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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
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, photographs, black and white illustrations. In the follow up to "Darwin's lost world", Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell. Through a series of journeys it emerges that the modern plant cell is one of the..... More
London: A & C Black, 2008. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Takes readers on a journey through an entire year in the life of North America's great bears - the Black bear, the Brown bear and the Polar bear. This book contains facts, details and photographs. More
London: City of Melbourne, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, 32 colour plates by Barry Kent Mackay, maps. The first comprehensive guide to the world's 83 wrens, 5 dippers and 36 thrashers. All but one of the wrens are endemic to the new world, with the highest concentration of species in central America..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (1999. third edition, reprint). Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Includes sections on taxonomy; the herbarium building, collections and materials; herbarium techniques and management; and collecting. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2016. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations, tables. We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also..... More
Portland OR: Westwinds Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Very few people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America's only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the slaughter of 3,500 of..... More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2004. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations, maps. This second edition covers the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and Durham and has been extensively revised and updated, with several new sites added and some existing site accounts considerably expanded. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. This excellent field guide covers all stick and leaf insects found in Australia and includes photographs, line drawings, maps and identification keys. Australia has a rich diversity of Phasmids - otherwise known as stick and leaf insects. Most of..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, graphs, tables. Presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological..... More
Sydney: UNSW Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Evolutionary scientist Rob Brooks argues that the origins of twenty-first century problems such as obesity, consumerism and environmental devastation can be found where the ancient forces of evolution collide with modern culture and economics. Brooks explores a range of topics including falling..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks posed this question: Do snails have a homing..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. In almost every culture, hyenas are regarded as nasty, scheming charlatans, skulking in the back alleyways of the animal kingdom. Scorned as little more than scavenging carrion-eaters, vandals and thieves, since the earliest times hyenas have been both..... More
Paterson: NSW Agriculture Tocal, 2001. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. Dryland salinity is a problem for many farmers. This book discusses the causes, prevention and treatment of the problem. More
Paterson: Department of Primary Industries, (2006. second edition). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. Shows in detail how to re-establish trees and shrubs on your farm. Includes how to plan a revegetation program and assess existing remnant vegetation. Covers natural regeneratin, collecting native seed, weed control and protecting revegetated areas from..... More
Paterson: Department of Primary Industries, (2014. second edition). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. Leaving your land in better condition than you received it is the aim of environmental management. This book helps you understand the basics before you get into more detailed studies. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2014. Quarto, publisher's boards, colour photographs. This accessible and thought-provoking book is the first in-depth exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology. Organized into six chapters, the book moves through the various levels of artists engagement..... More
London: T & A D Poyser, 2004. Quarto, dustwrapper, text illustrations, maps, colour photographs. This is a Poyser avifauna title for England's diverse birdlife, past and present. More
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, illustrations., maps. Written in an engaging style this book provides a detailed and illustrated account of this mysterious lizard. Authors David Brown and Neil Carmony dig out the tall tales, dispel the myths, and reveal the lizard's true character. Through..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2014]. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1987. An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides..... More
London: Christopher Helm, (2003. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour plates, text illustrations. Fully revised and updated, this edition of this unique and popular guide contains a wealth of fascinating material, illustrated by 23 new full colour plates, with numerous new colour photographs, line drawings, maps, diagrams and other illustrations. Subjects..... More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, black and white and colour photographs. ZooKeys No. 18. This is the first issue of ZooKeys devoted to taxonomy of the Crustacea, specifically crustaceans from the Southern Hemisphere, with contributions describing new taxa from Australia, New Caledonia, the Tasman Sea, Fiji, Madagascar and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white and colour photographs and illustrations, maps. This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud forest distribution, climate, soils, biodiversity, hydrological processes..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2001. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, An up-to-date check-list of accepted genera of Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and flowering plants. More
Frenchs Forest: New Holland, (2010. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. In this new updated edition, chapters include: an insect's body; life cycles; wings and flight; behaviour and survival; habits and habitats; collection and observation; pseudo insects; primitive wingless insects; primitive winged insects; and modern winged insects... More