Outdoors & Nature

Instant Notes in Ecology provides concise yet comprehensive coverge of ecology at undergraduate level, enabling easy access to the core information in the field. The book covers all the important areas of ecology in a format that is ideal for learning and rapid revision. If you are studying ecology ... More

From the humorous to the philosophical, from the cynical to the benign, this book has an appropriate saying for every occasion. Compiled by a man of much worldly experience, this book shall strike a chord with any and everyone. A quotation for all situations, Springs of Wisdom is indeed a limitles... More

For most people, the threat of global warming seems a contemporary one. For Christianson, it is an absorbing historical and scientific process intertwined with two centuries of civilisation and 300 billion years in the life of the planet. He blends the research of a scholar with a novelist’s story... More

This broad-ranging book presents the key concepts of environmental science in an accessible style that can be understood by those who are not natural scientists. It offers a way to improve environmental literacy—the capacity to understand the connections between humans and their environment. The b... More

This book tells the story of the ozone layer and how the Montreal Protocol averted a grave threat to the whole of humanity through the destruction of this layer. In 1974, scientists Mario Molina and Sherwood Roland warned that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants, solvents, aerosol product propella... More

Did you know that Tasmanian hens have two husbands? That vampire bats will share food with hungry fellow bats and that Hanuman langurs commit infanticide? Why creatures great and small behave in such fascinating and seemingly perplexing ways is explained in this delightful account of the evolutionar... More

The anthrax attacks by bioterrorists in the US in October 2001 served to highlight our vulnerability to biological warfare and to act as an impetus for a massive increase in funding for biodefense research. In this timely book, top biodefense experts critically review every aspect of this complex is... More

A beginner's guide to the wisdom of Confucius begins with the life and times of this influential social philosopher and charts his impact on Chinese life up to the present century. Original.... More