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Biology

The Natural History of Pompeii
by W.F. Jashemski
The archaeological time-capsules that are the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum provide an important and varied source for investigating the nature of the ancient Vesuvian landscape. This large book brings together a number of specialists (among them geologists, soil specialists, paleobotanists, biologists, chemists, dendrochronologists, zoologists and archaeologists) each of which has contributed a chapter on a different subject or ...
Hardback. Price GB £170.00

Fungi
by D. Pegler and D. Freedberg
These three volumes catalogue the extensive corpus of mycological drawings in the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Executed mostly in watercolour between 1625 and 1630 and depicting fungi native to Umbria and the environs of Rome, they constitute the first sustained attempt to survey all the larger fungi of a region, recording in detail the stages of their growth. Laden with notes on colour, smell, taste, weight, season and the locality in ...
Hardback. Price GB £243.00

A Passion for the Pole: Ethological Research in Polar Regions
by Louwrens Hacquebord and Nienke Boschman
With the publication of this volume of Circumpolar Studies, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen and the contributors would like to honour Ko de Korte. + 149p (BARKHUIS 2008)
Paperback. Price GB £13.00

Permanence in Diversity: Netherlands Ecological Research on Edgeya, Spitsbergen
edited by Nienke Boschman and Louwrens Hacquebord
With the publication of this special issue of Circumpolar Journal, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen would like to honour Piet Oosterveld as the driving force behind biological research on Edgeøya, Spitsbergen. He invested large amounts of ...
Paperback. Price GB £13.00