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Field Guide to Long Island Sound Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife
ISBN: PB: 9780300220353, Yale University Press, March 2017
416 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1200 colour illus.
A lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions of people. Long Island Sound consists of a diverse collection of unique marine, estuarine, and terres...
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£20,00
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Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300221664, Yale University Press, August 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution. Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the bi...
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£20,00
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America's Snake The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake
ISBN: HB: 9780226040646, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have...
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£26,50
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Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project
ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates
All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...
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£16,50
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Paws, Noses & People A History of Dogs for the Disabled and the Development of Assistance Dogs in the UK
ISBN: PB: 9781861514875, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, September 2015
284 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In the past 30 years the use of assistance dogs for people with various difficulties and disabilities other than blindness and hearing loss has developed enormously, thanks to the inspiration, foresight and hard work of a few key people. Dick Lane, n...
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£12,99
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Trilobite Book A Visual Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780226124414, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 235 colour plates
Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras – and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have bee...
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£34,00
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World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity
ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.
Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...
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£34,00
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Feathery Tribe Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds
ISBN: HB: 9780300175523, Yale University Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For many years, ornithology was the province of the wealthy gentleman hunter who shot, stuffed, and preserved his specimens, and of the museum that collected simply to document natural history, not to analyze it. Even as evolutionary theory began to...
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£53,00
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Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions
ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...
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£30,00
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Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color
ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.
Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...
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£17,00
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£31,00
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