Pond and brook: a guide to nature in freshwater environments.
Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Designed specifically for the amateur naturalist and filled with hands-on-projects and activities. More
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Tooth and claw: living alongside Britain's predators.
Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2007. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Based in the heart of Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, Peter Cairns is a freelance nature photographer with a deep fascination for our relationship with the natural world. In addition to documenting Europe's high-profile wildlife species, his work focuses on a diverse..... More
Slugs and snails.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps. New Naturalist # 133. Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the..... More
Slugs and snails.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 133. Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are..... More
Birds of Australia: a photographic guide.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs by Geoff Jones, maps. Contains the excellent photographs of well known Australian birdwatcher and photographer Geoff Jones. The guide covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning colour photographs, including many photographs..... More
Otters: return to the river.
Edinburgh: Birlinn General, 2014. Octavo, oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. This book is a celebration of the return of the otter to Britain's rivers and freshwater wetlands after a drastic decline in the last century. For more than two decades, award-winning photographer Laurie Campbell has documented these lithe, elusive predators..... More
Ecosanctuaries: communities building a future for New Zealand's threatened ecologies.
Dunbeath: Otago University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Over the past ten years many communities all over New Zealand have launched ambitious projects to bring native ecologies back to the mainland. By building predator-proof fences around big areas of land the aim is to protect native flora and fauna..... More
Freshwater turtles of Australia.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations. Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and an array of side-necked turtle subspecies. The biology and ecology of Australian freshwater turtles is complex and a number of species are of particular..... More
How fast can a Falcon dive? Fascinating answers to questions about Falcons.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white and colour photographs. Explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. This colorful volume is complete with more than fifty-five color and black and white images from photographers and..... More
Field guide to grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets of the United States.
Ithaca: Comstock, 2004. Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations, maps. This field guide introduces readers to the biology, behaviour, and ecological significance of one of the most obvious (abundant, large, and colorful) and important (ecologically and economically significant) insect groups in North America, the order Orthoptera. A simple, illustrated identification..... More
Handbook of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2020. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. With more than 1,000 meticulous and specially commissioned illustrations, complete with flukes, blows and dive sequences, it includes detailed annotations pointing out significant field marks, as well as extensive distribution and migration maps. Many of the world's most..... More
The avifauna of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Birdwatching Society, 2001. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps, diagrams. A detailed analysis of the status and distribution of each species in Hong Kong, with comparisons made with data collated as far back as 1861, allowing assessment of status and distribution changes that have occurred... More
Seashells.
New York: Abrams, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Introduces the reader to seashells in all their variety, explaining why they look as they do, as well as looking at the exotic and the familiar, from tropical corals and rare fossils to everyday clamshells and barnacles. Photographs by Josie Iselin... More
Nocturnal birds of Southern Africa.
Pietermaritzburg: Author, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Brings the largely unseen world of night birds to the reader in the pages of this photographic guide, the first to cover the full spectrum of the owls, nightjars, night herons, thick-knees, coursers, the bat hawk and many other species in detail..... More
Zebra stripes.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, other illustrations. From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now..... More
The carnivorous dinosaurs.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group's members survive to this day - as birds. The theropod/bird connection has been explored in several recent works, but..... More
So excellent a fishe: a natural history of sea turtles.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. Originally published in New York by Scribner, for the American Museum of Natural History, around 1967. More
Amniote paleobiology: perspectives on the evolution of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Living amniotes - including all mammals, birds, crocodilians, snakes, and turtles - comprise an extraordinarily varied array of more than 21,000 species. Found in every major habitat on earth, they possess a truly remarkable range of..... More
Biology of sharks and their relatives.
New York: Taylor & Francis, (2012. second edition). Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, colour and black and white illustrations, maps. Virtually every area of research associated with sharks and their relatives has been strongly impacted by the revolutionary growth in technology. The questions we can now ask are very different than..... More
Conservation and biodiversity banking: a guide to setting up and running biodiversity credit trading systems.
London: Earthscan Publications, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially valuing biodiversity and using the market and businesses to promote conservation is..... More
The rise of amphibians: 365 million years of evolution.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings. Explores a pivotal moment of vertebrate evolution, the rise of amphibians. This title traces their origin back 365 million years, when particular species of fish travelled down an evolutionary pathway of fin modification that..... More
Endless forms most beautiful: the new science of Evo Devo and the making of the animal kingdom.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations. Evo Devo is evolutionary development biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. Perhaps the most surprising finding of Evo Devo is the discovery that a small number of primitive genes led to the formation of fundamental..... More
The Serengeti rules: the quest to discover how life works and why it matters.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, other illustrations, map. Here, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to simple yet profoundly important questions such as how does life work? How does nature produce the right..... More
Preliminary guide to the identification of late instar larvae of Australian Polycentropodidae, Glossosomatidae, Dipseudopsidae and Psychomyiidae (Insecta: Trichoptera).
Albury: Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, 1998. Quarto, spirally bound, text illustrations. Identification guide no. 15. More
Mark Carwardine's guide to whale watching in Britain and Europe.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. There are many opportunities to see whales, dolphins and porpoises in the seas around Europe and this comprehensive and authoritative guide covers everything you need to know about where, when and how to watch them. Packed with useful..... More