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The equipment bestsellers at this year’s Birdfair were small items for entomology:
Bug Box Magnifying Pot – great for freshwater sampling, examining insects and other invertebrates.
Entomological Collecting Pots – for holding small invertebrates for examination, they also fit our Pooter so you can swap pots as you collect things. Sold as singles, or in packs of 5.
Pooter – for collecting small arthropods for identification and examination. An entomology essential!
Several authors signed copies of their books on our stand:
Simon Wood signing copies of the newly published Birds of Essex with Wildlife presenter Nigel Marven at the NHBS stand at the British Birdfair.Click here to browse the full range of books we took to the Birdfair.
We are preparing for the 2007 British Birdfair at Rutland Water. As always, we have a large range of books on ornithology, British wildlife, travel and conservation. Click here to browse the full range of books available on the NHBS stand. Our stand is numbers 15 & 38 in Marquee Two. We look forward to seeing you.
We are back from Wageningen and a very enjoyable time at the International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress 2007.
There will be a detailed conference best-seller list on the Biblio-Blog later this week. From memory… there was a lot of interest in core new landscape ecology titles: Key Topics in Landscape Ecology, Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology, Measuring Landscapes and Foundation Papers in Landscape Ecology. Forestry books also proved popular – especially Ecology of Woodlands and Forests, Forests and Society and Forests in Landscapes.
The IALE have put some pictures online from the conference and the conference receptions/dinner.
Carl Linnaeus was born 300 years ago!
To celebrate the life and work of the ‘father of taxonomy’ we have put together a selection of key taxonomic titles including an English translation of Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica and several titles about Linnaeus himself. We have included Order out of Chaos, a co-publication between the Linnean Society of London and London’s Natural History Museum, brings together for the first time information on the typification of all of Linnaeus’ plant names.
Also known as Carl von Linne´ following his ennoblement in 1761, Linnaeus’ lasting legacy is the binomial classification system used to this day. The Tree of Life is a beautifully produced taxonomic overview of the natural world demonstrating the universal utility of the Linnean system. if you need to catch up on ‘recent’ advances since Linnaeus’ day, Milestones in Systematics covers developments in systematics over the last 100 years. We have a wide range of titles on taxonomy and systematics, many related titles can be found in our botanical categories.
We will be exhibiting at the London Bookfair on the 5th-7th March at the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands.
We will be promoting the wide range of titles which we distribute for key conservation and scientific organisations – see our trade catalogue for details of the titles we distribute.
The Bookfair is also an excellent chance to meet librarians and promote the unique service that we offer to libraries. See our library page for more information.