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Bats of Southern and Central Africa

A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis, second edition

by Dr. Ara Monadjem, Dr. Peter John Taylor, Dr. Fenton (Woody) Cotterill, Dr. M. Corrie Schoeman ...

This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the 116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional eight newly described species.The chapters on evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation have been updated, citing dozens of recently published papers. The book covers the latest systematic and taxonomic ... Read more

$87.99 CAD

This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the 116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional eight newly described species.The chapters on evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation have been updated, citing dozens of recently published papers. The book covers the latest systematic and taxonomic
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Klarissa Dreams Redux: An Illuminated Anthology

by Shebat Legion, Dianne Tchir, Alan Torok, Marko Katic, James McCuaig, Joel Eisenberg, Nettie Eisenberg, Jocelyn Williams, Michael H Hanson, Daniel Arthur Smith, Rivka Jacobs, Andrew Robertson, Randy Michaud, Michael S. Walker, Carmilla Voiez, Deanne Charlton, Lorinda Taylor, ZZ Claybourne, P.K. Tyler, Phoebe Tsang, Rebecca Poole, Scott Carruba, Ken Tizzard, Milton Davies, Marilynn Carter, Peter Bergerson, Dr. Kent David Tisher, Jef Rouner, Erika M Szabo, Brent Meske, Beverly Alexander Vye, Skye Knizley, Debbie Starrett, Ann Stolinsky, Nellie Smith, Brian Finley, Nely Cab, Joe DeRouen, Jessica West, Beth Patterson, Robert Allen Lupton, Paul DeThroe, Julie Dundas, Gregg Chamberlain, D. S. Foster, Mike Casto, Latika Karani, Faith Marlow, Baer Charlton, Elizabeth S. Wolf, Duncan Swallow, Charles Barouch, Joe Bonadonna, Justin Sandler, Rue Volley, Andrew K. Tempest, Margaret R. Blake, Teresa Carawan, Anita Reeder Hardister, Theresa Nyenhuis, Lissette E. Manning, Janice Bell, John H. Howard, Mary McGillis, Gwyndyn Alexander, Samuel Peralta ...

Klarissa Dreams Redux is an anthology of stories and poetry by a myriad of authors, set against the paintings of Klarissa Kocsis and produced by her daughter, author, Shebat Legion.Klarissa Kocsis has contributed to the Toronto, Ontario, Canada art scene for over twenty years, regularly exhibiting within the city where she has won numerous juried competitions. She is a painter who specializes in ... Read more

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Klarissa Dreams Redux is an anthology of stories and poetry by a myriad of authors, set against the paintings of Klarissa Kocsis and produced by her daughter, author, Shebat Legion.Klarissa Kocsis has contributed to the Toronto, Ontario, Canada art scene for over twenty years, regularly exhibiting within the city where she has won numerous juried competitions. She is a painter who specializes in
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The Loveliest Animal Tales for Children

The Cricket on the Hearth, The Tailor of Gloucester, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Black Beauty…

by Beatrix Potter, L. Frank Baum, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell, Margery Williams, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hugh Lofting, Amy Ella Blanchard, Samuel McChord Crothers, John Punnett Peters, Eugene Field, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Archibald Beresford Sullivan, Walter Crane ...

'The Loveliest Animal Tales for Children' presents an enchanting array of narratives that celebrate the vibrancy and moral depth of anthropomorphic storytelling. This collection captures a spectrum of literary styles, from the whimsical to the didactic, embedding rich moral lessons within captivating fables and fairy tales. It serves as a panorama of late 19th and early 20th-century children's ... Read more

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'The Loveliest Animal Tales for Children' presents an enchanting array of narratives that celebrate the vibrancy and moral depth of anthropomorphic storytelling. This collection captures a spectrum of literary styles, from the whimsical to the didactic, embedding rich moral lessons within captivating fables and fairy tales. It serves as a panorama of late 19th and early 20th-century children's
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Earthcare

An Anthology in Environmental Ethics

by Spencer Abraham, Ray Anderson, Nik Ansell, William Baxter, Joachim Blatter, Murray Bookchin, Maya Brennan, Majora Carter, Carl Cohen, Deane Curtin, Herman Daly, David DeGrazia, Calvin DeWitt, David Ehrenfeld, Anne Ehrlich, Robert Elliot, Nuria Fernandez, Ramachandra Guha, Garrett Hardin, John Hasse, Po-Keung Ip, Ralf Isenmann, Kauser Jahan, Andrew Kernohan, Marti Kheel, Kenneth Kraft, Aldo Leopold, Miriam MacGillis, Juan Martinez-Alier, Ed McGaa, Katie McShane, Roberto Mechoso, Arne Naess, Michael Nelson, Bryan Norton, Philip Nyhus, John O'Neil, Stephen Pacala, Ernest Partridge, Erv Peterson, Lily-Marlene Russow, Kristin Schrader-Frechette, Erroll Schweizer, George Sessions, Stephen Socolow, Paul Steidlmeier, Richard Sylvan, Bron Taylor, Paul Taylor, Karen Warren, Peter Warshall, Peter Wenz, Lynn White, Bill Devall, Peter Singer, Philip J. Bentley, Marianne B. Karsh, Holmes Rolston III, Brian J. Walsh, St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, St. Francis of Assisi, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Paul, Stuart Ewen, Stephen Gardiner, Eugene Hargrove, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Tom Regan, Mark Sagoff, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Roger Thompson ...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific ... Read more

$126.39 CAD

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific
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Climate, Ticks and Disease

by Saeed Alasmari, Neil Alexander, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Reiko Arai, Armanda Bastos, Gervasio Henrique Bechara, John Beier, Giovanni Benelli, Joshua Benoit, Dennis Bente, Richard Bishop, Adrien Blisnick, René Bødker, Fernando Boinas, Sarah Bonnet, Nathalie Boulanger, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano, Cyril Caminade, Jirí Cerny´, Roxanne Albertha Charles, Ali Reza Chavshin, Rosalind Cornforth, Neil Coughlan, Peter Cox, Lauren Culler, Milan Daniel, Vlasta Danielova, Mona Dehhaghi, Maria Diuk-Wasser, James P Duffy, Olivier Duron, Lars Eisen, Rebecca Eisen, Jana Elsterová, Koray Ergünay, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Li-Qun Fang, Natalia Fernández-Ruiz, Erol Fikrig, Serhii Filatov, Durland Fish, Janet Foley, José de la Fuente, Roman Ganta, Aysen Gargili Keles, Robin Beat Gasser, Abdul Ghafar, Naftaly Githaka, Lucy Gilbert, Maryna Golovchenko, Yuval Gottlieb, Ernest Gould, Jeremy Gray, Libor Grubhoffer, Gilles J. Guillemin, Kayleigh M. Hansford, Charles Hart, John E. Healy, Deborah Hemming, Stephen Higgs, Andrew Hoodless, Yan-Jang S. Huang, Bernard Hudson, Chris Huntingford, Peter Irwin, Abdul Jabbar, Nicholas Johnson, Esther Kanduma, Sirri Kar, Maria Kazimirova, Neil Kaye, Thomas C. Kelly, Lene Jung Kjaer, Agatha Onyemowo Kolo, Eduard Korenberg, Nina Król, Chi-Chien Kuo, Timothy J. Kurtti, Xavier de Lamballerie, Patrick A. Leighton, Hao Li, L. Robbin Lindsay, Wei Liu, Geoffrey E. Lynn, Ilya Maclean, Ben J. Mans, Maristela Martins de Camargo, Karen D. McCoy, Jolyon M. Medlock, Ulrike G. Munderloh, Atle Mysterud, Sukanya Narasimhan, Anna Obiegala, Dasiel Obregón Alvarez, Mari H. Ogihara, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Charlotte Oskam, Domenico Otranto, Kennan J. Oyen, Neha Pandey, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, A. Townsend Peterson, John H. O. Pettersson, Martin Pfeffer, L. Paul Phipps, Heather J. Plumpton, Tatjana Pustahija, Ram Raghavan, Ryan O.M Rego, Annapaola Rizzoli, Isobel Ronai, Franz Rubel, Natalie Rudenko, Benjamin Ruiwen, Rufus Sage, Abdallah M. Samy, Gustavo Seron Sanches, Isabel Kinney Ferreira Santos, Marcello Otake Sato, Megumi Sato, Richard Schloeffel, Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh, Ladislav Šimo, Sunit Kumar Singh, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Morgan Sparey, Frederic Stachurski, Snorre Stuen, Matias Pablo Juan Szabó, DeMar Taylor, Mike Teglas, Sam R. Telford III, Saravanan Thangamani, Georgia Titcomb, Attila J. Trájer, Michael Turell, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Laurence Vial, Margarita Villar, Richard Wall, André B. B. Wilke, G. R. William Wint, Jianhong Wu, Zbigniew Zajac, Xue Zhang, Dr Nicholas H. Ogden ...

Series Book 18 - CABI Climate Change Series
This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It ... Read more

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This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It
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Mosquitoes and Their Control

by Christine Dahl, Clive Boase, Dusan Petric, Marija Zgomba, Achim Kaiser, Minoo Madon, Norbert Becker ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Mosquitoes and Their Control presents a wealth of information on the bionomics, systematics, ecology, research techniques and control of both nuisance and disease vector mosquitoes in an easily readable style, providing practical guidelines and important information for professionals and laymen alike.Ninety-two European species and more than 100 globally important vector and nuisance species are ... Read more

$408.59 CAD

Mosquitoes and Their Control presents a wealth of information on the bionomics, systematics, ecology, research techniques and control of both nuisance and disease vector mosquitoes in an easily readable style, providing practical guidelines and important information for professionals and laymen alike.Ninety-two European species and more than 100 globally important vector and nuisance species are
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals

Edited by William F. Perrin, Bernd Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen ...

This thorough revision of the classic Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals brings this authoritative book right up-to-date. Articles describe every species in detail, based on the very latest taxonomy, and a host of biological, ecological and sociological aspects relating to marine mammals. The latest information on the biology, ecology, anatomy, behavior and interactions with man is provided by a cast ... Read more

$141.59 CAD

This thorough revision of the classic Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals brings this authoritative book right up-to-date. Articles describe every species in detail, based on the very latest taxonomy, and a host of biological, ecological and sociological aspects relating to marine mammals. The latest information on the biology, ecology, anatomy, behavior and interactions with man is provided by a cast
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The Complete Dinosaur

by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow ...

Series series Life of the Past
A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can ... Read more

$23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can
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Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America

by Per Alström, Krister Mild ...

Series series Helm Identification Guides
Pipits and Wagtails is the first comprehensive guide to all the species and subspecies that occur in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America.The detailed species accounts cover all aspects of identification (size, structure, plumage, bare parts, geographical variation, behaviour, distribution, and habitat.) In particular, great care has been taken to illustrate and describe accurately the ... Read more

$107.69 CAD

Pipits and Wagtails is the first comprehensive guide to all the species and subspecies that occur in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America.The detailed species accounts cover all aspects of identification (size, structure, plumage, bare parts, geographical variation, behaviour, distribution, and habitat.) In particular, great care has been taken to illustrate and describe accurately the
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Forerunners of Mammals

Radiation' Histology, Biology

Edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan ...

Series series Life of the Past
An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids.About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave ... Read more

$17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids.About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth's ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave
... Read more
Birds of Prey of Australia

A Field Guide

by Stephen Debus ...

This book is an illustrated field guide to diurnal raptors, a bird group that many people find among the most difficult birds to identify. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and important ecologically as well as in legislation, with some species listed as threatened. Birds of Prey of Australia will enable people to more easily identify them. It also provides a brief overview of the biology of ... Read more

$46.19 CAD

This book is an illustrated field guide to diurnal raptors, a bird group that many people find among the most difficult birds to identify. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and important ecologically as well as in legislation, with some species listed as threatened. Birds of Prey of Australia will enable people to more easily identify them. It also provides a brief overview of the biology of
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Pterosaurs

Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy

by Mark P. Witton ...

The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds—they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest flying animals of all time, with ... Read more

$46.19 CAD

The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds—they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest flying animals of all time, with
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