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Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month.
  
We start this month with some highly interesting mammal titles. Conservationist Jonathan Slaght, who stunned audiences with his Owls of the Eastern Ice a few years back, is writing Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction, which is due in November from Allen Lane. That month will also see the publication of Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, History, Culture and Conservation by Johns Hopkins University Press and Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World by Princeton University Press. Lastly, Oxford University Press has announced the paperback of The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution for publication in September.

Moving over to birds, November is again the month of focus. Woodpecker expert Gerard Gorman is working on The Pied Woodpeckers: The Natural History of Europe’s Black & White Woodpeckers, to be published by Pelagic Publishing. Madagascar expert Ken Behrens is co-authoring Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Field Guide, to be published by WILDGuides. Last in this line-up is the 6th edition of Where to Watch Birds in Devon and Cornwall, to be published by Helm.

Herpetologists can look forward to A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Borneo, due in September from John Beaufoy Publishing, and the second edition of The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World, due in November from the University of Chicago Press. For fish workers, we have the second edition of the authoritative three-volume set Reef Fishes of the East Indies, published by the University of Hawaii Press.

Entomologists have some particularly strong titles to look forward to. NatureBureau has announced A Photographic Guide to Flies of Britain & Ireland for October, while WILDGuides will publish the 5th edition of Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland in September, and Butterflies of Britain and Western Europe and Their Caterpillars: An Identification Guide in November. The latter is a translation from the French original.

For botanists, we have a rather eclectic list of books. There are several new additions to long-running floras, including the Flora of Iraq, Volume 7, due in June from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants, Volume 2: Rare and Endangered Plants, just published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Spanish-language Flora Argentina, Volume 18(1), which covers a number dicotyledon families. KNNV has just published the 2nd edition of their flora on algae, Desmids of the Lowlands: Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidiaceae of the European Lowlands. Moving on to mycology, we have Lichens of Britain & Ireland: An Introductory Guide by Bloomsbury and Mushrooms of Alaska by Timber Press, both of which are due in November.

For conservationists and ecologists, we have five books. We are particularly excited about The Biological Recording Handbook: Making Wildlife Count, due in November from Pelagic Publishing. Biological recording might seem mundane, but getting it right is fundamental to ecology and biodiversity studies. Written by Sarah Whild, a seasoned data recorder and current Chair of the National Forum for Biological Recording, we expect this book to be mandatory reading for conservation biologists and ecological consultants. Next to this, Pelagic Publishing is releasing The Nature of Pandemics: Why Protecting Biodiversity is Key to Human Survival in October, while Bloomsbury will publish Coastal Seas, volume 16 of the British Wildlife Collection, in November. The remaining two titles are from Dorling Kindersley: The Ocean Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Oceans has just been released, while the second edition of The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained is due in November.

A final miscellany of titles covers various areas. Two environmental history titles due in November are The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World from the University of Chicago Press and Fuji: A Mountain in the Making from Princeton University Press. Nature writing is represented by the paperback of John Lewis-Stempel's England: A Natural History, due in July from Penguin Books. In the category of general natural history, HarperCollins is publishing The Life Trilogy box set in November, a special edition reissue of three of Sir David Attenborough's classics: Life on Earth, Living Planet, and The Trials of Life. A noteworthy science biography to look out for is Crick: A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain by Matthew Cobb, which is due in November from Profile Books. The final title spans psychology, neurology, and public health: Nature Within: How the Natural World Shapes Our Minds, Bodies & Health will be published in November by Pelagic Publishing.

As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch.

Leon Vlieger
Catalogue Editor

Insects & other Invertebrates

Dave Smallshire(Author), Andy Swash(Author)

A fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide.Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland is the only comprehensive photographic field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of the region. Written by two of Britain's foremost...

240 pages | 600+ colour photos, 550+ colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | WILDGuides
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#267357
Oct-2025
9780691276595
£14.99
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Gail Ashton(Author), Rory Dimond(Author), Steven J Falk(Author), Peter Creed(Author), Erica McAlister(Foreword By)

This is the first identification guide to the flies of Britain and Ireland ever published. It covers 1200-1300 species with distribution maps and colour photos throughout.

416 pages | 1500+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | NatureBureau
Flexibound
#264825
Oct-2025
9781913994167
£28.95
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Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Utilization
Menghong Hu(Editor), Paul KS Shin(Editor), Kit Yue Kwan(Editor)

Asian Horseshoe Crabs: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Utilization provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on this mysterious family of crustaceans, which are often described as "living fossils". As overfishing and...

250 pages | Academic Press
Paperback
#264956
Nov-2025
9780443156373
£141.00
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Taxonomy, Distribution, Bioecology, and Biocontrol Benefits
Hassan Ghahari(Editor), Neveen Samy Gadallah(Editor), Scott Shaw(Editor)

This book synthesizes the extensive research on the species diversity of Ichneumonidae, offering a comprehensive overview of their host records and biological information in the Middle East and globally. It serves as an invaluable reference for...

725 pages | 15 colour & 25 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
Hardback
#267176
Aug-2025
9783031881992
£349.99
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An Identification Guide
Jean-Pierre Moussus(Author)

This is the first field identification guide to the adult butterflies of Britain and Western Europe that also covers most of their caterpillars and egg types, providing all the tools needed for accurate identification. Comprehensive, practical, and...

640 pages | 1500+ colour photos, ~100 b/w illustrations, 300+ colour distribution maps | WILDGuides
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#267356
Nov-2025
9780691271798
£25.99
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The Octopus, the Cuttlefish, and the Squid
Marco Colombo(Author), Francesco Tomasinelli(Author), Giulia De Amicis(Illustrator), Craig Foster(Foreword By)

Explore the world of extraordinary marine creatures in this beautifully illustrated guide to thirty species of octopuses, cuttlefish, and squids.In Sea Wonders, discover the remarkable characteristics of cephalopods, enigmatic sea creatures with arms...

128 pages | colour illustrations | Chronicle Books
Hardback
#267862
Jul-2025
9781797233147
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Meghan A Vankosky(Editor), Véronique Martel(Editor)

Biological control is an important component of integrated and ecological pest management programmes. Its importance continues to increase as plant protection is challenged with climate change, invasive species, pesticide resistance, de-registration...

672 pages | CABI Publishing
Hardback
#267878
2024
9781800623255
£165.00
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Subfamilies Trapezitinae and Hesperiinae (Partim)
Hideyuki Chiba(Author), Hiroshi Tsukiyama(Author), Gian Cristoforo Bozano(Author)

Hesperiidae part 2, the 28th volume of the series Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region, follows two years after the first volume of the series on the subject of this peculiar butterfly family. This new book covers the subfamily...

82 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Omnes Artes
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#267905
2025
9788887989342
£34.99
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Daniel C Dourson(Author)

Land Snails of West Virginia combines historical research and a statewide land snail survey from 2006 to 2015, funded and facilitated by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR). The land snail inventory represented perhaps the most...

422 pages | IngramSpark
Paperback
#267941
2022
9781088055588
£39.99
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Systematics, Ecology, and Conservation
Sajad Hussain Parey(Author), Zahid Hussain(Author), Aquib Majeed(Author)

This reference book comprehensively delves into the systematics, taxonomy, morphology, ecology, and behaviour of the family Lepidostomatidae (order Trichoptera) in India. The chapters cover biogeography and distribution patterns, conservation status,...

138 pages | 15 colour & 71 b/w illustrations | CRC Press
Hardback
#267953
2024
9781032613239
£74.99
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An Illustrated Guide
Liam O'Brien(Author)

Liam O'Brien has spent three decades chasing, learning about, protecting, occasionally catching, and always loving butterflies. Here, he shares his capacious knowledge of California butterflies through a treasure trove of stories and 700...

352 pages | 700+ colour illustrations | Heyday Books
Hardback
#267965
Nov-2025
9781597146852
£35.99
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Habitats & Ecosystems

Mauro Agnoletti(Author)

This book examines the history of the Italian forest landscape from pre-Roman times to the present. The aim is to demonstrate that all Italian forests have been shaped by human activities through the centuries, and they are an important component of...

274 pages | 39 colour & 32 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer Nature
Hardback
#267854
2025
9783031816307
£99.99
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The Science Behind the Scenery in Our Regional Forests
Steven L Stephenson(Author), Fred Paillet(Author)

This book interprets our natural surroundings in a way that enhances a simple walk in the scenic deciduous woodlands of the Ozark Mountain region. Explanations go beyond trees and their habitat to include other diverse subjects: the leaf litter...

342 pages | 163 b/w illustrations | Ozark Society Foundation
Paperback
#267858
2019
9780912456287
£32.99
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25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine
Karin R Tilberg(Author)

Loving the North Woods is a chronicle of the difficult challenges that led to tremendous conservation achievements in the great North Woods of Maine. Focusing on the remarkable period of activity from 1990 to 2015, during which historic achievements...

218 pages | 50 colour & 28 b/w photos, 5 b/w illustrations, 8 b/w maps | Down East Books
Paperback
#267909
2024
9781684752089
£14.99
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A Mountain in the Making
Andrew W. Bernstein(Author)

Mount Fuji is everywhere recognised as a wonder of nature and an enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear....

352 pages | 9 b/w maps | Princeton University Press
Hardback
#267943
Nov-2025
9780691256290
£30.00
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Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation
Thammineni Pullaiah(Editor)

A comprehensive survey of exemplary wetlands that highlights their importance for local livelihoods as well as for global biodiversity.Covering twelve mountainous regions ranging from medium to high altitudes, Wetlands of Mountainous Regions provides...

372 pages | John Wiley & Sons
Hardback
#267979
2025
9781394235209
£160.00
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Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation
Thammineni Pullaiah(Editor)

A comprehensive survey of exemplary wetlands that highlights their importance for local livelihoods as well as for global biodiversity.Covering 17 different regions, Wetlands of Tropical and Subtropical Asia and Africa provides detailed information...

456 pages | John Wiley & Sons
Hardback
#267982
2025
9781394235247
£160.00
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The Wetlands of Aotearoa New Zealand
Karen Denyer(Author), Monica Peters(Author), Ruud Kleinpaste(Foreword By)

Rich and diverse but often unloved, Aotearoa's wetlands are the most vulnerable of their ecosystems. Only a tiny fraction of their original extent remains, and we continue to lose this vital habitat. The race is on to discover more about them...

344 pages | 150 colour photos | Massey University Press
Paperback
#267994
2022
9780995143128
£50.00
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Natural History

A Natural History
John Lewis-Stempel(Author), Micaela Alcaino(Illustrator)

Our countryside is iconic: a series of distinctive habitats that unite to create a landscape that is unique for the rich diversity of our flora and fauna. In England, his most magisterial book to date, John Lewis-Stempel explores each in turn, taking...

447 pages | b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | Penguin Books
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#267864
Jul-2025
9781804992067
£10.99
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#264719
2024
9780857526472
£25.00
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A Printmaker's View
Angela Harding(Author)

'When the snow falls quickly, it brings dramatic change. Hare, rabbit and bird tracks become visible in the lanes and fields.'Winter's Song is the final book in a stunning seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela...

80 pages | 30+ colour illustrations | Sphere Books
Hardback
#266228
Nov-2025
9781408721964
£12.99
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Guardian of the Seas
Michael Stavarič(Author), Michèle Ganser(Illustrator), Oliver Latsch(Translated by)

When you think about it, what do you really know about sharks? Do you think of them as dangerous, human-hunting beasts? Sharks are actually quite gentle creatures, and their diets definitely don't include humans. We're not nearly tasty enough...

144 pages | b/w illustrations | Pushkin Children's Books
Hardback
#266618
Nov-2025
9781782695530
£20.00
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Margot Raggett(Author), Jonathan Scott(Foreword By), Angela Scott(Foreword By)

This 10-year anthology book turns the attention to the most trafficked mammal in the world, the pangolin and includes the nine previous species covered in the Remembering Wildlife series: elephants (including African and Asian), rhinos, great apes,...

200 pages | 110 colour photos | Envisage Books
Hardback
#266883
Oct-2025
9781999643393
£59.50
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A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain
Matthew Cobb(Author)

Francis Crick was a restless, relentless thinker, as fascinated by Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of life and the inner workings of the brain. Yet for all his drive, he was driven by collaboration: with Jim Watson on DNA, with...

496 pages | photos | Profile Books
Hardback
#267007
Nov-2025
9781800811058
£30.00
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Sir David Attenborough(Author)

David Attenborough's Life Trilogy is a complete introduction to the animals and plants found on Earth. The three books – published to accompany the classic BBC TV series – are essential reading for anyone interested in the...

960 pages | William Collins (HarperCollins imprint)
Hardback
#267441
Nov-2025
9780008728243
£75.00
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Meet the Eight-Armed Wonder of the Sea
Erin Spencer(Author)

The Incredible Octopus combines amazing photos with in-depth facts to get children aged 7 and up excited about octopuses and the underwater world in which they live. Readers are introduced to the fascinating biology of the octopus, from its three...

72 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Storey Publishing
Hardback
#267912
2024
9781635866285
£16.99
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How Ancient Conquerors, Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World
Raimund J Schulz(Author), Robert Savage(Translated by)

A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century.Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense...

560 pages | 26 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press USA
Hardback
#267957
2024
9780197668023
£22.99
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McKay Jenkins(Editor), Joy Shindler Rafey(Editor)

Immerse yourself in the wonders of Maryland's diverse ecosystems with The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook. Edited by seasoned environmentalists McKay Jenkins and Joy Shindler Rafey, this essential guide explores the intricate tapestry...

456 pages | 26 colour and 54 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback
#267958
Jul-2025
9781421451589
£41.50
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Reference

The tenth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. This world atlas contains the breadth, scale and detail to make it an ideal reference resource for school, home and business.The atlas has been brought...

320 pages | colour illustrations, colour maps | Times Books
Hardback
#267843
2024
9780008699710
£60.00
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A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books
William Germano(Author)

In this thoroughly updated fourth edition, a trusted editor offers a comprehensive guide to selecting-and working with-a book publisher.For more than two decades, writers have turned to William Germano's Getting It Published as a guide to the...

224 pages | 5 b/w illustrations | University of Chicago Press
Paperback
#267850
Dec-2025
9780226844794
£18.00
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#227694
2016
9780226281407
£19.00
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Stuart Johnson(Author), Jon Scott(Author), Dominic Henri(Author)

The only text to focus on study and communication skills specifically for bioscience students, helping them get the most out of their degree, and develop the skills and experience that will make them more employable after graduation.Written in an...

235 pages | illustrations | Oxford University Press
Paperback
#267937
2025
9780198891369
£29.99
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The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution
Lukasz Bednarski(Author)

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is...

282 pages | no illustrations | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Paperback
#267997
2024
9781805261650
£16.99
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Making Wildlife Count
Sarah Whild(Author)

Biological recording is the discipline of writing down natural history observations of a correctly identified species, in a specific location, on a specific date, by a named individual. Simple enough, you may think. But these four pieces of data each...

260 pages | colour illustrations | Pelagic Publishing
Paperback
#267463
Nov-2025
9781784275891
£35.00
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#267462
Nov-2025
9781784275884
£65.00
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An Evidence-Based Approach
Bethann Garramon Merkle(Author), Stephen B Heard(Author)

Blending deep experience, evidence-based advice, and good humour, this is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in developing good scientific writers.Every scientist eventually teaches scientific writing or mentors junior scientists as they...

256 pages | 9 tables | University of Chicago Press
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#267840
Nov-2025
9780226843889
£18.00
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Hardback
#267839
Nov-2025
9780226829326
£92.00
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Conservation & Biodiversity

A Journey of Rewilding and Resilience
Katie Stacey(Author)

In 2018, Katie and her boyfriend, Luke, moved to Asturias, Northern Spain, in search of a home. As conservation storytellers, they were drawn to the story of the Iberian wolf – a much-maligned creature facing relentless persecution right on...

264 pages | John Hunt Publishing
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#266739
Nov-2025
9781803418520
£15.99
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The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction
Jonathan C Slaght(Author)

The remarkable conservation story of one of the world's most iconic animals by Jonathan Slaght, best-selling author of Owls of the Eastern Ice.Deep in the snowy forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly...

368 pages | Allen Lane
Hardback
#267039
Nov-2025
9780241633458
£25.00
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New Methods and Discoveries
Violaine Nicolas(Editor)

Our knowledge of living organisms is still very limited, with less than 20% of the world's species known to date. It is therefore essential to increase our efforts to inventory biodiversity. This is the goal of scientific research, but it is also...

272 pages | John Wiley & Sons
Hardback
#267846
2024
9781786309587
£132.00
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Paul Rose(Editor), Zoe Newnham Newnham(Editor), Ian Hickey(Editor), Donald M Broom(Foreword By)

Zoo Animal Welfare unpicks the different concepts of welfare in the zoo and aquarium, considering how enclosure design, nutrition, conservation activities, visitor engagement and daily husbandry all need to have a welfare focus to be relevant to the...

408 pages | 133 colour & 8 b/w illustrations, 13 tables | CRC Press
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#267883
Nov-2025
9781032547367
£49.99
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#267882
Nov-2025
9781032551760
£150.00
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Issues and Questions
Christian Lévêque(Author)

NHBS acknowledges that the author's views put forward in this book run counter to the views of many conservationists and NHBS itself, but we strongly believe that well-argued and factual contributions to the debate should not be silenced and are...

256 pages | Wiley-ISTE
Hardback
#267890
2022
9781786307620
£125.00
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The American Prairie Story and the Art of Thinking Bigger
Sean Gerrity(Author), Ken Burns(Foreword By)

In Wild on Purpose, Sean Gerrity asks us to radically reimagine the future of conservation – and the role each of us can play in making a wilder, more sustainable world.In 2001, a small team of ordinary citizens left their secure jobs to...

336 pages | Torrey House Press
Paperback
#267926
Oct-2025
9798890920348
£26.99
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A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning
Char Miller(Editor)

The first documentary history of wildfire management in the United States, Burn Scars probes the long efforts to suppress fire, beginning with the Spanish invasion of California in the eighteenth century and continuing through the US Forest...

234 pages | 13 b/w photos | Oregon State University Press
Paperback
#267936
2024
9781962645201
£27.99
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A Life in Conservation
Laura Raun(Author), Ben Masters(Foreword By)

In the world of Texas conservation, the figure of Andrew Sansom looms large. Few can match Sansom's contributions to the natural landscape of Texas, such as the over 500,000 acres of state parks and wildlife management areas he helped protect...

296 pages | 33 b/w photos, 1 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map | Texas A & M University Press
Hardback
#267940
2024
9781648432460
£28.99
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A Proposal for Reforming the Rules on Designation under the Habitats Directive
Bettina Kleining(Author)

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Habitats Directive's rules on designating Natura 2000 – the European biodiversity conservation network. Although the Habitats Directive came into force in the early 1990s, the network lacks...

275 pages | 6 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
Hardback
#267954
2024
9783031568893
£139.99
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Why Protecting Biodiversity is Key to Human Survival
Jake M Robinson(Author)

When will the next pandemic arrive? For wildlife, it's already here.The Nature of Pandemics explores an unspoken truth: how our actions are driving wildlife pandemics across the world. Highlighting the interconnectedness of human, (non-human)...

336 pages | Pelagic Publishing
Hardback
#267972
Oct-2025
9781784275990
£20.00
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Terrestrial Biomes
Germano Leão Demolin-Leite(Editor)

Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity, Volume 2: Terrestrial Biomes explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth's terrestrial biomes, species, and climate. The book summarises...

612 pages | Academic Press
Hardback
#267981
Jun-2025
9780443365690
£203.00
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Ornithology

6th Edition
Kevin Rylands(Author), Sara McMahon(Author)

Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are on any birdwatcher's destination list, renowned for rare vagrants, wintering Avocets, seabirds and the UK's only Cirl Buntings. A wealth of habitats, from wide open beaches and towering sea cliffs...

384 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Helm
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#266313
Nov-2025
9781472988218
£27.99
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A Photographic Field Guide
Callan Cohen(Author), Ken Behrens(Author)

The most comprehensive single-volume field guide to Madagascar’s unique birdsMadagascar supports six endemic bird families and over 100 endemic bird species, making the “eighth continent” a magnet for birders and naturalists from...

304 pages | 1300+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | WILDGuides
Paperback
#265852
Jul-2026
9780691170671
£25.00
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Robin Crofut-Brittingham(Author)

An elegant and beautiful gift for bird lovers, The Illuminated Book of Birds showcases Robin Crofut-Brittingham's world-class art combined with fun facts about birds from around the world.The Illuminated Book of Birds is a stunning, one-of-a-kind...

220 pages | 50 colour illustrations | Timber Press
Hardback
#267732
Nov-2025
9781643265049
£25.00
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Identification Guide / Guía de Reconocimiento
Claudio Donoso Zegers(Author), Jorge Ruiz Troemel(Author)

This pocket book (measuring a mere 132 × 120 mm) introduces the main bird species of the forests and scrublands of Chile, including their taxonomic descriptions, geographic distribution, habitats, and other important information.

103 pages | colour illustrations | Marisa Cuneo Ediciones
Paperback
#267900
2021
9789567173334
£34.99
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Exploring the Joy and Healing Power of Birds
Melissa Hafting(Photographer)

A powerful photographic journey that celebrates the healing power of birds.Melissa Hafting is an ethical, passionate, and respected birder, photographer, and mentor. Her love for birding has helped shape who she is and has helped with her mental...

224 pages | colour photos | Rocky Mountain Books
Hardback
#267901
2024
9781771606547
£31.99
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The Decimation of World Avian Populations for Women's Fashion
Arthur G Sharp(Author)

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. Huge numbers of birds were killed for this fashionable enterprise...

277 pages | 32 b/w photos | McFarland
Paperback
#267917
2024
9781476693286
£28.99
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Ray Ching(Author)

"I never did see huia foraging about on the trunk of a tall tree fern, but I knew a man who had."– Ray Ching, 2024The beautiful forest-dwelling huia, presumed extinct for these hundred or more years, holds a special place in the...

279 pages | Creatively Limited
Hardback
#267963
2024
9780473704896
£87.99
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The Natural History of Europe's Black & White Woodpeckers
Gerard Gorman(Author)

A resonant hammering from the canopy, a flicker of black and white with a flash of red: surely the archetypal image of a woodpecker? This book describes the natural history of five European species, the so-called pied woodpeckers: Middle Spotted...

224 pages | colour photos | Pelagic Publishing
Paperback
#267970
Nov-2025
9781784275969
£24.99
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Botany

Identification Guide / Guía de Reconocimiento
Claudio Donoso Zegers(Author)

Pocket guide (measuring a mere 130 × 118 mm) with colour photos, brief bilingual descriptions and distribution maps.

136 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour distribution maps | Marisa Cuneo Ediciones
Paperback
#267888
2016
9789567173341
£34.99
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Sudhansu Sekhar Dash(Editor), Debasmita Dutta Pramanick(Editor), Gopal Krishna(Editor), Ashiho Asosii Mao(Editor)

Volume 8 covers the families Rosaceae, Chrysobalanaceae, and Neuradaceae.

531 pages | 39 plates with colour photos; 112 b/w line drawings | Botanical Survey of India
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#139273
2025
9788198307200
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Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidiaceae of the European Lowlands
Peter FM Coesel(Author), Koos J Meesters(Author)

Investigators of freshwater ecosystems inevitably are faced with various microphytes. It is generally accepted that algal species (among which phytoplankters) are important indicators of water quality. In particular, desmids (a group of...

424 pages | 136 plates with b/w line drawings; 21 b/w illustrations | KNNV Uitgeverij
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#267971
2025
9789050119481
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Dicotyledoneae: Berberidopsidales, Brassicales (p.p.), Malpighiales (p.p.), Malvales (p.p.), Myrtales (p.p.), Picramniales, Santalales, Sapindales
Fernando Omar Zuloaga(Editor), Zulma E Rúgolo de Agrasar(Editor), Ana María Ramona Anton(Editor)

Volume 18, part 1 includes 27 families belonging to the orders Berberidopsidales, Brassicales, p.p., Malpighiales, p.p., Malvales, p.p., Myrtales, p.p., Picramniales, Santalales, and Sapindales, for a total of 95 genera and 275 species. All genera...

plates with colour photos, b/w line drawings | Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC)
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#202466
May-2025
£425.00
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Marcus Werum(Author), Erwin Reichhardt(Author), Mirko Dressler(Author), Petra Werner(Author), Horst Lange-Bertalot(Author)

Due to the great diversity of benthic diatoms, the study of diatoms in the context of water monitoring requires comprehensive knowledge of the species. This identification book, funded on behalf of the German Federal/State Working Group on Water...

625 pages | 109 plates with 3037 b/w photos | Koeltz Botanical Books
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#267857
2024
9783946583493
£210.00
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A Simple Guide to Britain's Trees
Ros Bennett(Author), Nell Bennett(Illustrator)

A beautifully illustrated guide to the marvellous and varied world of trees, and a fascinating introduction to the hidden secrets of 52 British species. Botanist and ecologist Ros Bennett has spent a lifetime helping people understand and identify...

303 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps | Welbeck Publishing Group
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#267902
2024
9781787398719
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#257035
2022
9781787398702
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An Introductory Guide
Rebecca Yahr(Author), Frances Stoakley(Author)

An intuitive introduction to 200 of the most common and conspicuous species that beginners can learn to identify with nothing more than a magnifying lens and some practice.Lichens can be found all around us throughout the year. They colour our...

256 pages | 800+ colour photos, 132 colour distribution maps | Bloomsbury Publishing
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#266305
Nov-2025
9781399404747
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Rare and Endangered Plants
David TW Lau(Author), Hiu-Yan Wong(Author), Man-Ching Li(Author), David E Boufford(Foreword By), Ping Ma(Foreword By)

This appealingly illustrated book is the second volume of the Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants. It presents a meticulously curated collection of 20 rare and endangered native plant species found in Hong Kong, featuring...

376 pages | b/w photos, b/w line drawings | Chinese University of Hong Kong
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#266625
2025
9789882373198
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Alison M Smith(Author), J Allan Downie(Author), Nicholas Harberd(Author), Jonathan Jones(Author), Lars Ostergaard(Author), Robert Sablowski(Author), Colwyn Thomas(Author)

This exciting new textbook presents current knowledge of plant biology, highlighting important topics for future development and research. Starting with the evolutionary history of plants, the book addresses the dynamic nature and regulation of plant...

570 pages | 183 colour photos, 346 colour & 38 b/w illustrations | CRC Press
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#267529
Nov-2025
9781041081739
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#267528
Nov-2025
9781041082576
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The Birth of the Republics: From Independence to World War I (1825 - 1925), Brazil and the Guiana
Carlos Ossenbach(Author)

Volume II (1) deals with the non-Spanish-speaking countries. Brazil and the three Guianas. The territories occupy almost exactly 50% of South America's land area of 18,200,000 square kilometres and are home to 52% of its population of...

577 pages | 704 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Koeltz Botanical Books
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#267855
2025
9783946583394
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Shahina A Ghazanfar(Editor), John R Edmondson(Editor)

As one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, Iraq is committed to protecting its natural resources. The Flora of Iraq volumes serve as an invaluable resource for understanding and conserving the plant diversity of Iraq....

530 pages | 175 b/w line drawings | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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#267863
Jun-2025
9781842468401
£80.00
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Origin, Evolution, Genetic Diversity and Ecology
Thomas K Uthup(Editor), Rekha Karumamkandathil​(Editor)

The edited volume deals with the origin, evolution, genetic diversity, commercial, and cultural aspects of selected tree species such as Rubber, Pine, Poplar, Almond, Cashew, Teak, Olive, Eucalyptus, Mango, Jack, Fig, Sandalwood and Ashoka. It covers...

493 pages | 117 colour & 23 b/w ilustrations | Springer Nature
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#267876
2024
9789819759392
£249.99
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PV Prasanna(Editor), K Althaf Ahamed Kabeer(Editor), Vivek C P(Editor), Ashiho Asosii Mao(Editor)

Volume 31 covers a number of subfamilies in the family Poaceae: Pharoideae, Oryzoideae, Pooideae, Aristidoideae, and part of the Panicoideae.

564 pages | 50 plates with colour photos; 97 b/w line drawings | Botanical Survey of India
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#267891
2024
9788197840586
£150.00
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Sudhansu Sekhar Dash(Editor), UL Tiwari(Editor), Ashiho Asosii Mao(Editor)

Volume 16 covers the eight families Myrsinaceae, Sapotaceae, Ebenaceae, Styracaceae, Symplocaceae, Oleaceae, Salvadoraceae, and Apocynaceae.

593 pages | 103 plates with colour photos; 191 b/w line drawings | Botanical Survey of India
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#267892
2025
9788198307279
£160.00
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Hidden Stems with Unknown Diversity
Hansjörg Krähmer(Editor), Linnea Hesse(Editor)

A comprehensive reference on the characteristics of rhizomes, stems growing roughly horizontally below ground level, important for perennial and hard-to-control weeds and for the propagation of some commercially important crops.Rhizomes describes and...

416 pages | John Wiley & Sons
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#267907
2024
9781119827146
£150.00
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Paulina Hechenleitner Vega(Author), Martin F Gardner(Author), Philip I Thomas(Author), Cristian Echeverría(Author), Bernardo Escobar(Author), Peter Brownless(Author), Camila Martínez A(Author), Antonio Lara(Preface By), David Rae(Preface By)

This book provides updated descriptions of the geographic distribution, identification (with more than 140 colour photographs), conservation, and propagation of 46 threatened Chilean plant species growing between the Coquimbo and Magallanes Regions.

187 pages | 140+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Marisa Cuneo Ediciones
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#267908
2012
9789567173297
£44.99
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The Oval Sedges
Michael Murphy(Author), Greg Spyreas(Author), Paul Marcum(Author)

A common group of plants in the Midwest's natural areas, the oval sedges supply food for wildlife while their roots bind the soil and their vegetation creates habitat. Carex of Illinois and Surrounding States: The Oval Sedges offers a guide to...

144 pages | 500 colour photos, b/w line drawings, distribution maps | University of Illinois Press
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#267915
2025
9780252088469
£23.99
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Twenty-Five Ecosystem Multitaskers
Monika Maeckle(Author)

Many gardeners in the southwest USA are perfectly satisfied with beautiful, ornamental plants and cultivate lush lawns despite the environmental consequences of doing so. Other gardeners, however, have moved to embrace pollinator plants that provide...

320 pages | 145 colour photos, 24 illustrations, 1 map | Texas A & M University Press
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#267934
May-2025
9781648432446
£27.99
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A Photographic Guide
Hans Roemer(Author), Mary Sanseverino(Author)

An innovative guide to the native plants of the coastal dry belt, or "rain shadow" of the Pacific Northwest, including southeast Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and some parts of the mainland coast, such as Port Angeles and Bellingham,...

272 pages | colour photos | Harbour Publishing
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#267974
Nov-2025
9781998526000
£22.99
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Jean-Paul Walch(Author), Solange Blaiseis(Author)

Symmetry and the causes of shifts in different types of symmetries in flowers follow specific patterns that are ruled by developmental and genetic factors. Using a unified system of phyllotaxic equations (phyllotaxis being the arrangement of leaves...

256 pages | Wiley-ISTE
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#267977
2024
9781786309891
£132.00
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Reptiles & Amphibians

A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
Mark O'Shea(Author), Tim Halliday(Author)

An up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world's most fascinating frogs.With almost 9,000 known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviours. A single gram of the toxin produced by the...

656 pages | 1230 colour photos, colour distribution maps | University of Chicago Press
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#267849
Nov-2025
9780226844268
£48.00
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Indraneil Das(Author)

A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Borneo is a fully comprehensive guide to the 321 species of reptile recorded from Borneo, covering crocodiles, turtles, lizards and snakes. With photographs from the author and other top nature photographers, each...

376 pages | 400 colour photos, 300 colour distribution maps | John Beaufoy Publishing
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#267922
Sep-2025
9781913679484
£29.99
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Venom Evolution, Composition, Pharmacology and Treatment
Ashis K Mukherjee(Author), Bhargab Kalita(Author)

This book comprehensively explores Asian Cobras, covering their evolutionary history, geographic distribution, venom characteristics, pathophysiology of envenomation, and treatment strategies. The introductory chapters focus on venomous snakes,...

170 pages | 12 colour photos, 26 colour & 7 b/w illustrations, 9 tables | Taylor & Francis
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#267947
2025
9781032983318
£79.99
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Marine & Freshwater Biology

Matt Patterson(Illustrator), David A Patterson(Author), Sy Montgomery(Foreword By)

An award-winning guide, written and illustrated by a father-and-son duo, is now available in a new paperback edition, with a new foreword by Sy Montgomery.Most anglers are well aware of the popular game fish that inhabit the Northeast, including the...

140 pages | 62 colour illustrations | Brandeis University Press
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#267998
1970
9781684582167
£24.00
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Gerald R Allen(Author), Mark V Erdmann(Author)

Reef Fishes of the East Indies is an essential reference for biologists, naturalists, and scuba divers. Though there are many other reef fish identification guides available, this is the only reference that covers every known reef fish species from...

1506 pages | 4000+ colour photos | University of Hawaii Press
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#267911
2024
9780987260048
£207.00
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Frances Dipper(Author), Paul Naylor(Author)

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the habitats, communities and species hidden just below the British seashore.The shoreline around the British Isles provides tantalising, twice-daily glimpses of the wonders in our seas, but reveals very...

368 pages | ~300 colour photos | Bloomsbury Publishing
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#266306
Nov-2025
9781399404761
£31.99
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James Bellingham(Author), Claudia Geib(Author)

What will robots discover as they gather life-supporting data and resources from the depths of Earth's oceans to the reaches of deep space?Below the waves, the ocean remains a largely undiscovered realm, with only 25% of its features mapped in...

264 pages | 8 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins University Press
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#267803
Nov-2025
9781421450346
£15.50
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Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America
George Frazier(Author)

The inspirational story of grassland rivers – and the people who paddle and protect them.The North American grasslands that once covered vast areas of the central United States are now its most endangered ecosystems. But not far from any spot...

296 pages | 24 b/w photos, 1 table | University of Chicago Press
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#267852
Oct-2025
9780226838793
£21.00
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Dušica Zaova(Author), Elena Jovanovska(Author), Aleksandra Cvetkoska(Author), Nadja Ognjanova-Rumenova(Author), Zlatko Levkov(Author)

Lake Ohrid, on the border of North Macedonia and eastern Albania, is home to one of the richest diatom communities of any freshwater ecosystem. Alongside generalist species, the lake hosts a remarkable number of endemic and relict species. This...

749 pages | 312 plates with b/w photos | Koeltz Botanical Books
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#267856
2025
9783946583509
£220.00
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The Stories, Science, and History of Oceans

Immerse yourself in this beautiful, absorbing guide to the marine world.Earth owes its identity as the blue planet to the vast oceans of water that cover almost 70 per cent of its surface. Home to an abundance of marine life and vital in regulating...

320 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Dorling Kindersley
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#267867
2025
9780241691076
£30.00
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Christos L Anagnostou(Editor), Andrey G Kostianoy(Editor), Ilias D Mariolakos(Editor), Panayotis Panayotidis(Editor), Marina Soilemezidou(Editor), Grigoris Tsaltas(Editor)

This is the second of three books that together provide an integrated picture of the Aegean Sea, presenting the natural components of the system (Book I and Book II) as well as the human presence in the extended area (Book III).The Aegean Sea, also...

420 pages | 30 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267903
2024
9783031594144
£180.00
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Christos L Anagnostou(Editor), Andrey G Kostianoy(Editor), Ilias D Mariolakos(Editor), Panayotis Panayotidis(Editor), Marina Soilemezidou(Editor), Grigoris Tsaltas(Editor)

This is the first of three Books that together provide an integrated picture of the Aegean Sea, presenting the natural components of the system (Book I and Book II) as well as the human presence in the extended area (Book III).The Aegean Sea, also...

403 pages | 50 colour & 50 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267904
2024
9783031537967
£280.00
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The Secret of Planet Earth
Carlos M Duarte(Author)

Ocean: The Secret of Planet Earth provides the basic facts for understanding the oceans, their properties and their importance to people throughout the ages. The long relationship between the ocean and humanity is now at a...

235 pages | 89 colour & 7 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267945
2024
9783031559785
£29.99
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A Celebration of Life on an Irish River
Robert O'Leary(Author)

Stretching nearly thirty kilometres from the Wicklow Mountains to the Grand Canal Dock, the River Dodder offers a serene escape into nature in our capital city. In Wild Waterways, Robert O'Leary showcases the river's rich biodiversity through...

80 pages | Merrion Press
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#267946
2025
9781785375392
£9.99
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Samara Silva de Souza(Editor), Susana Braz-Mota(Editor), Adalberto Luis Val(Editor)

The aquatic habitats of the Amazon region are subject to natural daily and seasonal variations in the physico-chemical properties of the water. The organisms that inhabit these habitats have developed adaptations to cope with these natural events....

590 pages | 104 colour & 34 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267949
2024
9783031668210
£200.00
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An Illustrated Guide to Fishes of the Genus Salmo
Martin Hochleithner(Author), Paul Vecsei(Author)

This book covers Troutall members of the trout and salmon genus (Salmo) in detail. The book showcases the numerous taxa (species, varieties, morphs, forms, etc.) and highlights their plasticity. Each species' chapter includes informative text:...

212 pages | colour illustrations | Aquatech
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#267984
2024
9783902855251
£97.99
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Evolutionary Biology

The Evolutionary Biology of Human Origins
Mitchell B Cruzan(Author)

We know much about our history from bones and DNA, but these studies do not tell us about the characteristics that are not preserved in the fossil record – the fleshy parts and behaviours. Evolutionary biologists are more interested in the...

160 pages | 41 illustrations | Oxford University Press
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#267737
Nov-2025
9780197805169
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#267736
Nov-2025
9780197805152
£79.00
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The Origin of Absolute Novelties
Marcello Barbieri(Author)

This text builds upon the over 1500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals revealing that there are more than 200 biological codes in living systems. This book shows how this discovery argues that coding is a new mechanism of life. The...

231 pages | 5 colour & 11 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#268017
2025
9783031584862
£110.00
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#267995
2024
9783031584831
£110.00
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Ecology

Introduction to Space, Time, and Life
Glen M MacDonald(Author)

Introduce students to the diversity embraced by the discipline of biogeography, revised and updated throughout.Biogeography: Space, Time, and Life provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of large-scale geographic distributions of life,...

528 pages | photos, illustrations, maps | Wiley-Blackwell
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#267980
2025
9781119904588
£43.99
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Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dorling Kindersley (DK)(Author), Tony Juniper(Foreword By)

Get to grips with the key concepts that have shaped the way we think about the environment, ecosystems, and biodiversity, and our role in protecting the planet.The second edition is packed with short, pithy explanations of more than 90 of the key...

360 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations | Dorling Kindersley
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#267047
Nov-2025
9780241723029
£19.99
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Fuzzy-Based Uncertainty
HOW Peiris(Author), S Chakraverty(Author), SSN Perera(Author), Sudheera MW Ranwala(Author)

Modelling Invasive Alien Plant Species: Fuzzy Based Uncertainty presents the application of different fuzzy set theory techniques in developing risk assessment models for invasive plant species – those whose introduction and spread outside...

160 pages | 45 b/w illustrations | CRC Press
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#267952
2024
9781032045641
£45.99
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#253958
2021
9780367758097
£115.00
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How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr(Author)

The notion of a living world is one of humanity's oldest beliefs. Though once scorned by many scientists, the concept of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. Life not only adapts to its...

269 pages | Picador
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#267875
2025
9781529038200
£12.99
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#264770
2024
9781529038156
£22.00
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Concepts and Models with R
Ryan Chisholm(Author)

Theoretical ecology explores the mechanisms that structure ecological communities using a variety of mathematical and computational tools. Theoretical Ecology shows you how to translate ecological problems into mechanistic models using both...

280 pages | 77 b/w illustrations, 11 tables | Princeton University Press
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#265993
Nov-2025
9780691244952
£48.95
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#265992
Nov-2025
9780691275314
£100.00
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The Role of Predators in Shaping the Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Satiety
James A Carr(Author)

Appetite Interrupted: The Role of Predators in Shaping the Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Satiety examines the mechanisms that suppress feeding in vertebrate animals within the physiological and ecological contexts that drove their evolution....

385 pages | Academic Press
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#267440
Nov-2025
9780443292187
£142.00
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Insect-Plant Interactions
Jamin Ali(Author), Ri Zhao Chen(Author)

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, methods and applications of chemical ecology, covering such topics as chemical signalling, predator-prey interactions, host plant selection and chemical defence. The book takes the...

183 pages | 1 b/w photo, 14 b/w illustrations | CRC Press
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#267978
2024
9781032767062
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#268013
2024
9781032767338
£94.99
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Earth System Sciences

How We're Loving Our Lakes to Death
Ted J Rulseh(Author)

Lakes are among the US Upper Midwest's greatest treasures and most valuable natural resources. The Great Lakes define the region, and thousands of smaller lakes offer peace, joy, and recreation to millions. And yet, in large part because of the...

288 pages | 32 b/w illustrations, 10 tables | University of Wisconsin Press
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#267914
2025
9780299339647
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#261261
2022
9780299339609
£21.99
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How to Read a River and Understand Its Nature
Ellen E Wohl(Author)

An engaging and thought-provoking introduction to river scienceWhen we look at a river, either up close or while flying over a river valley, what are we really seeing? Following the Bend takes readers on a majestic journey by water to find answers,...

304 pages | 38 b/w illustrations | Princeton University Press
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#267365
Nov-2025
9780691272474
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A Geological Companion
Charlie A Bendall(Author)

At 255 miles long, the Pennine Way is the oldest official long-distance footpath in the UK and stretches from Edale, in the heart of the Peak District, to Kirk Yetholm, just over the Scottish Border in the shadow of the Cheviot Hills. This book will...

192 pages | 248 colour photos and colour illustrations | Crowood Press
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#267861
Jul-2025
9780719845574
£20.00
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Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures in the Peruvian Andes
Roseanne Chambers(Author)

When geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Peruvian Andes. Amid the plethora of information available about the Andes Mountains, as well as the...

328 pages | 56 colour & 13 b/w illustrations | University of Utah Press
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#267899
2024
9781647691721
£36.00
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#267898
2024
9781647691714
£79.00
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Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions
James Workman(Author), Amanda Leland(Author)

Sea Change is the captivating, deeply human tale of how fishermen – along with some unlikely allies – helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of.Exploring a victory for the world's most vital...

336 pages | Torrey House Press
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#267931
Sep-2025
9798890920287
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#267930
Sep-2025
9798890920409
£32.99
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Zakaria Hamimi(Editor), Moulley Charaf Chabou(Editor), Ezzoura Errami(Editor), Abdel-Rahman Fowler(Editor), Nuri Fello(Editor), Amara Masrouhi(Editor), Rémi Leprêtre(Editor)

This richly illustrated book reviews the geology, tectonics, sedimentary basins and strategic resources of North Africa in 21 chapters. Chapter 1 is a regional synthesis. Chapter 2 examines the deep crustal and upper mantle structure. Chapter 3...

660 pages | 412 colour & 53 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267985
2024
9783031482984
£199.99
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Environmental & Social Studies

Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Jason W Moore(Author)

Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing...

316 pages | no illustrations | Verso Books
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#267871
Aug-2025
9781804298329
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Nick Jelley(Author)

Energy is vital for a good standard of living, and affordable sources of power that do not cause climate change or pollution are crucial. Renewable energy is recognised as providing the answer, with countries from around the world deciding at COP28...

160 pages | 29 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press
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#267820
Nov-2025
9780198951100
£9.99
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Dispatches from a Changing World
Elizabeth Kolbert(Author)

A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read...

304 pages | The Bodley Head
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#267443
Nov-2025
9781847929051
£25.00
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William M Epstein(Author)

A critical examination of how inequality and cultural inertia hinder meaningful climate action.The challenges of climate change, like so many issues today, are not evenly distributed across social and economic lines. In this sobering exploration of...

336 pages | Johns Hopkins University Press
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#267760
Sep-2025
9781421452302
£41.50
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Economy and Ecology in a Burning World
Ståle Holgersen(Author), Steven Cuzner(Translated by)

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response. Ståle Holgersen delves into today's economic and ecological crises to demonstrate that they are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to...

288 pages | Verso Books
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#267872
2024
9781804293805
£20.00
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How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future
Zeke Baker(Author)

After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales – from the household to the global market – are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and...

368 pages | 14 illustrations, 2 tables | University of California Press
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#267939
2024
9780520401303
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#267938
2024
9780520401297
£80.00
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Jack Thornburg(Author)

The Age of Capitalism, Consumer Culture, and the Collapse of Nature in the Anthropocene argues that the stability of post-industrial, postmodern society is threatened by the convergence of three distinct, yet interrelated, crises: environmental...

340 pages | Lexington Books
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#267951
2024
9781666958782
£100.00
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How the Natural World Shapes Our Minds, Bodies & Health
James Bashford(Author)

Reconnecting with Nature is the most important public health intervention of our time. Science has shown how our bodies are shaped by our environment – yet we still see ourselves as separate from the natural world. To protect human health, we...

248 pages | Pelagic Publishing
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#267973
Nov-2025
9781784275938
£20.00
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How Market Forces and Local Ownership Are Saving Forests in Latin America
Brent Sohngen(Author), Douglas Southgate(Author)

Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction of tree-covered habitats as an act of environmental vandalism. Although forest losses are alarming,...

277 pages | 10 illustrations, 10 tables | Stanford University Press
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#267992
2024
9781503641396
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#267991
2024
9781503630253
£99.00
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History & Other Humanities

Myth and History in the Klamath Basin
Stephen Most(Author)

River of Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Klamath Basin, a region of the Pacific Northwest spanning the Oregon-California border. Indian reservations are at the headwaters, along the estuary, and across the major tributary of the Klamath...

288 pages | 30 b/w photos, 5 b/w maps | Oregon State University
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#267874
2024
9781962645188
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#161553
2006
9780295986227
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An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley
Jennifer L Bonnell(Author)

A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto's growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the...

324 pages | 38 illustrations | University of Toronto Press
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#267996
2024
9781487560409
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And a New Way to See Humanity
Christine Webb(Author)

Drawing on the author's work with primates – as well as on psychological experiments, language and anecdote – this book explores the widespread idea that humans are superior to animals, and argues that we need to divest ourselves of...

352 pages | Abacus
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#264412
Nov-2025
9781408717721
£22.00
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A Bittersweet History
Elizabeth Abbott(Author)

Sugar was once the most powerful commodity on earth. It shaped world affairs, influenced the economic policies of nations, drove international trade and left a legacy of suffering that still resonates today. But how did a substance that began as an...

304 pages | Duckworth Overlook
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#267037
Nov-2025
9780715655801
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A History of Scientific Reconstructions of the Past and Future
Melissa Charenko(Author)

How twentieth-century scientists used proxies to understand historic climates, shaping scientific analyses of the past and the future.Unlike our daily reckoning with the weather, our experience of climate must be mediated through tools that record...

248 pages | 9 b/w illustrations, 1 table | University of Chicago Press
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#267838
Nov-2025
9780226844107
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#267837
Nov-2025
9780226844084
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How Violence Made the Modern World
Clifton Crais(Author)

A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene – the killing age.We are used to speaking of the Anthropocene and the outsized impact...

664 pages | 62 b/w photos, 2 tables | University of Chicago Press
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#267851
Nov-2025
9780226827414
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Along the Edge of Britain
Alistair Moffat(Author)

The North Sea, a maritime highway and the edge of the nation of islanders with a proud sea-faring past. Running from Kent and the Rhine estuary to the Norwegian coast and the tip of the Shetland islands, it has been home to warring tribes, foreign...

336 pages | Canongate
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#267870
Nov-2025
9781837261222
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Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
Matthew Carr(Author)

An unsettling account of the colonisation of Patagonia – and the story of the world-renowned scientist who witnessed it.In December 1832, Charles Darwin sailed into Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America, where he first encountered...

312 pages | 12 b/w illustrations | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
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#267879
2025
9781805262831
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Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants
Andrea Falcon(Author)

Scholars have paid ample attention to Aristotle's works on animals. By contrast, they have paid little or no attention to Theophrastus' writings on plants. That is unfortunate because there was a shared research project in the early Peripatos...

270 pages | Cambridge University Press
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#267942
2024
9781009426343
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A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland
Lisa Woollett(Author)

Medieval kingdoms. Notorious pirate towns. Drowned churches. Crocodile-infested swamps. Lost to the Sea is an exhilarating voyage around the ever-shifting shores of the British Isles, and a haunting ode to our profound relationship with the sea.On a...

320 pages | ~40 b/w photos, b/w illustrations, and b/w maps | John Murray
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#268004
2025
9781529373660
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#267950
2024
9781529373653
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Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho(Editor)

The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective, Volume 1 offers a unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants. It examines the use of gutta-percha in the development of electrical measurements; provides a...

273 pages | 94 colour & 10 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267955
2024
9783031687587
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Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe and Colonial Burma
Nuala C Johnson(Author)

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the work of the plant collector, botanical illustrator,...

231 pages | 22 b/w photos, 3 b/w illustrations and b/w maps | Routledge
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#267975
2024
9780367743949
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#268012
2023
9780367743932
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Karl Schulze-Hagen(Author), Gabriele Kaiser(Author)

An apartment in the middle of Berlin. Birds in every room. A nightjar breeds on the carpet, a woodpecker hacks holes in the cupboard, a swift circles through the living room. A real scenario. It was 100 years ago. This book tells the life story of...

272 pages | colour & b/w photos | Knesebeck & Schuler
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#267983
2020
9783957283955
£46.99
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Terminology and Language in the History of the Natural Sciences
Helge S Kragh(Author)

The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. The Names of Science examines in detail how, over time, new words have entered the scientific lexicon and how some of them, but far from...

352 pages | 10 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press
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#267989
2024
9780198917441
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#267986
2024
9780198917458
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Ellen F Arnold(Author)

This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.Water is one of the most common and valuable natural resources for the...

190 pages | Taylor & Francis
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#267987
2024
9780367650056
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#267988
2024
9780367650124
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Paul J Kosmin(Author)

An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity.As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas...

416 pages | 6 b/w maps | Harvard University Press
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#267999
2024
9780674296244
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Organismal to Molecular Biology

Baljit Singh(Author)

Gain the working anatomic knowledge that is crucial to your understanding of the veterinary basic sciences with Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy, 5th edition. By focusing on the essential anatomy of each species, this well-established book details...

872 pages | 1500 colour & 40 b/w illustrations | Saunders
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#267906
2017
9780323442640
£129.00
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Carol Gigliotti(Author)

The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitatsMost of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However,...

304 pages | New York University Press
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#267925
Oct-2025
9781479815456
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#258855
2022
9781479815449
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From Cells to Biofilms
Thomas Andrew Waigh(Author)

Bacteria are the most ubiquitous life-forms on Earth, and are studied extensively to gain insight into their function and understand how they interact with their environment. In recent years, bacterial biophysics has added a new dimension to this...

382 pages | Cambridge University Press
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#267873
2024
9781009313520
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Eric Turkheimer(Author)

There are arguably few areas of science more fiercely contested than the question of what makes us who we are. Are we products of our environments or our genes? Is nature the governing force behind our behaviour, or is it nurture? While it is now...

212 pages | Cambridge University Press
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#267877
2024
9781108958165
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How Humans Discovered Germs, Uncovered Infectious Diseases, and Deluded Themselves That We Had Conquered Them
Thomas Levenson(Author)

In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause of the Great Plague of London to be confirmed: a powerful bacterium called...

448 pages | Apollo (Head of Zeus imprint)
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#267889
2025
9781800249042
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A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
Philipp Schott(Author)

How and why did humans begin to treat sick and injured animals? And how did those practices, and the associated attitudes, evolve from prehistory to the present day? To answer these questions, Dr. Schott shares stories of 22 different animal healers...

260 pages | 24 illustrations | Essays on Canadian Writing Press
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#267924
Aug-2025
9781770417830
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Carlos M Guerrero-Bosagna(Editor)

On Epigenetics and Evolution, a new volume in the Translational Epigenetics series, introduces key themes from current epigenetic evolution research, with contributions from leading scientists around the world that investigate the role of epigenetic...

409 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Academic Press
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#267976
2024
9780443190513
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Palaeontology

Scott A Elias(Editor)

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, third edition, brings together the multidisciplinary expertise needed to understand the history of humans, life, environmental, and climate change to understand what we may expect over the coming decades. Since the...

5134 pages | illustrations | Elsevier
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#267990
2024
9780323999311
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Øyvind Hammer(Author), David AT Harper(Author)

An up-to-date edition of the indispensable guide to analysing palaeontological dataPalaeontology has developed in recent decades into an increasingly data-driven discipline, which brings to bear a huge variety of statistical tools. Applying...

400 pages | 495 illustrations | John Wiley & Sons
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#267916
2024
9781119933939
£100.00
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The History of the German Tendaguru Expedition and its finds, 1906-2023
Mareike Vennen(Editor), Holger Stoecker(Editor), Ina Heumann(Editor), Patricia Newman(Translated by)

Deconstructing Dinosaurs takes a fresh look at the history of the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909–1913), using recently uncovered sources to reveal how Berlin's Natural History Museum appropriated and extracted 225 tonnes of dinosaur...

286 pages | b/w photos | E J Brill
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#267860
2024
9789004691056
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The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
Gerta Keller(Author)

Professor Gerta Keller is at the centre of what has been called the nastiest feud in science, a contentious debate popularly known as "The Dinosaur Wars" over what triggered the fifth mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Era...

320 pages | Diversion Books
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#267887
Oct-2025
9798895150467
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A New Model
Federico L Agnolín(Author)

The Cenozoic history of South America's fauna mainly rests on the evidence yielded by the study of fossilised mammals. Following on from the work of William D. Matthew, George G. Simpson coined the term "Splendid Isolation" to describe...

318 pages | 58 colour & 32 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#268003
2025
9783031562686
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#267948
2024
9783031562655
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Pratul Kumar Saraswati(Author)

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms, usually less than a millimetre in size, and their fossil records extend back in geological time some 500 million years. Some foraminifera have grown to over 10 centimetres; these are informally called...

184 pages | 53 colour & 74 b/w illustrations | Springer Nature
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#267993
2024
9783031576300
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Mycology

Noah Siegel(Author), Kate Mohatt(Author), Steve Trudell(Author)

From the leading experts on Northwest mycology comes the definitive guide to Alaskan mushroomsMushrooms of Alaska is a comprehensive field guide to the most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms found in the Last Frontier....

560 pages | colour photos | Timber Press
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#267719
Nov-2025
9781643263670
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Mammals

A Comprehensive Guide to the Bears of the World
Gary P Brown(Author)

The bears of the world – from the polar bears of the Arctic to the Andean bear of South America – are among the most studied and loved of all wild creatures. In this revised and updated edition, Gary Brown collects what is known about the...

352 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations, tables | Rowman & Littlefield
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#267956
2024
9781493086450
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A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution
David W Macdonald(Author), Chris Newman(Author), John Krebs(Foreword By)

The badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of...

569 pages | 272 colour photos and colour & b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press
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#267968
Sep-2025
9780198893592
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#256905
2022
9780192845368
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My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
Diane K Boyd(Author), Douglas H Chadwick(Foreword By)

A debut memoir from one of the first women in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat – a story of passion, resilience, and determination.Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd...

227 pages | b/w photos, 1 b/w map | Greystone Books
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#266963
Oct-2025
9781778403378
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#264888
2024
9781778401138
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How We Made the Modern Dog
Chris Pearson(Author)

Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the world. But these beloved animals are much more than just our pets – and our shared history is far richer and more complex than you might...

272 pages | Profile Books
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#267024
Nov-2025
9781800816404
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#265592
2024
9781800816411
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A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World
Ludovic Orlando(Author), Teresa Lavender Fagan(Translated by)

From one of today's leading experts on ancient DNA, a sweeping genetic history that unravels the mystery of where horses were first domesticated.Ludovic Orlando garnered world acclaim for helping to rewrite the genomic history of horse...

280 pages | 18 colour illustrations | Princeton University Press
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#266961
Nov-2025
9780691264127
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Baboons, Humans, and Nature
Shirley C Strum(Author), Cassandra Phillips(Co-Author)

The amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons – and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.In 1972, renowned anthropologist Shirley C. Strum travelled to Kenya to...

368 pages | 25 colour & 14 b/w illustrations, 1 map | Johns Hopkins University Press
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#267045
Sep-2025
9781421452036
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Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, History, Culture and Conservation
Simon Pooley(Author)

The captivating history of the okapi and its symbolic role in science, culture, and conservation.In Discovering the Okapi, Simon Pooley offers a fascinating portrait of the okapi – an elusive short-necked giraffid with zebra stripes, surviving...

376 pages | 31 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins University Press
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#267177
Nov-2025
9781421452487
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The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the Americas' Legendary Cat
James Campbell(Author)

A fascinating story of the movement to protect the jaguar, and the man who devoted his life to saving the species.Once indigenous to North America, the jaguar is the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere. A resilient and efficient predator, it is one...

352 pages | W.W. Norton & Co.
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#267480
Nov-2025
9780393867619
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How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World
Nancy Castaldo(Author)

Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and birdfeeders never fail to exasperate. But squirrels are more than amusing...

240 pages | colour photos, 20 b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Island Press
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#267709
Oct-2025
9781642833751
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Insights from the Indian Himalayan Region
Supriyo Dalui(Author), Mukesh Thakur(Author), Lalit Kumar Sharma(Author)

This book explores the evolutionary history and conservation challenges of red pandas in the Indian Himalayas. Through fascinating storytelling combined with scientific rigor, the book encourages readers to discover the genetic saga of the red panda,...

159 pages | Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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#267859
2024
9781036407827
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A Natural and Cultural History
Sue Consolo-Murphy(Author)

The Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is also a personal account by Sue...

282 pages | 18 photos, 2 illustrations, 4 maps, 3 tables | Bison Books (Nebraska UP)
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#267910
2025
9781496236272
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