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London: A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Ghana is one of the safest and most accessible countries in Western Africa and is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa [stock id 15051], which... More about Field guide to the birds of Ghana
London: A & C Black, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This new field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal. This fascinating region shelters many Western Palearctic migrants from September to April, as... More about A field guide to the birds of Senegal and the Gambia
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Borneo, one of the world’s most exciting biodiversity hotspots, is renowned for its spectacular species richness residing in evergreen tropical rain forests, home also to a myriad of insects, including the lanternflies. Thus far, just 34 taxa are known from... More about A guide to lanternflies of Borneo
Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. An attractively illustrated book covering all the larger carnivores of Africa. More about Larger carnivores of the African savannas
London: Reaktion Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since the time of their domestication more than 10,000 years ago. The... More about Donkey
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2006. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 61. More about Patterns of migratory connectivity in two nearctic-neotropical songbirds: new insights from...
New York: John Wiley and Sons, (2014. second edition]. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps, diagrams. As pressures on Australia's inland waters intensify due to population growth, expanding resource development and climate change, there is an urgent need to manage and protect these areas. Understanding their ecology... More about Australian freshwater ecology: processes and management
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the... More about Great Barrier Reef: history, science, heritage
London: Manson Publishing, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters cover trees from various world habitats, from northern boreal and montane coniferous forests to tropical and subtropical rainforests. The book is fully... More about Trees and forests a colour guide: biology, pathology, propagation, silviculture, surgery, biomes,...
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2003. third edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: the history of an idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has... More about Evolution: the history of an idea
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2018. colour photographs and illustrations, maps. An illustrated guide to aid identification, provide protection measures and guidance on treatment. Though many are harmless and even beneficial, invertebrates are some of the world’s most feared and dangerous creatures. Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates describes the health..... More about Guide to venomous and medically important invertebrates
Toronto: ECW Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. While the world faces substantial environmental challenges such as climate change, pollution and extinction, what many people don't know is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while... More about The optimistic environmentalist: progressing toward a greener future
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Marine mammals command a high level of public attention, reflected in specific legislation for their protection and management in many countries. They also present particular challenges to ecologists and conservation biologists. They are mostly difficult to observe, they occupy... More about Marine mammal ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. New Jersey provides us with some of the most varied and exciting birding in North America, as more than 450 species have been recorded in the state. This is the most up-to-date and succinct guide for the birds of New... More about The birds of New Jersey: status and distribution
London: A & C Black, 2009. Small quarto, paperback, colour photographs. We have all heard talk of the intelligence of dolphins, elephants or great apes, or even, in different ways, ants and bees. But what is this intelligence all about? How do we know which animals are smart, and how... More about Smartest animals on the planet: extraordinary tales of the natural world's cleverest creatures
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map. With a rich avifauna of over 300 species, the three islands that make up the Caymans form an increasingly popular birding destination. Although the islands' sole endemic species, Cayman Islands Thrush, was extinct by the 1940s, the islands have a healthy... More about Photographic guide to the birds of the Cayman Islands
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations. Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and poorly understood groups. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first comprehensive guide to all 68 families of spiders in... More about Common spiders of North America
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast... More about Killing the Koala and poisoning the prairie: Australia, America, and the environment
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat... More about Elephants on the edge: what animals teach us about humanity
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat... More about Elephants on the edge: what animals teach us about humanity
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2001. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. This is the first book to deal specifically with the phasmids of Borneo. Contains over 800 line drawings and 24 colour photographs of stick insects and their eggs and keys for the identification of species for all the... More about Phasmids of Borneo
London: Earthscan Publications, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations. Icons for the conservation movement, whales and dolphins are the most conspicuous ambassadors for entire marine ecosystems and possibly even for the biosphere as a whole. With our realisation of impending threats to their environment, there is a growing... More about Whales and dolphins: cognition, culture, conservation and human perceptions
Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Part of the well-known Photoguide series of books on African natural history, this guide covers the most common snakes, lizards, skinks, chamaeleons, terrapins and amphibians (frogs) of East Africa - covering a total of 260 species. The aim is identification... More about Photographic guide to snakes, other reptiles and amphibians of East Africa
Perth: Department of Environment and Conservation (WA), 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Over half of the Western Australian rangelands are classed as being in poor or fair condition after years of grazing pressure. This book addresses the political, economic and social issues that need to be overcome before a.... More about Rescuing the rangelands: management strategies for restoration and conservation of the natural...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book... More about Darwin's lost world: the hidden history of animal life