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  • Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia

    by Indraneil Das ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Naturalist
    Acomprehensive guide to the snakes, lizards, crocodiles, tortoises and turtles of the regionSouth-East Asia is home to one of the most diverse reptile faunas on Earth. Covering more than 1,000 species and subspecies in thorough detail, this field guide provides authoritative, up-to-date information on identification, habitat, behaviour, subspecies, distribution and status. The informative text ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • A Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo

    The most comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the tadpoles of Bornean frogs available. The book presents tadpole descriptions for 99 species from the southeast Asian island of Borneo, covering all species commonly found, as well as representatives of the more cryptic ones. Almost all presented species are depicted from life with color photographs, mostly for the first time. The aims of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Status of Decline and Conservation of Amphibians of the Middle East

    Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 8 Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere

    Series Book 8 - Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Amphibians by virtue of their thin, moist, permeable skins are poorly protected from harsh environments and are especially susceptible to chemical changes, desiccation, and alteration of their habitat. Accordingly, it is not surprising that they manifest exceptionally high rates of extinction and suffer more severe declines than do most other taxa in an environment undergoing unprecedented ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    "Alfred Russel Wallace- His Predecessors and Successors. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-east Asia and Australasia. An International Conference" will be the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of studies on Alfred Russel Wallace and other natural historians, past and present, as well as contemporary research on South-east Asian ... Read more

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    by Bill Branch ...
    Series series Pocket Guide
    Southern Africa is home to a diverse reptile fauna of more than 600 species. Of these, nearly 70% are endemic to the region, being found nowhere else. This compact guide features 276 of the more colourful and conspicuous species, as well as those unique to or endangered in the region. This up-to-date guide makes an ideal travelling companion on trips to the wildlife areas of southern Africa. It ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Flora Of Eastern Saudi Arabia

    by Mandaville ...
    First published in 1990. A practical manual for identifying the plants of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. This guide is useful for development and conservation of natural resources, includes botanical terminology and so will appeal to those with this knowledge, but also due to the colour plates, to the non-specialist who might be interested in desert wildflowers of the area. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Before the Pharaohs

    Exploring the Archaeology of Stone Age Egypt

    An examination of the Paleolithic and Neolithic communities that inhabited not only the Nile Valley and Delta, but also the Western and Eastern Deserts.The remarkable archaeology of pharaonic Egypt continues to captivate countless people worldwide but evidence for Egypt's prehistoric or Stone Age past has been relatively neglected. This is perhaps understandable, as the archaeology of Stone Age ... Read more

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  • Dogs

    Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History

    Two noted paleontologists present a detailed portrait of the family Canidae across 40 million years of evolution in this illustrated volume.After decades of research and analysis, paleontologists Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford established the modern framework for understanding the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their work with Mauricio Antón's reconstructions of both extinct ... Read more

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  • When the Sahara Was Green

    How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be

    The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Book of Beetles

    A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems

    Edited by Patrice Bouchard ...
    "Profiles 600 of the most stunning, most wonderfully adapted beetles around . . . The result is a work that is nothing short of magnificent." — WiredWhen renowned British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane was asked what could be inferred about God from a study of his works, Haldane replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles." With 350,000 known species, and scientific estimates that millions more have ... Read more

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  • The Desert Bones

    The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa

    Series series Life of the Past
    "Ijouiher chronicles the Cretaceous fossil record of North Africa, one of the most exciting frontiers in paleontology research today." ―Steve Brusatte, New York Times -bestselling authorOnce Africa was referred to as the "Lost World of the dinosaur era," so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the ... Read more

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  • Jellyfish

    A Natural History

    An introduction to these bizarre and beautiful creatures of the sea, filled with color photos and illustrations: "Fascinating."— Boing BoingJellyfish are the oldest multi-organed life form on the planet, having inhabited the ocean for more than five hundred million years. With their undulating umbrella-shaped bells and sprawling tentacles, they are compelling and gorgeous, strange and dangerous. ... Read more

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