Perry: Prion, 1996. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Provides detailed information on birding sites on this island archipelago, each site entry giving location and access, accommodation, birding strategy and species expected to be seen. Also includes a selective bird list giving brief details on the distribution and status of the uncommon birds..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (1999. reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A standard reference providing a comprehensive overview of the grass family to generic level. More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Featuring 280 species that the amateur naturalist might expect to see in the field or garden. The user-friendly introduction covers habitats, flower structure, identification, wild flower names, a glossary of botanical and habitat terms, and conservation, in a way that doesn't..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2010. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Includes all Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird and Owlet-nightjars. Each species fully described, with local and international status shown. This lavishly illustrated book is the first comprehensive photographic guide to the Caprimulgiformes of the world. Each of the 100 species..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Hardback. black and white illustrations. Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. From the rusty, red plains of Tsavo to the lush, green forests of Northern Thailand, Clow has captured every aspect of elephant life, from first step to untimely death. Her astonishing images have been paired with the words of writers, poets..... More
London: Vintage, 2008. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Rooks and jackdaws are both members of the same bird family. To ornithologists the group is known as the corvids, to the layperson they are 'crows'. This is a prose poem in a tradition of English pastoral writing. It is also a celebration..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. This book presents an authoritative review on the state of knowledge on the biology of the Red algae. Written by a group of 26 internationally renowned experts, the eighteen chapters of this book range from molecular and..... More
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 51, 1997. Octavo, softcover. More
Cambridge: BirdLife International, 2002. Small quarto, dustwrapper, two volumes, maps. This new edition in the Red Data Book series provides great detail on the 665 most threatened bird species found in Asia. Over 400 distribution maps for 308 species, with information provided on the sites, species ecology, threats, conservation needed..... More
Mexico City: BirdLife International, 2007. Large quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. A portfolio drawn from the world's greatest bird photographers drives the message of this book home. The book is split into five chapters looking at all aspects of human's relationship with birds. The first looks the place birds occupy in..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. Octavo, paperback, maps. This book explores the gap between global commitments to biodiversity conservation, and local action to track biodiversity change and implement conservation action. High profile international political commitments to improve biodiversity conservation, such as the targets set by the Convention on Biological..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. In this charming book, Billy Collins, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have..... More
Canberra: CSIRO, 1998. Octavo, text illustrations. Monographs on invertebrate taxonomy, volume 6. This catalogue is a compilation of all known records and summarises our knowledge of the fauna of Australian Oribatid mites. More
Claremont: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 2007. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. This volume and its companion, Monocots, Comparative Biology and Evolution, excluding Poales 2006, contain papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, Monocots III, and the Fourth International Symposium on..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Follow Langdon Cook on his journey into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world's most coveted ingredient, and one of nature's last truly wild foods: the uncultivated, uncontrollable mushroom. Chefs pay top dollar to showcase these elusive..... More
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, BRAND NEW. This handy gardener's reference provides the derivation, meaning and pronunciation of the most popular and interesting garden plants. Common names and synonyms are cross-referenced to the botanical name. Names are organized alphabetically by generic name and these are followed by..... More
Lewes: Ivy Press, (2017. second edition), Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. A visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size in full-colour photographs taken on a light box and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, tables and graphs. Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms, and regulates the delivery of ecosystem..... More
San Rafael: Mandala Publishing, 2008. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book also contains images of the frozen continent that capture the beauty of the icebergs, the glaciers, the penguins and Humpback whales, and the wild wide seas. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Resilience is a word used more and more across societies worldwide as decision makers realise that predicting and controlling the future does not work and that preparing for uncertainty and surprise is necessary. As Australia moves into a millennium that promises major economic..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Octavo, colour photographs, line drawings. This field guide treats the extraordinary diversity of seeds and diaspores of plants commonly encountered in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics. This stunningly illustrated guide features an easy-to-use whole-plant approach to seed identification that..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2004. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A narrative written by a one-time Maine lobsterman relates how lobsters socialize, mate, fight for dominance, and navigate their way across the ocean floor. More
London: New Holland Publishers, 2011. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Following on from his highly successful "Creative Bird Photography", top natural history photographer Bill Coster now shares his tricks of the trade focusing on more general nature photography. This book embraces locations as varied as Bill's home base in Essex..... More