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Nature's Chaos
Grand Central Publishing 2001; US$ 9.99With 102 spectacular full-color photos, this fascinating "field guide" explores the world's natural disorder. more...
Whittemore's Science and Practice of Pig Production
Wiley 2008; US$ 279.95The science and practice of pig production has changed rapidly over recent decades; new husbandry practices, new understandings of growth, reproduction and health, new appreciations of welfare and environmental impact, new nutritional approaches, and modern reproductive and genetic techniques have all come into being, together with the emergence of... more...
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 15.00Now in paperback: the runaway British bestseller that has cloudspotters everywhere looking up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Veteran journalist and lifelong sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals... more...
Crocodiles
CABI 2003; US$ 190.00A comprehensive reference on the biology, management and health of crocodiles, alligators and gharials applicable to both farmed and captive animals. more...
GIS and Spatial Analysis in Veterinary Science
CABI 2004; US$ 125.00This book is probably the first to review the subject of geographical information systems (including remote sensing) and spatial analysis as applied to veterinary science. Topics covered include the application of GIS to epidemic disease response, to companion animal epidemiology and to the management of wildlife diseases. There are also chapters on... more...
Genetics, Evolution and Biological Control
CABI 2003; US$ 120.00This volume has been developed from the keynote addresses delivered at the third IOBC International Symposium (co-organized with CILBA) that was held in Montpellier in October 2002, to address developments in genetics and evolutionary biology, and their relevance to biological control. more...
Wild Ideas
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 72.00Blending well-known and new voices, the volume surveys classical and romantic concepts of wilderness, from the scary to the sublime, and shows why neither serves us anymore. Instead, the authors argue for a ?wild culture,? in which nature is not opposed to humanity, a mere matter of resources and consumers. more...
Disappearing Destinations
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet. Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destination long known for the stunning beauty of its... more...
Meaning of Wilderness
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 25.00Despite the enduring popularity of The Singing Wilderness, Listening Point, Reflections from the North Country, and his other books, a major portion of Sigurd F. Olson?s wilderness writing?much of it originating as speeches?has been relatively inaccessible, scattered in a number of magazines and obscure books over a period of more than fifty years,... more...
Winter Sign
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 51.00The locus of Jim dale Huot-Vickery?s life is a remote cabin in the northern wilderness of Minnesota?s Boundary Waters region. More often than not, it is winter here, a fierce, beautiful season that dominates all living things with its relentless cold grip. This is the inspiration for Winter Sign, the profound story of fifteen years of surviving the... more...









