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ISBN: PB: 9780226278933, ISBN: HB: 9780226121505, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
744 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 244 colour plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic "Costa Rican Natural History", research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a species-le...

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City Creatures Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness

Van Horn Gavin, Aftandilian Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226192895, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 colour plates, 16 halftones

We usually think of cities as the domain of humans – but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but might be surprised t...

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Catching Nature in the Act Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century

Terrall Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226088600, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people – diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because...

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Ecology

Crown Jewels Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face

Delehanty Randolph

ISBN: PB: 9781933253732, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, May 2013
220 pp., 22.9x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. But national parks...

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