New York: Ballantine Books, 1990. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $25. Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to find out what was happening to life on earth. Together they lead us on an unforgettable journey across the world in search of exotic, endangered animals that they may never..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations. David E. Alexander's fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account of our current scientific understanding of the..... More
New York: Abrams, 2003. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $75. In this volume, scientific images of interest and beauty are accompanied by Ivan Amato's descriptions, which shed light on the images themselves as well as the technologies that created them. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations, tables. Every day, biologists in parkas, raincoats, and rubber boots go into the field to capture and mark a variety of animal species. Back in the office, statisticians create analytical models for the field biologists' data. But..... More
New York: Taylor and Francis, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations, tables. The emergence of high-speed computing has facilitated the development of many exciting statistical and mathematical methods in the last 25 years, broadening the landscape of available tools in statistical investigations of complex data. Biostatistics: A Computing..... More
London: SAGE Publications, 2014. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. This book provides clear and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it seeks to..... More
London: Hachette, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Showcases some of our planet's most spectacular natural events and the global climatic phenomena which transform entire landscapes, drawing in millions of animals and determining their fate. This work shows how powerful natural forces can drive chain reactions involving everything..... More
London: Ward Lock and Co., [1890]. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. This book is a study of the..... More
Milan: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, text completely loose in sections, some foxing. In Italian. Volume one: embryology and morphology. More
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. Small quarto, tables, fine copy in dustwrapper. Motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music and countless daily tasks. The nervous system can learn new motor behaviours through experience and practice - this is motor learning. This text presents research on the..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. From two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Octavo, line drawings , fine copy in dustwrapper. Slime molds are very different from other organisms; they feed as individual amoebae before coming together to form a multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and orient itself in its environment. This book shows..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book..... More
New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing, 2014, Octavo, tect illustrations, owner's irritatingly large signature on two pages, laminated boards. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, graphs, tables. Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or reproductive success - is almost 100 years old, its application to the study of evolutionary processes in wild..... More
Wollombi: Exisle Publishing, 2011. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This entertaining book deals with an endlessly fascinating subject in a new, unique way. Humans have always had an ambivalent relationship with deadly animals. For most people they arouse fears and even phobias, yet perhaps the real risks are not..... More
Adelaide: Adelaide University, 1979. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1947. reprint). Octavo, photographs. A tribute to Thompson who is best remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, which led the way for the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns and body structures are formed in plants and animals..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Octavo, line drawings, dustwrapper. Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. The natural world is full of..... More
Yale University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Increasingly absorbed in recent years by advances in our understanding of the origin of life, evolutionary history, and the advent of humankind, eminent biologist Christian de Duve of late has also pondered deeply the future of life on this planet..... More
New York: Norton, (1987. second edition). Octavo, paperback. More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Explores the anatomy of the largest of the world's animals to reveal how these amazing creatures really work. This book features dissection, CGI and wildlife photography to show how millions of years of evolution have enabled animals to..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs and black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating..... More
London: SAGE Publications, 2012. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations, tables, graphs. This book takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using the freeware R, a free, flexible and dynamically changing software tool for data analysis that is becoming increasingly popular across the social and behavioural sciences..... More