Elephant Reflections

Karl Ammann and Dale Peterson

"Elephant Reflections" brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of ....

Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex

Edited by Dean Falk and Kathleen Gibson

Studies of brain evolution have moved rapidly in recent years, building on the pioneering research of Harry J. Jerison. This book provides reviews of primate ....

Exmoor Ponies

Survival of the Fittest ; A Natural History

Sue Baker

Copiously illustrated with photographs and exquisite line drawings, this fascinating book tells the story of a truly remarkable survivor. ....

A Field Guide to Indian Mammals

Vivek Menon

India has a rich mammal fauna including elephants, rhinos and the much sought-after tiger, but there are many other species to be found there,many of them more conspicuous ....

The Lesser Horseshoe Bat

Conservation Handbook

HW Schofield

This handbook draws together ideas for modifying, enhancing and creating roosts for lesser horseshoe bats based upon the experience of The Vincent Wildlife Trust over more ....

Ontogeny, Functional Ecology and Evolution of Bats

Edited by Rick A Adams and Scott C Pederson

The study of animal development has deep historical roots in codifying the field of evolutionary biology. In the 1940s evolutionary theory became engulfed by analyses of ....

The Sheep-guarding Dog of Abruzzo

P Breber

The Author describes the dog kept and bred by the shepherds of mountainous Abruzzo in Italy to repel wolves and bears from their flocks. The way it behaves and works, its ....

About Indian Birds

Including Birds of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Pakistan & Bangladesh

Salim Ali and Laeeq Futehally

With beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations and lithographs, this is an ideal companion for not just amateur bird-watchers and wildlife enthusiasts but also seasoned ....

As Aves de Timor-Leste

Burung-Burung di Timor-Leste / The Birds of Timor- Leste

Colin R Trainor, Brian J Coates and K David Bishop

Comprehensive field fuide to the 261 bird species recorded in Timor-Leste. Text in Portuguese, Indonesian and English, covering identification, relative abundance, ....

Aves do Cerrado

Birds - Cerrado

Edson Endrigo

Third volume in the series of photographic art books on the birds of the different regions of Brazil. Contains 100 species with photo and short description in English and ....

Bibliographie d'Ornithologie Française, Tome 3: 1981 - 1990

Yves Muller

The third volume of the bibliography contains 5670 references, and 53 additions to the previous two volumes. ....

Biologia de la Conservacion del Aguila Imperial Iberica / Conservation Biology of the Spanish Imperial Eagle

Luis Mariano Gonzalez and Antoni Margalida

Outlines the conservation efforts between 1989 and 2004. See more detailed information under the "Contents" section. ....

Bird Ringing

A Concise Guide

Dawn Balmer, Liz Coiffait, Jacquie Clark and Rob Robinson

2009 sees the celebration of 100 years of bird ringing in Britain & Ireland, and this guide highlights some of the major achievements of the Scheme over that time. ....

Birds of Central Asia, Volume 1

Edited by AK Rustamov and AF Kovshar

First of five volumes to be published. The first volume of the monograph contains data on the distribution and biology of 119 birds species from 14 orders: Gaviiformes, ....

Birds of Northwest Ecuador, Volume 1: The Upper Foothills and the Subtropics - CD Set

Olaf Jahn, John V Moore et al

Revised edition of the CD published in 1999 by Moore et al. Contains almost all of the original recordings, about 700 new recordings, and 23 additional species. It includes ....

Birds of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Niels Krabbe

460 recordings of 135 species (including 16 of the 17 endemic species) found in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, a mountain massif separated from the Andes and ....

Birdscapes

Birds in our Imagination and Experience

Jeremy Mynott

What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant ....

The Breeding Birds of Cleveland

A Tetrad Atlas 1999 - 2006

Edited by Graeme Joynt, James Victor Fairbrother and Parker Ted

An account of the history, status and distribution of the birds breeding in the former County of Cleveland, England. ....

Conservacion Colombiana 1: Threatened Parrots Part 1 / Loros

Amenazados de Colombia: Parte 1

Fundacion ProAves

This publication contains a series of interesting articles about threatened parrot species occurring in Colombia and conservation initiatives to protect them. Topics ....

Conservacion Colombiana 2: Threatened Parrots Part 2 / Loros

Amenazados de Colombia: Parte 2

Fundacion ProAves

This special edition of Conservacion Colombiana contains details of Fundacion ProAves' pioneering work to save the critically endangered Yellow-eared Parrot from extinction. ....

Conservacion Colombiana 3: Studies and Conservation in the Churumbelos Mountains / Estudios y Conservacion en la Serrania de los Churumbelos

Fundacion ProAves

This special edition of Conservacion Colombiana includes the results from a series of UK/Colombian biological expeditions from 1998-2001 to the Churumbelos mountains of ....

The Endemic Birds of Madagascar - DVD Set

Guy Eldridge

This 4-DVD set features 130 endemic species, filmed over a period of 6 months. Running time: 5 hours. ....

Garden Birds of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur

Samar Singh

The 'golden triangle' of India - Delhi, Agra and Jaipur is as rich and diverse in its bird life as it is in its culture and tradition. The gardens and adjacent water bodies ....

Harriers

Journeys Around the World

Don Scott

Until recently harriers were one of the least known group of birds but after an in-depth study of the Hen Harrier in Northern Ireland, Don Scott succeeded in his passion to ....

Identification Guide to North American Birds: Part 2

Anatidae to Alcidae

Peter Pyle

Eagerly awaited second part of the identification guide to aid ornithologists in ageing and sexing of birds. ....

Important Bird Areas in the Caribbean

Key Sites for Conservation

Edited by David C Wege and Veronica Anadon-Irizarry

The aim of this publication is simple - in a rational, scientifically robust way, it puts the spotlight on a Caribbean ....

Invisible Connections

Why Migratory Birds Need the Yellow Sea

J van de Kam, PF Battley, BJ McCaffery, DI Rogers, JS Hong et al

"Invisible Connections" is a wonderful photographic journey that follows the migration of shorebirds flying from their breeding grounds in the Arctic through East Asia to ....

Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus Evening Rafting Behaviour Around Colonies on Skomer, Rum and Bardsey

Its Spatial Extent and Implications for Recommending Seaward Boundary Extensions to Existing Colony Special Protection Areas in the UK

CA McSorley, LJ Wilson, TE Dunn, C Gray, BJ Dean, A Webb and JB Reid

The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) provides a legislative framework for the protection, management and control of naturally occurring wild birds of EU Member States. As part of ....

The Numbers of Inshore Waterbirds using the Firth of Forth During the Non-Breeding Season, and an Assessment of the Area's Potential for Qualification as a Marine SPA

N Dawson, I Sohle, LJ Wilson, BJ Dean, A Webb and JB Reid

The Firth of Forth is known to support large numbers of inshore waterbirds, particularly over the winter period. Some intertidal areas and islands within the Firth of Forth are ....

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America

Roger Tory Peterson

In celebration of the centennial of Roger Tory Peterson's birth comes a historic collaboration among renowned birding experts and artists to preserve and enhance the ....

RSPB Handbook of British Birds

Interactive Edition

Peter Holden and Tim Cleeves

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the best selling RSPB Handbook of British Birds. This unique guide provides a `biography' of each of the 300 commonest ....

RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds

Peter Holden and Stuart Housden

In this new book, the text, maps and plates of the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds have been adapted to create a brand new book specific to Scotland and its rich ....

Rare Birds Yearbook 2009

The World's 190 Most Threatened Birds

Erik Hirschfeld

Rare Birds Yearbook covers all 190 Critically Endangered species of the world and is based on scientific facts and produced annually in close ....

Atlas der Amphibien und Reptilien Oberösterreichs

Werner Weissmair and Johannes Moser

Atlas of 27 Amphibians and Reptiles found in Upper Austria. Includes introductory chapters and bibliography. ....

Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards

Daniel D Beck

First comprehensive biological reference on the surviving species of Monstersauria for nearly 50 years. A must buy for all those fascinating by these extraordinary lizards. ....

Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 20, Morphology H: The Skull of Lepidosauria

Edited by Carl Gans, Abbot S Gaunt and Kraig Adler

This extensively illustrated volume summarizes the skulls of lizards, snakes, and tuatara. As such, it will be of interest to zoologists and herpetologists but also to ....

Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 21, Morphology I: The Skull and Appendicular Locomotor Apparatus of Lepidosauria

Edited by Carl Gans, Abbot S Gaunt and Kraig Adler

This extensively illustrated volume summarizes the skulls and appendicular skeletons of lizards, snakes, tuatara, and amphisbaenians. As such, it will be of interest to ....

Fauna Sinica: Amphibia, Volume 2: Anura

Fei Liang

This is the second volume of Fauna Sinica Amphibia. In this volume 180 species including 4 new species and 16 sub-species in 6 families of Anura are described. ....

Field Guide to Reptiles of Victoria

John Coventry and Peter Robertson

This guide is intended primarily as a means of identifying any reptile occurring naturally within Victoria, Australia. It expands on a previous book, The Snakes of ....

Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree

Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles

Jonathan B Losos

Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single ....

Behavior of Marine Fishes

Edited by P He

Understanding fish behavior in relation to potential commercial capture methods is of fundamental importance to reducing commercial bycatch and marine fisheries conservation ....

The Diversity of Fishes

Gene S Helfman, Bruce B Collette and Douglas E Facey

The second edition of The Diversity of Fishes represents a major revision of the world's most widely adopted ichthyology textbook. Expanded and updated, the second edition is ....

Do Fish Feel Pain?

V Braithwaite

Biologist Victoria Braithwaite examines the question of fish pain and fish welfare, explaining how new research shows fish to be more intelligent and responsive than we ....

Early Life History of Marine Fishes

Bruce S Miller and Arthur W Kendall Jr

The life cycles of fishes are complex and varied, and knowledge of the early life stages is important for understanding the biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes. ....

Little Book of Sharks

Louise Malo

This interesting and informative Little book is packed full of facts and figures about one of the world's most feared creatures. From Great Whites to Basking sharks, this ....

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes (Agnathans and Bony Fishes)

Phylogeny Reproductive System Viviparity Spermatozoa

Edited by Barrie GM Jamieson

It is perhaps because fishes live in a buoyant medium, whether it be fresh or sea water, that they show a diversity in body shapes that is unparalleled by other vertebrates. ....

Sharks and Rays of Australia

Peter Last and John D Stevens

The waters around Australia, the world's smallest continent, are home to the greatest diversity of sharks and rays on Earth. Fully 100 of these sea creatures (along with ....

Amazing Facts about Australian Insects and Spiders

Patrick Honan

This book is packed full of information and you'll be amazed at how much you learn about Australia's insects and spiders by scuttling through the remarkable facts presented. ....

Arthropods of Tropical Forests

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Resource Use in the Canopy

Edited by Yves Basset, Roger Kitching, Scott Miller and Vojtech Novotny

Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. ....

Atlas of Butterflies in Highland and Moray

David Barbour, Stephen Moran, Tony Mainwood and Bill Slater

This atlas documents the distribution of 30 species of butterflies in the period 1980 - 2007 in the area covered by Highland Branch of Butterfly Conservation. It presents a ....

Beetles of Thailand

Pisuth Ek-Amnuay

This second edition contains 509 species as compared to the first edition which included only 362 species and subspecies. ....

Biological Control of Tropical Weeds using Arthropods

Rangaswamy Muniappan, Gadi Reddy and Anantanarayanan Raman

Weeds are a major constraint to agricultural production, particularly in the developing world. Cost-efficient biological control is a self-sustaining way to reduce this ....

Butterflies of the Cayman Islands

RR Askew and PA Stafford

This book will enable the identification of each of the 57 species of butterfly that has been recorded from the Cayman Islands. There is a description of every butterfly, ....

Les Cahiers Magellanes Hors-serie, Volume 28

Trois Nouvelles Espèces de Cetoniinae des Célèbes

Jean-Philippe Legrand

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 77

Un Nouveau Pseudodeltaspis Originaire du Nicaragua

Alain Audureau

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 80

Neues zur Taxonomie von Cerambycen der Athiopischen Region

Karl Adlbauer

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 81

Novas Especies de Disteniinae Americanas

Antonio Santos Silva and Frank T Hovore

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 82

Novo Genrero de Desmiphorini com Cinco Especies Novas

Maria Helena M Galileo and Ubirajara R Martins

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 83

Description d'une Nouvelle Espèce de Prinobius Mulsant, P. samai n. sp., originaire d'Iran

Alain Drumont and Martin Rejzek

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 84

The Caledonian genus Acideres Guerin-Meneville, 1858 : systematic notes, sexual dimorphism and geographical distribution

E Vives, A Drumont, Z Komiya and D Heffern

Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 85

Synonymies, Diagnoses et Bionomie de Quelques Lamiaires Africains (12e note)

Pierre Teocchi, Jerome Sudre and Eric Jiroux

Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies

J Settele et al

The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies provides recent and modelled (2050, 2080) distribution maps, a photo and data on biology and ecology for each species, and a ....

Diseases of Commercially Exploited Crustaceans

Edited by G Stentiford and J Shields

Diseases in crustaceans can be attributed to a range of causes and can impact substantially on populations of wild caught species and those ....

Distribution Geographique des Sous-Genres Actualisés du Genre Carabus

Pierre Meyer

Systematic revision of 283 species. ....

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West

Dennis Paulson

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America. Dragonflies and ....

Fauna Helvetica 16: Aphidina 2

Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha - Aphidina

Gerolf Lampel and Walter Meier

Fauna Helvetica 23: Vespoidea 1

F Amiet

Treats the families Mutillidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae and Tiphiidae. Includes identification keys. ....

The Larger Water Beetles of the British Isles

Peter Sutton

This book covers 11 species including the 6 native 'Great Diving Beetles' and the 'Silver Water Beetles'. It is copiously illustrated and has much additional information ....

Moths of Western North America

Jerry A Powell and Paul A Opler

Insects boast incredible diversity, and this book treats an important component of the western insect biota that has not been summarized before - moths and their plant ....

The Odonata Red Data List for Great Britain

Edited by C Daguet, G French and P Taylor

This report has been produced as part of the JNCC Species Status Assessment project, assigning conservation status to British flora and fauna using internationally-approved ....

Philippine Marine Shells, Volume 2

G Poppe

In this second volume the following families are superbly described: Cancellariidae, Columbellidae, Conidae, Muricidae, Olividae, Terebridae, Turridae, Volutidae. ....

Revision du Genre Anubis Thomson, 1864

Joan Bentanachs, Eduard Vives and Pierre Juhel

Six-legged Soldiers

Using Insects as Weapons of War

Jeffrey A Lockwood

The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across ....

The Social Amoebae

The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds

John Tyler Bonner

Noted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar ....

A Spring Without Bees

How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Michael Schacker and Bill McKibben

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the ....

Treasure of Russian Shells, Supplement 5: Illustrated Catalogue of the Recent Terrestrial Molluscs of Russia and Adjacent Countries

Roman Egorov

The Wilhelm Foissner Festschrift

Contributions on protozoology, mainly in English, some in German. ....

A Year in the Lives of British Ladybirds

Michael Majerus, Remy Ware and Christina Majerus

This book, which originated as a series of articles in the Amateur Entomologists' Society's Bug Club Magazine, recounts how we can discover British ladybirds in their ....

Fossilium Catalogus Animalia, Volume 145

Catalogus Trilobitorum cum Figuris (Trilobites carbonici et permici, VI. Cummingellinae)

Gerhard Hahn and Renate Hahn

Holocene Extinctions

Edited by Samuel T Turvey

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic ....

Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants

Thomas N Taylor, Edith L Taylor and Michael Krings

This book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae. It begins with a discussion of geologic ....

Annotated Checklist of the CITES-listed Corals of Fiji with Reference to Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa

ER Lovell and C McLardy

The objective of this report is to provide information on the occurrence, status and distribution of hard coral species of the orders of Scleractinia, Stolonifera, ....

Plankton Culture Manual

FH Hoff and T Snell

This expanded edition includes identification of microalgae used in aquaculture manual. The manual now includes use of microscope, slide preparation, measuring cells, stains, ....

Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Diatom Symposium

Held at Listvyanka, Irkutsk, Russia from 28 August - 3 September 2006 ....

Rockpool Safari

An Exploration of the Rocky Shores around Britain

Judith Oakley

Explores and explains the diversity of British rockpools. ....

Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Volume 25

Edited by Virginie Heros, Robert H Cowie and Philippe Bouchet

Anatomy of a Beast

Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot

Michael McLeod

Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American ....

Animal Migration

Remarkable Journeys by Air, Land and Sea

Ben Hoare

This spectacular guide explores the mysteries of animal migration over land, through oceans and by air. ....

Arch of Heaven

The Science and Mystery of the Rainbow

D Whitehouse

Arch of Heaven tells the remarkable story of the rainbow, a natural phenomenon that bridges our culture, mythology, art, and science. From the myths of the Incas, to the ....

The Art Instinct

Denis Dutton

The Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some ....

The Art of Peter Scott

Images from a Lifetime

Peter Scott, Philippa Scott and Keith Shackleton

It was Sir Peter Scott's wish, before his death in 1989, to see a volume of his paintings published. This wish has been carried through by Lady Scott, who has selected ....

Aspects of Nature

Animals in their Environments

Andy Rouse

Aspects of Nature builds upon the success of Andy Rouse's Concepts of Nature, using stunning artistic images combined with thought-provoking essays to ....

Attenborough: The Life Trilogy - DVD Set

David Attenborough

This fantastic Trilogy includes: Life on Earth, The Living Planet & Trials of Life, on 13 discs. ....

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science. When Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet ....

Bugs and the Victorians

JFM Clark

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects presented a particularly inviting challenge. This lively ....

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

A Field Guide to Nature Poems

John Felstiner

Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this ....

Charles Darwin in Australia

N Nicholas

Early in 1836 Charles Darwin spent two months in Australia as part of his round-the-world voyage on the Beagle. During this time, he visited Sydney, travelled on ....

A Close Up Look

Approaching Nature Through Digiscoping

Miguel Rouco et al

The aim of this book is to draw together everything that is known today about digiscoping. Step by step, with the help of diagrams, the basics of digital photography ....

The Complexity

A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the ....

Defining Moments in Science

Over a Century of the Greatest Scientists, Discoveries, Inventions and Events That Rocked the Scientific World

Andrew Impey, Mark Steer and Hayley Birch

We've come a long way from guesses at the Earth's shape (flat) and it's place in the Universe (dead centre). Thanks to ideas of pure genius and accidental realisations, we ....

The Environment and World History

Edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz

Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world ....

Islands and Lifelines

John Plummer

This book celebrates a series of journeys to some dramatic and fascinating coastal areas of Britain and Ireland with friends from across four decades. Its range of themes - ....

Little Book of the Natural World

Louise Malo

This interesting and informative Little Book is packed full of facts and figures about the world we live in. From Africa to South America it looks at habitats and environments ....

The Living Coast

An Aerial View of Britain's Shoreline

Adrian Warren, Dae Sasitorn and Christopher Somerville

Britain possesses one of the most remarkable and varied coastlines in the world, with its richness in geology and human history on display. Since the dawn of time the sea has ....

A Mathematical Nature Walk

John A Adam

How tall is that tree? How far away is that cloud, and how heavy is it? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions ....

The Medea Hypothesis

Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?

Peter Ward

In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere, one that has ....

Micrographia, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies

Robert Hooke

Hooke describes his observations of various household and biological specimens, such as the eye of a fly and the structure of plants, and became the first person to use the ....

Nature's Great Events - DVD

Witness the planet's most breathtaking natural events, and follow the dramatic wildlife stories behind them. Combining the epic cinematography of Planet Earth, with all the ....

On the Surface of Things

Images of the Extraordinary in Science

Felice Frankel and GM Whitesides

Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each ....

Science

A Four Thousand Year History

Patricia Fara

Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always ....

Stephen Jay Gould

Reflections on His View of Life

Warren D Allmon, Patricia Kelley and Robert Ross

Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of ....

Wetware

A Computer in Every Living Cell

Dennis Bray

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex ....

Why I am Not a Scientist

Anthropology and Modern Knowledge

Jonathan Marks

This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, ....

The Young Charles Darwin

Influences and Ideas

Keith Thomson

What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a ....

African Safari

Into the Great Game Reserves

Peter Pickford and Beverly Pickford

An African safari is arguably one of the most alluring and universally understood dreams of contemporary time. Just the thought of an African safari is capable of evocations of ....

Beaches and Parks in Southern California

California Coastal Commission

Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California's coast is justifiably famous, yet, as this essential guide reveals, it offers more to see and do than even its ....

Falklandscapes

Tony Chater

This is an exhibition of Tony Chater's work spanning three decades. The images, covering all of the islands, have been arranged in the form of a natural history. Many feature ....

Features of the Shropshire Hills: The Stiperstones and Long Mead

Boardman

Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Shropshire Hills extend from the Wrekin to the Clun Forest, and from Stapeley Common to the Clee Hills. This dramatic and ....

Green Tops in Goa

Akhilesh K Sahay

A pocket guide to the birds and wildlife sanctuaries in Goa. Presented in narrative form, with colour photos, this book contains a wealth of useful information for the ....

Islands

RJ Berry

Islands have incited passion throughout the ages. These 'watery lands' symbolise the eternal contrast between land and water, suggesting mystery and adventure, romanticism ....

Kamchatka: A Journal and Guide to Russia's Land of Ice and Fire

Diana Gleadhill

Why go to Kamchatka? There are no luxury hotels or international spas; no jolly pubs or swanky wine bars and even if there were glamourous beach resorts there are almost no ....

Kinabalu - The Haunted Mountain of Borneo

An Account of its Ascent, its People, Flora and Fauna

CM Enriquz

First published in 1927, Kinabalu: The Haunted Mountain of Borneo still enthralls readers with the exploits of early-day explorers of Kinabalu. This account follows ....

Managing Scotland's Environment

Charles Warren

Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - ....

Natural Protest

Essays on the History of American Environmentalism

Michael Egan and Jeff Crane

From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. ....

Natural and Cultural History of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica

Contributions deal with subjects as diverse as flora, fauna, geology, conservation and biodiversity, and ecotourism. ....

Notebooks from New Guinea

Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist

V Novotny

This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a ....

Rewilding the West

Restoration in a Prairie Landscape

Richard Manning

'The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command,' begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven ....

Tabin

Sabah's Greatest Wildlife Sanctuary

Wendy Hutton

The largest protected wildlife area in Sabah, Tabin Wildlife Reserve is home to an exceptional array of Borneo's rare and endangered species. The Sumatran or Pygmy ....

Wild Animals of Singapore

A Photographic Guide to Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes

Nick Baker and Kevin Lim

The Vertebrate Study Group of Nature Society (Singapore) has launched a photographic guide to mammals, reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fishes of Singapore called `Wild ....

Zoologica Neocaledonica, Volume 6: Biodiversity Studies in New Caledonia

Edited by Philippe Grandcolas

This volume comprises 11 contributions on insects, with the descriptions of more than 80 species and 10 genera previously undescribed for New Caledonia. ....

Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Container Gardening

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. This title offers expert advice on hanging baskets, window ....

Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Garden Design

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. This title covers everything from the initial planning of ....

Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Vegetables and Herbs

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these practical guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Learn all the tricks to grow vegetables from seed, maintain ....

American Chestnut

The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

Susan Freinkel

The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees - a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth ....

Botânica Sistemática

Guia ilustrado para identificaçao das familias de Fanerogamas nativas e exoticas no Brasil, baseado em APG II

Vinicius C Souza and Harri Lorenzi

Expanded edition of the identification guide, now covers 224 families of seed plants found in Brazil, with colour photographs of the principal genera. ....

California Plant Families

West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts

Glenn Keator and Margaret J Steunenberg

Interest in California's beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state's vast and varied ....

Chocolate

History, Culture, and Heritage

Louis E Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro

Chocolate. We all love it, but how much do we really know about it? In addition to pleasing palates since ancient times, chocolate has played an integral role in culture, ....

Comparative Plant Virology

Roger Hull

Comparative Plant Virology provides a complete overview of our current knowledge of plant viruses including background information on plant viruses and up-to-date aspects ....

Directions for the Gardiner and Other Horticultural Advice

John Evelyn

John Evelyn is best known today for his Diary, second only in reputation to that of his friend and fellow-diarist, Samuel Pepys. In his own day he was famous for Sylva , his ....

Eden

Tim Smit

With passion and commitment thousands of "small" people built the Eden Project in Cornwall as a symbol of hope in action...We may all have feet of clay, but that ....

Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 13, Part 1: Asparagaceae, Behniaceae, Agavaceae, Anthericaceae, Alliaceae, Agapanthaceae, Amaryllidaceae

Edited by Jonathan Timberlake

Flora und Vegetation des Sauwaldes und der Umgrenzenden Täler von Pram, Inn und Donau - 40 Jahre später

Franz Grims

The Forager Handbook

A Guide to the Edible Plants of Britain

Miles Irving

At any time, in any place, food is there for the taking - if only we knew how and where to look. Miles Irving makes his living out of foraging - in this ....

Gardeners

Encounters with Exceptional People

Diana Ross

Gardening writer Diana Ross visits twenty gardens and interviews their owners, including Roy Lancaster, Thomas Pakenham, Lady Salisbury, Beth Chatto and James Lovelock. She ....

The Green Garden Expert

DG Hessayon

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an ....

A History of the Gardens of Versailles

Michel Baridon and Adrienne Mason

The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. The scale of the gardens is monumental, with a sense of openness to the horizon. They express the spirit ....

Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa, Band 6, Teil 2A: Cucurbitaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Adoxaceae, Valerianaceae und Campanulaceae

Edited by Gustav Hegi and Gerhard Wagenitz

Introduction to Bryophytes

Alain Vanderpoorten and Bernard Goffinet

Bryophytes were a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly ....

The Lentil

Botany, Production and Uses

W Erskine, F Muehlbauer, A Sarker and B Sharma

Though of ancient origin, the lentil is today very much a crop of the modern world confronted with issues of food security, poverty, water scarcity and the need to find ....

The New Oxford Book of Food Plants

John G Vaughan and Catherine A Geissler

The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical ....

Palms of Southern Asia

Andrew Henderson

Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm ....

Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology

Park S Nobel

The functioning of all living systems obeys the laws of physics in fundamental ways. This is true for all physiological processes that occur inside cells, tissues, organs, ....

Plant Growth

Interactions with Nutrition and Environment

Edited by JR Porter and DW Lawlor

Nutrition is a major environmental factor in regulating plant growth, and is therefore of significant practical concern to agriculturalists and ecologists. In order to achieve ....

Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

Genomics and Molecular Biology

Edited by RW Jackson

Bacteria pathogenic for plants are responsible for devastating losses in agriculture. The use of antibiotics to control such infections is restricted in many countries due to ....

Plastid Biology

Kevin Pyke

Plastids reside in all plant cells, and take on different forms in relation to their cellular function, biochemistry and storage capacity. The modern era of molecular ....

RHS Plant Finder 2009-2010

Royal Horticultural Society

Find the right plants for your garden with the 2009-10 edition of RHS Plantfinder from the experts at the RHS. Whatever plant you are looking for, your'll find it: with over ....

Recueil des Plantes Utilisees en Medecine Traditionelle Congolaise Province de l'Equateur, Volume 1

Paul Latham

Resource Strategies of Wild Plants

Joseph M Craine

Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses. These ....

Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South California and the Eastern United States

Patrick McMillan

The Wild Flowers of the Isle of Purbeck, Brownsea and Sandbanks

Edward A Pratt

The Isle of Purbeck is the richest area in Britain for its size for wild flowers. So what better place to get to see them? This book directs you to precise localities where ....

Animal Encounters

Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini

The fast-growing field of Animal Studies is a varied and much contested domain. Engagement with animals has encouraged both collaboration and conflict between ....

Annelids as Model Systems in in the Biological Sciences

Daniel H Shain

Annelids offer a diversity of experimentally accessible features making them a rich experimental subject across the biological sciences, including evolutionary development, ....

Cellular Signal Processing

An Introduction to the Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction

Friedrich Marks, Karin Muller-Decker and Ursula Klingmuller

"Cellular Signal Processing" is intended for use in signal transduction courses for undergraduate and graduate students. It offers a unifying view of cell signaling that is ....

The Chemistry of Life

Eight Lectures on the History of Biochemistry

Edited by Joseph Needham

This assembly of lectures, each on a major aspect of the development of biochemistry, should appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the nature of ....

The Death of the Animal

A Dialogue with Commentaries

Paola Cavalieri

Cavalieri begins with a Socratic dialogue on the status of animals between two imagined philosophers, representing the analytical and continental traditions. They discuss the ....

Debating Human Genetics

Alexandra Plows

This book examines contemporary public debate on emerging developments in medical genetics, including cloning, gene therapy, gene patenting, biobanks, genetic testing and ....

Essential Cell Biology

Bruce Alberts et al

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to cell biology. It is intended for a first course in cell biology that emphasizes fundamental concepts. The new edition of ....

Genetics

Analysis and Principles

Robert J Brooker

Genetics: Analysis and Principles is a one-semester, introductory genetics textbook that takes an experimental approach to understanding genetics. By weaving one or two ....

Life as it is

Biology for the Public Sphere

William F Loomis

This concise, accessible book considers from a biological perspective the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered evolution, cooperativity, and the ....

The Little Book of Dangerous Animals

Louise Malo

The Little Book of Dangerous Animals invites the reader into the various 'worlds' of these predators and discovers which are the most deadly of them all. ....

Macromolecules

Walter Gratzer

Macromolecules are, in a sense, life itself. DNA is one of these giant molecules, as are the proteins that govern the workings of the human body. Yet macromolecules also ....

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Edited by Gary Mullen and Lance Durden

For medical, veterinary, entomology and public health students, this acclaimed textbook has been fully updated and revised to reflect the most recent advancements. Each chapter ....

Microbial Production of Biopolymers and Polymer Precursors

Applications and Perspectives

Edited by BH Rehm

A huge variety of biopolymers, such as polysaccharides, polyesters, and polyamides, are naturally produced by microorganisms. These range from viscous solutions to plastics and ....

Praise of Chromosome Folly

Confessions of an Untamed Molecular Structure

Antonio Lima-de-Faria

When examined carefully at the molecular level, the chromosome turns out to have created its own private world full of tricks, back door exits and novel solutions. This folly ....

Principles of Genetics

D Peter Snustad and Michael J Simmons

Snustad provides scientists with the confidence to apply problem solving to the major principals of genetics. It eases them into the art of problem solving by integrating ....

Sequence Alignment

Methods, Models, Concepts, and Strategies

Edited by Michael S Rosenberg

The sequencing of the human genome involved thousands of scientists but used relatively few tools. Today, obtaining sequences is simpler, but aligning the sequences - making ....

The Smartest Animals on the Planet

Extraordinary Tales of the Natural World's Cleverest Creatures

Sarah Boysen

We have all heard talk of the intelligence of dolphins, elephants or great apes, or even, in different ways, ants and bees. But what is this intelligence all about? How do ....

Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Systems and Processes

Edited by Muhammad H Zaman

Cells are complex objects, representing a multitude of structures and processes. In order to understand the organization, interaction and hierarchy of these structures and ....

Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology

Pengcheng Fu, Martin Latterich and Sven Panke

The genomic revolution has opened up systematic investigations and engineering designs for various life forms. Systems biology and synthetic biology are emerging as two ....

Vibrio Cholerae

Genomics and Molecular Biology

Edited by Shah M Faruque and G Balakrish Nair

The last decade has witnessed the unravelling of remarkable new insights into the biology of Vibrio cholerae. These include the discovery of the filamentous phage that ....

Archeology of a Central Saharan Granitic Ring Complex in Niger

Adrar Bous

This monograph presents climatic, geochronological, radiometric, and archaeological evidence for hominin activities around the Adrar Bous massif on the western edge of ....

Clonality

The Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution of Sexual Abstinence in Vertebrate Animals

John Avise

Approximately 99.9% of vertebrate species reproduce sexually. The exceptional 0.1% reproduce via asexual or clonal means, which vary wildly and are fascinating in their ....

Darwin's Universe

Evolution from A to Z

Richard Milner, Stephen Jay Gould and Ian Tattersall

This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly ....

Endless Forms

Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Diana Donald and Jane Munro

Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow ....

Evolution & Ethics

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the most prominent proponents of evolutionary theory of the late nineteenth century. A close companion of Charles Darwin, Huxley ....

Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Joan Roughgarden

Fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates explaining how this diversity ....

First Peoples in a New World

Colonizing Ice Age America

David J Meltzer

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how ....

Forms of Becoming

The Evolutionary Biology of Development

Alessandro Minelli

What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or "evo-devo") answers this fundamental question by ....

The Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

Joan Roughgarden

Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? ....

The History of Life

A Very Short Introduction

Michael J Benton

There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from ....

The Making of the Fittest

DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

Sean B Carroll

DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of ....

Not a Chimp

The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human

J Taylor

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct ....

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the "Beagle"

Charles Darwin and Ruth Padel

This title is presented with an introduction by Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, Ruth Padel. When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board ....