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Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? 'Brilliant...
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? 'Brilliant...
Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the Lives of the Giants
Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species...
The Social Lives of Birds: a must-read for bird and nature lovers
'A tour-de-force survey of how birds live their lives - with all the drama, surprise, humour, sadness and amazement of any human soap-opera' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds...
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of our Oceans
This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth...
Incredible Journeys: Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019
'A compelling investigation of navigation in the animal kingdom.' Mail on Sunday 'David Barrie, who himself has sailed the oceans using a sextant, is passionate about navigation and describes in...
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
'A vaulting triumph of a book' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding Bird migration remains perhaps the most singularly compelling natural phenomenon in the world. Nothing else combines its global sweep...
Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand
Although not closely related, quail, buttonquail and the Plains-wanderer have much in common. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand examines 14 species of these small, secretive ground-dwelling...
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). It...
Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials
Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence. From tiny insect eaters to theformidable Tasmanian Devil, Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials offers rare insight into the history andhabits...
Hawkmoths of Australia: Identification, Biology and Distribution
Hawkmoths are large charismatic insects with highly variable and colourful larvae. Some species are specialised in their habitat preferences, but others are widespread and often encountered in gardens. However, little...
Vanished and Vanishing Parrots: Profiling Extinct and Endangered
Joseph M. Forshaw, one of the world's leading authorities on parrots, calls attention to the threats they face: they are one of the most endangered groups of birds, with a...
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
'A vaulting triumph of a book' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding Bird migration remains perhaps the most singularly compelling natural phenomenon in the world. Nothing else combines its global sweep...
The Ornithologists' Library: The Books that Unlocked Our Knowledge of
The Ornithologists' Library is a beautifully illustrated exploration of the most influential books in the study of birds. From the pioneering works of John James Audubon and Gilbert White to...
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought:...
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication
'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake'A must-read' New Scientist 'Enthralling' George Monbiot'Brilliant' Philip Hoare As a biologist and nature filmmaker, Tom Mustill had always liked whales. But when one landed on...
Field Guide to Mammals of Madagascar
A comprehensive photographic field guide to Madagascar's stunning mammal fauna Thanks to millions of years of isolation, the island of Madagascar is home to one of the most remarkable assemblages...
What Cats Want: An Illustrated Guide for Truly Understanding Your Cat
______________ 'A very appealing, beyond-the-basic reference.' - Booklist 'Cute illustrations and fascinating facts' - Guardian 'A perfect gift for any cat lover' Reader Review | 5 STARS ______________ Cats are...
Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises of North America
Practical and portable, this is the ultimate field guide for any whale-watcher in North America This outstanding field guide provides the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the whales,...
Humanish: What talking to your cat or naming your car reveals about
Ever glanced at your cat and wondered if they were plotting something? Or passed a car and thought it seemed 'friendly', 'surprised' or 'angry' depending on the shape of its...
Planet Insect: How Insects Conquered The Earth
Insects are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived: they comprise a million species and perhaps 10 quintillion individuals. Much of life on earth depends on the...
The Bugs & Insects
The book titled The Bugs & Insects by the author Ken Preston-Mafham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from tropical jungles to arctic-like tundra, from trees twenty feet in diameter to vast...
The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication
Humans didn't tame animals, animals chose to become tame. Increasingly confrontational, the slogans of animal rights movements state that eating meat is murder, pets are slaves, laboratory animals are prisoners....
Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from Beyond the Water's Edge
Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed...
Flies: The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera
Meticulously researched and illustrated with more than 2000 colour photographs taken by the author, Flies is a landmark reference book that will be indispensable to any naturalist, biologist or entomologist....
Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates
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An exploration of male-female mating behavior in the animal kingdom argues that by understanding how female animals choose their mates humans can gain insight into their own behavior and change...
The Sexual Life of Flowers
'A fascinating treasure trove for plant lovers and gardeners alike.' - Frances Tophill Often beautiful and sometimes strange, flowering plants have evolved to become masters of seduction. We are surrounded...
A Pocket Guide to Hawaii's Birds
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This guide is a colorful introduction to the beautiful birds that inhabit America's only tropical state. Not intended as a complete field guide, it will nevertheless identify all birds likely...
RSPB Birds of the British Isles
A pocket-friendly photographic field guide to 290 birds of the British Isles. RSPB Birds of the British Isles features all regularly occurring birds in Britain, Ireland and the Isle of...
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024 GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024 ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024 From one of the world's great...
Birds and Mammals of the Antarctic, Subantarctic and Falkland Islands
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Meant primarily for the novice bird and marine mammal watcher, this book includes illustrations of all birds and mammals likely to be encountered on a southern sea voyage. Brief written...
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating
'Marvellous fun' THE TIMES 'Glorious ' LUCY COOKE 'Colourful' GUARDIAN At a time when people are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender, The Sexual...
Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places
From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear inimical to...
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters?...
Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places
From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear inimical to...
The Cinemas Project
Author: Bridget CroneFormat: Softback What happens when cinema escapes the multiplex and becomes something far more radical, intimate, and alive? The Cinemas Project, curated by Bridget Crone and commissioned...
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
In Buzz , the award-winning author of Feathers and The Triumph of Seeds takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to...
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet . Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life....
Our Inner Ape: The Best and Worst of Human Nature
We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to co-operation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLLER In this groundbreaking and entertaining book, primatologist Frans de Waal draws on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos and...
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other
To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals...
Here am I--Where are You?: The Behavior of the Greylag Goose
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Konrad Lorenz, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973, was an important 20th-century pioneer of ethology, the investigation of animal behavior in the wild. Here Am I--Where Are...
The Social Lives of Birds: a must-read for bird and nature lovers
'A tour-de-force survey of how birds live their lives - with all the drama, surprise, humour, sadness and amazement of any human soap-opera' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds...
Venomous Snakes of the World
Mark O'Shea has combined expertly written, in-depth descriptions of the world's most common and most exotic venomous snakes with a gripping account of his adventures with snakes, including several serious...
