Bears

A Year in the Life

Matthias Breiter

A fascinating journey through an entire year in the life of North America's great bears - the black bear, the brown bear and the polar bear. Beginning in February when the ....

The Bonobos

Ecology, Behavior, Genetics, and Conservation

Edited by Takeshi Furuichi, Jo Thompson and Barbara Fruth

Among all great ape species, the bonobo is still the least studied in both captivity and the wild. Nevertheless we have observed a considerable increase in knowledge across ....

Costa Rica Mammals / Mamiferos de Costa Rica

Eduardo Carrillo, Grace Wong and Joel C Saénz

This field guide (Spanish-English) includes a description of 100 of Costa Rica's best known species of mammals. Some are very well known, some are rare and others are in ....

Demografia, Distribucion, Genetica y Conservacion del Oso Pardo Cantrabico

Edited by Ministerio de Medio Ambiente

Deals with the status of the Brown Bear in Spain. ....

Fauna d'Italia, Volume 38: Mammalia III: Carnivora - Artiodactyla

Luigi Boitani, Sandro Lovari and Augusto Vigna Taglianti

Contents: Ordine Carnivora, Famiglia Canidae, Famiglia Ursidae, Famiglia Mustelidae, Famiglia ....

Great Whales

John Bannister

This book provides a detailed account of these huge mammals. It includes the history of people's association with these fascinating creatures, at first through legend, then ....

Investigacion, Conservacion y Manejo de Vicunas

Edited by Bibiana Vila

Presents the results of a 5-year project on the sustainable handling of wild vicunas living at high altitudes in the Andes. ....

Mountain Goats

Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation of an Alpine Ungulate

Marco Festa-Bianchet and Steve D Cote

Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or ....

Neotropical Tent-roosting Bats / Murciélagos neotropicales que acampan en hojas

Field Guide / Guía de campo

Bernal Rodriguez Herrera, RA Medellín and RM Timm

This is an important contribution to our understanding of the interactions between bats and plants, the complexity of biological relations among organisms, and the astounding ....

Strategies of Sex and Survival Hamadryas Baboons

Through a Female Lens

Larissa Swedell

Reference on the behavior, ecology, and reproduction of wild hamadryas baboons. This book rectifies the male-biased view of hamadryas baboon behavior that has persisted over ....

Suburban Howls

Tracking the Eastern Coyote in Urban Massachusetts

Jonathan Way

The coyote is a remarkable animal, being one of the only carnivores to actually increase its range and distribution in the past one hundred years. Coyotes have taken over as ....

Whales and Dolphins of Great Britain

Where to Go and What to See

Dylan Walker and Alex Wilson

The first comprehensive guide to the whales, dolphins and porpoises of Great Britain with stunning colour photography. Section one introduces the 17 most commonly sighted ....

Arctic Flight

Adventures Amongst Northern Birds

James McCallum

Arctic Flight is a collection of sketches, paintings made by James McCallum during trips to see the birdlife of Northern and Arctic regions. There are main chapters on Finnish ....

Beginners Guide to Bird Songs of North America

John Neville and Mel Coulson

Beginner's Guide to Bird Songs of North America comprises an introduction and eight lessons. Each of the first seven lessons, has a self testing quiz with answers in the ....

Bird Song & Lemur Calls in Madagascar

58 birds, 6 lemurs, 1 Flying Fox, 1 Leaf-litter Frog (sounds like a bird calling) and an ambient 4 minutes in the Berenty reserve early morning. ....

Bird Songs of the Scottish Highlands and Islands 2(CD) set

John Neville

The Scottish Highlands and Islands production includes common and rare species, recorded through the twelve months of the year. It starts with a Dipper and ends with the Tawny ....

Birder's Pocket Logbook

An ideal tool for keeping your personal records, and for sending your records to your county recorder. ....

The Birds and Wildlife of Paxton Pits 2006

Edited by Julian Hughes and Mark Ward

Contains details of all the wildlife seen here from September 2005 to August 2006, including the first ever arctic skua, hawfinch and roseate tern. Raven, golden oriole ....

Birds by Colour

Marc Duquet

Bird identification can be very confusing for the beginner, and because many species are multicoloured, birds are not the most obvious group of animals for an identification ....

Birds of Perak

Peninsular Malaysia and Where to See Them

This book provides 19 sites covering 5 main habitats; a checklist of birds for each site; Access maps; 124 bird photographs; Bonus VCD (version 2.0) on 254 species of birds ....

Birds of Texas

Keith Arnold and Gregory Kennedy

401 species of birds are grouped and colour coded here for quick identifcation. ....

Birdwatching on the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Heritage Coast

Edited by Tom Cadwallender

Site guide to the best birdwatching areas of the Northumberland coast. Includes an introduction, a glossary, maps and colour photos of birds and locations. ....

Directory of Important Bird Areas in Malaysia

Key Sites for Conservation

Yeap Chin Aik, Anthony C Sebastian and G.W.H. Davison

This book provides a guide on how and where priority for conservation actions in Malaysia can be placed, and why. Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) has identified 55 ....

Discovering Birds

Brisbane and Surrounds

Michael Morcombe

Finally, a book that supremely captures the birds that inhabit Brisbane and the surrounding regions - written by Michael Morcombe, expert author of Field Guide to ....

The Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills

Farmers of the Forest

Margaret F Kinnaird and Timothy G O'Brien

This book offers the most up-to-date information on the evolution, reproduction, feeding ecology, and movement patterns of 31 species of Asian hornbills. The authors address ....

Essentials of Avian Medicine

Edited by Brian Coles

Essentials of Avian Medicine and Surgery is designed as a concise quick reference for the busy practitioner and animal nurse. Eminently practical, this classic avian text is ....

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? ....

Images From Birding

Michael Warren

A collection of paintings and sketches that document and describe many memorable observations, mostly form the last twenty years of birding around the British Isles and ....

Kukila, Volume 13

Edited by Richard Noske

Kukila volume 13 provides all the latest news on birds in Indonesia, with articles on Nusa Tenggara, Gunung Leuser National Park and the Sulawesi Woodcock, a summary of ....

Proceedings of the 11th Pan-African Ornithological Congress, Djerba, Tunisia, 20-25 November 2004

Edited by Adrian Craig

Features a selection of over 60 research papers and close on 100 abstracts presented at the conference, in which 23 African and 14 other countries were represented. ....

Speciation in Birds

Trevor Price

This major new title is a comprehensive review of speciation and its consequences in birds. The book covers a broad range of areas, from genetics to biogeography and from ....

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds

Christidis. Les and Walter E Boles

Lists all species of birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and surrounding waters. ....

Terrestrial Vertebrates of Tidal Marshes: Evolution, Ecology, and

Conservation

Edited by RG Greenberg, JE Maldonado, S Droege and McDonald MV

Collection of 20 papers presented at the Patuxent Wildlife Visitors Center, Maryland, in October 2002. The papers cover the following subjects: ....

Le Vautour Fauve

Bertrand Eliotout

Griffon Vulture. ....

Anfibios y Reptiles del Uruguay

Federico Achaval and Alejandro Olomos

Contains all the species registered in Uruguay. Descriptions, distribution maps and status of each species are provided along with photographs of more than 120 species to ....

Fauna Helvetica 17: Amphibienlarven - Bestimmung

Identification guide to the larvae of amphibians. ....

Fauna Helvetica 18: Larves d'Amphibiens - Détermination

Identification guide to the larvae of amphibians ....

Fauna Helvetica 19: Larve Degli Anfibi - Determinazione

Identification guide to the larvae of amphibians. ....

A Field Guide to Australian Reptiles

Stephen Swanson

This visually splendid, fact-packed Field Guide to Australian Reptiles is perfect for both amateur reptile enthusiasts and experienced herpetologists. With full-colour ....

Guia de Campo de los Anfibios de Honduras

James R McCranie and Franklin E Castaneda

This book covers the 124 species of amphibians known to occur in Honduras. This diverse amphibianfauna represents 38 genera and 10 families. Each species account includes: ....

Ranas de Vidrio de Costa Rica / Glass Frogs of Costa Rica

B Kubicki

This field guide represents the first in-depth book ever written about this group of amazing little frogs. The first part presents general information about glass frogs and ....

Sound Guide of the Amphibians of Cuba / Guia Sonora de los Anfibios de Cuba

Edited by Roberto Alonso, Ariel Rodriguez and Rafael Marquez

First sound guide of Cuban amphibians with individual recordings and pictures of 56 species, and seven soundscapes that illustrate the acoustical richness of Cuban nights. ....

Turtles of the Southeast

Kurt Buhlmann, Tracey Tuberville and Whit Gibbons

Seventy-five percent of the turtle species in the United States can be found in the Southeast. In fact, the region is second only to parts of Asia in its number of native ....

Advances in Fisheries Science

50 Years After Beverton and Holt

Edited by A Payne, J Cotter and T Potter

This landmark book looks in detail at advances made in fisheries science since the publication in 1957 of On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations (Beveton and ....

Fish Conservation

A Guide to Understanding and Restoring Global Aquatic Biodiversity and Fishery Resources

Gene Helfman

Fish Conservation offers, for the first time in a single volume, a readable reference with a global approach to marine and freshwater fish diversity and fishery ....

Fish Histology

Female Reproductive Systems

Donald B McMillan

Fish - including cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, and teleosts - display a wide variety of ways of coping with the stringent conditions they encounter in the aquatic environment. ....

Fisheries Buybacks

Edited by Rita Curtis and Dale Squires

Fisheries buybacks are an important strategy being implemented globally in the efforts to produce a more sustainable and profitable fisheries industry. Fisheries Buybacks ....

Sharks of the Pacific Northwest

Including Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska

Alessandro De Maddalena, Antonella Preti and Tarik Polansky

Those who think of sharks as something only found in tropical waters will be surprised to learn that there are 18 species of sharks in the cool waters of the Pacific ....

Bees: Biology & Management

Peter G Kevan

Covers all aspects of bee biology: anatomy, physiology, behaviour, diversity and ecology. This book was developed from an apiculture course taught at the University of ....

Beetles of the World, Volume 30: Dynastidae Australiens et Oceaniens

RP Dechambre

Most of the specimens are illustrated in colour. Includes distribution maps. ....

Diversity in the Rainforest

John Banks

Presents over 220 species of the brilliantly-coloured rainforest butterflies of Peru, filmed without any artificial lighting in the Tambopata Reserve, one of the world's ....

Esperiana, Volume 13: The Thyatiridae of Eurasia

Including the Sundaland and New Guinea (Lepidoptera)

GM Laszlo, G Ronkay, L Ronkay and T Witt

A full revision of the moth family resulting from a ten-year study. ....

Fauna Sinica: Insecta, Volume 1: Siphonaptera

Wu Houyong et al

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 42: Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica

Liu Ruiyu and Ren Xianqiu

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 44: Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonoidea

Edited by Li Xinzheng and Liu Ruiyu

Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 46: Sipuncula Echiura

Zhou Hong, Li Fenglu and Wang Wei

Fauna d'Italia, Volume 41: Coleoptera: Aphodiidae, Aphodiinae

Giovanni Dellacasa and Marco Dellacasa

Contents: Paleontologia; Posizione sistematica e distribuzione geografica; Morfologia; Bionomia; ....

Fauna of New Zealand: No 56: Tyrophagus

(Acari: Astigmata: Acaridae)

Qing-Hai Fan and Zhi-Qiang Zhang

The genus Tyrophagus comprises a group of primarily fungivorous mites, including the mould mites, commonly found in stored food products and decaying organic matter. They ....

Forest Entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest Insects of Ghana

Michael R Wagner, Joseph R Cobbinah and Paul P Bosu

The forests of West Africa are complex, beautiful and under continued threat of over exploitation. This monograph, in its second edition, remains the only comprehensive ....

Insects as Natural Enemies

A Practical Perspective

Edited by Mark A Jervis

Over the past three decades there has been a dramatic increase in theoretical and practical studies on insect natural enemies. The appeal of insect predators, and ....

Juwelenschwingen / Gossamer Wings

Geheimnisvolle Libellen / Mysterious Dragonflies

Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell and Georg Rüppel

Beautifully detailed digital photography, offering an intimate window on the fascinating world of damselflies and dragonflies. The authors have studied the odonata for more than ....

Manual Para el Manejo de Mariposarios

Jose Ramirez Montero

Deals with the rearing and handling of butterflies for zoos and tropical gardens. Out of the 164 species of Costa Rican butterflies, 25 are treated in detail. ....

Ostracodology - Linking Bio- and Geosciences

Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Ostracoda, Berlin, 2005

Edited by Renate Matzke-Karasz, Koen Martens and Michael Schudack

Ostracods, small aquatic Crustacea, occur in almost every marine, brackish and freshwater habitat. Their calcified bivalved carapaces readily fossilize and their ....

A Photographic Guide to the Grasshoppers & Crickets of Britain and Ireland

Martin Evans and Roger Edmondson

A field guide to the grasshoppers and crickets found in Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The book includes photographs and life histories of all the ....

Seashells of the Egyptian Red Sea

The Illustrated Handbook

Mary Lyn Rusmore-Villaume

Descriptions of over five hundred species, indicating geographic range, size, color, and other details. The book is organized by taxonomy, divided between gastropods and ....

Synopses of the Antarctic Benthos, Volume 10: Antarctic Echinoidea

An Interactive Database

Bruno David, T Choné, R Mooi and C de Ridder

This book is intended to synthesize what is currently known, and simultaneously propose a partial revision of Antarctic echinoid systematics. These efforts are complemented by ....

Watching British Dragonflies

Steve Dudley, Caroline Dudley and Andrew Mackay

Watching British Dragonflies is a totally new style of field guide to help you find and identify all the regularly occuring dragonflies in Britain and Northern Ireland. ....

Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa during the Holocene

Past - Present - Future

Edited by J Runge

This book consists of scientific papers resulting from an international workshop: `Environmental and Cultural Change in West- and Central Africa' organized by the German ....

Evolution and Palaeobiology of Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs

Edited by Paul M Barrett and David J Batten

Presents an analysis of Sauropoda which includes many of the most familiar dinosaurs, such as Apatosaurus (formerly 'Brontosaurus'), Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus (the latter ....

Beneath the Surface

David Miller

A unique portrait of the rarely glimpsed world beneath Britain's lakes, rivers and seas. ....

Bird on a Wire: The Life and Art of Guy Taplin

Ian Collins

In any game of word association the term "bird sculptor" is most likely to prompt the name Guy Taplin. But Britain's most successful avian image-maker is also in a field of ....

Het Boeck der Natuere van Gods Schepping 1575-1715

Nederlandse Geleerden en de Wonderen

Eric Jorink

The Essential Wildlife Photography Manual

Successful Digital and Film Techniques for Creative Photography

Chris Weston

This is an invaluable manual for wildlife photographers keen to improve and update their work with the newest techniques and digital equipment. "The Essential Wildlife ....

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

The plants and animals who taught us the facts of life

Jim Endersby

Over the last century we have gone from ignorance as to why some diseases run in families to the availability of simple genetic tests that can be bought on the internet. ....

Mountains

Exploring Britain's High Places

Griff Rhys Jones

With names like Snowdon, Ben Nevis or Scarfell Pike, Britain's high places are at once romantic and rooted in the nation's sense of identity. In Mountain, Griff Rhys Jones ....

The Natural World of Lewis and Clark

David A Dalton

On their journey westward, Lewis and Clark demonstrated an amazing ability to identify the new plants and animals they encountered, and their observations enriched science's ....

Science Without Laws

Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives

Edited by ANH Creager, E Lunbeck and M Norton Wise

Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, like those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they ....

Science vs Religion?

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution

Steve Fuller

For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and ....

Unifying Scientific Theories

Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures

Margaret Morrison

This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and ....

Ancient Australian Landscapes

CR Twidale

Some parts of the Australian landscape are more than 100 million years old. The dinosaurs roamed a land in which Kakadu, the Macdonnell and Flinders ranges, the Arcoona ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Peruvian Wildlife

Gerard Cheshire, Huw Lloyd and Barry Walker

This full-colou guide to the wildlife of the High Andes in Peru will appeal to the ardent wildlife enthuiast. Some of the hotspots covered are Machu Picchu, Cusco and the ....

Bradt Travel Guide: Sri Lankan Wildlife

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

In this addition to Bradt's popular wildlife guides, naturalist and wildlife photographer Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne sets out to show visitors the incredible ....

Discover Bukit Gasing

A Guide to Common Trees and Plants

Handy photo identification guide. Includes location and trail maps to Bukit Gasing, a nature reserve in proximity to Kuala Lumpur. ....

The Ends of the Earth

An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford

2-volume hardcover box set, featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic. Contributors include Roald Amundsen, Tim Flannery, Jon ....

Fauna of Arabia, Volume 23

Corals, Polychaetes, Crustaceans, Arachnids, Insects, Vertebrates

Edited by Friedhelm Krupp

Contains 14 papers on marine and terrestrial invertebrates and vertebrates, ranging from corals to reptiles. ....

Gonarezhou

A Place for Elephants

Colin Saunders

This is a captivating story about a remote area of wildest Africa, still undeveloped, and mercifully untamed. The Gonarezhou is the kingdom of giant elephants, and hosts of ....

Medieval Landscapes

Edited by Mark Gardiner and Stephen Rippon

The medieval period was at the centre of WG Hoskins concerns. The essays here demonstrate how researchers have moved beyond issues describing and 'reading' the ....

The Medieval Park

New Perspectives

Edited by Robert Liddiard

The park - a feature of the landscape we always associate with the hunting of deer - played an important role in the psyche of Britain's medieval aristocracy. This ....

Nature Guide to the Aran Islands

Con O'Rourke

This is a comprehensive account of the wildlife of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay by an author intimately familiar with the landscape. It summarizes the key facts from the ....

Nature and the Environment in Pre-Columbian American Life

Stacy Kowto

Prehistoric North Americans lived on, in, and surrounded by nature. As a result, everything they were resulted from this co-existence. From interpersonal relations to ....

Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life

Brian Black

Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they ....

Nature and the Environment in the 19th Century American Life

Brian Black

The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the ....

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 8: Environment

Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the ....

New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage

Les Molloy

This book is a celebration of the extraordinary wilderness legacy that sits at the heart of New Zealand's sense of place. The book also offers a far sighted vision of how best ....

Palms

Sentinels for Amazon Conservation

M Goulding and N Smith

The Amazon is a land of palm abundance. Palms are the cornerstones of many environments in the Amazon, especially in wetlands, and are intricately woven into the cultural ....

Post-Medieval Landscapes

PS Barnwell and M Palmer

'The formation of the landscape archaeological record is primarily a product of the post-medieval period' (Tom Williamson). This book reflects some of the most recent work ....

Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes

Edited by Andrew Fleming and Richard Hingley

As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ....

Priests and Programmers

Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali

J. Stephen Lansing

For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has ....

Rural England

What's Happening Month by Month

Jill Mason

An informative and entertaining celebration of the diversity of the English countryside today. Each month of the year, Jill Mason brings aspects of rural England to life for ....

Saudi Arabia

An Environmental Overview

Peter Vincent

This volume contains the very first comprehensive overview of Saudi Arabia's environment. It is a unique and authoritative text on the geological and environmental ....

Terrestrial and Freshwater Vertebrates of the Seychelles Islands

Edited by Justin Gerlach

Describes and illustrates the vertebrates from land and freshwater, with 18 colour plates. ....

Wild Kruger

Adrian Bailey and Robyn Keene-Young

Adrian Bailey shows off the wildlife and scenery of the Kruger Park at its best. Containing 160 of his best photographs, this is a journey through the Park from the ....

Wild Mynd

Birds and Wildlife of the Long Mynd

Leo Smith, Peter Carty and Caroline Uff

The Long Mynd is the centrepiece of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). With its rich and varied flora and fauna, the Long Mynd's national ....

Windshield Wilderness

Cars, Roads and Nature in Washington's National Parks

David Louter

Explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. This book argues that National parks did not ....

The 33 Threatened Fungi in Europe

Anders Dahlberg and Hjalmar Croneborg

Although Europe has a high diversity of fungi and many species are threatened, no fungal species are yet included in the appendices of the Bern Convention or the EU Habitats ....

Advances in Molecular Breeding toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops

Edited by Matthew A Jenks, Paul M Hasegawa and S. Mohan Jain

Plant stress caused by drought and salinity are among the major constraints on crop production and food security worldwide. Breeding programs to improve crop yield in dry ....

Amazon River Fruits

Flavors for Conservation

Nigel Smith, R Vasquez and WH Wust

The western Amazon may well be the single richest edible fruit region in the world, and most of this flavorful biodiversity is found in wetlands. Some of wetland fruits are ....

Apomixis

Evolution, Mechanisms and Perspectives

Edited by Elvira Hörandl, Uueli Grossniklaus, PJ van Dijk and TS Sharbel

Apomixis (asexual reproduction without fertilisation) is no longer regarded as a 'blind alley' of evolution, but rather as an alternative mechanism to the predominant sexual ....

Botrytis: Biology, Pathology and Control

Edited by Y Elad, B Williamson, P Tudzynski and N Delen

This book is the result of intensive work of 43 authors, all of whom are leading scientists in the Botrytis sciences. Each chapter describes a particular aspect of ....

Curtis's Botanical Calendar 2008

The Curtis's Botanical Calendar for 2008 features 4 colour paintings by Lilian Snelling, 2 by Christabel King, and further beautiful flower portraits by, amongst others, Pauline ....

Diatom Monographs, Volume 8: The Paleoecology of Lake Zeribar and Surrounding Areas, Western Iran, During the last 48,000 Years

Edited by K Wasylikova and A Witkowski

Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands / Digitale Zadenatlas van Nederland

RTJ Cappers, RM Bekker and JEA Jans

With over 4000 colour photographs, this atlas represents 1828 taxa and includes the wild plants of the Netherlands, the adventitious plants and the cultivated plants that have ....

Exploring the Plantlife of the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Edited by Tom Cadwallender

A guide to the best sites for exploring the vegetation of the Northumberland coast. Includes site maps and colour photos of the most commonly found plants. An introductory ....

Fern Books

In English Published Before 1900

Nigel Hall and Martin Rickard

Bibliography includes every edition, printing and reissue that could be documented is listed - extending into the 1900s. ....

A Field Guide to the Plants of Costa Rica

Margaret Gargiullo, Barbara Magnuson and Larry Kimball

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and ....

Flora Fungorom Sinicorum, Volume 19

Uredinales (II)

Zhuang Jianyun

Flora Fungorom Sinicorum, Volume 32

Cordyceps

Flora Fungorom Sinicorum, Volume 34

Phomopsis

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 3, Part 3: Papilionoideae

Edited by RK Brummitt et al

Covers the following subtribes: 1. Swartzieae ....

Flower Breeding and Genetics

Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

Edited by Neil O Anderson

Flowers are essential crops which beautify interiorscapes, outdoor landscapes and enhance human health. Floriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors of commercial ....

Flowers of Cuba

Angela Leiva

A clear, concise and attractive guide to Cuba's most popular flowers, both native and cultivated, and an essential pocket companion to the exploration of Cuban gardens, parks ....

Flowers of the Moon

Sebastian Schutyser

The first sighting of the Rwenzori Mountain Range by non-Africans was made by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in 1876. Previous to his well-documented report, there were only rumours ....

Flowers of the Trans-Caucasus and Adjacent Areas

Including Armenia, Eastern Turkey, Southern Georgia, Azerbaijan and Northern Iran

Eleonora Gabrielian and Ori Fragman-Sapir

623 different plant species are described. Most of them are typical to the Transcaucasus region, while some are rare or unique. All of the species are decribed and photographed. ....

Fruits and Plains

The Horticultural Transformation of America

Philip J Pauly

The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and ....

Gleason's Plants of Michigan

A Field Guide

Henry A Gleason and Richard K Rabeler

Gleason's Plants of Michigan is a major revision and expansion of "The Plants of Michigan" by Henry A. Gleason - the 1918 classic field guide to the flowering plants and ....

Guide to Cultivated Plants

Edited by ATG Elzebroek and K Wind

Representing almost 80 years of combined experience, Guide to Cultivated Plants includes concise textual descriptions and attractive full colour illustrations of over 300 crop ....

Handbook of Forensic Botany

Jane H Bock and David O Norris

This book introduces the forensic scientist to the practice of forensic botany by providing technique instructions, reference photos and analysis of digested plant ....

A Handbook of the British Seaweeds

Lily Newton

Lily Newton's 'Handbook of the British Seaweeds' is a thorough account of the salt and brackish water algae, from the smallest parasitic species to the great kelps, which will ....

Herbal Plants of Jamaica

Monica Warner

Jamaican society has retained a particularly vibrant tradition of folk herbal (bush) medicine. The cache of native plants and practices used by the island's original ....

The Intelligence of Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck

This title features a new translation of one of Maeterlinck's four great nature essays. ....

Iron Nutrition in Plants and Rhizospheric Microorganisms

Edited by J Abadia and L.L Barton

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide a comprehensive review on the status of iron nutrition in plants. International scientists discuss research on ....

Jardines Botanicos de Espana y Portugal

Edited by VVAA

This guide provides data on 15 Spanish gardens and 9 Portuguese. ....

Manual of Grasses for North America

Edited by Mary E Barkworth et al

Designed as a successor to the classic volume by Hitchcock and Chase, this book reflects current taxonomic thought and includes keys, illustrations, and distribution maps for ....

Monkey Puzzle Man

Archibald Menzies, Plant Hunter

James McCarthy

Archibald Menzies was one of a legion of intrepid Scots plant collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries who roamed the world, and by a combination of toughness and knowledge, ....

Mushroom Picker's Foolproof Field Guide

The Expert Guide to Identifying, Picking and Using Wild Mushrooms

Peter Jordan

Discover the delicacies that hide in your garden, local woodlands or fields with this fully-illustrated A-Z guide. Learn the identifying features and habits of the most ....

Native Trees of the Southeast

An Identification Guide

L.Katherine Kirkman, Claud L Brown and Donald J Leopold

The diversity of woody plants in the Southeast is unparalleled in North America. "Native Trees of the Southeast" is a practical, compact field guide for the identification of ....

Nordic Macromycetes, Volume 2

Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales

Edited by L Hansen and H Knudsen

Approximately 1800 species are included. ....

Plant Associations

An Introduction to British Wild Plants and their Environmental and Human Associations

Clem Maidment

The presence of particular plant species can be used to assess the origin of a wood or a hedge, to indicate human intervention or to illustrate whether a soil is acidic, basic, ....

Plant Biochemistry

Caroline Bowsher, Martin Steer and Alyson Tobin

Plant Biochemistry takes a systematic approach and gives a broad overview of plant biochemistry. Biochemistry is placed within the context of the life of the growing plant ....

Plant Conservation and Biodiversity

Edited by David L Hawksworth and Alan T Bull

This book brings together a selection of original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation addressing aspects of the conservation and biodiversity of plants. Plants ....

Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Matthew Jenks and Andrew Wood

Plant desiccation tolerance is of great basic and applied scientific interest. Understanding plant responses and adaptations to severe desiccation is key to applying ....

Plant Names

A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature

Edited by P Lumley, R Spencer and R Cross

The book is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the ....

Plant Pathology

Concepts and Laboratory Exercises

Edited by Robert N Trigiano, Mark T Windham and Alan S Windham

Including contributions from specialists with extensive experience in the field, this second edition features new chapters on pathogenic prokaryotes, soilborne pathogens, and ....

Plant Secondary Metabolites

Harinder P.S Makkar, P Sidhuraju and Klaus Becker

Plant Secondary Metabolites provides reliable assays that will equip researchers to meet the unprecedented challenge of fulfilling the huge demand for feed driven by increasing ....

Plants Visited by Bees and Other Useful Plants of Umalila, Southern Tanzania

Paul Latham

This book provides information on 188 plants in Umalila in Mbeya district. A forage chart indicates the months when bees collect pollen and/or nectar. The plants are listed ....

Root Development

Edited by Tom Beeckman

The development of a plant's roots is of fundamental importance to the success of a plant, its growth and level of yield, particularly important in commercially exploited ....

Science and the Garden

The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice

Edited by D Vince-Prue, D Ingram and PJ Gregory

Why are plants green? Why cut beneath a leaf node when taking cuttings? Why do plants need so much water? "Science and the Garden" takes the 'Why' of gardening and provides ....

Sex in Fungi

Molecular Determination and Evolutionary Implications

Edited by Joseph Heitman, Jim Kronstad, John Taylor and Lorna Casselton

Drawing on the great advances made over the past 10 years, this volume provides illuminating insights into the molecular details of cell-type specification, mating-type ....

The Structure and Function of Plastids

Edited by Robert R Wise and J Kenneth Hoober

The Structure and Function of Plastids is Volume 23 in the Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series. This volume provides a comprehensive look at the biology of ....

Suttons Seeds

A History 1806-2006

Earley Local History Group

The world famous seed company, Suttons, started 200 years ago at 13 King Street, Reading. For 170 years they contributed greatly to the economic and social life of the ....

Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 6

Edited by E Soepadmo et al

The Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak is an account of the families of trees that occur in these two botanically rich Malaysian states situated in the island of Borneo. The Flora ....

Trees of Cuba

Angela Leiva

A clear, concise and attractive guide to Cuba's most popular trees, both native and cultivated, and an essential pocket companion to the exploration of Cuban gardens, parks ....

Vanishing Beauty: Native Costa Rican Orchids, Volume 1

Acianthera - Kegeliella

Franco Pupulin

First of three volumes that illustrated in full detail the 180 genera of Costa Rican Orchids, with 1000 photographs of the collections at the Jardin Botanico Lankester ....

Vegetables II

Fabaceae, Liliaceae, Solanaceae and Umbelliferae

Edited by Jaime Prohens-Tomas and Fernando Nuez

This first volume of the Handbook of Plant Breeding book series is devoted to vegetable crops breeding. Each chapter is dedicated to a major vegetable crop. Each chapter ....

The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Edited by Laislav Mucina and Michael C Rutherford

An up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the vegetation of South Africa and the two small neighbouring countries of Lesotho and Swaziland. This account is based on ....

Vertical Gardens

Bringing the City to Life

Anna Lambertini

Bringing nature into urban environments has always been a challenge for metropolitan areas. One of the most spectacular solutions to this problem is the vertical garden. ....

Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook

Edited by RK Jorst

Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook, 7th Edition, should be useful to anyone with a keen interest in gardening including but not limited to botanical gardeners, landscape ....

Wild Food

Raymond Mears and Gordon C Hillman

In Wild Foods Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman lead us into the wildest parts of Britain to demonstrate the huge variety of indigenous foods that can be found. One of the most ....

Animal Diversity

Cleveland P Hickman, Larry S Roberts and Allan Larson

Undergraduate textbook, emphasising the diversity, evolutionary relationships, functional adaptations, and environmental interactions of the animal kingdom. ....

Animal Parents

Clive Roots

"Animal Parents" examines how animals care for their young to ensure their survival, care that is as varied as is animal life on earth. The book provides a thorough guide on ....

Aquaculture Biosecurity

Prevention, Control, and Eradication of Aquatic Animal Disease

A David Scarfe, Cheng-Sheng Lee and Patricia O'Bryen

Aquaculture loses millions of dollars in revenue annually due to aquatic animal diseases. Disease outbreaks continue to threaten profitable and viable aquaculture ....

Bacterial Pathogenomics

Mark Pallen

This landmark volume details the momentous breakthroughs in the fast-changing field of bacterial pathogenomics. Half of the chapters review the impact of genomics on ....

Biophysical Chemistry

James Allen

This text presents physical chemistry through the use of biological and biochemical topics, examples and applications to biochemistry. It lays out the necessary calculus in ....

Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11

Edited by J.L Hurst, R.J Beynon, S.C Roberts and T Wyatt

This volume presents the proceedings of "Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11", hosted by the University of Liverpool and held July 25 - 28, 2006 at the University of Chester in ....

Domestication

Clive Roots

We share the earth with a wide variety of animal species, each of which brings something special to the diversity of the planet. By knowing more about how animals behave and ....

Environmental Microbiology

Eugene L Madsen

This well-referenced, inquiry-driven text presents an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of the emerging field of environmental microbiology. ....

Evolutionary Biology of Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens

Edited by Fernando Baquero, Cesar Nombela, Gail Cassell and Jose Gutierrez-Fuentes

This volume was inspired by the 2004 Fundacion Lilly conference that focused on the series of successive events characterizing the emergence, development, spread, ....

Fundamentals of Biochemical Calculations

Krish Moorthy

Drawing attention to the widely applicable Ratio method for performing biochemical calculations, this fully updated text encourages scientists to learn, rather than ....

The Fundamentals of Brain Development

Integrating Nature and Nurture

Joan Stiles

In a remarkable synthesis of the research of the last two decades, a leading developmental neuroscientist provides psychologists with a sophisticated introduction to ....

Hand-Rearing Birds

Edited by Laurie Gage and Rebecca Duerr

Hand-Rearing Birds will provide the reader with a guide to the best methods of hand rearing all major species of birds. The book is broken into two sections. The first ....

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

A Guide for Students

Helen Kreuzer and Adrianne Massey

The new edition of the best-selling student edition (formerly Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology) provides students with background information and classroom activities ....

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

A Guide for Teachers

Helen Kreuzer and Adrianne Massey

The new edition of this best-selling title (formerly Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology) provides instructors with foundational information in cell and molecular biology to help ....

Taste

Philip Newland

Chapters cover different approaches to taste research including genes and receptors, taste coding in the periphery and its modulation, taste coding in the central nervous ....

Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia

Edited by Gary West, Darryl Heard and Nigel Caulkett

Comprehensive reference for the growing fields of zoo, wildlife, and exotic animal veterinary medicine. This book covers key aspects of immobilization and anesthesia from ....

Bones and Ochre

The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland

Marianne Sommer

Marianne Sommer unravels a riveting tale about a set of ancient human bones and their curious afterlife as a scientific object. ....

The Creation-Evolution Debate

Historical Perspectives

Edward J Larson

Few issues have strained Americans' professed tradition of tolerance more than evolution. this volume reviews the key aspects, modern and historical, of the ....

Evolution

Nicholas H Barton, DEG Briggs, JA Eisen, D Goldstein and NH Patel

This extensively illustrated, full-color textbook is divided into five sections: ....

Evolution and the Big Questions

Sex, Race, Religion, and Other Matters

David Stamos

This provocative text considers whether evolutionary explanations can be used to clarify some of life's biggest questions. It offers a lively, informative, and timely look at a ....

Excavating Victorians

Virginia Zimmerman

This book describes how the Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology. ....

Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography

David M Williams and Malte C Ebach

This volume draws attention to the seminal studies and important advances that have shaped systematic and biogeographic thinking and continue to ....

A New Human

The Strange Story of the 'Hobbit'

MJ Morwood

In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of ....

Pigs and Humans

10,000 Years of Interaction

Edited by Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck and Peter Rowley-Conwy

Pigs are one of the most iconic but also paradoxical animals ever to have developed a relationship with humans. This relationship has been a long and varied one: from noble ....

Essentials of Ecology

Colin R Townsend, John L Harper and Michael Begon

Essentials of Ecology presents introductory ecology in an accessible, state-of-the-art format designed to cultivate the novice student's understanding of, and fascination ....

An Introduction to Molecular Ecology

Trevor Beebee and Graham Rowe

How do we know whether a particular species is monogamous or promiscuous? How can we monitor the illegal trafficking of wildlife? How can we differentiate between the many ....

Managing and Controlling Invasive Rhododendron

Practice Guide

Colin Edwards

Sets out the sequence of events required to plan and manage the control of invasive Rhododendron ponticum. In addition to providing guidance on planning, and a decision ....

Sustainability and Diversity of Forest Ecosystems

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Edited by Tohru Nakashizuka

Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth, largely as a result of human activity. The sustainable use of ecosystems allowing maintenance of ....

The Alsea Watershed

Hydrological and Biological Responses to Forest Practices

Edited by John D Stednick

The Alsea Watershed Study, established in 1959 and reactivated in 1989 as the New Alsea Watershed Study, evaluated the effects of timber harvesting on water resources and ....

Aquaculture Genome Technologies

Edited by John Liu

Genomics is a rapidly growing scientific field with applications ranging from improved disease resistance to increased rate of growth. Aquaculture Genome Technologies ....

Deserts and Desert Environments

Julie Laity

"Deserts and Desert Environments" focuses on geomorphic systems, providing a comprehensive introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human components ....

Designing Cities for People

Social, Environmental and Psychological Sustainability

Edited by Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Designing Cities for People" presents a unique approach to sustainable urban design, proposing innovative new methodologies and strategies based on studies of pedestrian ....

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes

Edited by Simon Bell

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as ....

Dungeness and Romney Marsh

Barrier Dynamics and Marshland Evolution

Edited by Anthony J Long, Martyn P Waller and Andrew J Plater

The Romney Marsh/Dungeness Foreland depositional complex comprises an extensive tract of marshland and associated sand and gravel barrier deposits, located in the eastern ....

Ecology of Baltic Coastal Waters

Edited by Ulrich Schiewer

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the enormous ecological diversity of Baltic coastal ecosystems. A short introduction into the Baltic Sea as a ....

Ecology, Planning, and Management of Urban Forests

An International Perspective

Edited by Margaret M Carreiro, Yong-Chang Song and Jianguo Wu

Urban forests play a fundamentally important role in building ecological cities. They improve the environmental quality of the urban environment and the aesthetics of urban ....

Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances

Concepts and Applications

Edited by Ajith H Perera, Lisa J Buse and M G Weber

Representing a range of