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Paperback. Horses that have been taken from their natural environment and enclosed in paddocks and stables, dramatically changes both their life-style and feeding habits. This book explains the science of nutrition and combines this with the art of feeding to encourage an understanding of how to feed horses to keep them healthy. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: MZD; MZL; WNGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780632050161
ISBN
9780632050161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.32

Paperback. aeo detailed entries on the most common and most serious toxicants: covers pharmaceuticals as well as other chemicals, plants etc aeo information compiled from the Veterinary Poisons Information Service database aeo easily accessible listings aeo a quick reference to detecting poisons and treating the sick animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: MZM; WNGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780632050291
ISBN
9780632050291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.54

Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive text covering all aspects of guinea pig medicine. This updated edition will be of value to veterinary surgeons and students, veterinary nurses, breeders and all those working in the animal care industry. Series: Library Vet Practice. Num Pages: 152 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: MZC; MZM; WNGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780632052097
ISBN
9780632052097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.05

Hardcover. Livestock biodiversity is integral to our culture, history, environment, economy and, most importantly, our future. Thousands of livestock breeds, from relatively small genetic pools, have evolved over time to suit particular environments and farming systems. Num Pages: 280 pages, 49. BIC Classification: TVH; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780632054992
ISBN
9780632054992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.11

Paperback. Birds eat bugs; blood-sucking insects feed on birds; parasitic insects infest birds; and birds struggle to rid themselves of the parasites. In this text, Gilbert Waldbauer describes these and many other interactions between birds and insects. Num Pages: 304 pages, 38 colour illustrations, 66 line illustrations. BIC Classification: WNCB; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674002067
ISBN
9780674002067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.85

Hardcover. This title is a basic guide to the cosmic frontier - about black holes in the centres of galaxies, about the way some galaxies cannibalize each other, about the vast differences between galaxies and the remarkable new evidence regarding dark energy and the cosmic expansion. Num Pages: 384 pages, 32 colour illustrations, 61 halftones, 56 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PGK; PGM; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 258 x 30. Weight in Grams: 932.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010796
ISBN
9780674010796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. In over 400 full-colour photographs, this work brings us eye to eye with the smaller majority - the 99 percent of animal life that is smaller than a human finger. It takes us on a visual journey into the often overlooked world cloaked by a leaf, camouflaged on the surface of a rock, or even trapped underfoot. Num Pages: 288 pages, 450 color illustrations. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025622
ISBN
9780674025622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.56

Hardback. A short flight from the Florida coast, Hispaniola offers opportunities, not just to photographers, but to evolutionary biologists as well. This book captures the variety of living creatures that have erupted in evolutionary isolation here, and the urgency of scientists racing to give that variety a name before it vanishes. Editor(s): Fernandez, Eladio. Num Pages: 400 pages, 375 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJD; AJC; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 308 x 261 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674026285
ISBN
9780674026285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.45
€ 57.05

Hardback. The waters around Australia, the world's smallest continent, are home to the greatest diversity of sharks and rays on Earth. This book describes 300 of these species. It is suitable for conservation biologists, fish biologists, divers, naturalists, commercial and recreational fishermen. Num Pages: 640 pages, 500 halftones, 90 pages of color plates. BIC Classification: 1MBF; WNCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 226 x 48. Weight in Grams: 3134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034112
ISBN
9780674034112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.84
€ 115.85

Paperback. Discusses the biology and plight of right whales, including their reproduction, feeding, genetics, and endocrinology, as well as fatal run-ins with ships and fishing gear. Employing individual identifications, acoustics, and population models, this title presents history of this animal. Editor(s): Kraus, Scott D.; Rolland, Rosalind M. Num Pages: 576 pages, 34 color illustrations, 116 halftones, 48 line illustrations, 21 tables. BIC Classification: RNK; WNCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034754
ISBN
9780674034754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.74

Hardback. At a time when night-singing insects have slipped beyond our notice--indeed, are more likely to be heard as NatureSounds than in a backyard--John Himmelman reconnects people to the crickets and katydids whose songs form a part of our own natural history. Online insect calls accompany this colorfully illustrated narrative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 53 color illustrations, 24 halftones, 18 line illustrations. BIC Classification: WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046900
ISBN
9780674046900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.75

Paperback. Offers an account of the author's research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis - coping with the delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the forest of northern Congo. Num Pages: 336 pages, 49 color illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; WNCK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674048423
ISBN
9780674048423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.81

Hardback. Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But it can also conceal animals from detection. It is an adaptation to the visual features of the environment but also to the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of other organisms. Judy Diamond and Alan Bond reveal factors at work in the evolution of concealing coloration. Num Pages: 274 pages, 52 color illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAJ; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052352
ISBN
9780674052352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Wovens the story of one of the successful species in North America: the coyote. This book traces a female coyote's movements along a winding path between landscapes in which her species learned to survive and flourish. It asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a suburban wildlife ethic. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060180
ISBN
9780674060180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. Helps to discover how the turtle's proverbial slowness helps it survive a long, cold winter under ice. In this title, the author offers insight into what exactly it's like to live inside a shell - to carry the heavy carapace on land and in water, to breathe without an expandable ribcage, to have sex with all that body armor intervening. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11 halftones, 12 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PSPM; WNCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072305
ISBN
9780674072305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.64

Hardcover. Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGBP; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674281417
ISBN
9780674281417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.60

Paperback. Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them? Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: PSVW79; RNCB; RNKH1; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Belknap Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674416840
ISBN
9780674416840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. A jouney into the Vermont hills, where in the 19th century humans tried their hand, and where bear and moose now find shelter. Robert Frost's poem "Directive" accompanies the text, and sees the reader through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 fine line illustrations, 2 maps, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBBEV; DN; WND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674748897
ISBN
9780674748897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.60

Hardback. Could Einstein have possibly anticipated directly testing the most captivating prediction of general relativity, that there exist isolated pockets of spacetime shielded completely from our own? This book presents evidence that just such an entity, with a mass of about three million suns, is indeed lurking at the center of our galaxy. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 color illus. 2 halftones. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGM; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691095059
ISBN
9780691095059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. A photographic guide to North American diurnal birds of prey. Written by well-known experts, it provides a guide to the variations in the species, allowing for recognition of key identification points. It contains 365 photographs, each with an explanatory caption and supporting text describing 43 species of diurnal raptors found in North America. Num Pages: 198 pages, Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
4.12.2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116440
ISBN
9780691116440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Reveals the interconnectedness of the solar system - and what it means for life on Earth. Relating a history of the solar system, this work describes how astronomers determined our location in the Milky Way. It provides accounts of the energetic interactions among planetary bodies, the generation of the Earth's magnetic field, and more. Num Pages: 384 pages, 69 halftones. 31 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: PGS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117430
ISBN
9780691117430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.36

Paperback. Offers a different approach that looks at the birds from various angles, compares and contrasts similar species, and provides the pictures (and words) needed for identification in the field. This book pinpoints identification traits for each species from the various angles that they are seen. Num Pages: 144 pages, 339 color photos. 32 b/w photos. 2 maps. BIC Classification: PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 9. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118253
ISBN
9780691118253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.10

Paperback. In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. This is the story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth. Editor(s): Hovde, Carl F.; Howarth, William L.; Witherell, Elizabeth Hall. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 440 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Revised edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118789
ISBN
9780691118789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.79

Paperback. Enables you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. This book provides information on the distribution, biology, and taxonomy of caterpillars beyond. It covers caterpillar structure, life cycles, rearing, natural enemies, photography, and conservation. Series: Princeton Field Guides. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1,200+ color photos. 24 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; PSVT7; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121444
ISBN
9780691121444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.52

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