Conservation of the environment

How to Snog a Hagfish!

An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

A comprehensive treatment of the birds of the genus Saxicola.

The various Red Data Books prepared by the IUCN and ICBP have set the standards for recognizing birds close to or at risk of extinction worldwide.

The various Red Data Books prepared by the IUCN and ICBP have set the standards for recognizing birds close to or at risk of extinction worldwide.

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry.

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry.

This is the first book created primarily for the field identification of parrots, one of the most familiar and colorful groups of birds.

This is the first book created primarily for the field identification of parrots, one of the most familiar and colorful groups of birds.

A comprehensive treatment of the birds of the genus Saxicola.

Many warblers are notoriously difficult to identify in the field (and even in the hand!

Long-Eared Bats examines the biology, ecology and behaviour of two European bat species - Plecotus auritus and Plecotus austriacus.

As ice retreated from Britain 15,000 years ago, a host of large mammals including reindeer, wild horses, wooly mammoths, moose, wolves, brown bears, lynxes and wolverines established itself in Britain.

This is the first ever monograph on the Whooper Swan.

Many warblers are notoriously difficult to identify.

This book looks at the world's naturalised (successfully introduced)species of bird.

This book looks at the world's naturalised (successfully introduced)species of bird.

The Mascarene islands in the southern Indian Ocean - Mauritius, R union and Rodrigues - were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles.

The landscape of Britain has been irreversibly changed over the last century.

This detailed and comprehensive identification guide follows in the mould of Sylvia Warblers and Pipits and Wagtails.

This is the first ever monograph on the Whooper Swan.

The Mascarene islands in the southern Indian Ocean - Mauritius, R union and Rodrigues - were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles.

This Students' Dictionary of Zoo and Aquarium Studies contains over 5,000 terms (illustrated by 88 figures) used in zoos, aquariums, safari parks, birds of prey centres, petting zoos, animal rescue centres and other facilities that make up the 'zoo industry'.

In 1994, Ray Anderson felt a 'spear in the chest': he realised that his company, billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer Interface, Inc, was plundering the environment with its unsustainable business practices, and that it desperately needed to change direction.

In 2008, a YouTube clip became an internet phenomenon.

Have you got 2 minutes?

Have you got 2 minutes?

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title At once an elegy and an exhortation.

Environmental enrichment is a simple and effective means of improving animal welfare in any species companion, farm, laboratory and zoo.

Today construction industry is being asked more and more to protect the quality of the countryside and to help enhance our natural environment.

Winner of a 2005 Critics Choice Award fromThe American Educational Studies Association, this is a groundbreaking collection of oral histories, letters, interviews, and governmental reports related to the history of Latino education in the US.

The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries.

In the early morning hours of May 18, 1944 the Russian army, under orders from Stalin, deported the entire Crimean Tatar population from their historical homeland.

Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation.

Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a 'new' humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today.

This collection includes original studies from scholars from thirteen nations, who explore the epistemic features figured in John Dewey's writings in his discourses on public schooling.

In 1922 the Fascist 'March on Rome' brought Benito Mussolini to power.

Legitimacy in International Society addresses collective legitimization of emergent norms at international meetings and its effect on state behaviour.

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The decision by multinational Shell not to dispose of the Brent Spar oil facility in the North Atlantic was taken after several occupations of the structure by Greenpeace, and as a result of large scale pro-Greenpeace protest in the UK, Germany and other continental countries.

Attempts to manage natural resources through collaboration rather than competition, by agreements rather than conflict, have become the touchstone for many who see these efforts as the harbinger of global sustainable development.

Since the arrival of Europeans about 500 years ago, an estimated 50,000 non-native species have been introduced to North America (including Hawaii).

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world's forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover.

The 2nd international tagging and tracking symposium was held in San Sebastian, Spain, in October 2007, seven years after the first symposium was held in Hawaii in 2000 (Sibert and Nielsen 2001).

Adaptive management is the recommended means for continuing ecosystem management and use of natural resources, especially in the context of 'integrated natural resource management'.

Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to management and new thinking about the processes affecting stock and recruitment.

Anthropogenic emissions of ammonia cause a host of environmental impacts, including loss of biodiversity, soil acidification and formation of particulate matter in the atmosphere.

The world's oceans cover 70% of the earth's surface and are home to a myriad of amazing and beautiful creatures.

Freshwater eels are almost infinitely improbable creatures.