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Mammals

Thoreau's Animals

Thoreau Henry David, Wisner Geoff, Kaspari Debby Cotter

ISBN: HB: 9780300223767, Yale University Press, May 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 54 black&white illus.

From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of his encounters with the wild and domestic animals of Concord Many of the most vivid writings in the renowned Journal of Henry David Thoreau concern cre...

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Birds

Field Guide to Long Island Sound Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife

Lynch Patrick J.

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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Dogs

What Is a Dog?

Coppinger Raymond, Coppinger Lorna

ISBN: PB: 9780226478227, ISBN: HB: 9780226127941, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 13 halftones, 4 line drawings

Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters – neighborhood dogs, dump...

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Biography & Memoires

In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears

Fair Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps

For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...

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Evolution

Zebra Stripes

Caro Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780226411019, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 28 halftones, 55 tables

From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories", many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now hardly any have...

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Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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