Pistols in St Paul's

Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.

Dirty Play

Mud, muck and microbes are not hazards to be scrubbed from childhood; they are some of its most powerful ingredients. Dirty Play makes the science-backed case that contact with soil, plants and microbes is essential for healthy development.

Insects, plants and microclimate

The microclimate around a plant is particularly complex and interesting, and an insect sitting on a leaf may be inhabiting a weather system completely different from the weather outside. 

The Otter Field Survey and Monitoring Handbook

The book is a one-stop shop for ecologists undertaking site surveys for otters. It presents a natural progression of survey types and describes how to carry out initial field-sign surveys, selection of sites for camera-trapping, camera-trap deployment and interpretation of data.

Measuring Abundance

Measuring the abundance of individuals and the diversity of species are core components of most ecological research projects and conservation monitoring. This book brings together in one place the methods used to estimate the abundance of individuals in nature. Code and examples for use with the ...

Animals of the surface film

This handbook deals with the smaller invertebrate animals of this surface community. Among these are springtails, pondskaters, water boatmen, water beetles and water spiders, as well as protozoa, rotifers and tiny crustaceans.

Beneath the Beechen Crown

The first detailed account of the Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus in Britain, built on more than six decades of close observation by the author and captivatingly illustrated by a leading wildlife artist.

Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests

Today, ‘virgin forests’ are only to be found at a few sites unreachable by humans, and even then they are affected by climate change, atmospheric pollution and species extinctions. This book aims to help understand the web of connections relating to ancient trees and woodlands, and to offer techn...

Treewilding

Discover the intricacies of global forest restoration in Treewilding. Exploring the interplay of cutting-edge science and Indigenous knowledge, this engaging book navigates challenges, greenwashing pitfalls and the possible solutions shaping the future of ecosystems and our relationship with nature.

Bats & Ladders

These are the stories from one woman’s 36-year career spent looking for bats and their roosts. Humorous and honest, she writes about the animals, dodgy ladders and a multitude of characters, sometimes delightful, occasionally awful, but always human.

No Island Too Far

No Island Too Far takes the reader across all the world’s oceans to a matchless array of islands, often crowded with wildlife, sometimes uninhabited and always scenically breathtaking. It represents a personal account of the ups and downs of undertaking seabird research in remote locations.

The First Birdwatcher

The man who gave the world the words ‘birdwatcher’ and ‘birdwatching’ has, until now, had no biography. This authoritative life of Edmund Selous recovers a Victorian pioneer whose work was neglected, forgotten and appropriated.

Living with Lynx

This book investigates whether we could and should learn to live with species like lynx, wolves and bears again in Britain and Ireland. We travel back in time, across the world and into the future to explore this contested topic.

Nonrandom

Darwin doubted that chance alone explains the variation of life — and new research is proving him right. Nonrandom reveals the hidden structure behind DNA mutations: why they occur, how cell type and genome shape them, and what this means for evolution, cancer and the genetic science.

An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis

Readers will learn the essentials of spatial data handling using the open source software QGIS and be guided through the first steps in using the R programming language. The book includes the fundamentals of spatial data handling and analysis, working with real data from field to analysis.

The Vanishing Mew Gull

A rich and detailed consideration of the names and naming of the birds of the Western Palaearctic.

Mycology for Architecture

Investigates the potential of mycelium as a sustainable material within architecture and design. It combines theoretical perspectives, practical methodologies and digital fabrication processes to present techniques, critical analysis and emerging applications. The book serves as a comprehensive r...

Crossbills and Conifers

Crossbills & Conifers explores their intimate connection to reveal why crossbills have become an exemplar of diversification and coevolution. Craig Benkman takes readers on a journey of discovery, providing context and understanding of a series of unique and interrelated insights into crossbi...

Invisible Friends

Cutting-edge microbiome research is changing our understanding of reality. It is increasingly evident that microbes are the very glue that holds ecosystems together. This topical and original book counters the prevailing narrative of microbes as the bane of society, along the way providing much-n...

The Barbastelle Bat Conservation Handbook

This is a long-awaited guide to barbastelle bat ecology, behaviour, conservation management and threats, the first publication of its kind to draw together all of the scientific research on the barbastelle bat into one comprehensive volume.

John Wolley’s Garefowl Books

The great auk is gone – and the manuscripts that documented its final days helped birth a radical idea: that humans could drive a species to extinction. A landmark primary source, now published in full for the first time, accompanied by commentary and essays.

QGIS for Ecologists

If you don’t know where to start or how to use QGIS, this is the practical guide for you. Simple, step-by-step instructions and practical exercises make it easy and fun.

Africa's Threatened Rhinos

Africa’s surviving rhinos are seriously threatened. This timely book considers all kinds of human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals, offering a significant contribution to our understanding of wildlife in the African continent.

Transformations of Materials

Phase transformations are among the most intriguing and technologically useful phenomena in materials, particularly with regard to controlling microstructure. After a review of thermodynamics, this book has chapters on Brownian motion and the diffusion equation, diffusion in solids based on tran...

NanoCulture

Nano denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this level, the scale of individual molecules and atoms. Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented mater...

RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television

For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in shaping Irish social and cultural life. As the national publicly owned and funded broadcaster, RTE is the biggest cinema, school, sports stadium, market square, performance stage, town crier and concert hall i...

A Coast of Scenic Wonders

This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal landforms that have enthralled both residents an...

Ecology and Management of the North American Moose, Second Edition

Back in print as a University Press of Colorado edition, this abundantly illustrated volume with field sketch illustrations by William D. Berry fully explains moose biology and ecology and assesses the increasingly complex enterprise of managing moose. Twenty-one of the world's authorities on the...

Big Game in Alaska

With the Klondike gold rush, a struggle erupted in Alaska between the protection of big game animals and man’s economic ambitions, a riveting story chronicled by Morgan Sherwood in Big Game in Alaska. In concise and clear prose, Sherwood charts the history of this environmental and political c...

The Kandik Map

In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, François Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind the Kandik Map, examining the reasons why and ho...

A Field Guide to Snow

People love snow. They love to ski and sled on it, snowshoe through it, and watch it fall from the sky. They love the way it blankets a landscape, making it look tranquil and beautiful. Few people, however, know how snow works. What makes it possible for us to slip and slide over, whether that’s ...

Grasses of the Intermountain Region

Grasses of the Intermountain Region is a modification of the two grass volumes of the Flora of North America (FNA). It is designed for identifying members of the Poaceae in the region between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, and is intended for use by botanists working with the grasses in ...

Coloring the Universe

With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere, from advertising to television shows to memes....

Field Techniques for Sea-Ice Research

As much as one-tenth of the world’s oceans are covered with sea ice, or frozen ocean water, at some point during the annual cycle. Sea ice thus plays an important, often defining, role in the natural environment and the global climate system. This book is a global look at the changes in sea ice a...

The Science of Synthesis

Debora Hammond's The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five founding members - Ludwig von Bertalanffy, K...

Apun

There are some twenty-five words for “snow” in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snow—fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. Such fine distinction is reasonable, for over the centuries, Natives of the Arctic have had to rely on their knowle...

Energy Impacts

Energy Impacts brings together important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development.

Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

With Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams, Gary A. Laursen and Rodney Seppelt offer the first field guide to cryptogams of the Denali National Park and Preserve. Useful to both lay and professional investigators, this fully illustrated compendium covers mushroom fungi, lichenized fungi, lichenicolou...

Crosscurrents North

The essays and poems collected in Crosscurrents North offer thoughtful meditations on the Alaska environment and the relationship between humans and nature. By distinguished writers such as John Haines, Nick Jans, Marjorie Kowalski Cole, Sherry Simpson, and Bill Sherwonit, these sixty-one compel...

An American Provence

In this poetic personal narrative, Thomas P. Huber reflects on two seemingly unrelated places-the North Fork Valley in western Colorado and the Coulon River Valley in Provence, France-and finds a shared landscape and sense of place. What began as a simple comparison of two like places in distant...

Plant Identification Terminology

Plant identification employs an extensive and complex terminology. Professional botanists often need several years in the field to master this terminology, and it presents a daunting obstacle to the student of botany. The winner of the CHOICE Best Academic Books Award in its first edition, Plant ...

Manual of Grasses for North America

Grasses are the world’s most important plants. They are the dominant species over large parts of the earth’s land surface, a fact that is reflected in the many different words that exist for grasslands, words such as prairie, veldt, palouse, and pampas to mention just a few. As a group, grasses a...

The Little Seal

The northern fur seal spends most of its life in the open ocean of the North Pacific, from California up through Alaska and down to Japan. These seals travel hundreds of miles, farther than any other seal or sea lion, to reach their remote breeding grounds. Most fur seals go to the Pribilof Islan...

Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

300-word description: The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in North America. Permafrost gradie...

Ecological and General Systems

Using an energy systems language that combines energetics, kinetics, information, cybernetics, and simulation, Ecological and General Systems compares models of many fields of science, helping to derive general systems principles.

A Coast to Explore

Coasts have always enchanted us with their wild beauty. Coast to Explore offers an accessible guide to what we see when we look at a coastline: the wave-cut rock cliffs, sea caves, and sea stacks, as well as sand and gravel beaches and coastal dunes. Focusing specifically on North America’s Pacif...

Risk Communication and Miscommunication

Effective communication can help prevent or minimize damage from environmental disasters. In Risk Communication and Miscommunication, Carolyn Boiarsky teaches students, technical writers, public affairs officers, engineers, scientists, and governmental officials the writing and communication skil...

Techniques for Pollination Biologists

i>Techniques for Pollination Biologists</i> is the first book to incorporate all techniques published in the pollination literature as well as unpublished methods compiled from practicing pollination biologists.

Map of the Inuit Language in Inuit Communities in Canada

This full-color map of northern Canada outlines each region where an Inuit dialect or subdialect is spoken. From Labrador in the east to Banks Island and the northern Yukon, this map gives the names of major settlements in English and syllabics. An accompanying table details the language retentio...

Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition

Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key advances in behavioral neurology, Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition is a clinically based account of the neuroanatomy of human behavior centered on a consideration of behavioral dysfunction caused by disorders of the brain. A concise introduction...

The Changing Arctic Landscape

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of inexorable change; divided into sections on vegetat...

The Geology of Cornwall

The geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental conse...

The Geology of Devon

Devon shows perhaps one of the most varied displays of geology in the British Isles. The Geology of Devon covers the geological development of the county and adjacent areas from Devonian times to the present day. This is a reprint of the original edition of The Geology of Devon, first published i...

Topographical Writers In South-West England

A collection of original essays by distinguished historians on the works of topographical writers who described and recorded the landscape of South-West England in the period c. 1540-1900.

Cornwall's Future Mines

Containing numerous cross references to other texts and sources, this book aims to become a standard source of information on the mineral potentials in areas of Cornwall.

Transitive Media [Philosophy]

With the pervasive digitalization of communication and information devices in society, actual technologies are increasingly disappearing behind their user-oriented surfaces and manifest content. This book argues for a media engagement that instead stays close to the mechanism and becomes consciou...

Of Earth, For Earth

Of Earth, For Earth is a 116-page full-colour, hardcover book, consisting of dialogue between artists, community representatives, industrialists and educators.

A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Norway

A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway helps you find all the birds of Norway and Svalbard, and guides you in detail to more than 350 of the best birdwatching sites in this beautiful and wild but still highly developed and civilised country.

Microscopic life in Sphagnum

As well as the better-known plants, dragonflies and birds, sphagnum moss supports a unique community of microscopic animals and plants which inhabit its leaves and crevices.

Marine Biological Invasions

The latest advances in research into the detection, prevention, control and management of marine invasive species.

Paradoxes of Rationality, Probability, and Utility

This unique anthology reflects the author’s analyses and/or resolutions of some of the most perennially perplexing and widely discussed problems arising in rational choice theory, probability theory, and utility theory. It spans 25 years of his research and publications in these related fields. P...

Women in Contemporary Culture

Dealing with current events in France and Spain, this is the only comparative study of its kind, investigating how women construct their identities within the public sphere and highlighting the ways in which traditional or modern values impact on female identity in these countries. Which female f...

Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity

Light-Material Interactions and Applications in Optoelectronic Devices

This book will connect light-matter interactions and device performance. Useful for those studying or working with optoelectronic devices, optical materials, and nano-plasmonics, this book provides the fundamental knowledge of light-matter interactions in the optical wavelength range, which can e...

Triangular Orthogonal Functions for the Analysis of Continuous Time Systems

This book deals with a new set of triangular orthogonal functions, which evolved from the set of well-known block pulse functions (BPF), a major member of the piecewise constant orthogonal function (PCOF) family.

Post-Truth

‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid

Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day.

A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition

This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-1...

Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History

This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently...

Nanobiotechnology

‘Nanobiotechnology, basic and applied aspects’ is expected to be of tremendous value to the group of scientists, involved in both basic and applied biology and engineering. The proposed book is a comprehensive compendium of basics of nanoscience and its application in biophysical and biomedical p...