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Welcome to the November Monthly Catalogue, the most comprehensive buyer's
guide to new and forthcoming titles in natural history, conservation and the
environment.
Festive Selection If you are looking for a gift or maybe looking to treat yourself, we have put together a list of the best wildlife book & DVD recommendations. Some highlights from this list:
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Zoology:
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| Mammals | Go to subject web page |
The Auditory and Vestibular Organs of Marine Mammals
GN Solntseva The basic directions of the structural evolution of the outer, middle and inner ears in representatives of a wide ecological range of mammals (terrestrial, subterranean, .... | 250 pages | 54 b/w plates of photographs, drawings | Pensoft Hbk | 2006 | 9546422800 | #163129A | £68.00 BUY |
Biology and Conservation JK Hodges and J Cortes The principal aim of this book is to present a synthesis of current knowledge of the biology of the Barbary macaque, and in doing so to recognise the contribution the .... | 350 pages | Nottingham UP Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1904761313 | #151644A | £63.99 BUY |
The Massacre of the African Elephant Robin Brown Over the last century the African elephant has been threatened with extinction. Robin Brown paints a vivid picture of the impact on hunting on Africa's elephants, of the .... | 256 pages | 12 b/w illus | Sutton Publishing Hbk | NYP 05/2007 | 075094157X | #163075A | £20.00 BUY |
L Cagnolaro et al | 186 pages | CNR Pbk | 1982 | 8880800620 | #164108A | £8.95 BUY |
European Research on Cetaceans, Volume 19 Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society Proceedings of the conference held in La Rochelle (France). .... | ECS CD | 2006 | #163856A | £38.50 BUY |
Dave Hadaway and Johan Marais There was a time in Africa when great tuskers roamed at will, from the deserts of Namibia to Mozambique, from Ethiopia to South Africa. Today, due to the growth of human .... | photos, paintings | Penguin (South Africa) Hbk | 2006 | 0143025066 | #163579A | £53.00 BUY |
Histoire Naturelle des Paresseux
Rotureau Brice Natural history of the sloths. .... | 104 pages | 67 illus, 54 in colour | CNRS Pbk | 2006 | 2271064651 | #163947A | £15.99 BUY |
El Lince Iberico (Lynx pardinus) en Espana y Portugal Censo-Diagnostico de sus Poblaciones Reviews the status and biology of the Iberian lynx. .... | 174 pages | OAPN 2005 | 8480146044 | #164001A | £22.95 BUY |
Una batalla por la supervivencia Javier Pérez de Albéniz The Iberian lynx is the most threatened feline in the world. After decades of political disagreements, scientific disputes, ecological misdemeanors and much squandered money, .... | 144 pages | 3 maps, 27 photos | Lynx Pbk | 2006 | 8496553221 | #164148A | £12.95 BUY |
An Introduction Friderun Ankel-Simons This book is unlike ay other work on primates: it systematically reviews the biology of all living primates, including humans. It describes their bio-geographical information .... | 736 pages | 200 photos, illus, figs | Academic Press Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0123725763 | #163870A | £39.99 BUY |
| Birds | Go to subject web page |
Un catálogo de la las especies de presentación ocasional Eduardo de Juana This is the first book ever to offer detailed analysis of the current condition of the 196 species of rare or occasional birds observed in Spain to date. .... | 480 pages | 133 colour photos | Lynx Hbk | 2006 | 8496553256 | #164145A | £25.50 BUY |
Biologia de la Conservacion del Quebrantahuesos (Gypaetus Barbatus) en Espana
Antoni Margalida and Rafael Heredia Biology and conservation of the Bearded Vulture in Spain. Includes chapters on reproductive biology, status, population trends, conservation projects and more. .... | 378 pages | OAPN 2005 | 8480146028 | #160112A | £24.95 BUY |
and Southeastern Amazonian Brazil The rainforests of the Amazon basin contain the most diverse bird faunas of any area on earth. This six-CD set presents the vocalizations of 446 bird and 10 mammal species .... | 6 CD set | Cornell LO CD | | #163553A | £27.50 BUY |
Birds of Brazil / Aves do Brasil An Artistic View / Uma Visao Artística Tomas Sigrist Birds of Brazil - An Artistic View, will dazzle ornithologists, nature lovers, conservationists and artists everywhere. This generous 672 page hardback is teeming with .... | 672 pages | 1800 maps, col plates | Ricardo Sigrist Hbk | 2006 | 8560120009 | #163560A | £99.95 BUY |
Birds of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands
Bruce Hallett A comprehensive ornithological guide introducing both visitors and residents to the bird life of the Bahamas Archipelago and the neighbouring Turks and Caicos Islands. .... | 256 pages | colour photos | Macmillan Caribbean Pbk | 2006 | 0333937449 | #163952A | £7.95 BUY |
Birds of the Malolotja Nature Reserve, Swaziland
Richard Boycott and Vincent Parker Malolotja Nature Reserve is situated in the north-west of Swaziland in the Drakensberg and is a popular wilderness area. .... | 60 pages | colour photos, line drawings, maps | Avian Demography Unit Pbk | 2003 | 0620281510 | #163586A | £6.95 BUY |
Birds of the Niassa Reserve, Mozambique
Vincent Parker The Niassa Reserve is situated in the north of Mozambique, on the border with Tanzania. The huge reserve (4.2 million ha) is one of the largest protected areas of Miombo .... | 34 pages | colour photos, maps | Avian Demography Unit Pbk | 2005 | 0620332778 | #163587A | £6.95 BUY |
Birds of the Orange River Estuary
Mark Anderson This 92-page booklet has information about the history of human occupation at the Orange River estuary, the area's geography, climate, vegetation, and mammals. The bulk of the .... | 92 pages | Avian Demography Unit Pbk | 2006 | 0799223069 | #163574A | £8.50 BUY |
Edited by Colin Richardson Systematic list of recorded bird sightings in 2005 comprises a total of 290 species. Also included are reports of rare birds, first records, and an annual ringing report. .... | 172 pages | tables, graphs, photos, maps | BirdLife Cyprus Pbk | 2006 | #163946A | £12.95 BUY |
Arlington James, Stephen Durand and Bertrand Jno Baptiste This fully illustrated book describes local and Caribbean endemic species found on Dominica, as well as several neo-tropical migrant species. The first section describes .... | FWPD Dominica 2005 | #163956A | £16.50 BUY |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica
Richard Garrigues This illustrated identification guide introduces each family of birds by a brief description that should help the novice birder determine to which group a bird belongs. .... | 416 pages | plates throughout | Christopher Helm Pbk | NYP 05/2007 | 0713683694 | #162622A | £19.99 BUY |
Greater Limpopo Birding Routes
Sarah Venter Includes information about birding in the Soutpansberg, Limpopo Valley, Magoegaskloof and Polokwane area. Detailed information about birding sites, maps, lists and .... | 72 pages | Limpopo Birding Pbk | 2006 | 0620336234 | #163576A | £10.50 BUY |
Management Plan to Conserve the Brown Booby Colony and its Habitat on Cayman Brac 2002-06
Patricia E Bradley Addresses the decline in the only breeding colony of brown booby in the Cayman Islands. .... | RSPB Pbk | | #163958A | £9.95 BUY |
Faansie Peacock Ask any birder and they will confirm that pipits are arguably the most challenging birds in Africa from an identification perspective. In addition, pipit taxonomy is by no means .... | 296 pages | 115 ink drawings | Faansie Peacock Pbk | 2006 | 0620359676 | #163573A | £21.95 BUY |
Populationsökologie von Greifvogel- und Eulenarten, Band 5 (Population Ecology of Raptors and Owls) Edited by M Stubbe and A Stubbe Conference Proceedings. .... | 624 pages | Luther Universitat 2006 | #163622A | £48.50 BUY |
Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Birds, Part A Phylogeny, Morphology, Hormones and Fertilization Edited by Barrie GM Jamieson Aspects of reproduction covered in this volume include classification and phylogeny as revealed by molecular biology; anatomy of the male reproductive tract and organs; .... | 600 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | 2006 | 1578083869 | #157964A | £66.90 BUY |
Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Birds, Part B Sexual Selection, Behavior, Conservation, Embryology and Genetics Edited by Barrie GM Jamieson Discusses sexual selection of ultraviolet and structural signals; melanins and carotenoids as feather colorants and signals; sexual selection and auditory signaling; .... | 516 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 157808444X | #163530A | £58.80 BUY |
A guide to understanding bird sound Mark Constantine and The Sound Approach Combining anecdote, scientific theory and practical field experience, The Sound Approach to Birding is a step-by-step guide through tone, pitch, rhythm, reading .... | 192 pages | colour photos, graphs | Sound Approach Hbk | 2006 | 9081093312 | #163551A | £29.95 BUY |
Studies on Birds and their Ecology in Northeast China
Gao Wei The book consists of 4 parts. The first part provides the natural geographic features of northeast China and zoogeographic region, including integrative natural geographic .... | 673 pages | 24 plates | Science Press Hbk | 2006 | 7030166973 | #163803A | £49.95 BUY |
Edited by Gerard Boere, Colin Galbraith and David Stroud Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, .... | 900 pages | Over 300 full colour photos, graphs, tables and maps | Stationery Office (TSO) Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0114973334 | #163090A | £50.00 BUY |
| Reptiles & Amphibians | Go to subject web page |
Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest
LLC Jones, WP Leonard and DH Olson More than a field guide, this book is a compendium representing the expertise of more than 30 authors. Introductory chapters provide the reader with a foundation in amphibian .... | Col photos | Seattle Audubon Pbk | 2005 | 0914516167 | #163899A | £19.95 BUY |
Amphibians of the Donana National Park in southwestern Spain. .... | 181 pages | OAPN 2005 | 8480146001 | #163997A | £22.95 BUY |
MA Rodriguez Dominguez The giant lizard of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, was "rediscovered" in 1975 and has made a remarkable .... | 78 pages | colour photos | Turquesa Publicaciones Pbk | 2006 | 8495412608 | #163906A | £6.95 BUY |
Marine Turtles of the Indian Subcontinent
Edited by K Shanker and BC Choudhury | 415 pages | 22 col plates, 34 illus | Universities Press Pbk | 2006 | 8173715661 | #164133A | £21.95 BUY |
| Fishes | Go to subject web page |
A Biological Synopsis and Risk Assessment C Kolar, W Courtnay Jr, D Chapman, C Housel, J Williams and D Jennings This book is a detailed risk assessment and biological synopsis of the bigheaded carps of the genus Hypopthalmichthys, which includes the bighead, silver, and largescale .... | 225 pages | AFS Hbk | 2006 | 1888569794 | #163509A | £65.00 BUY |
Dietary Supplements for the Health and Quality of Cultured Fish
Edited by H Nakagawa, M Sato and DM Gatlin III This book addresses current information on the effects of micronutrients and other efficacious substances from plants, animals and bacteria, with regard to quality and .... | 256 pages | CABI Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 1845931998 | #163787A | £70.00 BUY |
Shark Nursery Grounds of the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast Waters of the United States
Edited by C McCandless, N Kohler and H Pratt Jr Until recently, detailed reports of the shark nursery grounds off the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico have been nonexistant. In this book, researchers contribute .... | 400 pages | AFS Pbk | 2006 | 1888569816 | #163511A | £75.00 BUY |
| Invertebrates | Go to subject web page |
Robert Merritt The Atlas includes distribution maps of 174 species of water beetle and 47 species of water bugs, representing approx. 65% and 72% of the British species, respectively. Each .... | 160 pages | 27 photographs | Sorby NHS Pbk | 2006 | #163489A | £12.50 BUY |
The Biology of Death's Head Hawkmoths, Lepidopteran Kleptoparasites of Honey Bees
Ian J Kitching | 20 pages | b&w photos, diagrams | CABK Pbk | 2006 | 1904379133 | #162704A | £4.95 BUY |
Monica Warner Butterflies of Jamaica is a highly illustrated, comprehensive field guide that covers the most common varieties as well as the less well-known species on the island. The .... | 112 pages | colour photos | Macmillan Caribbean Pbk | 2005 | 0333992555 | #163953A | £7.95 BUY |
Butterflies of Vietnam, Volume 1: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae
Alexander L Monastyrskii The book lists, describes and keyes 115 species of Satyrinae hitherto known from Vietnam. Each species account contains data on taxonomy, type locality, morphology, .... | 198 pages | 35 col plates, col photos, b/w line illus | Dr. Alexander Monastyrskii Pbk | 2005 | 0995121109 | #163194A | £29.95 BUY |
Checklist of the Land Snails and Slugs of California
Barry Roth and Patricia S Sadeghian An inventory and classification of 284 species of terrestrial mollusc, which reports distribution by county as known from 12,000 specimen lots in museum and private .... | 82 pages | 13 col plates | Santa Barbara MNH Pbk | 2006 | 0936494395 | #157137A | £44.00 BUY |
A Conchological Iconography: The Family Pectinidae (2 parts)
Bret K Raines and Guido T Poppe | 722 pages | 242 maps, 143 b/w plates and 320 colour plates | ConchBooks Unbound | 2006 | #124082A | £269.00 BUY |
A Conchological Iconography: The Recent Volutes of New Zealand with a revision of the genus Alcithoe H. & A. Adams, 1853 P Bail and A Limpus | 73 pages | 62 colour plates | ConchBooks Unbound | 2005 | 3925919767 | #163442A | £76.00 BUY |
F Bos, M Bosveld and D Groenendijk This Dutch butterfly atlas presents a complete overview of the country's 106 butterfly species, their ecology, behaviour, distribution and habitat. Species descriptions are .... | 380 pages | illus | KNNV Hbk | 2006 | 9050112277 | #163519A | £52.50 BUY |
Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) of Texas, Volume 1
JC Abbott Damselflies and Dragonflies (Odonata) of Texas is an indispensable reference to the 223 species of odonates distributed throughout the Lone Star state. Included in this volume .... | 320 pages | b&w illus, distribution maps | OST Pbk | 2006 | 1411665252 | #161869A | £38.50 BUY |
Fauna Iberica, Volume 27: Lophophorata, Phoronida, Brachiopoda
F Alvarez, CC Emig, C Roldan and JM Vieitez | 276 pages | MNCN Hbk | 2006 | 8400084071 | #163750A | £32.00 BUY |
Fauna Iberica, Volume 28: Hemiptera, Aphididae III
JM Nieto Nafria, MP Mier Durante, F Garcia Prieto and N Perez Hidalgo | 362 pages | MNCN Hbk | 2006 | 8400084063 | #163751A | £35.00 BUY |
Fauna Palaestina: Crustacea 1 - Hyperiidea (Amphipoda) of Israel A Morphological Atlas Engelina A Zelickman | 442 pages | 204 plates, 9 SEM micrograph plates, 1 colour plate | IASH Hbk | 2005 | 9652081647 | #163858A | £90.00 BUY |
A Field Guide to the Non-Marine Molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Reunion) and the Northern Dependencies of Mauritius Owen L Griffiths and Vincent FB Florens Covers 250 species, providing distribution and status data, descriptions of the shells and animals, and additional information regarding varieties and synonyms. Over 270 .... | 185 pages | photos, drawings, maps | Bioculture Press Hbk | 2006 | 999492205X | #162554A | £58.00 BUY |
A Torelli | 235 pages | CNR Pbk | 1982 | #164109A | £8.95 BUY |
Hug the Bug - For Love of True Bugs Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss Edited by W Rabitsch | 1184 pages | Biologiezentrum Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | #162958A | £58.50 BUY |
Nocturnal Activities of Insects and Spiders in Tropical Forests of the World B Purser This beautifully illustrated book comprises 297 photos of living insects and spiders, demonstrating a little known aspect of entomology for there exists no popular literature .... | 168 pages | Pensoft Hbk | 2006 | 9546422827 | #163133A | £35.00 BUY |
Larves et Exuvies des Libellules de France et d'Allemagne (sauf de Corse)
Harald Heidemann and Richard Seidenbusch | 415 pages | 121 col and b/w plates | SOF Pbk | 2002 | 2950729150 | #157317A | £37.95 BUY |
Libro Rojo de los Invertebrados de Espana
The Red List of Invertebrates in Spain contains 272 threatened species. .... | 411 pages | OAPN 2006 | 8480146443 | #163996A | £31.00 BUY |
Carlos Esquivel For the first time ever, this book presents easy-to-read descriptions of the morphology, habitat, behavior, larvae, and geographical distribution of all the 16 families .... | 320 pages | 169 photos. | INBio Pbk | 2006 | 9968927139 | #160084A | £19.99 BUY |
Marine and Saltwater Gastropod Molluscs of Russia and the Adjacent Countries The Illustrated Catalogue YI Kantor and AV Sysoev | 371 pages | 140 colour plates | Colus Hbk | 2006 | 8731729274 | #163909A | £109.95 BUY |
Membrácidos de la América Tropical / Treehoppers of Tropical America
Carolina Godoy, Ximena Miranda and Kenji Nishida The first part of this field guide consists of an extensive introduction to the family Membracidae including morphology, behavior, mutualistic relationships with other .... | 352 pages | INBio 2006 | 9968927104 | #160083A | £19.99 BUY |
Moths of Europe, Volume 1: Bombycoidea, Sphinx Moths, Tiger Moths, Case Moths
P Leraut Covers more than 500 species from the families Arctiidae, Sphingidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Endromidae, Lemoniidae, Bombycidae, Drepanidae, Axiidae, Limacodidae, .... | 450 pages | 50 col plates, line illus, distribution maps | NAP Editions Hbk | 2006 | #161382A | £58.50 BUY |
Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A Pictoral Guide to More Than 750 Gastropods
DG Steyn and M Lussi Contents include a brief historical review of malacology in southern Africa, offshore collecting methods, conservation and a concise bibliography. .... | 294 pages | Shellbooks Pbk | 2005 | 0620336072 | #162543A | £49.00 BUY |
Revision of Anoplophora (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
SW Lingafelter and ER Hoebeke Illustrated indentification guide for the woodboring beetle. .... | 236 pages | colour illus, b&w illus | Washington ES Hbk | 2002 | 0972071415 | #159939A | £33.50 BUY |
A Colour Guide to Nudibranchs G Cobb and RC Willan Covers 277 species of nudibranch (in the broad sense, i.e. opisthobranchs) all found on the Sunshine Coast of southern Queensland, but most also found elsewhere in Australian .... | 312 pages | Col illus | ABRS Pbk | 2006 | 0858811472 | #163928A | £32.50 BUY |
| Palaeontology | Go to subject web page |
The Angiospermous Fossil Wood Flora in Wuhan, China
Qi Guofan This book describes 12 families, 13 genera, 20 species. .... | 123 pages | 35 plates | Science Press Pbk | 2005 | 7030157575 | #163805A | £31.50 BUY |
Global Environments Through the Quarternary Exploring Environmental Change David Anderson, Andrew Goudie and Adrian Parker We are in the grip of global warming, so we are told: sea levels are rising; glaciers are melting; meteorological events are becoming more extreme. But are these differences .... | 382 pages | 125 col line illus & col plates | OUP Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0198742266 | #164118A | £24.99 BUY |
Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology
Edited by Shuhai Xiao and Alan J Kaufman The Neoproterozoic Era (1000-542 million years ago) has become a major focus of geobiological investigations because it is a geological period characterized by dramatic .... | 300 pages | 48 illus | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402052014 | #164043A | £84.50 BUY |
A Traverse This book provides complete coverage of all aspects of the study of all fossil palynomorphs yet studied. It is a profusely illustrated treatment. The book serves both .... | 770 pages | 250 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 1402056095 | #164042A | £128.00 BUY |
Adolf Seilacher This definitive textbook by a renowned field observer and analyst of trace fossils concentrates on the most distinctive examples, mostly made by infaunal invertebrates in .... | 240 pages | 75 col illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 3540472258 | #164041A | £38.50 BUY |
| Marine & Freshwater Biology | Go to subject web page |
The Diver's Guide to Fishes, Whales, Dolphins and Marine Invertebrates Pierre Constant Thoroughly revised second edition of the definite diver's guide to the Galapagos. Based on the author's numerous trips to the archipelago, this is a highly illustrated guide, .... | 307 pages | 288 col photos, b/w illus, maps | Odyssey Pbk | 2007 | 9622177670 | #163510A | £15.95 BUY |
World of Water Wildlife Guide: Christmas Island
Neville Coleman The first comprehensive marine life guide to the Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Includes examples of over 18 major wildlife groups- from algae to marine mammals. Simple .... | 80 pages | over 550 photos | Neville Coleman Pbk | 2006 | 0947325395 | #164131A | £19.95 BUY |
World of Water Wildlife Guide: Cocos Islands (Keeling)
Neville Coleman The first comprehensive marine life guide to Cocos (Keeling) Island. Includes examples of over 18 major wildlife groups- from algae to marine mammals. Simple layout, easy to .... | 80 pages | over 550 colour photos | Neville Coleman Pbk | 2006 | 0947325387 | #164130A | £19.95 BUY |
World of Water Wildlife Guide: Maldives
Neville Coleman A comprehensive wildlife guide to the Maldives. Includes examples of over 18 major wildlife groups- from algae to marine mammals. .... | 80 pages | over 550 colour photos | Neville Coleman Pbk | 2006 | 0947325379 | #164128A | £19.95 BUY |
World of Water Wildlife Guide: Seychelles
Neville Coleman A comprehensive marine life guide to the Seychelles. Includes examples of over 18 major wildlife groups- from algae to marine mammals. Simple layout, easy to read text with .... | 80 pages | over 550 colour photos | Neville Coleman Pbk | 2006 | 0947325360 | #164125A | £19.95 BUY |
| General Natural History | Go to subject web page |
Julianne Lutz Newton A household icon of the environmental movement, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) may be the most quoted conservationist in history. "A Sand County Almanac" has sold millions of copies .... | 472 pages | Island Press Hbk | 2006 | 1597260452 | #163455A | £22.95 BUY |
A Metabiography Nicolaas A Rupke Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science. In Germany, his renown has generated continuous biographical interest from late-Prussian .... | 320 pages | illus | Peter Lang Hbk | 2005 | 3631539320 | #163911A | £42.50 BUY |
Alternatives to Animal Testing
Edited by RM Harrison and RE Hester Animal experimentation has long been a controversial issue, with impassioned arguments on both sides of the debate. Increasingly it has become more expedient and feasible to .... | 130 pages | RSC Hbk | 2006 | 0854042113 | #164137A | £60.00 BUY |
The Art of Digital Photography
John Hedgecoe Still life or action, portrait or abstract - whatever your subject, this book helps you discover how to take digital images. It presents the fundamentals of composing an image .... | 288 pages | colour illus | Dorling Kindersley Hbk | 2006 | 1405312521 | #163543A | £20.00 BUY |
Be Your Own Landscape Detective Investigating Where You Are Richard Muir Both accessible and informative, this book demonstrates that the countryside and its scenic landscape can be read like a book. .... | 288 pages | 120 b/w illus, 15 col illus | Sutton Publishing Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0750943335 | #163066A | £20.00 BUY |
How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages Julia B Corbett A broader and more comprehensive understanding of how we communicate with each other about the natural world and our relationship to it is essential to solving environmental .... | 364 pages | Island Press Hbk | 2006 | 1597260673 | #163464A | £41.95 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 1597260681 | #163445A | £20.50 BUY |
Bill McLain Have you ever wondered why cats purr or whether it can really rain frogs? Bill McLain answers and expands upon these problems, leaving you knowing much more than just a .... | 320 pages | Harper Collins Pbk | 2006 | 000724049X | #163983A | £7.99 BUY |
Systems, Organisms, Persons Edited by Nancey Murphy and William Stoeger A collection of essays by experts in the field, exploring how nature works at every level to produce more complex and highly organized objects, systems, and organisms from .... | 368 pages | OUP Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0199204713 | #164113A | £60.00 BUY |
The Interface between Experiment and Computation: Bifi 2006 II International Congress. Zaragoza, Spain, 8-11 February 2006 Edited by J Clemente-Gallardo, Y Moreno, JFS Lorenzo and A Velazquez-Campoy The BIFI2006 Conference represents an interactive forum for physicists, chemists, biologists, and mathematicians for sharing ideas as well as adressing recent advances in .... | 216 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 0735403503 | #163922A | £76.00 BUY |
Where Memory, Reason, Passion, Violence and Creativity Intersect in the Human Brain Kathleen Stein An enlightening examination of the center of our entire mental universe, the prefrontal cortex, or PFC. .... | 304 pages | Wiley Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0471262390 | #163499A | £18.99 BUY |
Artists for Nature in England Chris Gerrard Presents the work of 30 artists that shows a variety of styles and a variety of topics, ranging across field sketches of birds and other animals, detailed botanical and .... | 168 pages | Langford Press Hbk | 2006 | 1904078133 | #160580A | £35.00 BUY |
The Hands-On Guide for Science Communicators A Step-by-Step Approach to Public Outreach Lars Linberg Christensen This hands-on guide offers practical advice on all aspects of science communication. It features a tightly interwoven fabric of issues: product types, target groups, written .... | 274 pages | 40 col illus, 100 b/w illus | Springer Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0387263241 | #164031A | £19.50 BUY |
Will Cuppy From the same author as 'The Decline & Fall of Practically Everybody', here is a humourous and affectionate look at the nature of animals. Sections include 'Problem .... | 176 pages | 100 b/w illus | Sutton Publishing Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0750946105 | #163076A | £8.99 BUY |
Karl Hoffmann: Naturalista, Medico y Heroe Nacional
Luko Hilje Quiros Biography of the naturalist who studied Costa Rica's fauna in the 1850s. .... | 200 pages | INBio Pbk | 2006 | 996892718X | #163888A | £11.50 BUY |
The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud Brian Garfield Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. Many of the adventures recorded in his .... | 386 pages | Potomac Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1597970417 | #163582A | £18.50 BUY |
Moths That Drink Elephants' Tears And Other Zoological Curiosities Matt Walker Presents a collection of insights and unusual facts, detailing the wondrous diversity of animal life that surrounds us. .... | 160 pages | Piatkus Hbk | 2006 | 0749951281 | #163939A | £9.99 BUY |
A Life of W.D. Hamilton Ullica Segerstrale W.D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of life itself. .... | 336 pages | 20 b/w illus | OUP Hbk | NYP 05/2007 | 019860727X | #162417A | £16.99 BUY |
Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas Looks at the views of Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Carl Segan, Stephen Hawking and Steven Weinberg; carefully distinguishing science from philosophy .... | 288 pages | OUP Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0195310721 | #164112A | £17.99 BUY |
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
Edited by Roger S Gottlieb The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Theologians from every religious .... | 688 pages | OUP Hbk | 2006 | 0195178726 | #164114A | £45.00 BUY |
The Remarkable Life of William Beebe Explorer and Naturalist Carol Grant Gould William Beebe was a groundbreaking scientist and explorer. Carol Grant Gould brings his life and times compellingly to light in this new biography. .... | 447 pages | Photos | Shearwater Hbk | 2004 | 1559638583 | #150312A | £21.95 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 1597261076 | #163465A | £13.95 BUY |
Science Fact and Science Fiction An Encyclopedia Brian Stableford Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that .... | 760 pages | Routledge Hbk | 2006 | 0415974607 | #164103A | £100.00 BUY |
What do scientists really know? E Brian Davies How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out .... | 306 pages | 29 b/w line drawings and 8 b/w halftones | OUP Hbk | 2003 | 0198525435 | #163541A | £29.00 BUY |
The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought Edited by Richard Lansdown Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the .... | 429 pages | 32 illus | Hawaii UP Hbk | 2006 | 0824829026 | #163898A | £38.50 BUY |
Selected Writings on Nature Mark Cocker In seven works of non-fiction, especially in Birders and the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica, Mark Cocker has established himself as one of the foremost .... | 192 pages | Jonathan Cape Hbk | 2006 | 0224078828 | #163806A | £10.00 BUY |
Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery An Anthology Edited by Peter C Mancall This is a primary source collection of narratives about travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century. The authors represent .... | 430 pages | 21 halftones | OUP Hbk | 2006 | 0195155963 | #159276A | £45.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0195155971 | #163784A | £14.99 BUY |
How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World Yvonne Baskin Yvonne Baskin takes the reader from the polar desert of Antarctica to the coastal rain forests of Canada, from the rangelands of Yellowstone National Park to the vanishing .... | 237 pages | Illus | Shearwater Hbk | 2005 | 1597260037 | #152022A | £19.50 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 1597261181 | #163454A | £12.50 BUY |
Digital and Traditional Techniques Martin Edge "Martin assumes the reader has a basic knowledge of underwater photography, and so pitches at the intermediate skilled, but still allows the book to be accessible to the .... | 408 pages | illus | Focal Press Pbk | 2006 | 0240519884 | #164003A | £24.99 BUY |
Billy Showell Presents several watercolour flower portraits. This illustrated book contains information on drawing and painting techniques, colour mixing and composition. It offers .... | 128 pages | colour illus | Search Press Hbk | 2006 | 1844480666 | #163545A | £19.50 BUY |
KwaZulu-Natal P Van den Berg, I Van den Berg and H Van den Berg Through beautiful photography, this book deals with the diversity of scenery, biomes, ecosystems, indigenous cultures and wildlife of the garden province of South Africa. .... | 208 pages | colour photos | HPH Photography & Publishing Hbk | 2006 | 0620366796 | #163894A | £48.50 BUY |
| Regional & Travel | Go to subject web page |
Trevor Carnaby A field guide to the mammals of South Africa. This book follows in the footsteps of its immensely popular predecessor, Beat About the Bush: Mammals & Birds. This expanded .... | 366 pages | Jacana Pbk | 2006 | 1770092404 | #163483A | £18.95 BUY |
La Colonizacion de la Isabela (Republica Dominicana) Con Animales y Plantas de Canarias AT Gaspar and JC Alvarez | 146 pages | b&w photos | Pbk | 2005 | 8479265086 | #161399A | £10.95 BUY |
A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife The Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and Southern Ocean Hadoram Shirihai The first complete guide to the natural history and wildlife of this vast region, covering all the subantarctic islands, the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Continent. .... | 512 pages | 600 photos, 35 plates | Princeton UP Hbk | 2002 | 0691114145 | #126144A | £32.50 BUY Hbk | NYP 05/2007 | 0713664061 | #162618A | £29.99 BUY |
Environmental Assessment of the Areas Disengaged by Israel in the Gaza Strip
Edited by UNEP JERUSALEM, 30 March, 2006 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has revealed the results of the first major investigation into the environmental impact of the .... | 209 pages | UNEP Pbk | 2006 | 9280726978 | #163814A | £19.95 BUY |
Flora and Fauna of Cabrits National Park, Dominica
Arlington James Field guide. .... | FWPD Dominica 2004 | #163955A | £14.50 BUY |
The Islands That Changed the World Paul Stewart and Tilda Swinton The Galapagos archipelago is made up of thirteen main islands and more than sixty other islets, rocks and reefs, scattered over four hundred kilometres of open ocean. Sitting .... | Running Time: 210 Minutes | BBC Video DVD | 2006 | BBCDVD1997 | #162057A | Normally £17.01 NHBS OFFER PRICE: £15.31 |
Aproximació a la història de la natura de la ciutat Margarita Parés i Rifà Guide to the green spaces in the city of Barcelona. The book lays open the world of nature in the metropolitan landscape, understood as an environment made up of urban .... | 272 pages | Lynx Pbk | 2006 | #164147A | £17.50 BUY |
Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo Hans P Hazebroek and Abang Kashim bin Abang Morshidi Bako is one of the smallest parks in Sarawak, yet one of the most interesting because of its highly visible wildlife (including the fabled long-nosed proboscis monkey, .... | 108 pages | Natural History Publications Pbk | 2006 | 9838121142 | #164141A | £10.50 BUY |
The Lightning Tree Chris Howkins This book explores the reasons why the English love oak trees above all others and it is therefore a cultural history rather than a natural history. Crucial sections are .... | 48 pages | Howkins, Christopher Pbk | 2006 | 1901087700 | #163799A | £5.00 BUY |
The Discovery of Australia's Interior Derek Parker In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of the continent, and routes across its deserts and mountains from north to south and east to .... | 240 pages | 34 illus | Sutton Publishing Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0750942975 | #163067A | £18.99 BUY |
William E Davis This is the first book on the general natural history of Tasmania in nearly a .... | 270 pages | Surrey Beatty Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | #162080A | £24.99 BUY |
The Very Best of African Wildlife
Gerald Hinde Think of Africa and one immediately thinks of its wild animals, birdlife and even its unusual and colourful insects. The continent's rich and incredibly varied wildlife draws .... | 128 pages | 140 col photos | Struik Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 1770073779 | #163062A | £19.99 BUY |
Survie du premier parc d'Afrique Mark Languy and Emmanuel de Meronde Under the leadership of Marc Languy and Emmanuel de Merode, 36 conservationists describe the past and present efforts to protect Virunga, Africa's first National Park. With over .... | 208 pages | 240 color photographs, 60 maps and 45 graphs | Lannoo Hbk | 2006 | 902096562X | #163984A | £33.00 BUY |
Challenges Beyond Caviar We often associate the Caspian Sea with caviar that is legally or illegally finding its way to our tables, but overlook the footprints left by a number of industries installed .... | 50 maps and diagrams | UNEP 2006 | 8277010397 | #163569A | £13.50 BUY |
Scourie Wildlife Group Presenting the results of a one-year survey project of this area in the northwest of Scotland, this booklet describes the habitat, the fauna and the flora including species .... | 78 pages | colour photos | Scourie Wildlife Group Pbk | 2006 | #164005A | £4.50 BUY |
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Algae of Australia: Nemaliales
John M Huisman The marine algae are plants of considerable biological and economic importance. The Nemaliales, one of the most diverse and significant orders of red algae in Australian .... | 164 pages | colour photos, illus | CSIRO Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0643093788 | #162917A | £46.95 BUY |
New Concepts and Methodology Edited by Y Fujii and MM Parvez The principal goal of allelopathy is to foster sustainable agriculture, forestry, and environment. The objective is to minimize the industrial chemicals and to maximize the .... | 400 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 1578084466 | #163426A | £50.10 BUY |
An Introduction to Structure and Development Paula Rudall In the third edition of her successful textbook, Paula Rudall provides a comprehensive yet succinct introduction to the anatomy of flowering plants. Thoroughly revised and .... | 110 pages | Illus | CUP Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0521692458 | #161633A | £22.99 BUY |
A Guide to their Collection, Identification and Biology Luke Sweedman and David Merritt This is the first complete guide to the collection, processing and storage of wild collected seed. While the main focus is on Australian seed, the procedures and protocols .... | 320 pages | CSIRO Hbk | 2006 | 0643091327 | #157806A | £50.50 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0643092986 | #162146A | £31.50 BUY |
Ellen Drake Just like any other tree, the iconic baobab provides shade and shelter, flowers and fruit. It does its bit to protect the soil, produce oxygen and create medicines and .... | 96 pages | Aardvark Press Pbk | 2006 | 0958478546 | #163575A | £19.95 BUY |
JR Hanson This book discusses the numerous interactions between plants, the soil and with other organisms in which chemistry plays a central mediating role. It concerns itself with .... | 200 pages | RSC Pbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0854048979 | #163064A | £19.95 BUY |
Edited by Gao Jiangyun et al This book describes Zingiberaceae: 20 genera, 95 species and variety species, with about 170 colour photos. .... | 146 pages | colour photos | Science Press Hbk | 2006 | 7030166345 | #163804A | £39.00 BUY |
The Complete Book of Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit The definite book on edible gardening Matthew Biggs, Jekka McVicar and Bob Flowerdew Useful for the gardener and the cook, this book acts as a comprehensive guide to selecting, cultivating, harvesting and cooking your own fresh produce at home. Combining .... | 640 pages | colour photos | Kyle Cathie Pbk | 2006 | 1856266710 | #163537A | £16.99 BUY |
Ernest Small This book is a comprehensive reference guide to herb and spice plants that are cultivated in Canada and the northern half of the United States for the purpose of .... | 1036 pages | Illus, tabs | NRC Hbk | 2006 | 0660190737 | #163570A | £64.00 BUY |
Production and Processing Edited by M Kafi, KM Rashed Mohassel, A Koocheki and M Nassiri This book documents local and international literature on cumin. These findings have been .... | 168 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | 2006 | 1578085047 | #163764A | £27.70 BUY |
Ursula Buchan Explores the English garden and captures its extraordinary richness and diversity. Focusing on gardens that are open to visitors, the author explains the historical trends .... | 352 pages | Frances Lincoln Hbk | 2006 | 0711226385 | #163534A | £25.00 BUY |
The Ethnobotany of Pre-columbian Peru
Margaret A Towle Originally published in 1961 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. .... | 183 pages | Aldine Transaction Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0202309304 | #164018A | £15.50 BUY |
Axel D Poulsen Borneo is one of the most exciting places to study the richness of plant life on Earth and home to more than 300 ginger species. Etlingera is among the most diverse and .... | 263 pages | Natural History Publications Hbk | 2006 | 9838121177 | #158124A | £47.50 BUY |
Ferns, Fern-Allies and Seed Bearing Plants of Korea
K Kyeongshik and J Euishik Deals with over 2000 pteridophytes and spematophytes, as well as some garden plants from Korea. Up-to-date nomenclature, distribution data. For trees, usually several pictures .... | 998 pages | 1929 col photos | Il Ji Sa Hbk | 2003 | 8942908314 | #162541A | £138.00 BUY |
Juan Ruiz de la Torre Provides a wealth of information on trees and shrubs; includes plates, distribution maps for 200 species and a chapter that traces the relationship between humans and nature. .... | 1756 pages | OAPN Hbk | 2006 | 8480146605 | #164000A | £36.50 BUY |
Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 141: Chloranthaceae
| Instituto de Ecologia Pbk | 2006 | #163737A | £9.95 BUY |
Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 142: Sapindaceae
| Instituto de Ecologia Pbk | 2006 | #163738A | £13.95 BUY |
Flora del Bajio y de Regiones Adyacentes, Volume 143: Proteaceae
| Instituto de Ecologia Pbk | 2006 | #163740A | £9.95 BUY |
Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 27: Bryophytes, Part 1 Mosses, Part 1 Edited by Flora of North America Editorial Committee Flora of North America Volume 27 is the first volume of three on the bryophytes (mosses, hornworts, and liverworts). Thirty-five authors treat the first half of the mosses, .... | 600 pages | 757 line illus., 621 species-distribution maps | OUP Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0195318234 | #153853A | £58.00 BUY |
Flora of the Bluegreen Algae of the Netherlands The non-filamentous species of inland waters Anton MT Joosten The Netherlands are a small country, characterized by a large diversity of fresh to slightly brackish, oligo- to hypereutrophic stagnant and flowing inland waters. This .... | 240 pages | KNNV Hbk | 2006 | 9050112420 | #163518A | £79.00 BUY |
Flora of the Guianas, Series A: 23: Acanthaceae and Mendonciaceae
Edited by MJ Jansen-Jacobs | 188 pages | 39 figures, folding map | Kew RBG Pbk | 2006 | 1842461311 | #163437A | £42.00 BUY |
Flore de la Suisse et des Territoires Limitrophes Le Nouveau Binz D Aeschimann and HM Burdet Pocket identification guide to the vascular flora of Switzerland. .... | 604 pages | Line illus | Paul Haupt Verlag Pbk | 2005 | 3258069468 | #163974A | £21.50 BUY |
Three Volumes David Pegler and David Freedberg These three volumes catalogue the extensive corpus of mycological drawings in the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Executed mostly in watercolour between 1625 and 1630 and .... | 1028 pages | 3 volumes; 24 b/w ill.; 901 colour ill. | Harvey Miller Hbk | 2006 | 1905375050 | #162957A | £200.00 BUY |
Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates
Graham Payne Comprehensively sets out the ground rules for Mediterranean gardeners. This book talks about the range of plants to consider growing, what they offer and what they demand. .... | 240 pages | 500 colour photos | Crowood Press Pbk | 2006 | 1861268955 | #163548A | £16.99 BUY |
The Genus Psychotria (Rubiaceae) in the Philippine Archipelago
| Texas Botanical RI NYP 01/2007 | #163588A | £34.50 BUY |
Gesneriads of Costa Rica / Gesneriaceas de Costa Rica
Ricardo Kriebel Haehner This guide includes 25 genera and 99 native species (plus one that could become naturalized) of Gesneriaceae from Costa Rica, one of the most showy flowering plant .... | 368 pages | INBio 2006 | 9968927171 | #163890A | £19.50 BUY |
An Illustrated Guide to the Native and Naturalised Species John Jessop In this book, for the first time, all of the State's grasses have been carefully drawn, including more than 450 line drawings and 20 coloured paintings illustrating typical .... | 560 pages | Wakefield Press Hbk | 2006 | 1862546940 | #162302A | £34.00 BUY |
John Cushnie Most of the plants we grow in our gardens can be propagated with ease. Some of the techniques are almost foolproof, even for complete beginners; others are a bit more .... | 256 pages | Kyle Cathie Hbk | R/P 01/2007 | 1856266125 | #163538A | £19.99 BUY |
Helena Attlee To many of us, the great gardens of Italy seem like paradise on earth. But how much do we know of their history, and the people who created them? In this book, illustrated .... | 240 pages | Frances Lincoln Hbk | 2006 | 0711226474 | #163532A | £30.00 BUY |
Joan Clifton's Garden Design: How to Create a Contemporary Outdoor Living Space
Joan Clifton Serves as a stylish guide to hard landscaping for gardens, courtyards and terraces, using stone, wood, concrete, glass, metals, clay, synthetics and organic materials. This .... | 256 pages | Lorenz Books Hbk | 2006 | 0754816761 | #163539A | £14.99 BUY |
Marina Christopher Shows how, by choosing plants that have a late flowering season, or offer such bonuses as attractive foliage, seedheads or berries, you can get the best from the garden in .... | 208 pages | colour photos | Frances Lincoln Hbk | 2006 | 0711224811 | #163531A | £25.00 BUY |
Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 2: Vegetables
This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes .... | 374 pages | National Academies Press Pbk | 2006 | 0309103339 | #032761A | £35.99 BUY |
Nitric Oxide in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Physiology
Edited by L Lamattina and JC Polacco Recent advances in the study of nitric oxide (NO) biology, biochemistry, molecular biology and physiology in plants are presented in this book, providing an overview of .... | 250 pages | 39 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 3540451285 | #164072A | £84.50 BUY |
Golden Joy John Train Provides a photographic history of the orange and its many uses across the world exploring its role in culture and history. This book contains simple instructions to .... | 112 pages | 200 colour illus | Antique Collectors Hbk | 2006 | 1851495258 | #163536A | £16.99 BUY |
J Francisco Morales Few-if any-straightforward field guides on the subject have been written for a general audience. This guide partially fills the gap, covering the Area de Conservacion .... | 184 pages | 75 colour illustrations | INBio Pbk | 2006 | 9968927082 | #160082A | £16.95 BUY |
David Squire Palms, with their distinctive fronds, and seed-bearing cycads add exotic appeal to any setting. This handy sourcebook provides sound advice on selecting a suitable plant and .... | 160 pages | 260 full-colour photographs | New Holland Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 1845372980 | #163072A | £17.99 BUY |
How They Found their Place in the Garden Anne Wilkinson Tells the story of the popular pelargonium. Its history includes bitter rivalry and criminal obsession, scandal, fraud, and fast dealing, and polite society being rather .... | 320 pages | 16 col illus | Sutton Publishing Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0750944285 | #163069A | £16.99 BUY |
Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants
Edited by KV Madhava Rao, AS Raghavendra and K Janardhan Reddy Today, biologists all over the world speak the same scientific language of molecular biology and use the same molecular tools. More interest and attention is given to .... | 345 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402042248 | #163584A | £104.00 BUY |
Plant Diversity of the Iwokrama Forest, Guyana Using Checklists and Collections Data to Investigate Plant Diversity HD Clarke, VA Funk and T Hollowell Plant Diversity of the Iwokrama Forest, Guyana presents the results of floristic research conducted as part of the collection of baseline data for this 360,000 hectare .... | 90 pages | Texas Botanical RI 2001 | 1889878073 | #162817A | £18.95 BUY |
Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution, Volume 1, Part D: Phanerogams
Edited by AK Sharma and A Sharma | 560 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | 2006 | 1578084202 | #163423A | £53.20 BUY |
Edited by David Logan Mitochondria are critical organelles in the metabolic regulation of all eukaryotic organisms. Knowledge of their biochemistry and molecular biology in plants has been .... | 360 pages | 39 illus | Blackwell Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 1405149396 | #164016A | £99.50 BUY |
Nigel Colborn Problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden. Packed with plant suggestions, cultivation notes and companion ideas, "Plant Solutions" .... | 448 pages | colour photos | Harper Collins Hbk | 2006 | 0007193122 | #163535A | £25.00 BUY |
VI Grubov | Illus, maps | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1578081238 | #113463A | £38.10 BUY |
Edited by K Esser, UE Lüttge, W Beyschlag and J Murata With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present .... | 405 pages | 48 illus | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 3540368302 | #164062A | £154.00 BUY |
Reproductive Biology of Sexual Hybridization in Woody Plants : An Atlas
Li Wendian and Ma Fengshan This book represents a pictorial summary of the findings achieved from research program, "Reproductive Biology of Sexual Hybridization in Woody Plants", at the Chinese Academy .... | 143 pages | 80 plates | Science Press Hbk | 2006 | 7030159454 | #163800A | £48.00 BUY |
Including Kruger National Park Rina Grant and Val Thomas New edition of this popular beginner's guide to tree identification. .... | 350 pages | Col illus | Jacana Pbk | 2006 | 1770092374 | #163577A | £20.00 BUY |
Seed Plants of the KARST Region in China, Vol. 1 Southeast Yunnan Shui Yu-Min and Chen Wen-Hong The book includes 696 wild species of 331 genera in 93 families of seed plants and more than 1900 photos, all from the karst region of Southeast Yunnan in China. Every species .... | 260 pages | more than 1900 photos | Science Press Hbk | 2006 | 7030170563 | #163802A | £97.00 BUY |
A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus Matt Bishop, Aaron Davis and John Grimshaw The definitive new work of reference for the genus Galanthus, describing both wild species and horticultural cultivars in an accessible and interesting way. The book .... | 363 pages | Col photos | Griffin Press Hbk | 2002 | 0954191609 | #120569A | £84.00 BUY |
Tom Petherick Offers a photographic study of the impact of trees on our lives and our surroundings. This book looks at a different climate zone from the arctic north to the tropical south, .... | 192 pages | colour photos | Quadrille Publishing Hbk | 2006 | 1844003175 | #163542A | £25.00 BUY |
An Identification Guide for Australia FJ Richardson, RG Richardson and RCH Richardson Written in easy-to-understand language and beautifully illustrated, this is a field guide for anyone interested in the identifcation of pest plants and the preservation of .... | 438 pages | colour illus | Richardson (R G and PJ) Pbk | 2006 | 0958743932 | #162301A | £58.50 BUY |
A History Fred Hageneder The yew is one of the most fascinating and versatile life forms on Earth, botanically rich and intriguing and culturally almost without comparison. It has links with Darwin, .... | 224 pages | 200 col illus | Sutton Publishing Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0750945974 | #163068A | £20.00 BUY |
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Concepts in Modern Biology PS Agutter and DN Wheatley This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question of what distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world. The authors first draw on recent advances in .... | 200 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 1402054173 | #164056A | £24.50 BUY |
The dual role of DNA in life and death Jan Vijg Aging has long since been ascribed to the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in the genome of somatic cells. However, it is only recently that the necessary sophisticated .... | 368 pages | OUP Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 019856922X | #163435A | £65.00 BUY Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0198569238 | #163434A | £27.50 BUY |
Secondary Metabolites Edited by K G Ramawat and J M Merillon This book provides both basic as well as information relating recent advances in the field of plant secondary products. Besides updating chapters of the first edition, this .... | 390 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 1578084288 | #163425A | £36.40 BUY |
Methods and Applications Kevin Strange Nonmammalian model organisms have become a cornerstone of systems biology research. Like the Rosetta Stone, which enabled modern scholars to decode ancient Egyptian .... | 308 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 1588295974 | #163610A | £61.00 BUY |
Methods and Protocols Ezio Rosato Circadian Rhythms: Methods and Protocols is an in-depth examination of circadian biology, presented by leading researchers in the field. This cutting-edge collection of .... | 615 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 158829417X | #163619A | £88.00 BUY |
Edited by C Kole Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on .... | 350 pages | Springer Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 354034540X | #164071A | £138.50 BUY |
Immobilization of Enzymes and Cells
Jose M Guisan The second edition of Immobilization of Enzymes and Cells serves as an update as well as a compliment to the first edition. This volume now includes simple protocols for the .... | 416 pages | Line & b/w illus | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 1588292908 | #163736A | £74.00 BUY |
In Situ Hybridization Protocology
Ian Darby and Tim Hewitson This revised and updated edition of a recognized classic emphasizes tissue and cell in situ hybridization methods. Among the new techniques detailed are PNA probes for viral .... | 500 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2005 | 1588294021 | #163646A | £61.00 BUY |
The New Biological Synthesis Edited by Marcello Barbieri This book is addressed to students, researchers and academics who have barely heard of the emerging young science of Biosemiotics, and who want to know more about it. Written .... | 530 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402048130 | #164058A | £107.50 BUY |
Practical Protocols Dario Leister and Johannes Herrmann Mitochondria: Practical Protocols offers a broad collection of methods for studying the molecular biology, function, and features of mitochondria. In the past decade, .... | 736 pages | Humana Press Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 1588296679 | #163664A | £82.00 BUY |
Modeling of Biological Materials
Edited by Francesco Mollica, Luigi Preziosi and KR Rajagopal This interdisciplinary collection of surveys highlights the central role played by the mathematical modeling of mechanical properties having an effect on the biology, .... | 375 pages | 71 illus | Birkhauser Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0817644105 | #163788A | £53.50 BUY |
The Natural History of Hidden Animals
Bernard Heuvelmans and Peter Gwynvay Hopkins Dr. Heuvelmans, the founder of Cryptozoology, or the science of unknown animals, was an enormously influential explorer and an industrious writer who changed the way in which .... | 228 pages | 96 illus | Kegan Paul Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0710313330 | #164119A | £69.95 BUY |
New and Emerging Proteomic Techniques
D Nedelkov and RW Nelson Leading researchers and innovators describe in step-by-step detail the latest techniques that promise to significantly impact the practice of proteomics, as well as its success .... | 248 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 1588295192 | #163670A | £59.00 BUY |
Biology, Ecology and Evolution Edited by Edouard Jurkevitch Predatory Prokaryotes focuses on the ecology of predation at the microbial level. It aims to increase the awareness of the great possibilities that predation between .... | 260 pages | 53 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 3540385770 | #164066A | £92.50 BUY |
Principles of Population Genetics
Daniel L Hartl and Andrew G Clark Thoroughly updated introduction to the field that is at last ascending to its rightful position of centrality to evolutionary genomics and human genetics. Rapid and .... | 542 pages | Figs, tabs | Sinauer Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0878933085 | #163977A | £52.99 BUY |
Salvatore Sechi A Compendium of cutting-edge protocols for quantitative proteomics, and presents the most significant methods used in the field today. The focus on mass spectrometry (MS) is .... | 232 pages | Humana Press Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 1588295710 | #163692A | £61.00 BUY |
VV Stcherbic and LP Buchatsky Quantum Genetics is a science about the essence of biological structures on their molecular level, about the microscopic processes of organization and reorganization of .... | 170 pages | Science Publishers/Enfield Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 157808508X | #163765A | £36.00 BUY |
The Nature of Modern RNA Suggests a Prebiotic RNA World Edited by Raymond F Gesteland, Thomas R Cech and John F Atkins Revised, updated, and extended edition offering a completely current perspective on the modern world of RNA and the light it sheds on a prebiotic era perhaps dominated by this .... | 768 pages | Col photos, illus, figs, tabs | CSHL Hbk | 2006 | 0879697393 | #158650A | £99.00 BUY |
Mary Davenport A comprehensive collection of readily reproducible methods for studying receptors in silico, in vitro, and in vivo. These cutting-edge techniques cover mining from curated .... | 256 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2005 | 158829420X | #163694A | £55.00 BUY |
Molecular Mechanisms Gary Perdew, John Vanden and Jeffrey Peters Regulation of Gene Expression: Molecular Mechanisms presents a comprehensive overview of methods and approaches for characterizing mechanisms of gene regulation. The text is .... | 224 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 1588292657 | #163763A | £73.00 BUY |
Edited by E Sernagor, S Eglen, B Harris and R Wong This advanced text takes a developmental approach to the presentation of our current understanding of how vertebrates construct a retina. Written by experts in the field, .... | 400 pages | CUP Hbk | 2006 | 0521837987 | #164123A | £70.00 BUY |
An Integrated Approach J Trefil, RM Hazen and AJ Gaudin The Sciences, 5th Edition integrates major concepts from physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology to help anyone become science-literate. Even readers with .... | 616 pages | Wiley Pbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0471769924 | #163492A | £57.95 BUY |
Edited by C Kole Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on .... | 340 pages | 35 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 354034537X | #164067A | £138.50 BUY |
Transmembrane Signalling Protocols
Hydar Ali and Bodduluri Haribabu This fully updated and expanded second edition of Transmembrane Signaling Protocols demonstrates the use of such techniques as single cell imaging, bioluminecence resonance .... | 320 pages | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 158829546X | #163701A | £61.00 BUY |
Edited by C Kole Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on .... | 320 pages | 41 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 3540345353 | #164069A | £138.50 BUY |
A MacKenzie This completely revised and updated edition of YAC Protocols takes advantage of the many new advances in biology since the publication of the first edition, including the .... | 390 pages | 29 b/w photos, 35 line illus | Humana Press Hbk | 2006 | 1588296121 | #163705A | £55.00 BUY |
| Evolutionary Biology | Go to subject web page |
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory Why did Foragers become Farmers? Graeme Barker Addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global .... | 616 pages | 138 halftones and line drawings, 15 tables | OUP Hbk | 2006 | 0199281092 | #163794A | £80.00 BUY |
The Counter-Creationism Handbook
Mark Isaak The Counter-Creationism Handbook is a one-stop resource for addressing over 400 of the most prevalent claims made by creationists. Each claim is followed by a succinct and .... | 330 pages | Greenwood Press Hbk | 2005 | 031333305X | #163930A | £36.99 BUY Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0520249267 | #163961A | £12.95 BUY |
The Rise of the Animal Kingdom Wallace Arthur The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of .... | 255 pages | - | Hill and Wang Hbk | 2006 | 0809043211 | #163769A | £17.95 BUY |
Early Modern Human Evolution in Central Europe The People of Dolni Vnullstonice and Pavlov Edited by Erik Trinkaus and Jinulli Svoboda This is primary descriptive volume on the most important paleontological site for research into the emergence of humans, the development of a modern pattern of hunting .... | 500 pages | 288 halftones, 125 line illus | OUP Hbk | 2005 | 019516699X | #163797A | £150.00 BUY |
Emergence of Communication and Language
Edited by Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L Nehaniv and Angelo Cangelosi Old questions on the origins of language and communication are illuminated here in new, state-of-the-art research. .... | 400 pages | 89 illus | Springer Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 1846284910 | #163883A | £55.00 BUY |
The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable Peter S Ungar We are interested in the evolution of hominin diets for several reasons. One is the fundamental concern over our present-day eating habits and the consequences of our .... | 432 pages | 22 halftones, 45 line illus | OUP Hbk | 2006 | 0195183460 | #163796A | £60.00 BUY Pbk | 2006 | 0195183479 | #163795A | £29.99 BUY |
Douglas Futuyma Covers the genetic, developmental and ecological mechanisms of evolutionary change, the major features of evolutionary history as revealed by phylogenetic and palaeontological .... | 763 pages | Col plates, illus, figs, tabs, maps | Sinauer Pbk | 2006 | 0878931856 | #163040A | £36.99 BUY |
Henry Plotkin 'Necessary Knowledge' takes on one of the big questions at the heart of the cognitive sciences - what knowledge do we possess at birth, and what do we learn along the way? .... | 352 pages | OUP Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0198568282 | #163088A | £24.95 BUY |
Tracing the Lineage of Modern Man Himla Soodyall Curiosity about our origins is a defining characteristic of humanity. Of the various scientific disciplines concerned with human origins, genetics is the youngest, but the .... | Jonathan Ball Pbk | 2006 | 1868422461 | #163580A | £21.50 BUY |
Towards a Definition of the Aurignacian Proceedings of the Symposium held in Lisbon, Portugal, June 25-30, 2002 Edited by O Bar-Yosef and J Zilhao Presents the latest research on the subject. .... | 375 pages | b&w illus | IPA Pbk | 2006 | 9728662289 | #163004A | £35.00 BUY |
The Case Against Intelligent Design M Shermer Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology. In "Why .... | 199 pages | Henry Holt Hbk | 2006 | 0805081216 | #163891A | £15.95 BUY |
| Ecology | Go to subject web page |
Biological Invasions Belowground: Earthworms as Invasive Species
Edited by PF Hendrix The most conspicuous biological invasions in terrestrial ecosystems have been by exotic plants, insects and vertebrates. Less conspicuous but possibly of equal importance are .... | 126 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402054289 | #164063A | £42.50 BUY |
Invasive Forest Insects, Introduced Forest Trees, and Altered Ecosystems Ecological Pest Management in Global Forests of a Changing World Edited by TD Paine Demand for timber and fibre continues to grow and is being met by increased reliance on plantation forestry. Many of the plantations that are being grown around the globe are .... | 189 pages | Springer Hbk | 2006 | 1402051611 | #164075A | £57.50 BUY |
| Habitats & Ecosystems | Go to subject web page |
Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment
Edited by JB Orbaek, R Kallenborn, I Tombre, EN Hegseth and S Falk-Petersen | |