Animals

No one ever says 'I can't remember if I've seen a whale.' A close encounter with one of the most enigmatic and remarkable creatures on the planet is a life-changing experience. This comprehensive and authoritative guide covers everything you need to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345544803Author Elizabeth LettsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm)...

An unprecedented look at the complex and beautiful world of underground ant architectureWalter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book takes you inside an unseen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845277499Author Marged TudurFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing and recording all aspects of the natural world. Travelers and colonists returning from far-flung lands provided dazzling accounts of such exotic creatures as...

Australia is home to more than 240 species of frogs, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.The Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs provides readers with the tools to confidently identify 242 species and five recognised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855462888Author William D. J. KirkFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Richmond Publishing Co LtdPublisher Richmond Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams) 240g

Anyone can look at a snake and see a creature unique unto itself, a reptile with a set of zoological and biological traits that are entirely its own. Just looking at this distinct animal raises many scientific questions. With regard to evolution, how did...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090835Author Greg SkomalFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Over the course of his photography career, Daniel Kariko came to realise that many of his most stunning subjects could be found in his own home. Kariko utilises a combination of a Scanning Electron Microscope and optical Stereo Microscope to achieve a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952559952Author Dion RosserFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint PrimastaPublisher PrimastaWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Expanded and updated to include an additional 44 species, this is a handy guide to those fishes that are likely to be observed by anybody visiting or diving on the coral reefs of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific to a depth of sixty meters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122980Author Jill MasonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 0g

From dinosaurs to birds and mammals to insects, here are hundreds of tracks described and illustrated.About the AuthorEllsworth Jaeger was Curator of Education and the Hayes Professor of Science at the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York, and...

"Papa Goose is destined to become a classic. This book has everything in it I love: great animals beautifully portrayed as individuals; cool science; drama, discovery, and personal transformation." -Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Soul of An...

The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central AmericaBirds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama...

Wolves were once common throughout North America and Eurasia. But by the early twentieth century, bounties and organized hunts had drastically reduced their numbers. Today, the wolf is returning to its ancestral territories, and the "coywolf"-a smaller,...

Whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on the earth: the longest recorded was over 33 metres long, the heaviest more than 171,000 kgs; a large Blue Whale's tongue alone can weigh more than an elephant. Whales can stay underwater for more than...

After the death of her mother, 16-year-old Kay is on a mission to self-destruct. Unhappy at home and school, she only finds peace with the semi-wild ponies on the moors. She meets Sion up there, also looking to escape. They are drawn into a secret,...

A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea-whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking. For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet's most inaccessible region, the place about which we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178079Author Alison ZakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

The spider has a rich symbolic presence in the human imagination. Seen as representing death, due to its poisoned fangs and pitiless, predatory nature, the spider can also represent both creativity and creation: it weaves an intricate web and females...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903657164Author Chris GooddieFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint WILDGuidesPublisher WILDGuidesWeight(grams) 770gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 154mm * 26mm

The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence-bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more-has shown a...

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for...

The author explores the natural history of Skomer Island, and provides a personal reflection on life and work of a beautiful and remote seabird colony off the west Wales coast.Book InformationISBN 9781908241214Author Richard KiplingFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530585472Author Adult Coloring WorldFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Nature Tales is a charming collection of encounters with the natural world from historic greats to modern household names, from Wildlife Trusts supporters to leading naturalists, such as: Roger Deakin, Richard Mabey, Simon Barnes, Gilbert White, John...

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parrenas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parrenas tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345521095Author Elizabeth LettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)...

"Endlessly fascinating, unpretentiously educational, thoughtfully accessible and beautifully presented" - Alex Tattersall, award-winning underwater photographer and the founder of Underwater Visions.The Coral Triangle, straddling the confluence of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838992323Author Ihwagi, Dr Festus W.Format HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Neon SquidPublisher Priddy BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Feared, reviled and revered, the wolf has always evoked powerful emotions in humans. It has been admired as a powerful hunter; feared for the threat it is imagined to pose to humans; reviled for its depredations on domestic livestock and revered as a...

It starts with a letter from the dead... Confined to a wheelchair since childhood, Ursula is independent and successful. A letter from her supposedly dead mother, draws her into a series of strange and frightening events that challenge everything she...

Tracking is a much-loved yet difficult subject that attracts at least some of the attention of almost every bush-goer who ventures into the wild places of southern Africa. The ability to accurately read difficult, partial, or little-seen signs left in...

Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the world's most famous wildlife regions. Birds of the Serengeti is a groundbreaking and essential photographic guide, featuring more than 270 bird species most likely to be encountered in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643891514Author Josef BrunnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Doublebit PressPublisher Doublebit PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

RSPB ID Spotlight Caterpillars is a reliable fold-out chart that presents illustrations of 60 of our most widespread and familiar caterpillars by renowned artist Richard Lewington. Whether you are out in the countryside or at work in the garden, you...

Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations Both critical and mainstream scholarly work on humanitarianism have largely been framed from anthropocentric perspectives highlighting humanity as the...

A comprehensive photographic guide to the world's gull speciesWith more than 50 gull species in the world, this family of seabirds poses some of the greatest field identification challenges of any bird group: age-related plumage changes, extensive...