Fungi of Switzerland, Volume 6 has just been published and is now in stock. It describes 218 species and contains hundreds of illustrations of microscopic features and colour photographs.
Cuckoos
Cuckoos has just been published and is now in stock! This fabulous book presents a new evolutionary history of the cuckoo family based on molecular genetics. It is fully illustrated with colour plates and provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family available.
Frogs of Australia
Frogs of Australia is packed full of information on each of the 213 species, and 5 sub-species of Australian frogs recognised in 2003. It contains beautiful watercolour paintings of the frogs – depicting them in a way not possible with photography. This is an excellent book with a really fresh look!
Wild Orphans
Elephant Diaries featured on BBC one this week is a series of five programmes filmed over the course of a year at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and in the release sites in Kenya. Jonathan Scott and Michaela Strachan introduce one of Africa’s most dysfunctional families – a group of elephants, raised by people, on their perilous journey back to the wild. This book Wild Orphans tells the story of the plight of the African elephant and contains beautiful photos to accompany the story.
Great British Marine Animals
The much anticipated new edition of Great British Marine Animals is now in stock and on it’s way to customers.
A Call to Arms for Nature Publishing
In a really excellent piece in the Guardian, Robert Macfarlane argues that we must reconnect with our environment through classic works of wildlife literature.
The suggestion – which echoes a similar call made by Lopez exactly 20 years ago in America – is that a series of classic works of nature writing from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland should be established and published. Such a series would not kowtow to the doubtful idea of a “national” literature. Instead, it would be a series of local writings, which concentrated on particular places, and which worked always to individuate, never to generalise. It would not vaunt a little-islandism, nor would it be blind to the spoliation of the landscape which has occurred. It would not adore landscape as a site for the exercise of middle-class nature-sentiment – a gymnasium for the sensitive.
It would, however, honour a form of care, and a form of attention, to the landscapes of the British Isles. It would discover in landscapes values which transcend the commercial and the consumerist. And it would restore to visibility a tradition of nature writing which has slipped from view these past 50 years.
A Mountain of Botany Books
We’ve been gathering a collection of botanical titles to take to the Congress – we’ll be promoting books from the some of the best science and conservation publishers from around the world. It’s really interesting to see all the books coming together as a collection – and, it’s been great fun picking titles!
New edition of SBF Harvestmen guide imminent
British Harvestmen, edition 3 — due very soon. Congratulations to the Field Studies Council for keeping the indispensable ‘Synopses of the British Fauna’ going!
Riparia
Riparia presents a thorough review of the importance of riparian ecosystems. In recent years riparian management has been widely implemented as a means of improving fisheries, water quality, and habitat for endangered species. This book provides the basic knowledge necessary to implement successful, long-term management and rehabilitation programs.
“Streamside communities are exceedingly important for the functioning of ecosystems and the providing of ecosystem services to people. With growing challenges of land-use, climate change, and expanding infrastructure, the publication of Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities, is especially timely, and deserves to be widely read and applied.” – Jeffrey A. McNeely, Chief Scientist, IUCN-The World Conservation Union
New Edition of Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities
Begon, Townsend and Harper’s Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities is the textbook that every undergraduate must have for an ecology related degree – myself included! My battered copy of the 3rd Edition still has pride of place on the bookshelf.
The original publication date for this title was mid-May, and we’ve had a lot of customers asking when the publication date has slipped to – the latest info we have is that stock is on it’s way to us right now. We are running a special pre-publication offer price on Ecology of £32.50 £24.99 – this will end the day stock arrives. So… you’ve got just a few days left to pick up a bargain on this key text.