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London: Collins, (1972. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph 16. More
London: Collins, (1972. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph 16. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1907. Octavo, photographs and text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth, bookplate of Roy Cooper. More
London: John Murray, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. A stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding - the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale - a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. Octavo, wrappers, text illustrations. Illinois Biological Monographs, volume 23, numbers 1-3. More
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, (2009. second edition). Octavo, textillustrations, maps, softcover. The mysteries of migration have puzzled birders and prompted scientific inquiry for years. In this revised and updated edition, Paul Kerlinger unravels the intricacies of migration. Using case studies and illustrations, he explains the basics of flight, the effects of..... More
Oxford University Press, 1973. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1963. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Large octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and it provides an invaluable introduction for beginners as well..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2024. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. A comprehensive synthesis of dasyurid evolutionary biology for students, teachers and researchers. The marsupial family Dasyuridae has a history of study extending from 18th century naturalists to the modern genomics era. The Evolution of Dasyurid Marsupials: Systematics and..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2002. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. This text models ecosystem evolution integrating basic geologic, demographic, morphologic, genomic, and biotic interrelated changes. It presents ecosystem evolution as a sustainable oriented process with an increase in the biomass-to-dead mass ratio as a measure of progress. Palaeontology deciphers ecosystem evolution by..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, paperback, photographs, line drawings. Cercidiphyllum is a relict angiosperm bringing to us a flavor of Cretaceous Period. Its reproductive morphology was interpreted, in the spirit of the dominant evolutionary paradigm, as inflorescences of reduced flowers represented by solitary pistils and groups of stamens. Evolutionary significance of..... More
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. Large octavo, 36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions [of treatises..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Octavo, softcover. The volume covers such topics as the reasons for extinctions, the best ways to measure biodiversity, and the benefits and drawbacks of policies like captive breeding. More
London: Watts & Co, 1911. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, some wear. More
Portland: Timber Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don t see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges..... More
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2014. Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in papered boards. An accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the mysteries of ornithological Latin. It reveals the meaning, origin, and pronunciation of Latin binomials, helping readers to get to grips with the highly useful information that these..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2021. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Avian vagrancy is a phenomenon that has fascinated natural historians for centuries. From Victorian collectors willing to spend fortunes on a rare specimen, to today's high-octane bird-chasing 'twitchers', the enigma of vagrancy has become a lifelong obsession for countless ornithologists worldwide..... More
Washington DC: Government Printer, 1879. Quarto, 48 sepia chromolithographs, ex-library stamps, publisher's cloth. Report of the United States geological survey of the territories, volume twelve. More