Animals

Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications with R and JAGS is the first book on integrated population models, which constitute a powerful framework for combining multiple data sets from the population and the individual levels to...

This is the first fully illustrated guide to all 336 dragonfly and damselfly species of eastern North America--from the rivers of Manitoba to the Florida cypress swamps--and the companion volume to Dennis Paulson's acclaimed field guide to the...

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. With "Wild Justice", Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce...

Our relationship with animals is complex and contradictory; we hunt, kill and eat them, yet we also love, respect and protect them. This ambivalent relationship is further complicated by the fact that we attribute human emotions and intelligence to...

The only current field guide to sharks and rays of the West Coast of British Columbia.Sharks! The very mention of the word conjures up images of dangerous creatures with a voracious appetite. This public image couldn't be farther from the truth for a...

A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic twentieth century sources reiterating and contesting ideas of race as scientific, and several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807085493Author Freeman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904078623Author Helen SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Langford PressPublisher Langford PressWeight(grams) 520g

In 1990, the skeleton of a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch was found, virtually complete, in what many call the most spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date. Not just another dinosaur book, Tyrannosaurus Sue is a fascinating introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398817364Author Marianne TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways. Beastly Merseyside describes this, and tells wonderful stories about these animals, and about the roles they have played. Horses...

From the start of the European integration process, one question has puzzled scholars: what type of political association is the European Union? In absence of an agreed upon response, most scholars have suggested that the European Union is 'sui generis'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980687132Author Sarah R PyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Estralita PublishingPublisher Estralita PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

The Yucatan Peninsula is today divided among Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Travelers to this region discover both astonishing archaeological sites and a stunning array of wildlife, including crocodiles, turtles, lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, and...

A lavishly illustrated overview of the world's lizardsLizards are one of nature's great success stories: survivors from the time of the dinosaurs, they have taken advantage of almost every habitat on earth, from tropical rainforest to Arctic tundra and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Nature) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781550173611Author Andy LambFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400054060Author Hattie EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention. She soon realized how much she had to learn about these complex and mysterious animals. In vivid,...

How and why do trout think? How do they decide where to eat and which food to eat? Why do they refuse to behave as predicted, stumping anglers by rejecting a larger fly for a smaller one or not responding at all to anything in an angler's box? How do...

From the kings of the Indus Valley to Hannibal's Alpine cavalry, humans have been living and working with elephants for millennia. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, Jacob Shell travels to communities that still rely on this ancient partnership. After the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648346873Author Kieran DownsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint TorquePublisher TorqueWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 157mm * 3mm

The vast remote Tibetan steppe, the Chang Tang, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including the Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves and snow leopards. This text is the result of the author's research into...

A 2023 Firecracker Award FinalistAn Apple November 2022 Best Book of the Month"Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself."So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485309840Author Dr.Michael CluverFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

Bonobos have captured the public imagination in recent years, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don't kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395883242Author Sue HubbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 222g

First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton's classic tale and original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080203762Author Christine ArgotFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 890g

Britain is home to almost 100 species of mammals. Many of them are nocturnal, almost all are difficult to see, and most people - even very keen natural history enthusiasts - struggle to see more than about 10 a year - rabbits, foxes, a few deer, perhaps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222344Author Tobias FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor PressWeight(grams) 280g

This comprehensive introduction to the biology of bats offers a summary of the large body of information about bats that the scientific community has amassed over the years. Gerhard Neuweiler, a leading, internationally recognized expert in the field,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547237916Author Deanne StillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

More than ever before, there is widespread interest in studying bumble bees and the critical role they play in our ecosystems. Bumble Bees of North America is the first comprehensive guide to North American bumble bees to be published in more than a...

Hebe Uhart's Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers, parrots that rehearse their words at night, southern screamers that lurk at the front door of a decrepit aunt s house, and, of course, human animals, whose presence is treated with the same...

Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains, she offers details of twenty riveting cases from her files -- many of...

In this fully revised edition of A Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of South Africa, all 164 species known to occur in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland are described and illustrated, grouped according to family (six dragonfly and six damselfly...

The Living Elephants is the authoritative resource for information on both Asian and African elephants. From the ancient origins of the proboscideans to the present-day crisis of the living elephants, this volume synthesizes the behavior, ecology and...

Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the...

Wolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life.For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382662Author Stephen BuchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261g