Ecological Science News

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

The Bookseller

Mid-July sees publication of The Bookseller's "Autumn Books".

Listed for publication in September is Galapagos by Paul Stewart (BBC Books) a paperback to accompany the tv series ISBN 0563493569

Richard Mabey has Fencing Paradise: the uses and abuses of plants (Eden Project Books) also a paperback ISBN 1903919320 and from Quercus he has an updated Frampton Flora ISBN 190520468x

Global Book Marketing are issuing English versions of Eugene Marais' books about termites and baboons, Soul of the white ant and Soul of the ape. Check out the pieces in Wikipedia about Marais http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Marais and Maurice Maeterlinck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck

Richard Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger have written "a concise handbook" How to do ecology (Princeton University Press) ISBN 0691125767 (PBK 0691125775) which should be worth checking out.

Penguin have a photographic opus (Nikon are sponsoring an exhibition) by Thomas Marent rainforest ISBN 140531530x due in September in the UK

There are several books on mushrooms, including Mushrooming without fear by Alexander Schwab (Merlin Unwin) ISBN 1873674880 Field guide to edible mushrooms of Britain and Europe by Peter Jordan (New Holland) ISBN 1845374193 and Roger Phillips' Mushrooms (Pan Macmillan) ISBN 0330442376 which should be out in time for an autumnal fungus foray.

New Holland are also publishers of Wild Borneo ISBN 1845373782 by Nick Garbutt (previously the author of Mammals of Madagascar, Pica Press, 1999) and J.C. Prudente.

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