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Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Highly photographic, this book reveals that there is much more to a seed than the plant it will someday become. Seeds, seedheads, pods, and fruits have their own astounding beauty that rivals, and sometimes even surpasses, the beauty of flowers. In..... More
London: Granta, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, Black and white photographs. This extraordinary book is an exploration of how we might live to resist extinctions and why such disappearances must be of concern to us. Adventurous, curious and passionate about her subject, Challenger takes us on a very personal journey as she..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2021. illustrations, maps, photographs. Describes the ecological history of food production systems in Australia, showing how Aboriginal food systems collapsed when European farming methods were imposed on bushlands. The industrialised agricultural systems that are now prevalent across the world require constant input of finite resources, and continue..... More
Cambridge: BirdLife International, 2004. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. BirdLife Conservation Series. Covers the area from Pakistan to Indonesia (excluding Irian Jaya) and northwards to China, Mongolia and Russia east of the Yenisey River. All areas are listed with map locations. More
BirdLife International, 2009. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. There is a summary in English at the front of the book, however the content is in Chinese. The IBA Directory for mainland China is the most comprehensive inventory of key sites for biodiversity in the country. China is one of the..... More
Sydney: New South Books, 2016. Octavo, softcover. The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be..... More
London: A & C Black, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Shorebirds, or waders, are a very popular group of birds among birders of all standards, though their identification is often a challenge. Covering all the species of the northern hemisphere, this new photographic guide provides all the information a...... More
Houston: Author, 2016. Quarto, oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Bald eagles get a warm salute in this handsome new photography book by John D. Chaney that collects 40 years of his work documenting America's favorite bird. This large-format hardcover features 63 beautiful photographs of eagles in their natural habitat, interspersed..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected..... More
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. "Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate. In this saline odyssey, Clive Chatters has explored his favourite creeks, pools and mudflats to bring us an absorbing celebration of the..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 2022. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The Lesser Antillies - incorporating the nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, along with numerous dependencies - are rich in birdlife. It is a magical region with endemic parrots..... More
Washington DC: Conservation International, 2003. Octavo, paperback, color illustrations, tables. The Marine Rapid Assessment Program's goal is to rapidly generate and disseminate information on coastal and near-shore shallow-water marine biodiversity. Its surveys yield appropriate and realistic recommendations for conservation, and have, at times, resulted in the finding of new species..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 1998. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, line drawings, maps. There are more than 600 species of edible marine fishes found in Sabah's fish markets of which 376 species (excluding sharks and rays) are listed in this book. A total of 190 species is described in detail, in..... More
Beijing: China Ornithological Society, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. China Bird Report 2006 incorporates bird records from 22 Provinces, five Autonomous Cities, 4 municipalities and one Special Administrative Region (but does not include records from Hong Kong or Taiwan), rendering it structurally comparale to the reports of the previous two..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A photographic field guide to 1,500 species of insects found in Britain and Ireland. More
London: A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. With their extraordinary diversity, adaptability and abundance, insects and other invertebrates are the gardener's greatest foe. Packed with stunning photography, this book provides a reader-friendly introduction to the identification of 200 of the commonest insect pests of the backyard, along..... More
Auckland: David Bateman Ltd, (2014. reprint). Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. In this collection, newly painted for this book, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills are imaginatively engaged in an altogether new expression of Aesop's Fables. In this eclectic reimagining the stories have left their origins in Europe..... More
London: Merrell Publishers, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. One of the most majestic creatures on Earth, The African elephant faces an uncertain future. This book is a superb tribute to the remarkable beauty of these endangered animals. Striking duotone images by award-winning photographers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson..... More
London: Elsevier Science Publishers, 2013. Quarto, spirally bound, colour photographs. The guide every Drosophila researcher wished they had when first learning genetic markers, and the tool they wish they had now as a handy reference in their lab research. Previously, scientists had only poor-quality images or sketches to work with..... More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps, other illustrations. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 63. A series of papers in honour of Ned K. Johnson on geographic variation and evolution of birds. More
Westville: African Bird Book Publishing, (1996. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour plates, photographs, maps. More
Cambridge: Cambridge Library Collection, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white line drawings. Written and richly illustrated by the Derby-born artist Ernest Ellis Clark (1869-1932), this guide was originally published in 1904 to demonstrate the decorative possibilities of certain plants, mainly English wild flowers, to art students sitting examinations in plant..... More
Melbourne: Author and Royal Botanic Garden Victoria, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. With clear text, and detailed illustrations and photographs, this book describes the structure of grasses and similar groups, explains the language used in their description, and describes the process of identification. It will greatly facilitate the..... More