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May 2017 Monthly CatalogueWelcome to the May 2017 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month.

We have a strong line-up of bird books to announce this month. First off, two translations of important books: Waders of Europe: A Photographic Guide (due July) wasoriginally published in Danish, and Winter Birds by Lars Jonsson (due October) in Swedish. Bloomsbury is currently preparing English translations of both. Lynx has justfinalised details on Birds of Eastern Polynesia: A Biogeographic Atlas (due July), while Italian raptor specialist Giovanni Leonardi is about to publishBehavioural Ecology of Western Palearctic Falcons of which we are expecting stock very soon. On the other side of the Atlantic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announcedBirds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America for June this year.

There is also a number of interesting titles on fishes in the planning. Cambridge University Press has just announcedDeep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries (due July), and Brill announced International Law of Sharks: Obstacles, Options and Opportunities (due May),which is likely the only recent book on environmental law as applied to shark conservation. Yale University Press revealed Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization (dueOctober), by noted archaeologist Brian M. Fagan. Going by his other books, this will likely be a very interesting blend of archaeology and environmental history and I hopeto report on that more nearer the time.

Staying underwater for one more moment then, there are two excellent books lined up on marine mammals:Deep Thinkers: An Exploration of Intelligence in Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises (due October) by Ivy Press, andThe Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution (due October) by Johns Hopkins University Press. The latter follows a string of similarly titled books from thispress over the years, looking at major taxonomic groups and how they arose. Other important books on mammals include Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and Behavior(due June) from Oxford University Press, and Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (due May) from Da Capo Press, which tells the 300-yearhistory of wild wolves in America.

For entomologists, we similarly have a range of interesting books. We have just received stock of Ants of Southern Africa: The Ant Book for All, which is an unbelievablywell-illustrated guide. We have not seen anything quite as thorough as this before. Ivy Press has announcedThe Book of Caterpillars: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World (due October), which will follow the same format of pictorial excellence as othertitles in this series. The cover looks very promising. Two other books have been published recently which we will be stocking: A Guide to Lanternflies of Borneo by NaturalHistory Publications Borneo and Butterflies of Hertfordshire and Middlesex from the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. We have also just received stock ofLonghorn Beetles in Sweden: Changes in Distribution and Abundance over the Last Two Hundred Years, which, even though published in 2011, has not been widelyavailable so far.

For botanists, there is only one title to mention this month, but it's a big one: Kew will publish Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plant Families(due September), with Chicago University Press co-publishing this in the USA.

To round off this month, we have a selection of wildlife and environmental titles. Bloomsbury has just revealed the fifth volume in the British Wildlife Collection: Saltmarsh(due October) by Clive Chatters. Aurum press will publish ReWild: The Art of Returning to Nature (due June) from the pen of Nick Baker.

Finally, there are some practical titles to mention. Johns Hopkins University Press will publish Becoming a Wildlife Professional (due August) and Packard Publishing hasjust brought out a revised second edition of A Guide to Habitat Creation. Cambridge University Press has announcedDefending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics (due August) which will help environmentalists and conservationists in building stronger and more convincingcases when discussing the value of biodiversity with people on the other side of the argument. It seems that there has never been a more pressing need for such a bookthan the last few months.

MammalsMammals of the Great Lakes RegionAllen Kurta (Author)Now in an extensively revised 3rd edition, Mammals of the Great Lakes Region has been anessential reference for countless amateur and professional naturalists since 1957. Easilytucked into a backpack and carried into the field, this heavily...

432 pages | 84 colour photos, 68 b/w illustrations, 86 colour distributionmaps | University of Michigan Press

Paperback #235502 Jun-2017 9780472053452 £27.50Hardback #235501 Jun-2017 9780472073450 £65.95

Wild Man from BorneoA Cultural History of the OrangutanRobert J Cribb (Author), Helen Gilbert (Author), Helen Tiffin (Author)Wild Man from Borneo offers the first comprehensive history of the human-orangutanencounter. Arguably the most humanlike of all the great apes, particularly in intelligence andbehavior, the orangutan has been cherished, used, and abused ever since...

328 pages | 55 illustrations, 2 maps | University of Hawaii Press

Paperback #235171 2017 9780824872830 £30.95Hardback #211554 2014 9780824837143 £59.50

The Rise of Marine Mammals50 Million Years of EvolutionAnnalisa Berta (Author), James L Sumich (Illustrator)Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched sealsand dolphins on the walls of Palaeolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors totrack these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from...

216 pages | 27 colour photos, 68 colour & 79 b/w illustrations | JohnsHopkins University Press

Hardback #235459 Oct-2017 9781421423258 £55.50

The Killer Whale Who Changed the WorldMark Leiren-Young (Author)The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale – astory that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save themKiller whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea...

208 pages | 16 b/w photos, b/w maps | Greystone Books

Paperback #235440 Aug-2017 9781771643511 £19.99Hardback #231430 2016 9781771641937 £16.99

Deep ThinkersAn Exploration of Intelligence in Whales, Dolphins, and PorpoisesJanet Mann (Editor)We know whales, dolphins, and porpoises are the smartest creatures in the sea, we read oftheir tool use, their self-recognition, their complex songs, and their intricate societies and abilityto relate to humans, but, how do we know? And what is the...

192 pages | 150 colour photos and colour illustrations | The Ivy Press

Hardback #235036 Oct-2017 9781782405078 £19.99

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The Inner Life of CatsThe Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline CompanionsThomas McNamee (Author)As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta whilesimultaneously explaining the basics of a kitten's physiological and psychologicaldevelopment. As the narrative progresses, McNamee also charts cats'...

288 pages | 15 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations |Hachette Books

Hardback #235153 2017 9780316262873 £20.99

Wolf NationThe Life, Death, and Return of Wild American WolvesBrenda Peterson (Author)In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Petersontells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through ourrelationship with wolves. The earliest Americans...

304 pages | Da Capo Press

Hardback #235184 May-2017 9780306824937 £19.99

Bison and People on the North American Great PlainsA Deep Environmental HistoryGeoff Cunfer (Editor), Bill Waiser (Editor)The near-disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonlyunderstood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal militarypolicy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity;...

272 pages | 20 colour & 11 b/w photos, 10 illustrations, 5 maps | Texas A& M University Press

Hardback #235189 2016 9781623494742 £65.95

Farewell to the HorseThe Final Century of Our RelationshipUlrich Raulff (Author), Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translated by)The relationship between horses and humans is an ancient, profound and complex one. Formillennia horses provided the strength and speed that humans lacked. How we travelled,farmed and fought was dictated by the needs of this extraordinary animal....

480 pages | Allen Lane

Hardback #235232 May-2017 9780241257609 £24.99

Marine Mammal WelfareHuman Induced Change in the Marine Environment and its Impacts on Marine MammalWelfareAndrew Butterworth (Editor)Marine mammals attract human interest – sometimes this interest is benign or positive – whalewatching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches ofmarine debris are seen as proactive steps to...

710 pages | 142 colour & 11 b/w illustrations, 100 tables | Springer-Verlag

Hardback #235303 May-2017 9783319469935 £126.50

The Future of the Bornean OrangutanImpacts of Change in Land and ClimateSerge A Wich (Editor), Matthew Struebig (Editor), Johannes Refisch (Editor), Andreas Wilting(Editor), Stephanie Kramer-Schadt (Editor), Erik Meijaard (Editor)Over the past century, orangutan populations in Southeast Asia have seen a very steepdecline, driven to the brink of extinction by a host of man-made threats. Deforestation, illegallogging, the expansion of agro-industrial plantations and hunting...

64 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour maps, colour tables |United Nations

Paperback #235324 2017 9789491799020 £33.50

In Wild TrustLarry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown BearsJeff Fair (Author), Larry Aumiller (Illustrator), Douglas H Chadwick (Foreword By)For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping ofbrown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, twohundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a...

220 pages | 125 colour photos, 1 map | University of Alaska Press

Hardback #235349 2017 9781602233232 £24.99

All the World's PrimatesNoel Rowe (Editor), Marc Myers (Editor), Dame Jane Goodall (Foreword By), Russell AMittermeier (Introduction By), Anthony B Rylands (Introduction By)All the World's Primates shows you photographs or a drawing of every currently recognisedtaxon in the primate order with a synopsis of what is known about all 505 species. Theinformation has been compiled by over 300 primatologists from around...

777 pages | 1500+ colour photos, 40 colour illustrations, colourdistribution maps | Pogonias Press


Whales: Their Past, Present and FuturePhilip Hammond (Author), Sonja Heinrich (Author), Sascha Hooker (Author), Peter L Tyack(Author)Whales are the world's largest living mammals and for many centuries they have shared closeconnections with humans. Whales: Their Past, Present and Future explores the lives of theseincredible animals, how they adapted to life in the oceans and...

144 pages | colour photos | London Natural History Museum

Paperback #235366 Jul-2017 9780565094126 £14.99

Pig/Pork: Archaeology, Zoology and EdibilityPía Spry-Marqués (Author)Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses ofarchaeology, biology, history and gastronomy, providing a close and affectionate look at themyriad causes underlying this multi-millennial bond. What is it...

288 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Bloomsbury Sigma (Bloomsburyimprint)

Hardback #235419 Jul-2017 9781472911391 £16.99

Reproduction in MammalsThe Female PerspectiveVirginia Hayssen (Author), Teri Orr (Author)Newborn mammals can weigh as little as a dime or as much as a motorcycle. Some receivemilk for only a few days, whereas others nurse for years. Humans typically have only one babyat a time following nine months of pregnancy, but other mammals have...

384 pages | 45 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins University Press

Hardback #235464 Oct-2017 9781421423159 £51.99













Ornithology

Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and BehaviorBrian Hare (Editor), Shinya Yamamoto (Editor), Frans BM de Waal (Foreword By), Richard WWrangham (Afterword by)Along with the chimpanzee, the bonobo is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relativelynarrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo)combined with the political instability of that region, has made...

384 pages | 66 illustrations | Oxford University Press


A Cheetah's TaleHRH Princess Michael of Kent (Author), Jonathan Scott (Foreword By)This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing upand the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. Beautifully written by anatural storyteller and packed with fabulous photographs, it is...

224 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; 1 b/w map | Bradt TravelGuides

Hardback #235487 Sep-2017 9781784770693 £19.99

Bats of Western North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesRob Mies (Author)Bats are one of the most unique and mysterious animals on earth. You may have feared themor have been fascinated by them. Either way, you have wanted to learn more. This is yourchance. Their nocturnal habits make them difficult to photograph and...

12 pages | colour photos | Quick Reference Publishing, Inc.

Unbound #235545 2017 9782343107561 £11.99

Bats of Eastern North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesRob Mies (Author)Bats are one of the most unique and mysterious animals on earth. You may have feared themor have been fascinated by them. Either way, you have wanted to learn more. This is yourchance. Their nocturnal habits make them difficult to photograph and...


Unbound #235546 2017 9781943334551 £11.99

Guia Completo para Identificação das Aves do Brasil (2-Volume Set) [A Complete Guideto the Identification of Brazilian Birds]Rolf Grantsau (Author)The first complete work that describes all the 2907 species and subspecies of Brazilian birdsso far known. Contains keys for classification and a list of all bird species. Volume 1 containsnon-passerines, volume 2 passerines.Summary in Portuguese:A...

1280 pages | 178 plates with 2800+ colour illustrations | Vento Verde

Hardback #198954 2010 £299.00

DK Nature Guide Birds of AustraliaDorling Kindersley (DK) (Author)Birds of Australia is a fabulous resource for bird lovers, watchers, and professional twitchersinterested in Australian birds. It covers every major Australian bird group and includes adistribution map showing where each bird can be found. Details...

352 pages | colour illustrations | Dorling Kindersley Australia

Paperback #204949 2013 9781740338981 £41.99

Behavioural Ecology of Western Palearctic FalconsGiovanni Leonardi (Author), Marco Preziosi (Illustrator), Gaia Sorrentino (Illustrator)The genus Falco is one of the most fascinating groups of birds of prey and one that exhibits aworldwide distribution. This book describes how the behaviour of these magnificent birdscontributes to their survival and reproductive success, examining...

500 pages | Giovanni Leonardi (privately published)

Paperback #227227 2017 £42.99

Birds of the Middle East [Arabic]Richard Porter (Author), Simon Aspinall (Author), A Birch (Illustrator), John Gale (Illustrator),Mike Langman (Illustrator), Brian E Small (Illustrator), Abdulrahman Al-Sirhan Alenezi(Translated by)Arabic translation of the second edition of the Helm Field Guide Birds of the Middle East. Thisdetailed field guide deals exclusively with the birds of the region. It covers all species found inthe Arabian Peninsula (including Socotra), Jordan,...

384 pages | 176 colour plates, 636 colour distribution maps |Ornithological Society of the Middle East

Paperback #235437 2017 9789957876203 £19.99

Winter BirdsLars Jonsson (Illustrator)The winter months offer the perfect opportunity for us to become better acquainted with ourfavourite birds. As they forage in our gardens for seeds and berries, we are gifted with thechance to watch from the comfort of our homes, and learn more...

344 pages | 200 colour illustrations | Bloomsbury Publishing

Hardback #234748 Oct-2017 9781472942814 £24.99

An Uncertain FutureAustralian Birdlife in DangerGeoffrey Maslen (Author)Birds bring song and beauty to our lives, and they play a significant role in sustaining Earth'secosystems. But they are also facing the threat of extinction. In An Uncertain Future, GeoffreyMaslen takes us into the fascinating lives of...

304 pages | colour photos | Hardie Grant Books

Paperback #234919 Jul-2017 9781743793237 £18.99

WoodpeckerGerard Gorman (Author)Woodpeckers are among the most remarkable birds in the avian world, having evolved aunique anatomy that enables them to peck and bore into solid timber both to find food and tocreate nesting cavities. They have been considered symbols of fertility,...

224 pages | 60 colour & 40 b/w illustrations | Reaktion Books

Paperback #234961 Oct-2017 9781780238296 £12.95

Birds: What's in a Name?Peter Barry (Author)Have you ever looked through the names in a bird book and thought "It's all Greek to me!"?This entertaining and informative guide to bird names explains the meanings behind thenames, many of which have fascinating origins and stories...

240 pages | 100 colour photos, 30 b/w illustrations | New HollandPublishers

Hardback #235070 Sep-2017 9781925546040 £16.99














Breeding Birds of Solano CountyMike Rippey (Editor), Murray Berner (Author), Robin Leong (Author), Rusty Scalf (Illustrator)The 2nd edition of the Napa-Solano Audubon's beautiful coffee table book, Breeding Birds ofSolano County, includes the latest taxonomy and conservation status updates, modifications,and some minor corrections, as well as the original...

224 pages | 350+ colour photos, colour distribution maps | Napa-SolanoAudubon Society

Hardback #235150 2016 9780991273126 £84.99

Mallorca Super-Durable Map and Bird Watching GuideRos Brawn (Editor)Mallorca Super-Durable Map and Bird Watching Guide combines the latest island map with afull-colour bird watching guide. Navigate to your destination then turn over your map to identifythe birds you see there. The Mallorca Super-Durable Map is a...

2 pages | 51 colour photos, colour map, scale 1 : 125,000; dimensions:84 × 64 cm unfolded | Discovery Walking Guides

Map #235165 May-2017 9781782750383 £8.99

Great Indian BustardA Pictorial Life HistoryAsad R Rahmani (Author), Devesh Gadhavi (Author), Kedar Gore (Author), DhritimanMukherjee (Illustrator)The Great Indian Bustard, Ardeotis nigriceps, is perhaps the rarest bustard in the world andone of the rarest birds of India. Despite protective measures, its numbers have gone down toless than 250 individuals, mainly because of illegal hunting and...

116 pages | colour photos | The Corbett Foundation

Paperback #235182 2016 £39.50

Birds of Eastern PolynesiaA Biogeographic AtlasJean-Claude Thibault (Author), Alice Cibois (Author)Birds of Eastern Polynesia provides a comprehensive presentation of the 240 species of birdsever recorded in Eastern Polynesia, a vast area of Oceania. The objective of this book is tosynthesise biogeographic and phylogenetic data for all species,...

440 pages | ~200 colour & ~70 b/w illustrations, 142 colour distributionmaps | Lynx Edicions

Hardback #235190 Jul-2017 9788416728053 £34.99

Warblers and Other Songbirds of North AmericaA Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesPaul Sterry (Author)Written by biologist, author and photographer Dr. Paul Sterry, this is a stunning photographicfield guide of 285 species of North American warblers and songbirds-published here inglorious life-sized detail along with concise descriptions, maps of...

352 pages | colour photos | Harper Design International (Harper Collinsimprint)

Hardback #235191 Jul-2017 9780062446817 £19.99

A Pictorial Guide to the State Birds of the United StatesThis contains a picture of each state bird (or game bird or waterfowl in one case) for every stateplus the District of Columbia. On one page is a full-colour picture of the bird and on the facingpage is the name (both common and scientific) along...

132 pages | colour photos | Cool Image Production

Paperback #235356 2016 9781533624505 £34.99

Birds of PreyHawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North AmericaPete Dunne (Author), Kevin T Karlson (Author)Always a popular group of birds, raptors symbolise freedom and fierceness, and in PeteDunne's definitive guide, these traits are portrayed in hundreds of stunning colour photographsshowing raptors up close, in flight, and in action –...

320 pages | colour photos | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Hardback #235390 Jun-2017 9780544018440 £27.99

The Peregrine ReturnsThe Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor RecoveryMary Hennen (Author), Peggy Macnamara (Illustrator), Stephanie Ware (Illustrator), JohnBates (Foreword By)Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundredmiles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they arenow well known for adapting from life on rocky cliffs to a...

208 pages | 159 plates with colour illustrations | University of ChicagoPress

Hardback #235397 Aug-2017 9780226465425 £18.99

Waders of EuropeA Photographic GuideLars Gejl (Author)Waders are truly spectacular members of our avifauna, especially along coasts and inwetlands during the spring and autumn migration periods, when members of several speciesmay form dramatic flocks that wheel and turn in flight. While waders are...

384 pages | 670 colour photos, 189 b/w illustrations | BloomsburyPublishing

Hardback #235436 Jul-2017 9781472947055 £31.99

The Wonder of BirdsWhat Birds Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better FutureJim Robbins (Author)Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to other wild creatures. We love towatch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them.Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to...

320 pages | 28 b/w illustrations | Spiegel & Grau

Hardback #235512 May-2017 9780812993530 £28.99

Warblers of North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesKevin T Karlson (Author)Warblers of North America provides comprehensive coverage of all the regularly occurringwarblers of North America, plus a few rarities. Over 150 photos include breeding adults,nonbreeding and first-winter plumages of many species where pertinent,...

12 pages | 150+ colour photos | Quick Reference Publishing, Inc.

Unbound #235547 2016 9781943334292 £11.99

Raptors of Western North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesKevin T Karlson (Author)Raptors of Western North America contains over 120 colour photos of all the raptors that occurwest of the Rocky mountains in the continental United States and Canadian provinces. Multiplephotos for many species show a variety of plumage conditions...


Unbound #235548 2012 9781936913381 £11.99














Reptiles & Amphibians

Fishes

Raptors of Eastern North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesKevin T Karlson (Author)Raptors of Eastern North America contains over 120 colour photos of all the raptors that occureast of the Rocky mountains in the United States and Canadian provinces. Multiple photos formany species show a variety of plumage conditions for males,...


Unbound #235549 2012 9781936913374 £11.99

Shorebirds of North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesKevin T Karlson (Author)Shorebirds of North America contains over 200 colour photos of all the breeding and commonlyoccurring shorebird species found in North America. Species accounts show breeding andnonbreeding plumages when differences occur, as well as many immature...


Unbound #235550 2014 9781936913787 £11.99

Owls of North America – Including Nighthawks and NightjarsA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesKevin T Karlson (Author)This comprehensive guide includes multiple photos of every owl found in North America,including some regional subspecies. Some species have up to six photos that show plumagevariation, sexual differences and behavior, with 75 photos representing...

12 pages | 75 colour photos | Quick Reference Publishing, Inc.

Unbound #235551 2017 9781943334216 £11.99

Hummingbirds of North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesGreg R Homel (Author)Hummingbirds of North America is a quick and easy to use, light-weight, durable, all-weatherfield guide to the smallest, and some of the most colorful, popular, mysterious and alluringbirds in North America – Hummingbirds. Over 100 stunning...


Unbound #235552 2013 9781936913428 £11.99

Waterfowl of North AmericaA Comprehensive Guide to All SpeciesKevin T Karlson (Author)Waterfowl of North America contains 185 colour photos of all the breeding and commonlyoccurring waterfowl species found in North America. Species accounts show perched,swimming and flight photos, with males and females illustrated where applicable....

12 pages | 185 colour photos | Quick Reference Publishing, Inc.

Unbound #235553 2013 9781936913411 £11.99

LizardBoria Sax (Author)Our storybooks are full of lizards, but we usually call them something else – dragons, serpents,dinosaurs or monsters. These stories vastly increase their size, bestow wings upon them,make them exhale flame, and endow them with magical...


Paperback #234960 Oct-2017 9781780238289 £12.95

Freshwater Turtles of AustraliaJohn Cann (Author), Ross A Sadlier (Author)Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and anarray of side-necked turtle subspecies. The biology and ecology of Australian freshwater turtlesis complex and a number of species are of particular...

464 pages | colour photos | CSIRO

Hardback #235388 Aug-2017 9781486308248 £129.00

American Alligator of the Southern United States (Including Information on theAmerican Crocodile and Spectacled Caiman)A Guide to Its Natural HistoryGeorge L Heinrich (Author), Timothy J Walsh (Author)This informative natural history guide is an excellent resource for all outdoor and natureenthusiasts. It describes all three crocodilian species found in this region of the United States.The guide also features colour photos that make it ideal for...


Unbound #235554 2011 9781936913077 £11.99

Extremophile FishesEcology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme EnvironmentsRüdiger Riesch (Editor), Michael Tobler (Editor), Martin Plath (Editor)Extremophile Fishes summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to surviveunder harsh environmental conditions. It reviews the most recent research on acidic, Antarctic,cave, desert, hypersaline, hypoxic, temporary, and fest-flowing...

326 pages | 16 colour & 14 b/w photos and illustrations | Springer-Verlag


What a Fish KnowsThe Inner Lives of Our Underwater CousinsJonathan Balcombe (Author)Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognise thehumans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows themyth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and...

297 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Oneworld Publications

Paperback #235544 Oct-2017 9781786072092 £9.99Paperback #233400 2016 9781786071224 £12.99Hardback #229794 2016 9780374288211 £24.99

Herring: A Global HistoryKathy Hunt (Author)For such a small fish, the herring has played an enormous role in history. Since the MiddleAges battles have been waged for it; international economic alliances have formed over it; anumber of major cities owe their initial prosperities and...


Hardback #234814 Oct-2017 9781780238319 £10.99













Invertebrates

Deep-Sea FishesBiology, Diversity, Ecology and FisheriesImants G Priede (Author)The technological advances of the last twenty years have brought huge advances in ourunderstanding of the deep sea and of the species inhabiting this elusive and fascinatingenvironment. Synthesising the very latest research and discoveries, this is...

534 pages | colour photos, illustrations | Cambridge University Press

Hardback #235166 Aug-2017 9781107083820 £74.99

International Law of SharksObstacles, Options and OpportunitiesErika J Techera (Author), Natalie Klein (Author)In International Law of Sharks, Erika J. Techera and Natalie Klein provide an in-depth analysisof the current legal frameworks that relate to these important species. The authors offer ways inwhich to overcome obstacles that prevent existing laws...

E J Brill

Hardback #235167 Jun-2017 9789004345508 £139.00

Stream Fish Community DynamicsA Critical SynthesisWilliam J Matthews (Author), Edie Marsh-Matthews (Author)Ecologists have long struggled to understand community dynamics. In this groundbreakingbook, leading fish ecologists William Matthews and Edie Marsh-Matthews apply long-termstudies of stream fish communities to several enduring questions. This...

31 colour & 17 b/w photos, 50 b/w illustrations | Johns Hopkins UniversityPress

Hardback #235188 Jun-2017 9781421422022 £47.99

Fishes Out of WaterBiology and Ecology of MudskippersZeehan Jaafar (Author), Edward O Murdy (Author)Mudskippers are amphibious fishes native to the Indo-West Pacific and tropical western Africa.Unlike most fishes, mudskippers emerse to forage, find mates, and defend territories.Adaptations to their morphology, physiology and behaviour enable...

400 pages | 152 colour & 80 b/w illustrations, 29 tables | ProductivityPress

Hardback #235293 Jun-2017 9781498717878 £91.99

The Antarctic SilverfishA Keystone Species in a Changing EcosystemMarino Vacchi (Editor), Eva Pisano (Editor), Laura Ghigliotti (Editor)The Antarctic Silverfish encompasses the body of available scientific information on thenotothenioid fish Pleuragramma antarctica commonly known as Antarctic silverfish. Thisplankton-feeder of the intermediate trophic level is the most abundant...


Hardback #235302 May-2017 9783319558912 £85.99

Shark DrunkThe Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big OceanMorten Strøksnes (Author), Tiina Nunnally (Translated by)In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenlandshark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Itsfluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise...

304 pages | Jonathan Cape

Hardback #235417 Jul-2017 9781910702994 £12.99

Sharks of the ShallowsCoastal Species in Florida and the BahamasJeffrey C Carrier (Author), Andy Murch (Illustrator), Jillian Morris (Illustrator), Duncan Brake(Illustrator)Agile, sleek, and precise, sharks display many qualities we can admire and appreciate. Thesemarvels of evolution have adapted to thrive in every major aquatic realm on the planet, fromfrigid Arctic waters through temperate but stormy seas and on...

216 pages | 239 colour photos | Johns Hopkins University Press

Hardback #235463 Aug-2017 9781421422947 £25.99

Essential Fish BiologyDiversity, Structure, and FunctionDerek Burton (Author), Margaret Burton (Author)An introductory overview of the functional biology of fish and how that may be affected by thecontrasting habitat conditions within the aquatic environment. It describes the recent advancesin comparative animal physiology which have greatly...

416 pages | 120+ illustrations | Oxford University Press

Paperback #235476 Aug-2017 9780198785569 £39.99Hardback #235477 Aug-2017 9780198785552 £79.99

Sharks Never SleepFirst-Hand Encounters with Killers of the seaBrendan McAloon (Author)Following a year of record numbers of shark attacks, Sharks Never Sleep takes us around theworld to meet shark-attack survivors, shark lovers and shark hunters, who tell us of the primalfear of being eaten alive by a wild animal, the unimaginable...

198 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Hardie Grant Books

Paperback #235480 2017 9781743793350 £12.99

Shīrakansu no Nazo: Rikujō Seibutsu no Idenshi o Motsu Sakana [The Mystery of theCoelacanth: A Fish with Genes of Terrestrial Organisms]Abe Yoshitaka (Author), Iwata Masamitsu (Author)Although the coelacanth has been called a "living fossil", many people know the name don'treally know what kind of living thing it is. The coelacanth has not changed its appearance inalmost 400 million years, and its fins have a...

143 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations, colour tables |Seibundōshinkōsha

Hardback #235500 2014 9784416614822 £31.99

Genetic Resources of Neotropical FishesAlexandre Wagner Silva Hilsdorf (Author), Eric Hallerman (Author)The aim of Genetic Resources of Neotropical Fishes is to systematise and discuss populationgenetic studies of freshwater fish in a region that harbours the greatest diversity of speciesamong all inland water ecosystems. This volume explores the...


Hardback #235569 Jun-2017 9783319558363 £117.00













Ecology and Palaeoecology of Benthic ForaminiferaJohn W Murray (Author)Reprint of a work originally published in 1991.Published in conjunction with thePalaeontological Association. The author relates ecological information on living forms to thepalaeoecology of fossil species. A major part of the book is devoted to a...

398 pages | b/w illustrations, maps, tables | Routledge


Garden Insects of North AmericaThe Ultimate Guide to Backyard BugsWhitney Cranshaw (Author), David J Shetlar (Author)This second edition of Garden Insects of North America solidifies its place as the mostcomprehensive guide to the common insects, mites, and other "bugs" found in the backyardsand gardens of the United States and Canada. Featuring 3,300...

704 pages | 300 colour photos, 5 b/w illustrations, 9 tables | PrincetonUniversity Press

Paperback #235450 Dec-2017 9780691167442 £27.95Paperback #147730 2004 9780691095615 £24.95

Insects: Their Natural History and DiversityWith a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North AmericaStephen A Marshall (Author)Called "a milestone in insect photography" and "simply bigger, prettier and morecomprehensive than any previous publication on insects," Professor Stephen Marshall'sInsects is now in a new edition, with more than 500 changes...

736 pages | 4000 colour photos and colour illustrations | Firefly Books

Hardback #235240 Sep-2017 9781770859623 £54.99Hardback #162027 2006 9781552979006 £49.99

Neotropical Insect GallsGeraldo Wilson Fernandes (Editor), Jean Carlos Santos (Editor)Neotropical Insect Galls focuses on one of the most sophisticated guild herbivorous insects,the gall inducing insects. They trespass the defensive lines of their host plants, engineer thehost to provide their larvae with shelter against the...

300 pages | 50 colour & 56 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag


Field Guide to the Dragonflies & Damselflies of Great Britain and IrelandSteve Brooks (Author), Steve Cham (Author), Richard Lewington (Illustrator)Shortlisted for the 1998 BP Natural World Book, this highly successful title is widelyconsidered as the definitive guide to the dragonflies and damselflies found in Britain andIreland. This bestseller in its field has been revised and updated to...

192 pages | 50+ colour photos, 270+ colour illustrations, b/w illustrations,colour distribution maps | British Wildlife Publishing

Paperback #215504 2014 9780956490285 £18.95

Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles(Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)Donald Yee (Editor)Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) constitute one of the largest families offreshwater insects (~ 4200 species). Although dytiscid adults and larvae are ubiquitousthroughout a variety of aquatic habitats and are significant...



Vielfalt der Insekten [Diversity of Insects]Michel Brancucci (Author)This booklet introduces some examples of the diversity of insects, using specimens of thecollections from Natural History Museum of Basel. It is not intended to be a thoroughintroduction or a textbook, but an accessible book of factoids to arouse...

35 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Naturhistorisches MuseumBasel

Paperback #235462 1986 £19.99

The Biology of Plant-Insect InteractionsA Compendium for the Plant BiotechnologistChandrakanth Emani (Author)Overviews of biochemical, genetic, and molecular perspectives of plant-insect interactions withadded emphasis on bioinformatic, genomic, and transcriptome analysis are comprehensivelytreated in The Biology of Plant-Insect Interactions. It presents...

304 pages | 10 colour illustrations | Productivity Press

Hardback #231890 Oct-2017 9781498709736 £121.00

The Book of CaterpillarsA Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the WorldDavid G James (Author)Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful and most-studied creatures in nature.Caterpillars, the juvenile stage, are just as diverse, alluring, and fascinating – and deserve tobe admired and observed just as closely. Now, with The...

656 pages | 2400 colour photos, distribution maps | The Ivy Press

Hardback #235037 Oct-2017 9781782405061 £29.99

Ecological Strategies of Aquatic InsectsCharles W Heckman (Author)Ecological Strategies of Aquatic Insects recounts the habits of many interesting and unusualexceptions to the rule that insects are typically terrestrial forms of life. It examines the differentways that groups of species have developed modes of...

552 pages | 16 colour illustrations | Productivity Press

Hardback #235059 Sep-2017 9781498719223 £121.00

The Green MenaceEmerald Ash Borer and the Invasive Species ProblemJohn D Marché II (Author)The Green Menace is an account of the scientific and social responses made to the discoveryof an invasive forest insect – the emerald ash borer or (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888) –in North America, that was formally announced in...

320 pages | Oxford University Press

Hardback #235071 Oct-2017 9780190668921 £45.99

Forest Insect Population Dynamics, Outbreaks, and Global Warming EffectsAlexander S Isaev (Author), Vladislav G Soukhovolsky (Author), Olga V Tarasova (Author),Elena N Palnikova (Author), Anton V Kovalev (Author)Research in insect population dynamics is important for more reasons than just protectingforest communities. Insect populations are among the main ecological units included in theanalysis of stability of ecological systems. Moreover, it is...

304 pages | John Wiley & Sons

Paperback #235159 May-2017 9781119406464 £180.00














The Noctuoid Moths of KyrgyzstanStanislav K Korb (Author), Aleksey Y Matov (Author), Igor G Pliushch (Author), Zoya FKlyuchko (Author), Alexander N Poltavsky (Author)The list of species of Kyrgyzstan at the current time is given. This list includes 857 species (69are new to this fauna, 8251 specimens have been processed). The species which the authorsrecord for this fauna for the first time and many...

229 pages | KMK Scientific Press

Hardback #235163 2017 9785990894150 £230.00

Ticks of Trinidad and Tobago - An OverviewAsoke K Basu (Author), Roxanne Charles (Author)Ticks of Trinidad and Tobago – An Overview explores tick species prevalent in Trinidad andTobago, their distribution, associated pathogens, their effects on the host, and control methods.Ticks of Trinidad and Tobago - An Overview also...

106 pages | Academic Press

Paperback #235186 2017 9780128097441 £48.99

Saishin Kurage Zukan: 110-Shu no Kurage no Fushigina Seitai Tankōbon [Encyclopediaof Jellyfish]Miyake Yūji (Author), Dhugal J Lindsay (Author)This book introduces about 110 species of jellyfish, both those found in Japanese aquaria, asother species from around the world. Photos show mature jellyfish and stages in the maturationprocess. There is also a calendar, recommending seasons and...

127 pages | colour photos | Seibundōshinkōsha

Paperback #235197 2013 9784416613542 £42.99

Kurage no Fushigi: Zenshin ga nō ni Naru? Nazo no Fuyū Seimei-Tai [The Mystery of theJellyfish]Miyake Yūji (Author)Studies on jellyfish are progressing, but it is still an area full of mysteries and wonder. Thisbook introduces the latest research.Summary in...

140 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Seibundōshinkōsha

Hardback #235198 2014 9784416114490 £26.99

Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater MusselsAbbie Gascho Landis (Author)Abbie Gascho Landis first fell for freshwater mussels while submerged in an Alabama creek,her pregnant belly squeezed into a wetsuit. After an hour of fruitless scanning, a musselmaterialised from the rocks – a little spectaclecase, herself...

256 pages | 7 illustrations | Island Press

Hardback #235260 Jun-2017 9781610918077 £22.99

Arthropod Fauna and Ecology of Tajikistan [Russian]MG Pripisnova (Author)A collection of 10, mainly faunistic/taxonomic papers on ixodid ticks as well as on Plectoptera,Meloidae, Carabidae, Culculionidae (Coleoptera) and some other insect groups in Tajikistan,Central Asia.

104 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Tajik University Press

Paperback #235268 1973 £43.99

Insect Fauna and Ecology of Kirghizia [Russian]AI Protsenko (Author)A collection of 19 papers on the fauna (Diptera: Hypoboscidae; Mallophaga; Gamasina mites; anew Aphodius; faunistics of hymenopterans parasitising Syrphidae flies; bugs attacking beat,etc.), biology (e.g. Proformica mongolica) and integrated pest...

114 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Ilim

Paperback #235269 1979 £44.99

Entomological Studies in Kirghizia [Russian]AI Protsenko (Author)A collection of 43 paper on the fauna, biology, ecology, distribution, and economic importanceof mites (Tetrapodili, Gamasina) and insects (Diptera: Simuliidae, Tabanidae,Ceratopogonidae, Culicidae, Syrphidae, etc.; Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae,...


Paperback #235271 1975 £39.99Hardback #235270 1975 £43.99

Entomological Studies in Kirghizia [Russian]AI Protsenko (Author)A collection of 12, mainly taxonomic/faunistic papers on spiders, parasitic gamasid mites andsome insect groups (Diptera: Simuliidae, Asilidae; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; etc.) in Kirghizia,Central Asia.


Paperback #235272 1977 £42.99

Entomological Studies in Kirghizia [Russian]AI Protsenko (Author)A collection of 16 papers, mainly on the taxonomy, faunistics and distribution of spiders(Araneidae), mites (Eriphyoidea, Gamasina), and insects (Aphaniptera, Diptera, Coleoptera,and Homoptera) in Central Asia, with descriptions of new taxa.


Paperback #235273 1974 £42.99

Entomological Studies in Kirghizia, No. 11 [Russian]AI Protsenko (Author)A collection of 13 papers on the taxonomy, biology, ecology, distribution and economicimportance of entomoparasitic Mermithidae (Nematoda), mites, spiders, and insects (Diptera:Bombyliidae; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Homoptera: Aphididae; etc.) in...


Paperback #235274 1976 £41.99

Entomological Studies in Kirghizia, No. 15 [Russian]LV Pek (Author)A collection of 17 papers, mainly on the taxonomy, faunistics and distribution of spiders(Araneidae), mites (Gamasina), and insects (Homoptera, Mallophaga, Aphaniptera, Coleoptera,etc.) in Central Asia, with descriptions of new taxa.


Paperback #235275 1982 £42.99

Entomological Studies in Kirghizia, No. 18 [Russian]RV Grebeniuk (Author)A collection of 19 papers, mainly on the taxonomy, faunistics and distribution of mites(Eriophyiidae, Gamasina) and beetles (Tenebrionidae) as well as on the biology and ecology ofsome other insect and mite groups in Central Asia.


Paperback #235276 1985 £43.99















Entomological Studies in Kirghizia, No. 20 [Russian]PA Chirov (Author)A collection of 18, mostly taxonomic/faunistic papers on insects (Orthoptera, Homoptera,Coleoptera, Anoplura, Mallophaga, Diptera, etc.) and mites of Kirghizia, Central Asia.


Paperback #235277 1989 £42.99

Reproduction and Development in MolluscaTJ Pandian (Author)Reproduction and Development in Mollusca is perhaps the first attempt to comprehensivelyproject the uniqueness of molluscs, covering almost all aspects of reproduction anddevelopment from aplacophorans to vampyromorphic cephalopods.Molluscs are...

320 pages | 5 colour & 65 b/w illustrations | Productivity Press

Hardback #235296 Jul-2017 9781138710450 £145.00

Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern OceanSven Klimpel (Editor), Thomas Kuhn (Editor), Heinz Mehlhorn (Editor)The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive waterbiotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especiallythe influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive...


Hardback #235308 2017 9783319463421 £115.50

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common AntsEleanor Spicer Rice (Author), Rob Dunn (Author), Alex Wild (Illustrator)Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are amongthe longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well assome of the strongest. Fans of both the city and...

96 pages | 96 colour photos | University of Chicago Press

Paperback #235398 Aug-2017 9780226445816 £13.50

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of CaliforniaEleanor Spicer Rice (Author), Rob Dunn (Author), Alex Wild (Illustrator)Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are amongthe longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well assome of the strongest. Fans of both the city and...


Paperback #235399 Aug-2017 9780226351537 £13.50

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of ChicagoEleanor Spicer Rice (Author), Rob Dunn (Author), Alex Wild (Illustrator)Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are amongthe longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well assome of the strongest. Fans of both the city and...


Paperback #235400 Aug-2017 9780226266800 £13.50

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of New York CityEleanor Spicer Rice (Author), Rob Dunn (Author), Alex Wild (Illustrator)Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are amongthe longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well assome of the strongest. Fans of both the city and...


Paperback #235401 Aug-2017 9780226351674 £13.50

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common SpidersEleanor Spicer Rice (Author), Christopher M Buddle (Author)Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs,capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our abilityto appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels.No longer! In...


Paperback #235402 Aug-2017 9780226332253 £14.99

The MonarchSaving Our Most-Loved ButterflyKylee Baumle (Author)Not long ago, monarchs numbered in the billions, but in the last 20 years their population hasdropped by 90%, due to habitat loss from pesticides, farming practices, development and otherhuman activity. An estimated one million acres of habitat are...

160 pages | colour photos | St. Lynn's Press

Hardback #235425 2017 9781943366170 £21.99

Why Every Fly CountsA Documentation About the Value and Endangerment of InsectsHans-Dietrich Reckhaus (Author)Why Every Fly Counts discusses the beneficial and harmful effects of insects and explainstheir development and significance for biodiversity. Threatening pests or threatenedbeneficials? Biting midges are wonderful insects. The animals are so tiny...

15 colour & 15 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag

Hardback #235426 Sep-2017 9783319587646 £40.99

The Witt Catalogue, Volume 9: A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North AfricanNoctuoideaXyleninae ILászló Ronkay (Author), Gábor Ronkay (Author), Péter Gyulai (Author), Zoltán Varga (Author)The 9th volume of the Taxonomic Atlas series is the first item dealing with the subfamilyXyleninae. It contains the revision of the Agrochola-Telorta-Hyalobole generic complex,proposing a generally new generic system for this taxonomically...

342 pages | 52 plates with colour photos, 133 plates with b/w linedrawings | Heterocera Press

Hardback #235433 2017 9786155279065 £182.00

A Guide to Lanternflies of BorneoSteven Bosuang (Author), Cédric Audibert (Author), Thierry Porion (Author), CL Chan (Author)The lanternflies are strikingly attractive insects belonging to the bug family Fulgoridae, adornedwith bizarre ornamentation and colours. Surprisingly, there is no general book published onthese amazing insects until now.Borneo – one of the...

colour photos | Natural History Publications Borneo

Paperback #235438 2017 9789838121743 £37.50

The Little Guide to ButterfliesTom Frost (Author)Enter the secret world of the butterfly with this handy pocket guide. Beautifully illustratedthroughout, The Little Guide to Butterflies offers a modern reference to identifying theseglorious insects. Featuring 40 of the most distinctive...

96 pages | colour illustrations | Quadrille Publishing

Paperback #235481 Aug-2017 9781787130340 £7.99















Palaeontology

Longhorn Beetles in SwedenChanges in Distribution and Abundance over the Last Two Hundred YearsAnders Lindhe (Author), Tobias Jeppsson (Author), Bengt Ehnström (Author)This book was published a special issue of the Swedish Entomologisk Tidskrift, Volume131(4), 241-512. It examines the changes in distribution and abundance of the 118 species oflonghorn beetles (Cerambycidae) recorded from their natural habitat in...

272 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distributionmaps, 7 tables | Sveriges Entomologiska Förening

Hardback #235498 2011 £19.99

Butterflies of Hertfordshire and MiddlesexAndrew Wood (Author)Butterflies of Hertfordshire and Middlesex is copiously illustrated with colour photographs takenin the two counties, and provides the first in-depth account of butterflies found in this area foralmost 30 years.The book includes present-day and...

272 pages | colour photos, colour distribution maps, colour maps |Hertfordshire Natural History Society

Hardback #235522 2016 9780993121715 £33.99

Butterflies of China (4-Volume Set) [Chinese]Wu Chunseng (Editor), Xu Yufeng (Editor)This 4-volume set is an in-depth fauna to the butterflies of China, including Taiwan and HongKong. Species profiles give a morphological description of the butterfly, its ecological habits,distribution, and classification. It provides detailed...

colour photos | Hǎixiá Shūjú

Hardback #235533 2017 9787556703029 £599.00

Synopsis of Adventive Species of Coleoptera (Insecta) Recorded from Canada, Part 4:Scarabaeoidea, Scirtoidea, Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea, Elateroidea, Derodontoidea,Bostrichoidea, and CleroideaJan Klimaszewski (Author), David W Langor (Author), Andrew BT Smith (Author), E RichardHoebeke (Author), Anthony Davies (Author), Georges Pelletier (Author), Hume B Douglas(Author), Reginald P Webster (Author), Caroline Bourdon (Author), Lech Borowiec (Author),Geoff GE Scudder (Author)A synopsis of adventive species of the Coleoptera superfamilies Scarabaeoidea, Scirtoidea,Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea, Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, and Cleroidea inCanada is presented. Of the 1611 species of those superfamilies recorded...

217 pages | plates with colour photos; colour distribution maps | PensoftPublishers

Hardback #235537 2017 9789546428509 £89.99

Spiders of LouisianaA Guide to Common and Notable SpeciesValerie G Bugh (Author)Spiders are everywhere and Louisiana is no exception. Very few species are dangerous andthese eight-legged allies are one of the most reliable and cheapest forms of pest control,gobbling up insects that carry diseases, infest homes and damage...


Unbound #235542 2017 9781943334629 £11.99

Ants of Southern AfricaThe Ant Book for AllPeter Slingsby (Author), Maggie Slingsby (Editor), Philip Herbst (Illustrator), William J Bond(Foreword By) et alThis is the first Field Guide to Southern African ants ever published. Lavishly illustrated withPhilip Herbst's fabulous macrophotographs, and the best of some fifty more observers from‘iSpot’, the book details 225 of the most...

247 pages | 300+ colour & b/w photos, 100 colour & b/w illustration, 2colour maps | Slingsby Maps

Paperback #235543 2017 9781920377045 £47.99

Geology and Plant LifeThe Effects of Land Forms and Rock Types on PlantsArthur R Kruckeberg (Author)Hardback reprint of a book originally published in 2002.Before any other influences began tofashion life and its lavish diversity, geological events created the initial environments – bothphysical and chemical – for the evolutionary...

363 pages | 98 b/w photos, 21 b/w illustrations | University of WashingtonPress


Evolution of the Vertebrate EarEvidence from the Fossil RecordJennifer A Clack (Editor), Richard R Fay (Editor), Arthur N Popper (Editor)The evolution of vertebrate hearing is of considerable interest in the hearing community.However, there has never been a volume that has focused on the palaeontological evidence forthe evolution of hearing and the ear, especially from the...


Hardback #235312 2016 9783319466590 £81.99

Late Cenozoic Climate Change in AsiaLoess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment EvolutionZhisheng An (Editor)Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia is the first of its kind on environmental change researchdevoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturingthe most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental...



The Dawn AngiospermsUncovering the Origin of Flowering PlantsXin Wang (Author)The Dawn Angiosperms discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses of the origin ofangiosperms that were thought restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishingthe first edition of The Dawn Angiosperms in 2010, important...


Hardback #235428 Sep-2017 9783319583242 £96.99

Earth-Life TransitionsPaleobiology in the Context of Earth System EvolutionP David Polly (Editor), Jason J Head (Editor), David L Fox (Editor)Presented as a Paleontological Society Short Course at the Annual Meeting of the GeologicalSociety of America Baltimore, Maryland October 31, 2015.The effects of humans on Earth'secosystems, atmosphere, soils, ice caps, and oceans are an...

218 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Paleontological Society

Paperback #235540 2015 £37.99













Marine & Freshwater Fauna & Flora

General Natural History

Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Marine Faunal CommunitiesKrishnamoorthy Venkataraman (Editor), Chandrakasan Sivaperuman (Editor), C Raghunathan(Editor)Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Marine Faunal Communities provides insights intovarious aspects of marine faunal communities in India, which are extremely diverse due to thegeomorphologic and climatic variations along the Indian coasts....



Atlas of Benthic Shelf Foraminifera of the Southwest AtlanticEsteban Boltovskoy (Editor), Graciela Giussani (Editor), Silvia Watanabe (Editor), Ramil CWright (Editor)Originally published in hardback in 1980. Benthic foraminifera from the southwestern Atlantichave been studied since 1839. However, despite the appearance of about 60 articles dealingwith the benthic foraminiferal fauna of this area, there is...

156 pages | illustrations | Springer-Verlag

Paperback #233041 2011 9789400991903 £64.99

Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tidal PoolsMarni Fylling (Author), Chris Giorni (Foreword By)This scientifically accurate yet utterly charming field guide to the Pacific coast intertidal zoneintroduces readers to a world populated by spectacular wildlife: 150-year-old giant greenanemones that paralyze their prey with their petal-like...

75 pages | colour illustrations | Heyday Books

Paperback #235218 2015 9781597143028 £18.50

Deep-Sea Ecosystems off MauritaniaResearch of Marine Biodiversity and Habitats in the Northwest African MarginAna Ramos (Editor), Fran Ramil (Editor), José Luis Sanz (Editor)Deep-Sea Ecosystems off Mauritania compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive andunknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa. The more than...


Hardback #235496 May-2017 9789402410211 £126.50

Fushigina Sekai o Mite Miyou! Shinkai Seibutsu Daizukan [Let's see the MysteriousWorld!: Deep Sea Life Picture Book]Fujiwara Yoshihiro (Author), Teranishi Akira (Illustrator)In the deep sea there are wonderful creatures that most people have never seen before, livingtheir lives in a dark, cold, harsh world. Using a wealth of photos, this book introduces 100species of deep-sea creatures.Please note that this book is...

192 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour distributionmaps | Takahashi Shoten

Paperback #235499 2016 9784471103606 £17.99

Easter Island, Earth IslandThe Enigmas of Rapa NuiPaul Bahn (Author), John Flenley (Author)Easter Island, isolated deep in the South Pacific and now a World Heritage Site, was home to afascinating prehistoric culture – one that produced massive stone effigies (the moai) and thebirdman cult – and yet much of the island's...

400 pages | 227 colour illustrations | Rowman & Littlefield

Hardback #235158 Sep-2017 9781442266551 £32.95

Journeys Through ParadisePioneering Naturalists in the SoutheastGail Fishman (Author)Following the original steps of pioneering naturalists, Gail Fishman profiles thirteen men whoexplored North America's southeastern wilderness between 1715 and the 1940s, includingJohn James Audubon, Mark Catesby, John and William Bartram, John...

306 pages | b/w photos, illustrations | University Press of Florida

Paperback #235180 2017 9780813054865 £28.50

The Invention of the CountrysideHunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831Donna Landry (Author)Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside wasbeing invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour ofcountry sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of...

306 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Palgrave


The Earth from the AirYann Arthus-Bertrand (Illustrator)The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earthfrom the Air is the bestselling and most popular book of aerial photography ever published.This updated edition of the internationally acclaimed...

455 pages | 207 colour photos | Thames & Hudson

Hardback #235254 Sep-2017 9780500544846 £49.95

The Long SummerHow Climate Changed CivilizationBrian M Fagan (Author)Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded historyoccurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the...

284 pages | b/w illustrations, maps | Basic Books

Paperback #235536 2004 9780465022823 £19.99

Does Anything Eat Wasps?And 101 Other QuestionsNew Scientist (Author)How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented anywheels? Plus 99 other questions are answered in this book. Every year, readers send inthousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling...

218 pages | illustrations | John Murray

Paperback #235176 2016 9781473651333 £8.99













The Winds of ChangeClimate, Weather, and the Destruction of CivilizationsEugene Linden (Author)Climate change put in historical perspective.Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody,companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilizationand then repeatedly visited ruin on empires and...

320 pages | illustrations | Simon & Schuster

Paperback #235535 2007 9780684863535 £18.99

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?And 114 Other QuestionsMick O'Hare (Editor)Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to thequestions in the Last Word column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly.Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat...

236 pages | John Murray

Paperback #235177 2016 9781473651302 £8.99

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?And 110 Other Intriguing Science QuestionsMick O'Hare (Editor)Do spiders get thirsty? How long would it take a cow to fill the Grand Canyon with milk? Howdo they get the stripes on toothpaste? Plus 107 other questions answered. Do Polar Bears GetLonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the...

232 pages | no illustrations | John Murray

Paperback #235175 2016 9781473651234 £8.99

John James Audubon's Journal of 1826The Voyage to the Birds of AmericaJohn James Audubon (Author), Daniel Patterson (Editor), John R Knott (Foreword By), JohnDaniel Patterson (Introduction By)John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatestworks of natural history and art of the nineteenth century, The Birds of America. As the recordof the interior story of the making of this monumental work,...

474 pages | 22 b/w photos | University of Nebraska Press

Paperback #235429 Jun-2017 9780803275171 £25.99Hardback #190518 2011 9780803225312 £43.95

Imagining the ForestNarratives of Michigan and the Upper MidwestJohn R Knott (Author)Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similarforests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in theAmerican cultural imagination from the beginnings of European...

328 pages | 9 illustrations, 1 map | University of Michigan Press


Reality CheckHow Science Deniers Threaten Our FutureDonald R Prothero (Author), Michael Shermer (Foreword By), Pat Linse (Illustrator)The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS,alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country –all are reaching a fevered pitch. Many people and...

369 pages | 39 b/w illustrations | Indiana University Press


Cultural Forests of the AmazonA Historical Ecology of People and Their LandscapesWilliam L Balée (Author)Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenouspeople transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region oftropical forests in the world.Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as...

268 pages | tables | University of Alabama Press


Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-PacificJoseph Christensen (Editor), Malcolm Tull (Editor)The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capturefisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject froma historical perspective. Historical Perspectives of...



The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern JapanFederico Marcon (Author)Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history inJapan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned thetraditional religious and philosophical understandings of the...

392 pages | 75 b/w photos, 2 tables | University of Chicago Press

Paperback #235416 May-2017 9780226479033 £26.50Hardback #221549 2015 9780226251905 £33.99

Europe's Changing Woods and ForestsFrom Wildwood to Managed LandscapesKeith J Kirby (Editor), Charles Watkins (Editor)Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in thelast twenty years. Bringing together key findings from across the continent, Europe's ChangingWoods and Forests: From Wildwood to Managed Landscapes...

371 pages | 8 plates with colour photos, colour illustrations and colourmaps; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables | CABI Publishing


Endangerment, Biodiversity and CultureFernando Vidal (Editor), Nélia Dias (Editor)The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practicesdealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the proceduresaimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of...

276 pages | 10 b/w photos, 12 b/w illustrations | Earthscan


Cattle ColonialismAn Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'iJohn Ryan Fischer (Author)In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent importantcultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. Thecreation of native cattle cultures, represented by...

266 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | University of North CarolinaPress















How to Read WaterClues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the SeaTristan Gooley (Author)A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in thenatural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge,skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape...

392 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; b/w illustrations | Sceptre


The Art of FlightFredrik Sjöberg (Author)"Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing iscertain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort ofexperiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent...

560 pages | Penguin Books


Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered BiochemistryChristie Wilcox (Author)In Venomous the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals thatuse them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they canrevolutionize biochemistry and medicine today. Wilcox takes us from the...

236 pages | b/w photos | Scientific American Library


The NaturalistTheodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Rise of American Natural HistoryDarrin P Lunde (Author)A captivating new account of how Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong passion for the natural worldset the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as afounding father of today's museum naturalismNo U.S....

343 pages | 8 plates with b/w photos and b/w illustrations; b/w photos,b/w illustrations | Broadway Books


The Big PictureOn the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe ItselfSean B Carroll (Author)Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes and dreams mean anything out there in thevoid? Can human purpose and meaning ever fit into a scientific worldview?Acclaimed award-winning author Sean Carroll brings his extraordinary intellect to bear...

470 pages | 50 b/w illustrations | Oneworld Publications


The Edge of ReasonA Rational Skeptic in an Irrational WorldJulian Baggini (Author)Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle,the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be auniversally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become...

272 pages | Yale University Press

Paperback #235403 Oct-2017 9780300228724 £10.99Hardback #231264 2016 9780300208238 £16.99

Storm in a TeacupThe Physics of Everyday LifeHelen Czerski (Author)Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into ourdaily lives and makes it fascinating. What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists tosurvive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why...

320 pages | Black Swan


A Wretched and Precarious SituationIn Search of the Last Arctic FrontierDavid Welky (Author)In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of milesfrom another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peakslooming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm...

512 pages | 16 plates with photos | W.W. Norton & Co.

Paperback #235332 Nov-2017 9780393354829 £13.99Hardback #233760 2016 9780393254419 £21.99

Charles DarwinVictorian MythmakerAN Wilson (Author)Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawedman of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts toother thinkers?In this bold new life – the first single volume...

608 pages | John Murray

Hardback #234437 Sep-2017 9781444794885 £29.99

The Art of the DinosaurIllustrations by the Top Paleoartists in the WorldKazuo Terakado (Author), Luis V Rey (Illustrator), James Kuether (Illustrator), DavideBonadonna (Illustrator), Sergey Krasovskiy (Illustrator), Masato Hattori (Illustrator)The Art of the Dinosaur is a collection of dinosaur illustrations by the most technically andaesthetically accomplished paleoartists working today.Paleoart is any original artisticmanifestation that attempts to reconstruct or depict prehistoric...

176 pages | colour illustrations | Pie International

Hardback #234914 Oct-2017 9784756249227 £49.99

The Story of My Boyhood and YouthAn Early Years Biography of a Pioneering EnvironmentalistJohn Muir (Author), Terry Gifford (Foreword By)The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationallyrenowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, histransition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the...

140 pages | Vertebrate Publishing

Paperback #235094 2017 9781911342045 £15.99

My First Summer in the SierraThe Nature Diary of a Pioneering EnvironmentalistJohn Muir (Author), Terry Gifford (Foreword By)'Divine beauty all. Here I could stay tethered forever with just bread and water, nor would I belonely.' In the summer of 1869, John Muir joined a group of shepherds in the foothills ofCalifornia's Sierra Nevada mountains, that he might...


Paperback #235095 2017 9781911342021 £15.99














A Thousand-Mile Walk to the GulfA Radical Nature-Travelogue from the Founder of National ParksJohn Muir (Author), Terry Gifford (Foreword By)'Many a beautiful plant cultivated to deformity, and arranged in strict geometrical beds, thewhole pretty affair a laborious failure side by side with divine beauty.' A Thousand-Mile Walk tothe Gulf is the second book in John Muir's...


Paperback #235098 2017 9781911342144 £15.99

Finding EdenA Journey into the Heart of BorneoRobin Hanbury-Tenison (Author)"Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that thereare no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So itwas with mine."Fifty years ago the interior of...

240 pages | 30 b/w illustrations | IB Tauris

Hardback #235108 Sep-2017 9781784538392 £17.99

About MethodExperimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing ScientificallyJutta Schickore (Author)Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramaticallythroughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at differenttimes, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results...

320 pages | University of Chicago Press

Hardback #235185 May-2017 9780226449982 £37.50

The OutrunAmy Liptrot (Author)When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to theOutrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home,memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her...

280 pages | Canongate


The World-Ending FireThe Essential Wendell BerryWendell Berry (Author), Paul Kingsnorth (Introduction By)Wendell Berry is 'something of an anachronism'. He began his life as the old times and the lastof the old-time people were dying out, and continues to this day in the old ways: a team of workhorses and a pencil are his preferred working...


Hardback #235196 2017 9780241279205 £19.99

Love of CountryA Hebridean JourneyMadeleine Bunting (Author)Few landscapes are as iconic as the islands off the north-western Scottish coast. On the outeredge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Hebrides form part of Europe'sboundary. Because of their unique position in the Atlantic...

368 pages | Granta

Paperback #235200 Jul-2017 9781847085184 £9.99Hardback #235199 2016 9781847085177 £18.99

Walking with PlatoA Philosophical Hike Through the British IslesGary Hayden (Author)"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright." So said Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard,and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: towalk from John O'Groats to...

224 pages | Oneworld Publications


The Swordfish and the StarLife on Cornwall's Most Treacherous Stretch of CoastGavin Knight (Author)The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the StarGavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning ofthe twenty-first century.He catches the stories of a whole...

256 pages | Vintage


Estuary: Out from London to the SeaOut from London to the SeaRachel Lichtenstein (Author)The Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas, providing passage in and out of Londonfor millennia. It is silted up with the memories and artefacts of past voyages. It is the habitat foran astonishing range of wildlife. And for the...

336 pages | Penguin Books

Paperback #235209 Sep-2017 9780141018539 £9.99Hardback #235208 2016 9780241142882 £18.99

The MarchesRory Stewart (Author)His father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk, and walked with him on journeys from Iran toMalaysia. Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along 'the Marches' – thefrontier that divides their two countries, Scotland...

368 pages | Vintage


Among the Summer SnowsA Highlands WalkChristopher Nicholson (Author)"'If you were to watch the disappearance of the snows accelerated into a matter of hours, on aspeeded-up film, it would be like seeing lights dimming and going out on a dark night. Bymidsummer there are probably several hundred pieces of...

256 pages | September Publishing

Hardback #235215 Jun-2017 9781910463604 £14.99

Animal IllustrationThe Essential ReferenceCarol Belanger Grafton (Author)Comprehensive and entertaining, Animal Illustration presents the greatest works in animalillustration from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Hundreds of black-and-white andcolor images range from medieval illuminated manuscripts and...

160 pages | colour & b/w illustrations | Dover Publications

Paperback #235222 2016 9780486799865 £17.99














Caesar Kleberg and the King RanchA Vision for Wildlife Conservation in TexasDuane M Leach (Author), Stephen J Kleberg (Foreword By)In this tribute to a pioneer conservationist, Duane M. Leach celebrates the life of an exceptionalranch manager on a legendary Texas ranch, a visionary for wildlife and modern ranchmanagement, and an extraordinarily dedicated and generous...

328 pages | 24 b/w photos | Texas A & M University Press

Hardback #235223 2017 9781623495046 £38.50

Land Inc.TerraProject (Illustrator), Cécile Cazenave (Author), José Bové (Preface By)Land Inc. is a travel documentary through Brazil, Dubai, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Indonesia, thePhilippines and Ukraine to document a crucial phenomenon: land grabbing. Neocolonialism ordevelopment opportunities? Seven internationally renowned experts...

160 pages | 70 colour photos | Editions Intervalles

Hardback #235227 2017 9782369560470 £24.90

Swimming with SealsVictoria Whitworth (Author)An inspiring book about intense physical and personal experience. Victoria Whitworth beganswimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from a failingmarriage, a stifling religious environment and a series of health problems....

208 pages | Head of Zeus

Paperback #235230 Nov-2017 9781784978396 £7.99Hardback #235229 2017 9781784978372 £14.99

ReWild: The Art of Returning to NatureNick Baker (Author)As our busy, technology-driven lives become more sedentary and less connected to wildlife, itis important to remember the natural, human connection we have to the wilderness. NickBaker, naturalist and wildlife presenter, takes the reader back to...

304 pages | b/w illustrations | Aurum Press

Hardback #235231 Jun-2017 9781781316559 £16.99

RisingtidefallingstarPhilip Hoare (Author)From the author of Leviathan: Or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle,beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human...

384 pages | Fourth Estate

Hardback #235233 Jul-2017 9780008133665 £16.99

Park LifeThe Memoirs of a Royal Parks GamekeeperJohn Bartram (Author), John Karter (Contributor), Sir David Attenborough (Foreword By)'Retire? You can't retire!', Sir David Attenborough told John Bartram, when the man who hasbeen gamekeeper and senior wildlife officer for Richmond Park for the past thirty yearsannounced his intention to step away from the role,...

288 pages | Metro Books

Hardback #235234 Jul-2017 9781786062796 £16.99

Darwin and the Making of Sexual SelectionEvelleen Richards (Author)Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondaryevolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yetsexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin...

672 pages | 48 b/w illustrations | University of Chicago Press

Hardback #235245 2017 9780226436906 £35.50

The Long ShadowsA Global Environmental History of the Second World WarSimo Laakkonen, Richard P Tucker and Timo VuorisaloThe Long Shadows is the first book-length work to offer global perspectives on theenvironmental history of World War II. Based on long-term research, the selected articlesrepresent the best available studies in different fields and countries. With...

400 pages | 33 photos, 13 maps, 2 tables | Oregon State UniversityPress

Paperback #235250 Jun-2017 9780870718793 £35.50

Wildlife WandererDavid Bailey (Author)David Bailey is the Wildlife Wanderer.Tireless in his search for species and their habitats, he isalso full of concern and care for those animals he photographs, earning their trust and the rightto document their comings and goings. With a soft...

144 pages | colour photos | Gomer Press

Paperback #235251 2017 9781785621833 £19.99

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: 2016 HighlightsLewis Blackwell (Foreword By)Wildlife Photographer of the Year showcases some of the best images of nature taken by bothprofessional photographers and talented amateurs. This book is a collection of thecompetition's highlights and includes the winning photograph for each...

95 pages | colour photos | London Natural History Museum

Paperback #235252 2016 9780565094102 £7.99

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Unforgettable BehaviourRosamund Kidman-Cox (Editor)This is a collection of exceptional images of animal behaviour, all having been recognised inpast years of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition – the most famous andprestigious event of its kind in the world. Each captures a...

128 pages | 62 colour photos | London Natural History Museum

Hardback #235253 2017 9780565094119 £19.99

Wild About BritainA Lifetime of Award-Winning Nature WritingBrian Jackman (Author), Jonathan Truss (Illustrator), Simon Barnes (Foreword By)A new collection of award-winning journalist and author Brian Jackman's nature and travelwritings from the past 40 years. This is a nationwide celebration of Britain's unspoilt coast andcountryside, concentrating in particular on...

224 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Bradt Travel Guides

Paperback #235255 Sep-2017 9781784770679 £9.99

Personalities on the PlateThe Lives & Minds of Animals We EatBarbara J King (Author)In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to majorchanges in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public,it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

224 pages | 7 b/w photos | University of Chicago Press

Hardback #235265 2017 9780226195186 £18.99















Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We EatWhy it's So Hard to Think Straight About AnimalsHal Herzog (Author)Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn frombiomedical research with mice? Who enjoys a better quality of life – the chicken destined foryour dinner plate or the rooster in a Saturday night...

336 pages | Harper Perennial

Paperback #235267 2011 9780061730856 £8.99

Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing PlanetJohn N All (Author), John Balzar (Author)John All has survived encounters with black mamba snakes, run-ins with wild jungle animals,and a brush with death in an icy tomb. No one knows the outer limits of our changing planetquite like him.In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientist John All...

233 pages | 8 plates with colour photos | Public Affairs Press

Hardback #235306 2017 9781610396936 £24.99

Biological IndividualityIntegrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical PerspectivesScott Lidgard (Editor), Lynn K Nyhart (Editor)Individuals are things that everybody knows – or thinks they do. Yet even scholars whopractice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is andwhy. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important...

400 pages | 14 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | University of Chicago Press

Paperback #235339 Jul-2017 9780226446455 £17.50Hardback #235340 Jul-2017 9780226446318 £56.50

John James AudubonThe Nature of the American WoodsmanGregory Nobles (Author)John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement inAmerican art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubonbecame one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's...

352 pages | 11 colour & 14 b/w illustrations | University of PennsylvaniaPress

Hardback #235376 2017 9780812248944 £29.99

As Kingfishers Catch FireBirds and BooksAlex Preston (Author), Neil Gower (Illustrator)When Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence and the scorn of hispeers made him put away his binoculars, leave behind the hides and the nature reserves andthe quiet companionship of his fellow birders. His love of birds...

208 pages | colour illustrations | Corsair (Little, Brown and CompanyImprint)

Hardback #235385 Jul-2017 9781472152244 £24.99

Fishing: How the Sea Fed CivilizationBrian M Fagan (Author)In this history of fishing – not as sport but as sustenance – archaeologist and best-sellingauthor Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element inthe growth of civilisation. It sustainably provided...

352 pages | 39 b/w illustrations | Yale University Press

Hardback #235395 Oct-2017 9780300215342 £24.99

The Great Cat & Dog MassacreThe Real Story of World War Two's Unknown TragedyHilda Kean (Author)The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: inSeptember 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. Thegovernment, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why...


Hardback #235396 2017 9780226318325 £19.95

Henry David ThoreauA LifeLaura Dassow Walls (Author)"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau,and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in theAmerican pantheon. His attempt to "live...


Hardback #235404 Aug-2017 9780226344690 £26.50

Under Osman's TreeThe Ottoman Empire, Egypt & Environmental HistoryAlan Mikhail (Author)Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from hisnavel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, coveredthe earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of...

336 pages | 17 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 6 tables | University ofChicago Press

Hardback #235406 2017 9780226427171 £33.99

The Profit of the EarthThe Global Seeds of American AgricultureCourtney Fullilove (Author)While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainableagriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provokedmisleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as...


Hardback #235407 May-2017 9780226454863 £29.99

The Politics of ScaleA History of Rangeland ScienceNathan Freeman Sayre (Author)Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of theEarth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about theenvironmental impacts associated with intensive livestock...

288 pages | 20 b/w photos, 10 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | University ofChicago Press

Paperback #235411 May-2017 9780226083254 £29.99Hardback #235410 May-2017 9780226083117 £89.99

The Animals' AgendaFreedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human AgeMarc Bekoff (Author), Jessica Pierce (Author)Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotionalanimals are – did you know rats like to play and laugh, and also display empathy, and the earsand noses of cows tell us how they're feeling? At...

240 pages | Beacon Press

Hardback #235423 2017 9780807045206 £22.50














Not a ScientistHow Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle ScienceDave Levitan (Author)In 1980, Ronald Reagan created one of the most stupid talking points of all time: "I'm not ascientist, but...". Since then, politicians have repeatedly committed egregious transgressionsagainst scientific knowledge prefaced by this...

256 pages | 6 b/w photos, b/w illustrations | W.W. Norton & Co.

Paperback #235431 May-2017 9780393353327 £12.99

The Scopes Monkey TrialRandy Moore (Author), William McComas (Author), Tom Davis (Foreword By)The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested forteaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was America s original Trial of theCentury. The proceedings began as a publicity stunt but grew into a...

130 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Arcadia Publishing


Wildlife Photographer of the Year Pocket Diary 2018The Natural History Museum (London - UK) (Author)The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the verybest photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2018 week-to-view diaries featurestunning photographs of the natural world from past years of...


Hardback #235460 May-2017 9780565094140 £6.98

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Desk Diary 2018The Natural History Museum (London - UK) (Author)The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is the international showcase for the verybest photography featuring natural subjects. The Museum's 2018 week-to-view diaries featurestunning photographs of the natural world from past years of...


Hardback #235461 May-2017 9780565094133 £13.00

The Great OceanPacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold RushDavid Igler (Author)The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and variedwaterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endlesscontinental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global...

272 pages | 15 plates with colour illustrations | Oxford University Press


Curious Encounters with the Natural WorldFrom Grumpy Spiders to Hidden TigersMichael R Jeffords (Author), Susan L Post (Author), Peter H Raven (Foreword By)Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe – and explored theirneighbourhood – collecting images of the natural world. Curious Encounters with the NaturalWorld opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the...

232 pages | 200 colour photos | Illinois University Press

Paperback #235505 May-2017 9780252082665 £20.99

Trout CultureHow Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain WestJen Corrinne Brown (Author)From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a belovedfeature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in TroutCulture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West,...

248 pages | 34 b/w illustrations, 3 maps | University of Washington Press


Colorado Powder KegSki Resorts and the Environmental MovementMichael W Childers (Author)Downhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states,attracting 20 million skier days per season. Colorado is by far the most popular destination,with more than two dozen major ski resorts creating a thriving...

280 pages | illustrations | University Press of Kansas

Hardback #235508 2012 9780700618699 £39.50

Counterculture GreenThe 'Whole Earth Catalog' and American EnvironmentalismAndrew G Kirk (Author)For those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was away of life. The Whole Earth Catalog billed itself as "Access to Tools", and it grew from a BayArea blip to a national phenomenon catering to...

304 pages | b/w illustrations | University Press of Kansas


An Ice Age MysteryUnearthing the Secrets of the Old Vero SiteRody Johnson (Author)In 1916, to the shock of the scientific community and the world at large, a Florida geologistdiscovered human remains mixed with the bones of prehistoric animals in a Vero Beach canaland proclaimed that humans had lived in North America since the...

224 pages | 28 b/w illustrations | University Press of Florida

Hardback #235521 2016 9780813054377 £28.50

The Draining of the FensProjectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern EnglandEric H Ash (Author)The draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering projects inseventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English "projectors", working over severaldecades and with the full support of the Crown,...

416 pages | 17 b/w photos, 8 b/w maps | Johns Hopkins University Press

Hardback #235525 Jul-2017 9781421422008 £40.50

Animals Strike Curious PosesElena Passarello (Author)Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in theSiberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates adifferent famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely...

200 pages | illustrations | Sarabande Books

Hardback #235527 2017 9781941411391 £21.99














Regional Natural History

ShackletonBen Saunders (Author)Part of the new Ladybird Expert Series, Shackleton is a clear, simple and enlighteningintroduction to perhaps the most extraordinary survival stories of all time.Polar explorer BenSaunders draws on his own experience of the Antarctic to bring to...

56 pages | colour illustrations | Michael Joseph

Hardback #235557 Jun-2017 9780718187279 £7.99

Medieval Latin and French BestiariesFlorence McCulloch (Author)This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described andillustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of theLatin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the...

214 pages | b/w illustrations | University of North Carolina Press

Paperback #235570 2017 9780807890332 £37.50

The Matter of HistoryHow Things Create the PastTimothy J LeCain (Author)New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our veryidea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in thehumanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the...

358 pages | 15 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Press


YetiDaniel C Taylor (Author)This book explains the mystery of the Yeti or Abominable Snowman, the creature that has leftmysterious footprints in Himalayan snows. The book also explores why people are sofascinated with the possibility that a wild hominoid might still...

416 pages | illustrations | Oxford University Press

Hardback #235574 Jul-2017 9780199469383 £32.99

Where the Wild Winds AreWalking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to ProvenceNick Hunt (Author)Nick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest: to follow four of Europe's winds across thecontinent.His wind-walks begin on Cross Fell, the highest point of the Pennines, as he chasesthe roaring Helm – the only named wind in Britain. In...

320 pages | Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Hardback #235578 Sep-2017 9781857886566 £16.99

An Introduction to Digital PhotomicrographyBrian Matsumoto (Author), Carol Roullard (Illustrator)An Introduction to Digital Photomicrography is written for the hobbyist and the neophyte whowants to take pictures through the microscope. The book includes a description of the parts ofthe microscope; how to use adjust lighting; types of digital...

112 pages | 88 colour photos | Crowood Press

Paperback #235579 2017 9781785003042 £16.99

The People of Early WinchesterCaroline M Stuckert (Editor)The People of Early Winchester traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester'sinhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-third century to the mid-sixteenthcentury, a period of over 1,300 years. Although the populations of...

528 pages | illustrations | Oxford University Press

Hardback #235606 2016 9780198131700 £120.00

An Extraordinary LandDiscoveries and Mysteries from Wild New ZealandPeter Hayden (Author), Rod Morris (Illustrator)New Zealand is an extraordinary land. It has been called 'the closest thing to life on anotherplanet' and 'a planetary lifeboat'. The main reason behind this land's uniqueness is that theislands have remained an isolated outpost...

200 pages | colour photos | Harper Collins New Zealand

Hardback #204951 2013 9781869509637 £40.99

Faunal Heritage of Rajasthan, India, Volume 2Conservation and Management of VertebratesBK Sharma (Editor), Seema Kulshreshtha (Editor), Asad R Rahmani (Editor)This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the IndianDesert state of Rajasthan. This volume, the second of two, provides a comprehensive picture ofthe conservation efforts undertaken to prevent further...



Rainforests of AssamDihing Patkai Wildlife SanctuarySoumyadeep Datta (Editor), Moromi Talukdar (Editor), Novanita Sharma (Editor)A pictorial work showcasing the biodiversity found in Dihing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary inAssam, a state in northeastern India. Introductory chapters describe the climate and flora andfauna, as well as the rainforest and ongoing conservation...

156 pages | colour illustrations | Bhabani Books

Paperback #217285 2013 9789382624714 £46.99

Marsh Mud and MummichogsAn Intimate Natural History of Coastal GeorgiaEvelyn B Sherr (Author)"This book", writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, "is meant to give others an understandingof the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarinewater, to the mummichogs and multitudes of...

256 pages | 30 b/w photos | University of Georgia Press


Field Notes from the EdgeJourneys through Britain's Secret WildernessPaul Evans (Author)In Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's 'Country Diary', PaulEvans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of Nature – such as strandlines,mudflats, cliff tops and caves – where one...

257 pages | no illustrations | Rider Books

Paperback #235179 2017 9781846044571 £6.99














Botany & Plant Science

Eden Project: The Guide (2017/2018 Edition)Eden Project (Author)This is a revised and updated highly illustrated guide to the Eden Project in a pocket-sizedformat. The guide gives a flavour of the sort of things the Eden Project does and takes thereader on a tour of the exhibits, introduces them to events on...

64 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Eden Project Books

Paperback #235256 Jun-2017 9781909513129 £5.99

Bradt Travel Guide: Northern LightsA Practical Travel GuidePolly Evans (Author)An updated third edition of Bradt's practical guide to the best places to view the NorthernLights, the only guidebook that caters to the large number of people whose dream is to see theaurora borealis.Included is information on everything from...

48 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps | BradtTravel Guides

Paperback #226544 2015 9781784770297 £6.99Paperback #235479 Sep-2017 9781784770716 £6.99

The Last Wild Places of KansasJourneys into Hidden LandscapesGeorge Frazier (Author)Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of naturalKansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that hasbeen landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder,...

232 pages | 10 photos, 1 map | University Press of Kansas


Track FinderA Guide to Mammal Tracks of Eastern North AmericaDorcas S Miller (Author), Cherie Hunter Day (Illustrator)Track Finder is a pocket guide to mammal tracks of eastern North America. This guideincludes keys to print shapes and track patterns, discussion of scat and other signs, habitatinformation, range maps, and drawings of the animals and their tracks.

64 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, distribution maps | WildernessPress

Paperback #235221 2017 9780912550336 £3.99

Guide to the Geology and Natural History of the Blue Ridge MountainsEdgar W Spencer (Author)As you travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway, hike the Appalachian Trail, or visit the nationaland state parks scattered throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains, you will encounter anincredible variety of natural landscapes, microclimates, and...

396 pages | 826 colour & 12 b/w illustrations, 24 maps | Poor HouseMountain Press

Paperback #235226 2017 9780983747161 £32.95

A Natural History of Cumberland Island, GeorgiaCarol Ruckdeschel (Author)Having lived on Cumberland Island for more than forty years, Carol Ruckdeschel's goal hasbeen to document present conditions of the island's flora and fauna, establishing a baselinefrom which to assess future changes. Since the late 1960s,...

277 pages | Mercer University Press

Hardback #235322 Jun-2017 9780881466096 £35.50

Tracker ManualA Practical Guide to Animal Tracking in Southern AfricaAlex van den Heever (Author), Renias Mhlongo (Author), Karel Benadie (Author)This practical guide to animal tracking is a one-of-its-kind manual, based on informationdeveloped with the help of southern Africa's few remaining traditional trackers and theircenturies-old wisdom in the field.It presents the more concrete...

320 pages | 900 colour photos, b/w illustrations | Random House Struik

Paperback #235377 2017 9781775843351 £12.99

Photographic Field Guide Wildlife of Central IndiaDavid Raju (Author), Surya Ramachandran (Author)This comprehensive field guide to the wildlife of Central India covers 850 species including 75mammals, 433 birds, 156 butterflies, 84 dragonflies, 18 amphibians, and 84 reptiles. Thevisual treat of the images captured by 100 of India's top...

300 pages | 900+ colour photos, colour maps | Notion Press

Paperback #235490 2016 9781946390097 £42.99

Through a Naturalist's EyesExploring the Nature of New EnglandMichael J Caduto (Author), Adelaide Murphy Tyrol (Illustrator)For native and visitor alike, the New England landscape has a rich allure. This grand sweep ofland is a living tapestry woven of interconnected bioregions and natural communities whosecompositions of plants and animals have evolved over time.In...

184 pages | 70 illustrations | University Press of New England

Paperback #235556 2016 9781611689891 £19.99

Pilzkompendium, Band 4: Abbildungen (Plates Volume)Erhard Ludwig (Author)This is the plates-volume of volume 4 in this series. It covers the first part of the Cortinariaceae,covering the genera Cortinarius ss. str. 2 taxa, Dermocybe 24 taxa, Galerina 41 taxa,Hebeloma 49 taxa, Inocybe 237 taxa, Leprocybe 14 taxa,...

300 pages | 262 plates with 1266 colour illustrations | Fungicon

Hardback #61369 2017 9783940316042 £180.00

Pilzkompendium, Band 4: Beschreibungen (Text Volume)Cortinariaceae: Cortinarius (Teil I), Galerina, Hebeloma, Hebelomina, Inocybe, PhaeogaleraErhard Ludwig (Author)This is the text-volume of volume 4 in this series. It covers the first part of the Cortinariaceae,covering the genera Cortinarius ss. str. 2 taxa, Dermocybe 24 taxa, Galerina 41 taxa,Hebeloma 49 taxa, Inocybe 237 taxa, Leprocybe 14 taxa,...

828 pages | 841 b/w line drawings | Fungicon

Hardback #61370 2017 9783940316059 £99.99

Polska Czerwona Księga Roślin: Paprotniki I Rosliny Kwiatowe [Polish Red Data Bookof Plants: Pteridophytes and Flowering Plants]Róża Kaźmierczakowa (Editor), Kazimierz Zarzycki (Editor), Zbigniew Mirek (Editor)The third edition is revised and expanded by an additional 200 pages.Includes 370 taxa –mainly native plants, naturally occurring in Poland. Species are arranged in taxonomical order,according to the system introduced in Flora Europaea....

895 pages | colour photos, b/w line drawings | Institute of NatureConservation, Polish Academy of Sciences

Paperback #235561 2014 9788361191728 £54.99














A Little History of British GardeningJenny Uglow (Author)Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, reallyweird when it arrived on our shores?This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes uson a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric...

393 pages | 24 plates with colour & b/w photos and colour illustrations;b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Chatto & Windus


The Book of Palms / Das Buch der Palmen / Le Livre des PalmiersThe Book of PalmsCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (Author), David J Mabberley (Author)On 15 December 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Professor of Botany at theUniversity of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in acoffin covered with fresh palm leaves. These were a reference to his...

565 pages | colour illustrations | Taschen

Hardback #221756 2015 9783836556231 £8.44Hardback #235157 May-2017 9783836566148 £49.99

Brilliant GreenThe Surprising History and Science of Plant IntelligenceStefano Mancuso (Author), Alessandra Viola (Author), Michael Pollan (Foreword By), JoanBenham (Translated by)Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate theirsurroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior?Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece,...

173 pages | 20 b/w illustrations | Island Press

Paperback #235210 Dec-2017 9781610917315 £11.99Hardback #222113 2015 9781610916035 £16.99

The Apple OrchardThe Story of Our Most English FruitPete Brown (Author)An orchard is not a field. It's not a forest or a copse. It couldn't occur naturally; it's definitelycultivated. But an orchard doesn't override the natural order: it enhances it, dresses it up. Itdemonstrates that man and nature...

335 pages | no illustrations | Penguin Books


The Illustrated Flora of Illinois, Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 3Robert H Mohlenbrock (Author)This is the second of three volumes on the aster family planned for the Illustrated Flora ofIllinois series. Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 3 provides an easy-to-use key to the generaand species and a complete description and nomenclatural and...

200 pages | b/w line drawings | Southern Illinois University Press

Paperback #234838 Sep-2017 9780809336050 £32.50

Nature's FabricLeaves in Science and CultureDavid Lee (Author)Leaves are all around us – in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging fromsmall cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they areeverywhere, it's easy to overlook the humble leaf, but a...

512 pages | 514 colour photos, 49 b/w photos, 14 b/w illustrations |University of Chicago Press

Hardback #235105 Oct-2017 9780226180595 £26.50

The Illustrated Flora of Illinois: Flowering Plants: Magnolias to Pitcher PlantsRobert H Mohlenbrock (Author)This volume, the eighth devoted to flowering plants in the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series, isthe third of several devoted to dicotyledons, which include such well-known plants as roses,peas, mustards, mints, nightshades, milkweeds, and...

265 pages | 114 b/w line drawings, b/w distribution maps | SouthernIllinois University Press

Paperback #235160 2017 9780809335848 £32.95

Witness TreeSeasons of Change with a Century-Old OakLynda V Mapes (Author)In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years ofrapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later as the climatewarms. Even the inner workings of individual leaves...

240 pages | Bloomsbury Publishing

Hardback #235183 Jun-2017 9781632862532 £18.99

Tōtara: A Natural and Cultural HistoryPhilip Simpson (Author)The 'mighty tōtara' is one of New Zealand's most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest andoldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wireas fence posts on settler farms, clambered up...

340 pages | Auckland University Press

Hardback #235216 Jun-2017 9781869408190 £59.99

The Value of WeedsAnn Cliff (Author)Weeds are wild plants that have survived in the face of centuries of hostility. Many gardenerswho are unfamiliar with the versatility of weeds think of them as a nuisance. They can be good,bad, dangerous or beautiful. Above all, they are tough....

128 pages | 120 colour photos | Crowood Press

Paperback #235246 2017 9781785002786 £9.99

The Bee Friendly GardenEasy Ways to Help the Bees and Make Your Garden GrowDoug Purdie (Author)The Bee Friendly Garden, by the author of Backyard Bees, is a guide for all gardeners greatand small to encouraging bees and other good bugs to your green space. Includes:- How beesforage and why your garden needs them- A comprehensive plant guide...

208 pages | colour photos | Murdoch Books UK Ltd

Paperback #235247 2017 9781743367575 £18.99

The Humane GardenerNurturing a Backyard Habitat for WildlifeNancy Clawson (Author)In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener NancyLawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaginganecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout...

224 pages | Princeton Architectural Press

Hardback #235248 2017 9781616895549 £16.99














The Plant MessiahAdventures in Search of the World's Rarest SpeciesCarlos Magdalena (Author)From the world's tiniest waterlily to the 'Coral Tree', Carlos Magdalena has an uncanny abilityto bring rare, breathtakingly beautiful plants back from the brink of extinction. As botanicalhorticulturist at London's famous Kew...

240 pages | Viking Books

Hardback #235249 Jun-2017 9780241292327 £16.99

Ethnobotany of India (5-Volume Set)T Pullaiah (Editor), KV Krishnamurthy (Editor), Bir Bahadur (Editor)This 5-volume set, Ethnobotany of India, provides an informative overview of human-plantinterrelationships in India, focusing on the regional plants and their medicinal properties anduses. Each volume focuses on a different significant region of...

2242 pages | 106 colour & 134 b/w illustrations | Apple Academic Press

Hardback #235294 Jun-2017 9781771886000 £615.00

The Urban TreeDuncan Goodwin (Author)There is a growing evidence base that documents the social, environmental and economicbenefits that urban trees can deliver. Trees are, however, under threat today as never beforedue to competition for space imposed by development, other hard...

282 pages | 137 colour illustrations, 26 colour tables | Routledge

Hardback #235298 2017 9780415702461 £45.99

The Biology of Aquatic and Wetland PlantsGary N Ervin (Author)The Biology of Aquatic and Wetland Plants is thorough and up to date textbook for aquatic andwetland plant biology. Aquatic plants occupy a crucially important role in maintainingecosystem health. They are natural biological filters in freshwater...

512 pages | 110 colour & 220 b/w illustrations | Routledge

Hardback #235299 Jun-2017 9781482232042 £76.99

Discovering Australian FloraAn Australian National Botanic Gardens ExperienceFanny Karouta-Manasse (Author)Australia's complex, beautiful and diverse flora is showcased in stunning botanic gardensacross the continent. Through exquisite colour photographs taken at the Australian NationalBotanic Gardens (ANBG), Fanny Karouta-Manasse celebrates the...

120 pages | colour photos | CSIRO

Paperback #235348 May-2017 9781486307814 £29.95

The Westonbirt Arboretum's Tree Spotter's GuideThe Definitive Guide to Britain's 100 Best TreesDan Crowley (Author), Westonbirt Arboretum (Author)In the depths of the Cotswolds, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, lies one of the most beautifultree gardens in the world. Known as Westonbirt Arboretum. Here you can find around 15,000trees, each one lovingly labelled. They offer the perfect,...

144 pages | illustrations | Ebury Press

Paperback #235418 Jul-2017 9781785036002 £8.99

Vanilla LandscapesMeaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in MadagascarSarah R Osterhoudt (Author), Michael R Dove (Foreword By)In 2005, Sarah Osterhoudt served as an environmental volunteer for the Peace Corps inImorona, a rural village along the northeastern coast of Madagascar. In her introduction,Osterhoudt states she was visited by the program director who asked,...

New York Botanical Garden Press

Paperback #235441 May-2017 9780893275488 £155.00

Plants of the WorldAn Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plant FamiliesMaarten JM Christenhusz (Author), Michael F Fay (Author), Mark W Chase (Author)This is the first comprehensive book to cover every vascular plant family in the world, includingall families of lycopods, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. Organised in a modernphylogenetic order (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV for flowering...

850 pages | 2500 colour photos, illustrations, and distribution maps |Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Hardback #235467 Sep-2017 9781842466346 £54.99

RHS Genealogy for GardenersPlant Families Explored & ExplainedRoss Bayton (Author), Simon Maughan (Author)Most of us lump plants together in one big family, and when pressed can only explain theirgrouping by what they're not – not an animal, not a mineral, and so just a plant. In reality, thereare hundreds of different plant families, each...

224 pages | 300 colour & b/w illustrations | Mitchell Beazley

Hardback #235468 Oct-2017 9781784723804 £14.99

Get PlantsHow to Bring Green into Your LifeKatherine Price (Author), Sarah Cuttle (Illustrator)Nothing brings life to a room like a plant. And science suggests that they're good for us, too,lifting our moods and making us healthier. But if your office is bare, your home lacking green –where do you start?Get Plants can help....

240 pages | 400 colour photos | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Hardback #235469 May-2017 9781842466278 £24.99

The Little Guide to LeavesTom Frost (Author)Discover the intriguing world of the leaf with this handy pocket guide. Beautifully illustratedthroughout, The Little Guide to Leaves offers a fresh perspective on identifying the trees andplants around you. It features 40 of the most spectacular...

96 pages | colour illustrations | Quadrille Publishing

Paperback #235482 Aug-2017 9781787130333 £7.99

Mesquite: History, Growth, Biology, Uses, and ManagementRodney W Bovey (Author)Global problem or treasure? This question has accompanied the widespread and controversialmesquite tree wherever it grows and is studied around the world. In this comprehensivereference to the genus Prosopis, rangeland scientist Rodney Bovey has...

570 pages | 50 colour photos, 13 b/w illustrations, 8 tables | Texas A & MUniversity Press

Hardback #235486 2016 9781623494285 £49.50














Animal & General Biology

The Flora of Kerala, Volume 2Fabaceae - CornaceaeGVS Murthy (Editor), VJ Nair (Editor)This volume covers 33 plant families found in the Indian state of Kerala. It contains keys tospecies and genera, descriptions, flowering times, habitat, distribution, uses, and extra notes.

601 pages | 68 colour photos | Botanical Survey of India

Hardback #235491 2016 9788181770899 £33.99

Ethnobotany of the CaucasusRainer W Bussmann (Editor)Ethnobotany of the Caucasus covers this European macroregion and focuses on theethnobotany of wild plants. The content is divided into sections covering countries (or groups ofcountries), based on plant diversity and not necessarily political or...

670 pages | 348 colour illustrations, 382 tables | Springer-Verlag

Hardback #235520 Jun-2017 9783319494111 £193.00

The Flora of Kerala, Volume 1Ranunculaceae - ConnaraceaeP Daniel (Editor), GVS Murthy (Editor), P Venu (Editor)This volume covers 59 plant families from Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae found in the Indianstate of Kerala. It contains keys to species and genera, descriptions, flowering times, habitat,distribution, uses, and extra notes.

883 pages | 63 plates with colour photos | Botanical Survey of India

Paperback #235523 2005 9788181770080 £49.99

Plant Diversity in the Central Great CaucasusA Quantitative AssessmentGeorge Nakhutsrisvili (Editor), Otar Abdaladze (Editor), Ketevan Batsatsashvili (Editor), EvaSpehn (Editor), Christian Körner (Editor)Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus presents the first assessment of the high-elevation flora of the Central Caucasus with a community ecology emphasis. Following ageostatistical-climatological description of the region (in comparison to...


Hardback #235562 May-2017 9783319557762 £99.99

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 3ReptilesDavid O Norris (Editor), Kristin H Lopez (Editor)Paperback reprint of a book originally published in 2010.This series of volumes represents acomprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sortsthrough mammals. It is designed to provide a readable,...


Paperback #235320 2016 9780128101889 £76.99

BiosonarAnnemarie Surlykke (Editor), Paul E Nachtigall (Editor), Richard R Fay (Author), Arthur NPopper (Author)Two groups of animals, bats and odontocetes (toothed whales), have independently developedthe ability to orient and detect prey by biosonar (echolocation). This active mechanism oforientation allows these animals to operate under low light...

304 pages | 78 colour photos and colour & b/w illustration; tables |Springer-Verlag


Sexual Reproduction in Animals and PlantsHitoshi Sawada (Editor), Naokazu Inoue (Editor), Megumi Iwano (Editor)Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants contains the proceedings of the InternationalSymposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where manyplant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to discuss their recent...



Flight of MammalsFrom Terrestrial Limbs to WingsAlexandra A Panyutina (Author), Leonid P Korzun (Author), Alexander N Kuznetsov (Author)Flight of Mammals offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals andoffers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight. Theskeletomuscular apparatus of the shoulder girdle and forelimbs of tree shrews,...



The Deeper GenomeWhy There is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the EyeJohn Parrington (Author)Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire humangenome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genesto tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique...

272 pages | 26 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press

Paperback #227132 2016 9780199688746 £9.99Paperback #235478 Aug-2017 9780198813095 £10.99

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedThe Stories in Our GenesAdam Rutherford (Author)This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique toyou, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it isalso our collective story, because in every one of our...

419 pages | b/w illustrations | Weidenfeld & Nicolson


The Telomerase RevolutionThe Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Ageing... and Will Soon Lead to Longer, HealthierLivesMichael Fossel (Author)Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more aboutageing – and how to prevent and reverse it – than ever before. Twenty years ago, there wasstill considerable debate of the nature of human ageing, with...

240 pages | 25 b/w illustrations | Atlantic Books

Paperback #235162 Jul-2017 9781782399124 £9.99Paperback #230741 2016 9781782399100 £14.99Hardback #230742 2015 9781941631690 £26.50













Evolutionary Biology

Mimicry, Crypsis, Masquerade and other Adaptive ResemblancesDonald LJ Quicke (Author)Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance:- Full colour- Covers everything from classicexamples of Batesian, Müllerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to humanbehavioural and microbial molecular deceptions- Highlights areas where...

576 pages | colour photos | John Wiley & Sons

Hardback #234891 Sep-2017 9781118931530 £74.95

Understanding the Gut MicrobiotaGerald W Tannock (Author)Understanding the Gut Microbiota discusses the community of microbial species (themicrobiota, microbiome), which inhabits the large bowel of humans. Written from theperspective of an academic who has been familiar with the topic for 40 years, it...


Hardback #235369 2017 9781118801420 £104.00

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M Sapolsky (Author)Behave is at once a dazzling tour and a majestic synthesis of the whole science of humanbehaviour. Brought to life through simple language, engaging stories and irreverent wit, it offersthe fullest picture yet of the origins of tribalism and...

800 pages | Bodley Head


DNA is Not DestinyThe Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your GenesSteven J Heine (Author)Do you fear what might be lurking in your DNA?Well, now you can find out, and you most likelywill. Scientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025, and as theprice drops it may even become a standard medical procedure....

352 pages | W.W. Norton & Co.

Hardback #235432 May-2017 9780393244083 £21.99

Genomic Management of Animal Genetic DiversityJ Kor Oldenbroek (Editor)Recently developed genomic tools, like SNP-genotyping and whole genome sequencing, andtheir analysis, offer great opportunities for the conservation and utilisation of animal geneticdiversity, both among and within breeds. These genomic tools can...

232 pages | Wageningen Academic Publishers

Paperback #235434 2017 9789086862979 £50.99

Understanding Population GeneticsTorbjörn Säll (Author), Bengt O Bengtsson (Author)The reader is taken through ten mathematical derivations that lead to important results,explaining in a hands-on manner the key concepts and methods of theoretical populationgenetics. The derivations are carefully worked out and easy to follow....


Paperback #235516 Oct-2017 9781119124030 £44.99

Diversity and Benefits of Microorganisms from the TropicsJoão Lucio de Azevedo (Editor), Maria Carolina Quecine (Editor)Diversity and Benefits of Microorganisms from the Tropics addresses the diversity of tropicalmicroorganisms and its applications in agriculture, renewable energy production andenvironmental protection. It covers several tropical habitats such as...


Hardback #235567 Jun-2017 9783319558035 £126.50

The CellDiscovering the Microscopic World That Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and OurFutureJoshua Z Rappoport (Author)Your body has trillions of cells, and each one has the complexity and dynamism of a city. Yourlife, your thoughts, your diseases, and your health are all the function of cells. But what do youreally know about what goes on inside you? The last time...

272 pages | illustrations | BenBella Books

Paperback #235575 Jul-2017 9781942952961 £11.99

Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical and Religious IssuesR Paul Thompson (Editor), Denis M Walsh (Editor)Evolution – both the fact that it occurred and the theory describing the mechanisms by which itoccurred – is an intrinsic and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhanskycaptures this well in the much-quoted title of his...

280 pages | 9 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | Cambridge University Press


Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to WinThe Molecule Behind Power, Sex, and the Will to WinJoe Herbert (Author)We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as thoseinvolved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation ofmasculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a male. It is...

217 pages | 22 b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press


The Secret of Our SuccessHow Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us SmarterJoseph Henrich (Author)Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in thewild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoidingpredators. On the other hand, human groups have produced...

445 pages | 21 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 3 tables | PrincetonUniversity Press


EvolutionSteve Jones (Author)Part of the new Ladybird Expert Series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertainingintroduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary theory of how all life changesthrough natural selection. Written by broadcaster, prize-winning...

52 pages | colour illustrations | Michael Joseph

Hardback #235193 2017 9780718186289 £5.99














Ecology

The Other Left SideLeft and Right in Evolution and Other EssaysTijs Goldschmidt (Author), Sherry MacDonald (Translated by)In essays like How to Fake Faking, and the title essay, The Other Left Side: the Phenomenonof Left and Right in Evolution, Tijs Goldschmidt shatters our expectations of what a scientificessay is and then rebuilds it in intensely personal, artful...

272 pages | Seven Stories Press

Hardback #235228 2016 9781609806668 £22.99

The Origins of CreativityEdward O Wilson (Author)'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,' begins Edward Wilson's sweeping examination of the humanities and theirrelationship to the sciences. By studying fields as diverse...


Hardback #235387 Oct-2017 9780241309209 £17.99

The Evolution of ImaginationStephen T Asma (Author)Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonalpatterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases – all on the fly. Or think of a comedytroupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until...


Hardback #235405 Jul-2017 9780226225166 £22.50

Evolving GodA Provocative View on the Origins of ReligionBarbara J King (Author)Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recordedhistory. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains – a desire tobelong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our...


Paperback #235415 May-2017 9780226360898 £12.99

On the Origin of Species [150th Anniversary Edition]Charles Darwin (Author), Jim Endersby (Editor)Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection is both a keyscientific work of research, still read by scientists, and a readable narrative that has had acultural impact unmatched by any other scientific text. First...

453 pages | 12 b/w illustrations | Cambridge University Press


The People of SunghirBurials, Bodies, and Behavior in the Earlier Upper PaleolithicErik Trinkaus (Author), Alexandra P Buzhilova (Author), Maria B Mednikova (Author), Maria VDobrovolskaya (Author)In this latest volume in the Human Evolution Series, Erik Trinkaus and his co-authorssynthesise the research and findings concerning the human remains found at the Sunghirarchaeological site in Russia, some two hundred kilometres east of Moscow. It...

368 pages | 254 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations |Oxford University Press

Hardback #235465 2014 9780199381050 £120.00

The Evolution of BeautyHow Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And UsRichard O Prum (Author)Darwin's theory of natural selection has proven a powerful explanation for the proverbialbranches on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and whatfeatures each evolves. But adaptation by natural selection...

448 pages | Doubleday

Hardback #235563 May-2017 9780385537216 £29.99

How Language BeganThe Story of Humanity's Greatest InventionDaniel Everett (Author)In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that haveperplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? Andwhat is it for?Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that...

352 pages | ~60 b/w illustrations | Profile Books

Hardback #235577 Sep-2017 9781781253922 £24.99

Aliens in the BackyardPlant and Animal Imports Into AmericaJohn Leland (Author)Aliens live among us. Thousands of species of nonnative flora and fauna have taken upresidence within U.S. borders. America's lawns sprout African grasses, their roadsides flowerwith European weeds, and their homes harbour Asian, European, and...

256 pages | 21 b/w illustrations | University of South Carolina Press


Invaders of the Great LakesInvasive Species and Their Impact on YouKaren R Hollingsworth (Author), Wildlife Forever (Editor)Aquatic invasive species have invaded the Great Lakes. Now, they are poised to invadethousands of lakes, rivers, and streams. This handy, full-colour guide by Wildlife Foreverspotlights 39 aquatic invasive species, divided into three categories:...

152 pages | Adventure Publications

Paperback #234787 Oct-2017 9781591937708 £11.50

General EcologyThe New Ecological ParadigmErich Hörl (Editor), James Edward Burton (Editor)Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities andsciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence ofliving organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognised...

400 pages | Bloomsbury Academic (Bloomsbury imprint)


Biological Invasions and its Management in China, Volume 2Fanghao Wan (Editor), Mingxing Jiang (Editor), Aibin Zhan (Editor)This book, published in two volumes, discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture,forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of theselected invasive species. Biological invasion has become a serious...


Hardback #235352 2017 9789811034268 £99.99














Habitats, Ecosystems & Natural Spaces

Biological Invasions and its Management in China, Volume 1Fanghao Wan (Editor), Mingxing Jiang (Editor), Aibin Zhan (Editor)This book, published in two volumes, discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture,forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of theselected invasive species. Biological invasion has become a serious...

380 pages | 13 b/w illustrations | Springer-Verlag

Hardback #235353 2017 9789402409468 £99.99

Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?Ian D Rotherham (Author)This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urbanand urbanised areas. Synthesising current ideas and approaches Recombinant Ecology - AHybrid Future? develops an historic context to ecological fusion and...

85 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Springer-Verlag

Paperback #235458 2017 9783319497969 £37.99

Principles of Thermal EcologyTemperature, Energy, and LifeAndrew Clarke (Author)This is the first single volume to cover the effect of temperature in its entirety. The threat ofrapid climatic change on a global scale is a stark reminder of the challenges that remain forevolutionary thermal biologists, and adds a sense of...

464 pages | Oxford University Press

Paperback #235492 Jul-2017 9780199551675 £39.99Hardback #235493 Jul-2017 9780199551668 £79.99

The Structure and Dynamics of Human EcosystemsToward a Model for Understanding and ActionWilliam R Burch, Jr. (Author), Gary E Machlis (Author), Jo Ellen Force (Author)As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges,the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. The HumanEcosystem Model described in this landmark book provides an innovative...

312 pages | 14 b/w illustrations | Yale University Press

Hardback #235559 Oct-2017 9780300137033 £39.99

A Guide to Habitat CreationChris Baines (Author)The second revised edition of this guide to the creation or restoration of all types of habitatincluding grasslands, woodlands, wetlands and wastelands. Featuring black-and-whitedrawings, this pocket guide contains practical information and...

100 pages | 90 b/w illustrations | Packard Publishing

Paperback #146534 2017 9781853411540 £7.95

River Ecosystem EcologyA Global PerspectiveGene E Likens (Author)A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, River Ecosystem Ecology reviews thefunction of rivers and streams as ecosystems as well as the varied activities and interactionsthat occur among their abiotic and biotic components. Because the...

424 pages | colour illustrations, colour tables | Academic Press

Paperback #235371 2016 9780128102138 £62.99

Lake Ecosystem EcologyA Global PerspectiveGene E Likens (Editor)A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Lake Ecosystem Ecology examines theworkings of the lake and reservoir ecosystems of our planet. Information and perspectivescrucial to the understanding and management of current environmental...

463 pages | colour & b/w illustrations, tables | Academic Press


The Soils of CroatiaFerdo Bašić (Author)The Soils of Croatia is a six-chapter book detailing all aspects of Croatian soils. The Soils ofCroatia presents, in a reader friendly way, the lively history of pedology in Croatia. It explainssoils as natural resources for this country and offers...



The Soils of ItalyEdoardo AC Costantini (Editor), Carmelo Dazzi (Editor)The Soils of Italy is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years. Takingadvantage of the large experience of the authors, and of the most updated information andtechnology, main soil types of Italy, their diffusion, functions...

354 pages | 187 colour & 61 b/w photos, illustrations and maps; tables |Springer-Verlag


The Soils of BangladeshSM Imamul Huq (Author), Jalal Uddin Md Shoaib (Author)The Soils of Bangladesh presents a comprehensive overview of the soils of Bangladesh. It iscompiled by authors with vast experience in soil related problems and potential mitigationapproaches. It discusses the development of Soil Science as an...

165 pages | colour photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps, tables| Springer-Verlag


The Soils of BulgariaToma Shishkov (Author), Nikola Kolev (Author)The Soils of Bulgaria offers a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of soils andconcepts on their magnitude. The purpose of The Soils of Bulgaria is to introduce readers tothe soil problematic and ecology in Bulgaria. The volume is divided...

228 pages | 87 colour & 83 b/w illustrations, 85 colour tables | Springer-Verlag


Mixed-Species ForestsEcology and ManagementHans Pretzsch (Editor), David Forrester (Editor), Jürgen Bauhus (Editor)Mixed-Species Forests offers a detailed overview of the current state of knowledge concerningthe ecology and management of compositionally and structurally diverse forests. It providesanswers to central questions such as:- What are the scientific...


Hardback #235565 Jun-2017 9783662545515 £63.99














The Soils of the PhilippinesRodelio B Carating (Author), Raymundo G Galanta (Author), Clarita D Bacatio (Author),Rodrigo B Badayos (Foreword By)The first soil survey in the Philippines was done by Mr. Clarence Dorsey, an American soilscientist in the province of Batangas in 1903. The Soils of the Philippines, however, is the firstcomprehensive summary of more than a century of soil-survey...



The Soils of AntarcticaJames G Bockheim (Editor)The Soils of Antarctica divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides informationon the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years.Although only 0.35% (45 000 km2) of Antarctica is ice-free, its...

322 pages | 156 colour & 32 b/w photos, illustrations and maps |Springer-Verlag


The Battle for YellowstoneMorality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental ConflictJustin Farrell (Author)Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it isglobally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park andits surrounding regions have recently become a...

296 pages | 52 b/w photos, 31 b/w illustrations, 6 tables | PrincetonUniversity Press


The Soils of IcelandOlafur Arnalds (Author)In this new volume in the World Soil series, the various types of Icelandic soils, their differentcharacteristics, their formation, degradation and erosion are reviewed. At the same time, TheSoils of Iceland also deals with the agriculture and land...

183 pages | 169 colour & 17 b/w photos, illustrations and maps; tables |Springer-Verlag


The Running HareThe Secret Life of FarmlandJohn Lewis-Stempel (Author)Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the lasttwenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. Thecorncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running...

298 pages | b/w illustrations | Black Swan


Ecological Restoration of Longleaf PineL Katherine Kirkman (Author), Steven B Jack (Author)Ecological Restoration of Longleaf Pine is a timely synthesis of the current understanding ofthe natural dynamics and processes in longleaf pine ecosystems. This book beautifullyillustrates how incorporation of basic ecosystem knowledge and an...

472 pages | 61 colour & 82 b/w illustrations, 18 tables | ProductivityPress

Hardback #235058 Oct-2017 9781498748186 £140.00

Woodland DevelopmentGeorge Peterken (Author), Edward Mountford (Author)Lady Park Wood was set aside as a 'natural' (i.e. unmanaged) reserve for ecological researchin 1944 and the trees, shrubs and ground vegetation have been recorded in detail ever since.The 70 years of observations now represent one of the...

288 pages | CABI Publishing

Hardback #235154 Jul-2017 9781780648651 £94.99

The Soils of GreeceNicholas Yassoglou (Author), Christos Tsadilas (Author), Costas Kosmas (Author)The Soils of Greece presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Greece. Itincludes sections on soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types,soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil...


Hardback #235284 2017 9783319533322 £85.99

Mammoth CaveA Human and Natural HistoryHorton H Hobbs III (Editor), Rickard A Olson (Editor), Elizabeth G Winkler (Editor), David CCulver (Editor)This book reveals the science and beauty of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave, locatedin the U.S. state of Kentucky, which has played an important role in the natural sciences. Itoffers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of...


Hardback #235337 Jun-2017 9783319537177 £85.99

Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral StreamsEcology and ManagementThibault Datry (Editor), Núria Bonada (Editor), Andrew J Boulton (Editor)Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Ecology and Management takes an internationallybroad approach, seeking to compare and contrast findings across multiple continents,climates, flow regimes, and land uses to provide a complete and integrated...


Paperback #235341 Jul-2017 9780128038352 £94.95

People, Forests, and ChangeLessons from the Pacific NorthwestDeanna H Olson (Editor), Beatrice Van Horne (Editor)We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth.The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathecome from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take...

350 pages | 16 plates with colour photos; 1 b/w photo, b/w 28 illustrations| Island Press


Conservation for the Anthropocene OceanInterdisciplinary Science in Support of Nature and PeoplePhillip Levin (Editor), Melissa Poe (Editor)Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean: Interdisciplinary Science in Support of Nature andPeople emphasizes strategies to better connect the practice of marine conservation with theneeds and priorities of a growing global human population. It...


Paperback #235344 Jun-2017 9780128053751 £51.95














Conservation & Biodiversity

Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe (2-Volume Set)Christoph Leuschner (Author), Heinz Ellenberg (Author)This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of CentralEurope's plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, theNetherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech...

~1000 photos and illustrations, tables | Springer-Verlag

Hardback #235345 Jun-2017 9783319507101 £255.00

The World's Urban ForestsHistory, Composition, Design, Function and ManagementJoe R McBride (Author)The purpose of The World's Urban Forests is to examine urban forests in cities around theworld. It asks questions about the history, composition, structure, and management of trees inurban areas. Data for this book was collected in 33 cities...


Hardback #235350 2017 9783319521077 £40.99

Endangered Forested Wetlands of SundalandEcology, Conservation & ManagementGianluca Polgar (Author), Zeehan Jaafar (Author)Endangered Forested Wetlands of Sundaland informs readers on the ecology, ecosystemservices, and management of Sundaland wetland ecosystems, discussing the concepts andtools necessary to conserve these imperiled habitats. Sundaland is a...


Hardback #235355 2017 9783319524153 £85.99

The Science and Practice of Landscape StewardshipClaudia Bieling (Editor), Tobias Plieninger (Editor)Improving the dynamic relationship between humanity and environment is a pressing issueand landscapes embody this tight interconnectedness, serving as unique sustainabilitylearning hubs and showcased by the rise of place-based and holistic...


Hardback #235361 Jun-2017 9781107142268 £39.99

Restoring Neighborhood StreamsPlanning, Design, and ConstructionAnn L Riley (Author), Doug Plasencia (Foreword By)Thirty years ago, the best thinking on urban stream management prescribed cement as thesolution to flooding and other problems of people and flowing water forced into close proximity.Urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control...

288 pages | Island Press


SaltmarshClive Chatters (Author)Saltmarshes are both highly dynamic and hugely diverse. In Britain, wetlands with salt-tolerantplants occur not only along the coast, but also surprisingly further inland, along tidal rivers andeven roads, as a result of the spread of de-icing...

384 pages | colour photos | Bloomsbury Publishing

Hardback #235383 Oct-2017 9781472933591 £27.99

Management of Marine Protected AreasA Network PerspectivePaul D Goriup (Editor), Roger G Crofts (Foreword By)With the health of the world's oceans threatened as never before, it is becoming increasinglyapparent that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vitally important role in protecting marineand coastal habitats.Management of Marine Protected...

312 pages | illustrations | Wiley-Blackwell

Hardback #235392 2017 9781119075776 £89.95

Ecology of High Altitude WatersDean Jacobsen (Author), Olivier Dangles (Author)Truly high altitude aquatic ecosystems are found primarily at lower latitudes: vast regions in thetropical part of the Andes, the Himalayas and Tibet, considerable areas in East Africa, andminor zones of Oceania. However, despite their abundance in...

272 pages | 125 illustrations | Oxford University Press


Working WildernessThe Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western RangeNathan Freeman Sayre (Author)Which is worse, cows or condos? Can the public lands be saved if the private lands arepaved? What does the future hold for the West's vaunted open lands, its ever more preciouswater, and its fire-prone forests? Is ranching a doomed myth –...

176 pages | 50 colour & b/w photos | Rio Nuevo Publishers

Paperback #235412 2005 9781887896818 £28.50

Guidelines for Native Seed Production and Grassland RestorationKathrin Kiehl (Editor), Anita Kirmer (Editor), Nancy Shaw (Editor), Sabine Tischew (Editor)Worldwide, the degradation and destruction of both natural and traditionally used semi-naturalecosystems are drastically increasing. Unfortunately, commercial seed mixtures, consisting ofnon-native species and genetically uniform cultivars, are...

315 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps | Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Hardback #235485 2014 9781443859004 £66.99

The World of the Salt MarshAppreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic CoastCharles Seabrook (Author)The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast – itsnatural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to itsecological survival.Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras,...

384 pages | 52 b/w photos | University of Georgia Press

Paperback #235517 2013 9780820345338 £23.50

Africa's EcologySustaining the Biological and Environment Diversity of a ContinentValentine Udoh James (Author)This is a book about the natural resource wealth of the continent of Africa and how to manage,protect and conserve the resources in the face of haphazard development and theunprecedented threat of consumption of the resources by the exponential...

162 pages | b/w photos, illustrations, maps, tables | McFarland

Paperback #235338 Jul-2017 9780786479139 £38.50














Environmental Science

Faunal Heritage of Rajasthan, India, Volume 1General Background and Ecology of VertebratesBK Sharma (Editor), Seema Kulshreshtha (Editor), Asad R Rahmani (Editor)This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the IndianDesert state of Rajasthan. This volume, the first of two, provides background on Rajasthan andcovers species diversity and distribution of fauna. A...



Orison for a CurlewIn Search of a Bird on the Edge of ExtinctionHoratio Clare (Author), Beatrice Forshall (Illustrator)The Slender-Billed Curlew, Numenius tenuirostris, 'the slim beak of the new moon', once bredin Siberia and wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing through the wetlands andestuaries of Italy, Greece, the Balkans and Central Asia. Today,...

104 pages | 2 colour maps, b/w illustrations | Little Toller Books

Paperback #235238 Jul-2017 9781908213570 £7.99Hardback #227150 2015 9781908213334 £11.99

Rancher, Farmer, FishermanConservation Heroes of the American HeartlandMiriam Horn (Author)Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work – restoringAmerica's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans – would not call themselvesenvironmentalists; they would be too uneasy...

416 pages | 5 illustrations, 2 maps | W.W. Norton & Co.


Stealing Shining RiversAgrarian Conflict, Market Logic, and Conservation in a Mexican ForestMolly Doane (Author)What happens to indigenous people when their homelands are declared by well-intentionedoutsiders to be precious environmental habitats? In this revelatory book, Molly Doanedescribes how a rain forest in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca was...

224 pages | 1 map, 4 tables | University of Arizona Press


Defending BiodiversityEnvironmental Science and EthicsJonathan A Newman (Author), Ontario Gary Varner (Author), Stefan Linquist (Author)Imagine that you are an environmentalist who passionately believes that it is wrong to drill foroil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. How do you convince someone that a decision to drillis wrong? Debates about the environment and how humans...



Wasting of BorneoDispatches from a Vanishing WorldAlex Shoumatoff (Author)Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drasticallyendangered rainforests of BorneoIn his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades,seasoned travel writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from...

224 pages | Beacon Press

Hardback #235257 2017 9780807078242 £24.99

Nature's AlliesEight Conservationists Who Changed Our WorldLarry A Nielsen (Author), Curt Meine (Foreword By)It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges – but we need inspirationmore than ever. With political leaders who deny climate change, species that are fighting fortheir very survival, and the planet's last...

272 pages | 30 photos, 2 illustrations | Island Press

Hardback #235281 May-2017 9781610917957 £20.99

Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in AfricaMyths and RealitiesCathy Haenlein (Editor), MLR Smith (Editor)A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangeredspecies. This crisis also threatens the security of human beings in ways ignored until recentlyby decision-makers slow to begin to treat what is typically...

104 pages | Routledge

Paperback #235292 2016 9781138743779 £26.99

Wind Energy and Wildlife InteractionsPresentations from the CWW2015 ConferenceJohann Köppel (Editor)Wind Energy and Wildlife Interactions presents a selection of new insights in understandingand mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats. Topics such as species behaviour andresponses; collision risk and fatality estimation; landscape...

289 pages | Springer-Verlag

Hardback #235354 2017 9783319512709 £112.00

Yellowstone and the SmithsonianCenters of Wildlife ConservationDiane Smith (Author)In the winter of 1996–97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time, thousands more have been killed orhazed back into the park, as wildlife managers struggle to...

192 pages | University Press of Kansas


The Big Conservation LieJohn Mbaria (Author), Mordecai Ogada (Author)The Big Conservation Lie is a wake-up call focused on a field that has been 'front and centre' ofmany people's hearts and minds in recent years; The conservation of Africa's wildlife. It is apursuit whose power to inspire is only...

210 pages | b/w illustrations | Lens & Pens Publishing

Paperback #235541 2017 9780692787212 £17.99

Conservation CriminologyMeredith L Gore (Editor)This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study ofenvironmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems. Takingan interdisciplinary approach, Conservation Criminology...

248 pages | Wiley-Blackwell

Hardback #235555 May-2017 9781118935484 £59.99














Physical Sciences

Requiem for a SpeciesWhy We Resist the Truth About Climate ChangeClive Hamilton (Author)Requiem for a Species does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to takeradical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reportsin recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how...

286 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Earthscan


Seafloor ObservatoriesA New Vision of the Earth from the AbyssPaolo Favali (Editor), Laura Beranzoli (Editor), Angelo De Santis (Editor)The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth'senvironment but their nature is poorly recognised. Knowing the ocean's role deeply andunderstanding the complex, physical, biological, chemical...

676 pages | 306 colour photos and colour illustrations, 42 b/willustrations, tables | Springer-Verlag


The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and SocietyJohn S Dryzek (Editor), Richard B Norgaard (Editor), David Schlosberg (Editor)Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by humansociety. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of howclimate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and...

864 pages | b/w illustrations | Oxford University Press


Sea Floor ExplorationScientific Adventures Diving into the AbyssRoger Hekinian (Author)The author participated 38 expeditions including the first manned-submersible project toexplore the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Sea Floor Exploration provides a comprehensive overview ofthe past 45 years of sea floor exploration. It summarizes the...



Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on EarthHugh Aldersey-Williams (Author)From Cnut to D-Day, the history and science of the unceasing tide is explored for the firsttime.Half of the world's population lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. Yet how littlemost of us know about the tide – a key force on...

426 pages | b/w photos, b/w illustrations | Viking Books


The Gilgamesh GeneRobin Russell-Jones (Author)What was it that initially separated us from other primates?What was different about Homosapiens 30,000 years ago that predicated our survival and the demise of our closest rivals, theNeanderthals?Why are we obsessed with the notion that GDP is the...

300 pages | colour illustrations | Shepheard-Walwyn

Hardback #235282 Jun-2017 9780856835148 £24.99

Climate ExtremesPatterns and MechanismsSY Simon Wang (Editor), Jin-Ho Yoon (Editor), Christopher C Funk (Editor), Robert R Gillies(Editor)Climate Extremes: Patterns and Mechanisms is a compilation of recent advancements in theidentification of the extreme event patterns and mechanisms. Climate Extremes covers acomprehensive documentation of the processes and mechanisms unique to...

408 pages | American Geophysical Union

Hardback #235357 Jul-2017 9781119067849 £120.00

Investigating Seafloors and OceansFrom Mud Volcanoes to Giant SquidAntony Joseph (Author), Arbind Kumar (Foreword By)Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid offers a bottom-to-toptour of the world's oceans, exposing the secrets hidden therein from a variety of scientificperspectives. Opening with a discussion of the earth's...

612 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations | Elsevier

Paperback #235372 2016 9780128093573 £94.99

Defiant EarthThe Fate of Humans in the AnthropoceneClive Hamilton (Author)Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth Systemas a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the sereneand clement conditions that allowed civilisation to...

185 pages | no illustrations | Polity Press


Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global WarmingPaul Hawken (Editor), Tom Steyer (Foreword By)In Drawdown, renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a team of over 200scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and activists to illustrate the hundredmost substantive solutions to combat climate change that together will...

240 pages | colour photos, colour illustrations | Plume

Paperback #235452 2017 9780143130444 £17.99

The Great DerangementClimate Change and the UnthinkableAmitav Ghosh (Author)Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generationsmay well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? Inhis first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land,...


Hardback #235483 2016 9780226323039 £15.50

The Milky WayAn Insider's GuideWilliam H Waller (Author)The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers ona grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latestastronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how...

332 pages | 16 plates with 32 colour photos and colour illustrations; 44b/w photos, 49 b/w illustrations, 2 tables | Princeton University Press















Sustainable Development

Comets: Nature and CultureAndrew Karam (Author)Radiating fire and ice, comets as a phenomenon seem part science, part myth. Two thousandyears ago when a comet shot across the night sky, it convinced the Romans that Julius Caesarwas a god. In 1066, Halley's Comet was interpreted as a...

224 pages | 80 colour & 20 b/w photos and illustrations | Reaktion Books

Paperback #235140 Oct-2017 9781780238302 £14.95

Roadside Geology of NevadaFrank DeCourten (Author), Norma Biggar (Author)Driving through Nevada, you may be miles from nowhere, but you are never far from aninteresting rock, the shoreline of an ice age lake, or an active or historic mine. The Silver Statehas some of the most diverse geology in the United States, and...

416 pages | colour & b/w photos, colour illustrations, colour maps |Mountain Press Publishing Company

Paperback #235219 2017 9780878426720 £33.50

The Nature of Life and its Potential to SurviveCan it Survive in the Universe?David S Stevenson (Author)The Nature of Life and its Potential to Survive looks at the persistence of life and how difficult itwould be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life ingeneral is fragile is challenged by the hardiness...


Paperback #235323 2017 9783319529103 £33.99

Fault Zone Dynamic ProcessesEvolution of Fault Properties During Seismic RuptureMarion Y Thomas (Editor), Thomas M Mitchell (Editor), Harsha S Bhat (Editor)Why do earthquakes happen? What properties control the dynamic rupture and what are theprocesses at play? Chapters in the present volume capture the current state of the art bydisplaying an overview of the existing knowledge on the physics of...

312 pages | American Geophysical Union

Hardback #235358 Aug-2017 9781119156888 £136.00

Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest InventionsAmina Khan (Author)Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than the pinnacle of human design.Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desertwithout air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness her ideas...

352 pages | Atlantic Books

Paperback #235420 Jul-2017 9781786492272 £12.99

The Beauty of Numbers in NatureMathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural WorldIan Stewart (Author)Think of a zebra's stripes, the complexities of a spider's web, the uniformity of desert dunes, orthe spirals in a sunflower head … think of a snowflake.The Beauty of Numbers in Nature showshow life on Earth forms the principles of...

224 pages | 200 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations | TheIvy Press

Paperback #235439 2017 9781782404712 £14.99

The Many Lives of CarbonDag Olav Hessen (Author), Kerri Pierce (Translated by)In its pure form, carbon appears as the soft graphite of a pencil or as the sparkling diamond ina woman's engagement ring. Underneath the surface, carbon is also the basic building block ofthe cells in our bodies and of all known life on earth....

272 pages | 20 illustrations | Reaktion Books

Hardback #235560 Oct-2017 9781780238517 £17.99

Atlas of Submarine Glacial LandformsModern, Quaternary and AncientJulian A Dowdeswell (Editor), M Canals (Editor), M Jakobsson (Editor), BJ Todd (Editor), EKDowdeswell (Editor), K Hogan (Editor)New geophysical techniques (multibeam echo sounding and 3D seismics) have revolutionisedhigh-resolution imaging of the modern seafloor and palaeo-shelf surfaces in Arctic andAntarctic waters, generating vast quantities of data and novel insights...

637 pages | colour illustrations | Geological Society

Hardback #235566 2016 9781786202680 £195.00

Tourism and Animal EthicsDavid A Fennell (Author)Paperback reprint, originally published in 2012.There is a long history of the involvement ofanimals for tourism purposes in circuses, zoos, fairs, ecotourism and wildlife tourism, usinganimals as the prime focus of their experience. The wave of...

310 pages | 36 b/w illustrations, 14 tables | Routledge


International Sheep and Wool HandbookDJ Cottle (Editor)This book covers a broad range of topics relevant to the sheep and wool industry in all themain regions of the world. Despite the importance of the sheep industry to Australia, theprevious 1991 edition was the first publication to have brought...

774 pages | Nottingham University Press

Hardback #234605 2010 9781904761860 £87.50

Out of the WreckageA New Politics in the Age of CrisisGeorge Monbiot (Author)Mainstream politics is stuck, torn between the redundant doctrines of Keynesianism andneoliberalism. Neither have much to offer a world facing environmental collapse, civicbreakdown and a gathering crisis of permanent unemployment. This dismal,...

224 pages | Verso Books

Hardback #234932 Oct-2017 9781786632883 £14.99

Alternative Systems for PoultryHealth, Welfare and ProductivityVictoria Sandilands (Editor), Paul M Hocking (Editor)Recent interest in how poultry are housed and managed in order to ensure profitability,sustainability, and good levels of animal welfare, are challenging issues that commercialpoultry keepers face, particularly where legislation is bringing about...

376 pages | 89 illustrations | CABI Publishing

Hardback #235243 2012 9781845938246 £89.99














Data Analysis & Modelling

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Children's

Sustainable Poultry Production in EuropeEmily Burton (Editor), Joanne Gatcliffe (Editor), Helen Masey O'Neill (Editor), Dawn Scholey(Editor)Based on the proceedings of a recent symposium, Sustainable Poultry Production in Europeaims to explore and ultimately define sustainability in the context of poultry production inEurope to create a durable industry for future generations. Four...

296 pages | CABI Publishing

Hardback #235244 2016 9781780645308 £94.99

Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical EncountersEcological and Conservation AspectsIsmar Borges De Lima (Editor), Ronda J Green (Editor)Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical Encounters outlines the status quo ofworldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness,behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters. It sets out...


Hardback #235568 Jun-2017 9783319555737 £112.00

The R PrimerClaus Thorn Ekstrøm (Author)The R Primer provides a collection of concise examples with solutions and interpretations of Rproblems frequently encountered by new users of this statistical software. Maintaining all thematerial from the first edition and adding substantial new...

426 pages | 51 b/w illustrations, 4 tables | Chapman & Hall (CRC Press)

Paperback #235300 Jun-2017 9781138631977 £39.99

Spatial Capture-RecaptureJ Andrew Royle (Author), Richard B Chandler (Author), Rahel Sollmann (Author), BethGardner (Author)Spatial Capture-Recapture provides a comprehensive how-to manual with detailed examples ofspatial capture-recapture models based on current technology and knowledge. SpatialCapture-Recapture provides you with an extensive step-by-step analysis of...

612 pages | illustrations | Academic Press


Chicago Guide to Communicating ScienceScott L Montgomery (Author)For more than a decade, The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science has been the go-toreference for anyone who needs to write or speak about their research. Whether a studentwriting a thesis, a faculty member composing a grant proposal, or a public...


Paperback #235526 2017 9780226144504 £18.99

Speaking of UniversitiesStefan Collini (Author)In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universitiesand of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects tonearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of...

304 pages | Verso Books

Hardback #235168 2017 9781786631398 £16.99

Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History MuseumsLance Grande (Author)Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than mustyrepositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientificknowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centres,...

412 pages | 146 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations |University of Chicago Press

Hardback #235264 2017 9780226192758 £26.50

Fundamentals of Electronic Resources ManagementAlana Verminski (Author), Kelly Marie Blanchat (Author)This hands-on guide provides both new and seasoned information professionals with apractical foundation for electronic resources management: how it came to be, where it is todayand the essential tools needed to get the job done. Electronic...

251 pages | b/w illustrations, tables | Facet Publishing (formerly LibraryAssociation Publishing)

Paperback #235360 2017 9781783302307 £54.95

Science in the ArchivesPasts, Presents, FuturesLorraine Daston (Editor)Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, thedetritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research:fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by...

392 pages | 25 b/w photos, 11 b/w illustrations, 1 table | University ofChicago Press


Write No Matter WhatAdvice for AcademicsJoli Jensen (Author)With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars arestruggling to fulfil their writing goals. A finished book – or even steady journal articles – mayseem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen...



Becoming a Wildlife ProfessionalScott E Henke (Editor), Paul R Krausman (Editor)Working with wildlife can be a thrilling adventure steeped in the wonders of the natural world,but entering the field demands a strong personal commitment. With proper training andguidance, students can transform themselves into competitive...

232 pages | 58 b/w photos | Johns Hopkins University Press

Hardback #235473 Aug-2017 9781421423067 £62.99













Steve Backshall's Wild WorldSteve Backshall (Author)In this full-colour, photographic, gift book fearless TV presenter, Steve Backshall, explores thelives and habitats of four endangered species: tigers, orangutans, wolves, sharks – and tells ushow we can all help in the conversation of these...

208 pages | colour photos | Orion Children's Books

Hardback #227924 Aug-2017 9781510101616 £7.99

Spiders in Your NeighborhoodA Field Guide to Your Local Spider FriendsPatrick Stadille (Author)An introductory field guide with a US focus. Author Pat Stadille used to be terribly afraid ofthese eight-legged daddies, until he started learning more about them. Now spiders are hisbest friends! We have a feeling you're going to feel the...

31 pages | colour photos, b/w illustrations | Heyday Books

Paperback #235217 2013 9781597142601 £9.99

The Secret Life of the Red FoxLaurence Pringle (Author), Kate Garchinsky (Illustrator)This gorgeous and lyrical picture book from renowned science author Laurence Pringle anddebut illustrator Kate Garchinsky follows a year in the life of a red fox named Vixen as she findsfood, hunts, escapes threats, finds a mate, and raises her...

32 pages | colour illustrations | Highlights Press

Hardback #235576 2017 9781629792606 £11.99





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