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The eagerly awaited Helm Field Guide for Birds of Pakistan has now arrived at NHBS!

Pakistan has a rich diversity of bird habitats, from the dry alpine and moist temperate forests of the western Himalayas to the deserts of Baluchistan and Sind. The Indus basin, where some of the earliest human civilisations were founded, is extensively irrigated and cultivated, providing a variety of man-made habitats. This diversity of habitats supports a wide variety of bird species, and some 669 have been recorded. More than 60 per cent of the country – land lying to the west of the Indus river and south from Peshawar to the Arabian Sea coasts – is Palearctic in character, with a steppic dry montane habitat, and is very different from the rest of the Indian subcontinent.

Birds of Pakistan is a successor to the much acclaimed Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by two of the same authors. 93 superb plates are accompanied by a succinct text highlighting identification, voice, habitat, altitudinal range, distribution and status. Covers 670 species including all breeding species, regular visitors and vagrants. The text is on facing pages to the plates, for easy reference and there are distribution maps for every species.

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Here are some exciting new releases for February 2009 – all on special offer until 31 May 2009.

Nature of the Rainforest

Animal Migration

Plant Hunters

Darwin: For the Love of Science

To save on newly published titles, see Special Offers

Check out our annual Backlist Bargains sale for great savings on more than 2600 wildlife, environment and natural history titles (sale ends 31 March 2009)

We are pleased to announce these new additions to our popular Backlist Bargains sale – save up to 60% off list price!

Wild Costa Rica

Field Guide to the Mammals of South East Asia

The Private Life of Spiders

Orang-utans

Tigers

Check out our annual Backlist Bargains sale for great savings on more than 2600 wildlife, environment and natural history titles! (sale ends 31 March 2009)

Don’t miss our amazing special offer on the England’s Landscape books from English Heritage – these classic references are now 60% off! (sale ends 31 March 2009).

Regional titles in the England’s Landscape series include The North West, The North East, The West Midlands, The East Midlands, The West, The South West, East Anglia, and The South East.

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Several New Naturalist volumes are featured in our annual Backlist Bargains sale, including Garden Natural History, The Isles of Scilly and Britain’s Structure and Scenery.

Take advantage of these great deals before they disappear (sale ends 31 March 2009) – save up to 60% on more than 2600 wildlife, environment and natural history titles!

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Don’t miss the new book A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir which tells the fascinating story of the American conservationist John Muir and his lasting influence on wilderness preservation.

A native of Scotland, John Muir moved to the United States as a young boy. He would become one of its greatest advocates for the natural environment, calling for the preservation of the Yosemite Valley, the Great Sequoia and coastal redwood groves, and other American wild places. Muir was an avid adventurer and mountaineer, walking from Indiana to Florida, exploring the Alaskan coast and climbing Mt. Rainier. During his time in Yosemite, he studied its geology and ecology, advocating new scientific theories about how the valley came to be through glacial melt and earthquakes.

In his later life he became well known as a preservation advocate and as a journalist, inspiring others to protect the environment, and established friendships with powerful and well-known figures of the day including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was a founder of the Sierra Club, which remains a powerful force in American conservation politics.

“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer,” John Muir wrote. “Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. My own special self is nothing.”

In Donald Worster’s magisterial biography, John Muir’s “special self” is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world. A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir’s full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards. Yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man.

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The NHBS Monthly Catalogue is the most comprehensive buyer’s guide to new and forthcoming titles in natural history, conservation and the environment. Each month we produce a new online and .pdf catalogue of books that were added to www.nhbs.com during the last month.

The NHBS Monthly Catalogue is a key tool for library and academic customers; however everyone is welcome to browse or subscribe to the catalogue. We include books up to 6 months before their publication date.

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It’s almost the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth (February 12th 1809) and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, his ground-breaking theory on the evolution of populations by means of natural selection.

To celebrate Darwin’s Bicentenary we have a selection of books written by Darwin, including his seminal On The Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle and The Descent of Man. There is also a wide range of books about Darwin, a section on the history of Evolutionary Biology and our pick of introductory evolutionary biology books for the non-scientist.

We have also put together a summary of the latest titles in evolutionary biology and the Evolution Classics and Bestsellers – our pick of the most important books on evolution from the last 40 years.

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January has been quite a month for new birding guides here at NHBS, with the arrival of several new books on the birds of Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, North America, and East Asia.

The latest addition is the all-new Collins Field Guide: Birds of the Palearctic – Non-Passerines.

The essential companion for the keen birdwatcher, this field guide covers all the non-passerines or songbirds found from Britain eastwards to Japan, and as far south as the Sahara and Himalayas.

Together with Collins Field Guide: Birds of the Palearctic – Passerines (on special offer until 31/03/09), this book covers all the non-perching birds of the Palearctic, a zoographical area running from the British Isles eastwards to Japan, with its southern border marked by the Sahara, the Middle Eastern deserts, and the Himalayas. It covers the whole of the Russian Arctic, China, Tibet, Japan and the whole of Europe – the most popular birdwatching area in the world.

Order your copy of Birds of the Palearctic – Non-Passerines today! This book is on special offer until 30/04/09.

Don’t miss the great selection of birding titles currently on special offer in our annual Backlist Bargains sale, including the companion title Collins Field Guide: Birds of the Palearctic – Passerines

Get these great books before they sell out! (Backlist Bargains runs until 31 March 2009).

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The latest Helm Field Guide has arrived at NHBS!

Birds of East Asia is the first single-volume guide ever devoted to the eastern Asian avifauna of Eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Eastern Russia. The eastern Asian region is an important center of endemism, especially the major islands off the continental coast (including Japan and Taiwan) and the immediately adjacent areas of the Asian continent including Kamchatka in the north and the Korean Peninsula.

Birds endemic to this region include representatives of many of the major families, from the world’s largest eagle – Steller’s Sea Eagle – to the tiny Formosan Firecrest. The east Asian continental coast and the offshore islands also form one of the world’s major international bird migration routes, especially for waterfowl, shorebirds and raptors, while the east Asian continental mainland itself is home to a wide range of species little-known to western ornithologists such as Scaly-sided Merganser, Oriental Stork and Mugimaki Flycatcher.

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It’s that time of year again – Backlist Bargains 2009 is here! Our popular annual sale includes key books from all environment subjects, as well as top birdwatching and wildlife titles. This year we are pleased to offer a wide range of special offers on books from major publishers – over 2600 titles at up to 60% off.

This is the ideal opportunity to purchase major reference titles, get extra copies of heavily-used textbooks, or fill gaps on your wildlife bookshelf. The NHBS Backlist Bargains sale ends March 31st 2009.

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