Natural History Books

New and Published Books

1. Biogeography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks

   By Edward J. Petuch

   Shallow water marine molluscan faunas are distributed in a pattern of distinct, geographically definable areas. This makes mollusks ideal for studying the distribution of organisms in the marine environment and the processes and patterns that control their evolution. Biogeography and Biodiversity...

   Published April 1st 2013 by CRC Press
2. Game-Theoretical Models in Biology

   By Mark Broom, Jan Rychtar

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology

   Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological situations. It discusses the static aspects of game theory in a mathematically rigorous way that is appealing to mathematicians. In...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
3. Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design

   By Ilaria Mazzoleni

   Series: Biomimetics Series

   Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural EnvelopesBiology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instill a shift in thinking about the...

   Published March 20th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Chimpanzees

   With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Function and Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles

   By Rui Diogo, Josep M. Potau, Juan F. Pastor

   Chimpanzees, including common chimpanzees and bonobos, are our closest living relatives. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the genus Pan, adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of Gorilla and Hylobates previously published by the same...

   Published February 18th 2013 by CRC Press
5. Bankrupting Nature

   Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

   By Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström

   This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Landscape Evolution, Neotectonics and Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Cameroon

   Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 31, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

   Edited by Jürgen Runge

   Series: Palaeoecology of Africa

   Founded in 1966, the internationally recognized and acclaimed Series ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent. Beginning with topics such as changes in climate and vegetation cover, the papers...

   Published May 29th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Gibbons and Siamangs (Hylobates)

   With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles

   By Rui Diogo, Josep M. Potau, Juan F. Pastor, Felix J. dePaz, Eva M. Ferrero, Gaelle Bello, Mercedes Barbosa, M. Ashraf Aziz, Anne M. Burrows, Julia Arias-Martorell, Bernard A. Wood

   This book is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Hylobates, and adopts the same format as the photographic atlas of Gorilla published by the same authors in 2010. These two books are part of a series of monographs that will set out the comparative and phylogenetic...

   Published April 12th 2012 by Science Publishers
8. Groupers of the World

   A Field and Market Guide

   By Matthew T. Craig, Yvonne J. Sadovy de Mitcheson, Phillip C. Heemstra

   Detailed but easy-to-use, this volume is a guide to the more than 160 recognized species of these mostly large, colorful tropical reef fishes, also known as rockcod. With outstanding color photographs, the book presents up-to-date biological, ecological, and population information for each species....

   Published February 7th 2012 by CRC Press
9. Comparative Anatomy and Phylogeny of Primate Muscles and Human Evolution

   By Rui Diogo, Bernard A. Wood

   This book challenges the assumption that morphological data are inherently unsuitable for phylogeny reconstruction, argues that both molecular and morphological phylogenies should play a major role in systematics, and provides the most comprehensive review of the comparative anatomy, homologies and...

   Published January 10th 2012 by Science Publishers
10. Systematics and Evolution of Fungi

    Edited by J. K. Misra, J. P. Tewari, S. K. Deshmukh

    Examining the progress and shifts that have taken place towards understanding fungi, this volume examines most of the major groups, including Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota. Topics include advances in morphological and molecular taxonomy of the highly toxigenic Fusarium...

    Published January 9th 2012 by Science Publishers