Parasitic nematodes (Nematoda) represent an important group of fish parasites. Many species are highly pathogenic, often causing serious diseases or even death to their fish hosts. The significance of recognizing these parasites increases with the...

This revised edition in the Zoological Keys series focuses on the economically very important beetle family Dermestidae. The publication is prepared according to the latest scientific knowledge. The keys are bilingual and allow identification, if...

Beepedia is a one-of-a-kind celebration of bees, from A to Z. Featuring dozens of alphabetical entries on topics ranging from pollination and beekeeping to the peculiar lifestyles of cuckoo bees and carrion-eating vulture bees, this enticing,...

In the present regional monograph, 2,168 specimens of Cerithiopsidae, a family of very small sea snails, are analyzed. This material has been sampled by the MNHN during different expeditions: in 2014 in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean at the...

A taxonomic revision is conducted on the Volutidae, a family of predatory sea snails, of southern and eastern Africa. Five Callioara species are recognized as valid species and discussed herein, along with the description of three new species....

Volume 2 discusses the following beetle (super)families found in Sicily: Eucinetoidea, Dascilloidea, Byrrhoidea, Dryopoidea, Elateroidea, Buprestoidea, Cantharoidea, Dermestoidea, Bostrichoidea, Cleroidea, Clavicornia, and Heteromera (except...

Volume 3 discusses the following beetle (super)families found in Sicily: Heteromera (Lagriidae, Alleculidae and Tenebrionidae), Chrysomeloidea (Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae and Bruchidae), and Curculionoidea.Summary in Italian:Vengono trattati i...

Ecophysiology and Ocean Acidification in Marine Mollusks: From Molecule to Behavior provides an extensive overview of the latest research on the various ecophysiological effects of ocean acidification on marine molluscs. This book synthesizes...

The ultimate goal of this project The Conchological Albums - Terrestrial Molluscs is to figure the world's biodiversity of land snails as complete as possible. Volume 17 of this series figures 616 shells of the families Cyclophoridae,...

This guide will help you to get acquainted with 39 genera and approximately 270 species/subspecies of the beetle family Cicindelidae from the Oriental region and follows the book Tiger Beetles of Africa. The geographical coverage includes South and...

The ultimate goal of this project, The Conchological Albums – Terrestrial Molluscs, is to figure the world's biodiversity of land snails as completely as possible. Volume 18 of this series figures 632 shells of the families Discidae,...

The ultimate goal of this project, The Conchological Albums - Terrestrial Molluscs, is to figure the world's biodiversity of land snails as completely as possible. Volume 15 of this series figures 778 shells of the family Clausiliidae...

The ultimate goal of this project, The Conchological Albums - Terrestrial Molluscs, is to figure the world's biodiversity of land snails as completely as possible. Volume 16 of this series figures 593 shells of the families Clavatoridae,...

This visually immersive work of graphic non-fiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper's thrilling...

This volume concludes the six-volume series Motýli a Housenky Střední Evropy, published by Academia since 2007. It includes the remaining eleven families. All the species discovered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are briefly...

This book is a celebration of one of the most fascinating ocean animals. Using the latest scientific research, the book dives in to explore the oddities of octopus biology including the ability of these animals to change colour although they're...

Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is...

The Aral and Caspian Seas belong to the group of the world's largest brackish water basins that are characterized by a long geological history and unique biota, including a rich and diverse fauna of molluscs (bivalves and gastropods). Though the...

In this issue, the sea snail family triviids, usually interpreted as Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799), are revised. Each species is discussed and compared with congenerates while type specimens are figured. The intraspecific variation is verbalized...

All 35 Buccinum names, including 5 names indicated by a single character, described from Newfoundland by Theodor Anton Verkrüzen in the years 1878 to 1884 are discussed. Their original descriptions are translated from German to English. Type...

Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is...

A comprehensive survey presents all known valid taxa of the mollusc family Clausiliidae occurring on the Peloponnese Peninsula and the surrounding islands in southern Greece. Photographs of the shell, habitat and living specimens in situ are...

In this paper, the taxonomically important shell characters of the Asiatic mollusc subfamily Phaedusinae from the whole distributional range are treated. The formation of the columellar = inferior lamella and the palatal plicae of 132 species are...

This volume of Acta Conchyliorum contains eight contributions (see the table of contents for more details).New taxa: Eclogavena coxeni salomonica n. ssp., Umbilia hallani n. sp., Umbilia darryli n. sp., Zoila marginata nudispira n. ssp., Zoila...

An illuminating account of urban botany in the British Isles – its ecology, history and cultural significance.The walls, pavements, lawns, parks, playing fields, verges and waste ground that make up the built environment of Britain and Ireland...

Unleash the natural power and adaptability of forests with this cutting-edge guide. For generations, silvicultural systems have focused largely on models whose primary objective is the production of timber, leading to drastically simplified forests...

Gain expertise in the development of healthier, more sustainable forests with this indispensable guide. Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) is an approach to forest management with over a century of history, one which applies ecological principles to the...

This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available...

The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Metis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as...

This extensively updated second edition of Bradt's Pantanal Wildlife remains the most user-friendly guidebook for ecotourists visiting South America's great wetland.Extending across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal is the...

Now into its eighth edition and written by Philip Briggs, the world’s leading author of African guidebooks, Bradt Travel Guide: Rwanda has been the go-to guide for visitors to the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’ for more than 20 years....

For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. We poured our energies into growing food, tending to animals and watching the weather. Family, friends and...

The British Wildlife Photography Awards is a celebration of British natural history. This stunning collection of winning and shortlisted images documents nature across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin?Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds conjuring...

When the sun has set, things get interesting with wild animals in North America. Where people wait for buses during the day, a family of raccoons rummages through the trash can. Foxes and skunks search for food, fireflies send flashing signals to...

Summer's Hum is the second book in a stunning seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding.This series will take readers on a journey through the seasons, reflecting Angela's view as the nature around her transforms...

The remarkable history of Britain and its animals, told through ten iconic speciesHave you ever wondered why we count sheep to get to sleep? Or where the phrase "red herring" comes from? Across British history, animals have been written...

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about primatologist and conversationist, Jane Goodall. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers! This Little Golden Book about Dr....

In the Pacific Northwest, many of us delight in Olympic National Park, a unique and magical UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, located right in our own backyard. Yet the famed park is just the centre of a much larger ecosystem, a wild circle of...

What are the best places to find birds, plants, butterflies or dragonflies in the Weerribben-Wieden National Park in the northern Dutch province of Overijssel and its immediate surroundings? Where are the most beautiful swamp forests and floating...

This third compilation of Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker's ShukerNature blog articles delves into a delectable variety of curious zoological subjects, from the Nandi bear and jungle walruses to striped mantas and giant monitor lizards. Dr Shuker discusses...

Forests cover a large amount of our planet and are known as the 'lungs' that provide us the oxygen that we breathe. Moreover, forests also provide vital habitats for animals, regardless of what kind of forest it is – the humid tropical...

'And there, as I struggle to open the gate, I happen to glance down and see it. Frog spawn! Clumps of it, floating like grey slimy sponges on the surface of the puddle. I crouch down to be close to it, to the beginning of new life. That's...

For novice or pro, primary investigator or postdoc, the essentials for photographing science and technology for journals, grant applications, and public understanding.Award-winning photographer Felice C. Frankel, whose work has graced the covers of...

Tasked with studying the changing environment and wildlife, a team of scientists will set sail onboard the Noto to explore Antarctica. To get the job done, they will use drones to track colonies of penguins, board deep-diving submersibles to monitor...

Discover some of the biggest and smallest things in the natural world.This book explores the wonders of nature with awe-inspiring, realistic illustrations at life-size. Across each fascinating spread, beautiful artwork shows breathtakingly large or...

A good photograph can catch your breath the moment you see it. It's like having the contents of an entire novel read to you at once, leaving you stunned as you grasp the enormity in a single moment. Skilled author can move us to experience the...

Find out the real story about the bugs all around us. Creepy crawlies do so much for us! They make honey, eat waste, help make chocolate and more.And in this wacky book, these helpful critters are taking you on a grand tour of their homes! They just...

Open this scrapbook to learn how fossils are as precious as gold – because of what they tell us about the past. Uncovering key dinosaur, plant and human fossils, with embossed fossils to touch on every spread, this interactive book is a...

Dive beneath the waves with the second book in the Amazing Ocean series, which will introduce you to the strange and beautiful world of the jellyfish.Did you know that there were jellyfish in the Earth's oceans hundreds of millions of years...

What do the ocean and space have in common?How did octopuses and humans evolve?What exactly are cephalopods - and why do they have such a funny name?Octopuses are the oldest and most intelligent creatures on our planet, true aliens whose abilities...

Encounter life on Earth millions of years ago with The Story of the Dinosaurs. Packed with bite-size facts it explains what the world looked like and how it changed, which incredible creatures, plants and animals lived there, who survived to live...

A new take on the inspirational story of the intrepid fossil hunter Mary Anning, which introduces children to fossils and prehistoric discovery.Lara is a girl who is mad about dinosaurs. To indulge her tireless curiosity, Lara's family take her...

Bodypedia is a lively, fact-filled romp through your body, from A to Z. Featuring almost 100 stories on topics ranging from the beastly origins of goosebumps to the definitive answer to the Motown classic What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, these...

What forces influence a person's decision to pursue a career in science? And what factors determine which among the many possible pathways a budding scientist chooses to follow?John A. Wiens traces his journeys through several subfields of...

Many applied researchers equate spatial statistics with prediction or mapping, but this book naturally extends linear models, which includes regression and ANOVA as pillars of applied statistics, to achieve a more comprehensive treatment of the...

Using diverse real-world examples, this text examines what models used for data analysis mean in a specific research context. What assumptions underlie analyses, and how can you check them? Building on the successful Data Analysis and Graphics Using...

Discover what biological imaging is able to accomplish in this up-to-date textbook. One of the fundamental goals of biology is to understand how living organisms establish and maintain their spatiotemporal organization of the biochemical, cell...

An essential introduction to the physics of active matter and its application to questions in biology.In recent decades, the theory of active matter has emerged as a powerful tool for exploring the differences between living and nonliving states of...

A beautiful showcase of hand-drawn geological charts of the Moon, combined with a retelling of the symbolic and mythical associations of Earth's satellite.President Kennedy's rousing 'We will go to the Moon' speech on 25 May 1961 set...

Driven by changes in climate, land and water use and management, human population and consumption patterns, droughts worldwide are increasing in frequency, intensity, spatial extent and duration. The last decade has seen extreme, persistent, and...

Quantitative Biosciences establishes the quantitative principles of how living systems work across scales, drawing on classic and modern discoveries to present a case study approach that links mechanisms, models, and measurements. Each case study is...

A hands-on lab guide in the MATLAB programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scales.This lab guide accompanies the textbook Quantitative Biosciences, providing students with...

A hands-on lab guide in the Python programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scales.This lab guide accompanies the textbook Quantitative Biosciences, providing students with...

A hands-on lab guide in the R programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scales.This lab guide accompanies the textbook Quantitative Biosciences, providing students with the...

With insights and examples from designers at publications from Nature to the New York Times, an essential guide to creating figures and presentations.In this short handbook, award-winning science communicator Felice C. Frankel offers a quick guide...

In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open...

This reader-friendly guide is specifically designed for any student who has ever had a question about theses as part of their university undergraduate degree course in a life- or health science-related subject. It covers the varied types of projects...

Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. These changes characterize the recent period and can be illustrated by the effects of the Green...

In Requiem for America's Best Idea, Michael J. Yochim explains how climate change is altering the face of America's national parks, focusing on current and projected changes to vegetation, wildlife, and the natural conditions in Olympic,...

Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to "mass extinctions" of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary,...

The Aegean Sea, the original Archipelago of the Greeks and Romans, is a truly unique sea. Located among three continents, each one leaving a distinct mark on local biodiversity, the Aegean comprises over 6,000 islands that vary extensively in size,...

Centuries of mismanagement and destructive development have gravely harmed American waterways, with significant consequences for the ecosystems and communities built around them. But a range of passionate and committed people have stepped up to...

This Students' Dictionary of Zoo and Aquarium Studies contains over 5,000 terms (illustrated by 88 figures) used in zoos, aquariums, safari parks, birds of prey centres, petting zoos, animal rescue centres and other facilities that make up the...

Human-Animal Interactions (HAI) are a primary welfare interest to both animal scientists and practitioners. In zoos and aquariums, the study of Animal-Visitor Interactions (AVI), including both the impact of visitors on animals (the visitor effect)...

A revised and expanded second edition of the definitive guide to sunbirds and their relatives.Sunbirds are some of the most striking of all bird families; their dazzling iridescent plumage and long curved bills are conspicuous when the birds visit...

A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfills a human need to connect with nature.Enchantment by birds is commonplace. Birdwatchers merely go a step further than others and actively seek to be enchanted. This book tells...

Whether attractively coloured, interestingly shaped, or completely inconspicuous: bird feathers are one of nature's most fascinating inventions. But how can a feather be assigned to a bird? It's very simple with the help of this handbook. In...

Scientific observation and representation tend to be seen as exclusively visual affairs. But scientists have often drawn on sensory experiences other than the visual. Since the end of the nineteenth century, biologists have used a variety of...

From the incredible screech of the macaw, which shows amazing intelligence, to the imitations of humans of the mynah bird and the humming sounds of the hummingbird, this is a beautiful collection of stories about one of nature's wonders: tropical...

Birds have and continue to fascinate scientists and the general public. While the avian respiratory system has continuously been investigated for nearly five centuries, important aspects of its biology remain cryptic and controversial. In this book,...

Author and bird enthusiast Robert McDowell has compiled an excellent book based on his own experiences and writings as a bird watcher. Through his writing, he takes the reader on a serene journey to many bird-watching hotspots across Northern...

Is there any bird more mysterious than the cuckoo? It is invariably heard, and not seen. And if seen, it is mistaken for a sharp-winged hawk. The female cuckoo – by a trick that borders on alchemy – is able to disguise its egg as...

Implementing a long-term monitoring program will help to more critically assess the impacts of management actions and to better understand their impacts on Whooping Cranes, Sandhill Cranes, and the other bird species that pass through and breed in...

Wildfowl is an international scientific journal, published annually by Wildfowl Press, and previously published by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (from 1948–2020). It disseminates original material on the ecology, biology and conservation of...

Wildfowl is an international scientific journal, published annually by Wildfowl Press, and previously published by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (from 1948–2020). It disseminates original material on the ecology, biology and conservation of...

Today global changes and human activities affect plants within each of the world's ecosystems. Plant Ecology in a Changing World provides a foundation for understanding how the changes underway impact structure and function in the world's...

As the comprehensive reference for 394 species, subspecies, and varieties of grasses, Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington has become the definitive identification resource for amateurs and professionals alike throughout the region....

We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But they are also occupied by myriads of other organisms, all with their own lives to lead. The conflict between these two power bases, Richard Mabey...

This practical pocket guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, describes 166 plant species with medicinal qualities that you can forage or grow in the UK and Europe.Each species account provides accurate artworks and concise...

The latest, updated edition of the essential, authoritative reference for botanical, mycological, and phycological names. The International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants, known as "the Code", is the set of...

Herbs are wonderful things. Without them so much would not be possible. With the advance of science over the last two hundred years these once mystical plants have changed and saved countless lives, vastly improving our standard of living while...

The forgotten story of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environmental cost.In 1818, a curious root arrived in a...

The arborescent gymnosperms are the most prevalent trees in one-third of the world's forests, and have dominated the Earth's forest ecosystems through much of evolutionary time. They encompass over 70 living genera and nearly 700 species of...

Lichens du Québec Nordique is the first Québécois book on these lichenized fungi, fascinating and little-known organisms. Generally resulting from a symbiotic association between a fungus and an algae, lichens colonize many...

The ninth volume, following on from the volumes published in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2010, contains a treatment of 7 families, the most comprehensive of which are Cyperaceae and Poaceae. In particular, the Poaceae family...

This volume covers the family Araceae.

Due to its natural features, Bavaria is the German federal state with the largest number of ferns and flowering plants. In the Flora von Bayern, all 6000 plants historically and currently documented in Bavaria are documented for the first time....

The Checklist of Vascular Plants of Burundi provides a comprehensive enumeration list of the plants known to occur spontaneously in the country. The checklist is based on herbarium collection data supplemented with field observations and information...

Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family – notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties – rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century....

This volume is the 37th issue of the Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and the second to be published jointly by the Paris National Museum of Natural History and the lnstitut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD, Volume 52 in their series Faune...

This atlas follows the eponymous work published in 2000 by the MNHN under the direction of Jean Lescure and Christian Marty. It integrates the considerable progress in knowledge of the taxonomy, distribution, ecology and conservation of amphibians in...

This book provides a review of the basic ecology and conservation status of the Edible Dormouse - a non-native species introduced to Britain from the Continent in 1902.

At night their shrieks and growls echo through the Tasmanian bush, and they are famous for their ferocious bite and scavenging habits. In fact the Tasmanian devil is quite shy and solitary, and one of Australia's most treasured native...

Leslie Patten had seen grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, and many other species in her years living next to Yellowstone National Park. Yet, like most visitors, she had never seen a mountain lion – the charismatic yet enigmatic predator...

In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps, arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century,...

Few sporting events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite subzero temperatures and white-out winds, hundreds of dogs and dozens of mushers journey to Anchorage, Alaska, to...

Urban Deer Havens consists of a thorough examination of selected cervid (deer) species that are known to inhabit urban communities in the United States. The deer species that are included in this presentation consisted of white-tailed (Odocoileus...

This volume compiles more than twenty years of behavioural research on the three living species of elephants in Africa and Asia (African Savannah, African Forest, and Asian elephant), together with their implications for conserving and managing wild...

"I am installed in the attic occupied for a few years by a small group of Long-eared Bats. Night has now fallen. Everything is black. However, thanks to an infrared lamp, I see on the screen of my defiltered camera a few individuals going back...

This new Circular is the most up-to-date listing of Scientific and Standard English Names for the United States and Canada. It is compiled by the top specialists for each order. This is the official names list of all the major North American...

No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to present to show how prehistoric...

A collection of essays on nature, naturalists, and the natural history of fishes in central Appalachia.A nature lover's paradise, central Appalachia supports a diversity of life in an extensive network of waterways and is home to a dazzling array...

The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history, it has been a remote realm, invoking awe and terror as it lays shrouded in darkness. But here, where the light cannot reach, lies a strange, wonderful and breathtaking...

The Ecological Monitoring Program (Indo-Pacific Region), 3rd edition, is a course that provides divers with profound insights into coral reef ecology. It aims to impart the requisite skills to conduct scientific monitoring surveys in coral reefs.This...

Species of philometrid nematodes (Philometridae) represent the largest and most important group of Dracunculoidea parasitizing fishes. This diverse group has a worldwide distribution and many species are known as parasites of freshwater,...

Madagascar is world-renowned for its unique terrestrial biodiversity, which has been the inspiration of naturalists for centuries and remains so for conservationists today. Madagascar’s marine biodiversity has received markedly less scientific...

The Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia provides the first-ever summary of the taxonomy, distribution, habitats and biology of all freshwater fishes between the Bosphorus, Azerbaijan, Yemen and Iran. The region is highly diverse and home to...

The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labour force – and the science behind it.Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows,...

A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life. For Irwin Shapiro, science starts with questions. This book provides a broad and entertaining survey of major scientific discoveries that have changed our views...

The goal of this book is to convey the rich perspectives, principles, and enchantment of ecology to a broad audience of students and lifelong learners. The book is based on the belief that the science of ecology is best understood by examining...

This edited work presents a multi-faceted view of the causes and consequences of disturbance in ecosystems. Vegetation can be affected by a variety of different disturbances such as wind, floods, fire, and insect attacks, leading to an abrupt change...

Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change and pollution.Tackling this isn't easy, and no one...

This professional volume provides scientific background and practical guidance on forest management in light of ecological connectivity. Readers will gain a great understanding of shifting species in response to climate change and the resulting loss...

The first-ever Soil Atlas of Asia uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to show the changing nature of soil across this vast continent. It explains the factors that control the origins of soil and their evolution over time,...

Kudzu abounds across the American South. Introduced in the United States in the 1800s as a solution for soil erosion, this invasive vine with Eastern Asian origins came to be known as a pernicious invader capable of smothering everything in its path....

Originally published in 1992. This is the first book to specifically address the preservation of an increasingly important group of materials. Techniques for processing minerals and rocks in the field and laboratory are outlined as well as the...

It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us – the way the narrative of bygone days has been inscribed in fields, forests, hills and mountains, roads, railways, canals, lochs, buildings and settlements. Indeed,...

Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these...

Designed to be the definitive guide for all primary geography leaders, class teachers and trainee teachers, this book offers:- a carefully considered approach to planning for, and delivering, outstanding geography across the primary age range, in and...

Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac are, in reality, the summits of independent fault blocks that rise from the depths of the Caribbean Sea. This book traces the geological evolution of these islands over the last 30 to 35 million years. The...

Discover a dazzling deep-dive into the history of the world through a totally new lens, as told by the V&A's Senior Jewellery Curator. Includes 16 pages of colour photography showcasing some of the world's most spectacular...

This textbook is a complete, up-to-date, and highly illustrated account of structural geology for students and professionals, and includes fundamentals of the subject with field and practical aspects. The book aims to be highly reader-friendly,...

Flyover Country no more. Fossils, badlands, and caprocks are scattered through the prairie, all there to be found with Roadside Geology of Kansas as your guide. A billion years of geologic history left zinc and lead deposits, salt beds, and oil...

The magnificent Sandia Mountain forms an enormous rampart towering over the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Regionally, the feature's distinctive "whaleback" profile utterly dominates the horizon within a huge area of central New...

This book presents a deep and encompassing survey of severe weather in all its forms. An Introduction to Severe Storms and Hazardous Weather is an exciting new textbook that allows students to learn the principles of atmospheric science through the...

Have you forgotten all you ever learned about the essentials of climate and weather? Barely remember what a tectonic plate is and what it does? In this book you'll find the answers to these questions and many more – broken down into...

Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science.Wide-ranging environmental phenomena – including climate change,...

A compelling argument for solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentation.Global climate diplomacy – from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement – is not working. Despite decades of sustained...

Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores...

We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis – and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, food security, biodiversity, pollution,...

Climate investor and activist Tom Steyer shows us how we can win the war on climate – and why fighting for a sustainable future can help bring meaning and prosperity to our lives.The consequences of climate change – rising waters, extreme...

On a remote island in the South Pacific, the Lavongai have consistently struggled to obtain development through logging and commercial agriculture. Yet many Lavongai still long to move beyond the grind of subsistence work that has seemingly defined...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the...

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a...

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.Coal provided the energy to build modern...

Wheat (Triticum L.), an annual herbaceous plant in Poaceae (Gramineae) family, settles in the Triticeae (Hordeae) subfamily. The grasses (Poaceae Barnhart) are the fifth largest (monocotyledonous flowering) plant family and of great importance for...

One Health Meets the Exposome: Human, Wildlife, and Ecosystem Health brings together the two powerful conceptual frameworks of One Health and the Exposome to comprehensively examine the myriad of biological, environmental, social, and cultural...

An exploration of the economization of the ocean through the small modifications that enable great transformations of nature.The ocean is the site of an ongoing transformation that is aimed at creating new economic opportunities and prosperity. In...

For most of Elizabeth Sawin's career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort – long hours of teaching, attending conferences, publicizing...

Animal Welfare in a Pandemic explores the impact of COVID-19 on a wide array of animals, from those in the wild to companion and captive animals. During the height of the pandemic, a range of animals were infected, and many died, but this was hard to...

The Climate Crisis and Other Animals is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our planet and the animals who live on it. Twine examines the impact of the climate crisis on nonhuman animals and argues for the importance of a climate and...

From the scientist 'transforming our understanding of how human-caused global heating is affecting the planet' (The Guardian) comes a bracing investigation into extreme weather's impact on the world's most vulnerable. For readers of...

In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behaviour. Utopianism...

You don't have to be an animal rights activist to take an interest in how we treat other creatures. All of us are complicit because all of us, with few exceptions, use animals in some way. How we define 'use' or exploitation should be...

The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic.For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all,...

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world – overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion,...

The result of nearly twenty years of interdisciplinary research, this volume contributes to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental knowledge of an important but lightly investigated hyperarid coastline at the heart of the Sonoran Desert.Focused on...

How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological adaptations? To what extent is meaning in bodies culturally constructed? Does it change when we adorn ourselves in dress? In Adorning...

How 'green' were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as...

How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology – a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society.In The Green Power of Socialism, Elena Kochetkova examines the relationship between...

Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael Muthukrishna offers a unified theory of human behaviour, culture, and society – a theory of everyone. Drawing on the most recent research across the sciences,...

The Unnatural History of Animals tells the remarkable story of Trinity College's Zoological Museum, hidden in the heart of Ireland's oldest university. The book brings the museum's colourful residents to life and uncovers a rich legacy of...

A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas.Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas Coelestis, this...

Why the "nature versus nurture" debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.If everyone now agrees that human traits arise not from nature or nurture but from the...

The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried – the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts. The history...

In The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin chronicles the landmark expedition which would forever alter the course of scientific thought. First published in 1839, The Voyage of HMS Beagle remains a foundational text in the fields of biology, geology,...

Originally published in 1989, this Princeton Science Library edition of Life's Devices comes with an illuminating foreword by Rob Dunn and includes examples from every major group of animals and plants along with illustrative problems and...

From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determination through decades of obscurity and rejection – and her breakthrough discovery that...

Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant...

Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air – and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life.In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and Baillie Gifford-shortlisted...

The abiotic characteristics of the environment – including temperature, oxygen availability, salinity, and hydrostatic pressure – present challenges to all biochemical structures and processes. This volume first examines the nature of...

Since the early 1800s, when Mary Anning discovered spectacular marine reptile skeletons on Dorset's 'Jurassic Coast', these enormous, strange and often ferocious underwater creatures have enthralled the public imagination. Expert...

Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or as capable of pushing our...

Fossils of Arabia explores how Arabian palaeontology has contributed to our understanding of the story of life, from its earliest beginnings to the rich biodiversity of today. Arabia is one of the hottest and driest regions in the world, but it has...

Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, for example, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart – a greater span...

Vertebrate Ichnology: Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways is a complete review and analysis of vertebrate trace fossils, including how vertebrate trace fossils inform our understanding of major evolutionary events. It covers all aspects of the vertebrate...

A full-colour guide to psilocybin mushrooms – how to forage, identify, grow and use them – with detailed descriptions, 150 photographs, tips for dosing safely and more, from a world-renowned mycologist.The past decade has seen an...

Mushrooms are one of our planet's most amazing and unusual organisms. Used for millennia as a source of food, medicine, and occasionally poison, mushrooms and toadstools have become part of our cultural histories: for example, a ring of mushrooms...

Volume 2 focuses on hyphomycetes, a group of asexual fungi in which conidia are not formed within complex conidiomata, such as pycnidia. Most of the species covered belong to the Ascomycota, with a few representatives from the Basidiomycota. In...