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click for a larger image with details Green Inheritance
The WWF Book of Plants Natural History
Anthony Huxley
California University Press 2006 192 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 0520243595
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This revised and updated edition of Anthony Huxley's global overview of the plant kingdom addresses the problem of how human activity is destroying this fundamental resource. With photographs and fine illustrations of many specimens, Huxley portrays the beauty, diversity and history of wild and cultivated plants while exploring topics such as the few remaining locations of unexplored resources. The new edition includes extensive coverage of issues such as invasive plants, herbal medicine, GM crops and sustainable timber harvesting.
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click for a larger image with details The Eye
A Natural History Natural History
Simon Ings
Bloomsbury 2007 323 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0747578052
Published Price £17.99 Sale Price £3.99
Simon Ings explores the mysteries of the eye, vision and optics - and scientists' intriguing attempts down the ages to explain them. Among the eye-opening questions he discusses: why it is that wasps will not sting you if you stay still; whether images of murderers really can be recovered from their victims' retinas; what use tests for colour blindness might or might not be; how Leonardo da Vinci misunderstood how the optic nerve worked; and whether 'X-ray goggles' can be created.
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click for a larger image with details Seeds of Wealth
Four Plants that Made Men Rich Natural History
Henry Hobhouse
Shoemaker & Hoard 2004 256 pages
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Hardback 1593760442
Published Price $25.00 Sale Price £3.99
Henry Hobhouse, author of Seeds of Change (1985), here focuses on the economic and cultural consequences of timber, grape vine, rubber and tobacco growing. Tracing the repercussions of the Elizabethan timber shortage, the story of viniculture from the ancient Mediterranean to present day New Zealand, the fortunes of the rubber industry from erasers in 1770 to radial tyres, and the impact of tobacco on Anglo-American relations, he reveals how these plants not only made men rich, but shaped history. Slightly off-mint.
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click for a larger image with details A Gleaming Landscape
A Hundred Years of the Guardian's Country Diary Natural History
Martin Wainwright (Edited by)
Aurum 2006 230 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1845131827
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The Country Diary column first appeared in the Guardian on 21 March 1904 with a short celebration of grebes, 'gay in their nuptial plumes' on a Cheshire lake, and it has remained a popular feature ever since. Readers have appreciated the gentle humour and quirky observations of contributors such as AW Boyd, William Condry, Richard Mabey, and A Harry Griffin, who sent in his Lake District columns for over 50 years. This wonderful annotated selection is an engrossing chronicle of Britain's ever-changing countryside.
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no image available The Wrong Kind of Snow
The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather Natural History
Antony Woodward; Robert Penn
Hodder & Stoughton 2007 400 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0340937874
Published Price £14.99 Sale Price £3.99
Two writers passionately interested in the vagaries of the British weather present a day-by-day account of the year, packed with meteorological detail, amusing anecdote, and insight into how the weather continually shapes human destiny. From the sinking of the Mary Rose to the most famous wind-assisted goal in football history, this is the story of a nation forever surprised by leaves on the line and the wrong kind of snow, but still convinced of the virtues of 'fresh air'. Off-mint.
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click for a larger image with details Seed to Seed
The Secret Life of Plants Natural History
Nicholas Harberd
Bloomsbury 2006 312 pages
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Hardback 1582344132
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Written by one of the world's leading plant biologists, this study of how and why plants grow focuses on one particular plant - the weed thale-cress. Over the seasons, Harberd describes the progression through the many stages of its life-cycle, and combines field-notes and sketches with scientific knowledge and philosophical musings on the essence of life. Writing for non-specialists, and with a passion for his subject, he offers a remarkably evocative explanation of the secret workings of the plant world.
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click for a larger image with details The Creation
An Appeal to Save Life on Earth Natural History
EO Wilson
WW Norton 2006 175 pages
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Hardback 0393062171
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The Creation is a humanist biologist's letter to a Southern Baptist pastor, in which he prophesies that at least half of Earth's species could be extinct by the end of the century. He decries our self-absorption and short-term thinking and suggests that an alliance between the two powerful social and political forces of religion and science could help counter the threat to biodiversity and preserve humanity's physical and spiritual life. American-cut pages.
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click for a larger image with details A Countryman's Year
Natural History
Alan C Jenkins
Selectabook 1980 208 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1844060101
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Alan Jenkins presents an engrossing 'personal pastiche' of things encountered, seen or heard in the English countryside over the course of a year. From cattle cavorting around the trailer bringing bales of summer-scented hay in January, to birds feasting on a dead sheep in December, Jenkins keeps a naturalist's eye on flora and fauna and describes the farmer's changing work through the seasons and country activities such as hedging, hunting and falconry. Illustrated with archive and modern photographs and paintings by Peter Barrett.
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click for a larger image with details Thieves, Deceivers and Killers
Tales of Chemistry in Nature Natural History
William Agosta
Princeton University Press 2001 241 pages
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Hardback 0691004889
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Many plant and animal activities depend on communication by means of the secretion or exchange of chemicals; this series of stories demonstrates how organisms can use the signals of other species for their own benefit - such as the human hunters who used wolf urine to control the movements of deer. In addition to this natural science, Agosta identifies the potential applications of chemical ecology in the development of new drugs and new uses for old ones. Off-mint.
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click for a larger image with details Rumphius' Orchids
Orchid Texts from The Ambonese Herbal Natural History
Georgius Everhardus Rumphius
Yale University Press 2003 172 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0300098146
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The seven-volume Amboinsche Kruidboek of Rumphius (1627-1702) was the first such work in a Western language to contain descriptions of tropical orchids: it provided detailed information on 36 species (and a further twelve which are uncertified) from the island of Ambon in Indonesia. This book extracts these sections, translated, edited and annotated by EM Beekman as the first volume in a complete edition of the whole text. The book includes an introduction to Rumphius' life and reproductions of 16 plates from the first edition.
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click for a larger image with details A Sheltered Life
The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise Natural History
Paul Chambers
John Murray 2004 306 pages
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Paperback 0719565294
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A study of the giant tortoises indigenous to islands such as the Galapagos, Mauritius and the Seychelles detailing how the sole survivors of a race that was largely extinguished two million years ago were carried to safety, and how they inspired Darwin's theory of natural selection.
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click for a larger image with details The First-time Naturalist
Natural History
Nick Baker
Collins 2005 288 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 0007157355
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In this practical guide to observing, understanding and studying the natural world, Nick Baker draws on his experience as a BBC wildlife expert. He uses a 'hands-on' approach to introduce young and novice naturalists to the natural history of common mammals, birds, insects, amphibians and fish, and he demonstrates the skills and investigative techniques needed for working in the field and setting up 0projects such as an aquarium, a bee box or a wood-louse arena.
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click for a larger image with details Earth from Space
Natural History
Andrew K Johnston
Firefly 2004 272 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1552978206 285x240mm
Published Price £34.95 Sale Price £9.99
Including 300 satellite images, Earth from Space gives a stunning view of the planet from above, showing natural features (the East African Rift Valley, polar ice, Ayres Rock and the Amazon), the effects of human forces (the Pyramids, airports and patterns of agricultural and city planning) and newsworthy events (air strikes on Baghdad, oil spills and reconstruction work on the damaged Pentagon). Maps help to place the photographs in context and a chapter on the tools of the trade explains how the images are produced.
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click for a larger image with details Thorn, Fire and Lily
Gardening with God in Lent and Easter Natural History
Jane Mossendew
Burns & Oates 2004 186 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 0826470645
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A study of the connection between gardening and modern spiritual life showing that the Church's year is based on nature's cycles, covering the period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday with practical proof of the link between prayer and gardening.
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click for a larger image with details The English Pig
A History Natural History
Robert Malcolmson; Stephanos Mastoris
Hambledon 2001 160 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 1852853352
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Central to this entertaining study - and in striking contrast to today's pigs - is the 'cottage pig'. Bought as a piglet and cheaply fed, the family pig could be fattened up, slaughtered at first frost and provide meat through the winter. Looking back to this close, even affectionate, domestic relationship, the authors discuss the changing image of the pig and present a social history of pig-keeping during the period from around 1700 up to the early 20th century, showing how and why pigs mattered in the past and how they fitted into human society.
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