Wildlife

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684856025Author Loren ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

The islands of Orkney are distinct, perhaps that bit wild. Remote, surrounded by an endless ocean and dominated by an infinite sky, which brings either brilliant light or days of wind that makes everything taste of salt. This remarkable landscape has the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905723126Author Marcus MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 189mm * 246mm * 20mm

A vital read for anyone who cares about the future of British wildlife. With a foreword by the BBC TV presenter Chris Packham. 'A thriller, whodunnit and impassioned polemic.' - PATRICK BARKHAM, THE GUARDIAN Dominic Dyer explores the science and...

Blood Moon tells the tale of the extraordinary efforts to rescue rhinos from high-poaching zones in South Africa and save the species in secret locations in Botswana. Involving the help of military personnel, planes, helicopters, and private-sector...

Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition-in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos-to reveal how smart animals really are, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159276Author Richard BarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 2146gDimensions(mm) 280mm...

Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385547130Author Graeme GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Nan A. TalesePublisher Nan A. TaleseWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905723577Author Ken GerhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416954743Author Terri IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909488205Author Karl ShukerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682128848Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393357Author Matthew BilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock has spent three decades studying the frozen land in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399534867Author Pamela K. BrodowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714382Author Joy AdamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

From the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar Bear, to the tiny Least Weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true carnivores include some of the world's most charismatic, admired, feared and spectacular creatures. This fully updated...

From tiny bubble-popping goldfish toots to thunderously loud elephant gas, learn how to spot the funniest (and smelliest) farts in the animal kingdom! Hilarious tidbits identify the odor, range, frequency, and aftereffects of ten different types of gassy...

See the animal kingdom in all its glory, from jellyfish to polar bears, with up-close details of their unique features from head to toe. Filled with magnificent photographs that were specially commissioned for this book and cannot be seen anywhere else...

For 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection of pictures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Orion Book Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780375725197Author Terry Tempest WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682801109Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

A comprehensive treatment of the birds of the genus Saxicola. The genus Saxicola contains about 13 species, depending on taxonomy. They are a distinctive and popular group of birds, and include two very familiar and attractive British species - the...

Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers-dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many...

Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682806081Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491648304Author Dirk HilbersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crossbill Guides FoundationPublisher KNNV Uitgeverij

Southern Africa is home to a diverse reptile fauna of more than 600 species. Of these, nearly 70% are endemic to the region, being found nowhere else. This compact guide features 276 of the more colourful and conspicuous species, as well as those unique...

A beautifully lyrical collection of essays on the natural world in Britain by the Guardian's country diary writer Paul Evans. With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. It is a book both for those that...

Our world is built on an invisible one we are barely beginning to understand. In The Hidden Half of Nature, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Bikle argue that Earth's smallest creatures-microbes-could fundamentally change how we grow food,...

What does -it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate--and intense--moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683056423Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841146706Author Fleur HallamFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

A founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats...

Birds have inspired people since the dawn of time. They are the notes behind Mozart's genius, the colours behind Audubon's art and ballet's swansong. In The Birds They Sang, Stanislaw Lubienski sheds light on some of history's most meaningful bird...

The idea of this book started many years ago with my love of nature, places and people. If I think it is interesting, it has to be photographed! It all started when a friend of my family took some pictures of us as children. I was so fascinated with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737903901Author Sue TidwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Circle T PublishingPublisher Circle T PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913012267Author Dick HawkesFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Riverside Publishing Solutions LtdPublisher Riverside Publishing Solutions...

A New York Times Bestseller.Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long...