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The Mesozoic was dominated by a spectacular array of flora, from ferns, conifers, and cycads to ginkgos and flowering pl...
11/10/2025

The Mesozoic was dominated by a spectacular array of flora, from ferns, conifers, and cycads to ginkgos and flowering plants, as well as some enigmatic species with no modern-day descendants. This wide-ranging illustrated guide provides an unparalleled, in-depth look at the era’s extraordinary plant life, exploring its natural history, biology, and evolution over a span of 185 million years. Blending the latest discoveries in paleontology with informative profiles of extinct species and their living descendants, The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants is a one-of-a-kind reference to the botanical wonders of the prehistoric world.

The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants by Nan Crystal Arens arrives on 18 November in the UK and on November 25 in North America.

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The fifth edition of Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash is now available worldwide!Exp...
11/08/2025

The fifth edition of Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash is now available worldwide!

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Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland is the only comprehensive photographic field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of the region. Written by two of Britain’s foremost Dragonfly experts, this fully revised and updated fifth edition features hundreds of stunning images and identification charts covering all 58 resident, migrant and former breeding species, and seven potential vagrants. The book focuses on the identification of both adults and larvae, highlighting the key features. Detailed species profiles provide concise information on identification, status and trend, distribution, flight period, behaviour, breeding habitat, and population and conservation. Other sections cover biology and ecology; watching, photographing, recording and monitoring Dragonflies; conservation status and legislation; and introduced exotic species.

This redesigned, updated and expanded edition features:

• Beautiful colour plates showing males, females, immatures and all colour forms for every species, annotated to highlight key identification features
• More than 600 stunning photographs (100 more than in the previous edition), 353 of which are new, and 550 illustrations
• Up-to-date species profiles, distribution maps and status information
• Detailed, easy-to-use identification charts for adults and larvae
• An annotated checklist of the 58 species recorded to date

Are language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? Ne...
11/03/2025

Are language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and social learning beyond the human, and identifying culture as a second inheritance system across the phyla from whales to insects and plants. Biologists are constrained, however, by the mechanistic ways communication is understood. In Naturekind, Melissa Leach and James Fairhead address this impasse by extending insights from structural linguistics, social semiotics, anthropology and Indigenous theorization into wider life, integrating them with new biological findings to develop a new structural biosemiotics paradigm.

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👻 Happy Halloween! 🎃 Looking for a new familiar this spooky season? 🧙🐈‍ Why not befriend a bat or spider – both are crea...
10/31/2025

👻 Happy Halloween! 🎃

Looking for a new familiar this spooky season? 🧙🐈‍

Why not befriend a bat or spider – both are creatures of the night and will happily deal with annoying insects for you. You really can’t go wrong!

🦇 The Lives of Bats: A Natural History – A stunning illustrated guide to the only mammals capable of true flight. Explore species profiles, fascinating bat anatomy, echolocation, diet, and more.

🕷️Britain's Spiders: A Field Guide – Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition (🏆 A The Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year!) – features detailed accounts and over 700 stunning photographs that highlight key identification features, habitats, and behaviors.

🦇 Coming soon ✨: Bats of the World: A Guide to Every Family – an exciting guide with profiles of every family, detailing unique features, distribution, numbers, conservation status, and habitat! Available in February – preorder now!

Look out for bats and spiders this Halloween and let us know which magical friend you choose! 🧙‍♂️

🚨 Just ONE day left of our biggest sale of the season! 🚨 Today is the final day to save 70% on thousands of select title...
10/31/2025

🚨 Just ONE day left of our biggest sale of the season! 🚨

Today is the final day to save 70% on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects!

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🚨 Only two days left of our biggest sale of the season! 🚨Save 70% on thousands of select titles & editions across subjec...
10/30/2025

🚨 Only two days left of our biggest sale of the season! 🚨

Save 70% on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects through tomorrow.

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10/28/2025

Now through October 31, save 70% on Craig Packer's The Lion—an authoritative, accessible, and gorgeously illustrated exploration into the lives of these remarkable animals.

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Lions are the only social cat. They hunt together, raise cubs together, and defend territories together against neighbors and strangers. Lions also rest atop their ecological pyramid, with profound impacts on competitors and prey alike, but their future is far from assured. Craig Packer interweaves his discoveries from more than forty years of research—including a substantial body of new findings—to provide an unforgettable portrait of the African lion. He shares insights into the intricacies of lion life from birth until death and describes efforts to conserve lions in an increasingly crowded continent. With a wealth of breathtaking photographs by Daniel Rosengren, The Lion sheds light on a host of intriguing scientific questions, such as why males have manes, why lions are social, how sociality limits and stabilizes lion populations, how close inbreeding affects lion health, why lions become man-eaters, how lions and people can best be protected from each other, and how to ensure the lion’s survival into the next century.

• Engagingly written by the world’s foremost expert on African lions
• Integrates a wealth of findings from two of the most comprehensive field studies on any animal
• Features hundreds of stunning photographs that capture a broad range of lion behaviors, ecological interactions, and conservation challenges
• Blends vivid field anecdotes and graphics to give the reader a sense of adventuring into the lion’s world

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Save 70% on Thomas D. Seeley's Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners through 31 Oct! 🐝Use code SHOP70 at checkout:...
10/28/2025

Save 70% on Thomas D. Seeley's Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners through 31 Oct! 🐝

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Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes readers inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty of the most compelling mysteries of honey bee behavior.

Thomas Seeley has devoted a lifetime to the study of honey bees and their colonies, unraveling the secrets of these wondrous insects in a career spanning six decades. In this book, he weaves illuminating personal stories with the latest science, explaining such mysteries as how worker bees function as scouts to choose a home site for their colony, furnish their home with beeswax combs, and stock it with brood and food while keeping tens of thousands of colony inhabitants warm and defended from intruders. Along the way, he shares the experiences that drew him to these studies, the small observations that led to big breakthroughs, and the sense of excitement that came with probing each mystery.

Richly illustrated, Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners provides a rare look at how a singularly passionate scientist and his colleagues deciphered the pipings, shakings, and puzzling tremble dances of honey bees, and how this journey of scientific discovery continues to shape our understanding of these remarkably intelligent and vitally important insects.

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One week left of our biggest sale of the season! 📚Save 70% on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects unti...
10/24/2025

One week left of our biggest sale of the season! 📚

Save 70% on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects until October 31. Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: https://hubs.ly/Q03PKMhR0

Save 70% on Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff's A Dog's World through 31 October, and dive into an imaginative journey into...
10/23/2025

Save 70% on Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff's A Dog's World through 31 October, and dive into an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without people.

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What would happen to if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog’s World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive—and possibly even thrive—and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now.

Drawing on , , and the latest findings on the lives and behavior of dogs and their wild relatives, Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff—two of today’s most innovative thinkers about dogs—explore who dogs might become without direct human intervention into breeding, arranged playdates at the dog park, regular feedings, and veterinary care. Pierce and Bekoff show how dogs are quick learners who are highly adaptable and opportunistic, and they offer compelling evidence that dogs already do survive on their own—and could do so in a world without us.

Challenging the notion that dogs would be helpless without their human counterparts, A Dog’s World enables us to understand these independent and remarkably intelligent animals on their own terms.

10/20/2025

The Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 winners have been unveiled, and Collection 10 is out now!

Enjoy a free preview of this beautiful book: https://hubs.ly/Q03PjCpV0

This volume features more than 250 of the best photographs selected from a record 33,000-plus entries submitted for the tenth anniversary of the competition, including all the winning and short-listed pictures.

Filled with unforgettable images of a kind that simply weren’t possible before digital photography, this book will delight anyone who loves birds or great photography.

Bird Photographer of the Year

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https://press.princeton.edu/subjects/nature Our nature field guides list ranges far and wide in its coverage of the natural world. At its heart lies the Princeton Field Guides series, comprising close to fifty highly illustrated, authoritative titles exploring the birds, mammals, plants, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects of specific countries and regions, written by expert naturalists and illustrated by the world’s leading wildlife artists.

The list also includes award-winning photographic field guides, large-format references looking at a wide range of topics, illustrated bird checklists, and groundbreaking apps. Throughout, the emphasis is on quality, range, and comprehensive scope.