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Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1999. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A useful new reference book. With a listing of bird species worldwide, a glossary and detailed information on avian biology, anatomy, reproduction and mortality.
Rickmansworth: Evans Mitchell Books, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. An underwater safari featuring amazing photography.
London: National Trust Books, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations. Every gardener needs to know their Latin names. They may look confusing at first, but once you understand what certain key words mean, impenetrable-sounding and hard-to-pronounce species names are suddenly demystified. Many Latin names hide the secrets of where the...
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This easy-to-use identification guide covers the 280 bird species most commonly seen in Costa Rica. Perfect for resident and visitor alike, this guide features high quality photographs from one of the country's top nature photographers and detailed species descriptions, which include...
Cambridge: BirdLife International and Dove Publications, 2003. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Documents the major forest, grassland and wetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened bird species which they support. This book discusses the role of international and regional conventions in the conservation of Asia's birds and habitats, and...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. Provides an engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, describing the visionary and often-controversial personalities who have influenced the study of birds, and the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science. What is it like to be a swift, flying at over...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2011. Quarto, colour illustrations, softcover. For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of...
London: T & A D Poyser, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings, graphs. PoyserA distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, The Barnacle goose gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles - how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in...
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Can gardening change the world? It certainly can when it comes to butterflies. Butterflies are in danger, but everyone who has a garden can do their part to make a difference. Gardening for Butterflies is an optimistic call to...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, tables, graphs. Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing globalization of our society ensures that the need to understand the process of biological invasion...
London: New Holland Publishers, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Bryan Bland has led thousands of birding tours to more than 70 countries. On one such trip a bemused waiter once posed the question: "Where is the profit in birding?" Bryan is famed as one of birding's greatest story-tellers...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new. From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world...
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2007. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Seawatching can present identification difficulties to even the most experienced birdwatcher, and demands a specialised set of skills and strategies to deal with the challenges of bad weather and poor visibility. The rewards can be great; many...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
