The Anatomy of the Woodchuck

(Marmota monax)

AJ Bezuidenhout and HE Evans

The first anatomical account for the woodchuck (also known as groundhog, land beaver or whistlepig), a species of increasing interest to mammalogists and scientists concerned ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen IV (Vertebrados) Tomo III (Mamiferos)

Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Provides descriptions and colour photographs of the mammals of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. ....

Jerboas

Don E Wilson

This book is devoted to the description of the systematics and biology of forest mice and jerboas. It describes detailed morphological characteristics and includes keys for ....

Mammals of the British Isles

Handbook, 4th edition

Edited by Stephen Harris and Derek W Yalden

New edition of the Handbook of British Mammals, the definitive handbook for the study of British mammals. The text covers appearance, distribution, ecology and ....

Meerkat Manor - DVD: Series 1 & 2 Boxset

Bill Nighy

Watch all the drama, power struggles, neighbourhood rows and comedy moments unfold as you get up close and personal with all the meerkats, from Meerkat Manor Series 1 & 2. ....

Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea

Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic

Vicki Ellen Szabo

Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, as marvelous, monstrous or mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent. Whales are conspicuous in their absence from most ....

Polar Bears 2008 Calendar

Norbert Rosing

Huge, powerful and fearless is Nanook, the polar bear. Standing 10 feet tall on its hind legs and reaching more than 1,600 pounds, the polar bear is renowned for its singular ....

Tigers

Hashim Tyabji

With tigers facing potential etinction in the wild within the next decade due to poaching and habitat loss, this book follows two years in the life of a tigress and her ....

Whales and Dolphins of the Southern African Subregion

Peter Best

Whales and Dolphins of the Southern African Subregion provides absorbing and comprehensive accounts of the 51 cetacean species recorded from (or believed likely to ....

Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola

A Whole Lot of Stuff about Birdwatching

Sean Dooley

Everything you wanted to know about bird watching but didn't know who to ask (in a convenient A-Z format). ....

Las Aves de Canarias

Francisco Perez Padron

This new edition, back by popular demand by bird enthusiats, is complimented with a larger selection of photographs - adding even more value as a field guide. ....

Avian Genomics in Evolution, Agriculture and Health

J Smith and I Nanda

Reprint of: Cytogenetic and Genome Research 2007, Vol. 117, No. 1-4 ....

Avian Immunology

Fred Davison, B Kaspers and Karel A Schat

The science underpinning avian immunology is crucial to understanding basic immunological principles and the exceptional features of the avian immune system, as ....

Bill Oddie's Birding Map of Britain and Ireland

Bill Oddie

Unique map which identifies the top 340 birding sites, including all RSPB reserves and additional Wildlife Trusts and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust sites. ....

Birds in our Lives

Ashish Kothari

Birds in Our Lives provides glimpses of the incredible diversity of India's birds, the ecosystems where different kinds of birds are found, and the various ways - cultural and ....

The Birds of New Guinea

Bruce M Beehler, Thane K Pratt and Dale A Zimmerman

Excellent new edition of probably the best field guide to this bird-rich area. Over 700 species are included and more than 600 of them are illustrated in colour. ....

Il Comportamento degli Uccelli d'Europa

Armando Gariboldi and Andrea Ambrogio

Describes the behaviour of birds species that nest in Europe. More than 1300 illustrations support the text. Behaviours described include: courtship, hunting, ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen IV (Vertebrados) Tomo I (Aves)

Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Provides descriptions and detailed photographs of the following four bird species: Flamengo, Emu, Southern Screamer, and Black necked swans. ....

Essential Guide to Birds of the Isles of Scilly

Bob L Flood, Nigel Hudson and Bryan Thomas

A concise, up-to-date and accurate account of all species and sub-species reliably recorded on and around the islands. ....

Eulen und Käuze

Auf den Spuren der nächtlichen Jäger

Adrian Aebischer

A handbook on the true owls of Europe; colour photos and detailed descriptions for all species. The audio CD contains the songs of all European Owls. ....

Finding Birds in Ireland

The Complete Guide

Eric Dempsey and Michael O'Clery

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated reference guide is a must-have for dedicated and casual birdwatchers alike. The authors of the award-winning Complete ....

Fuglar i Natturu Islands

Gudmundur Pall Olafsson

Handbook on the birds of Iceland. ....

Glimpses of Paradise

The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet

Penny Olsen

Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet follows the story of the Paradise Parrot, beginning in 1844, when John Gilbert spotted it on the Condamine River ....

Guía de Aves de Costa Rica

F Gary Stiles and Alexander F Skutch

The most complete, single-volume work available on tropical birds that is easy to manage in the field. A compact and attractive encyclopedia of the fascinating and always ....

Jilgueros y Especies Afines

Rafael Cuevas Martinez

New Holland Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

Peter H Bartel and Paschalis Dougalis

This comprehensive field guide covers more than 500 bird species, including all those that breed regularly in Britain and Europe. It has 70 full page plates illustrating a ....

Les Oiseaux du Complexe WAP

Gilles Balanca, Daniel Cornelis and Roger Wilson

Describes 128 species of bird. ....

Oiseaux du Fenua

Tahiti et ses Iles

Anne Gouni and Thierry Zysman

Well produced photo identification guide to the bird species of French Polynesia. Each species account includes the French, English, Scientific and vernacular name, a lengthy ....

Ornitologia Italiana, Volume 4: Apodidae-Prunellidae

Pierandrea Brichetti and Giancarlo Fracasso

The fourth of seven volums dedicated to the Italian avifauna. Includes distribution maps, 200 photos, 150 drawings, and a checklist. A CD with vocalisations is also ....

Owls of the United States and Canada

A Complete Guide to their Biology and Behavior

Wayne Lynch

Wayne Lynch reveals the secrets of these elusive species with photographs, personal anecdotes, and accessible science. ....

Pocket-Guide to Southern African Birds

Burger Cillie

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

Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature

Andrew Lack

A celebration of the life of the robin, based on the classic Robin Redbreast by the author's father David Lack, published in 1950. ....

Remarkable Birds of South Africa

Peter Milstein

South Africa boasts more than 1000 species of bird - from the unmistakable ostrich to the secretive Knysna loerie and rare visitors like the tropic birds, which are usually ....

A Sound Guide to the Birds of Bangladesh, Volume 1

Ronald Halder

This CD contains the voices of 99 species of birds found within the physical boundaries of Bangladesh and adjoining areas of neighbouring countries where similair habitat ....

Spotter's Guide Birds of the Bushveld

SC Kidson and HL Van Niekerk

Once considered to be the country's wild frontier, the Bushveld region is now easily accessible to local and overseas nature enthusiasts and travellers, boasting many ....

Systematic Notes on Asian Birds: 49-67

Includes Corrigenda et Addenda to Systematic Notes 1-48)

Edited by EC Dickinson and DR Wells

Der Turmfalke (Common Kestrel)

Falco tinnunculus

Rudolf Piechocki

Uccelli Predatori di Insetti

Indagine su circa 21000 insetti e 1000 vertebrati contenuti in 1521 stomaci di 204 specie italiane

Riccardo Groppali

A study on the biodiversity of the insectivorous avifauna, on its ecological role and on the possibilities of biological control of harmful insects. ....

Uccelli e Campagna

Conservare la Biodiversità di Ecosistemi in Mutamento

Riccardo Groppali and Giuseppe Camerini

Describes the relationship between agriculture and bird communities in Italy. ....

Where to Watch Birds in Northern & Eastern Spain

Edited by Michael Rebane and Ernest Garcia

North and east Spain embraces an impressive range of habitats from the Pyrenees to the sun-drenched Catalan coast. As a consequence the area is rich in birdlife and full of ....

Atlas der Amphibien und Reptilien Schleswig-Holsteins

Andreas Klinge and Christian Winkler

Distribution atlas of the reptiles and amphibians in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen IV (Vertebrados) Tomo II (Reptiles y Anfibios) Fasciculo 4

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Descriptions and photographs of the reptiles and amphibians of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen IV (Vertebrados) Tomo II (Reptiles y Anfibios) Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Describtions and detailed photographs of the green turtle which is threatened from extinction. ....

Frog Search

Results of Expeditions to Southern and Eastern Africa from 1993-1999

M Pickersgill

This authoritative book is the culmination of the author's enterprising field expeditions in southern and eastern Africa undertaken between 1993 and 1999 and his many ....

A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of India

Indraneil Das

Features over 240 species of the lizards, snakes, crocodiles, and turtles of India, covering both the most abundant and the most distinctive species. Text describes key ....

Pictoral Handbook on Marine Reptiles of India

TSN Murthy

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Pathology and Medicine in Reptiles and Amphibians (Berlin 2004)

Edited by J Seybold and F Mutschmann

The Snakes of Europe

All Species from West of the Caucasus Mountains

Guido Kreiner

Guide to all species and virtually all subspecies of snakes occurring within the zoogeographic boundaries of Europe. A series of brief introductory chapters discuss a ....

Status Survey of Himalayan Salamander Tylototriton Verrucosus Anderson In Darjeeling Hills

VD Hedge and K Deuti

Les Urodeles du Monde

Jean Raffaelli

A monograph on 650 species of salamanders of the world. ....

What's that Snake?

A starter's guide to snakes of southern Africa

Johan Marais

Offers an easy introduction to snake identification for the beginner. Snakes of the region are grouped according to family likeness, common behaviour or appearance, and the ....

Wild Guide: Turtles

Charles Fergus

Turtles are thought to be the oldest and most primitive of all living reptiles. This Wild Guide goes beyond the cursory knowledge that many people hold about turtles. It ....

Fadenmaulbrüter im Tanganjikasee

Arten, Pflege, Lebensraume

Siegfried Loose

The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Freshwater Fish and River Creatures

Daniel Gilpin and Jenny Schmid-Araya

This comprehensive encyclopedia offers superb world coverage of the many kinds of freshwater fish, reptile and amphibian. With detailed profiles of hundreds of species of ....

Les Poissons des Lacs Naturels Francais

Ecologie des Especes et Evolution des Peuplements

Olivier Schlumberger and Pierre Elie

After a succinct presentation of lake ecology, the ecological demands of some 27 species are set out, with their reproduction strategies, data on growth and population ....

Red Sea Reef Guide

Helmut Debelius

Provides in depth information on the abundant and rare fishes and invertebrates of the Red Sea, one of the most fascinating diving areas in the world. Behavioural and ....

Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 33

Edited by Stephen Simpson

Contents: 1. Behavioural Genetics of the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera ....

Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 34

Insect Mechanics and Control

Edited by Stephen Simpson

Atlas of Japanese Scarabaeoidea, Volume 2

Phytophagous Group I

Kaoru Sakai and Masayuki Fujioka

Treats 104 Japanese species and 43 sub species from the family Scarabaeidae. ....

The Carabids of Serbia

SB Curcic, MM Brajkovic and BPM Curcic

Contents: Abstract ....

Coleotteri Tenebrionidi d'Italia / Darking Beetles of Italy

V Aliquo, M Rastelli and F Soldati

The CD shows the pictures of the all the italian species of Darkling Beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae - excepting Allecuninae), photographic tables for recognizing ....

Diversity Patterns of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Along an Elevational Gradient on Monts Doudou in Southwestern Gabon.

Brian L Fisher

The Dragonflies of Eastern Mugla Province, Southwest Turkey

Paul Hope

The province of Mugla is situated in Southwest Turkey. 56 species of dragonfly have been recorded for this area. This book describes the species, their habitats and locations, ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen V (Arthropoda) Tomo I (Lepidoptera) Familia Nymphalidae Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Presents descriptions and photographs of the butterflies of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay in their various stages of development: Egg, caterpillar, pupae and adult. ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen V (Arthropoda) Tomo I (Lepidoptera) Familia Nymphalidae Fasciculo 2

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Species treated in this fascicle are: Espejitos and Fantasma. ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 60: Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Synopsis of Supraspecific Taxa

Andre Larochelle and Marie-Claude Lariviere

The family Carabidae (ground-beetles, including tiger-beetles) is composed of over 34,000 species distributed among 1,927 genera worldwide. Carabids occupy most land ....

Fauna of New Zealand, No 61: Lucanidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Beverley Holloway

The Lucanidae is a small, diverse family distributed worldwide, with about 110 genera and about 1300 described species. The New Zealand lucanid fauna comprises 39 species, of ....

A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Turkey

Ahmet Baytas

This guide will include over 750 photographs of butterflies taken in their natural habitats and the species accounts of all species in Turkey, including information about ....

Field Guide to the Larvae and Exuviae of British Dragonflies

Volume 1: Dragonflies (Anisoptera)

Steve Cham

This field guide aids the identification of Dragonfly larvae and exuviae without the need for keys. It is fully illustrated with close-up colour photographs of all the key ....

Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Fleas

A Model for Ecological Parasitology

Boris R Krasnov

Fleas are one of the most interesting and fascinating taxa of ectoparasites. All species in this relatively small order are obligatory haematophagous (blood-feeding) parasites ....

Global Advances in Ecology and Management of Golden Apple Snails

Edited by RC Joshi and LS Sebastian

Here in one publication is all information so far known about golden apple snails and the rice systems and countries they have afflicted. Around 500 pages of information are ....

Guide to Bees of Britain

Chris O'Toole and Chris Shields

Produced in conjunction with the invertebrate conservation charity Buglife, this 8-page chart shows 28 species of bee, most of which can commonly be seen in domestic gardens. ....

Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region: Lycaenidae Part 3

Subfamily Theclinae, Tribes Tomarini, Aphnaeini and Theclini (partim)

Edited by Z Weidenhoffer and GC Bozano

Handbook of Small Grain Insects

Edited by G David Buntin, Keith S Pike, Michael J Weiss and James A Webster

The Handbook of Small Grain Insects is a comprehensive text that examines the biology and management of arthropod pest and beneficial species of small grain crops. ....

Libellen Osterreichs

Rainer Raab, Andreas Chovanec and Josef Pennerstorfer

Describes all 77 species of dragonflies in Austria in detail and provides general information about the biology, distribution and status of dragonflies. ....

Marine Interstitial Poecilostomatoida and Cyclopoida (Copepoda) of Australia

Tomislav Karanovic

The prime function of the interstitial system is the processing of organic material flushed into the sand. It functions as a carbon sink, which has significant implications ....

Mosquito Ecology

Field Sampling Methods

John B Silver

Mosquito Ecology: Field Sampling Methods Third Edition, was originally devised and written by Professor M W Service and now updated by John B Silver. The purpose of the ....

Papillons D'Europe

Tristan Lafranchis

A guide to the identification of Butterflies of Europe. 1400 colour photographs show the butterflies in nature; texts, illustrations and charts aid identification and show ....

The Pearl Oyster: Biology and Culture

Edited by Paul Southgate and John Lucas

Pearl oysters are unique among aquaculture animals in that their primary product is a gemstone. This book contains comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all aspects of ....

Pictorial Handbook on Indian Collembola, Part I

AK Hazra and GP Mandal

Pictorial Handbook on Indian Thysanura

AK Hazra and GP Mandal

The Provisional Atlas of the Aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 6

Robin Edwards and Gavin Broad

This Atlas summarises information on the occurrence of selected species of bees, wasps and ants known from Britain and Ireland. ....

A Systematic List of the Marine Molluscs of Tasmania

Simon J Grove, Ron C Kershaw, Brian J Smith and Elizabeth Turner

Wanzen, Band 3

Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber and Jurgen Deckert

Volume 78 features the following families: Pentatomomorpha I - Aradidae, Lygaeidae, Piesmatidae, Berytidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Alydidae, Coreidea, Rhopalidae, Stenocephalidae. ....

A World Without Bees

Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum

The strange case of the vanishing western honeybee has led to fears that we are dangerously out of kilter with nature. This important and compelling book will ....

Fossil Corals and Sponges

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003

Edited by Bernhard Hubmann and Werner Piller

Contents: ....

Zooarchaeology

Elizabeth J Reitz and Elizabeth S Wing

This is an introductory text for students interested in identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. The emphasis is on animals whose remains ....

Les Animaux Etranges du Bord de Mer

Maurice Loir

Keys to the Male Chironomidae of Britain and Ireland

2 Volume set

PH Langton and LCV Pinder

The FBA first published a Key to Adult Males of British Chironomidae by Dr Clive Pinder in 1978 (SP 37). This completely new edition is the result of more than ten years of ....

La Vie Sous-Marine des Tropiques

A Vilcinskas

Introduces the attractive world of coral reefs of the Tropics. More than 700 species are described along with their characteristics, habitat, biology - each represented by ....

Between the Tides

John Threlfall

A personal experience of Britain's estuaries captured in pencil, paint and poetry. John's bold mark making is ideally suited to capturing the dynamic, light filled ....

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 16, Part 1

Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

Complete texts of more than 800 letters exchanged by Darwin with correspondents worldwide as he gathered information on human origins and the expression of emotion. ....

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 16, Part 2

Edited by Frederick Burkhardt

Complete texts of more than 800 letters exchanged by Darwin with correspondents worldwide as he gathered information on human ....

The Elements of Photography

Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images

Angela Faris Belt

Photography is a complex craft. Some excel at the technical side of image-making, focusing perfectly on the subject, releasing the shutter at just the right moment and ....

The Emergence of a Scientific Culture

Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

Stephen Gaukroger

Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? ....

The Eye

A Natural History

Simon Ings

Through a spellbinding mix of scientific research, mathematics, philosophy, history, myth, anecdote and language theory, Simon Ings brilliantly unravels the never-ending ....

Go Wild with your Camera - DVD

How to take Stunning Wildlife Images

Chris Gomersall, Peter Cairns and Mark Hamblin

With more than two and a half hours of video content, and dealing with subjects as diverse as birds, mammals, amphibians, invertebrates and landscapes, this educational ....

Inseparable Friends in Life and Death

The Life and Work of Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821) and Johan Conrad van Hasselt (1797-1823), Students of Prof. Theodorus van Swinderen

Charles Klaver

Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821) and Johan Conrad van Hasselt (1797-1823) studied natural history and medicine respectively at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands from ....

Langford's Advanced Photography

Efthimia Bilissi

The 7th edition of "Langford's Advanced Photography" brings this bestselling advanced guide bang up to date. Efthimia Bilissi maintains Michael Langford's renowned level of ....

Light and Lens

Photography in the Digital Age

Robert Hirsch

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to ....

The Lost Men

The Harrowing Story of the Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

Kelly Tyler-Lewis

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He could not undertake this epic journey, some seventeen ....

Moore at Kew

Anita Feldman and Suzanne Eustace

This book marks an exhibition of 28 large sculptures placed throughout Kew's unique 300 acre World Heritage Site landscape, making this the first exhibition of its kind ever to ....

Nature By Night

A Guide to Observation and Identification

Vincent Albouy and Jean Chevalier

This is the first book devoted solely to the mysterious world of nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife in Britain and Europe. For the naturalist, watching wildlife at ....

A New Green History of the World

The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

Clive Ponting

An ambitious and thought-provoking attempt to rewrite history from an ecological standpoint. ....

Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy

The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904-2005

Jürgen Haffer

This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr (1904 - 2005). Ernst Mayr was the `architect' of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary ....

Photographer's Exposure Handbook

Professional Techniques for Using Your Equipment Effectively and Creatively

Jack Neubart

Achieving your desired effect is easy with this convenient, comprehensive guide to exposure. Five chapters explain light and exposure, tools of exposure, flash exposure, ....

Trying Leviathan

The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

D Graham Burnett

In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular - ....

Walter Rothschild

The Man, The Museum, and the Menagerie

Miriam Rothschild

Born into one of the world's wealthiest families, Walter Rothschild became a noted zoologist and amassed one of the largest natural history collections of all time. With ....

Antarctica Cruising Guide

Wildlife, Places, Ice Forms, Ecology

Peter Carey and Craig Franklin

A definitive field guide to Antarctica, this book caters to South Pole visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Written by experienced ....

Beautiful Namibia

Peter Joyce

El Bosque Atlantico en Paraguay

Biodiversidad, Amenazas y Perspectivas

Edited by Jose L Cartes

A collection of in-depth essays relating to the Atlantic Forest in Paraguay, a habitat considered of "critical conservation priority" by Conservation International. This is a ....

Cerrado Norte do Brasil / North Cerrado of Brazil

Edited by Larissa Barreto

Assesses the biodiversity of this tropical savannah to provide a basis for the protection of this valuable ecoregion. ....

The Diversity of the Horton Plains National Park

Anslem De Silva

This book with 9 informative chapters covers various aspects of this unique site where one can see cloud forest, grasslands and marshes. The book includes a comprehensive ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica (Fascicles 1-11)

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Complete Set of Fascicles from this Series. ....

An Environmental History of Latin America

Shawn William Miller

A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in ....

An Exmoor Panorama

Peter Hendrie

Exmoor, one of the most precious landscapes in Britain, presents an ever-changing kaleidoscope of views through time and place. From its dramatic and unspoiled coastline, ....

Fauna of Mizoram

Handbuch Schweizer Alpen

Pflanzen, Tiere, Gesteine und Wetter - der Naturführer

Heinz Staffelbach

A field guide to the nature of the Swiss alps, including flora, fauna, geology and weather. This nature guide contains colour photos and descriptions of about 750 plants, ....

Hidden Wonders

The Small 5005 of Southern Africa - Insects, Spiders, Frogs & Reptiles

Rael Loon and Dan Lieberman

This photographic masterpiece celebrates the forgotten inhabitants of the African savannah - insects, spiders, frogs and smaller reptiles. The main aim of this book is to ....

Lost From Our Landscape

Threatened Species of the Northern Territory

Edited by John Woinarski et al

`Lost from our landscape: threatened species of the Northern Territory' provides comprehensive information on the Northern Territory's threatened plant and animals ....

National Geographic Atlas of China

National Geographic

The world's most populous nation with 1.3 billion people has emerged as an economic superpower. With over 300 maps and illustrations, the "Atlas of China" dramatically ....

The New Forest

A Personal View

CA Brebbia

This book offers a personal view of the New Forest which stems from the author's many years of residence and research activities within the Forest. This has provided him with ....

Singapore's Splendour

Life on the Edge

Chua EE Kiam

Singapore's Splendours - Living on the Edge reveals its best kept secrets with stunning images of the shores and its denizens. Lush landscape and macro photographs uncover the ....

Travellers' Wildlife Guides: Florida

Fiona Sunquist, Mel Sunquist and Les Beletsky

Travellers go to Florida for sun, sand, surf and visits to the state's world famous theme parks, but increasingly also to explore Florida's incredible natural attractions: ....

Visitor's Guide to Kinabalu Park

Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Anthea Phillipps and Francis Liew

Kinabalu displays a wealth of flora and fauna, and has numerous other attractions for the adventurous traveller. This recently updated, highly illustrated guide is packed ....

The Western Desert of Egypt

An Explorer's Handbook

C Vivian

This is the one indispensable guide for anyone traveling in Egypt's glorious Western Desert and beautiful oases. Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and ....

The Wildlife Trust Handbook of Garden Wildlife

Edited by Nicholas Hammond

Offers a wealth of information on identifying nearly 400 of the most commonly encountered garden wildlife species in Britain and Northern Europe. Grouped into ....

Wildlife of Greater Brisbane

Edited by Michelle Ryan

Residents of the Greater Brisbane Region are privileged to live in one of the richest natural environments in Australia. From high mountain rainforest to the barest ....

Wye Valley

George Peterken

A definitive natural history of the Wye Valley, from its appeal to the enthusiastic naturalist, to the geology, geomorphology, conservation and ecological history of this ....

Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 46

Edited by Michel Delseny

Contents: Nitric oxide signaling in root development ....

Annotated List of Polypores for the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands

I Melo, J Cardoso and MT Telleria

Atlas des Cortinaires, Pars 17: Duracini - Damesceni - Glaucopodes

A Bidaud et al

The Baobabs

The Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia

Gerald E Wickens and Pat Lowe

This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers ....

Bolets de Catalunya: Volume 26

Bringing Nature Home

How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

Douglas W Tallamy

With the accelerating pace of development and subsequent habitat disruption, the pressures on wildlife populations in the United States are greater than they have ever ....

Calories, Caoutchouc, Careers

Plant Breeding and Agrarian Research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes 1933-1945

Susanne Heim

The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic ....

Citrus Fruit

Biology, Technology and Evaluation

Milind Ladaniya

Citrus rank among top three fruits of the world with respect to area and production. Grown commercially in more than 140 countries around the world, world production of ....

El Cultivo do Proteas Sudafricanas y su Desarrollo en Canarias

Juan Alberto Rodriguez Perez

The Drawings of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne for his Natural History of the Gourds

Harry S Paris

For the first time, this book makes available high-resolution reproductions of all the 258 paintings of gourds of the genus Cucurbita, figuring about a hundred ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo I (Asteraceas) Genero Vernonia Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Describes the medicial uses of plants in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Each species is fully described and ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo I (Asteraceas) Genero Eupatorium Fasciculo 2

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Describes the medicial uses of plants in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Each species is fully described and photographed. ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo I (Asteraceas) Genero Eupatorium Fasciculo 1

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Describes the medicial uses of plants in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Each species is fully described and ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo II

(Leguminosas-Papilionoideas) Fasciculo 4

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Treats flowers of the erithrina tree. ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo II (Leguminosas-Papilionoideas) Fasciculo 3

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

This fascicle treats the Acacia tree and green bean plants of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. ....

Eucalypts of Victoria and Tasmania

Dean Nicolle

Photo identification guide to all 141 species of eucalyptus found in Victoria and Tasmania. Includes images of bark, buds, flowers and fruit of each species, distribution ....

Farbatlas der Basidiomyceten (Colour Atlas of Basidiomycetes): Lfg 24

Edited by Meinhard Moser

Field Guide to Fynbos

John Manning and Colin Paterson-Jones

The southwestern Cape is home to one of the world's richest floras. From an estimated 7 000 species of true fynbos, Field Guide to Fynbos covers over 1 000 species of ....

Flora Fanerogamica Argentina, Caja 12

Fasciculos 96 - 102

Fasc. 96. Convolvulaceae Fasc. 97. Boraginaceae, parte 1 ....

Flora Nativa: Arboles y Arbustos de Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay

Guia de Campo y Usos Medicinales Tomo II

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Flora Nativa: Arboles y Arbustos del Uruguay y Regiones Vecinas

Guia de Campo y Usos Medicinales Tomo I

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

A Flora da Serra do Acor (Portugal)

Paulo Cardoso da Silveira

The catalogue of the vascular plant flora presented in this study of the mountain region comprises 781 taxa. One new species is described, and 5 species are identified as new to ....

Flora of Tropical East Africa: Dryopteridaceae (2007)

Edited by HJ Beentje and SA Ghazanfar

Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

SG Aiken et al

This CD contains a comprehensive guide to the 357 ferns and flowering plants of the Canadian Arctic Islands, featuring detailed morphological descriptions, distribution ....

Flora of the Guianas, Series A: 25: 105a. Eremolepidaceae, 105b. Loranthaceae, 106. Visaceae

Edited by MJ Jansen-Jacobs

Gardeners' Question Time

Plant Chooser

Matthew Biggs, John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness

This book has a week by week approach, detailing species and varieties of plants when they are at their best in the year. John loves the cones on the Korean Fir in January, ....

Gardens of Korea

Harmony with Intellect and Nature

Heo Kyun

Of the three great civilizations of East Asia, Korea used to attract the least attention. Overshadowed by their neighbours in China and Japan, Koreans had trouble ....

Gardenwatch

Making the Most of Wildlife on Your Doorstep

Sarah Whitley

Learn how to become a 'hands-on' backyard naturalist. This fully illustrated book focuses on the interactive aspect of nature watching, providing detailed advice on ID, ....

The Genera of Vascular Plants of Korea

Edited by Chong-Wook Park

This book is essentially an introduction to 'Flora of Korea', which will be a series of eight volumes, published in 10 parts over the next years. The aim of this volume is to ....

Impresiones Botanicas

A catalogue of the digital engravings of plants from the Real Botanical Garden of Madrid. The illustrations are all accompanied by explanatory texts. ....

Irish Wild Flowers

RI Ross

Deals exclusively with Irish wildflowers; arranged by season of flowering. ....

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica: Volume IV

Dicotiledoneas (Haloragaceae - Phytolaccaceae)

Edited by Barry E Hammel, Michael H Grayum, C Herrera and N Zamora

Melastomataceae, with 303 species of mostly understory trees, is by far the largest family in this volume. Together with the two next largest families, Lauraceae (146 ....

Modern Roses 12

The Comprehensive List of Roses in Cultivation or of Historical or Botanical Importance

Edited by Marily A Young and Phillip Schorr

Complete, cumulative and comprehensive listing of all rose cultivatars registered since 1955. ....

Musa Cliffortiana

Clifford's Banana Plant

Carl Linnaeus

Reprint and translation of the original edition (Leiden 1736). Translated into English by Stephen Freer. With an Introduction by Staffan M~ller - Wille. ....

New Perspectives and Approaches in Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Research

Edited by P Lemanceau, P Bakker, J Raaijmakers, G Bloemberg, M Hofte and M Cooke

In the context of increasing international concern for food and environmental quality, use of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) for reducing chemical inputs in ....

Die Orchideen der Schweiz

Ein Feldführer

Beat A Wartmann

Field guide to the orchids of Switzerland. All 73 orchid species are described, and include colour photos. Includes distribution maps. ....

Palms for Southern California

A Quick Reference Guide

Reynoso Osborne and G Stein

A practical guide for any palm grower with a nearly complete list of all the palms that can be grown in Southern California along with nearly all the cultivation information ....

Physiology of Stressed Crops, Volume 5

Membrane System

US Gupta

Though plant cells are separated by cell walls, cells maintain their identity as they are delimited by semi-permeable membranes that permit them to function as autonomous ....

Piante Minacciate di Estinzione in Italia

Giancarlo Marconi

A photo identification guide to the rare and threatened plant species of Italy. Contains information about the biology, habitat, plant associations, distribution and status for ....

Seeds

The Ultimate Guide to Growing Successfully from Seed

Jekka McVicar

This is a fully comprehensive guide to please even the most thorough grower. Beginning with an overview of the nature of seeds, including how they are pollinated and ....

Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae: Secondary Metabolites

Biosynthesis, Chemotaxonomy, Biological and Economic Significance

Eckart Eich

This comprehensive and interdisciplinary handbook provides a bird's-eye view of two centuries of research on secondary metabolites of the two large Solanales families, ....

Svensk Fältflora

Mossberg and Stenberg

Well-illustrated field guide to Sweden's flora. ....

Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd 1/2: Chrysophyte and Haptophyte Algae: Synurophyceae

Jorgen Kristiansen and Hans R Preisig

This volume deals with the Synurophyceae, a group of silica scaled chrysophyte algae. Taxonomy within this class is based on the ultrastructure of the silica scales and ....

Teratopia

The World of Cristate and Variegated Succulents

Gordon Rowley

Gordon Rowley opens the doors on what he calls "Teratopia" - a new name to cover the world of vegetable wonders and shockers such as fasciation, cockscombs and brain-like ....

Toward Agroforestry Design

An Ecological Approach

Edited by Shibu Jose and Andrew M Gordon

Jose and Gordon's Toward Agroforestry Design is an important reference for anyone interested in exploring or managing the physiological and ecological processes which ....

Vascular Flora of Ko Hong Hill, Songkla Province, Thailand

JF Maxwell

This flora, the first complete flora of vascular plants to be published for any region of Thailand, contains 637 species with extensive descriptions. Includes a key to 130 ....

Waterwise Gardening

Ian Cooke

This book is packed with advice and useful information on gardening with limited or dwindling water supplies. It looks at ways of storing and recycling water as well as ....

Why Are Leaves Green?

A Tree Miscellany

J Stokes and J White

When should I prune my trees? Why do leaves change colour? Which is the world's oldest tree? Does ivy kill trees? These are just some of the many questions that the people of ....

Wild Flowers of Australia and Oceania

Michael Lavelle

An illustrated guide to the floral diversity of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with 255 plant species and 700 botanical illustrations, maps and ....

World Bamboo Resources

A Thematic Study Prepared in the Framework of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005

M Lobovikov

This study, prepared by FAO jointly with the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, is an initiative to incorporate bamboo into the FAO Global Forest Resources ....

World Checklist of Poisonous Plants

An Evidence-Based Reference

D Jesse Wagstaff

World Checklist of Poisonous Plants: An Evidence-Based Reference addresses the geographic fragmentation of and confusion in the poisonous plant literature. It provides ....

Bacterial Physiology

A Molecular Approach

Edited by Walid El-Sharoud

The application of new molecular methodologies in the study of bacterial behaviour and cell architecture has enabled new revolutionary insights and discoveries in these areas. ....

Biosphere Origin and Evolution

Edited by N Dobretsov, N Kolchanov, A Rozanov and G Zavarzin

Modern natural science shows that the infancy of life on Earth experienced prebiotic evolution and included the emergence of primitive self-reproducing biologic forms and ....

The Educated Brain

Essays in Neuroeducation

Edited by Antonio M Battro, Kurt W Fischer and Pierre J Lena

The emerging field of neuroeducation, concerned with the interaction between mind, brain and education, has proved revolutionary in educational research, introducing concepts, ....

Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton

Origins and Evolution

Edited by Gaspar Jekely

Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton: Origins and Evolution discusses the evolutionary origin and diversification of eukaryotic endomembranes and cytoskeleton ....

Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics

Mark Pagel and Andrew Pomiankowski

Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics is the first major review of developments in the rapidly advancing areas of genomics and proteomics, with particular emphasis on ....

Gene and Protein Evolution

Edited by Jean-Nicolas Volff

Our way of understanding evolution has changed completely with the era of genomics, particularly since the emergence of comparative genomics, a discipline allowing the ....

Genetics and Genomics of Soybean

Edited by Gary Stacey

The Fabaceae (leguminosae) comprise the second largest family of flowering plants with 650 genera and 18000 species. As a member of Phaseoleae, the most economically important ....

The Golgi Apparatus

The First 100 Years

D James Morré and Hilton H Mollenhauer

The Golgi apparatus (GA) found as a ubiquitous component of all eukaryotic cells is typically comprised of stacks of 3 to 7 or more saccules called cisternae that consist ....

Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals and Humans

Edited by Holger Heine

All living organisms are in a constant battle against their environment. Since uncontained microorganisms would simply overgrow all higher animals, the evolution of ....

Microbiology of Extreme Soils

Edited by Patrice Dion and Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal

This volume provides a comprehensive coverage of the principal extreme soil ecosystems of natural and anthropogenic origin. Extreme soils oppose chemical or physical limits to ....

Recombination and Meiosis

Crossing-Over and Disjunction

Edited by Richard Egel and Dirk-Henner Lankenau

Once per life cycle, mitotic nuclear divisions are replaced by meiosis I and II - reducing chromosome number from the diploid level to a haploid genome, reshuffling the ....

The Senses

A Comprehensive Reference, Six-Volume Set

Edited by Allan Basbaum et al

This major new publishing event provides the first up-to-date, cutting-edge, comprehensive reference work combining volumes on all major sensory modalities in one ....

Sensing with Ion Channels

Edited by Boris Martinac

All living cells are able to detect and translate environmental stimuli into biologically meaningful signals. Sensations of touch, hearing, sight, taste, smell or ....

Single-Cell-Based Models in Biology and Medicine

Edited by Alexander R.A Anderson, Mark Chaplain and Katarzyna A Rejniak

To adequately describe complex spatio-temporal processes that occur in multi-cellular organisms, a class of models is required that simultaneously takes into account ....

Transgenic Microalgae as Green Cell Factories

Edited by Rosa Leon, Aurora Gavan and Emilio Fernandez

Microalgae have been largely cultured and commercialized as food and feed additives, and their potential as a source of high-added value compounds is well known. Yet, in ....

Evolution - Phänomen Leben

A collection of papers on evolution. ....

The Genesis of Grammar

A Reconstruction

Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ....

The Origin of Speech

Peter MacNeilage

This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most other ....

The Upright Ape

A New Origin of the Species

Aaron G Filler and David Pilbeam

The author explores, and some would say resolves, a 200-year-long controversy surrounding the origin of species. Drawing on such diverse antecedents as history, myth, ....

What Sustains Life?

Consilient Mechanisms for Protein-Based Machines and Materials

Dan W Urry

This book brings together three decades worth of collaborative research to address the question "What sustains life?" In part a scientific response to Schroedinger's work ....

Population Systems

A General Introduction

Alan A Berryman and Pavel Kindlmann

This book is concerned with the general principles and theories of population ecology, based on the idea that the rules governing the dynamics of populations are relatively ....

Central European Dry Grasslands

Processes of their development and possibilities for their maintenance

Kathrin Bylebyl

Contents: Chapter 1 General Introduction ....

Coast: BBC Series 1-3 (9 DVD Box Set)

BBC

Discover the secrets and hidden stories of our beautiful British coastline with the first three series of the BAFTA award winning BBC2 documentary. ....

Collections of the RMCA - Wood

Hans Beeckman

This richly illustrated book presents the prestigious xylarium of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and the research foci of the wood biology laboratory. ....

The Dynamics of Coastal Models

Clifford J Hearn

Coastal basins are defined as estuaries, lagoons, and embayments. This book deals with the science of coastal basins using simple models, many of which are presented in either ....

Forests Sourcebook

Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation

World Bank

The Forests Source Book provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic ....

The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited

A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research

Charles F Hutchinson and Stefanie M Herrmann

The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. ....

GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, Volume 3

Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, held in Shanghai, 2005. ....

Land Use and Soil Resources

Edited by Ademola K Braimoh and Paul LG Vlek

Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes. It influences the basic resources of land use, including the soil. Its impact on soil often ....

Mangroves and Halophytes

Restoration and Utilisation

Edited by Helmut Lieth, Maximo Garcia Sucre and Brigitte Herzog

Focusing on Venezuela and Mexico, this edited volume from the International Society of Halophyte Utilisation (ISHU) explores the environmental issues facing South and Central ....

Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge

Edited by Ellen Wiegandt

This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. Paradoxically, water resources have been identified both as too plentiful, producing ....

Secondary Metabolites in Soil Ecology

Edited by Petr Karlovsky

This compelling study focuses on the role of bacterial, fungal and plant secondary metabolites in soil ecosystems. ....

Slope Stability and Erosion Control: Ecotechnological Solutions

Edited by JE Norris, A Stokes, SB Mickovski, E Cammeraat and R van Beek

This book is designed to assist the civil and geotechnical engineer, geomorphologist, forester, landscape architect or ecologist in choosing ecotechnological solutions for ....

Soil in the Environment

Daniel Hillel

Key for every course in soil science, earth science, and environmental disciplines, this textbook engages students to critically look at soil as the central link in the function ....

Spatial Development Glossary / Glossaire du Développement Territorial

European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional/Spatial Planning (CEMAT)

This glossary was compiled mainly with officials and professionals involved with spatial development in mind, but is also addressed to anyone interested in territorial ....

Theory and Practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment

Edited by Kees Bastmeijer and Timo Koivurova

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a well-established instrument of Environmental Law and policy that aims to ensure that potential adverse environmental effects of human ....

I Tipi Pastorali delle Alpi Piemontesi

Vegetazione e gestione dei pascoli delle Alpi occidentali

Trees, Truffles, and Beasts

How Forests Function

Chris Maser et al

In today's world of specialization, people are attempting to protect the Earth's fragile state by swapping limousines for hybrids and pesticide-laced foods for organic produce. ....

Tropical Stream Ecology

Edited by David Dudgeon

This book describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology. It covers the major physico-chemical features, important processes such as primary production and ....

Biodiversity and Conservation in Europe

Edited by David L Hawksworth and Alan T Bull

This book brings together a selection of original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address biodiversity and conservation in Europe. Europe is certainly ....

Salvati dall'Arca

Maurizio Fraissinet and Francesco Petretti

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the WWF Italia, this book details the status of the fauna of the country. ....

Terra

Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem and the Threats that Now Put it at Risk

Michael Novacek

The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago, with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the ....

Atmospheric Boundary Layers

Nature, Theory, and Application to Environmental Modelling and Security

Edited by Alexander Baklanov and Branko Grisogono

This volume presents a set of peer-reviewed papers following the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Atmospheric Boundary Layers. The workshop was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in ....

Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Cold Regions

Edited by Dennis Filler, Ian Snape and Barnes David

This practical guide to bioremediation in cold regions is designed to aid environmental practitioners, industry, and regulators in the remediation of petroleum spills and ....

Biosphere Implications of Deep Disposal of Nuclear Waste

The Upwards Migration of Radionuclides in Vegetated Soils

HS Wheater et al

The safety assessment of a deep repository for nuclear waste poses challenging scientific and technical questions. The risks from leakage of radionuclides from the ....

Earth Observation of Global Change

The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment

Edited by Emilio Chuvieco

Global Change is increasingly considered a critical topic in environmental research. Remote sensing methods provide a useful tool to monitor global variables, since they ....

The Economics of Hazardous Waste and Contaminated Land

Edited by Hilary Sigman

Professor Sigman has selected the most authoritative previously published papers for this pathbreaking collection. This timely book examines private decision-making and ....

Efficient Management of Wastewater

Its Treatment and Reuse in Water Scarce Countries

Edited by Ismail Al Baz, Ralf Otterpohl and Claudia Wendland

Water reuse management is one of the challenges all water scarce countries have to deal with in the coming decades. Many Mediterranean countries are currently facing serious ....

Environmental Crises

Science and Policy

Edited by Hans von Storch, Richard Tol and Götz Flöser

The book studies the art and science of analyzing, assessing and anticipating environmental change. Among the issues considered are the observational evidence, ....

The Environmental Movement in Ireland

Liam Leonard

Collective responses to Ireland's dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised economy obsessed by rapid growth and development ....

Globalization and Environmental Challenges

Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

Edited by H.G Brauch et al

Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. ....

Handbook of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Edited by Peter Warneck and Ulrike Lohmann

This handbook provides a collection of frequently needed data as a convenient desk-top reference for atmospheric scientists as well as a source of information for others ....

How Can I Stop Global Warming

What it is and to help

Nicola Baird

Don't just sit there, do something. But what? How Can I Stop Global Warming? gives you all the facts and figures you need to know to understand what is causing global warming, ....

Integration of Information for Environmental Security

Information Security - Disaster Forecast and Prevention - Water Resources Management

Edited by H Gonca Coskun, H Kerem Cigizoglu and M Derya Maktav

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Integration of Information for Security, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 September 2006 ....

Mesoscale Dynamics

Yuh-Lang Lin

Mesoscale weather systems are responsible for numerous natural disasters, such as damaging winds, blizzards and flash flooding. A fundamental understanding of the ....

Organic Waste Recycling

Technology and Management

Chongrak Polprasert

This book covers the principles and practices of technologies for the control of pollution originating from organic wastes (e.g. human faeces and urine, wastewater, ....

Recent Developments in Ecological Economics

Joan Martinez-Alier

The editors, both leading scholars in their field, have selected the most important recently published papers on ecological economics. ....

Save the Planet

52 Brilliant Ideas for Rescuing Our World

Natalia Marshall

The plight of the environment is never far from the headlines these days - sea levels are rising, mild winters are now commonplace, more and more species are becoming ....

Science and Public Policy

The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science

A Kellow

This book argues that the virtual nature of much environmental science and the application of non-science principles such as the precautionary principle facilitate the ....

Shades of Green

A (Mostly) Practical A-Z for the Reluctant Environmentalist

Paul Waddington

Only a few hardcore hessian-wearing hippies want to go 'all the way' on the green scale. And yet - there is a strong groundswell of interest in all things 'green'. Laying out ....

Six Degrees

Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Mark Lynas

This work presents an eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author ....

Snow and Climate

Physical Processes, Surface Energy Exchange and Modeling

Edited by Richard L Armstrong and Eric Brun

The extent and variability of seasonal snow cover are important parameters in the climate system, due to their effects on energy and moisture budgets, and because surface ....

Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change

Its Likelihood, Character and Significance

Edited by Michael C MacCracken, Frances Moore and John C Topping

While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are generally projected to be slow and smooth, there are increasing indications that the ....

Waste Management and the Environment IV

Edited by M Zamorano, V Popov, A Kungolos, CA Brebbia and H Itoh

Waste Management is becoming one of the key problems of the modern world - an international issue that is intensified by the volume and complexity of society's ....

After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age

Martin Collins

In the 50 years since Sputnik's historic orbit kickstarted a race to the stars, spaceflight has moved from a speculative and experimental science to a staple of ....

Astronomy for the Developing World

John Hearnshaw and Peter Martinez

This volume presents papers concerning astronomy education and research in developing countries presented at a special session at the IAU 26th General Assembly in Prague. It ....

Astrophysics Processes

Hale Bradt

Bridging the gap between physics and astronomy textbooks, this book provides physical explanations of twelve fundamental astrophysical processes underlying a wide range of ....

David Levy's Guide to Observing Meteor Showers

David H Levy

Meteors occur when a meteoroid, a speck of dust in space, enters the Earth's atmosphere. The heat generated when this happens causes the surrounding air to glow, resulting in ....

Digital SLR Astrophotography

Michael A Covington

In the last few years, digital SLR cameras have taken the astrophotography world by storm. It is now easier to photograph the stars than ever before! They are compact and ....

Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits

John Bridge and Robert Demicco

Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits are intimately related. They involve a chain of events from generation of sediment in the source area to erosion and ....

Environmental Geology

Handbook of Field Methods and Case Studies

Klaus Knödel, Gerhard Lange and Hans-Jürgen Voigt

This handbook describes a broad spectrum of methods in the fields of remote sensing, geophysics, geology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and microbiology designed to ....

Extrasolar Planets

Edited by Hans Deeg and Juan Antonio Belmonte

This volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into ....

Fitness of the Cosmos for Life

Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning

Edited by John D Barrow, Simon C Morris, Stephen J Freeland and Charles L Harper

This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists ....

Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes

Aiming Lin

The topics covered in this book encompass the principal results of field investigations, analyses of meso-scale and micro-scale textures and structures, laboratory experiments, ....

Galaxies

A Very Short Introduction

John Gribbin

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, they are where the stars are born and where many extraordinary and little-understood ....

Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling

Craig M Bethke

This book provides a comprehensive overview of reaction processes in the Earth's crust and on its surface, both in the laboratory and in the field. A clear exposition of the ....

The Infinite Cosmos

Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology

Joseph Silk

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too, as they seek to understand its ....

The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration

Philip J Stooke

Bringing together a wealth of information from many sources, including some material never before published, this atlas is a comprehensive reference on lunar exploration. It ....

An Introduction to Space Weather

Mark B Moldwin

Space weather is an emerging field of space science focused on understanding societal and technological impacts of the solar-terrestrial relationship. The Sun, which has ....

Isotope Geology

Claude J Allegre

Radiogenic and stable isotopes are used widely in the earth sciences to determine the ages of rocks, meteorites and archeological objects, and as tracers to understand ....

It's Elementary!

Putting the Crackle into Chemistry

Robert Winston

How do you make a dog? Why are helium balloons lighter than air? What are the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone? "It's Elementary" takes an amazing look at the stuff that stuff ....

The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems

National Research Council

Reflecting the near inevitability of human missions to Mars and other locales in the solar system where life might exist, and given the interest of the public in the ....

Many Worlds in One

The Search for Other Universes

Alex Vilenkin

Vilenkin gives an exciting, surprisingly entertaining firsthand account of the birth of the new cosmology, and its fascinating - and at times disturbing - implications. ....

Mars

An Introduction to its Interior, Surface and Atmosphere

Nadine G Barlow

Our knowledge of Mars has changed dramatically in the past 40 years due to the wealth of information provided by Earth-based and orbiting telescopes, and spacecraft ....

The Oxford Companion to Cosmology

A Liddle and J Loveday

The Oxford Companion to Cosmology is a comprehensive but accessible encyclopedic overview of this enduringly popular subject. With over 350 in-depth entries - ranging ....

River Variability and Complexity

Stanley A Schumm

Rivers differ among themselves and through time. An individual river can vary significantly downstream, changing its dimensions and pattern dramatically over a short ....

Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies

Edited by Alexandre Vazdekis and Reynier Peletier

Stellar populations, the building blocks of galaxies, are direct tracers of a galaxy's star formation history, its chemical enrichment and the assembly of galaxies in the ....

L'Uomo e Il Vulcano

Miti Linguaggi Paure Rischi

A Aruta Stampacchia

365 Ways to Change the World

Michael Norton

This ingenious handbook shows how the smallest actions can impact on your local community and the wider world. Packed with ideas, and facts from leading campaign ....

Acting for Endangered Species

The Statutory Ark

Shannon C Petersen

When the US Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, it did so in the belief that threats to emblematic creatures like bison or commercial crops such as fish could ....

Adaptive and Integrated Water Management

Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty

Edited by Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Pavel Kabat and Jörn Möltgen

Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. Developing and implementing innovative management approaches and how to cope with the ....

Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis

Robert J Brent

Acclaim for first edition: 'The author succeeds in bringing together many interesting real-life applications of CBA in various areas (including among others health, ....

Aquaculture in the Ecosystem

Edited by M Holmer, K Black, CM Duarte, N Marbà and I Karakassis

The global expansion of aquaculture production and its future role as a food supplier to human society has environmental, social and economic limitations, affecting marine ....

Argumentation in Science Education

Perspectives from Classroom-Based Research

Sibel Erduran and Maria Pilar Jimenez-Aleixandre

This book brings together the work of leading experts in argumentation in science education. It presents research combining theoretical and empirical perspectives ....

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: An Environmental Review

UNEP

This report aims to analyze the projects implemented by the city of Beijing to incorporate environmental sustainability into the 2008 Olympic Games and fulfil the ....

Biosaline Agriculture and High Salinity Tolerance

Edited by C Abdelly, M ztürk, M Ashraf and C Grignon

A major, worldwide threat to agricultural productivity is undoubtedly due to environments with stressful factors, including drought, salinity, waterlogging, extreme ....

Biotechnology for Beginners

Reinhard Renneberg and Arnold L Demain

Biotechnology is the applied science of using living organisms and their by-products for commercial development. It has grown and evolved to such an extent over the past few ....

The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics

Edited by Peter A Singer

Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is ....

Carbon Strategies

How Leading Companies Are Reducing their Climate Change Footprint

Andrew J Hoffman

This is a clear, practical guide to sustainable climate policy for business leaders and corporate change-makers. "Carbon Strategies" describes specific steps any business can ....

Confessions of an Eco Sinner

Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes From

Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce does not do orthodoxies; he has made it his business to challenge accepted wisdom. So, travelling from Liverpool to Alaska, from Dubai to India and the Far East to ....

The Economy of the Earth

Philosophy, Law, and the Environment

Mark Sagoff

Mark Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensive revision of The Economy of the Earth. Posing ....

Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States Since 1945

Martin Chick

Martin Chick's book is a major economic and historical study of the development of electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. Using ....

Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment II

Edited by K Aravossis, CA Brebbia and N Gomez

The current emphasis on sustainable development, arising from the need to solve numerous environmental problems associated with our modern society, has resulted in the need to ....

Environmental Governance and Decentralisation

Edited by Albert Breton

The volume examines how different countries define and address environmental issues, with specific attention to intergovernmental relations: what institutions have been ....

Ethics and the Environment

An Introduction

Dale Jamieson

What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing ....

The Global Strategy for Prevention and Control of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

Although there remain serious gaps in knowledge, there has been an increased understanding of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) since the panzootic started in ....

The Green Building Revolution

Jerry Yudelson

The "green building revolution" is happening right now. This book is its chronicle and its manifesto. Written by industry insider Jerry Yudelson, "The Green Building ....

Green Power Markets

Support Schemes, Case Studies and Perspectives

Edited by Lutz Mez

This book focuses on one of the core topics of European Union energy policy: the increase and support of renewable sources for electricity production. It looks at the ....

Groundwater Dynamics in Hard Rock Aquifers

Sustainable Management and Optimal Monitoring Network Design

Edited by S Ahmed, R Jayakumar and A Salih

This book contains the results and findings of the advanced research carried out in a pilot area with a thorough investigation of the structure and functioning of an aquifer ....

Hilbert-Huang Transform Analysis of Hydrological and Environmental Time Series

A.R Rao and E-C Hsu

The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) is a recently developed technique used to analyze nonstationary data. Hydrologic and environmental series are, in the main, analyzed by ....

The Impact of the WTO

The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty

Trish Kelly

Trish Kelly's book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nine environmental and health disputes that have been adjudicated at the WTO since 1995. The ....

Institutional Governance and Regulation of Water Services

The Essential Elements

Michael John Rouse

Institutional Governance and Regulation of Water Services provides the key elements of policy, governance and regulation necessary for sustainable water and sanitation ....

Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

W Bradnee Chambers

In recent years there has been growing awareness that a major reason for the worsening global environment is the failure to create adequate institutional responses to fully ....

The International Law of Environmental Impact Assessment

Process, Substance and Integration

Neil Craik

The central idea animating environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that decisions affecting the environment should be made through a comprehensive evaluation of predicted ....

Landscape: From Knowledge to Action

Edited by Martine Berlan-Darque, Luginbuhl and Daniel Terrasson

This book is a collection of the contributions of researchers who have analysed examples of landscape actions, primarily in Europe, on the basis of actual experiences. It ....

Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes

Edited by Olli Varis, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K Biswas

Transboundary rivers and lakes are often the remaining new sources of water that can be developed for human uses. These water sources were not utilised in the past because of ....

Marine Conservation Agreements

The Law and Policy of Reservations and Vetoes

Howard S Schiffman

The decline of many living marine resources requires us to carefully examine the existing framework for ocean governance. The ability of states to opt out of, or even ....

Methods and Techniques for Cleaning-up Contaminated Sites

Edited by MD Annable, M Teodorescu, P Hlavinek and L Diels

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Methods and Techniques for Cleaning-up Contaminated Sites, Sinaia, Romania, 9-11 October 2006. ....

Methods in Reproductive Aquaculture

Marine and Freshwater Species

Elsa Cabrita, Vanesa Robles and Paz Herraez

Providing an overview of available techniques for fish farmers and researchers, Methods in Reproductive Aquaculture addresses ways to improve depleted stocks of ....

Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development

Reflections on Theory and Practice

Edited by Pieter Glasbergen and Arthur PJ Mol

This significant new book explores the process, extent and circumstances under which partnerships can improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance for sustainable ....

Perspectives for Agroecosystem Management

Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Demands

Edited by Peter Schroder

Sustainable agriculture is a key concept for scientists, researchers, and agricultural engineers alike. ....

Pests of Crops in Warmer Climates and their Control

DS Hill

A textbook providing basic data about the crop pests and the damage they inflict throughout the tropics and sub-tropics. Each major pest is illustrated by either a line ....

Poverty and the Environment

Understanding Linkages at the Household Level

World Bank

Drawing upon recent analytical work prepared inside and outside the World Bank, this report identifies key lessons concerning the linkages between poverty and the ....

The Price of Water

Studies in Water Resource Economics and Management

Stephen Merrett

The Second Edition of the Price of Water expands on the coverage of the first edition and ambitiously develops the theme of the proper management of river basins, both with ....

A Primer for Benefit-Cost Analysis

Richard O Zerbe Jr and Allen S Bellas

Benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is the best technique for analyzing proposed or previously enacted projects to determine whether undertaking them is in the public interest, or for ....

Property Rights and Natural Resources

Richard Barnes

The use of private property rights to regulate common pool natural resources is a controversial topic, which must address two critical issues: the allocation of wealth in ....

Protected Areas and International Environmental Law

Alexander Gillespie

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a well-established instrument of Environmental Law and policy that aims to ensure that potential adverse environmental effects of human ....

Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in the Asia Pacific Region

Fremantle, Western Australia, 4-8 February 2007

Edited by P Jennings, G Ho, K Mathew and CV Nayer

All papers have been peer-reviewed. The conference concentrated on the development and practice of renewable energy technologies. There were papers and discussions on power ....

Road Pricing, the Economy, and the Environment

Edited by C Jensen-Butler, B Sloth, MM Larsen, B Madsen and O Nielsen

Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. Traffic growth also increases CO2 emissions, air ....

Science and Religion

A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Dixon

The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the ....

Science for Agriculture and Rural Development in Low-income Countries

Edited by RP Roetter, H v Keulen, M Kuiper, J Verhagen and HH v Laar

Since 1998, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality (LNV) promotes development-orientated agricultural and environmental research and ....

The Science of the Struggle for Existence

On the Foundations of Ecology

Greg Cooper

The first examination in almost a decade of issues in the philosophy of ecology that have been a source of controversy since the emergence of ecology as an explicit ....

Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems

Costs and Benefits

Edited by Bjorn Lomborg

The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if ....

State of World Population 2007

Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth

UNFPA

In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in ....

Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

Experiences and Case Studies

Edited by Corrado Clini, Ignazio Musu and Maria Lodovica Gullino

This book presents the new EU approach to environmental management and its attempt to place it in the perspective of sustainable development. China and other large and fast ....

Technological Change and Environmental Policy

A Study of Depletion in the Oil and Gas Industry

Shunsuke Managi

This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of technological change and environmental policy within the oil and gas industries. It identifies and measures the ....

Transboundary Water Resources

A Foundation for Regional Stability in Central Asia

Edited by JE Moerlins, MK Khankhasayev, SF Leitman and EJ Makhmudov

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Facilitating Regional Security in Central Asia through Improved Management of Transboundary Water Basin Resources, Almaty, ....

The Transition to Renewable Energy

Theory and Practice

Edited by Jeroen van den Bergh and Frank Bruinsma

This book studies the transition to renewable energy. The volume offers perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, addressing macro, regional and local scales. ....

Water Pollution IX

Edited by D Prats Rico, CA Brebbia and YV Esteve

Water pollution is a subject of growing public concern. The environmental problems caused by the increase of pollutant loads discharged into natural water bodies require ....

Yearbook of Fishery Statistics 2005. Aquaculture Production

Vol. 100/2

FAO

This volume of the 'Yearbook of Fishery Statistics: Aquaculture production' is a compilation of statistics on world production of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other ....

Yearbook of Fishery Statistics 2005. Capture Production

FAO

This volume of the 'Yearbook of Fishery Statistics: Capture production' presents the annual statistics, for a varying series of recent years ending in 2005, on a worldwide ....

Yearbook of Fishery Statistics 2005. Commodities

FAO

This volume of the 'Yearbook of Fishery Statistics: Commodities' is a compilation of annual statistical data on production and foreign trade of fishery commodities for all ....

Zerocarbonbritain

An Alternative Energy Strategy

Tim Helweg-Larsen and Jamie Bull

Thirty years ago, CAT's 'Alternative Energy Strategy' for the UK showed, for the first time, an alternative approach which could reduce energy demand, and increase generation ....

Aquifer Test Modeling

William C Walton

In recognition of the trend towards the use of numerical models for analyzing aquifer test data, Aquifer Test Modeling has been written to further promote the application of ....

Geographic Uncertainty in Environmental Security

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Fuzziness and Uncertainty in GIS for Environmental Security and Protection, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 28-July 1, 2006

Edited by A Morris and S Kokhan

This book features papers presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, help in Kyiv, Ukraine, in July 2006. The workshop focused on how uncertainty and fuzziness can be ....

Graphic Discovery

A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures

H Wainer

A richly illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, Howard Wainer validates Thoreau's ....

Introduction to Remote Sensing

James B Campbell

Now in a revised and updated fourth edition, this popular text introduces widely used forms of remote sensing imagery and their applications in plant sciences, hydrology, ....

Model Based Inference in the Life Sciences

A Primer on Evidence

David R Anderson

The abstract concept of "information" can be quantified and this has led to many important advances in the analysis of data in the empirical sciences. This text focuses ....

Probability Theory

A Comprehensive Course

Achim Klenke

Probabilistic concepts play an increasingly important role in mathematics, physics, biology, financial engineering and computer science. They help us to understand ....

The Sage Handbook of Spatial Analysis

Edited by AS Fotheringham and PA Rogerson

The widespread use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has significantly increased the demand for knowledge about spatial analytical techniques across a range of ....

Statistical Decision Theory

Estimation, Testing, and Selection

Friedrich Liese and Klaus-J Miescke

This monograph is written for advanced graduate students, Ph.D. students, and researchers in mathematical statistics and decision theory. All major topics are ....

Encyclopedia of Parasitology

Edited by Heinz Mehlhorn

Knowledge in the field of parasitology must be kept at a high level and up to date in order to fight a parasitosis as quickly and effectively as possible. ....

How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper

Björn Gustavii

This second edition of How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper will help both first-time writers and more experienced authors, in all biological and medical ....

Intelligent Courage

Natural Resource Careers That Make a Difference

Michael E Fraidenburg

Intelligent Courage presents practical, wise, workable ideas to succeed in the real-world work environment of natural resource professionals. It is especially relevant ....

Museum

The Macleays, their Collections and the Search for Order

Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay

When the first British visitors arrived on Australia's shores at the end of the eighteenth century, it was not only the potential of its space that tantalised them, but ....

Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

Chris Johnson, Sarah Anderson and Jon Dallimore

Written by experienced expeditioners, the handbook is organized in to eight main sections and includes information on fieldcraft, diagnosis and treatment of medical ....

A Source Book for Biographical Literature on Entomologists

Pamela Gilbert

A very efficient tool for research into the literature references providing biographies, bibliographies, portraits, and any other details on deceased entomologists before the ....

The World Guide

Global Reference, Country by Country

Edited by New Internationalist

The World Guide is a South-North collaborative effort between the Third World Institute in Uruguay and the New Internationalist. With a clear, country-by-country ....