Wallingford: Cabi publishing, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. Topics covered include Morphology, phylogeny and systematics. Body wall: form and function. Sensory organs and the nervous system. Radular structure and function. Structure and function of the digestive tract. Food and feeding behaviour. Haemolymph: blood cell morphology and function. Structure and functioning..... More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, (2002. third edition). Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Large octavo, paperback, line drawings. This book is a comprehensive review of the ecology of tropical rainforest insects and spiders. Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This book..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A photographic guide to all 37 of the British families, with a focus on spiders that can be identified in the field. Containing over 300 stunning photographs, it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, including those new..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations. Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and poorly understood groups. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first comprehensive guide to all 68 families of spiders in..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2001. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. This is the first book to deal specifically with the phasmids of Borneo. Contains over 800 line drawings and 24 colour photographs of stick insects and their eggs and keys for the identification of species for all the..... 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
Frenchs Forest: Reed New Holland, (2008. reprint). Octavo, paperback, 200 colour photographs, colour drawings. An easy-to-use and practical field manual. More than 100 of the most frequently encountered Australian spiders are shown, with information on toxicity, habitat and prey capture. Gives advice on first aid for treating bites from Australia's..... More
Melbourne: Museum of Victoria, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Nudibranchs, often referred to as 'butterflies of the sea', belong to a group that includes bubble shells, sea hares, side-gilled slugs, sap-sucking slugs and sea butterflies (pteropods). This group includes some of the most beautiful, colourful and delicate of..... More
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
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
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
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
New York: Harper Collins, 2004. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. A narrative written by a one-time Maine lobsterman relates how lobsters socialize, mate, fight for dominance, and navigate their way across the ocean floor. More
London: A & C Black, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Stephen Dalton's detailed photographs chronicle the diversity of the spider world. Chapters are divided along broad ecological themes, with each focusing on different species, their habitats, hunting techniques, ecology and behaviour. Also featured are chapters on spider anatomy, and a...... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2002. Octavo, publisher's cloth, illustrations. Covers the commercially important crustacean species - shrimps, prawns, lobsters and yabbies, listing over 1200 species known from Australian waters. The volume opens with a general introduction to the Malacostraca, giving an historical overview of the work on this group. The Catalogue..... More
New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, photographs, other illustrations. Marine biologist, explorer, and artist Richard Ellis delves into myth, literature, and science to bring readers face-to-face with this remarkable animal. Interweaving his narrative with a wealth of illustrations and photographs, Ellis presents a scientific and cultural history... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. An accessible visual guide to the top 150 insects, spiders, and other crawling creatures combines readable text, representative photographs, and explanatory illustrations to highlight key features of body shape, life cycle, and behavior. Organized by scientific taxonomy, the book offers..... More
New York: Little Brown, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Feinstein has created a portfolio of images stunning in their delicacy and detail. Each picture is coupled with an identifying caption that makes the book as practical as it is exquisite, for art lovers and nature enthusiasts alike. More
New York: Oxford University Press, (1996. second edition). Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Talks about various aspects of spider biology. This work emphasises ecology and systematics., This work is an updated translation by the author of the second German-language edition from Thieme Verlag, published under licence agreement with that..... More
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and other illustrations. Covers the anatomy, physiology, behaviour and ecology of both native New Zealand and introduced spiders. For ease of use, the chapters group spiders in different ways, such as habitat, size, and web type. There are also chapters..... More
London: New Holland Publishers, 2014. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, line drawings. The first comprehensive guide to cover all 79 spider families that occur in Australia. This book contains nearly 400 colour photographs of spiders and their webs, many of which have never been published before. The detailed introduction..... More
New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Small octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as..... More
London: Ivy Press, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. Jellyfish are mysterious creatures, luminously beautiful with remarkably varied life cycles. These simple, ancient animals are found in every ocean at every depth, and have lived on Earth for at least the last 500 million years. Ominously, they..... More
London: Crowood Press, 1996. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. A guide to the enormous variety of northern European insects that will enable readers to identify over 1000 species. Photographs show the species in their natural environments. The book also contains an introduction to the anatomy and life cycle of insects... More