Mabberley's Plant-Book

A Natural History of Conifers

Glistening Carnivores

Funga Nordica

Arable Bryophytes

Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 3: Fruits

Dear customers,

Welcome to the NHBS Botany Catalogue: Winter 2008

We present a round-up of new and bestselling titles, along with a preview of the best forthcoming books and we hope you enjoy browsing through our annual catalogue.

For our full range of more than 16,000 Plants & Botany titles, visit our website www.nhbs.com. This is a selection from over 100,000 titles in wildlife, science and conservation, orderable online, by email, fax, telephone or in writing. To stay informed about all the latest publications, sign up for our free monthly email catalogue, listing up to 500 new titles every month, by e-mailing subscribe@nhbs.co.uk. Libraries & Organisations can also receive discounts on our titles: please contact customer.services@nhbs.co.uk to find out more or set up a library account.

The catalogue banner photo was taken by Stewart McPherson, and can be found in Glistening Carnivores. Stewart is also the author of Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands, one of our favourite books this year.

Please don't hesitate to contact our Customer Services Team for information on books or ordering - they will be happy to provide expert advice!

Dr Nigel Massen

Managing Director

Using the Botany Catalogue

Now that NHBS Catalogues are online there are many ways to access the title information that you need.
You can browse through the subject pages online.
You can view, save and print the complete Botany Catalogue as a single 4.5 mb .pdf document.
Each subject category has an Editor's Choice selection.
Items from this catalogue can be ordered online whilst browsing, ordered over the phone, by email, or by printing out an order form and posting us your order.

Editor's Choice

The Editor's Choice is our selection of the key titles in each subject area. This selection includes classic reads and major new titles.

Supporting Conservation

NHBS is involved in supporting conservation at many levels - we consider this a key part of what we do and how we interact with conservation bodies and non-commercial publishers.

Gratis Books
Working in close collaboration with Professor William Sutherland at Cambridge University, we have distributed thousands of copies of his Conservation Handbook and Bird Ecology & Conservation to people working in science and conservation in developing countries. Find out more about the Gratis Books Scheme.

"Thanks a million for your thoughtfulness. I received the Conservation Handbook. It is very useful to my project. Once again thank you very much and may the good God bless us all as we strive to make the environment a better place to live." J Grody Dorbor, Liberia

World Land Trust
The Books for Conservation programme is an exciting partnership between the World Land Trust and NHBS. From simple beginnings in 2002 when we donated surplus books to the WLT, this programme has developed into an important resource for struggling NGOs throughout the world. To date NHBS have donated hundreds of books to this WLT donation programme.