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THE SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT OF ANIMAL AND PLANT COMMUNITIES FOR CONSERVATION. 11TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Written by E. Duffey; A.S. Watt.
Stock no. 553704
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1971. Slightly better than good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

652 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0632080100. Front hinge (between half-title and title page) badly cracked, almost split. Top & tail of spine rubbed. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown (mostly hidden by front flap of dustwrapper). Text block browned. Some infrequent pencil annotation else a nice working copy. Dustwrapper torn with loss to rear panel, chipped at corners, scuffed and browned.

SOCIAL STATISTICS USING SPSS
Written by Nelson C. Dometrius.
Stock no. 685145
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1993. Very good condition.

A lucid introduction to statistics and computer applications for graduate and undergraduate students, using SPSS software to produce the statistics discussed in the text. Cardwraps. xx and 540 pages including index. ISBN: 0060417145. 3rd printing. Spine lightly faded. Text block browned and a little grubby. Contents browned but clean.

CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION
Written by Alan Gilpin.
Stock no. 651773
Published by Butterworths. 1st 1963. Very good condition.

Deals with the practical application of the Clean Air Act, 1956, and allied legislation. Written with the day-to-day requirements of Public Health Inspectors constantly in mind, as well as the needs of other local government officers. Dark green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. xiii and 514 pages including index. Ex-lib. Library stamp to front endpaper and remains of label to rear endpaper. Text block browned. Tape mark to front endpaper. Spine slightly bumped. Musty odour present.

THE TECHNIQUES OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: A SHORT HISTORICAL SURVEY
Written by H.M.N.H. Irving.
Stock no. 564986
Published by HMSO. 1st 1974. Very good condition.

A Science Museum Book. Lilac pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. 35 pages plus b/w photos. ISBN: 0112902030. Covers unevenly faded. Covers lightly scuffed. One corner lightly creased. Contents clean.

BRITISH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL BOOKS 1953-7
Written by L.J. Anthony.
Stock no. 685911
Published by James Clarke & Co.. 1st 1960. Very good condition.

A select list of recommended books published in Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ix and 251 pages including index. Gilt worn from title label on spine (title to spine no longer visible). Text block browned. Contents clean.

HEATHLAND ECOLOGY
Written by C.P. Friedlander.
Stock no. 553493
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1960. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Flora and fauna of heathland and the general principles of ecology. B/w photos and illustrations. x and 94 pages including index. ISBN: 0435613200. Name in ink to front endpaper, inscription in pencil to front pastedown (mostly hidden by dustwrapper front flap). Dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, worn at corners, a little scuffed, lightly browned to rear panel.

THE BETTER USE OF THE WORLD'S FAUNA FOR FOOD
Written by J.D. Ovington.
Stock no. 553521
Published by The Institute of Biology. 1st 1963. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Symposia of the Institute of Biology No. 11. The possibilities of increasing the supplies of protein to provide an adequate diet for the world's growing population. How the world's wild fauan can be better conserved, managed, harvested and utilized. Edited by Ovington. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 175 pages including index. Text block slightly browned, contents clean. Dustwrapper spine browned and slightly edge-chipped, faint pencil mark to front panel.

THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY
Written by A.K. Raychaudhuri.
Stock no. 686770
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

Today cosmology is one of the most exciting and at the same time confusing subjects. The book aims to convey to the reader some of the excitement while not hiding the confusions that remain. Thus while evidences of the microwave background radiation and the abundances of deuteron and helium as bringing support for the standard big bang cosmology are dealt with in fair details, the unsolved puzzle of some apparently anomalous red shifts and the tendency towards a negative parameter also receive attention... Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. x and 298 pages including index. ISBN: 019851462X. Spine faded. Text block browned. Contents clean.

ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE MINERAL NUTRITION OF PLANTS
Written by I.H. Rorison; et al.
Stock no. 553707
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A symposium of the British Ecological Society 1968. Edited by Rorison. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w photos. xxi and 484 pages including index. ISBN: 0632056606. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine, folds and top edge, grubby marks to front panel.

ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS
Written by R.L. Jefferies; A.J. Davy.
Stock no. 553967
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1979. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first European Ecological Symposium and the 19th Symposium of the British Ecological Society. Thirty-seven papers on widely differing approaches to work on salt marshes and sand dunes. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w charts and a few illustrations. xvii and 684 pages including index. ISBN: 063200472X. Contents clean. Green dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, scuffed, and grubby to rear panel.

THE TEACHING OF ECOLOGY
Written by J.M. Lambert.
Stock no. 554517
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1967. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A symposium of the British Ecological Society 1966 (number seven). Twenty-seven papers of the symposium. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 294 pages including index. Inscription in ink to front pastedown, mostly hidden by front flap of dustwrapper. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper spine browned and slightly edge-chipped, a little grubby.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS VOLUME 2
Written by Richard F. Johnston; Peter W. Frank; Charles D. Michener.
Stock no. 554519
Published by Annual Reviews Inc.. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Johnston, Frank, and Michener. Various contributors. White cloth boards, black title block to spine. ix and 510 pages including index. ISBN: 0824314026. Pencil marks to front pastedown mostly hidden by front flap of dustwrapper. Text block browned. Pencil anotations to chapter on 'The Sacred in Human Evolution' by Roy A. Rappaport. Dustwrapper crinkled and some pencil marks to front flap, is grubby and has a few minor closed edge-tears.