Nature

With fossil records dating back 400 million years, sharks have outlived the dinosaurs and many other forms of life currently on earth - they are even older than trees. There are more than 1,000 species of sharks and rays, with new species discovered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735492254Author Daniel Firth GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Robinia PressPublisher Robinia PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807081419Author Michelle BambergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm...

America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field...

This edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health. It assembles leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision...

Sweeping research on the frozen continent of Antarctica is yielding insights of global importance. Antarctica is the only continent without permanent human habitation, yet it may hold the key to our survival. More than just a frontier for exploration,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062364814Author Peter BrannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819617Author Camille DadantFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878348388Author Paul HumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint New World Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher New World Publications Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781948814300Author R E BurrilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint Torrey House...

Golf Course Management & Construction presents a comprehensive summary and assessment of technical and scientific research on the environmental effects of turfgrass system construction and maintenance. Although the book focuses on golf courses, it...

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of...

This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector, across varied disciplines such as environmental management, conservation biology, and ecotourism.Conservation...

"The result of an obsession that spans at least three decades, On Being a Bear comes very close to tell us what bears 'really' are. A precise and passionate account." -Bernd Brunner, author of Bears, Birdmania, and Winterlust For fans of Jane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974707785Author Trevor PriceFormat PaperbackImprint Roberts & Company PublishersPublisher Macmillan Learning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807030646Author J. A. MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghornantelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920604915Author Kathleen James-CavanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint English Literary StudiesPublisher English Literary StudiesWeight(grams)...

Step-by-step Q&As with detailed colour photographs for easy identification. The Firefly Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Gems is designed for easy and reliable identification of minerals, gems and rocks. Beginning with the stone's colour and any streak,...

Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn examines the role of gender in recent debates about the nonhuman turn in the humanities, and critically explores the implications for a contemporary theory of gender and nature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649907Author Marjory Stoneman DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea's waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of life -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060839826Author Laura LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 264g

This title offers theoretical and practical aspects of wildlife biology for restoring and conserving wild animals. Restoration plans must take into account the needs of current or desired wildlife species in project areas. "Restoring Wildlife" gives...

The fifty color photographs in Frank Noelker's Captive Beauty are not simple, uncomplicated shots of animals in zoo settings; there is an ambivalence in them that only gradually envelops the viewer. Their sad, stark beauty confronts viewers, challenging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987621610Author Jeremy H BraithwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Jeremy BraithwaitePublisher Jeremy BraithwaiteWeight(grams) 676g

Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized...

This valuable book provides information on fossils, fossil collecting, and price ranges for most specimens illustrated. The comprehensive text begins with the earliest fossil record of life from strata representative of "deep time," called the...

This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty.Food security and livelihoods in Africa face...

This book provides a new inter-disciplinary look at the practice and policies of conservation in Africa. Bringing together social scientists, anthropologists and historians with biologists for the first time, the book sheds some light on the previously...

Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself crawling through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees...

Through a long history of co-evolution, multicellular organisms form a complex of host cells plus many associated microorganism species. Consisting of algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists and viruses, and collectively referred to as the microbiome,...

The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members-animal lovers outside the fray-extremist positions in which all...

A home aquarium seems a peaceful place. Gazing at its inhabitants as they swim slowly through their small universe is a soothing, even hypnotic, experience. But this seeming tranquillity is only surface deep. Like their wild counterparts, these tiny,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996942300Author Tim VasquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Weather Graphics TechnologiesPublisher Weather Graphics TechnologiesWeight(grams) 653g

For students of geology, this book offers a systematic overview of uranium and thorium minerals, which are known for their intense ultraviolet fluorescence and are critically important as our source of nuclear energy. Learn about the geochemical...

This title offers a guide to the world of arthropods, covering many insect orders, including beetles, flies, stick insects, dragonflies, ants and wasps, as well as microscopic creatures. It provides a fascinating overview of insects and spiders,...

The main focus of this monograph is to explain the important role of soil and the environment to a broad audience. Soil is one of the five essential factors crucial for human life. On the one hand the authors describe a responsible approach and use of...

Cats were just as favored in ancient Egypt as they are today. Egyptian paintings of domesticated cats date back 3,600 years, and animal cults included worship to the cat goddess Bastet. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores wild and domestic cats of...

560 color photos and engaging text take readers on a journey back to a world first of tropical climates and then plunging into an Ice Age. It covers the Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, and includes a dazzling array of fossils,...