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Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States by John L. Capinera
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.98In much of North America, crickets and katydids provide the soundtrack to summer nights, and grasshoppers frequent the fields and roadsides of midsummer days. Although insects from this group have... -
Anatomy of the Honey Bee by R. E. Snodgrass
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.37First published in 1956, this classic work on the anatomy of honey bee by R. (Robert) E. Snodgrass is acclaimed as much for the author's remarkably detailed line drawings of the various body parts... -
Bees of Costa Rica by Paul Hanson
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94In this richly illustrated guide, Bees of Costa Rica, leading bee experts showcase the diversity of bees in Costa Rica and the myriad ways in which they interact with flowers and people. Costa Rica... -
A Field Guide to Bacteria by Betsey Dexter Dyer 9780801488542
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.75"Although most people are aware that bacteria are all around us, few would guess that they produce such distinctive and accessible signs. Whether you're walking on the beach, visiting a zoo or... -
Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide by Rolf Blancke 9780801454172
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.30Tropical fruits such as banana, mango, papaya, and pineapple are familiar and treasured staples of our diets, and consequently of great commercial importance, but there are many other interesting... -
Principles of Insect Morphology by R. E. Snodgrass 9780801428838
RRP: €60.69Booksplease Price: €50.72This classic text, first published in 1935, is once again available. Still the standard reference in the English language, Principles of Insect Morphology is considered the author's masterpiece. A... -
The Biology of Death: Origins of Mortality by Andre Klarsfeld 9780801441189
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.04Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be unlocked? Over the past two decades,... -
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock 9780801493843
Booksplease Price: €28.61A matchless handbook for decades, this classic work has been the natural history bible for countless teachers and others who seek information about their environment. Written originally for those... -
Central Valley by Diego Arguedas Ortiz 9781501752834
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97This guidebook wends its way through the cities and towns, coffee plantations, and majestic volcanoes of the Central Valley. From the gilt elegance of the National Theater to the remarkable birding... -
The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds: Creating Natural Habitats for Properties Large and Small by Stephen W. Kress 9780801488641
Booksplease Price: €26.73"Improving the quality of land for wildlife is the single most constructive step that anyone can take to assist wild bird populations. Happily, it is well within almost everyone's capability to... -
Solitary Wasps: Behavior and Natural History by Kevin M. O'Neill
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €69.50While social wasps, like hornets and yellow jackets, garner most of the publicity (most of it negative), the vast majority of wasp species, including digger wasps, spider wasps, and mud-daubers, are... -
Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology and Conservation by Keith L. Bildstein
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €45.52Many raptors, the hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world, migrate over long distances, often in impressively large numbers. Many avoid crossing wide expanses of water and follow "flyways" to... -
From Where I Sit: Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science by Mark L. Winston
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €33.18A scientist before he was a beekeeper, Mark L. Winston found in his new hobby a paradigm for understanding the role science should play in society. In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee... -
Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology by Marianne E. Krasny
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32Addressing participatory, transdisciplinary approaches to local stewardship of the environment, Grassroots to Global features scholars and stewards exploring the broad impacts of civic engagement... -
Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change William M. Throop 9781501777189
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change explores skills we need to successfully navigate the distinctive environmental, social, and economic challenges of the twenty-first century. Our inability to... -
Birds of Cuba: A Photographic Guide by Arturo Kirkconnell
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.36* The first photographic field guide for the birds of Cuba * Includes all 378 recorded species * Updated status and distribution taxonomy Cuba is home to a diverse avifauna, rich with endemic... -
Insects that Feed on Trees and Shrubs by Warren T. Johnson
RRP: €90.44Booksplease Price: €83.06This comprehensive handbook, acclaimed when it was first published in 1976 as "one of the most useful reference manuals on diagnostic entomology yet produced," has now been completely revised and... -
The North American Porcupine by Uldis Roze
Booksplease Price: €41.83Praise for the first edition: "Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time authoritative, full of well-documented data, and yet as readable as this book. It is good... -
Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History by Jerry Jenkins
Booksplease Price: €62.49Acid rain has changed the face of the Adirondacks, created political tensions between the Northeast and the Midwest, and served as both a harbinger of global climate change and a "fire drill" for... -
Fish Behavior in the Aquarium and in the Wild by Stephan Reebs
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.62A 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... -
Weeds of the Northeast by Joseph C. Neal
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.13This fully updated second edition of the best-selling Weeds of the Northeast provides lavish illustrations for ready identification of more than 500 common and economically important weeds in the... -
Bats of the West Indies: A Natural History and Field Guide by Allen Kurta 9781501768934
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €26.11Bats of the West Indies is a concise guide to the sixty-one bat species found across the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Edited by Allen Kurta and Armando Rodríguez-Durán,... -
A Bird-Finding Guide to Panama by George Richard Angehr 9780801474231
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €20.25A Bird-Finding Guide to Panama is an essential tool for anyone traveling in search of Panama's spectacular birds and natural attractions. With more than 970 species and a growing infrastructure of... -
Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language by Karl von Frisch 9780801406287
RRP: €58.31Booksplease Price: €48.41Over half a century of brilliant scientific detective work, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl von Frisch learned how the world, looks, smells, and tastes to a bee. More significantly, he... -
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera by Peggy Alrich 9780801447372
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €59.98Published in Association with Selby Botanical Gardens Press"The hundreds of orchid genera and thousands of species can seem unbelievably complex, but they are beautiful, mysterious, and alluring... -
Manuel Antonio, Ballena, and Carara by Diego Arguedas Ortiz 9781501752841
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97This guidebook takes a fresh look at three distinct regions along the Pacific Coast-from Carara, a birdwatcher's paradise, to Manuel Antonio with its extraordinary ecological gems, to Bahia Ballena... -
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher: Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction by Lane Cooper 9781501740565
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85By a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he himself speaks, sometimes distinguished pupils of his reveal in their... -
Evolution by Colin Patterson 9780801485947
Booksplease Price: €51.28Introducing the latest ideas on how life originated and diversified on earth, this new edition of a classic work provides a concise and engaging summary of modern evolutionary theory. The heavily... -
The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation by Karen S. Oberhauser
RRP: €51.17Booksplease Price: €42.74The knowledge of citizen scientists, biologists, and naturalists informs this book's coverage of every aspect of the monarch butterfly's life cycle (breeding, migration, and overwintering) from the... -
Trilobites of New York: An Illustrated Guide by Thomas E. Whiteley
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €78.42"Trilobites are the most lifelike of fossils-many well-preserved specimens belie their great antiquity and seem almost ready to arch their bodies, peer about with their compound eyes, and crawl... -
Life-Histories of the Frogs of Okefinokee Swamp, Georgia: North American Salientia (Anura) No. 2 by Albert Hazen Wright
Booksplease Price: €130.66"Whether you spell it as Okefinokee like Wright (1931) or Okefenokee like The New Georgia Guide (1996), the big swamp nestled in the southeastern corner of Georgia and northern edge of Florida with... -
Principles of Insect Morphology by R. E. Snodgrass 9780801481253
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.91This classic text, first published in 1935, is once again available. Still the standard reference in the English language, Principles of Insect Morphology is considered the author's masterpiece. A... -
Life of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Fresh-Water Biology For Students by James G. Needham 9781501740732
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74This work is a textbook of fresh-water life dealing with its forms, its conditions, its fitnesses, its associations, and its economic aspects. The ecologic side of fresh-water biology is emphasized... -
The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View from Energetics by Brian K. McNab 9780801439131
RRP: €138.04Booksplease Price: €106.98Physiological ecology has grown in importance as an area of biology in the past thirty years and integrates the diverse approaches used in the comparative biology of organisms. Biologists segregate... -
The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada by Richard J. Nevle 9781501762697
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16In The Paradise Notebooks, Richard Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact. Over... -
The Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer by Dietland Muller-Schwarze 9780801450105
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €41.51Beavers can and do dramatically change the landscape. The beaver is a keystone species-their skills as foresters and engineers create and maintain ponds and wetlands that increase biodiversity,... -
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State by Kevin J. McGowan 9780801447167
Booksplease Price: €117.62Both an indispensable scientific work and a beautiful collection of art, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State documents and illustrates the current distribution of breeding birds... -
Wild Orchids of the Northeastern United States: A Field Guide by Paul Martin Brown
RRP: €39.27Booksplease Price: €32.25Wild orchids evoke a particular and sometimes addictive fascination among naturalists, botanists, and wildflower enthusiasts. With few exceptions, these singular plants cannot be moved and propagated... -
Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy by R. E. Snodgrass
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.96The facts of arthropod structure are presented in clear, easy-to-use fashion in this text by R. E. Snodgrass. Examples of each of the classes from trilobites to insects are given. Musculature and... -
The New York City Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Area by Marcia T. Fowle 9780801485657
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78Positioned along the major East Coast migratory flyway, New York City and the surrounding areas offer some of the finest birding opportunities in North America. More than 355 species have been...