 2006 | 2856535798 | #161027A | £28.95 BUY |
The Butterflies and Moths of Lincolnshire Species review to 2004 Edited by Colin Smith A review of the current known status of the Butterflies and Moths of Lincolnshire giving details of latest records for the more unusual species. There are vice-county tables for .... | Lincs NU Pbk | 2006 | #160956A | £19.95 BUY |
The Complete Guide to Rearing Flower and Jewel Scarabs
Orin McMonigle | 44 pages | B/w photos | Elytra and Antenna Pbk | 2006 | 097191298X | #160583A | £10.50 BUY |
Complete Guide to Rearing the Elephant Stag Beetle
Orin McMonigle Rearing techniques for stags from around the world with emphasis on Lucanus elephus. .... | 44 pages | Col & b/w illus | Elytra and Antenna Pbk | 2004 | 0971912041 | #160582A | £10.50 BUY |
Esperiana Memoir, Volume 1: The Lepidoptera of the Brandenberg Massif in Namibia, Part 1
Edited by Wolfram Mey | 362 pages | Photos, drawings, plates | Hermann H. Hacker - Esperiana Hbk | 2004 | 3938249005 | #161403A | £75.00 BUY |
Revision und Phylogenie der Gattungsgruppe Crypsotidia Rothschild, 1901, Tachosa Walker, 1869, Lars Kühne | 220 pages | plates, maps, drawings | Hermann H. Hacker - Esperiana Hbk | 2005 | 3938249021 | #161404A | £59.00 BUY |
Esperiana, Volume 12: Insect-Fauna of Yemen, Part 4
Edited by Hermann H Hacker | 410 pages | Hermann H. Hacker - Esperiana NYP 09/2006 | 3938249048 | #161569A | £119.00 BUY |
Faune des Carabidae de Turquie
Pierfranco Cavazzuti | 150 pages | 18 colour plates | Magellanes Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 2911545893 | #161575A | £46.50 BUY |
Steven Connor Few creatures live in such close and intimate contact with human beings as flies. As `the constant, immemorial witnesses to the human comedy', flies accompany human beings .... | 224 pages | 100 illustrations, 25 in colour | Reaktion Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1861892942 | #161033A | £12.95 BUY |
Forest Entomology in East Africa Forest Insects of Tanzania Hans G Schabel East African forests, among the world's most biologically rich and diverse, are subject to multiple pressures, including insects. As the first work to focus exclusively on East .... | 350 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 1402046545 | #161016A | £100.00 BUY |
Nouveaux Fulgoridae Neotropicaux / New Neotropical Fulgoridae Patrick Bleuzen and Thierry Porion | 23 pages | coour plates | Hillside Books Pbk | 2004 | 1903237262 | #160562A | £24.95 BUY |
Nouveaux fulgoridae d'Asie du Sud-Est / New fulgoridae from South-East Asia Shinji Nagai and Thierry Porion | 15 pages | colour plates | Hillside Books Pbk | 2002 | 1903237128 | #160560A | £24.95 BUY |
Nouveaux fulgoridae d'Asie du Sud-Est / New fulgoridae from South-East Asia Shinji Nagai and Thierry Porion | 14 pages | colour plates | Hillside Books Pbk | 2004 | 1903237254 | #160568A | £42.50 BUY |
Eric Jiroux | 180 pages | 24 colour plates | Magellanes Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 2911545907 | #161576A | £51.50 BUY |
The Insects: Structure, Function and Biodiversity
Dunston P Ambrose | 821 pages | line drawings | Kalyani Hbk | 2004 | 8127218537 | #158742A | £32.50 BUY |
An Introduction to the Invertebrates
Janet Moore So much has to be crammed into today's biology courses that basic information on animal groups and their evolutionary origins is often left out. This is particularly true for .... | 355 pages | 96 line illus, figs | CUP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0521857368 | #161019A | £60.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0521674069 | #161020A | £23.99 BUY |
Longhorn Beetles of the Amazon - Volume 1
Hisayasu Arai Fine colour illustrations with species names. .... | 125 pages | Col illus | Wako Yosho-Hanbai K.K Hbk | 2005 | #160288A | £64.00 BUY |
Paramemoires d'un Timarchophile P Jolivet Autobiography of the famous naturalist, traveller and professional entomologist Pierre Jolivet from the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. .... | 348 pages | col photos | Pensoft Pbk | 2006 | 9546422649 | #161482A | £22.50 BUY |
A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation Edited by C Sturm, T Pearce and A Valdes Mollusks have been important to humans since our earliest days. Initially, when humans were primarily interested in what they could eat or use, mollusks were important as .... | 445 pages | 101 illus | Universal Publishers Pbk | 2006 | 1581129300 | #161279A | £34.50 BUY |
Eugene Marais In his fascinating investigations into the psyche of the ants, their strangely rich inherited memory of instinct, Marais makes challenging assertions about the group soul .... | 160 pages | Human & Rousseau Pbk | 2006 | 0798145935 | #144244A | £18.50 BUY |
| Palaeontology | Go to subject web page |
Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions: The Land-Ocean Evidence
Edited by MJ Head and PL Gibbard The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part .... | 326 pages | Col & b/w figs, tabs | Geological Society Hbk | 2005 | 1862391815 | #161328A | £103.00 BUY |
Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Peter Ward For 65 million years dinosaurs ruled the Earth until a deadly asteroid forced their extinction. But what accounts for the incredible longevity of dinosaurs? A renowned .... | 320 pages | Joseph Henry Press Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0309100615 | #161246A | £16.99 BUY |
Recent Studies in Phytolithic Analysis M Madella and D Zurro Phytoliths - rigid microscopic bodies that occur in most plant species - have gone a long way since that day when Darwin became curious about a fine powder deposited on the .... | 272 pages | 200 b/w illus | Oxbow Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 184217245X | #161278A | £75.00 BUY |
| Marine & Freshwater Biology | Go to subject web page |
Edited by P F Verdonschot, H Wang, A Pinders and R Nijboer This volume contains selected papers from the 9th Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, 6-10 October 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 18 contributions deal with the biology of .... | 222 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402047819 | #161387A | £104.00 BUY |
Andrea Ferrari and Antonella Ferrari A Diver's Guide to Reef Life is set to become the indispensable companion for reef divers wishing to identify, photograph or learn about the myriad of fascinating .... | 478 pages | 1400 colour photos | Nautilus Hbk | 2006 | 9832731011 | #157732A | £30.00 BUY |
Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Eales and Fabien Cousteau 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 | NYP 10/2006 | 1405312920 | #161515A | £30.00 BUY |
Bayram Ozturk Sea Creatures Guide Book is the sixth book in an education series as part of TUDAV's Life Project. The book introduces 160 species including sea mammals and sea turtles. .... | Turkish Marine Research | #157846A | £13.95 BUY |
| General Natural History | Go to subject web page |
The Evolution of Human Domination Kirkpatrick Sale When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted water and soil, .... | 184 pages | 9 illus, 2 maps | Duke UP Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0822338858 | #161532A | £52.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0822339382 | #161533A | £12.99 BUY |
Edited by David L Noakes This book is the first complete biography of one of the founders of fishery science, William Edwin (Bill) Ricker (1908 - 2001). Bill is immortalized in the Ricker Curve. He .... | 154 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 140204707X | #161384A | £57.50 BUY |
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture
MF Robinson With chronological chapters featuring emblematic Arctic explorers - including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, and Robert Peary - this title reveals why the North Pole, a .... | 200 pages | B/w illus | Chicago UP Hbk | 2006 | 0226721841 | #161201A | £25.00 BUY |
BB Captures in words and wood engravings the wonders of English wildlife and countryside. This work includes essays on the purple emperor butterfly, a night fishing on the .... | 308 pages | B/w illus | Merlin Unwin Hbk | 2006 | 1873674945 | #161504A | £18.95 BUY |
Discovering the Great South Land
B Heath This is the story of the evolution of the sailing ships that gradually linked Australia to Europe. The book explains how the navigational problems of Australia's huge coastline .... | 192 pages | 24 col photos, 36 b\w illus | Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd Pbk | 2005 | 1877058319 | #161234A | £7.99 BUY |
Why We Are Living Longer Stanley Shostak Argues that death is not unchanging, but rather has evolved over time. .... | 256 pages | SUNY Press Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 079146945X | #161505A | £50.25 BUY Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0791469468 | #161506A | £16.75 BUY |
Hawai'i's Pioneer Botanist Dr. William Hillebrand His Life and Letters Ursula H Meier Dr. William Hillebrand (1849-1886) takes his place as one of the most influential foreigners in the Hawaiian Islands in this fascinating biography. Not only was Dr. .... | 134 pages | b&w photos | Bishop Museum Press Hbk | 2005 | 1581780478 | #160319A | £19.95 BUY |
An Unnatural History Sharman Apt Russell Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a .... | 288 pages | Basic Books Hbk | 2005 | 0465071635 | #161484A | £13.99 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0465071651 | #161485A | £8.99 BUY |
John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire
S Ruskin Demonstrates the reason for Herschel's renown was due to the notion that his voyage was aligned with imperial ambition. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the .... | 225 pages | B/w illus | Gower Hbk | 2004 | 0754635589 | #161197A | £58.50 BUY |
The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution Madison Smartt Bell Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing a new terminology. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative .... | 256 pages | 8 illus | Norton Pbk | 2006 | 0393328546 | #161059A | £8.99 BUY |
A Journey Through Time Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to .... | 304 pages | colour photos | Taschen Hbk | 2006 | 3822839949 | #161259A | £29.99 BUY |
Murmurs of the Deep: Scientific Adventure in the Caribbean
Gilles Fonteneau Fonteneau describes his pursuit of three goals: measuring the tectonic plates of the Caribbean in order to help prevent a tsunami, studying the erosion of coral reefs and .... | 239 pages | Col photos | Arcade Publishing Hbk | 2006 | 1559707763 | #161214A | £16.95 BUY |
Lore, Legend, Fact and Fiction Ruth Binney A fascinating and absorbing miscellany of traditional wisdom, proverbial sayings and modern science that uncovers the truth behind many generations' worth of superstitions .... | 256 pages | David & Charles Hbk | 2006 | 0715324179 | #161492A | £9.99 BUY |
Ronald N. Giere Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science have long argued that scientific claims .... | 160 pages | 12 col plates, 29 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0226292126 | #161047A | £19.00 BUY |
The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
James Longuski This book translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking so it can be used by anyone. It's short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book .... | 170 pages | 8 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0387308768 | #161478A | £15.50 BUY |
The life story of a fish biologist Ro Lowe-McConnell Rosemary McConnell was one of the early pioneers studying the ecology and evolution of the world's richest diversity of .... | b&w photos, colour photos | MPM 2006 | 0954559649 | #161005A | £23.50 BUY |
Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks Peter Csermely Why do women stabilize our societies? Why can we enjoy and understand Shakespeare? Why are fruitflies uniform? Why do omnivorous eating habits aid our survival? Why is Mona .... | 392 pages | 52 illus | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540311513 | #161464A | £38.50 BUY |
Vincent Munier and Lysiane Ganousse Captures nature in a winter landscape. This work features photographs by three times winner of the Eric Hosking award for BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, who takes us .... | 160 pages | 100 col illus | Antique Collectors Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1905377045 | #161508A | £25.00 BUY |
| Regional & Travel | Go to subject web page |
An American Colony Stephen Haycox Alaska has not evolved in a vacuum. It has been part of larger stories: the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation to Western culture, the spread of .... | 392 pages | 38 illus, maps | Washington UP Hbk | 2006 | 0295982497 | #161554A | £15.95 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0295986298 | #161555A | £11.99 BUY |
The True Story of Animals and Australia Adrian Franklin Animal Nation traces the complex relationships between animals and humans in Australia. It starts with the colonial period, when unfamiliar native animals were hunted almost to .... | 272 pages | Washington UP Pbk | 2006 | 0868408905 | #161557A | £15.95 BUY |
A Dive Guide to Antarctica LE Trotter Below Freezing is the first and only dive guide to the Antarctic. Until recently the exclusive realm of scientific and military divers, this icy wilderness has become .... | 116 pages | Col photos, maps | Wild Guides Pbk | 2006 | #161018A | £19.95 BUY |
Laurence Parent and Nick Patoski Big Bend National Park is one of the few places left in America where a person can literally get away from it all. Nestled in the great bend of the Rio Grande that forms .... | 112 pages | 82 col photos, 1 map | Texas UP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0292714416 | #161549A | £18.95 BUY |
Bulgarian Antarctic Research, Life Sciences Volume 5
AV Golemansky and R Metcheva | 106 pages | Tabs, figs | Pensoft Pbk | 2006 | 9546422630 | #161343A | £31.50 BUY |
Edited by Beau Riffenburgh The Antarctic is unique, geographically, politically, and scientifically. It is the most remote, hostile, and dangerous continent, while at the same time it is the most pristine .... | 1248 pages | Routledge Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0415970245 | #161267A | £240.00 BUY |
Douglas Goodell The Selva Maya (Jungle of the Maya) is one of the world's most magical yet least appreciated places - an enormous tropical forest that encompasses much of Belize, .... | 152 pages | 226 col photos | Texas UP Hbk | 2006 | 0292714122 | #161523A | £21.00 BUY |
Ecological Landscape of the South Jack Temple Kirby The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the .... | 384 pages | 29 illus, 5 maps, notes, index | North Carolina UP Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0807830577 | #161364A | £2.50 BUY |
National Park, City Playground Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century Theodore R Catton The majestic beauty of Mount Rainier, which dominates the Seattle and Tacoma skyscapes, has in many ways defined the Pacific Northwest. At the same time, those two major cities .... | 224 pages | 24 illus, 2 maps | Washington UP Pbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0295986433 | #161550A | £11.99 BUY |
The Natural History of Madagascar
Edited by Steven M Goodman and Jonathan P Benstead Comprehensive, up-to-date account of this island nation's priceless biological treasures. Includes contributions by nearly 300 world-renowned experts covering the .... | 1709 pages | 144 col plates, 59 illus, 163 line illus, 254 tabs | Chicago UP Hbk | 2004 | 0226303063 | #136574A | £54.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0226303071 | #161056A | £31.50 BUY |
The Nature of Southwestern Colorado Recognizing Human Legacies and Restoring Natural Places WL Baker and DD Paulson Two ecologist-geographers guide readers through southwestern Colorado, where mountains meet red rock, detailing the area's ecology, human impacts, and current environmental .... | 480 pages | Col & b/w photos | Colorado UP Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0870818481 | #161528A | £60.50 BUY |
Myth and History in the Klamath Basin Stephen Most A land of mountains, forests, wetlands, lakes, and rivers, the Klamath Basin spans the Oregon-California state line. Farms and ranches, logging towns, and back-to-the-land .... | 288 pages | 40 photos, 3 maps | Washington UP Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0295986220 | #161553A | £14.99 BUY |
Michael Taylor and Andrew Kitchener What would we have seen if we looked out over the landscape of Scotland at its very beginning, before the impact of mankind? What would it be like to swim in the Jurassic .... | 64 pages | 120 col illus | NMSE Publishing Pbk | 2006 | 1901663264 | #161510A | £5.99 BUY |
Seashore of Southern California
Ian Sheldon | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 03/2007 | 1551052326 | #161301A | £11.50 BUY |
Twenty Three Years in the African Wilderness Unravelling the Mysteries of Elephants and People M Owens and D Owens When the Owenses arrived at North Luangwa National Park in the mid-1980s, the park had been abandoned to poachers. Corrupt local officials, and even the scouts who were hired .... | 230 pages | Col photos, maps | Houghton Mifflin Hbk | 2006 | 0395893100 | #161180A | £18.95 BUY |
The Long Decline of a Nation's Wildlife Roger Lovegrove Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his .... | 352 pages | b/w drawings | OUP Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0198520719 | #159154A | £25.00 BUY |
The Essential Guide to the Best of Natural Scotland James McCarthy Describes the geology, landforms and wildlife of Scotland and what is being done to conserve Scottish habitats and species. .... | 169 pages | Col photos, maps | Luath Press Pbk | 2005 | 1842820966 | #151267A | £8.99 BUY |
| Botany & Plant Science | Go to subject web page |
Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration of the Work of Rex Lowe
Edited by R J Stevenson, Y Pan, J P Kociolek and J C Kingston Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration of the Work of Rex Lowe was written by students and colleagues of Rex Lowe to acknowledge his esteemed career that included .... | 249 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402047827 | #161385A | £100.00 BUY |
A Pocket Guide to the Identification, History and Uses of Traditional and Novel Arable Crops in Great Britain Sally A Francis This field guide includes 90 different crops, including novel crops just beginning to be grown on Britain's farms; 150 clear botanical line drawings of leaves, flowers, seed .... | 80 pages | 153 b&w botanical line drawings | Sally Francis Pbk | 2005 | 0955046610 | #160955A | £8.50 BUY |
A Woody Neotropical Genus of Remarkable Plasticity and Diversity Edited by Ulrich E Lüttge Clusia is the only dicotyledonous tree genus with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), and in some cases all variants of CAM can even be expressed in one given species. .... | 400 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 3540372423 | #160912A | £77.00 BUY |
Compendium of Medicinal Plants of the World
Amritpal Singh Alternative systems of medicine (Ayurveda, Siddha, Homoepathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medcila Herbalism) utilizes medicinal plants for formulations. The .... | 328 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | 2006 | 157808430X | #160995A | £30.80 BUY |
The Uses and Abuses of Plants Richard Mabey In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal .... | 240 pages | Eden Project Books Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1903919320 | #161493A | £8.99 BUY |
Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 24 Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, Part 1 Edited by Flora of North America Editorial Committee Volume 24 of Flora North America is one of two volumes on grasses to be published in this series (Volume 25, though it follows sequentially, was published in 2003). Together .... | 892 pages | OUP Hbk | 2006 | 0195310713 | #153851A | £58.00 BUY |
Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Dilleniidae, Part 2 Salicales, Capparales Edited by Flora of North America Editorial Committee Flora of North America Volume 7 is the seventh volume of nineteen on dicotyledons to be published in the Flora of North America series. It treats more than 910 species .... | 600 pages | 1000 line illus., 910 species-distribution maps | OUP Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0195318226 | #032824A | £58.00 BUY |
A Field Guide Hans Christian Weber and Bernd Kendzior In this fieldguide to the wild flowers of the Maltese Islands, more than 600 of the approximately 1000 species of vascular plants found in Malta are considered. The guide .... | 384 pages | Full colour illus | Backhuys Hbk | 2006 | 3823614789 | #161041A | £28.50 BUY |
Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, Volume 1 Orchids, Irises, Lilies, Grass-trees, Mat-rushes and other Petaloid Monocotyledons Enid Mayfield This area of south-eastern Australia has a rich and exceptionally diverse Flora with over 130 orchid species represented in this volume. .... | 232 pages | illus | Linton Press Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0977571203 | #161069A | £42.00 BUY |
Edited by Geoff Gadd, Sarah Watkinson and Paul Dyer Fungi are of fundamental importance in the terrestrial environment. They have roles as decomposers, plant pathogens, symbionts, and in elemental cycles. Fungi are often .... | 364 pages | 42 line diags, 48 half-tones, 10 tabs | CUP Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0521850290 | #161601A | £80.00 BUY |
Stefan Buczacki A history of gardens in Britain with special reference to the evolution of different styles and the changing importance in them of native and exotic plant species. .... | 288 pages | Harper Collins Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0007139934 | #127508A | £45.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0007139942 | #127509A | £25.00 BUY |
M Symes Presents an alphabetical glossary of over five hundred entries that explains and illustrates such terms, aimed at readers of garden literature and visitors to gardens. A .... | 144 pages | Illus | Shire Pbk | 2006 | 0747806462 | #161238A | £14.50 BUY |
Carlyle A Luer In addition to the taxonomic treatment of Specklinia and similar pleurothallid genera, segregate taxa are recognized within the large genus Masdevallia. New orchid taxa are .... | Missouri BG Pbk | 2006 | 1930723520 | #160993A | £62.00 BUY |
Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America
Edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy J Turner The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land .... | 384 pages | 42 illus, 16 tabs | Washington UP Pbk | 2006 | 0295985658 | #161556A | £17.99 BUY |
The Management and Maintenance of Historic Parks, Gardens and Landscapes
John Watkins and Thomas Wright This new reference book is for all those professionals, agents, owners, designers and managers concerned with the many aspects of managing historic gardens, parks and design .... | 352 pages | 250 photos | Frances Lincoln Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0711224390 | #160996A | £35.00 BUY |
Multiplication of RNA Plant Viruses
CL Mandahar Multiplication is the basic biological function of all organisms and is dependent upon replication of genomes. This is also true of plant viruses even though they possess a .... | 339 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 140204724X | #161277A | £92.50 BUY |
David Gledhill An invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. The first section gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known .... | 326 pages | B/w illus | CUP Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0521866456 | #161486A | £55.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0521685532 | #161487A | £24.99 BUY |
The genetic manipulation of plants Adrian Slater, Nigel Scott and Mark Fowler The second edition of Plant Biotechnology: the genetic manipulation of crop plants presents a balanced, objective exploration of the technology behind genetic .... | 346 pages | 140 line illus | OUP Pbk | 2003 | 0199254680 | #129641A | £24.99 BUY Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0199282617 | #160374A | £24.99 BUY |
France Royer and Richard Dickinson | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 1551052830 | #161296A | £19.50 BUY |
Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest
R Parish, R Coupe and D Lloyd | 464 pages | Lone Pine Pbk | 1999 | 1551052199 | #161298A | £17.50 BUY |
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon | 528 pages | Lone Pine Pbk | 2004 | 1551055309 | #161299A | £18.50 BUY |
Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine Navindra P Seeram and David Heber While one may not find ancient studies that substantiate the pomegranate's curative and preventive qualities, the exalted status of this fruit goes back as far as the history .... | 256 pages | CRC Press Hbk | 2006 | 0849398126 | #159441A | £74.99 BUY |
Practical Plant Identification Including a Key to Native and Cultivated Flowering Plants in North Temperate Regions J Cullen Practical Plant Identification is an essential guide to identifying flowering plant families (wild or cultivated) in the northern hemisphere. Details of plant structure and .... | 368 pages | 8 line illus, 2 tabs | CUP Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0521861527 | #161239A | £45.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0521678773 | #161586A | £17.99 BUY |
RHS Encyclopedia of Perennials
Graham Rice This is the definitive practical guide to choosing, planting and combining herbaceous perennials - an essential tool for gardeners of all levels, from the experts at the RHS. .... | 496 pages | colour illus | Dorling Kindersley Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1405306009 | #160095A | £25.00 BUY |
Saffron (Crocus Sativus): Production and Processing
Edited by M Kafi et al Saffron is a precious spice which is mainly grown in Iran, India, Spain, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Morocco, and central Asian countries. This book presents a comprehensive .... | 252 pages | Col & b/w figs | Science Publishers/Enfield Pbk | 2006 | 157808427X | #161380A | £33.30 BUY |
Success with Wild Flowers & Plants
Julian Slatcher We are all familiar with the charm of daffodils, primroses, bluebells and ferns, which will flourish in the majority of gardens, but here Julian Slatcher shows how many other .... | 160 pages | 150 colour photos | GMCP Pbk | 2006 | 186108417X | #161092A | £12.95 BUY |
Management, Cultivation and Biology Robert Watson An essential reference tool for all those who have a passion for trees as well as those who work in tree-related professions whether they be garden managers, forest and country .... | 264 pages | Crowood Press Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1861268858 | #161488A | £25.00 BUY |
Recent Developments Edited by Matthias Fladung and Dietrich Ewald Tree improvement is necessary to meet the growing demand for the renewable resource wood. Many novel possibilities to obtain improved species are offered by biotechnology, .... | 357 pages | 19 illus, 8 in col | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540321985 | #161383A | £115.50 BUY |
Trees and Tall Shrubs of Illinois
Linda J Kershaw and Clem Hamilton | Lone Pine Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 1551054752 | #161302A | £11.95 BUY |
Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and other Tropical Places George W Staples and Derral R Herbst Describes more than 2,100 species of tropical and subtropical plants, provides brief descriptions and keys for identification, and weaves together the origins, uses, .... | 908 pages | Bishop Museum Press Hbk | 2005 | 1581780397 | #156463A | £85.00 BUY |
Wild Flowers of the Table Mountain National Park - Standard Edition
Terry Trinder-Smith, Mary Maytham Kidd and Fay Anderson This field guide for the identification of one third of the indigenous wild flowers growing in the world-renowned Table Mountain National Park, South Africa, showcases some .... | 350 pages | illus | Botanical SSA Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | #161029A | £23.95 BUY |
Wild Orchids of the Canadian Maritimes and Northern Great Lakes Region
Paul Martin Brown A guide to finding the native orchid species found in the fields and forests of the Canadian Maritimes and shorelines of the Northern Great Lakes. This work illustrates .... | 336 pages | 316 colour plates, 85 illus, 40 maps | Florida University Presses Pbk | 2006 | 0813029112 | #160994A | £22.50 BUY |
Stefan Buczacki The ultimate gardening book for all wildlife lovers, written by the leading expert in the field. This book debunks the myth that you need to grow a jungle to attract .... | 224 pages | - | Harper Collins Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0007231849 | #155490A | £20.00 BUY |
Biology, Damage, Protection, and Use Olaf Schmidt This book provides an up-to-date overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber. Special focus is given to identification, prevention, and .... | 334 pages | 74 illus, 12 in col | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540321381 | #161460A | £54.00 BUY |
Accompanies the BBC Series A Year At Kew Carolyn Fry Published to accompany the third series of "A Year at Kew" (which will be called "A New Year At Kew") this autumn, this lavishly illustrated book takes a close look at the .... | 224 pages | 150 colour photos | BBC Books Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 056349378X | #159175A | £18.99 BUY |
| Animal & General Biology | Go to subject web page |
Bacterial-Epithelial Cell Cross-Talk Molecular Mechanisms in Pathogenesis Edited by Beth A McCormick An emerging theme in molecular and cellular microbiology has been the ability of many pathogens to usurp the host cell and eventually colonize the host. This interaction .... | 424 pages | 28 line diags, 6 half-tones, 4 col plates | CUP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0521852447 | #161611A | £75.00 BUY |
Edited by Andrew M Smith and James A Callow Many plants, animals, and microbes use adhesive polymers and structures to attach to inert substrates, to each other, or to other organisms. This is the first major review .... | 284 pages | 61 illus, 3 in col | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540310487 | #161461A | £107.50 BUY |
Chemical Principles and Methods Osamu Shimomura This book, written by a distinguished scientist in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of the biochemical aspects of all luminous organisms currently known. It is the .... | 500 pages | World Scientific Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 9812568018 | #161252A | £51.00 BUY |
The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell Cynthia Fox At the cutting edge of science, "Cell of Cells" charts the race to put the stem cell to use. From a laboratory in the Sahara, where one problem is sand in the Petri dishes, to .... | 512 pages | Norton Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0393058778 | #161063A | £17.99 BUY |
Cryptozoology and the Investigation of Lesser Known Animals
Edited by Chad Arment | 227 pages | - | Coachwhip Publications Pbk | 2006 | 1930585292 | #161432A | £14.50 BUY |
Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology Alexander Rosenberg After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embraced reductionism-the theory that all complex systems can be understood in .... | 272 pages | 3 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0226727297 | #161051A | £25.50 BUY |
Clive Kennedy Acanthocephalans, or spiny-headed worms, are endoparasites found in almost all marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems. They infect a huge range of definitive and .... | 240 pages | 46 line diags, 1 half-tone, 61 tabs | CUP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0521850088 | #161610A | £60.00 BUY |
Donald R. Forsdyke Books on bioinformatics which began appearing in the mid 80s primarily served gene-hunters, and biologists who wished to construct family trees showing tidy lines of .... | 450 pages | 86 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0387334181 | #160973A | £34.50 BUY |
Clive Roots Examines those animals that cannot migrate and are forced to remain in a habitat that is inhospitable, and consequently sleep deeply for weeks or months. This unique trait, .... | 264 pages | Greenwood Press Hbk | 2006 | 0313335443 | #161498A | £36.99 BUY |
Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System Neurobiology of Homeostasis Wilfrid Janig Almost all bodily functions are dependent on the functioning of the autonomic nervous system - from the cardiovascular system, the gastrointestinal tract, the evacuative and .... | 632 pages | CUP Hbk | 2006 | 0521845181 | #161407A | £95.00 BUY |
Large-Scale Genome Sequence Processing
Masahiro Kasahara and Shinichi Morishita Efficient computer programs have made it possible to elucidate and analyze large-scale genomic sequences. Fundamental tasks, such as the assembly of numerous whole-genome .... | 250 pages | Imperial College Press Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 1860946356 | #161256A | £39.00 BUY |
Clive Roots Examines how nocturnal animals live and explains their highly developed senses that enable them to survive in the dark, as well as their behaviour and adaptations to avoid .... | 264 pages | Greenwood Press Hbk | 2006 | 031333546X | #161499A | £36.99 BUY |
Living Pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea Jonathan Whitcomb Do pterosaurs still live on Umboi, a remote tropical island in Papua New Guinea? This book relates eye-witness accounts of a large flying animal that has no feathers, eats .... | 207 pages | b/w illus | Bookshelf Press Pbk | 2006 | 1595940049 | #161433A | £9.50 BUY |
Toxicants in Terrestrial Ecosystems A Guide for the Analytical and Environmental Chemist T R Crompton The presence of deliberately added or adventitious organic and inorganic compounds in soils can cause contamination of the crops which are grown on the land or animals .... | 268 pages | 18 illus | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 354033694X | #161375A | £100.00 BUY |
| Evolutionary Biology | Go to subject web page |
Darwin and the Nature of Species
David N Stamos Examines Darwin's concept of species in a philosophical context. .... | 304 pages | SUNY Press Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0791469379 | #161509A | £54.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0791469387 | #161511A | £18.00 BUY |
Michael Ruse Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin's thinking. Michael Ruse brings the story .... | 352 pages | CUP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 052182947X | #161600A | £19.99 BUY |
A Scientific American Reader Edited by Scientific American From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have .... | 312 pages | 72 halftones, 11 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0226742687 | #161043A | £41.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0226742695 | #161044A | £14.00 BUY |
Evolution, Development and Transformation Edited by Brian K. Hall Long ago, fish fins evolved into the limbs of land vertebrates and tetrapods. During this transition, some elements of the fin were carried over while new features .... | 344 pages | 40 col plates, 32 halftones, 138 line drawings | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226313360 | #161048A | £69.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0226313379 | #161050A | £28.50 BUY |
The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories-selection, adaptation, and species-that are complex and open to .... | 236 pages | 9 halftones, 10 tables | Chicago UP Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0226668363 | #161045A | £44.50 BUY Pbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0226668371 | #161046A | £18.00 BUY |
Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems
Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman Collection of papers which broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines. .... | 454 pages | Figs | Bradford Books Hbk | 2005 | 0262033267 | #161235A | £35.95 BUY |
The Story of the Emergence of Humans and Humanity in Africa Edited by Geoff Blundell This book demonstrates the very special position Africa occupies in the evolution and creative development of humankind. After almost a century of scientific research into .... | 160 pages | Col illus | Double Story Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1770130403 | #161315A | £15.95 BUY |
Adaptations and Evolution Edited by Matthew J Ravosa and Marian Dagosto The goals of this volume are twofold. First, it aims to provide a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, .... | 550 pages | 149 illus | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 0387303359 | #158950A | £104.00 BUY |
The Theoretical Biologist's Toolbox Quantitative Methods for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Marc Mangel Mathematical modelling is widely used in ecology and evolutionary biology and it is a topic that many biologists find difficult to grasp. In this new textbook Marc Mangel .... | 390 pages | CUP Hbk | 2006 | 0521830451 | #161405A | £55.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0521537487 | #161406A | £27.99 BUY |
| Ecology | Go to subject web page |
Edited by Wolfgang Nentwig This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals, differing from previous books by extending from the species to an ecosystem and global level. Its .... | 420 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 3540369198 | #160911A | £115.00 BUY |
Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs Edited by Takayuki Ohgushi, Timothy Craig and Peter Price To gain a more complete understanding of plant-based ecological community structure requires knowledge of the integration of direct and indirect effects in plant herbivore .... | 532 pages | 42 line diags, 1 half-tone, 6 tabs | CUP Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 0521850398 | #161591A | £80.00 BUY |
Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Comparative Studies and Theory Development Edited by Brian Walker, John Anderies, Ann Kinzig and Paul Ryan The capacity of a system - an ecosystem or a social-ecological system - to tolerate disturbance, without collapsing into a qualitatively different state controlled by a .... | 216 pages | Illustrated | CSIRO Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0643092439 | #161072A | £52.50 BUY |
Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge Ikechi Mgbeoji "Biopiracy raises serious issues pertaining to the conservation of biological diversity and genetic resources in agriculture, the integrity of plant life forms, a just .... | 336 pages | Cornell UP Pbk | 2006 | 080147311X | #161519A | £12.95 BUY |
Histories of the Borneo Environment Economic, Political, and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity Edited by Reed L Wadley In light of the tremendous changes that have come to the island of Borneo in recent decades, this volume takes a detailed historical look at its environment from native, .... | 322 pages | Washington UP Pbk | 2006 | 9067182540 | #161558A | £18.95 BUY |
Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession
Edited by Lawrence Walker, Richard J Hobbs and Joseph Walker While studies of restoration and ecological succession have been published independently, there is much overlap between these approaches that has not been .... | 210 pages | 37 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 038735302X | #160919A | £42.50 BUY |
Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology Methods and Applications Edited by J Wu, K Jones, H Li and O Loucks Presenting the current state of the art in scaling and uncertainty in ecology, Wu et al's Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology is the first book of its kind - .... | 351 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402046626 | #161462A | £69.00 BUY |
| Habitats & Ecosystems | Go to subject web page |
Philippe Bourseiller, Jean-Francois Chaix et al Moving from the cascading waters of Niagara Falls to the massive volcanoes of Hawaii, renowned nature photographer Philippe Bourseiller takes readers on a captivating visual .... | 384 pages | 200 col photos | Abrams Hbk | 2006 | 0810930846 | #161483A | £29.95 BUY |
Ancient Trees, Living Landscapes
Richard Muir Magisterial survey of woodlands in the British Isles by the leading archaeologist. This is stimulating and thoughtful history, very much along the lines of Oliver Rackham's .... | 256 pages | colour plates, illus | Tempus Hbk | 2005 | 0752434438 | #155345A | £25.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 075243926X | #161522A | £16.99 BUY |
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
Edited by Ted Smith, David A Sonnenfield and David N Pellow "Challenging the Chip is essential reading for anyone who owns a cell phone or computer. As its vividly written chapters reveal, our digital possessions connect us not only to .... | 368 pages | 22 tabs, 3 maps, 6 figures, 37 halftones | Temple UP Hbk | 2006 | 1592133290 | #161443A | £50.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 1592133304 | #161442A | £16.95 BUY |
An Introduction to Urban Environmental Issues Around the Globe Christopher G Boone and Ali Modarres "From ancient Mesopotamia to post-modern Los Angeles, Boone and Modarres provide a broad sweep of the relationship between urbanization and the environment. Their goal is .... | 240 pages | 10 tabs, 7 figs, 5 halftones | Temple UP Hbk | 2006 | 1592132839 | #161441A | £48.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 1592132847 | #161440A | £15.95 BUY |
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Local Processes and Global Impacts Edited by Eric F Lambin and Helmut G Geist The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest, cropland and pasture. Among the causative mechanisms behind land change, .... | 222 pages | 44 illus, 19 in col | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540322019 | #161455A | £61.50 BUY |
Large Rivers, Volume 17, No 1-2
| Schweizerbart'sche 2006 | #161306A | £132.00 BUY |
A Professional Planner's Manual Andre Botequilha Leitao, Joseph Miller, Jack Ahern and Kevin McGarigal This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and .... | 240 pages | figures, photos, tables | Island Press Hbk | 2006 | 159726086X | #161582A | £48.95 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 1559638990 | #161583A | £24.50 BUY |
Edited by Jennifer McCullough, Jan Decher and David Guba Kpelle This Rapid Assessment Program Bulletin reports the findings of an expedition in 2003 into four forest reserves in southwestern Ghana that were recently designated as .... | 154 pages | Conservation International Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1881173909 | #161038A | £13.00 BUY |
A Jones, L Montanarella and R Jones More than 20 years of collaboration between European soil scientists has resulted in the publication by the European Commission of the first ever "Soil Atlas of Europe". .... | 128 pages | Maps, tabs, figs | Joint Research Centre Pbk | 2006 | 928948120X | #154281A | £22.50 BUY |
Wolfgang Zech and Gerd Hintermaier-Erhard This book describes and comprehensively illustrates all earth soils in accordance with the prevailing worldwide WRB classification. However, it goes far beyond description and .... | 130 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 3540304606 | #161459A | £61.50 BUY |
Valuing Complex Natural Resource Systems The Case of the Lagoon of Venice Edited by Anna Alberini, Paolo Rosato and Margherita Turvani In complex natural resource systems, modifications or disruptions tend to affect many and diverse components of the ecological system, settlements and groups of people. This .... | 240 pages | Edward Elgar Hbk | 2006 | 1845428471 | #161357A | £62.00 BUY |
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The Conservation of Genetic Diversity: Science and Policy Needs in a Changing World
Edited by A Gregory et al | 91 pages | Figs | JNCC Pbk | 2006 | #161362A | £10.00 BUY |
Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern, 19 September 1979) Texts adopted by the Standing Committee 2001-2004 The Council of Europe's convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, or "Bern Convention", came into force on 1 June 1982. The aim of the Bern .... | 120 pages | Council of Europe 2005 | 9287157367 | #160990A | £22.95 BUY |
Wildlife of the Brink of Extinction George McGavin and David Burnie There have been at least five great extinctions in the history of the Earth where up to 95 per cent of all species have been wiped out in one event. The causes are attributed .... | 192 pages | Col photos | Cassell Illustrated Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 184403495X | #161490A | £20.00 BUY |
A Rapid Marine Biodiversity Assessment of the Coral Reefs of Northwest Madagascar
Edited by Sheila A McKenna and Gerald R Allen This volume reports the results of a marine survey in 2002 off the northwestern coast of Madagascar. This marine area is one that many conservationists think has the greatest .... | 124 pages | Conservation International Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1881173844 | #161037A | £13.00 BUY |
Using Tax Incentives to Conserve and Enhance Biodiversity in Europe
Clare Shine This report looks at ways in which tax incentives may help to promote conservation of biological and landscape diversity in Europe. .... | 110 pages | Council of Europe 2005 | 9287157804 | #160989A | £12.95 BUY |
| Environmental Science | Go to subject web page |
Studies by Occultation Methods Edited by Ulrich Foelsche, Gottfried Kirchengast and Andrea Steiner This book presents carefully edited and peer-reviewed papers from the 2nd International Workshop on Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate (OPAC-2), held in Graz, .... | 336 pages | 134 illus, 21 in col | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540341161 | #161371A | £115.50 BUY |
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation Geoffrey K Vallis Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and .... | 750 pages | 173 line diagrams, 43 half-tones, 146 exercises | CUP Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0521849691 | #160951A | £40.00 BUY |
Exercises in Environmental Physics
Valerio Faraoni This book presents a collection of problems and exercises in environmental science. It can be used in many courses in environmental studies especially environmental physics, .... | 330 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 0387339124 | #161377A | £36.00 BUY |
The Failures of American and European Climate Policy International Norms, Domestic Politics, and Unachievable Commitments Loren R Cass Examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments to international climate treaties. .... | 274 pages | SUNY Press Hbk | NYP 09/2006 | 0791468550 | #161512A | £43.75 BUY |
Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
James C McWilliams Earth's atmosphere and oceans exhibit complex patterns of fluid motion over a vast range of space and time scales. These patterns combine to establish the climate in response to .... | 266 pages | 64 line diagrams, 18 half-tones, 7 colour plates | CUP Hbk | 2006 | 052185637X | #160952A | £40.00 BUY |
The Last Chance for Change Paul Brown "Global Warning" will be an authoritative and visually stunning book, unique in its approach. While most of the current literature on the subject is highly scientific, this .... | 320 pages | Col Photos | A & C Black Pbk | NYP 10/2006 | 0713682051 | #161074A | £19.95 BUY |
Global Climate Change and the Human Condition Robert G Strom Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions. It is addressed by almost .... | 295 pages | 120 illus, 32 in col | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 038734179X | #161456A | £17.50 BUY |
The Impact of Climate Change on Regional Systems A Comprehensive Analysis of California Edited by Joel B Smith and Robert Mendelsohn Climate scientists have determined that recent global temperature increases are due in large part to increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Even if .... | 288 pages | Edward Elgar Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 1845427475 | #161352A | £62.00 BUY |
The International Handbook on Environmental Technology Management
Edited by Dora Marinova, David Annandale and John Phillimore This important Handbook is the first comprehensive account that brings together recent developments in the three related fields of environmental technology, environmental .... | 624 pages | Edward Elgar Hbk | NYP 10/2006 | 184064687X | #161349A | £144.00 |