Forthcoming Natural History Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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

   Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 31 presents two compressed English versions of the PhD thesis by J. Eisenberg and M. Sangen, produced in the framework of the German Research Foundation’s funded "Rain Forest Savanna Contact" project that has been carried out between 2004 and 2009 in...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by CRC Press
2. 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...

   To Be Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Biomimicry

   Architecture and Design

   By Ilaria Mazzoleni

   Series: Biomimetics Series

   Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related impact is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Investigating the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, this book focuses on the analysis of various animal skins, translating the learned principles into the built environment. Skin is a...

   To Be Published November 25th 2012 by CRC Press
4. The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16

   Edited by Lodewijk C. Palm

   In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them written from July 1707 to June 1712. The letters were written to six distinct addressees. The larger part was addressed to the Royal Society in London in general (sixteen...

   To Be Published December 4th 2012 by CRC Press
5. The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 17

   Edited by Lodewijk C Palm

   The contents of the letters published here, again show the great range of subjects that occupied Van Leeuwenhoek: from sugar candy, the shape and crystal structure of diamonds, the dissolution of silver crystals in aqua fortis to gold dust from Guinea dissolved in aqua regia and the...

   To Be Published December 18th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Game-Theoretical Models in Biology

   By Mark Broom, Jan Rychtar

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology

   This book covers evolutionary games in biology with a focus on classical evolutionary games. The authors first present a brief mathematical introduction for those new to evolutionary game theory and then outline key mathematical developments in order to provide a solid understanding of the...

   To Be Published January 29th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
7. Manual of Lepidoptera

   Classification of the Butterflies and Moths of the World

   By John B. Heppner

   Moths and butterflies make up one of the most pertinent order of insects. Manual of Lepidoptera: Classification of the Butterflies and Moths of the World offers the most up-to-date information available in providing a detailed overview of these insects. It covers all 124 families of moths and...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by CRC Press
8. Networks in Society

   Links and Language

   Edited by Robert Stocker, Terry Bossomaier

   To Be Published February 27th 2013 by Pan Stanford Publishing
9. King Crabs of the World

   Biology and Fisheries Management

   Edited by Bradley G. Stevens

   This book is the first comprehensive reference that discusses king crab systematics, anatomy, biology, life history, behavior, and fisheries management, bringing together published information from scattered sources, including data from national reports that are difficult to access and are not in...

   To Be Published April 25th 2013 by CRC Press