London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Beloved by people as the herald of spring, for many birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom. Known for being a notorious cheat, cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into raising their young..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Quarto, graphs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. After a general introduction to parasitoid natural history and taxonomy, the first part of the book treats the different components of the reproductive strategy of parasitoids: searching for a host, host selection, clutch size, and the sex ratio. Subsequent..... More

London: John Wiley and Sons, 2012. Octavo, black and white photographs, line drawings, laminated boards with worn corners. Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites - those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species - and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioural adaptation..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Large octavo, graphs, laminated boards. Fleas are one of the most interesting and fascinating taxa of ectoparasites. All species in this relatively small order are obligatory haematophagous (blood-feeding) parasites of higher vertebrates. This book examines how functional, ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes of host-parasite..... More

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The authors summarises the information on cowbirds that has appeared since the publication of Friedmann's classic 1929 monograph on these birds. More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2007. second edition). Small quarto, paperback, text illustrations and diagrams. Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent..... More

London: Baillière Tindall, 1982. seventh edition). Quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More

Struik Publishers, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. With sensational photography this book documents the range of dangerous and threatening aspects of nature -animals that can wound, venomous animals, those that are poisonous to eat and diseases caused by animals. The focus is on understanding, identifying, avoiding and surviving..... More

Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, [1969. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, dustwrapper. Translated from Russian. More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Octavo, softcover. Provides information on 75 valid species of parasitic wasps. More