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Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2009. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $40. Remarkable discoveries from recent research on wild animals. This book's title refers to new research revealing that almost every Cheetah litter has two or more fathers. This phenomenon has two major benefits: the cubs are more genetically..... More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Octavo, paperback, WAS $33. Forbidding, vast, spectacular, lonely: each is a word that springs to mind when we think of Antarctica. A world of endless ice, remote mountain ranges, and weather so fierce that only the hardiest of explorers could hope to meet its..... More
London: Academic Press, 2000. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, bumped corners WAS $69. Over a hundred superb colour photographs covering numerous aspects of condor natural history and recent conservation efforts. Includes historic photographs by William Finley and other conservationists working in the early 20th century. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. WAS $45. The first section provides facts about reef wildlife, the interactions between humans and reefs, and the Caribbean area in general. Spalding discusses the problems facing the reefs, with a focus on what each person can do to..... More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2007. Octavo, paperback, maps. WAS $30. Includes introduction; history; gazetteer; and annotated checklist. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 62. More
Camarillo: Cooper Ornithological Society, 2007. Octavo, paperback, tables, graphs. WAS $30. Studies in Avian Biology, 35. A study of the feeding ecology of the marine avifauna of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean during a nine year period, 1983-1991. This is one of few studies on the diet of an entire..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. WAS $90. Featuring 500 fantastic colour photographs, this work captures the beauty of marine life found in the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1997. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations. WAS $44. Based of material presented at a conference held by the Commonwealth Endangered Species Advisory Committee in Sydney in December 1995. More
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, A collection of linked essays on the topic of biological evolution. The first half of the book explores most of the main theoretical controversies about evolution and selection, while the second half applies some of these ideas in considering cognitive evolution. Together, the essays..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. WAS $60. This new photoguide covers all species occurring in the areas bordering the Mediterranean. These regions cover some of the most distinctive and bird-rich habitats in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Colour photographs of species..... More
New York: Walker & Company, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $25. A distinguished scientist reveals how we are losing the world's songbirds, why this predicts widespread environmental problems, and what we can do to save the birds and their habitats. Wood thrush, bobolinks, the Eastern kingbird--migratory songbirds..... More
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2005. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. WAS $65. This natural history details the salmon's extraordinary life cycle and covers the latest scientific research on exactly where salmon travel to in the sea, what influences the numbers that return to the river, the impact of global warming on..... More
London: Poyser, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $90. The Brown and Grey Long-eared Bats (lecotus auritus and austriacus) are amongst the commonest European bat species and familiar to most naturalists, easily spotted on the wing by virtue of the long ears after which they are named. In fact in Britain..... More
North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $48. The epic story of an ancient, elusive herb with legendary curative powers that have enticed and mystified us for centuries. Prized for centuries by Chinese emperors, Native American healers, and black market smugglers, Ginseng launched the rise to power of China's..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Remainder mark. WAS $35. More
Vista: Ibis, 1997. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, maps. WAS $40. A pocket-sized guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world. Each species and subspecies is illustrated in full color, with a map clearly depicting its range. An appendix that includes weights, clutch size, egg description, incubation and fledging..... More
Cambridge: Bird Life International, Conservation Series No. 3, 1994. Octavo, paperback, maps. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $130. This book covers the fourteen members of the genus Saxicola- the stonechats and bushchats. This passerine group is distributed throughout the Old World, and includes some familiar and widespread species as well as island endemics and extreme rarities..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, photographs. Looks at British birdwatching, particularly over the last 125 years. More
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. WAS $40. Joan Webb has gathered together information on the development of an independent botany in Australia; the lives of the principal players as well as the fate of their collections. Illustrated with portraits and maps, her story starts with William..... More
Orlando: Harcourt, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. WAS $35. From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds--great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly coloured songbirds. This book traces the colourful origins of American birding: the frontier..... More
Orlando: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. WAS $25. Scott Weidensaul traces the colourful evolution of American birding: from the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes to the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; from the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Small quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Remainder mark. Wetland birds are excellent indicators of water quality and measures of biodiversity. But how do they use wetland habitats, and how can we best conserve and maintain them for the future? Here, Milton Weller..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations. WAS $25. Reaktion Animal Series. Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to graze on grass and plants before returning..... More
