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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: October 2008General Natural HistoryANIMAL LIFE An Intimate Journey Into the Animal World Heidi Koch, Hans-Jurgen Koch and Martin Rasper Heidi and Hans-Jurgen Koch are among the world's best-known photographers of animals. For over 15 years they have regularly published in renowned international magazines, detailing the lives ...... 240 pp, colour photos. hardcover | 2008 | £29.99 | approx. $50/€38 BLOOD RIVER A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart T Butcher Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomised the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent - from colonial cruelty under the Belgians to the ...... 272 pp, illus. softcover | 2008 | £7.99 | approx. $14/€11 THE BOOK OF ISLANDS Philip Dodd and Ben Donald "Islomania is a rare affliction of spirit. There are people who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are in a little world surrounded by sea fills them with an ...... 512 pp, colour photos. hardcover | 2008 | £29.95 | approx. $50/€38 CHICO, GEORGE, THE BIRDS, AND ME The Mexican Travelogue of a Woman Naturalist, 1948-1949 Dorothy Chapman Saunders When a mysterious manila envelope reached the hands of Henry "Milt" Reeves, no one could have anticipated the story that waited inside. Enclosed he found a manuscript written half a century earlier and ...... 256 pp, 20 colour photos, 16 b&w photos, 1 line art illustration, 1 map. hardcover | 2008 | £24.50 | approx. $41/€31 THE DALARNA JOURNEY Carl Linnaeus A new edition of Linnaeus's Dalarna journal, together with Journeys to the Mines and Works. Illustrated with well-chosen maps, pictures, drawings and samples ...... 360 pp, maps, pictures, drawings. hardcover | 2008 | £61 | approx. $102/€78 DARING TO FLY The Wildlife Paintings of Colin Woolf Joanne Woolf This beautifully-produced, large-format, full-colour book focuses on the wildlife paintings and sketches of British watercolour artist Colin Woolf. The first section is biographical, describing ...... 178 pp, 260 illustrations. hardcover | 2008 | £44.99 | approx. $75/€57 DARWIN'S SACRED CAUSE Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Adrian/Moore James A Desmond This book, by Darwin's most celebrated modern biographers, gives a completely new explanation of why he came to his shattering theories about human origins. Until now, Desmond and Moore argue, ...... 512 pp. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $42/€32 DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S LIFE ON LAND - DVD COLLECTION A DVD Encyclopaedia David Attenborough Twenty years ago, David Attenborough started making a series of programmes about the different groups of living organisms that inhabit the lands of our planet - birds and mammals, plants and ...... 15 Disc DVD set, running time: 34 hours. DVD | 2008 | £99.99 | approx. $167/€127 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT NATURAL SCIENTISTS The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs Edited by Paul T Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of ...... 848 pp. hardcover | 2008 | £200 | approx. $333/€253 EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF SCIENCE Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic Frederick Grinnell This book presents an overview of the scientific process, or what the author calls everyday practice of science. All practitioners of science face common problems: what to do; when to do it; how to do ...... 256 pp, illus. hardcover | NYP 03/2009 | £14.99 | approx. $25/€19 FLOWER HUNTERS Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin New Paperback Edition The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the ...... 332 pp, plates. hardcover | 2008 | £16.99 | approx. $29/€22 softcover | NYP 03/2009 | £9.99 | approx. $17/€13 HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. This is his definitive authorised biography. Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, ...... 256 pp. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £19.99 | approx. $34/€26 THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY An Annotated Bibliography GDR Bridson New Edition This annotated bibliography, the only one to encompass the entire subject area, provides a unique key to information sources for this wide-ranging subject. ...... 771 pp, illus. hardcover | 2008 | £121 | approx. $202/€154 LIFE IN THE CAPE YORK RAINFOREST Robert Heinsohn and Michael Cermak This title is suitable for biologists and environmentalists with an interest in the Top End and New Guinea, tourists to Cape York, conservationists and policy makers and amateur naturalists, ...... 112 pp, colour photographs, illustrations. softcover | 2008 | £21.95 | approx. $37/€28 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF UNICORNS Christopher Lavers For two and a half thousand years, unicorns have inspired, enchanted and eluded humanity. The beast appears in Old Testament texts and Greek and Roman natural histories; Christians adopted it ...... 280 pp. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £18.99 | approx. $32/€25 NATURE OVER AGAIN The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay John Dixon-Hunt Though Ian Hamilton Finlay's (1925-2006) work Little Sparta is, according to Sir Roy Strong, `the most important garden made in Britain since 1945', his influence - and work - is found worldwide. ...... 224 pp, 130 col illus. hardcover | 2008 | £29.95 | approx. $50/€38 NATURE'S DESIGN Exploring the mysteries of the natural world Richard Thompson New Paperback Edition Why do cows have four stomachs? Where - and how - do plants survive in conditions of extreme aridity? How do animals plan complex hunting strategies? How many elephants are too many? ...... 160 pp. softcover | NYP 01/2009 | £12.99 | approx. $22/€17 A PASSION FOR NATURE The Life of John Muir Donald Worster "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only ...... 528 pp, 30 halftones & 5 maps. hardcover | 2008 | £18.99 | approx. $32/€25 PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE Kelly Wilder How do we know what an amoeba looks like? How can doctors see the details of our skeletons and internal organs? What enables us to see an exploding star in another galaxy? All of these things are ...... 144 pp, 80 illustrations. softcover | 2008 | £15.95 | approx. $27/€21 RAINFOREST SAFARI James Parry Rainforests are special places. Strung around the globe across five continents, they are natural cathedrals on the grandest scale, their lush, humid precincts not only places of great beauty but ...... 256 pp, 250 colour photographs, maps. hardcover | 2008 | £29.99 | approx. $50/€38 THE TEMPLE OF FLORA Robert John Thornton and Werner Dressendorfer The year 1799 witnessed the first installment of a work that has gone down in history as one of the most remarkable books of botanical plates ever published. Two centuries have passed since ......In English, French, German, and Spanish 160 pp, illustrations. hardcover | 2008 | £80 | approx. $133/€102 W.W.A. PHILLIPS: A NATURALIST'S LIFE Eileen Wynell-Mayow Biography of the naturalist William Watt Addison Phillips (1892-1981). ...... 84 pp, b&w photos. hardcover | 2002 | £19.99 | approx. $34/€26 WHAT I REQUIRE FROM LIFE Writings on Science and Life From J.B.S. Haldane Edited by Krishna Dronamraju J. B. S. Haldane (1892-64) was one of the scientific giants of the 20th century. A polymath who made important contributions to sciences ranging from physiology to genetics and biochemistry, he ...... 256 pp, 1 b/w frontispiece. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £14.99 | approx. $25/€19 WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2009 WALL CALENDAR The calendar shows 12 of the best photos from the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. ...... 12 pp, colour photos. calendar | 2008 | £8.99 | approx. $15/€12 (reduced from £10) WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, PORTFOLIO EIGHTEEN Edited by Rosamund Kidman Cox The book showcases more than 120 stunning images from the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition - the most prestigious event of its kind. All the winning and commended ...... 160 pp, colour photos. hardcover | 2008 | £20.99 | approx. $35/€27 (reduced from £24.99) THE WORLD'S TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS' WORKSHOPS Andy Steel The latest in this series, "Travel and Nature" showcases work reflecting all aspects of the genre, including projects shot in rural and urban settings; landscape and macro photography; culture, ...... Travel and Nature 176 pp, 180 images. hardcover | 2008 | £24.99 | approx. $42/€32 |
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