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Our Oldest Task Making Sense of Our Place in Nature
ISBN: HB: 9780226326399, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"This is a book about nature and culture", Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure". Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking bac...
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£34,00
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Nature's Fabric Leaves in Science and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780226180595, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 514 colour plates, 49 halftones, 14 line drawings
Leaves are all around us – in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they are everywhere, it's easy to overlook the humble leaf, but a close loo...
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£26,50
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Profit of the Earth The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
ISBN: HB: 9780226454863, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtne...
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£30,00
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Long, Long Life of Trees
ISBN: PB: 9780300228205, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 60 black&white illus.
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship wi...
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£10,99
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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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Views of Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226422473, ISBN: HB: 9780226923185, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist...
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£20,50
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£36,00
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