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London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, 117 colour photographs. Presents photographs of the elephant, from the wildest outreaches of Botswana to the teeming cities of India. This book features photographs that include aerial shots, the drama of the fight between angry males, tender interaction between mother and calves, the... More about Elephant!
London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Photographer Steve Bloom creates evocative photographic images of the living world. Concern for the environment is evident in all of his images. He strives to capture the very spirit of the animals included in this book. At a time when... More about The spirit of the wild
London: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Here is a new, compact gift edition of Steve Bloom's breathtaking photographs of wildlife around the world. Bloom's goal, brilliantly realised here, is to capture the animals' spirit: the tiger's eye gleaming brightly in the jungles of India; polar bear cubs... More about Spirit of the wild
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Small octavo, paperback, In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). Now available in paperback. More about Body heat: temperature and life on earth
Warsaw: WWF, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. This book adeptly describes the life after death of trees - an interesting and diverse life it turns out to be. While we humans are used to thinking about dead trees as a hazard or a waste, this book makes... More about The afterlife of a tree
New York: Globe Pequot Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. A compulsively readable natural and social history, this book is a profusely illustrated celebration of all things eagle, by a naturalist who has kept eagles himself and ridden with the eagle tribes of Central Asia. More about An eternity of eagles: the human history of the most fascinating bird in the world
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, maps, tables. Christophe Boesch takes readers into the lives of chimpanzees from different African regions, highlighting the debate about culture. He looks at the different ways chimpanzees show feelings or complete tasks and how this could be compared... More about Wild cultures: a comparison between chimpanzee and human cultures
Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. In Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight, the world's leading experts synthesize current knowledge of butterflies to show how the study of these fascinating creatures as model systems can lead to deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and... More about Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Examines the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. A hardcover is also available. More about On the move: how and why animals travel in groups
Burlington: Elsevier, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences, 9. The Fly River and its tributaries, the Ok Tedi and Strickland rivers, are located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. All three rivers have their source in the rugged central mountain... More about The Fly River, Papua New Guinea: environmental studies in an impacted tropical river system
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. CD-ROM, Barry Bolton's "New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World", published in 1995, was the first attempt in more than one hundred years to collect all taxonomic decisions for ants worldwide, including extinct as well as extant taxa. One reviewer said of... More about Bolton's catalogue of the ants of the world, 1758-2005
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Steppes are giant grasslands, defined not only by their plants, but also by the geology and climate that created them. They comprise enormous areas on four continents and are where a huge number of staple crops and garden plants originated... More about Steppes: the plants and ecology of the world's semi-arid regions
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, laminated boards. From familiar terrapins basking on a log to the majestic long-lived giant tortoises, turtles are the most fascinating animals. This illustrated guide to the world's 300 species of turtles reveals details of these intriguing reptiles in their... More about Turtles of the world
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. A guide to the world's nearly 300 species of turtles, it reveals details of these intriguing reptiles in their native habitats: what they eat, where they live, how they behave, and when and where they lay their eggs... More about Turtles of the world
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. A personal, behind-the scenes look at modern zoos. From the day-to-day aspects of caring for some of the world's most exotic creatures to the role of zoos as field conservation organizations, saving wild things in wild places, this... More about Sailing with Noah: stories of the world of zoos
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Octavo, dustwrapper, illustrations. Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history. More about Frontiers of fear: tigers and people in the Malay world, 1600-1950
London: A & C Black, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. Ghana is one of the safest and most accessible countries in Western Africa and is rapidly becoming a top tourist destination. This dedicated country field guide uses illustrations from the acclaimed Birds of Western Africa [stock id 15051], which... More about Field guide to the birds of Ghana
London: A & C Black, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This new field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal. This fascinating region shelters many Western Palearctic migrants from September to April, as... More about A field guide to the birds of Senegal and the Gambia
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Borneo, one of the world’s most exciting biodiversity hotspots, is renowned for its spectacular species richness residing in evergreen tropical rain forests, home also to a myriad of insects, including the lanternflies. Thus far, just 34 taxa are known from... More about A guide to lanternflies of Borneo
Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards. An attractively illustrated book covering all the larger carnivores of Africa. More about Larger carnivores of the African savannas
London: Reaktion Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. Reaktion Animal Series. From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since the time of their domestication more than 10,000 years ago. The... More about Donkey
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2006. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 61. More about Patterns of migratory connectivity in two nearctic-neotropical songbirds: new insights from...
New York: John Wiley and Sons, (2014. second edition]. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps, diagrams. As pressures on Australia's inland waters intensify due to population growth, expanding resource development and climate change, there is an urgent need to manage and protect these areas. Understanding their ecology... More about Australian freshwater ecology: processes and management
London: Manson Publishing, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters cover trees from various world habitats, from northern boreal and montane coniferous forests to tropical and subtropical rainforests. The book is fully... More about Trees and forests a colour guide: biology, pathology, propagation, silviculture, surgery, biomes,...
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2003. third edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, softcover. Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: the history of an idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has... More about Evolution: the history of an idea