Welcome to the December 2024 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue, which lists all new titles added to our website in the last month.
Starting with birds, we are very pleased to announce that Miles McMullan's bestselling Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia has now been published in its updated and improved fourth edition. This month will also see Lynx publish the second edition of Birds of Spain. HarperCollins has announced Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood for April, a new book by Adam Nicholson of Seabird's Cry fame.
Turning to mammals, the paperback of Derek Gow's Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories That Surround Them is due in May from Chelsea Green. That same month, Birlinn Publishing will release Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland's Beavers. Ediciones La Biblioteca del Naturalista is about to release the first of a three-volume Spanish-language mammal fauna for Argentina with Mamíferos de Argentina, Tomo 1: Marsupiales, Primates, Quirópteros y Ungulados, covering marsupials, primates, bast, and ungulates.
For herpetologists, there are two field guides on snakes coming from Pelagic Publishing, both due in May: Snakes of Peninsular Thailand and Field Guide to the Snakes of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland).
A single entry on deep-sea fauna is the most recent addition to the ongoing series Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos from the Paris Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle with Volume 34: Deep-Sea Chirostylids and Stylasterids from South-West Indian Ocean.
Turning to botany, we have a range of books. Bloomsbury has announced Alpine Flowers: The Complete Field Guide for May, Kew will publish Saving Orchids: Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World in April, and Fourth Estate has announced the paperback of The Light Eaters: The New Science of Plant Intelligence for publication in May. Two books on forests and trees that are due in May are Tree-Hunting: 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities from Particular Books and Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands from HarperCollins
On the subjects of conservation and other environmental issues, various titles piqued our interest. A practical book is Field Guide to Invasive Plants and Animals in Britain, due in January from Bloomsbury. A good read, co-authored by Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield, is Ocean: How to Save Earth's Last Wilderness, due in May from John Murray. Librarians will be particularly interested in the first two volumes of a series on biodiversity hotspots with Biodiversity Hotspot of the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka and Biodiversity Hotspot of the Himalaya, both recently published by Apple Academic Press. A trio of thought-provoking books are the edited collection The Heart of the Wild: Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future from Princeton University Press; Patrick Galbraith's Common Ground: Why Our Relationship with the Land Needs a Radical Rethink, due in April from HarperCollins; and Tony Juniper's Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet, due in March from Bloomsbury.
Finally, a miscellany of titles covers various subject areas. General natural history comes in the form of Exmoor, HarperCollins's next New Naturalist due in March, and The RSPB Everyday Guide to British Wildlife: Identify Our Common Species and Learn More About Their Lives, due in May from Bloomsbury. Nature writing is provided by Robert MacFarlane's new Is A River Alive?, due in May from Hamish Hamilton and the paperback of Ian Carter's Human, Nature: A Naturalist’s Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places, due in May from Pelagic Publishing. Readers interested in the history of science can look out for Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History Museums, due in April from Allen Lane, and The Redouté Brothers: Masters of Scientific Illustration in Paris, just published by the Paris Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Finally, for those interested in palaeontology there is Mark Witton's King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex, due in May from Princeton University Press.
As always, if you are looking for a particular title that we do not yet have in our range, or you would like to suggest a title for NHBS to stock, please do get in touch.
Leon Vlieger
Catalogue Editor
Whether the reader is an amateur insect enthusiast, a student or an entomologist, this completely revised new fifth edition of A Field Guide to Insects in Australia offers essential information to help identify insects from all the major groups.With...
The fourth volume of the Fibigeriana Supplement series is the third, revised edition of the Macrolepidoptera of Hungary, a bilingual, up-to-date, annotated checklist and the illustration of all Heterocera and Rhopalocera species known from Hungary in...
Bees are enigmatic creatures that have long attracted human admiration and fascination. But even more than that, they are a key lynchpin in the workings of the entire natural world. And we're not just talking about honey bees.There are over...
This book is about those spiders that live in our houses and apartments as lodgers. Mostly ignored and sometimes (wrongly) feared, there is hardly a building in the world that does not harbour some species of spider. What is fascinating is that we...
Volume 6/2 of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera focuses on the second part of the beetle superfamily Chrysomeloidea reported from the Palaearctic biogeographic region and is divided into two volumes (volume 6/2/1 and this volume 6/2/2). For the...
This book offers a look at the diurnal and nocturnal butterflies and moths of Argentina, that, over time, diversified into groups adopting different forms and lifestyles. Through extensive research, observation and photography, the author glimpsed a...
Through narrative, verse, and art, Where the Grass Still Sings celebrates the many tiny creatures that play crucial roles in our ecosystems – as well as the people on the front lines of the fight to save them.Weaving art and science with...
The fifth volume in this series on the butterflies of Vietnam covers the family Pieridae. The introduction includes information about the systematics of Pierid butterflies (Whites), morphological features of the imago, including structure of the...
Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, a continuation of Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, is a series dedicated to the inventory and description of the deep-sea fauna of the world, with special emphasis on the most extensive, yet remote and least...
This publication provides an illustrated key to the Trichoptera in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
This publications offers an illustrated key to the mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
This beautifully illustrated little guide tells you everything you need to know about Britain's butterflies. Whether you're a beginner or an enthusiast, you will want to spot all of these winged wonders. All five families of British...
While We Slept is Pete Mauney's culminating book of a decade spent flipping his sleep schedule to obsessively photograph the firefly population near his home in rural New York State. Mauney's masterful images depict accurate representations...
This work provides an overview of the predatory marine gastropod mollusc genus Ericusa. By focusing on the extant six species comprising this Australian endemic group, the authors aim to account for a wide range of morphotypes and intergrades...
This supplement lists identified Costellariidae species from Mozambique, along with the description of 10 new species. The type locality of Thala adamsi and Mitra clathrata has been defined. A neotype for Voluta mucronata has been selected and Mitra...
This book is dedicated to a large family of seashells that form an important element of the marine faunas in tropical and subtropical regions. The species of Terebridae have always been popular because of their exquisite needle shapes, often bright...
Before you step into the jungle, there are a few things you need to know...Join scientist Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza as she uncovers one of the most unexplored regions on the planet. Growing up amid the landscape of Peru and the rainforest of...
This book attempts to understand the diverse forests of Karnataka in the southwest of India, their current status, and the primary factors that led to their transformation from their pristine (original and unspoilt) to the present state. Although the...
This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive...
Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves, whether it be skiing in the Italian Alps or scaling the heights of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Some...
Wild Singapore combines vivid photographs of marine and terrestrial sites and species with a highly informative and readable text. The book starts with a look at Singapore's wild past: its biogeography from before human occupation up to 19th...
Wild Malaysia describes a megadiverse country that has an incredible number of land species – it is estimated to contain 20 per cent of the world's animal species – and whose coastal waters form part of the equally rich Coral...
What does it mean to be a part of – rather than apart from – nature? Human, Nature is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can make our lives richer and more fulfilling. But it also explores the conflicts and...
A stirring, beautiful book for anyone who longs to run away to the woods sometimes.You will find a bothy in the mountains or the wilderness, remote huts you can't reserve, usually without electricity or other mod-cons, running water or a marker...
This informative and engaging guide for beginner wildlife watchers and nature enthusiasts describes the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects commonly seen in the British Isles.Do you know the difference between a hare and a rabbit? And...
Welcome to your own, personal nature journal, and a new way of being in the world. A year-long course in noticing, you can start in any month and follow the stories unfolding around you - wherever you live. Featuring monthly guides, birdsong to...
The New York Times bestseller, now available with beautiful full-colour illustrations for young readers aged ten years and up. Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong.Did you know that there...
Salt of the Earth is a striking monograph, which skillfully captures humanity's impact on the environment. From ground-level perspectives to aerial shots, Barbara Boissevain's unique compositions of industrial salt ponds, accentuate the...
Spring is the time of renewal and rebirth, a celebration of the resilience of life. As the year turns, animals and plants that have struggled to survive the winter find new hope and create the next generation. The season has inspired some of...
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed...
A behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing how their hidden secrets can help us in the fight against climate change.Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history...
Ray Mears has accumulated his tracking skills over 35 years of practice in the field, all over the world, and this book will be the first authoritative but accessible and practical manual. Here you have not only a go-to reference for professionals,...
"Our estate was built on land claimed from fields – we were at the foot of those rolling Kilpatrick hills, but over the roof of the school you could see more green fields and woods. I felt grateful to be on the edge of all that countryside...
From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human...
Discover the adventures of an Alaskan woman biologist as she relates experiences working across varied landscapes and water bodies, including caribou counts in the Northwest Arctic, king crab index fishing in Lower Cook Inlet, and Chinook salmon...
Explore the fascinating world of native Australian animals through the five basic senses – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.Covering more than 145 truly astounding animals – from sharp-eyed whale sharks to sticky-bellied green tree...
On the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help.Phenology is all about timing – when trees leaf out, flowers bloom, birds migrate, animals...
Spring Unfurled is the first in a stunning seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding.This series will take readers on a journey through the seasons, reflecting Angela's view as the nature around her transforms and...
The incredible true story of the mysterious sea creature who captured hearts and imaginations during the turbulent 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.In the summer of 1978, residents along the Virginia side of the Potomac River were startled by sightings of a...
Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.Materials, transformed from natural resources into the buildings,...
An updated edition of the essential guide for all scientists – from undergraduates to senior scholars – who want to produce prose that anyone can understand.Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as...
Annals of the Deep Sky is a comprehensive reference that guides amateur and semipro astronomers into every mind-boggling corner of the observational universe. Each volume presents extensive descriptions of prominent stars and deep-sky objects. No...
The field of molecular and genomic evolution has been catalysed by the ever-increasing availability of high throughput data such as transcriptome evolution, genotype-phenotype evolution, and genetic robustness. However, there is also an urgent...
From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind.For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. The global...
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows spend upwards of 15 years honing their research skills. However, in all this training, compulsory career and professional development courses are far and few between. In the absence of a formal training...
A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning gives a novel introduction to predictive modelling by focusing on the algorithmic and numeric motivations behind popular statistical methods. The text contains annotated code to over 80 original...
In this second edition of the now classic text, the already extensive treatment given in the first edition has been heavily revised by the author. The addition of two new sections, numerous new results and 150 references means that this represents a...
This book provides a ready reference for academics that covers the breadth of academic publishing. It draws on academic books and journal articles that have touched on various aspects of academic publishing, and on the author's own extensive...
A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world – from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will.Covering a breathtaking range of topics – from climate change to...
Are you a non-native English speaker studying or preparing to study at an English-language university? If so, this book is for you. This engaging guide equips students with the tools and confidence to respond effectively and appropriately to written...
One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to HawaiiThis land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more...
Once common across most of the country, beavers were hunted to extinction in the sixteenth century, but returned to Scottish waters in the early 2000s both through authorised and accidental releases. The deadwood wetlands they create benefit a huge...
The inspirational story of a bird lover who became a nature-warrior in a David sv Goliath battle to save swifts from extinction.Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to...
Filled with authoritative maps, data-driven graphics, awe-inspiring photographs, and thoughtful essays, this vivid book will feed the soul of everyone who loves wild places. Six lush chapters take readers from the eastern woodlands to the central...
Corbett Tiger Reserve is one of the premier wildlife places in India to see the Royal Bengal Tiger and Asian Elephant, and it has many other lesser-known treasures of life too. This guidebook comprehensively portrays Corbett Tiger Reserve as a...
The Heart of the Wild brings together some of today's leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human...
Spyridium fontis-woodii (WWS) is the most endangered native Australian flora, listed on the Commonwealth of Australia 'Critically Endangered List' in 2021, with only nine plants in one extant roadside left in the wild. Students at Wilderness...
Settler Ecologies tells the story of how settler colonialism becomes memorialized and lives on through ecological relations. Drawing on eight years of research in Laikipia, Kenya, Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio use immersive methods to reveal how...
Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds presents thirty-one extinct species through personal portraits. The intimate approach not only highlights each species but explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honour such a loss?...
Tales from the Bush: A Peek into the World of Satpura is an amalgamation of stories, anecdotes and wildlife encounters as witnessed by the Jehan Numa family over a decade and a half of experiencing Satpura, a range of hills in central India. Jehan...
This case study of Botswana focuses on the state-building qualities of biodiversity conservation in southern Africa. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Annette A. LaRocco argues that discourses and practices related to biodiversity conservation are...
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals...
Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is the second volume in the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, regions that...
Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is the first volume in the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, regions that...
We know that Britain's land ownership is unbalanced, but what about land access? Who can visit our green and pleasant spaces, who is making use of them and who is taking care of them? Much is made of open access in Scotland, but what is the...
Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide available in the market, perfect for birdwatching enthusiasts. With previous editions selling over 35,000 copies and winning several awards and recognitions, this...
Axel vividly tells about the lives of coastal birds, about migration, nesting, the hunt for food, distribution, characteristics and the birds' link to our coastal culture, while also weaving in his own experiences as a bird watcher and...
The second edition of Birds of Spain is based on the thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of Aves de España, the most popular field guide to the identification of the birds of Spain. Recommended by SEO/Birdlife, this guide offers the...
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane never expected to be a birder. She was a world-travelled journalist with no science...
As they migrated across great distances, ancient humans may have used birdsong and bird sightings to find food and water in unseen territory. Today, attending to birds helps scientists track not only avian migration but also environmental change....
The second title in the Deluxe natural history series from Reed New Holland, this book has photographs of more one hundred of the world’s most amazing bird species.So many people watch birds, perhaps because they can be seen almost anywhere....
The main item is the systematic list covering sightings in 2023 in the Avon area. Apart from the usual reports, there are three short reports of unusual sightings: a Steppe Grey Shrike at Sodbury Common on August 29th, a Hume's Warbler at...
From the bestselling and award-winning nature writer Adam Nicolson, a glorious new adventure into the British wilderness.By Adam Nicolson's home, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is passed through by...
A long-awaited accurate and user-friendly field guide to Australian orchids, written and illustrated by the world’s leading expert on the subject. This comprehensive and portable guide includes concise written accounts and stunning colour...
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoë Schlanger.Look at the green organism across the room or through the...
In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, our most ubiquitous and accessible plants. In gardens, on verges or clustered around municipal...
The Groaning Tree. The Rebel Tree. The Ecclesiastical Pear. The Beer Belly. The Climber's Lime. The Top Deck Dazzler.In Tree-Hunting, Paul Wood seeks out the best individual trees – the most charismatic, quirky or downright spectacular...
The definitive field guide to the floristic wonder of the Alps.Walking through an Alpine meadow in late spring is one of Europe's great wildlife experiences – the variety of flowers can be both dizzying and magical, while the prospect of...
A gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids – and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe.Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In some places, listening to a nighttime...
Following on from the first part, this volume includes another 90 native and exotic tree species that are most frequently grown in the streets, squares and parks in the Paraná delta region, Martín García Island and the banks of...
Orchids are the most popular houseplants on Earth and The Orchid Review is the RHS publication celebrating them in all their strange and beautiful guises.Whatever level your interest in orchids, there is something to fascinate and inspire, with...
The Flora of Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary, Sikkim contains an inventory of 411 taxa belonging to 173 genera and 54 families with brief descriptions. The book is also supplemented with photographs of 280 plants to showcase the plant diversity of the...
Over the past years, controversies about plant intelligence have become featured in scientific journals in ecology and plant biology. Mainstream media and educational literature have also taken up the topic. Could plants be intelligent? Could it be...
Ever wondered where you can buy a particular plant? Then look no further. The RHS Plant Finder 2025 is an A-Z directory of 70,847 plant names and where to buy them. First published in 1987, and providing a snapshot of British garden plants and trends...
Ferns are the most remarkable of plants, and their science is both complex and beautiful. Among our most ancient plants, they have a unique way of reproducing, and their story reveals much about our planet's evolution. Ferns tells a remarkable...
An extraordinary journey to visit the oldest trees in the United States that beautifully reveals the connection between humans and natural history.Follow award-winning author Anthony D. Fredericks's adventures across the United States to uncover...
A collection of the most remarkable trees from around the world, many of which have witnessed key moments in history or reached a scale and age that has allowed them to become history themselves.Meet 'Methuselah', a bristlecone pine in the...
This book by Colin Bower and Richard Medd is the first comprehensive guide to the native orchids of Central Western New South Wales, Australia. One hundred and thirty-seven species and three hybrids are described and illustrated with high-quality...
A little unkempt, carelessly graceful and wild at heart: that's how we like our garden(er)s. And that's how a myriad of humming, buzzing and crawling creatures like them too. This book takes you on a garden visit of a very special kind....
An illustrated hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four flowers as they attract pollinators, resist predators, and survive on our changing planet.Is it 4 AM or chicory o'clock? In this short book, botanist and award-winning author Sandra Knapp...
Fifteen years ago, Eduardo Mencos (farmer, landscape designer and photographer) and Charles Quest-Ritson (historian, writer, journalist and editor) conceived the idea of going on a trip around the world, like Jules Verne, but with the olive tree...
Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children;...
*We have a limited number of signed bookplates for this edition, available while stocks lastRenowned rewilder Derek Gow has a dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain as it has already returned elsewhere. As Derek worked to...
This is a complete and updated mammal fauna for Argentina, a first for the country, and includes all species. Mamíferos de Argentina, Tomo 1 fills a gap in Argentine scientific literature. This first volume of the trilogy offers an...
A moving and adventure-filled tale of one woman's quest for the truth about endangered Asian elephants and their evolving relationship with humans.Delving deep into an intricate web of unlikely heroes, power struggles, and living legends,...
Every year thousands flock to the Pennsylvania Wilds to be among nature and its famous elk herd. In the past, dangerous levels of hunting and industrial development forever altered Pennsylvania's natural landscape and drove its native elk to near...
Mike the Tiger – the only live tiger mascot in the United States – is an iconic presence on Louisiana State University's campus. From his tiger sanctuary next to Tiger Stadium, he draws a steady stream of fans, adults and children...
The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today – a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American Buffalo.The American buffalo – the USA's official mammal...
Offers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans' relationships with rats and the natural world.Apart from the occasional pet owner who has rats, most people regard rats as disease-carrying nocturnal pests, scurrying around...
This is the first book devoted to international deer husbandry techniques for the growing industries of venison, velvet antler, and antler trophy production as well as long-established extensive park systems for amenity.Written by world leaders in...
An indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating reptiles and frogs, packed with information about their behaviour, development, food and habitat. Each entry fully describes the species and its way of life. Colourfully illustrated throughout...
Filled with reverence and wonder for the natural world, this captivating book reveals the secret life of sea turtles, one of the oldest living creatures on Earth, and the story of one female scientist's fight to save their future.In 2015, a team...
This stunning photographic guide covers more than 190 snake species found across peninsular Thailand, including Phuket island and other popular tourist destinations. Each species description contains essential identification information, with a...
From carpet pythons in the rafters to skinks climbing up the walls, this eye-catching, entertaining and informative book is both a guide book and a collection of images and accompanying stories of reptiles living in close proximity to humans in urban...
Field Guide to the Snakes of Eswatini offers a complete account of all 63 snake species recorded in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Each species is illustrated with stunning photographs, over 300 images in all. The species are...
Packed with sumptuous photography, this is one of the first titles in the new and lavish Deluxe Natura History series from Reed New Holland. The images celebrate the beauty and marvellous design of some of our most misunderstood animals, the...
This book is the second volume of a compendium of the global distribution of some 3500 aquatic macrophyte species occurring in inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies worldwide, highlighting aspects of their ecology including endemism, world...
From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great, critical wilderness, and the one...
The Ocean by Sturla Henriksen is a compelling exploration of the ocean's profound influence on human history, contemporary society, and the critical role it plays in addressing existential challenges. Henriksen, a former CEO of the Norwegian...
The array of colours found on the Scaride family of fish, commonly known as the Parrotfish, is truly astounding and is showcased to breathtaking effect in this book. Photographer and artist Michelle Brayshaw reveals the array of colour changes which...
This paper describes soft corals occurring off the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands belong to the families Cladiellidae, Sarcophytidae, and Sinulariidae.
A fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone.The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that can breathe in air,...
This book is the first comprehensive account of the modern Kenya Rift Valley lakes and their precursor lakes preserved in the sedimentary record. The first part gives the broad geological and environmental background to the Kenya Rift and a history...
This book represents the first attempt to quantify environmental factors and life-history traits that accelerate or decelerate species diversity in animals. About 15%, 8% and 77% of species are distributed in marine (70% of earth's surface),...
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg. It's time to tell a new story of life on Earth.If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind's eye? A chicken egg, hard-boiled? A...
The first edition of Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and their Applications brought together multiple scientific disciplines to shed light on the importance of carrion within the context of ecology and evolutionary biology, and through applications...
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains – eating, pooping, and dying along the way – are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to...
A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships, some comforting and familiar, others wildly alien, by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not.What can nature teach us about living together? Investigating eight symbiotic...
Theory and early empirical work posed that herbivore pressure should be lower on islands than on the mainland owing to lower herbivore abundance and diversity in insular systems. Consequently, plant taxa found on islands are expected to be less...
This field guide enables the identification of a range of invasive plants and animals now found in Britain.The impact of invasive organisms is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity and yet, despite increasing ecological awareness,...
This book describes the Central Sahara region, bringing together an unprecedented combination of diverse and often historic research published in different languages in order to describe its varied landscapes and landforms.The Central Sahara region...
Volcanic eruptions are complex and inherently uncertain, making the management of a potentially explosive eruption on a small island with limited resources extremely difficult. This volume presents scientific findings from the 2020–21 eruption...
This new beautifully illustrated guide provides details of sixteen itineraries to investigate the great variety of rocks that are exposed in the Bristol area, ranging in age from Silurian to Jurassic with superficial coverings of Pleistocene and...
If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing...
What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? This is Brett Christophers' claim. The...
The extraction and use of natural resources underpins a global economy that provides high living standards for many as well as the prospect of ending poverty in the developing world. Mining as well as the oil and gas industry – which constitute...
In this ground-breaking book, environmental journalist, Peter Schwartzstein, takes the reader on the first on-the-ground exploration of climate change's contribution to global conflict. From the ravaged villages of Iraq, where ISIS has used...
Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how...
This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern...
How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970sAgainst the backdrop of a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of raw earth materials for...
An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the company constructs a presence in the places it operates and shapes meanings and orientations toward the...
The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of – and what it means.If you're injuring someone, you should stop – and pay for the damage you've caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple...
A globe-trotting investigation into the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. The millions of tonnes of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars,...
This volume focuses on practical applications of the principles that can be transferred from nature to our design space. It is thereby supported by the regulation and control systems as described by the science of cybernetics.
The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney's ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.In our current age of climate change-induced panic, it's hard to...
Almost two centuries after British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men died amid paralyzing cold and ice in pursuit of the mythical Northwest Passage, the Arctic – in response to temperatures greater than at any time in the last ten thousand...
A healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases.When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits – rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; waterfowl and avian flu; or mosquitoes and Zika....
From food poverty to wildfires and degraded rivers, mass migration and conflict, the environmental crisis is already here – and it's set to get much worse. While billionaires build remote bunkers and make plans for colonies on Mars, climate...
This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: COVID-19 is a zoonosis, i.e. a disease transmissible between animal species. The SARS-CoV-2 virus...
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have...
A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages.Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our planet. From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Isaac...
The World has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H. Gombrich brings to life the full story of human experience on Earth. He paints a colourful picture of remarkable people and events, from Confucius to...
Archaeology tells the story of our ancestors: how they lived, what they believed in and how their cultures developed over millennia. Brian Fagan introduces us to pharaohs' tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown,...
The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically...
Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of fossilised forests and of our oldest wooden artifacts can help us to understand...
An incisive history of early American archaeology – from reckless looting to professional science – and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today, told "with passion, indignation, and a dash of suspense" (New York...
In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene continue to proliferate, advanced technologies have also granted us greater access to...
A fascinating natural history for fans of Underland by Robert Macfarlane, 1492 by Charles Mann and Leviathan by Philip Hoare. Jack Lohmann reframes our relationship with the natural world, uncovering the many lives – and deaths – of...
From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colourful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the...
In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized hierarchies and inequitable notions about humanity and nature that still hold sway...
In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between...
This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the El Mirador cave located on the Atapuerca karstic system, one of the longest Pleistocene and Holocene archaeopaleontological deposits in Iberia. This book presents the results including new...
Known as a botanical box, collecting box, or vasculum, this green or black tin box has accompanied generations of botanists and plant hunters for more than two centuries. It has housed myriads of specimens, some of which are still the pride of our...
The Victorian Aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth century. This book offers an example of how the study of a particular object can be used to address a broad spectrum of...
What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these evolutionist turns of thought, and in what ways...
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Archaeology brings together contributions from a global community of leading scholars to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field. The Encyclopedia covers the breadth of topics and leading...
This volume gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs throughout history. There is a focus on the necessity of an ‘interdisciplinary perspective’ to...
This work provides the first comprehensive biography of the three Redouté brothers, Antoine-Ferdinand, Pierre-Joseph and Henri-Joseph. Originating from humble origins in the Ardennes, they all took root in Paris where Antoine-Ferdinand became...
Real diversity isn't skin deep. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome on the planet, our bodies and our cultures have been fine-tuned to our local environments. Our ability to adapt is at the heart of being human and...
Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for understanding the conceptual foundations and practical considerations...
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula's extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of "forest love", the...
This fourth edition explores fully up-to-date standardly used cryopreservation, vitrification, and freeze-drying protocols for specimens that are used for research purposes, conservation of genetic reserves, and applications in agriculture and...
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with COVID-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity...
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers – from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor Philip Ball.Biology is undergoing a quiet...
What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us?Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal...
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 52, provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including ecological determinants of sex roles and female sexual selection,...
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 53 provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. New chapters in this release include cooperative breeding in birds, the lessons learned of 20 years studying interactive singing in...
This volume provides a comprehensive reference for researchers aiming to bring new techniques and approaches to their scientific research using urodeles. Chapters are authored by leaders in the field and meant to guide readers through laboratory...
DNA is the essence of life and the original 'big data'. New technologies are allowing scientists to access and make sense of this information like never before, and they are using it to solve the world's greatest environmental...
All our inner organs and tissues require a constant environment to work effectively. Warm-blooded animals keep a core body temperature around 36.7°C (98°F) as the cells function at an optimal capacity at this temperature. The core body...
Compared to mammals, fish are often underestimated and dismissed as less complex organisms. To refute this hasty conclusion, Horst Bleckmann presents to you the highly developed cognitive abilities of fish.Did you know, for example, that fish are the...
Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were – or at least, they didn't look like you thought they did. The world-leading palaeontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid...
Tyrannosaurus rex is the world's favourite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by palaeontologists. This stunningly illustrated book brings together everything we have learned about T. rex – the...
A Naturalist's Guide to the Fungi of Aotearoa New Zealand is an easy-to-use introductory identification guide to 267 species of New Zealand's fungi, described at species or genus level; perfect for residents and visitors alike.High quality...
Russulales, one of the major orders of macrofungi, encompasses some mushroom-forming genera which are saprobes, parasites, or mycorrhizae and are responsible for the key functioning of any terrestrial ecosystem. This pictorial manual illustrates the...
Danmarks Basidiesvampe is a revolutionary identification key to the fungal division of basidiomycetes that are known from, or may appear in Denmark. The book marks the end of the second phase of Denmark's mushroom atlas.Danmarks Basidiesvampe is...
Learn how to grow wild and exotic, medicinally important, sustainable, and deeply delicious mushrooms right at your own home, just as people throughout the world have been doing for centuries.Grown Your Own Mushrooms – adapted from Mushroom...
