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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations. Discover the biology, natural history, and diversity of geckos as lizard biologist and gecko expert Aaron Bauer answers deceptively simple questions with surprising and little-known facts. Readers can explore colour photographs that reveal the natural wonder... More
Stillwater: Voyageur Press, 2003. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Presents the big cat's natural history, and includes Erwin A. Bauer's engaging first-person narrative, bringing you right into the action. Besides highlighting all of the major species, the text has a strong focus on the status of the endangered or threatened big... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2003. Quarto, dustwrapper, maps, colour photographs, colour illustrations. The "National Geographic Reference Atlas to the Birds of North America" combines stunning full-color photographs, the latest maps, and authoritative information into an accessible reference for every birder to enjoy. With lively and astute essays from leading... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic identification guide to tanagers, cardinals, and finches. The photographs illustrate age, seasonal, and sexual variation in the species found north of Mexico, including introduced species and vagrants. It is designed to introduce the biology, identification, molts, vocalization, and... More
London: Academic Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This guide covers all 64 species of emberizine sparrow found in the United States and Canada. It is illustrated with over 350 photographs and gives detailed information on the identification of species, sexes, age, races and forms of all sparrows, towhees... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. This lovely volume of Sharon Beals photographs of birds' nests is a treasure for birders and bird-lovers, and for anyone fascinated by the intricacy and wonder of the natural world. Photographed at the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications/Royal Botanic Gardens, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu provides an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. Volume 4 contains historical aspects of plant collecting on Kinabalu, a biographical sketch of two of the most important collectors... More
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, line drawings, maps. The vision of a garden shared peacefully by humans and animals is a familiar but elusive idea. Whether threatened by habitat destruction or climate change, displaced by urbanization or invasive species, poisoned by industrial toxins, or... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Small octavo, softcover. Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any animals appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. In this fascinating account, Bearzi takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behaviour, as well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin research. In this intimate narrative... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. In this fascinating account, Bearzi takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behaviour, as well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin research. In this... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The class of Arachnida does not consist of spiders alone but also contains ten other orders - harvestmen, ticks and mites, wind spiders, tailless whip spiders, whip spiders, scorpions, palpigrades, pseudoscorpions, schizomids and ricinuleids - nearly all of which have eight... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, black and white photographs, text illustrations. No two lizard species have spawned as much folklore, wonder, and myth as the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, and the Beaded lizard, H. horridum - the sole survivors of an ancient group of predacious... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes - from public parks to back gardens - to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white line drawings. Originally published in the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic guide to all 37 of the British families, with a focus on spiders that can be identified in the field. Containing over 300 stunning photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new... More
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. A comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professor Trevor Beebee covers the biology, ecology, conservation and identification of the British herpetofauna, and provides keys for the identification of... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. In The emerald planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Seawatching is the challenging act of identifying waterbirds in flight. Since more than one hundred different species can fly past an observation point, often at great speed or in tightly packed, mixed-species flocks, identification of these distant shapes can be a.... More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Illustrated with over 160 spectacular photographs showcasing the region's beautiful landscapes, mammals, and birds. This guide provides the intrepid traveller with detailed maps, full chapters on biogeography and trip planning, a specialties section covering the region's best mammals and birds, and... More
Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This new site guide, which is illustrated with maps and photographs, shows where to find the remarkable birds of endemic-rich Ethiopia. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a.... More
San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. Includes identification, distribution, and conservation information on Belize and Northern Guatemala's frequently spotted animals. Also includes information on the ecology, behaviour, and conservation of profiled animals; information on habitats and on the most common plants; information... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007. second revised edition). Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. This book adopts an experimental approach to understanding the mechanisms of evolution and the nature of evolutionary processes, with examples drawn from microbial, plant and animal systems. It incorporates insights from remarkable recent advances in theoretical modeling, and... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations, maps. A botanical identification guide which combines art and science to describe the 54 endemic trees and large shrubs of the Hunter region. The Hunter Region, between the Hawkesbury and Manning rivers in eastern New South Wales, hosts a rich diversity... More