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New Books June 2020
Offered here is a selection of new books on entomology and other natural history subjects
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by Oates, M.
Cat No. : 39731, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 8 col plates, text illus
Hardback £13.99
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The Purple Emperor Apatura iris is our most elusive and least-known butterfly. We glimpse it only through fissures in its tree top world, yet this giant insect has fascinated us for centuries. (more)
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by Platnick, N.
Cat No. : 39737, Published : MAY 2020, Illustrations : col photos, distribution maps
Hardback £16.95
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Explores the huge diversity of spider species and their fascinating traits. An introduction outlining the spider's natural history is followed by 117 illustrated profiles spanning the taxonomic (more)
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by Smallshire, D.; Swash, A.
Cat No. : 39408, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos + maps
Paperback £18.50
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The go-to photographic guide to all the damselflies and dragonflies recorded in Europe, including the Macaronesian Islands and western Turkey Europe's Dragonflies is a comprehensive, lavishly (more)
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by Merryweather, J.
Cat No. : 40327, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos, 70 maps
Paperback £14.95
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The only comprehensive photographic guide to the ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails of Britain This is a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and user-friendly photographic identification (more)
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by Hume, R.; Still, R.; Swash, A.; Harrop, H.; Tipling, D.
Cat No. : 41140, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 3591 col photos, maps
Paperback £14.99
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2nd edition. A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide-the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Britain and Ireland. A (more)
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by Bizarro, J.; Martin, A.
Cat No. : 41161, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Paperback £39.95
The only comprehensive guide to all the butterflies recorded in the Serra dos Orgaos of Rio de Janeiro State in south-eastern Brazil (excluding grass skippers). Over 1,300 photographs included, (more)
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by Hardy, P.B.
Cat No. : 41464, Published : 2020
Hardback £45.00
A regional butterfly atlas with a difference: taking three ten-year periods (last decade of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st), this book documents the changes in distribution (more)
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by Varga, Z.; Ronkay, G.; Gyulai, P.; Kiss, A.; Ronkay, L.
Cat No. : 41235, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 55 col + 114 b/w plates
Hardback £139.00
This 11th volume of the Taxonomic Atlas series consists of the second part on the subfamily Noctuinae, focusing on the revised taxonomy of the Palaearctic genus Eugnorisma along with 18 additional (more)
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by Tshikolovets, V.V.; Yehuds, Oz Ben
Cat No. : 41118, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 48 col plates, distribution maps
Hardback £115.00
The first book to cover the territory of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula with images of all 182 species, including many type specimens. Approx. 2,000 illustrations in colour (5 (more)
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by Pearson, D.L.; Wiesner, J.; Acciavatti, R.E.; Uniyal, V.P.; Anichtchenko, A.
Cat No. : 41359, Published : 2019
Paperback £39.50
This Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of India is the first definitive identification guide to all 241 species of tiger beetles known to occur in India. Its descriptions of habitats, behavior, and (more)
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by Nedved, O.
Cat No. : 41138, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos, line drawings
Paperback £19.99
Cat No. : 29447, Published : 2015, Illustrations : col photos, line drawings, maps
Paperback £19.50
Text Czech/English. 2nd revised edition. Illustrated key to 101 species of Coccinellidae from Central Europe, with photographs of most species, including some larvae and pupae. Keys to subfamily, (more)
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by Yu Guoyue
Cat No. : 41518, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £129.00
Text Chinese with Latin scientific names. Records a total of 762 species of Coleoptera 71 families in Beijing (47 species only identified to genus), including 167 new records from Beijing (34 of them (more)
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by Li Lizhen
Cat No. : 41522, Published : 2020
Hardback £199.00
Text Chinese with Latin scientific names. Staphylinidae is the largest family of Coleoptera, currently containing 32 subfamilies, 3783 genera and 64623 species (subspecies) worldwide. China currently (more)
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by Davis, C.F.
Cat No. : 41471, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos, b/w illus
Paperback £29.50
3rd edition. Detailed information on anatomy and physiology of the honey bee. Chapters cover various aspects of bee biology. It is recommended reading specifically for beekeeping examination module 5 (more)
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by Stille, M.; Stille, B.
Cat No. : 41470, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 231 col photos, 44 maps
Hardback £38.00
2nd edition. There are 143 species of dragonflies and damselflies in Europe and 39 of these are presently found on Corfu, giving the island one of the highest numbers of species in the Greek (more)
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by Seabrook, M.J.
Cat No. : 41486, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 120 illus
Paperback £23.95
This book contains tips on how to have a beautiful, easy to manage garden completely in tune with nature. With chapters on the plants that attract bees, bumblebees, butterflies and hoverflies. Over (more)
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by Broad, G.; Kirk-Spriggs, A.; Telnov, D.; Huertas, B.
Cat No. : 41477, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £9.99
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London's Natural History Museum holds the oldest and most important entomology collection in the world - with over 34 million insect and arachnid specimens. Interesting Insects showcases the weird, (more)
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by Iorio, E.; Voigtländer, K.
Cat No. : 41350, Published : 2019, Illustrations : 100 figs
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by Ponder, W.F.; Lindberg, D.R.; Ponder, J.M.
Cat No. : 41475, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 553 col + 1011 b/w illus
Hardback £308.00
Two-volume set. The phylum Mollusca is the second largest group of animals and occur in virtually all habitats. Many non-marine molluscs are threatened with more recorded extinctions than all (more)
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by Kibby, G.
Cat No. : 41246, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col plates + photos
Hardback £41.95
3rd edition, with updates to species names, changes to distribution data and minor corrections to the text, etc. A unique, fully illustrated guide with paintings of 650 species including drawings of (more)
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by Kibby, G.
Cat No. : 37471, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col plates + photos
Hardback £38.00
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Second of a three-volume series. A unique, fully illustrated guide with paintings of the species, including drawings of spores and other microscopic features. This volume covers 750 species and (more)
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by Shaw, M.
Cat No. : 41078, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : col photos, maps
Hardback £34.95
Hawkweeds (Hieracium spp.) are considered one of the trickiest groups of plants in Britain and Ireland, presenting a challenge to even the bravest botanist. With this new BSBI Handbook the (more)
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by Dauncey, E.; Howes, M-J.
Cat No. : 41485, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 400 illus
Hardback £20.00
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Of the approximately 300,000 plants that have evolved on Earth, at least one tenth of them have been used in traditional herbal medicine or as local remedies. More recently, the application of (more)
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by Nelson, L.S.; Balick, M.J.
Cat No. : 41481, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 157 col illus, 24 b/w illus
Hardback £44.99
This third edition of the Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants is designed to assist the clinician in the initial response to the needs of a child or adult exposed to a poisonous or injurious (more)
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by Dee, Tim
Cat No. : 41042, Published : 2018, Illustrations : b/w illus
Hardback £14.99
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A groundbreaking new book from the author of The Running Sky and Four Fields, Landfill confronts our waste-making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls, and the people who (more)
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by Mayntz, M.
Cat No. : 41512, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col illus, b/w maps
Hardback £12.00
Flight has fascinated humans since we first looked into the sky and saw birds on the wing, and no flights are more fascinating than the extraordinary migrations birds make every day, week, month, and (more)
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by Duerr, R.S.; Gage, L.J.
Cat No. : 41479, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos, col illus, tables
Hardback £112.00
Second edition. This book presents a detailed guide to hand-rearing techniques for raising young birds, providing complete coverage of a wide variety of avian species and taxonomic groups for all (more)
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by Crawley, D.; Coomber, F.; Kubasiewicz, L.M.; Harrower, C.A.; Evans, P.; Waggitt, J.; Smith, B.; Matthews, F.; The Mammal Society
Cat No. : 40863, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 107 col figs, 89 distribution maps
Hardback £35.00
Based on more than 1.8 million records, this Atlas provides the most up-to-date information on the current distributions of both terrestrial and marine mammals in the United Kingdom, the Channel (more)
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by Martínez Vilalta, A.
Cat No. : 41071, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col illus
Paperback £23.50
This illustrated checklist covers The Southern Cone of South America and its associated islands (Argentinian and Chilean Austral Zone islands, Falklands (Malvinas), Desventuradas Islands and Juan (more)
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by Hilbers, D.; Swinkels, C.; Vliegenthart, A.
Cat No. : 38052, Published : MAY 2019, Illustrations : col photos, maps
Paperback £26.95
The Provence is the richest wildlife region of France. Whether you consider the flora and fauna in detail or simply take a broad view of the landscape, every corner of this region is (more)
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by McAnulty, Dara
Cat No. : 41043, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £13.99
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Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty’s world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These (more)
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by Revels, R.; Bellamy, G.; Boon, C.
Cat No. : 41534, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £24.50
This book is the result of a project looking at changes to the county’s wildlife habitats since the BNHS publication Wild Bedfordshire in 2000. Site photographs are featured along with images (more)
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by Forster, Stefan
Cat No. : 41139, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 180 col photographs
Hardback £23.96
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One of the most renowned nature photographers in Europe, Stefan Forster, documents the extraordinary Nordic islands. Over the course of more than 80 intrepid trips through Greenland, Iceland, Norway, (more)
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by White, S.; Ross, D.
Cat No. : 40912, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Paperback £12.50
The Isle of Skye is justifiably famous for its dinosaur fossils, in particular some spectacular footprints and trackways. As a northern outpost of Jurassic rocks in Britain, Skye has revealed a (more)
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by Kenrick, P.
Cat No. : 40917, Published : 2020, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £15.99
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This is the story of plant life on Earth, uniquely retold through a remarkable record of spectacular fossils. Palaeobotanist Paul Kenrick explains the importance of each fossil and how it marks a (more)
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by Musgrave, T.
Cat No. : 41141, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 48 col illus
Hardback £25.00
A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment. As official botanist on James Cook's first (more)
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by Schintlmeister, A.
Cat No. : 40861, Published : JUN 2020, Illustrations : 51 col plates, distribution maps
Hardback £135.00
The first comprehensive work on oriental Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) outside mainland Asia. The studied area includes also Borneo Island, the Malayan Peninsula, entire New Guinea with adjacent (more)
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by Benyamini, D.; John, E.
Cat No. : 40854, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : 1400+ col photos
Hardback £98.00
First to be published in a 4-volume series. This unique series includes for the first time all available present-day information for every butterfly species in the Levant; In addition to regular (more)
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by Dennis, R.L.H.
Cat No. : 41463, Published : SEP 2020, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £150.00
* Introduces a systems approach to butterfly biology * Includes succinct reviews of the key interrelationships in butterfly life history and behaviour * Illustrates more than 100 models to (more)
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by Williams, W.
Cat No. : 40397, Published : JULY 2020
Hardback £19.95
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In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world's most resilient creatures - the butterfly - shedding light on (more)
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by Simpson, T.; Duncan, I.; Williams, M. (Eds)
Cat No. : 39203, Published : 2020, Illustrations : 700+ col photos, distribution maps
Paperback £23.50
First book on the moths of the West Midlands covering all of the macro moths in the region (over 600 species) and many of the micro moths regularly recorded in Birmingham and the Black Country, (more)
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by Duff, A.G.
Cat No. : 27106, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : col plates, text figs
Hardback £109.00
Volume 3 covers a large number of families which exhibit a wide range of morphologies and ways of life, including the familiar dor beetles, stag beetles, dung beetles and chafers, jewel beetles, (more)
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by McAlister, E.
Cat No. : 40391, Published : SEP 2020, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £11.99
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The author reveals the engineering miracles embodied in different species of fly and some of the fascinating implications they hold for human technology. Discover the physics of the mysterious 'scuba (more)
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by Brock, P.D.
Cat No. : 39643, Published : DEC 2020, Illustrations : 2000+ col photos
Paperback £16.99
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An innovative, up-to-date, carefully designed and beautifully illustrated field guide to Britain and Ireland's twenty-five insect orders, concentrating on popular groups and species that can be (more)
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by Owens, N.
Cat No. : 40855, Published : AUG 2020, Illustrations : col photos, col distribution maps
Hardback £18.50
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This book offers an easy introduction for those new to bumblebees and also provides the more experienced naturalist with a wealth of information about their fascinating lives. All 27 bumblebee (more)
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by Crosby, C.; Macnamara, P.
Cat No. : 41478, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 20 col illus
Paperback £26.50
Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History is an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as an American natural (more)
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by Smith, B.D.; Patten, M.A.
Cat No. : 41474, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 569 col illus, 55 b/w illus, 27 tables
Hardback £30.99
This lavishly illustrated book examines the distribution, ecology, conservation status, and biogeography of 176 species of dragonflies in the southern plains of the United States, where twelve (more)
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by Wilson, E.O.
Cat No. : 41482, Published : AUG 2020, Illustrations : 28 b/w illus
Hardback £17.99
Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg, writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In (more)
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by Bee, L.; Oxford, G.; Smith, H.
Cat No. : 41228, Published : SEP 2020, Illustrations : 700+ col photos
Paperback £18.99
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2nd edition. A comprehensively updated edition of this identification guide. A photographic guide to all 38 of the British families, focussing on spiders that can be identified in the field. (more)
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by French, C.
Cat No. : 41576, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 1700 col photos, 1200 distribution maps
Hardback £49.95
The most comprehensive flora so far produced for the county, based on a systematic survey of every km square (3940) since 1999. The new flora covers 3018 flowering plants and ferns, based on 2.25 (more)
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by Cole, S.; Waller, M.
Cat No. : 40801, Published : SEP 2020, Illustrations : col photos + col illus
Paperback £15.00
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An accessible, comprehensive and beautifully illustrated guide-the only one to cover all the orchids found in Britain and Ireland. Covering more than fifty species as well as hybrids and variants, (more)
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by Newton, I.
Cat No. : 38759, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : col photos, maps
Hardback £47.50
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Cat No. : 38760, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : col photos, maps
Paperback £27.50
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The uplands of Britain are unique landscapes created by grazing animals, primarily livestock. The soils and blanket bogs of the uplands are also the largest stores of carbon in the UK, and 70% of the (more)
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by Allen, D.
Cat No. : 41123, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : c.1615 col illus, c.620 col distribution maps
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The world’s fifth-largest island nation comprises in excess of 7600 islands and islets, and is one of the most populous and ethnically diverse in all of Asia, with more than 180 native languages (more)
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by Fjeldså, J.; Christidis, L.; Ericson, P.G.P.
Cat No. : 41124, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £65.00
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This book reveals the remarkable new history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world. It also presents and explains the new classification, which reflects the phylogenetic (more)
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by Puan, C.L.; Davison, G.; Lim, K.C.
Cat No. : 41121, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : c.1825 col illus, c.775 col distribution maps
Paperback £38.00
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The country of Malaysia comprises two halves separated by the South China Sea, the Peninsula and East Malaysia, the latter made up of Sabah and Sarawak. Most of the many Bornean endemic birds can (more)
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by Riddington, R.
Cat No. : 41187, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : 250 col photos + illus
Paperback £31.50
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Based on a series of articles in the journal British Birds, this book highlights the international importance of the UK's 14 Overseas Territories for birds and other wildlife. Many of these places (more)
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by Stevenson, T.; Small, B.; Fanshawe, J.; Gale, J.
Cat No. : 41179, Published : OCT 2020, Illustrations : 287 col plates
Paperback £28.00
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Second edition. This spectacular new edition of the best-selling Helm field guide of all time covers all resident, migrant and vagrant species found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. (more)
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Cat No. : 41119, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : col illus, col distribution maps
Paperback £27.50
This illustrated checklist covers China, a region with a great habitat diversity which is especially rich in mammalian life and attracts numerous wildlife watchers. Although not a traditional Field (more)
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Cat No. : 41072, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : col illus
Paperback £27.50
This illustrated checklist covers South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), a region with great habitat diversity which is especially rich in mammalian life (more)
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by Monadjem, A.; Taylor, P.J.; Cotterill, F.; Schoeman, M.C.
Cat No. : 41483, Published : JUNE 2020, Illustrations : 925 col illus
Hardback £78.50
Second revised edition. This revised edition of Bats of Southern and Central Africa builds on the solid foundation of the first edition and supplements the original account of bat species then known (more)
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by McNamara, K.J.
Cat No. : 41484, Published : JUN 2020, Illustrations : 70 illus
Hardback £18.00
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few 17th-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been (more)
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by Carine, M.A.; Huxley, M.
Cat No. : 40829, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £22.50
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Sir Hans Sloane's herbarium, housed at the Natural History Museum in London, is probably the most extensive herbarium collection dating from the Early Modern period. Assembled between the 1680s and (more)
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by Marren, P.
Cat No. : 40804, Published : JULY 2020, Illustrations : col + b/w illus
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Cat No. : 37168, Published : 2019, Illustrations : col + b/w illus
Hardback £25.00
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Many have remarked on the poetic names of our butterflies and moths. Their beauty fires our imaginations. Some are named after human occupations and social rank: Emperors, footmen, a miller, quakers, (more)
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by Sterling, P.; Henwood, B.; Lewington, R.
Cat No. : 38868, Published : MAR 2020, Illustrations : 1,000 col illus + 100 photos
Paperback £29.50
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This beautifully illustrated field guide covers caterpillars of the moth and butterfly species that are most likely to be encountered in the British Isles. The helpful introduction includes (more)
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by Papp, L.; Cerný, M.
Cat No. : 29193, Published : 2019, Illustrations : 226 figs
Hardback £69.50
Text English. Final volume of this 4-volume monograph on the Agromyzidae of Hungary. Volume 4 contains the third systematic part of the subfamily Phytomyzinae with the genera Chromatomyia (33 spp.), (more)
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