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With over 300 products with discounts of up to 33% on a wide range of items, NHBS Best of Spring 2016 is the place to find the very best natural history books - new and old, all the essential kit you need for ecological survey basics and nature spotting, and a great range of wildlife-inspired gifts.
Browse Best of Spring highlights: Books and Equipment.
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In this edition: A special announcement regarding the acquisition of EFE & GB Nets by NHBS.
Other highlights: Award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier's latest work features images from his journey through the arctic landscapes and his encounters with its enigmatic residents; Luanne's listings feature top of the range trail cameras for wildlife monitoring or to enhance your nature photography; Leon reviews Haeckel's Embryos and the controversial history of this iconic figure; naturalist Jeremy Mynott presents the results of a commissioned survey of all the wildlife in his home village of Shingle Street in Suffolk. New books on a diverse range of topics in zoology including Reptile Ecology and Conservation, Cetacean Paleobiology, and the birds of Tasmania; Chris Packham's moving autobiography; plus all the regular Grapevine features.
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Leon's selection of new arrivals at the warehouse & important new titles catalogued.
Browse Leon's Bookshelf
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Looking to get into nature photography? Take a look at some of our top of the range trail cameras.
Browse Luanne's Kit Bag
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EFE & GB Nets becomes part of NHBS
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EFE & GB Nets has been manufacturing marine and freshwater survey nets and entomological survey equipment in the UK since 1974 and is renowned for the quality and durability of its products. On May 17th, NHBS acquired EFE & GB Nets and began the process of transferring the workshop from Lostwithiel in Cornwall to our new facility alongside our warehouse in Totnes. Production will resume in the next few days and everyone at NHBS is extremely excited about the opportunities that expanding into manufacturing brings.
Bernard Mercer, founder and chairman of NHBS said: “we are delighted and honoured to be the new owner of EFE & GB Nets, which has been supplying great products to conservationists for over 40 years. We aim to maintain the excellent design and manufacturing standards for which EFE & GB Nets is known; and also hope to develop innovative new products that meet the needs of the conservation community, both in the UK and internationally.”
As well as the complete range of marine, freshwater and entomological survey equipment produced by EFE & GB Nets, we are also very happy to undertake bespoke design projects, including entirely new nets and other equipment. Please contact our Wildlife Equipment Engineer, Thomas Hamilton Koch (thomashk@nhbs.com) to discuss your ideas.
A range of EFE & GB Nets at NHBS
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Arctique [Arctic] - Vincent Munier
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Vincent Munier's work is marked by a sense of the mystery of nature where the photographer is at once intimate with, and estranged from, his subject. Never trivialising his craft, Munier manages to tread a careful line between naturalism and a subtly contrived aesthetic framing.
Arctique is a breathtaking journey through the white lands of the North with its charismatic residents, and it includes a companion volume which documents the expedition.
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Diversity limited by natural selection
New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on a long-standing paradox in population genetics, whereby species with large populations often show only as much diversity as smaller populations - despite higher potential for the occurrence of mutations.
Ghostly photos show habitat destruction
Photographer Nick Brandt's provocative new book and international exhibition series, Inherit the Dust, superimposes portraits of animals over images of the destroyed and developed landscapes where they once lived. This video reveals the disturbing impact of this juxtaposition.
Professor Ilkka Hanski (1953-2016)
Finnish ecologist and evolutionary biologist Professor Ilkka Hanski, considered the father of metapopulation theory, died earlier this month after a long illness. Prof Hanski was a multi-award-winning scientist and a major figure in the worldwide scientific community.
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Our catalogue editor's picks from the new books at NHBS
Important arrivals at the warehouse:
Important titles catalogued:
- Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland (Third edition, February 2017)
- Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and Its Paleobiological Significance (November 2016)
- Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae (October 2016)
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 26 (October 2016)
- Raptors in Focus (October 2016)
- A Field Guide to Mushrooms of Britain and Europe (October 2016)
- How the Zebra Got its Stripes: And Other Darwinian Just So Stories (October 2016)
- Natural History of Tenerife (September 2016)
- The Flora of Lanarkshire (September 2016)
- Japan: An Environmental History (Paperback, September 2016)
- Bird Photographer of the Year (August 2016)
- Handbook of Bird Biology (Third edition, August 2016)
- Naturewatch: How to Spot and Track British Wildlife (August 2016)
- Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions (August 2016)
- The Big Cat Man: An Autobiography (August 2016)
- The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor fiber (July 2016)
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2017 (July 2016)
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2017 (July 2016)
- A Visual Celebration of Borneo's Wildlife (July 2016)
- Identification Guide to Birds in the Hand (June 2016)
- House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth (June 2016)
- Fungi Europaei, Volume 14: Hebeloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. [English] (May 2016)
- Les Reptiles des Pyrénées [The Reptiles of the Pyrenees] (May 2016)
- Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials (Second edition, available to order)
- A Pictorial Field Guide to Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (Available to order)
- Marine Fishes of Portugal / Peixes Marinhos de Portugal (Available to order)
- An Introduction to Conservation Biology (Available to order)
- Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata, Volume 45: Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea, Peritrichida [Chinese] (Available to order)
- Birding Across the Border: Where to Watch Birds in Varanger and the Murmansk Region (Available to order)
- Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series II: Seed Plants, Volume 5 (Available to order)
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New product listings and range highlights from the NHBS Equipment Team
Focus on nature photography:
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Wildlife of Southeast Asia
A photographic guide to the wildlife of Southeast Asia, including Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam with over 500 colour photographs and accessible species accounts.
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Next chance to meet NHBS in 2016
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