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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: February 2010Zoology: InvertebratesTHE BEEKEEPER'S BIBLE Bees, Honey, Recipes and Other Home Uses P McCabe et al The most comprehensive beekeeping resource ever published. This ultimate guide covers all the practical essentials and will teach you everything about caring for bees and safe hive management, with ...... 416 pp. hardcover | NYP 03/2010 | £29.99 | approx. $49/€35 THE BOOK OF SHELLS Fabio Moretzsohn and Jerry Harasewych This book presents a lifesize collection of 600 of the most significant shells. Each entry is accompanied by a miniature line-drawing and a life-size photograph enabling rapid ...... 656 pp, 2400 illus. hardcover | NYP 07/2010 | £34.99 | approx. $57/€41 BUGS BRITANNICA Peter Marren and Richard Mabey Bugs Britannica will be a nationwide chronicle of bug life in the 21st century. It will look at why bugs matter to us and why we care about them. It will record our continuing love-hate relationship ...... 528 pp. hardcover | NYP 2010 | £34.99 | approx. $57/€41 BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS Paul Sterry and Andrew Mackay New Edition Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced naturalist, this guide is an ideal home and field reference. You will soon be identifying butterflies and moths in their natural habitats with ...... Pocket Nature Guides 224 pp, col photos, illus. softcover | 2010 | £7.99 | approx. $13/€10 BUTTERFLIES OF THE AFROTROPICAL REGION, PART 3: LYCAENIDAE Bernard d'Abrera Butterflies of the World 3 350 pp, col illus. hardcover | 2010 | £325 | approx. $526/€377 CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION IN CRUSTACEANS Edited by Thomas Breithaupt and Martin Thiel The crustaceans are ecologically and economically important organisms. They constitute one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth, particularly within the aquatic realm. Crustaceans ...... 600 pp, 250 black & white illustrations. hardcover | 2010 | £90 | approx. $146/€105 DISEASES OF MITES AND TICKS Edited by Jan Bruin and LPSVan Der Geest The current collection of twenty-four papers is a mixture of primary research articles and literature reviews, presenting a broad overview of the developments in about all possible aspects of ...... 356 pp, illustrations (chiefly col.). hardcover | 2009 | £112.50 | approx. $182/€131 THE ECOLOGY OF FUNGAL ENTOMOPATHOGENS Edited by Helen E Roy, Fernando E Vega, Mark S Goettel, Dave Chandler, Judy Pell and Understanding of the ecology of fungal entomopathogens has vastly increased since the early 1800's, but remains challenging. The often complex interactions between pathogen and host are being ...... 250 pp. hardcover | 2010 | £81.50 | approx. $132/€95 FAUNE DE FRANCE, VOLUME 85: COLEOPTèRES CHRYSOMELIDAE 3. HISPINAE ET CASSIDINAE B Bordy Faune de France 85 290 pp, 229 figs, 35 maps, 20 col plates. softcover | 2008 | £67 | approx. $109/€78 ILLUSTRATED KEYS TO FREE-LIVING INVERTEBRATES OF EURASIAN ARCTIC SEAS AND ADJACENT DEEP WATERS, VOL. 1 Edited by SV Vassilenko and VV Petryashov Identification keys to twelve taxonomic groups of arctic invertebrates are made available in this illustrated volume. It is the first book of a series, translated from Russian to English, to ...... 192 pp, illustrations, keys. softcover | 2009 | £43 | approx. $70/€50 INDIAN INSECT PESTS H Maxwell-Lefroy 318 pp, figs. hardcover | 2009 | £51.50 | approx. $84/€60 INSECTS AND SPIDERS George McGavin New Edition Basic pocket guide to more than 700 insects. Pocket Nature Guides 224 pp, colour illus. softcover | 2010 | £7.99 | approx. $13/€10 THE LEAFHOPPERS AND PLANTHOPPERS OF GERMANY (HEMIPTERA, AUCHENORRHYNCHA) Patterns and Strategies in a Highly Diverse Group of Phytophagous Insects H Nickel New Paperback Edition Auchenorrhyncha, the planthoppers and leafhoppers, occur in high densities and species richness in almost all terrestrial ecosystems, forming an important component of food webs. They may ...... Pensoft Series Faunistica 28 460 pp, figs, tabs. softcover | 2009 | £73 | approx. $119/€85 LEBEN MIT VOGELSPINNEN Karin Manns Deals with the keeping of tarantulas. In German. 176 pp, col photos. softcover | 2008 | £25.50 | approx. $42/€30 THE LIVING OVULIDAE A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae F Lorenz and D Fehse This book on Ovulidae and related families reviews and summarizes today's knowledge of these fascinating gastropods. It offers descriptions, discussion, comparison and a critical taxonomic ...... 651 pp, 203 + 66 colour plates. hardcover | 2009 | £149.50 | approx. $242/€173 LOW TEMPERATURE BIOLOGY OF INSECTS Edited by David L Denlinger and Richard E Lee Low temperature is a major environmental constraint impacting the geographic distribution and seasonal activity patterns of insects. Written for academic researchers in environmental physiology and ...... 352 pp, 48 b/w illus. 16 tables. hardcover | 2010 | £60 | approx. $98/€70 NAUTILUS The Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil Edited by NH Landman and WB Saunders New Edition This volume is a reprint of a classic book about Nautilus, first published in 1987, with an introductory chapter summarizing all of the work on Nautilus and its habitat since the publication of the ...... Topics in Geobiology 6 666 pp, 4 col plates, figs. hardcover | 2009 | £180 | approx. $292/€209 DE NEDERLANDSE PRACHTKEVERS (BUPRESTIDAE) Oscar Vorst Guide to the jewel beetles of the Netherlands. In Dutch, with an English key. 62 pp, col photos, line illus, dist maps. softcover | 2009 | £21.50 | approx. $35/€25 PESTS OF FOREST IMPORTANCE AND THEIR MANAGEMENT BK Tyagi et al Pests of Forest Importance and Their Management is a unique book comprising all the major components of a sylvatic ecosystem from the standpoint of pests of economic importance and their control ...... 300 pp, figs, tabs. hardcover | 2008 | £63 | approx. $102/€73 PLANT MITES AND SOCIALITY Diversity and Evolution Yutaka Saito This book offers detailed descriptions of the diverse social systems and the social evolution of mites, ranging from genetic to ecological aspects. Through a broad spectrum of studies including ...... 193 pp, 84 b/w illus. hardcover | 2009 | £117 | approx. $190/€136 THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT HIVE A History of Innovation in Bee Culture Gene Kritsky Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year business. But the invaluable honey bee now faces severe threats from diseases, mites, pesticides, and overwork, not to mention the mysterious Colony ...... 224 pp, 55 b/w halftones, 79 line illus. hardcover | NYP 04/2010 | £15.99 | approx. $26/€19 REVISION OF THE MEXICAN GENERA FICINUS DISTANT AND JORNANDES DISTANT, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF 21 NEW SPECIES (HETEROPTERA, MIRIDAE, ORTHOTYLINAE, ORTHOTYLINI) Joseph C Schaffner and Michael D Schwartz Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 309 87 pp, illus, maps. softcover | 2008 | £11.99 | approx. $20/€14 SEA URCHINS II Heinke Schultz Sea Urchins II is the logical extension of the first volume, which dealt mainly with shallow water sea urchins. The second volume describes about additional 270 irregular species, which live in ...... Sea Urchins 2 365 pp, col images. hardcover | 2010 | £176 | approx. $285/€204 SPIDER SILK Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L Craig The orb web contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through ...... 256 pp, col & b/w illus. hardcover | NYP 07/2010 | £19.99 | approx. $33/€24 TROPISCHE INSEKTEN - MEISTERWERKE DER EVOLUTION Einblick in die Formenvielfalt und Faszinierende Biologie Tropischer Kerbitiere Heinrich Schmutterer In this book the author, a renowned entomologist and passionate photographer, includes 240 photos of insects which he has taken in their natural habitats in 30 tropical countries around the world. ......In German Neue Brehm-Bucherei: Invertebrates 671 269 pp, 240 photos. 2009 | £56 | approx. $91/€65 |
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