The special offer price of £35.00 for Threatened Birds of the World has now been extended for the whole of 2006!
Voted one of the best bird books of the year.
British Phycological Conference
The British Phycological Society meeting is in Plymouth, UK this year and NHBS are in attendance with a wide range of algal titles, as a well as a large selection of other science titles.
Handbook of Birds of the World
Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes is now in stock. Copies are being despatched and will be with customers shortly – a magnificent addition to this long-running series.
Birds of Kuwait: A Portrait
NHBS is pleased to announce that we are distributing the fantastic Birds of Kuwait: A Portrait. Just £29.99, this book is bilingual Arabic/English and provides fascinating coverage on Kuwaits birds.
Landscapes of the Falkland Islands
Hands up who thought the Falkland Islands was a bleak cold land! I certainly did until I saw a copy of father and daughter team Ian and Georgina Strange’s Atmosphere: Landscapes of the Falkland Islands. A stunning book with magnificent photography – wait until you see the photograph of the sunset over New Island – amazing!
Trees of Laos and Vietnam: A Field Guide to 100 Economically or Ecologically Important Species
Trees of Laos and Vietnam: A Field Guide to 100 Economically or Ecologically Important Species is published as a paper in Blumea, Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography.
This field guide to 100 economically or ecologically important tree species from Laos and Vietnam enables the user to identify the included taxa with user-friendly keys. It includes scientific names, botanical descriptions of families, genera, and species. Specific information on distribution, habitat, ecology, and uses has been compiled.
Tropical Forest Ecology
Springer have just published Tropical Forest Ecology, and copies are now in stock. A multi-disciplinary approach is presented, to better the understanding of tropical forest ecology, as a necessary step in developing adequate strategies for conservation and management.
Restoration Ecology
Written by an excellent group of ecologists from centres across Europe with a strong reputation for restoration ecology, Restoration Ecology has just been published and is now in stock.
“Jelte van Andel and James Aronson do a splendid job of pulling together recent European work in this area in an organized and effective way. This book synthesizes current thinking in restoration ecology and provides an up-to-date source book which will be useful to restoration ecologists everywhere.” Richard Hobbs, Murdoch University, Western Australia
“Restoration Ecology will foster communication and synthesis between those who practice restorations and those who conduct ecological research, particularly in the battlefields of Europe. It is a valuable assessment of work at this exciting interface.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Congress Report
We have been at the International Botanical Congress in Vienna for three days now and are having an absolutely fantastic time. It’s been great to talk to some old customers and make lots of new ones. We have been getting a real feel for what’s important for today’s botanists and, what titles they would really like to see published in the near future.
Some of titles generating the most interest include Pollen, Hotspots Revisited, Plant Ecology, Plant Systematics, Flower of Crete, Monocots: Systematics nd Evolution, A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art and Illustrated Guide to the Trees of Peru.
Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution
The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution has just been published and is now in stock. The author draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.
“Essential reading for any researcher studying coevolutionary interactions… The book will be influential because it not only provides a thorough review of where our understanding of coevolutionary processes stands today, it also provides direction for new studies of coevolution” – Timothy Craig, ECOLOGY