Nearly everything you know about China is wrong! Yes, within a decade, China will have the world's largest economy. But that is the least important thing to know about China. In this enlightening book, two of the world's leading China experts turn the conventional wisdom on its head, showing why Chi[...]

Originally published in 1938 in a limited edition, this stunning compilation of photographs by the legendary nature photographer captures the remarkable natural wonders of California's Sierra Nevada mountains along the John Muir Trail, in a series of some fifty images, many never published again, ac[...]

Using a consistent format the text is a comprehensive manual of labs that show the effects of exercise, physical conditioning, and training, and practical applications to physical health and performance in physical activity. It promotes accepted practices for administering field and laboratory tests[...]

This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists. Its various chapters show how and why trade-offs are made, and why conservationists need to think very hard about what, if anything, to do about them. The book argues that conservationists must carefully weigh up, and[...]

'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why' - "Bulletin of British Ecological Society". "Against Extinction" tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation[...]