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
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, graphs. Echinoderms, including feather stars, sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals in the sea. They play an important ecological role and several species of sea urchins..... 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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Octavo, boards, colour photographs, maps. This lavishly illustrated book offers a remarkable look at the world’s crabs. More than 7,000 crab species, in 100 different families, are known today. Their unique physiology and complex behaviors have made them one of the most diverse and adaptable..... More
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. Examines the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries. Published to coincide with the eponymous exhibition at Manchester Museum, but exceeding it in scope and content, this richly..... 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: 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: 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
Canberra: CSIRO Publishing, (2009. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. The waterbug book is a comprehensive and accurate identification guide. It contains a simple key to all groups and colour photographs of live specimens. It provides information on the biology of macroinvertebrates and is full of useful tips about..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2022. Large octavo, colour and black and white photographs, other illustrations. This comprehensive and engaging book brings together the diverse views of Indigenous Australians, coral reef scientists, managers and politicians to reveal how we interact with coral reefs, focussing on Indigenous culture, coastal livelihoods, exploration, discovery, scientific..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Visitors to tropical forests generally come to see the birds, mammals, and plants. Aside from butterflies, however, insects usually do not make it on the list of things to see. This is a shame. Insects are everywhere, they are often as..... More
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2008. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Contains detailed descriptions (including life-cycle, breeding and feeding) for over 90 species, as well as easy to follow instructions for housing and caring for invertebrates. More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 2020. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. All endemic and introduced species of Lord Howe Island are collected together for the first time in this illustrated pocket guide. More